What are gods?
Whether gods are merely archetypes, particular tones of life energy, or real entities, independent of the human race, brings us back not to a debate but simply to restate that both these attitudes are found amongst modern Druids. Either way, the notion of deity describes a source of power. Deities can indeed be purely elemental forces and powers of nature. Here we are simply referring to the vibrational ‘intelligence’ of hills, lakes and hurricanes as ‘gods’ instead of ‘spirits’. At some point during our evolution our vision of these energies developed into form. The more powerful spirits became deities, some taking on animal characteristics, some blending animal with human and others becoming fully human images. None the less, the powers, energies, emotions, motivations of these gods remained entirely non-human. There are also gods who relate more closely to the human psyche than the natural world outside it. There too are forces of guidance, strength, validation and power, and are us
