What are the Elemental Gods and Dead Religions?

[James S]

Difficult to easily explain, but easy to refer you to a book that can. Have a look for a book by the author DJ Conway called Celtic Magic. It goes into quite a bit of detail about the Celtic gods & godesses, and the elemental spirits.

- James.

[narfellus]

Thank you James, i'll try to find that author. Everything i've ever learned was from good, obscure books anyway. []

[narfellus]

I've had a hard time figuring out where to post this question. It crosses several different mythological/cultural/metaphyscial/religious boundaries that make a simple answer difficult. Any input or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. First off, a little background on where i'm coming from:

I believe in a one God, a Creator of the Universe. Since Time began people have been trying to figure out there relationship with God, which i believe is really God just experiencing Himself in the best ways he knows how. Now, add to this mixture thousands of years of human religion, spiritual thought, magic, prayer, and general confusion. Magic is very real, and all humans are magicians on the simplest level. Our Voice and Thought and powers of Imagination are godlike gifts, fully capable of shaping our existense.

The spirit World...

This is connected to the Astral Plane, or the dream realm or thought realm or whatever you want to call it. Negs and the dead and travelers and angels and all matter of non-physical beings reside in the astral. They always have and always will.

In the past men worshipped Nature to a large extent, and still do today. I think God IS nature, but many religions and esoteric beliefs have given homage to pieces of God, such as Fire and Water. Other religions make the gods akin to mankind, like the Greek or Roman pantheons. But what were these religions based on? Could there have been REAL gods, aspects of the Divine that ancient civilizations were in tune with?  

Or, with the knowledge we have of negs and such, could old-world religions have been based on deceptive spirits?

Or lastly, are there spiritual embodiments of Fire, Water, Earth, and Wind that the faithful call into their bodies, such as the Wiccan faith and druids? Are these elemental beings, these embodiments of our universes most basic forms, true gods with their own intelligence and agenda, or are they mindless, or are practioners who summon spirits to worship being fooled by entities that just want to hurt/confuse them?

Sorry for the terribly long post, there are just lots of questions i hope to find answers for.