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B1.3) "All of which is to say "deified human", "being with both divine and human characteristics in different stories/places/times", and "euhemerized God" are amongst the possible explanations that would be reasonable." - One may think Freyr was a human promoted by polytheists and "demoted" by Christians.

C5) "(it's unclear to me if Galina Krasskova worships these beings, or is just willing to work with folks who do)" - https://www.northernpaganism.org/shrines/loki/writings-for-loki/a-prayer-to-loki.html

"(maybe occasionally placated?)" - Correct me if I'm wrong: people don't seem to have found evidence of that, even though it seems to make sense, right?

C5.1) "If by "consciousness" we mean "awareness", as in "the ability to pay attention to things", JBP associates that with Horus. But, of course, "consciousness" is one of those tricky words." - Yeah - I think the meaning's core for Setians is "individuality".

C7.1) "But then, I also tend to feel like the motives attributed to Yahweh in the Old Testament are often weaker than symbolic/archetypal readings often get you." - I'm not saying this is wrong, but see "later rationalizations".

C7.6) "despite his opposition to some of its political manifestations, he is firmly a believer in the myth of Progress" - I think he self-describes as classical Liberal, and thus a rather unsubtle Progressive/modernist who objects to the "post-" part (and even then, even I might think original postmodernism was worth paying attention to, and what has no upside at all is "vulgar postmodernism").

D) I didn't mean to make work for you, but you *did* boast you'd write 52 articles this year ... :D