Pagan Blog Project week 11: F is for Forgotten Gods  In my, and
many other pagan’s beliefs, it seems the gods obtain sustenance
and strength through praise, worship, and offerings given to
them. Following that logic, then, there must have been a dark
time for the gods in the recent past–barring Hinduism and other
thriving polytheistic religions of course–brought about by what
I like to call the ‘Big Three’: Christianity, Judaism, and
Islam.  The time when the gods of the dead cultures were
suddenly put aside.  Not to say either of these three religions
aren’t perfectly valid. But the evangelizing nature of Islam and
Christianity rang the death knell for the indigenous religions
of the nations they invaded. The European nations, the Norse
people, the Celts, then the people of Mexico and South
America–all distinct and valuable religious cultures deemed
‘primitive’ and eradicated. In the Americas by Catholicism,
especially. Meanwhile Africa was heavily influenced by Islam.
If the gods are sustained by their wor