Category: Deities

Between the Worlds 2023 will be celebrating all the deities we have honored at our gathering over the years.

Between the Worlds 2021 will honor Inari, the Shinto deity of foxes, rice, tea, sake, agriculture, general prosperity, worldly success, blacksmiths and fertility.

Due to the cancellation of Between the Worlds 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Between the Worlds 2021 will honor Inari, the shinto deity of foxes, rice, tea, sake, agriculture, general prosperity, worldly success, blacksmiths and fertility. Inari is widely known through modern Japan as a primary Kami (spirit) for …

Between the Worlds 2020 honors Inari, the shinto deity of foxes, rice, tea, sake, agriculture, general prosperity, worldly success, blacksmiths and fertility. Inari is widely known through modern Japan as a primary Kami (spirit) for households to pay worship too. Often seen as either male, or female, Inari definitely blurs …

For Between the Worlds 2019, our patron(s) are the Ancestors of Queer Spirits. For nearly two decades, our gathering has explored and celebrated a wide diversity of patron figures. Each one has offered different lessons and guided us to different inspirations. In 2019 we come to the 50th anniversary of …

For Between the Worlds 2018, our patron is Veles. Also called Volos and Weles, Veles is the Slavic god of the underworld, the waters, animals, and the forests. As the keeper of the realm of the dead, Veles is a walker between the worlds of the living and the dead who …

For Between the Worlds 2017, our patron was Agni. God of fire in the Vedic and Hindu traditions, Agni is fire in all its forms from the domestic hearth to the lightning in the sky, to the fire in our bellies. As the sacrificial fire, Agni bears the offerings of …

For Between the Worlds 2016, our patron was Máni. In Norse and Germanic lore, Máni, the “Man in the Moon”, is tasked with the movement of the moon across the sky, its transition and phases set forth to mark cycles and the passage of time. A guide and protector and …

For Between the Worlds 2015, our patron was Apollo. One of the Olympians of Greece, Apollo enjoyed a wide area of influence, including much of the Mediterranean, presiding over truth and light, healing, and archery, to name only a few. His oracle at Delphi supplied the peoples of Greece and …

For Between the Worlds 2014 our patron was Sun Wukong. Often better known in the West as The Monkey King, Sun Wukong is a classical trickster hero of Chinese folklore and Taoist and Buddhist mythologies. A master of shape-shifting and tomfoolery, Sun Wukong both delighted and tormented the figures of …