| In creating a category called "Nature Spirits," it's fair to ask how these differ from my other categories of goddesses and gods of earth, sky, water, fire. Although the boundaries often blur, I tend to view deities as "generalists" and nature spirits as "specialists." For example, the Greek god Zeus may orchestrate huge storms, but individual storm spirits will be associated with each lightning bolt, each cluster of loud soundwaves, each moving rain-front. To take another example: the goddess Artemis is associated with bees (her priestesses were even called the melissae, or "little bees"), yet each bee, tree, and flower also has its own nature spirit. The workings of all these interlaced beings, or layers, generally take place harmoniously despite all the spiraling complexity of their spheres of influence. |
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