Pantheon & Supernatural Beings – Unitarian Universalism

1. Supreme or High Being(s)

• None required or defined.
  UU does not posit a necessary creator deity or ultimate personal being.
• The concept of “ultimate reality” is optional and plural (theistic, non-theistic, naturalistic, symbolic).
• Presence/absence is non-binding; worship is not oriented around a single High God.

2. Major Deities

• None canonically recognized.
• Individual members may reference deities from other traditions (e.g., God, Goddess, Brahman) without institutional.Face acceptance.
• No shared myths, iconography, or domain divisions.

3. Secondary or Local Deities

• None.
• No patron gods, household gods, or regional divine figures recognized by the tradition.

4. Spirits & Demigods

• None institutionally affirmed.
• Figures such as saints, bodhisattvas, ancestors, or nature spirits may appear symbolically or illustratively in services, but carry no ontological commitment.

5. Ancestors & the Dead

• No ancestor veneration as a religious obligation.
• Memorial practices exist (remembrance, naming, honoring the dead) but are ethical and commemorative, not supernatural.

6. Opposing Forces

• No demons, devils, or malevolent beings recognized as real agents.
• “Evil” is treated as ethical failure, structural injustice, or psychological harm, not as a supernatural force.

7. Hierarchies & Relations

• No pantheon, hierarchy, or cosmic bureaucracy.
• Structural pattern: non-theistic / pluralist.
• Authority is institutional and ethical, not supernatural.

8. Function in Practice

• No beings receive prayer, sacrifice, or propitiation by requirement.
• Ritual language may address “spirit of life,” “love,” or “mystery” as metaphor.
• Healing, protection, and meaning-making are pursued through community, ethics, reflection, and action, not invocation of supernatural agents.