One of the most striking things about the Bhagavad Gita's message is the occasional (or not so occasional) connections you get back to western culture. A strong theme in Hinduism in the Gita and from what we have been discussing in class is that there may be many gods but they are all aspects of the same god/god-head/unifying spirit (still slightly struggling with the concept of what exactly that is.)
In neo-paganism there are two major strands of thought dealing with the nature of the gods. The less popular is that they are all separate entities that acted out what happened in the myths. The more popular strain of thought may have been influenced by Hinduism, and that is that the gods are all aspects of the same God and/or ultimate reality. Some neo-pagans also consider the gods to ultimately be man made images that need to be left behind if one wants to mystically approach the true divine.
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