Wiccan views of divinity are generally theistic, and revolve around a Goddess and a Horned God, thereby being generally dualistic. In traditional Wicca...
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Church: "As man now is, God once was: As God now is, man may be." Wiccan views of divinity are generally theistic, and revolve around a Goddess and a Horned...
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Horned deity (section Baphomet of Mendes)
religions have constructed some of these deities as the Horned God, representing the male aspect of the Wiccan views of divinity. In Abrahamic religions, horned...
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Wicca (redirect from List of Wiccan people)
Some Wiccans refer to the goddess as "Lady" and the god as "Lord" to invoke their divinity. These two deities are sometimes viewed as facets of a universal...
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Stregheria (redirect from Cult of Diana)
pantheon centered on a Moon Goddess and a Horned God, similar to Wiccan views of divinity. Author Raven Grimassi has written on the topic. Grimassi taught...
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Neopagan witchcraft (redirect from Contemporary practice of witchcraft)
movement of individuals and groups who share key Wiccan beliefs but have no formal link with traditional Wiccan covens. While some Wiccans call themselves...
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The Wiccan Rede /ˈriːd/ is a statement that provides the key moral system in the neopagan religion of Wicca and certain other related witchcraft-based...
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Horned God (redirect from Horned God of Wicca)
part of the religion's duotheistic theological system, the consort of the female Triple goddess of the Moon or other Mother goddess. In common Wiccan belief...
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(cast as the Sun). Janet Farrar, a notable Wiccan priestess and author, described this as an adoption of yin and yang in Western pagan practice. This...
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among Wiccan and NeoWiccan paths, it's not typically used by non-Wiccan Pagans. Agrippa, Henry Cornelius (1651). Three Books of Occult Philosophy (PDF)...
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hemisphere. Some Wiccans use the term sabbat (/ˈsæbət/) to refer to each festival, represented as a spoke in the Wheel. Seasonal festival activities of pagan peoples...
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In order to leave a circle and keep it intact, Wiccans believe a door must be cut in the energy of the circle, normally on the east side. Whatever was...
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Wiccan morality is largely expressed in the Wiccan Rede: "An' ye harm none, do what ye will"—old-fashioned language for "as long as you aren't harming...
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Pentacle (redirect from Wiccan pentacle)
of Witchcraft, Gardner defined a pentacle as a synonym of 'pentagram'. There is a particular definition of 'pentacle' among many latter-day Wiccans:...
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Wand (redirect from Wand of office)
In Wicca, the wand can represent the element air, or fire (following the wiccan author Raymond Buckland, who got his element associations from the Golden...
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many pagan practices and paths. The most famous Book of Shadows was created by the pioneering Wiccan Gerald Gardner sometime in the late 1940s or early...
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Great rite (category Wiccan terminology)
The great rite is a Wiccan ritual involving symbolic sexual intercourse with the purpose of drawing energy from the powerful connection between a male...
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The Rule of Three (also Three-fold Law or Law of Return) is a religious tenet held by some Wiccans, Neo-Pagans and occultists. It states that whatever...
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small print run. Wiccan author Raymond Buckland claims to have been the first to reprint the book in 1968 through his "Buckland Museum of Witchcraft" press...
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many Witches, including a series of High Priestesses, founding further covens and continuing the initiation of more Wiccans into the tradition.[citation needed]...
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individual Wiccans, but could also be used collectively by the coven. This practice may derive partly from Masonic traditions (such as the use of the Square...
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Odyssean Wicca (redirect from Wiccan Church of Canada)
Wicca is a Wiccan tradition created in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in the late 1970s. Its principal founders were Tamarra and Richard James. Most of its practitioners...
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Drawing down the Moon (ritual) (category Wiccan terminology)
known as drawing down the Goddess) is a central ritual in many contemporary Wiccan traditions. During the ritual, a coven's High Priestess enters a trance...
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Coven (category Wiccan covens)
covens are families or unrelated groups of vampires who live together.[citation needed] Magical organization Wiccan organisation Murray, Margaret (1921)...
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Wiccan seasonal rituals. According to Joanne Pearson, the Holly King is represented by holly and other evergreens, and personifies the dark half of the...
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Skyclad (Neopaganism) (category Wiccan terminology)
of Wiccan practice, but in the modern day it is mainly used by Alexandrian, Georgian, and Blue Star Wiccans. The "Charge of the Goddess", a part of Gardnerian...
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Yule (redirect from Wiccan Yule)
Generally meeting in covens, which anoint their own priests and priestesses, Wiccans chant and cast or draw circles to invoke their deities, mainly during festivals...
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writing in Wiccan Roots and later in Gerald Gardner and the Cauldron of Inspiration, argues that Gardner was not the author of the Wiccan rituals but...
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Hutton, Ronald (2000). Triumph of the Moon. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-500-27242-5. Bone, Gavin; Farrar, Janet. "Our Wiccan Origins". Wicca na hErin....
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Rosemary Ellen. The Encyclopedia of Witches and Witchcraft. (New York: Facts On File, 1989) ISBN 0-8160-2268-2 Wicca Haven Wiccan Literature and Sacred Text...
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