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authorBrett Weiland <brett_weiland@bpcspace.com>2020-11-30 13:55:33 -0600
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-Random importaint stuff:
- Children are raised wiccan but it's made essencial that it's optional
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-History:
- Gerald Gardner:
- Publisized wicca in book "Witchcraft Today", 1954
- Created the Garderian tradidion of wikka from
- Created "Books of Shadows" - not a sacred text, but contains a lot of stuff gerald liked.
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- Doreen Valiente ("Mother of Wicca"):
- Was in Gerald Garder's coven
- Outlined traditional core beliefs, principles, and practices before Gerald publisized it, in 1940's and 1950's
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-Beleifs:
- Wicca beleives in two gods, Tripple Goddess and Horned god
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- Tripple Goddess and Horned god stand for many things, which can be represented by lower level dieties
- > Because of this they are often refered to as the "Great * god[ness]", great refering to containing other dieties
- > Many interpretations on these gods. Some refer to them as a devine figure, others more an imporsonal force
- > Commonality between traditions is that Wiccan dieties are viewed as forms of ancient, pre-christian divinities
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- Tripple Goddess:
- Animals, natural world, afterlife, role model for men
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- Hornded God:
- Life, fertility, described as ideal role model for women
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- Broader Wiccan beleifs can range from
- monisim (all from one source),
- panthesm (reality is the embodyment of god)
- Godness Monothesism (a movement worshiping godnesses due to male dominated religon)
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- Monotheism:
- > Gardner says above the two gods are "Supreme Deity/Prime Mover", entity too complex for humans to understand
- That god created two "Under Gods", but are otherwise not involved in our world
- > God is pantheistic, or part of the universe
- Polytheisim:
- > all gods are one god, all godesses are one godess
- > Other stuff I shouldn't get into because this is taking too long
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- Pentagram: earth, air, fire, water, and aether/spirit
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- After life doesn't play centreal peice in religon
- Reincarnation is common beleif
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- Many beleive in magic, not all
- Spells often cast in a circle, and create physical changes such as healing, fertality, bandishing negativity
- Early wiccans refered as their magic to white magic, to help seperate themselves from satanisim ("dark" magic)
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- People speculate wichcraft was a positive antitype, critising againsed christain fear of women with power/whiches
- > They deny commonly associated negative stereotypes
- Five elements:
- > Spirit, air, water, earth, fire
- > geolocational
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- Wheel of the year, usually 8 sabbats
- > All traditions have these 4:
- * candlemass
- * May Eve
- * Lammas
- * Halloween
- > Rites of passage:
- > "all practitioners are considered to be priests and priestesses"
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-Practices:
- > Many partake in them without beleif, as the rituals themselves induce a religous experience more then "dry" practices
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-Values:
- no centerallized dogmatic moral or ethical code, however, they beleive this:
- > Wiccan Rede: "an it harm done, do what ye will"; you can do whatever with responsability.
- Common beleifs:
- > Law of Threefold return: What ever actions one takes, they get it back 3x stronger, or equal on mind body spirit.
- > 8 virtues: mirth, reverence, honour, humility, strength, beauty, power, and compassion. Comes from Doreen Valientine
- > Traditionally they were heteroexclusive (is that a word?), but sence then they've moved on and people are openly gay/bi
- > Jonne Pearson claimed wicans don't claim their gods have all answers and live rationally, gods help obtain completeness
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-Tradition branches:
- Wicca is devided into branches of diffrent beleifs and orginizational structures, these branches are called traditions
- Some main ones:
- > Gardnerian, Alexandrian and Algard make up British Traditional Wicca, based on Gerald's teachings
- > Traces back through super duper long proxy to Zsuzsanna Budapest, prefer "Witches" more then "wiccan"
- Covens of 13 (about). Require initiation after a year-day.
- Covens have no hiarchy structure
- Eclentric Wiccca's don't follow common traditional beleifs, make their own stuff
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-Misconceptions/controversy:
- Is it a religon?
- Evangelical Christains tried to make sure it wasn't legally classified as a religon
- "Wicca has both influenced/been influenced by other Pagan religions, making clear-cut distinctions difficult for religious studies scholars"
- "Dettmer v. Landon" classifieed it as a religon, which was started for ritual objects in prisons
- In 2007 pentagram was allowed for headstones of deceiced in millitary
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-Paragraph ideas:
- History
- Misconceptions
- Controversy
- Diffrent branches of wiccan
- Values of wiccan
- Beleifs of wiccan
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-.....essay structure.....
-Introduction
- Explain the basics of what the Wiccan religion is
-Founding history
- Explain begining with Gerald and Doreen, with the initial coven
-Orginizional structure
- Covens, traditions, no hiarchy
- Go into seperate traditions?
-Beleifs
- Dual gods
- Interpetations of those gods
- Gods don't have all the answers
- 5 elements, symbolisim
-Values
- No dogmatic code
- "An it harm done, do what ye will" (Wiccan Rede)
- 8 virtues
- Threefold return
-Practices
- 4 celibrations of year
- Initiation into covens
-Controversy
- Debated weather or not it's a religon
- 2007 gravestones
- Prison, Dettmer v. Landon
- People relating it to satanisim
- "coming out of the broom closet"
-Conclusioin
- ????