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@@ -1,137 +0,0 @@ -Random importaint stuff: - Children are raised wiccan but it's made essencial that it's optional - - -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. - - 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 - - - - - -Beleifs: - Wicca beleives in two gods, Tripple Goddess and Horned god - - 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 - - Tripple Goddess: - Animals, natural world, afterlife, role model for men - - Hornded God: - Life, fertility, described as ideal role model for women - - 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) - - 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 - - Pentagram: earth, air, fire, water, and aether/spirit - - After life doesn't play centreal peice in religon - Reincarnation is common beleif - - 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) - - 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 - - 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" - -Practices: - > Many partake in them without beleif, as the rituals themselves induce a religous experience more then "dry" practices - -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 - - - - -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 - -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 - -Paragraph ideas: - History - Misconceptions - Controversy - Diffrent branches of wiccan - Values of wiccan - Beleifs of wiccan - -.....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 - ???? |