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diff --git a/wicca/notes b/wicca/notes new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8270148 --- /dev/null +++ b/wicca/notes @@ -0,0 +1,137 @@ +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 + ???? |