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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.
+
+ 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
+ ????