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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 
+  
+  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) 
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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
+
+  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
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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
+
+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
+  
+.....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
+  ????