What is Wiccan: Wicca is pagen witchcraft. Very important to know that it's not satanisim, and it's kinda cool Wicca is devided into branches of diffrent beleifs and orginizational structures, these branches are called traditions Wicca is generally dualistic, worships two primary gods Wicca beleives in two gods, Tripple Goddess and Horned god *duotheism* 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 Broader Wiccan beleifs range from monisim (all from one source), panthesm (reality is the embodyment of god), or Godness Monothesism (a movement worshiping godnesses due to male dominated religon) History: Gerald Gardner: Publisized wicca in book "Witchcraft Today", 1954 Created the Garderian tradidion of wikka from Doreen Valiente: Outlined traditional core beliefs, principles, and practices before Gerald publisized it, in 1940's and 1950's Beleifs: Tripple Goddess: Lord Hornded God: Lad Paragraph ideas: History Pushback, controversy, people confusing it with statanisim Diffrent branches of wiccan Values of wiccan Beleifs of wiccan