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 Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2010 5:19 pm
To the one that I serve Most people I have met practice a religious form of witchcraft. Even "traditional witchcraft" seems to have religious and nonreligious components. It seems that many have a supreme witch mother and witch father. Do you believe all witches essentially worship the same deities? Why or why not? I will give my all
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Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2010 2:44 am
Nope. My Gods aren't like yours. They have no parent, for example. My Gods aren't like the gods of Wicca. I've come across very few references that stir me to think others worship the same gods as me.
The other alternative is that some others worship the same gods, but they don't understand them on the same level as I do. But that's a bit arrogant.
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Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2010 7:56 am
To the one that I serve It just seems that many of them seem to fit the same basic mold. I will give my all
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Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 2:00 am
Horned God and Moon Goddess? It's interesting, certainly, and I don't pretend to know precisely why this is and whether all these deities are the same. But there are definitely things to think about:
First, that most of these people are using these concepts as archetypes gleaned from (a misunderstanding of) Wicca, and who mostly worship other deities who they imagine to be the same thing. Okay, I phrased that wrong, but you know what I mean. They worship a goddess but end up actually worshipping Isis or Artemis or whoever.
Second, that's about as far as the similarities go: horned god, moon goddess. Very few of the goddesses I hear about are anything like the goddess of Wicca, for example. Many tend to go along a Triple Goddess framework, though. Some even to the extent that they don't consider their goddess(es) moon goddesses, but earth goddesses or "nature" goddesses or simply (often, ironically, unsexualised) mother goddesses. I have less knowledge on the gods people worship, because they're spoken of so much less often. Some are goat-legged, most are related to the sun, most are related to the goddess in a son-lover sort of way following that "Wheel of the Year" myth that may or may not be actually related to Wicca.
I feel it's essentially "insufficient data". It's hard to make comment because we don't know. But I think saying they fit the same basic mould might be pushing it a little... unless by "most" we're considering the soft-poly lot, or the more vague "teh great gawdess" entity.
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Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2010 8:53 am
I started seeking Wicca because I had a very meaningful (rather random) spiritual experience that didn't match up with my spiritual path.
After discussing it with several Wiccans (Gards, Alexandrians, Kingstones from different covens and lines) they were able to say that what I experienced was relevant to Wicca in a way that seeking Wicca may provide the answers I am looking for.
If my gods were the same as the Wiccan gods, I wouldn't need to look outside of my path to find the answers I am called to seek.
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Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2011 4:13 pm
I've always seen the Moon as a Goddess and the Sun as a God. When I am practicing rituals under the Germanic paradigm I switch to the other view as I hold that there should be balance I see that if there are cultures that see the moon as feminine and the sun as masculine then there are just as likely cultures that saw them in the opposite views.
The horned god may be a reference to the rays of the sun on his head. It can also be a reference to how he is both human and animal as well.
I don't like the MMC as I feel it misses several stages in the life of women and completly ignores some of the other stages that may happen like productive women instead of mothers as not all women are mothers.
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