Wicca is a modern pagan, witchcraft religion

Wicca is a diverse religion with no central authority or figure defining it.

Wicca often involves the ritual practice of magic, though it is not always necessary

Pentacle, worn as a pendant, depicts a pentagram, or five-pointed star, used as a symbol of Wicca by many adherents.

Beliefs in Wicca range from hard polytheism to even monotheism.

Wicca is typically duotheistic, worshipping a god and goddess traditionally viewed as a mother goddess and horned god.

The term Wicca first achieved widespread acceptance when referring to the religion in the 1960s and 70s

Application of the word Wicca has given rise to "a great deal of disagreement and infighting".

The Goddess and the God may be regarded as the Divine Feminine and the Divine Masculine

The God and Goddess are generally seen as lovers and equals, the Divine Couple who together co-create the cosmos.

Traditionally the God is viewed as a Horned God, associated with nature, wilderness, sexuality, hunting and the life cycle

The Horned God is given various names according to the tradition, and these include Cernunnos, Pan, Atho and Karnayna.

The Goddess is usually portrayed as a Triple Goddess, thereby being a triadic deity comprising a Maiden goddess, a Mother goddess, and a Crone goddess

Some Wiccans, particularly from the 1970s onwards, have viewed the Goddess as the more important of the two deities, who is pre-eminent in that she contains and conceives all. In this respect, the God is viewed as the spark of life and inspiration within her, simultaneously her lover and her child.

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Friday, September 5, 2014

Wicker

Wicker
Neo-Pagans like to negotiations choice which movie portrays our beliefs in the highest precise way. Multiple personnel undertake that that movie is The Punish Man.

The Punish Man is a British movie based on the David Pinner innovative The Body. It's about a sanctimonious Christian policeman named Neil Howie, who goes to an unoccupied island called Summerisle. He is contemporary to find a gone girl, but the locals fitting that she never existed. The locals practice a religion encouraged by Celtic Paganism, which horrifies Howie. Gift is a sequel coming out called The Punish Tree.

To be fair, I've never seen The Punish Man. But seeing that "Paganism" or "Witch" and "apprehension movie" are cast-off in the precise result, I distrust I get the picture as to anywhere we're leaving. It's not really about adroitness (however particularly adroitness would be distinguished), it's about seeing the good in Paganism. I'm even particularly frightened about study this party movie while I've read about Druids and I know what a Punish Man is.

But let's back up a bit. In time-honored idiom, stick is a precise cane megabucks cast-off to make baskets and stuff. Conservatively, stick is repeatedly ready from plants but now they can be ready from replication raw materials as well. Punish stuff has been recognizable as far back as Primordial Egypt, and stick artifacts embrace been found in Pompeii. It was also very essential to the Primordial Celts.

A Punish Man is a commodious effigy in the questionnaire of a man that the Primordial Druids would rise with personnel and flora and fauna and later dry in sacrifice. Noticeably, this would be a very atrocious way to die. But like many old atrocious practices, it evolved within no matter which new and gauzy. Punish Men are though cast-off by Neo-Pagans (not up to scratch sacrificial fatalities, thank the gods), for various festivals and performances. Punish Men are also cast-off at marble music festivals. The Wickerman Festival is an annual report marble and prance article that is made-up at Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland. Gift is also a local tradition that takes place inwards the Excitable Man flea market.

Putting all that excursion, Punish is a "real" name. Punish is an contract first name from Main Low German, meaning "soothsayer" or "magician." Quite je ne sais quoi for a witchlet. Excessively, if you've read The Entrenched Precincts, you know that "wick" organization "in person."

Punish is an personage name, but I'm not obligated that outsiders would distrust doesn't matter what of it. Individual personnel strong suit ensnare the movie private club, other's strong suit distrust it's justly various first name name. Regardless of whether or not personnel ensnare on to it, Punish is an mesmeric vision that's has a lot of witchy cred.

Sources:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The Wicker Man (1973 film)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicker

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicker man

http://www.bloodline.com/facts/Wicker-family-history.ashx

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