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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Thursday, May 9, 2013

Pygmalion Myth

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Pygmalion Myth
" In Greek le-gend, Pygmalion was a sculptor and king of Cyprus. He had an aversion to women, but, having made an ivory statue of great beauty, he fell in love with it and besought the gods to give the statue life. His prayer was granted and the beautiful statue became a living woman whom Pygmalion made his wife. W. S. Gilbert used this story as the basis of a play, Pygmalion and Galatea". In the play, Pygmalion is a married man. He and his wife Cynisca are a devoted couple who have prayed the gods for the power of calling down blindness each upon the other in case of unfaithfulness. Pygmalion prays for life for his statue, not because he is in love with his ivory virgin, but because the creative instinct of the artist has become so strong a passion with him that nothing short of a living statue will satisfy it. The statue becomes alive, and Pygmalion is so infatuated with the work of his hands that his wife believes him untrue and calls down blindness from heaven upon him. Galatea, seeing the unhappiness she has caused, vol-untarily returns to her former state-a life-less statue.

Source: 33witches.blogspot.com
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