WICCA WICCA WICCA by Dhey Saleh

brandon_gyawu — 2015-03-26 14:47:47 UTC

Prayer/Meditation

dheyazansaleh90 — 2015-03-30 13:15:53 UTC

The role of prayer is in Wicca its not just only praying, but also spells. It gives them power from the gods and when they do spells it comes from within the caster. The followers pray requesting. What I mean is that you can go to Universe, the Goddess, Allah, Yahweh, Herne, Apollo, but you can call anyone who can help you. All they have to say is or ask them is "Please help me with ____". Spell on the other hand its a command. The command is to redirect the energy, causing to change, to confirm your will. Sometimes people ask god or goddesses for extra help or mojo in their spell work, but that is not necessary since the spell comes from within the caster. As a result of this is when they pray and request what thy want either aloud or in their mind theres a good chance that they might get what they wanted.

Religious events and ritual

dheyazansaleh90 — 2015-03-30 13:16:12 UTC

One major religious event is theme celebrating the sun and moon. The sun ritual is called for the "Sabbats" is celebrated by the sun's influence on Earth and that is the seasonal growing cycle. Then the moon ritual is called "Wiccan Esbats", this is to honor the phase of the moon, but at a full moon timing. The origin of this ritual is it began in prehistoric time period. It started with fire, the hunt, animal fertility, plant propagation, tribal fertility and curing of diseases.

Sacred space

dheyazansaleh90 — 2015-03-30 13:16:24 UTC

Unlike other religions Wicca is more free. Anywhere you go to worship Wicca is a sacred place. Also, casting circles, calling directions and even inviting the god and goddesses that is how they create sacred spaces. There is no specific holy place to practice the religion of Wicca. As always wherever you go to worship this religion, like an ocean, backyard, kitchen and many places, you are in a holy and worshipping place.

Ethics

dheyazansaleh90 — 2015-03-30 13:16:28 UTC

The meaning of the a moral life of a Wiccan follower is by a quote. "Do not harm at all". Basically a Wiccan Morality is to do no harm at all and you can do as you wish. It is basically a freedom of act. Another is the Law of ThreeFold Return. This is the act when whatever one does to another person or thing it returns triple force. The quality or impurity of the roles in Wiccan is to keep a balance between God and Goddesses and make sure its weighted the same for belief. For example people worship Hecate and Hermes and you then got people who pray to Dionysus and Ariadne and revere Persephone and Hades.

Dissent

dheyazansaleh90 — 2015-03-30 13:16:35 UTC

Other religions question Wicca because its a diverse religion that has no authority or figure defining it. Like their moral life they can be expelled if they harm someone because when they begin their holy prayers and ask for god or goddess for such things it wont be granted. Wicca attitude towards christianity is different. Wicca does similar things like Christianity that it wont agree upon because sifferent religious movements and different believes. For example Christianity would believe that Wicca is a worthless religion, influenced by Satan, controlled by Satan and Satanism. Wicca has been spreading since the late 1960's and it began when Britian people began their own form of religion and the tradition was spreaded to the US and it influence to be a religious believe Wicca.

Metaphysical Beliefs

dheyazansaleh90 — 2015-03-30 13:16:42 UTC

Every witch has her own point of view, but I would say that the foundation of all Wicca beliefs is this . . .

The Goddess is alive, and Magick is afoot!

stated by wiccaspirituality.com and they add that that belief is the head to the construction of many other beliefs. similar to these paganwiccan.about.com

The Divine is present in nature, and so nature should be honored and respected. Everything from animals and plants to trees and rocks are elements of the sacred. You'll find that many practicing Wiccans are passionate about the environment

The idea of karma and an afterlife is a valid one. What we do in this lifetime will be revisited upon us in the next. Part of this idea of a cosmic payback system is echoed in the law of threefold return

Deities

dheyazansaleh90 — 2015-03-30 13:16:57 UTC

Wicca is a polytheistic religion with many Gods and Goddess each symbolizing something different for example, freewebs.com's "Life As A Wiccan" list various gods and Goddess " Adraste - Goddess of Destiny, Amemet - Goddess of The Land of the West, Ana - Goddess of Plenty, Anapurna - Goddess of Plenty , Aphrodite - Goddess of Love and Beauty, But also of the Hunt,... Adonis - God Of Vegetation and Rebirth, Anubis - God of the Underworld and Death Passage Apollo - God of the Sun, Healing, Protection, and Oracles, Arawn - God of the Underworld, Attis - God of Vegetation and Rebirth (Sometimes called Pa)" etc.

Spiritual leaders

dheyazansaleh90 — 2015-03-30 13:17:09 UTC

ReligiousTolerance.org states "George Knowles, a Wiccan author, has said: "“Wicca has no high authority, no single leader, no prophet and no Bible to dictate its laws and beliefs”. which was pretty true due to the fact that they had many gods and sort of held a significant amount of power themselves. The multiple gods and goddess were set on a higher pedestal then believers but it didn't make the and superior to the Wiccans like religious leaders in a Christian or Islamic religion.

brandon_gyawu — 2015-04-02 03:55:38 UTC

brandon_gyawu — 2015-04-02 04:13:49 UTC

http://www.wicca-spirituality.com/wicca-beliefs.html

Wigington, Patti. "Basic Principles and Concepts of Wicca." N.p., n.d. Web. 02 Apr. 2015.

"The Central Wicca Beliefs * Wicca-Spirituality.com." The Central Wicca Beliefs * Wicca-Spirituality.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 02 Apr. 2015.

"The Church and School of Wicca." The Church and School of Wicca. N.p., n.d. Web. 02 Apr. 2015.

http://www.joellessacredgrove.com/Spells/texts.html

"Wiccan Beliefs." WICCAN BELIEFS. N.p., n.d. Web. 02 Apr. 2015.

Sacred text

brandon_gyawu — 2015-04-02 14:52:46 UTC

It is said that the wiccan religion doesn't have any bible like text but have many different important things such as chants, traditional songs, scriptures and more. although wiccans do have something known as the "book of shadows" which is sort of like a spell book for wiccans but it was a personal book that functioned for the one it belonged to. considering it was a book of spells you can infer it was sort of a supernatural ideal book with a combination of a human like book. Members used the books as references for aid with spell and some spells were easily memorized.