What god the Pagan and Wiccans do workship? Do they have temples .?

Answer 1

The majority of Pagans are POLYTHEISTIC, meaning they worship multiple deities.

Which deities a particular Pagan worships really depends on the particular tradition that Pagan chooses to follow. Some Pagans honor the Greek gods (Zeus, Hera, Apollo, Aphrodite, Dionysos, etc), others worship the Norse gods (Odin, Thor, Freya, etc), still others honor the Celtic deities (Lugh, Brid, Morrigan, Cerrwiden, etc), and yet others worship gods from any of a number of ancient pantheons they might be drawn to (Egyptian, Babylonian, Summarian, Roman, etc). Some Pagans stick to deities from a single pantheon and others mix and match deities from various pantheons (sometimes called "eclectic Paganism").

Right off, one can see that Pagans are very varied in their worship.

Wicca is a specific Pagan religion. All Wiccans are Pagans, but not all Pagans are Wiccan.

In the strictest sense Wiccans are duo-theistic, honoring a "Father Sky" God and a "Mother Earth" Goddess. Wiccans generally consider the other gods of the other pantheons to be ASPECTS of these two greater deities, thus they consider Aphrodite, Hera, Athena, etc to be smaller aspects of a single, larger, all-encompassing goddess. But this is merely the traditional Wiccan view; Wiccans too can be quite varied in their view of divinitiy. There are those who diverge from this generalized Wiccan view and worship gods and goddesses from other pantheons (the Celtic deities are especially popular) as individual deities, in much the same way as ancient Pagans did.

As for the question about temples...the answer is a "well, sort of." There are a few temples scattered around the country. The Temple of Sekmet in Indian Springs, Nevada, or the Goddess Temple in Orange County, California, are a couple examples. But more often, Pagans and Wiccans do not have established temples.

Typically Pagans use whatever ritual space they can find. This is the case for two reasons. First, there often aren't enough Pagans around to gather the money to purchase a building for use as a temple like Christians, Jews, Muslims, etc are able to do. Second, Pagans are typically a very individualistic lot. Because there are so many Pagans with so many different beliefs, it has proven very difficult to organize folks well enough to fund a permenant place of worship.

Answer 2

Wiccans worship a duality of a goddess and a god, which is a result largely of the popularity of Diana and Pan in the eighteen hundreds. If you would like to know more about this, the best book to read is _The Triumph of the Moon_ by Ronald Hutton.

Of course, many wiccans worship the goddess and god under names other than this. Many of them are very syncretic, and so it doesn't really matter what name you use as much as the honesty of your intent.

Many other kinds of pagans are different from this. Reconstructionists worship the gods of a particular culture. Goddess worshippers worship- you guessed it- goddesses only, often of the earth mother variety. Eclectis tend to worship every god they run across. If you'd like a listing of a bunch of different kinds of pagans, Margot Adler wrote a decent book about this some time ago, although I don't personally feel she understood recons very well. Still, it's a good place to start for many diverse kinds of neopaganism.

As for temples, yes, several exist. There is a Kemetic temple in chicago. There are several druidic groves that are located in a permanent location, however you cannot just randomly go visit them. There are wiccans associated with most Unitarian churches. Most groups do have some permanent location to gather and worship, but these places are generally not open to the public. I personally feel that more pagan gathering places SHOULD be located publicly, though, so that it would look less like we're all up to something that needs to be hidden away.

Answer 3

Some worship a generic all-purpose "Lord" and "Lady".
Others use gods and goddesses from various pantheons. I use the Aztec and Mayan pantheons with a smidgen of Egypt.
I don't worship Satan or the Devil in any form. That's a Christian thing. I have a whole essay about that on my web site.
I have a physical Circle in my yard, permanently cast, where I hold rituals. I also use it as a meditation garden. It's just sacred space; I don't consider it a "temple".
I know some of the more organized pagan groups sometimes rent Unitarian churches for rituals. I do mine in my Circle or at a pagan/witchcraft shop.

Answer 4

Unfortunately, there are few, if any Pagan temples. You see, temples cost money, and when you are spending all your money renting halls and parks, well, it's the whole homeless loop. Most prefer to worship outdoors anyway, so it would be a retreat center rather than a temple. We normally worship in our own homes, or, as mentioned, rent halls and space at state parks. Most Pagan groups are quite small. In my area, there are about 300 Pagans, consisting of a a few groups of 10 or so and a handful of solitaries. That's not a situation that encourages the building of temples. We do fundraise, of course, but our money goes to charity and environmental issues.

Anyway, Pagans worship many different Gods. Myself, I honor the line of Hyperion and also Hermes and Aphrodite. Eos is my family Patron.

And no, we don't worship statues, I don't personally own any statues of Gods or Goddesses and I don't suffer their lack. We aren't stupid enough to think that statues ARE Gods anymore than we think that picture of your kid on your desk is really your kid.

And no, we don't worship Satan and I find it really amusing that patriarchal religion associates all feminine Deities with their evil God. Funny thing.

Answer 5

"Pagan" is an umbrella term. There are many different forms of Paganism and many different Pagan gods.

Wicca is a specific Pagan practice. The Wicca worship two tribal gods from Great Britain; the Great Mother and the Horned God, whose names are only known to initiates.

I don't know where one of the answerers above got his or her information, but the information about the "Sky" god and "Earth" goddess and the portion about gods from other pantheons being "aspects" of these is incorrect. That is definately NOT the "traditional wicca" point of view.

Answer 6

Pagans is a religious distinction as in saying protestant, it is not a specific religion unto itself so the Gods/Goddesses would vary according to the belief they follow.
Wiccans worshup the Goddess and God, manifestations of the lifeforce as we understand them. Temple? Some may hold services in other places of worship, I do know a group that meets in the local UU Church. The majority of Wiccans don't have a permanent "temple" space although many do maintain an altar within their home. Many times, worship services are conducted in fields, groves of trees, beaches, lakesides, and other natural settings/surroundings.

Answer 7

We worship many different Goddesses AND Gods. Though, some will worship just a Goddess, or a Goddess and a God, or only a pantheon, or all Goddesses and Gods.

I don't know about the temple thing, though. I believe we do. Somewhere. o_<

- 16 yo Pagan

Answer 8

There are many different pagan religions. I am a Celtic Reconstructionist. We don't have temples and we worship deities that were once worshiped in Celtic-speaking countries during the Iron Age.Some of my deities include Lugh, Taranis, Epona, and Cernunnos.

Answer 9

We worship many Gods- Poisidon, Zues, Father Sky, Cronos, Loki, Thor, Anubis, Ra, Seth, Imhotep- there are many! Most of all, We Worship the Green Man- The Holly and The Oak. Also, Pan, Apollo, Hephesteus.

We no longer have temples, though we used to. Alot of the OLD churches in Europe? Those are built on top of Pagan Temples- it was one of the many ways that the Christians were able to spread thier Word, their Religion, to force 'heathens' (which, by the way, the original definition of heathen was one that lives by the hearth, or in the country) to find their God.

Answer 10

Wiccans usually honor the God and Goddess - the masculine and feminine aspects of the Divine. What individual names they address Them by varies.

Not "temples" as such, but sacred spaces.