Can some one explain there beliefs on the god and goddess or lady?

Question

Who is your god who is this lady is this info available in the Holy Bible?
Where is this derived from, (the bible or some place else?) What religion is this? Is it in the scriptures.

Answer 1

You are referring to Wicca.

The question is, I think, do you want a genuine honest answer, or not. The way you phrase your question makes me wonder. I'm going to answer this clearly and as factually as I can -- If you do NOT want to question what I suspect your own religion is (some form of quasi-fundamentalist Christianity) please do NOT read any further. I'm not out to harm you, just answer the question.

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Wicca is a fairly recent (60 years or so now) interation of the old pagan belief in sacred feminine and sacred masculine (gods and goddesses).

The belief in sacred feminine and sacred masculine far, far predates the writing of the oldest books of the Bible. In fact, the goddess of Wicca is an amalgamation of goddesses, thus the popular bumper sticker and chant -- "Isis, Astarte, Diane, Hecate, Demeter, Kali, Iananna." The goddesses have been blended into one goddess, and there are credible theological arguments that perhaps they really are one -- with the myths and legends in premodern times changing over the millennia. By that reckoning, the oldest goddesses in the line preexist Judaism (out of which came the Holy Bible) by several thousand years.

Modern Wicca and most other forms of Neo-paganism coflate these goddesses and their partners and wrap them in old Celtic druidism and symbology -- which also far predates both Christianity and Judaism, and thus the "scriptures."

The Jewish patriarchs fought a thousand year battle, by all appearances, to wipe out goddess worship and the sacred feminine among the Israelites. Tantilizing remmants remain in scripture. The Shekinah Glory of God, which you often hear pentecostals refer to, is actually, theologically, probably originally God's wife in the early myths. Talmudic Judaism in large part still views it as such, and views the quest for understanding the Torah to be in part, a method of reuniting God and his wife, (thus symbolically restoring the sacred feminine to balance the sacred masculine). The lions on the outside of Solomon's temple were at the time a goddess symbol, and their inclusion in the Bible, which led to the whole "lion of Judah" symbology is puzzling -- there had to have been patriarchs at the time under the influence of those who were still goddess worshipers. -- And so forth.

Regardless, The precursors of Wicca predate Judaism and Christianity. Further, goddess worship has survived thousands of years of patriarchal attack, and now is in resurgence. In England hundreds of thousands gather every year for special ceremonies at Stonehenge. In the US there is no way to accurately estimate how many Wiccans there are, but the combined membership in the existing Wiccan "denominations" is about 2.5 million, and most estimates say that there are 9 "solitaries or small coven practicioners" for every person who joins a large organized group -- which would indicate more than 20 million -- making the movement nearly as numerous as fundamentalist Christianity (which has about 30 million adherents in the US).

And Wicca is growing. My partner became Wiccan 8 years ago and has found more Wiccans in his (large corporate) workplace than anything else but Catholics. Now one of our friends works in a company of 25 or so, and recently converted. Being straight forward he started wearing a Pentacle (Wiccan holy symbol) fairly openly, and was surprised when he discovered that everyone in his company was Wiccan - they just didn't talk about it. He and his coworkers are all in their 20s.

I remain Anglican (Episcopalian) but I attend services with him and am very fond of his priest, and his priest's superior within the Correllian tradition of Wicca. I think all sacred things are one.

Of course the idea of the sacred feminine survived in Christianity as Mary and as Mary Magdelene -- and that is just now being realized.

So no, Wicca and its precursors are not Judeo-Christian derived religions. They are a resurgence of older faiths (that's why you will hear references to "altars of the old gods" among them.

Facts:

The Pentacle is the holy symbol because it is viewed as the symbol of the goddess. The pentacle is found naturally in items such as apples, and the planet Venus moves through the heavens in the shape of a pentacle every so many years.

The goddess is triune: Maid/Mother/Crone or if you prefer: Childhood/Nurthering/Wisdom.

The God is often viewed as an amalgram of gods, just as the goddess is viewed as an amalgram of goddesses -- but that is less defined. The Horned Beast (the Hunter from Old Celtic and Germanic Myth) is often used to represent the God.

The goddess is associated with the moon and with silver, the god with the sun and gold.

The horned beast was "demonized" by the Roman Church when it created Satan, by having its form used, to help them convert people in the Germanic and Celtic regions. Even the symbol used by males to represent the horned beast and his relationship to masculinity was demonized, but it endures.

I have attached a few links:

1. one of my favorite videos from Inkubus/Sukubus - a goth/religious group that is pagan. They are English with 9 or 10 albums and an endless tour. They use gothic affectations and do concerts, but they also do alot of the huge religious shows centered around Wicca. The video is a wonderful song that is a mix of her performing the song in two locations -- one an outdoor concert in late fall (no her guitarist doesn't smoke, that is steam from lack of heat), the other from a religious service she led at a major gathering. They cut back and forth. Note the pictures are a mix of midieval views of what "witches" were like, old statues, and some modern worship scenes. Note the pentacle and the boy (I know, the guitarist is grown up, but he looks so young) giving the symbol of the Horned Beast at one point - thus reaffirming his own masculinity even as he plays. Also note the anhk (Egyptian symbol of life) that she regularly wears, thus reminding people of the older versions of the goddess.

2. a link to a brief discussion of Skekinah from the "Encyclopedia Mythica." I would have chosen more academic references if I'd had time to hunt them down. If you need more, write me and I will find some among my theology books.

3. A link to a fairly scholarly article on the survival of goddess worship through Christianity.

4. A link to the Aquarian Tabernacle Church site -- to a page that explains historic goddess worship quite well.

These should start you on the path to knowledge. If you need further help, email me. If I don't know I will ask Jonathan.

Kindest throughts,

Reyn
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Answer 2

I'm Wiccan, dear, and you won't find reference to the goddess in the Bible. Wicca is a new movement on a very old religion. I personally believe (and my beliefs may not agree with those of other Wiccans) that the god and the goddess are divine entities representing the masculine and feminine aspects of nature. The goddess, like the Earth, is eternal.

In the Spring, the god courts the goddess and impregnates her. Through the Summer, he ages, dying at Samhain (Halloween) and passing into the Underworld, only to be reborn at Yule (Midwinter). The following Spring, the cycle will begin again. The goddess, on the other hand, ages and rejuvinates with the seasons.

Answer 3

The god and goddess are the creative forces in all of nature, keeping everything in balance. It is a pagan belief and predates Christianity in many cultures, though you are more likely to hear Wiccans talking about the Lady.

Answer 4

The Lord and Lady is a direct reference to Wiccan and Pagan beliefs. It is an acknowledgment of our gendered world and the equal value of each. Consequently, you will not find a direct reference to this concept in any of the three patriarchal monotheistic religions. But...

It is under the surface. Check out Lilith, to see what I mean. From Wikipedia,

"Late medieval Jewish legend said she was the first wife of Adam and when she refused to be the inferior being, she left the Garden of Eden."

And in Kabala, Lilith is considered the Goddess.

Answer 5

The Essenes are plenty like the Gnostics contained in the experience that they are following mysticism. surely, for God to be all issues take position contained in the universe, then it must be male besides as female. for decades this has been documented. In my personal route, El is the daddy, and he's the author of heaven and earth. Asherah, his consort, is the mummy, who develop into widely used from the starting up of time. She is the Shekinah of God, the female essence of a twin deity. All nature is twin, female and masculine, yet finally that's all phantasm. they're 2 aspects of a similar entire, and are incredibly one (they distance further in existence varieties with a better awareness, which comprise people, lions, elephants, cows, or camels, and by no skill between asexual existence varieties or species that can substitute gender). in actuality that El is distant. the daddy is distant. he's pictured as old and residing atop Mount Kasu, that's on the source of the rivers that flow into the international oceans. this suggests the centre of the universe, in cosmology. yet he won't be able to be reached through mortal adult men, in hardship-free words through the Goddess, Elat, the eternal Shekinah. Asherah travels on a donkey as a lot as Mount Kasu to look till now her consort El, and he provides her what she asks. So petition the mummy in case you ever wish to be united with the daddy.

Answer 6

We are pagan. Fallowing the beliefs and cherishing the Gods and Goddesses of old, since before your Bible was written. Specifically, I am Wiccan.

Blessed Be.

Answer 7

My God is called Olodumare. It is from Yoruba.
It is not a religion. it is a way of life called the life of Ifa.

Answer 8

There is no goddess or any lady to worship any where in the Holy Bible !!!!!!!!