What do wiccans believe about the beginning ( in the beginning ... )?

Answer 1

There isn't really one book they use to find answers like that, they have a system of their personal beliefs mixed with the beliefs left over from the people before them they pay homage to (Greeks, Vikings, Celts etc.) on top of Para-psycho pseudo-science theories about planes of existence and energy. Hence they may have differing beliefs. A good exmaple of this is some believe in reincarnation while others believe in a plane beyond this known as the Summerland.

Hence some can believe in evolution and how divine energy is inherent in the materials that make up our planet, or how human belief creates deities infused within the elements and symbols familiar to us.

But to be honest I've enver really met a Wiccan that was really that concerned with how it all came about., The present existence of the world is pretty much all that matters, since it seemd to work out all alright in the end.

Answer 2

I am not a Wiccan so cant answer for them
but as a spiritualist this is something that i have had to think a lot about
as we have no scriptures that explain creation
we have no one to preach to us and tell us about it
we have individual ideas about that im sure
however the focus is not on how we got here ... but what we do while we are here and what happens when we leave here
i accept much of the creation side of things but also cannot ignore some of the evolution theories
but i dont dwell on it ... that is not important

ahhh it seems i share similar thoughts on it with Pagan though .. interesting

Answer 3

It varies from Wiccan to Wiccan. I speak for not all, but I feel that evolution does exist as creation. The Supreme is sort of experimenting with life to see how things will continue overtime, and since the Supreme is not bound by time, evolution can take a long time and seem like a mere few minutes to the Divine.

Answer 4

The answer depends on the pantheon. Wiccans and Pagans are similar in this regard. Both work with many or all of the pantheons including, believe it or not, the Christian pantheon.

What you are speaking of here are creation myths. Each culture had their own version of this. My personal fav is the ancient Greek idea of Chaos existing prior to creation. From there ... enter the Gods.

"...In the beginning, Hesiod says, there was Chaos, vast and dark. Then appeared Gaea, the dep-breasted earth, and finally Eros, ' the love which softens hearts ', whose fructifying influence would thenceforth preside over the formation of beings and things. From Chaos were born Erebus and Night who, uniting, gave birth in their turn to Ether and Hemera, the day. On her part Gaea first bore Uranus, the sky crowned with stars, ' whom she made her equal in grandeur, so that he entirely covered her '. Then she created the high mountains and Pontus, ' the sterile sea ' with its harmonious waves..."

Answer 5

I believe that there are some lovely poetic creation stories, and that they are *stories*.

I don't KNOW how things came to be, and I'm OK with not knowing.

And I'm going to take this opportunity to plug in something I wrote on the subject a number of yuears ago for a local pape:

(It's long, so skip it if you're not interested):

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A number of years ago I read something very like the following in an introduction to a book. I wish I could remember which book it was, since I’d like to read it again, but in the meanwhile I wanted to share what I remember:

“In the beginning…” “Before there were things…” “At the start of time…”

Stories about how life began, stories about the origins of the universe, the stars and sun and moon and the earth, often start with similar phrases. These stories are not really about how the universe came into being, though. They are about us. And we tell our stories about ourselves in many different tongues.

In our modern language of science we may talk about small things attracting other small things and combining to form bigger things. We may discuss chaos theory and “wild attractant” molecules, natural selection and evolution rather than gods who spoke the universe into being or from whose heads their children sprang fully formed.

And, still, we humans are worshippers. A sense of the sacred suffuses any story about our beginning. The stories we tell about how we came to be touch our sense of wonder, and we are filled with awe. For no matter how scientific the terms we use, our innermost selves tell us that these are miracles: that things exist at all, that life exists at all, and that life has become conscious of itself.

Throughout the ages, and all over the world, we have worshipped at many different shrines. Each altar has been oriented toward a different face of the All, of God, of the Mystery, shaped by our different cultural and personal experiences and values. The way that we experience life and understand consciousness informs all of our actions, and especially the ways in which we worship.

Our holy places are everywhere, for we are surrounded by miracles. And it is in our recognition of the miraculous that our image of God is formed. Which particular miracles you can see as miracles determine what face God wears for you. If your central miracle, the miracle that defines you as a culture or a person, is that humankind is distinct from the rest of creation, the face of God you see will not look anything like the face of God seen by people whose central miracle is that the same life-force infuses rocks, trees, animals, stars and humans.

Answer 6

we beleive that the mother earth gave birth to herself.the energy has always been and is the most creative force imaginable.the energy the provided nuritment and supplements for life as we know it.

Answer 7

I'm not one of them but they believe only in nature as God. They would probably believe that we came from the ocean and evolved

Answer 8

Epona is here. She is a wonderful and knowledgeable lady on this subject.