whats is a goddess and wicca? also what do a?

Question

goddess look like?

Answer 1

Wicca is a modern religion that honors the female face of the Divine as at least equal to -- if not more prominent than -- the male face of the Divine. The Goddess and the God are often referred to as "the Lady and Her beloved Consort"; the God is seem as springing from the Goddess, Who is Herself eternal and the source of all life.

A relatively objective (non-Wiccan) set of articles on what Wiccans do and believe:

http://www.religioustolerance.org/witchcra.htm

Another useful article:

http://www.religionfacts.com/neopaganism/paths/wicca.htm

A good site by Wiccans:

http://wicca.timerift.net

And the US Army Chaplains Handbook excerpt on Wicca:

http://www.religioustolerance.org/wic_usbk.htm

The Goddess... heh. Where would I start? As I honor Her, She has a thousand faces and a thousand names -- and more. She has been adored by mankind since before recorded history, and Her worship has persisted, in one form or another, right up to the present day. Her face -- bright and dark, laughing and fierce -- is in the heart of Her worshippers forever.

Here are some Goddess images:

http://www.hranajanto.com/goddessgallery/GGF-all.html

http://www.newmoonvisions.com/home/nmv/page/351/2

http://www.dancinghummingbird.com/joyw/goddessimages.html

These are interpretations by different people of the Goddess. In my opinion, to see the Goddess in Her most basic aspect all you have to do is look at the face of any woman -- or at the living earth that sustains us all. That is where you will find Her.

Answer 2

Wicca is one of many earth-based religions. Many people lump it with witchcraft, druidism, and paganism but there are differences.

One thing all of these religions have in common is a belief in the Goddess. There is also God. Male/female. Balance. Just as a child needs to have been concieved by a man and woman.

Goddess worship dates back further in human history than any other religious belief. It's not a new concept; it's just a concept that has been stamped out of public acceptance by the ruling church of the day.

Personally, I don't imagine the Goddess (or God) to look like anyone or anything specific. They are in each and every person in some way.

Answer 3

A goddess is a female god. Wicca is a pagan religion based on nature. A goddess presumably looks like the female version of what a god looks like.

Answer 4

The Goddess looks like what ever you want.

I picture her as a young women with a royal clothing.

Answer 5

http://www.sacredhearth.com/articles/whatiswicca

A Goddess is a female Divinity. She looks however you expect Her to look, as Gods do not have physical forms- and in fact do not have gender, as such- or rather, They do not have genitalia, so they are not male or female in the biological sense. They present to us as because Their Natures may (or may not) be feminine-like or male-like (as we or They understand it) or because They feel most comfortable identifying as that gender. The Divine are all living entities of Spirit and They each have their own personality, Nature and preferences, just like living entities of matter (that is, people, animals, etc.) do.

Answer 6

A goddess is an idol that looks like a woman.

Wicca was created by Gerald Gardner in the 1950's. Before Gardner, there was no Wicca. Gardner drew on several sources of inspiration.

In the 19th century a romaticizing of things Pagan began. Godfrey Leland forged a spurious book called Aradia:Gospel of the Witches that implied that witches were pagans who worshipped Diana (and Lucifer). He plagarized materials from two previous books he wrote (Etruscan Remains and Gypsy Sorcery). Although the word Wicca isn't mentioned, it was the great-great daddy of the whole thing.
Later on quack anthropolgist Margret Murray hatched her own theory about the witches of the European witch trials actually being survivors of a Pagan cult in her books. These inspired Gardner to create his own witch cult witch he called "wica" (at first spelled in lower case and with only one "c"). Gardner insisted Witch meant "Wise one" claiming the word derives from the Old English word "wicce". "Wicce" actually means "to bend", and this is where the word "wicker" comes from. The word "wicked" also comes from "wicce" (as in a wicked person being "bent").
The word "witch" has a nefarious meaning in every language on earth,including English, but for some reason Wiccans still insist on calling themselves "Witches" (with a capital "W") and their religion "Witchcraft". They feel that the reason people are afraid of them is centuries of "xtian propaganda" meant to defame them. But even if they went to Vietnam ( a predominantly Buddhist country) and said they were a Phuy Tay (Vietnamese for witch), people would still be afraid of them. Of course, a tiny few Wiccans have stopped calling themselves witches, but most probably enjoy the shock value wether they admit it or not.


If there is any truth to the old saying "Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach.", that truth is found in the occult, and Wicca in particular. Silver Ravenwolf has written close to a dozen books on the subject of "The Craft", and claims she has been studying it since about 1969, which is almost as long as I’ve been alive. She has written a book on how to cast money spells, and includes a chapter on how to do so in her Teen Witch book. But the thing is, she doesn't particularly sound all that prosperous herself. Ravenwolf writes,

" For years I couldn't afford to go to a hair stylist (still can't, it's shop and chop for me). I got pretty good at stying my own hair from looking at magazine pictures" [SOURCE: Teen Witch, Llewellyn Publications, 2003 edition, page 145]

OK, she so rich she can't go to the hairdresser. Hey, get me a copy of that Prosperity Spell book!

Silver Ravenwolf seems to have inadvertently discovered that Wicca makes things worse, but won't ever admit it as such.
In Teen Witch she says

"A lot of people tell me how bad their lives have gotten after casting a spell and tell me they won't do Witchcraft anymore. I tell them their lives would have been much worse for not having cast the spell".

Don't you would think a lot of people would be saying things like "Hey, Silver Ravenwolf, my life has improved tremendously with Wicca!" if Wicca is as great as they claim? Instead it makes lives much worse, and even Silver Ravenwolf admits she hears this a lot!!!

My advice would be to rethink the whole thing and try reading C.S. Lewis instead.