What is the name of the Goddess religion?

Question

In this website, it talked about how the word
wicca is a male word or termerology and "wicce" is the proper word to use to idenitfy a female "wiccan" witch.
so due to this controversy, if the religion shouldn't be called wicca, what should it be called???

Answer 1

Don't get hung up on the etymology. Wicce is a Middle English word that means "wise", most Wiccans are content to be referred to as Wiccans. The religion is most certainly known as Wicca, and no Wiccan I've ever known has had a problem with that. The only witches that have a hardass about what they're referred to as are the Dianic Pagans (we're not women, we're wymyn!) and WE even consider them to be nutjobs for the most part.

Answer 2

There are hundreds of religions that worship Goddesses. There's a religion called Wicca which was created by Gerald Gardner in the 1950's. It is the Fertility Cult of the Lord and Lady of the Isles, a lineaged, oathbound traditional religion whih practices ceremonial magic and witchcraft in their rituals. Every Wiccan is by definition both a witch and a priest(ess) of the Lord and Lady. It's spawned hundreds of phony knockoffs (generally called "Fluffy Bunny" groups), most of which have nothing to do with Wicca. These groups were created mostly to look cool by saying "Oh, we're witches so screw you, Christians!" The only two "traditions" of Wicca which have any right to the name (because they actually follow the customs, traditions, etc. and were founded by people who were originally Wiccan) are Gardnerian Wicca (the original group of Wiccans which Gardner created) and Alexandrian Wicca (created by a first- or second-degree initiate by the name of Alex Sanders). Judging by your question, I'm assuming you mean Dianic "Wicca", which is not Wicca at all, but simply a Fluffbunny group of feminists who stole the Wiccan Lady and the name of Gardner's religion. Man, I said "Wicca" alot in that speech. ^_^

Answer 3

If you mean any religion that worshiped a goddess, there is no word for it since there is no term for it, at least not in my mind. BUt in Hinduism, the people that see the mother goddess, Shakti, as the supreme deity are called Shaktiists. There are many others, such as Greek Paganism (Hera is supreme to some) but this is the one that is really about the mother.

Answer 4

Got it back words there. But like many answers, there is more than one Goddess related religion. Paganism as a whole is a twofer.
The Dianic Tradition - its more of a goddess tradition in fact dead on goddess tradition.

Answer 5

There has been more than one 'goddess' religion over the course of time. In Biblical times one such Goddess was Ashura, but there are many, many more. In ancient days most gods had a goddess by their side, and in some families, she ruled.