what are all the gods and goddesses of wicca? please tell me their name and what they are the god of or send me a link of a list. please and thank you
2007-12-04 15:54:57 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
This is a very loaded question and I bet everyone will have a different answer, and each answer will be right in it's own way. Different traditions of Wicca believe different things, and may worship different pantheons. Some acknowledge many different pantheons. Many Goddesses and Gods represent different aspects, like protection, fertility, abundance, etc. I think you need to sit down with some basic books on Paganism and Wicca before you worry about what kinds of gods we worship. It'll make more sense to you then.
2007-12-05 19:56:17 · answer #1 · answered by tawniemarie 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Frankly, it's not your business.
The names of the Lord and Lady in British Traditional Wicca are oathbound to those who've proven themselves trustworthy enough to hear them.
For the rest of Wicca, the names of the gods worshipped by individual Wiccans are not for display on public spaces like some kind of advertising- if my gods wanted your attention, they'd ask for it. Look at the alleged Christians here who call our gods Satan-why should we hold our gods up for public ridicule when these people have already proven themselves slanderers?
Wiccans worship the gods they know, and the gods their ancestors knew.
Also, I respectfully disagree with Prariecrow. I believe the concept of All Gods being one God and All Goddesses being one Goddess is both disrespectful of the cultures of the European faiths Wicca is rooted in and DIRECTLY in contradiction to what Wicca is all about.
Gardner, for example, made it abudantly clear that his god and "The God of the Christians" were NOT the same being in any sense whatsoever. Valiente's liturgy, while lumping together several goddesses, makes it pretty clear Juno is not Minerva is not Venus.
In all honesty, I probably have one of the broadest standards for Wicca, in that I think most teachings and traditions are compatible with Wicca, but I think that monotheism is most assuredly NOT.
The gods are separate, and I honestly don't see how anyone who'd ever met a god could ever claim otherwise.
2007-12-05 07:39:04 · answer #2 · answered by LabGrrl 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This is a difficult question to answer for me for a couple of reasons. First, since I am not a Gardnerian (or any for of British Traditional) I do not know the identity of the deities originally connected with Wicca. I do not know their historical context, if any. I'm guessing that they are ancient deities whose worship is being revived, but that's a guess. And if our gods are gods that were followed by previously cultures, then I think it would be erroneous to describe them as "gods of Wicca." That implies deities unique to Wicca. If there is a literal "triple moon goddess" in BTW, that I would call a Wiccan god, although readers still have to understand that plenty of Wiccans do not follow her. I believe, in general, our gods are ancient deities, that they are unique and separate (I'm a hard polytheist), and that their worship is generally being revived rather than continued.
2016-05-28 06:05:28 · answer #3 · answered by catarina 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not that simple. Wicca is fairly general - paganism gets more detailed. A Wiccan could call on Diana, Pele, Freya and Wayland in the same circle (not that many would - just an example of merging different pantheons).
There are many different pantheons and all acknowledged by Wiccans.
Check out Wikipedia under Wicca, paganism and then narrow your search.
Also check out www.witchvox.com
2007-12-04 16:00:12 · answer #4 · answered by Aravah 7 · 7⤊ 0⤋
In Wicca and Paganism there are many Gods and Goddesses that people associate or feel close to. For me I believe that the God and Goddess are simply giving an identity to the non-conscious or non-local Self (as Deepak Chopra calls it) that you reach when in meditation or practicing ritual. I believe deity exists within all of us and through meditation and ritual we strive to attain communication with that part of our selves. So saying "God" or "Goddess" is simply giving an identity to this non-identifiable feeling within.
2007-12-05 04:02:00 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Many Wiccans believe that all the Goddesses ever worshipped are aspects of one Goddess and all the Gods ever worshipped are aspects of one God. Therefore, a Wiccan might call upon them as "the Lord and the Lady" or "the God and the Goddess" -- or they might call upon Them as Freya and Odin, or Brigid and Herne, or Isis and Osiris. Any God or Goddess from any pantheon, with proper research, might be called upon depending on what "frequency" of Divine energy the Wiccan wished to access.
EDITED TO ADD: http://www.godchecker.com is written in a very tongue-in-cheek style; please keep that in mind when reading through it. Wiccans view their Gods and Goddesses more seriously than it portrays, but its information is basically sound.
2007-12-04 16:10:44 · answer #6 · answered by prairiecrow 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
I got the link below from someone else on YA. Very useful.
I've always thought of the Wiccan Lord & Lady of being the main Gods of our religion and all of the Gods of other cultures' pantheons that we take as personal deities as being meerly aspects of those two main ones.
I second what Tawniemarie says down below. 10 different Wiccans (or Pagans for that matter) will give you 15 differant answers and believe in them utterly. Read more, and more, and more...
2007-12-04 16:34:04 · answer #7 · answered by great_wiccan_god 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Jesus said he is God, so any god they worship is of the devil.
2007-12-04 16:06:08 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 11⤋