Everything Under the Moon

I'll try to keep that in mind. Do any of the men here feel somewhat offended by the implications that a man must embrace the Goddess or his own feminine aspects in order to be sensitive, or nurturing or caring? Does it make the assumption that those are unmanly qualities, and impossible within a mas...

Pantheism is just a core belief, like polytheism or monotheism, and isn't a specific trad. If you have leanings towards pantheism you might want to look into religions that encompass that or develop your own belief.

Reverse sexism is just a meme that means the previously discriminated group 'reverses' the sexism back on it's oppressors. I think the context applies here in Wicca- through which a lot of women, as Robert L stated, use it to discriminate against men. *Shrug* Semantics.

The God and Goddess are meant to be outside of time, and the larger principles of the Universe. Not representatives of feudal England. Gardner, the (some say) creator or (some say) enlightener of the Wiccan deities, didn't live in the dark ages. Wicca emerged on the scene at the same time as cultura...

. The Goddess does seem to be defined by roles but doesn't this also make the God look a bit useless though? He doesn't seem to have a role other than hunting (for woman) and being master of death which as I said before is far less desirable than birth. Wicca can also commit reverse sexism. The dif...

The only thing the Crone 'loses' is menstruation. Why is that significant? She's not fertile anymore and therefore loses the status of "mother". Only in a patriarchal mindset. Women past child-bearing years can still raise children. They can still be virgins. They can still be stupid. The ...

I don't think so, either. But I don't think your age or your role in life identifies what qualities you can contribute. To label women according to roles they occassionally take on seems inherently sexist. Like: that man is a jock so he's a stupid meat head. Or he's an accountant so he's a twerp. Pl...

So I've had this sort of vague notion for awhile that the symbology and philosophy in Wicca is a bit sexist. The idea that womanhood is identified as stereotypes bothers me. The Virgin, the Mother, and the Crone come off as shallow intepretations that men use to describe or qualify us, rather then s...

I believe in guardian spirits; Disr, Hamignja, Fylgja. When I was seven my class took a field trip to a state park and we were driving back on the highway. On the way back one of the kids put his hands over the bus driver's eyes and the bus flipped and rolled four times. Kids were laying in the road...

You can use what you already have around the house.

Yeah, me neither. Heathenism isn't a mystery tradition. *shrug*

I have a slight disagreement with that. One can also have initiary experiences from the gods, since technically when one has been initiated by the group it's spurred by an experience with deity, not a timeline. An initiation usually refers to some sort of evolvement spiritually, being at a new level...

You will watch a video. The phone will ring. In seven days you'll be dead.

Then the goddess will embrace you and you'll be a martyr for all Wiccans.

This I have seen.

Since we've had a few members interested in heathen myth (Hel, Fenris, i.e) I thought they might enjoy this conference essay by Carolyne Larrington.


http://www.dur.ac.uk/medieval.www/sagac ... ington.htm

Gardner was greatly influenced by Murray, who was later discredited. You can read her works, but keep in mind that her scholarship isn't very good.