Modern Wiccan History
In a Brief History of the Goddess Worshipers we saw that the Celts were an ancient people whose true origins lie buried in the forests of time. We saw how they lived their lives in unity with the natural world about them--not separated from it as we often see today--but in union. Through their art and the writings of the Greeks and Romans we got to know them a little better. We discovered that they worshiped a male God, often horned, and a female Deity first called Danu who gave Her name to the river Danube This is the region where the Celts originally came from in southeastern Europe—not strictly Ireland, though the Irish have been the keepers of the torch since the Roman conquests. We would probably have none of this if the Irish had not preserved our Celtic heritage. In modern times, they almost went extinct--or rather their traditions were almost forgotten. The important thing is that we know that what the Celtics believed was fundamentally different from the Judeo-Christian tradition--their world was not exclusively patriarchal--women played major roles in the Celtic society, just as in Wicca today. We learned that their spiritual leaders, the Druids, were their judges and priests, teachers and magicians. So males mattered too. That’s it. The short history of Wicca can be summed up in one man, Gerald Gardner, though it grows greater every day, and in the one law:
"Do what you will, so long as it harms none"
In other matters, as we suspect that people called Salem the Witch Town. Salem was the first town where people though bad omens occurred and witches gathered. Now, to sum it up, after 13 years of burning witches at the stake, they stopped suddenly when they were about to kill the mayors daughter at an execution for being accused of a witch. Nowadays, we believe that only bad witches lie in the Hex Family, for we are the Wiccan tradition.
In a Brief History of the Goddess Worshipers we saw that the Celts were an ancient people whose true origins lie buried in the forests of time. We saw how they lived their lives in unity with the natural world about them--not separated from it as we often see today--but in union. Through their art and the writings of the Greeks and Romans we got to know them a little better. We discovered that they worshiped a male God, often horned, and a female Deity first called Danu who gave Her name to the river Danube This is the region where the Celts originally came from in southeastern Europe—not strictly Ireland, though the Irish have been the keepers of the torch since the Roman conquests. We would probably have none of this if the Irish had not preserved our Celtic heritage. In modern times, they almost went extinct--or rather their traditions were almost forgotten. The important thing is that we know that what the Celtics believed was fundamentally different from the Judeo-Christian tradition--their world was not exclusively patriarchal--women played major roles in the Celtic society, just as in Wicca today. We learned that their spiritual leaders, the Druids, were their judges and priests, teachers and magicians. So males mattered too. That’s it. The short history of Wicca can be summed up in one man, Gerald Gardner, though it grows greater every day, and in the one law:
"Do what you will, so long as it harms none"
In other matters, as we suspect that people called Salem the Witch Town. Salem was the first town where people though bad omens occurred and witches gathered. Now, to sum it up, after 13 years of burning witches at the stake, they stopped suddenly when they were about to kill the mayors daughter at an execution for being accused of a witch. Nowadays, we believe that only bad witches lie in the Hex Family, for we are the Wiccan tradition.
