Re: wiccan research- help needed !
Shadowhawk
dandpmahlm@cs.com
Mon Apr 10 13:42:12 2000
Hello Brother,*p**br*: Your essay has cleared the air for me on a few matters *br*: concerning Wicca and Neo-Wicca. I was having a difficult *br*: time understanding the feminine bias of the survey that I *br*: was reading at Laura's site. The difference in the nature of *br*: British Wicca and American Wicca really has me thinking. I *br*: note that you've not mentioned the effect that Graves and *br*: Leland seem to have had on Neo-Wicca.  I'd be interested in *br*: knowing what you think concerning whether they've also had a *br*: disparate effect in Britain vs. the U.S.  *p**br*  Leyland was indeed favored by Gardner, one reason why the basis of the "Charge of the Goddess" comes from Leyland to Gardner and then really made beautiful by Valiente.  I don't think that Graves had much impact tho.  From having surviving fragments of Gardner's BOS as handed down, his writing does not contain the kind of imagry that you find in "The White Goddess".  I would suspect tho that Frazier's "The Golden Bough" and Margret Murray's work on witchcraft in Europe (since pretty much discredited as not being either scholarly or accurate) as both being influential in Gardner's crafting of the modern witchcraft revival.*p**p*: I hope to see many other takes on this and the role of men in *br*: Goddess religions as we've each assimilated our own thoughts *br*: and responses.<<*p**br*  Here's one place where I diverge from others such as Starhawk who say that Wicca is a Goddess religion.  It's a religion with a Goddess, but a God as well, and it's the equal and opposite polarity between the two that keeps the universe in balance.  Wicca is a nature and natural religion, but it is not a "Goddess" religion.*br*
Re: wiccan research- help needed !
Searles
548
Mon Apr 10 13:41:17 2000