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To: alt.witchcraft From: gammonjason@aol.com (Gammon Jason) Subject: Re: Lucifer is the god of Witchcraft. Who's Pan? Date: 15 Feb 2000 14:56:47 GMT First of all "Lucifer" was the god of either the morning or evening star, the bright object that appears shortley before sunrise and sunset. This is really the planet venus by the way, but the ancient greeks and romans worshiped him as a minor god. His mother was Eos or Aurora the dawn goddess, and his twin brother was Phosphorus. Both Lucifer and Phosporus mean Light-Bringer and we get the word "phosphoresent" from his name. Scribes translating the bible put in the greek work "lucifer" to mean "light-bringer" but then christians forgot to translate "lucifer" into what it actualy means thus the false belief that satan's name is "lucifer" became widespread. Any learned reader of the Hebrew religion will realize that all the angels, including demons, end with the letters -el, wich means god. For example, Michael, Raphael, Uriel, Gabriel, etc.. "Lucifer" doesn't end with -el and neither does "Satan". These are just generic terms. The actual name for the entitiy known as the devil has been said to be either "Azazel" or "Samael". Though some scholars are convinced that there never was one key figure of evil who took the responsibilites of the role of the devil. The belief that "lucifer" was the consort of Diana has been proven to have been made up by the author of Aradia. There has never been any evidence to suggest that Diana was a "mother goddess", meaning that she was a fertility goddess. She was what scholars term a virgin goddess. Her realm of influence was not human sexuality, love and fertility since she herself scorned love and her would be suitors. She dealt with the hunt, moon, and both healing and inflicting diseases. Now the greek Artemis was definitely a fertility goddess but unfortunately Diana was not. Now one of the first representations of "withces" were to be found in the worshipers of the greek goddess Hecate. Before magik was wide spread but there had never been a deity whose supposed influence dealt directly with magick and the occult. Isis was a close contender but Hecate's worhsipers have the distinction of being feared by the rest of the pagan community for their supposed magik powers. Also the ritual "drawing down the moon" comes from the worship of Hecate for the greek writers have written that Hecate's worshiper have the powere to "stay the stars, turn the sun in his course, and draw the moon down from the sky". The other powers that they were to supposedly possess were, to avert rivers and streams, turn men into animals(circe), trap the winds in "wind-bags" that would grant safe voyage to sea-farers, summon the dead and every foul creature, and order the other gods to obey their every command. Pan and the like were not deities of witchcraft per se but more along the lines of paganism in general. -out Jason
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