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Wiccan Cosmology

To: alt.magick.tyagi,alt.wicca,talk.religion.misc,alt.religion.wicca
From: lorax666 
Subject: Wiccan Cosmology
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 08:31:25 GMT

50031029 viii om

"Fistful of Nothing" :
# I am presently reading a book on Wicca and it is talking about the
# beginning or the creation. The All was female? 

sometimes that is the story, yes. parturition usually.

# and she created her male counterpart? IS this correct?

what makes a story correct? do you really think dimorphous 
sex preceded all things? doesn't this make more sense seen
as a poetic and wishful projection back into the past?

# I was under the impression that the All ([Deity]) was not 
# of gender 

are stories like that agreed on by Wiccans?

# and the expression of [Deity] was of the polar opposites 
# male and female.

this is one of the more common themes for Wiccan (Neo-
Pagan?) cosmology. there's a strong het Current in it.
magical tool symbolism seems heavily weighted toward
this bias and it is in some sense transcendentalized.

# What's up?

basically, a lack of evidence and stories that may have
greater popularity within some sectors than others. 
compare tribes/clans with their own manivaried stories 
of the gods in India and the Americas.

blessed beast!

lorax666

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