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God or Goddess, The:

The particular masculine or feminine deity worshiped by a particular mono-, heno-, or duotheist.

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WORSHIP: in Paganism and Wicca, this means to become one with the gods during a group or personal rite and to endeavor to draw the essence of a goddess or god within, to see and understand from their viewpoint.

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MAGICKAL SYSTEM: The basic set of guidelines relating to the worship of specific Gods and Goddesses or cultural traditions.

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Katyayani

A form of the goddess Durga the young gopis worshiped in Vrindavana to obtain Krishna as their husband.

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dussehra:

hindu festival that celebrates the defeat of the demon king Ravan at the hands of lord ram (found in the epic ramayana ). It is also the worship of goddess durga.

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Magna Mater (Latin) The Great Mother, the mother of the gods, a title given to many Asiatic goddesses at the time when the Romans were in Asia; identified by the Greeks with Rhea, daughter of Ouranos and Gaia, wife of Kronos, and mother of Zeus and other gods. In Asia the name was given specially to Cybele, whose worship later became degraded into licentious rites. Every nation had its own chief goddess, or mother goddess, who was called Great Goddess, exactly as the Latins did with their own Magna Mater.

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CHURCH OF THE ETERNAL SOURCE: A Neo-Pagan religion founded by Don Harrison in 1970 and based on a reconstruction of the Mysteries of ancient Egypt and the worship of the Egyptian Gods and Goddesses.

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PATRIARCHAL: Term used to apply to the world since the matrifocal clans that worshipped Goddesses were supplanted by codified religions that honor all-male deity(s).

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PAGAN/NEOPAGAN -

1. Nature based Religion. (TRASB)

2. movement devoted to nature, worship, polytheism, Goddess worship ancient tribal religions. (NAD)

3. a generic term for anyone who practice an earth or nature religion. (CMM)

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Dictynra, Dictynna (Greek) (from diktyon net)

A sea goddess worshipped in Crete, an aspect of Britomartis (sweet maid), a goddess worshiped throughout the Mediterranean islands and coast, often identified with Artemis. Britomartis dispensed happiness and was a patroness of hunters, fishermen, and sailors, a goddess of health and birth.

Dictynna, a daughter of Zeus and Artemis, seems to have originally been a moon goddess. She is said to "wear a wreath made of the magic plant diktamnon, or dictamnus, the evergreen shrub whose contact is said, at the same time, to develop somnambulism and cure it finally . . ." (IU 1:264).

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OLD RELIGION (The): Italian Witchcraft, founded in the mid-14th century with the teachings of Aradia, the Holy Strega, and based upon the pre-Estruscian Italian belief system. The Old Religion is a worship of the "Source of All Things", through the personification of the Goddess and God. Also known as Strega, Stregheria, and La Vecchia Religione.

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STREGA, STREGHERIA: Italian Witchcraft, founded in the mid -14th century with the teachings of Aradia, the Holy Strega, and based upon the pre-Estruscian Italian belief system. Stregheria is a worship of the "Source of All Things", through the personification of the Goddess and God.\ Also known as La Vecchia Religione (the Old Religion).

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STREGA, STREGHERIA: Italian Witchcraft, founded in the mid -14th century with the teachings of Aradia, the Holy Strega, and based upon the pre-Etruscan Italian belief system. Stregheria is a worship of the "Source of All Things", through the personification of the Goddess and God.\ Also known as La Vecchia Religione (the Old Religion).

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Dianic Witchcraft:

(1) A postulated medieval cult of Diana and/or Dianus worshipers.

(2) Term used by some henotheistic Neopagan Witches to refer to their concentration on the Goddess.

(3) Term used by some Feminist separatist Witches to describe their practices and beliefs.

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CANON EPISCOPI - an important document in the history of witchcraft from before the 15th C. AD. For centuries it was the official teaching of the Christian Curch about Witchcraft. It describes withces as deluded heretics, who worship "Diana, the goddess of the pagans."

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Selene (Greek) Moon goddess, daughter of Hyperion and Theia, sister of Helios (the sun) and Eos (dawn). She shed a mild light as her car was drawn through the sky by two milk-white horses. Later identified with Artemis or Hecate and Persephone, and therefore called Phoebe. She was worshiped on the days of the new and full moon. {BCW 11:97}

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Vesta (Latin) Hestia (Greek) Daughter of Saturn (Kronos) and Rhea, sister of Jupiter, Juno, Ceres, Pluto, and Neptune (Zeus, Hera, Demeter, Hades, and Poseidon). The first-born, she became, as Terra or Gaia, the earth goddess. She is variously represented as the wife of Uranus, and again as a divine maid, both accounts probably being remnants of an earlier myth similar to those centering around Demeter, Isis, Neith, and other goddesses.

Traces of the worship of goddesses equivalent to Vesta are found in prehistoric times. The cult reached a place of sanctity and importance in ancient Ireland, the Hebrides, and among the Incas of Peru. None, however, is so fully documented as the Roman cult of Vesta worship, centering around the guardianship of the sacred fire, symbol of the loftiest ideals of the state, and hence of the home and domestic life.

In Rome the cult grew in importance until the position of the priestesses almost rivaled that of royalty. There is a tradition that Numa introduced the worship of Vesta into Rome and founded the Temple of Vesta.

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Astarte (Greek) Greek form of the Syro-Phoenician goddess Ashtoreth, female counterpart of Baal. The goddess of love and fruitfulness, she was essentially a lunar goddess of productiveness or fertility.

The Assyrian and Babylonian form was Ishtar, in Syria Atargates, in Phrygia Cybele, in the Bible Ashtoreth, and in North Africa Tanith or Dido. She was intimately connected in the Chaldean form of her worship with the planet Venus. She corresponds to the Egyptian Isis or Hathor, Greek Aphrodite, and Norse Freya. The Virgin Mary represented on the crescent moon weeping, is taken from similar images of Astarte (BCW 11:96-7).

See also ASTORETH.

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Artemis (Greek) Greek divinity, commonly identified with the Roman Diana, daughter of Leto and Zeus, twin of Apollo. Goddess of chastity and protectress of youths and maidens against the wiles of Aphrodite, she is celebrated in Arcadian rites and legends which are older than those of Homer.

These show her to be a nature goddess, patroness of fields and forests, goddess of life-giving waters, marshes, rivers, and springs. As goddess of agriculture, she brings increase to the fields, drives away mice and pests, and is the friend of the sower and reaper. The legend of the Calydonian boar shows her to have been worshiped as a harvest goddess. She was also called the tamer, the goddess of the chase, and the healer. She is the protector of the beasts, rather than their persecutor in the chase.

Artemis was also the protectress of mankind and was specially active in regard to the education of the child and youth. Boys and girls were consecrated to her in the temples. She was goddess of marriage and presided over births. Her chief festival, that of Ephesia or Artemisia, was held in the spring.

The connections of various kinds between Aphrodite (or Venus) and the moon, represented under various names, were numerous and highly suggestive. In fact, the Aphrodite Pandemos (the common and popular) was more intimately connected with the lunar powers and attributes than even with Venus. The moon, for instance, under the name Lucina, presided over births; under the name Diana was referred to as being the giver of life and lives, of abounding vitality; and under the name Hecate was the goddess of the underworld because the bringer of disease, decrepitude, and death.

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