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Thursday, April 05, 2007

let's talk about paganism!!

hahax let's be enthu man hahax

ok i'm mad

here it goes..

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-encompasses a diverse community with some groups concentrating on specific traditions, practices or elements such as ecology, witchcraft, Celtic traditions or certain gods.

-Wiccans, Druids, Shamans, Sacred Ecologists, Odinists and Heathens make up parts of the Pagan community

- strongly emphasises equality of the sexes

- may be collective or solitary worship

- ceremonies usually begin with marking out of a ritual circle, a symbol of sacred space which has neither beginning nor end, and within which all stands as equals

- at quarter-points, the four directions and the corresponding elements of Earth, Air, Fire and Water will be acknowledged and bid welcome

- meditation, chanting, music, prayer, dance, the pouring of libations, recitations of poetry and/or the performance of sacred drama, sharing of food and drink

- pagan worship is mainly concerned with concern to and honouring of immanent divinity

- rituals akin to a symbolic language of communication between the human and the divine: one which speaks not to the intellect alone but also to the body, the emotions, and the depths of the unconscious mind, allowing Pagans to experience the sacred as a whole people within act of worship

- approach primarily mythopoeic, recognising that spiritual truths are better understsood by means of allusion and symbol rather than doctrine

- 3 types of Paganism: meso-paganism, neo-paganism, neo-dindruism

- Wicca: worhips Mother Goddess
5 elements = fire, air, water, earth, spirit
widely populated
"Charmed" television serial -> exaggerated version of paganism (involves witchcraft)

well that's the end of our topic of the day, Paganism! give a round of applause!!! hahahahx

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