RE103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Athame, Love Nature, Old Age
Document Summary
Re103: lesson 3: wiccan and neo-pagan understandings of love. Significant increase in the number of people drawn to old pagan traditions. Negative images and stereotypes connected to neo-paganism. Encompasses wicca and while aspects may overlap with new age religious understandings, the two are also distinct. (wicca) focus on cycles of nature, the feminine (goddess), and associated rituals rather than self-knowledge and self-transformation. Embrace nature and view the human being as being within the ecosystem (no concept of a spirit being trapped inside a physical body) Wicca: witchcraft; wanting to understand how our human experience interacts within our natural world, therefore, understanding how plants, animals, human beings, stars, planets, the sun and the moon interact is important. Importance of fertility and water, troped of birth, growth, death, light, and darkness al play a vital role in pagan traditions as do the phases of the sun, moon, constellations, and.
