I am tired of explaining that Wiccans do not have an OMFG thousands and thousands of years old ancient oral tradition.
On the contrary, the roots are very important. I would say "ancient oral tradition" is not the same as an "organized religion", yes? Wasn't that the point you were just making about pagan cults? Then you are definitely in the wrong, as many of these so-called "cults" contained detailed, specific mentionings and stories that were passed down through generations. One good example of this is Judaism.
There are several branches of Wicca/paganism, just as there are of any other "organized" religion out there. Wicca as a movement may have been officially on the map in the 1950s, but the key foundations of that religion go back much farther than that. So what if it was a cult? So were Christianity and Islam, once.
I'm not trying to start a war about what Wicca means; I simply wanted to clear up my response to your comment. If you have an interest in pre-Roman Italy at all, I fail to see why the connections between the Old Religion of the Etruscans and Gardner's work would escape you.
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Date: 2006-12-24 02:47 am (UTC)On the contrary, the roots are very important. I would say "ancient oral tradition" is not the same as an "organized religion", yes? Wasn't that the point you were just making about pagan cults? Then you are definitely in the wrong, as many of these so-called "cults" contained detailed, specific mentionings and stories that were passed down through generations. One good example of this is Judaism.
There are several branches of Wicca/paganism, just as there are of any other "organized" religion out there. Wicca as a movement may have been officially on the map in the 1950s, but the key foundations of that religion go back much farther than that. So what if it was a cult? So were Christianity and Islam, once.
I'm not trying to start a war about what Wicca means; I simply wanted to clear up my response to your comment. If you have an interest in pre-Roman Italy at all, I fail to see why the connections between the Old Religion of the Etruscans and Gardner's work would escape you.