No one tells wiccans who they have to worship, like in other religions, another choice of the Craft. There are ancient symbolic descriptions of their energies, essences and personalities per se. You can create him or her any physical appearance, presences in which you need or desire.
Wicca, with its eclectic nature, is obvious with the freedom to choose which deity you wish to worship: one Goddess, one God, both and even the choice of many with different attributes with various names. In choosing your own deity is part of what makes Wicca so appealing for those who have been unsatisfied and empty with traditional religions.
Human Image:
Human images are one way to approach and to understand the greater mystery. It is nature to create Goddesses and Gods in our image. Witches naturally like to discover the names and the attributes of the divinities that appeal to their own spiritual vision. Perhaps attributes you see either lacking in yourself, or not. Or perhaps you feel drawn to a specific divine due to dreams, mediation or divinatory messages, or seeing images and visions.
There are100’s of different names for the Gods and Goddesses each representing different cultures, traditions, parts of the world. Possessing various attributes, ruling over different aspects of life…..love, war, animals, emotions, theses lists goes on and on. With different traditions and cultures, where does one begin to name and identify all the deities?
With so many choices and various names of these deities, why name them? Could it be because people feel safe with names and labels? Besides is it not easier to talk with, easier to identify, empathize, relate to and to understand with some with a name, even if that someone is a Higher Spirit.
The Great Spirit that gives life to the Universe which is often called The Life Force, The Divine, The Essence, and The Power that moves the Universe. It’s inside us, outside of us, around us, beyond us. We see the Spirit in the change of nature, the seasonal cycle, the moon cycle, the animals, humans, the Earth’s form; and the mysteries of birth and death, creation, maturation, decay, growth, death and rebirth.
Some of the traditions are only Goddess based, while others are considered equal - God and Goddess. Each of the Goddesses and Gods belongs to a specific pantheon, or group of deities serving a certain culture. Some paths, traditions or cultures worship certain divines; for example, Celtics, Roman, Italian, Greek, Mexican. Choosing Goddesses and Gods are similar to finding your Path or Tradition; follow your heart, and listen to your instincts. Cultures and traditions have given the God numerous names, as well as numerous human attributes.
Goddess:
The concept of the Goddess helps to empower women to improve the status of all women in a very male-oriented world; including the Christian Male God concept. Females, of all species, give the crucial Gift of Birth, would it then not make sense for the Creator of Life and to Earth to be also female - A Goddess. Goddesses have always been a great interest to Pagans and to Witches. The concept of the Craft is the Goddess, the ultimate Divinity.
She is known as the Universal Mother, The Creator, Keeper of the Eternal Cycle of Life, (death and life renewed). The Goddess linked to the three phases of the moon, Waxing, Full and Waning Moons; symbolizes The Maiden, The Mother, and The Crone.
Gods:
From ancient time, the Gods have been affectionately known, as the Horned God and/or Lord of the Hunt to many cultures. The God represents the Sun to Pagans, as well as, what is seen as the physical accepts of nature - physical strength, sexual passion, the harvest and the hunt. Wiccans portray The Goddess as Maiden, Mother and Crone; and the God as Youth, Hunter and Lord of the Underworld.
Together the Goddess and God balance each other in energy; the perfect completion of life and its cycle, neither is more deserving of your worship. Feminine and masculine aspects of the Spirit exist within all, and cannot exist without the other. The idea of twin aspects of deities is one of the oldest aspects of Wicca; perhaps to include the energies and the concept of both male and female.
The Concept of Three:
Christianity envisions their God as having three personalities: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Islam has the three daughters of Allah: the eldest of whom presides over Fate. The Greeks has three separate temples for Hera: Child, Wife and Widow. The Zoryas’ Slavonic Warrior Goddess represents dawn, dark and midnight all in one power. The Romans have Carmenta, the Goddess of Childbirth who had two sisters whom she worked constantly with -Antevorta (looking forward) and Postora (looking back).
"Wicca allows you to develop a constant, interactive relationship with Spirit in as simple a way as seeing the moon come up through the trees and feeling a breathless kinship to Her beauty and power…."
