Ancient Wicca Religion

Wicca is the second-fastest-growing religion in the United States with the first being Islam. When we here Wicca we usually think of straight up black magic but there is much more to Wicca then magic. Wicca means “wise ones” or “to bend or shape”. Wicca is a predominantly Western movement whose followers practice witchcraft and nature worship. The people involved in Wicca see themselves as a religion of pre-Christian traditions of Northern and Western Europe. The origins of the ancient Wicca were formed by a religion that started back in the mist of the Neolithic history. Neolithic was a fertility and agrarian society and this is why the religion is based on nature worship. The nature worship came from the practice of the Celtic clans of …show more content…
So a person who holds to Eclectic Wicca can adopt ritual and ideas from the other form of Wicca and combine them to their needs and can also adopt any deity or religious system like Jesus, Zues, Horus, Thor and etc. Most Electic Wiccans affirm person responsibility, communion with nature, and are generally not into structured Wiccan traditions and all they want to know is what works and how they can use it to their benefit. Gardnerian Wicca is one of the main types of Wicca used now a days and was created by Gerald Gardner. Gardnerian is one of the oldest forms of Wicca. Gardner compiled a volume of spells, rituals and magical lore and he called it the book of Shadows. Not all of the Wiccan traditions follow the Garnderian Book of Shadows. The Gardnerian Wicca focuses on the God and Goddess who are equally balanced, reincarnation, nudity during circle rituals and celebrate the eight Sabbats. Georgian Wicca was founded by George Patterson in 1970 in Bakersfield, California. The Georgian Wicca is kind of like Electic Wicca but its members are encouraged to develop their own rituals sometimes even skyclad or more known as nudity. The Georgian also celebrates the eight