Basic Wiccan God Concepts
The God is the sun, reborn and sacrificed every year to symbolize the seasons and birth, death and rebirth. He is the son, born to the Goddess, becomes Her lover and makes Her pregnant with His own spirit, and is reborn to Her after His death (more on this myth in our holiday class, just take my word for it for now!). He is the Man of The Woods, caretaker of wild places and animals as well as the great hunter. He is the kind father, and powerfully protective of His family. He is loving and caring, and the carefree Green man and Pan. His symbols are the holly in the winter, and the ivy of the summer. He is the grain that is reaped at the end of the harvest of life, and dies willingly, knowing that He will be reborn and death is just a part of the cycle of life. To know the God in His true forms is to know the true meaning of manhood and fatherhood, and the meaning of the cycles of life. |