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- From: cortese@skid.ps.uci.edu (Janis Maria Cortese)
- Subject: Re: Documented Evidence
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- Organization: University of California, Irvine
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- Date: 4 Jan 93 03:04:13 GMT
- References: <3JAN199300473050@elroy.uh.edu> <C0AzAn.MD5@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1993Jan4.020504.1435@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan4.020504.1435@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> pciszek@nyx.cs.du.edu (Paul Ciszek) writes:
- >I think the question being asked here, and I would also like to see it
- >answered, is if there is any evidence of Wicca existing before Gardner.
- >Family traditions are a separate issue, unless these traditions appear
- >to be related to Wicca.
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- Are we also talking about religions with similar traditions and beliefs
- or something called Wicca(tm)? Certainly, belief systems that use a
- triune Goddess with an annually dying consort are legion, as are
- religions that mark the solar and lunar points of the year with rituals
- and revere natural elements. Must it be called Wicca?
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- Blessings,
- Janis
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