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	Wicca
		Dianic covens stress the worship of the Goddess, sometimes exclusively, and as such are largely feminist and/or matriarchal in orientation.
		The Dianic Tradition has spread to Europe, but covens are presently far less numerous and tend not to be as militant as their American counterparts, allowing men an equal role in worship, and worshipping both the Goddess and the Horned God as her consort.
		In Faery Wicca the iron and pearl pentagrams are used as meditational symbols to explore the self and restore ones balance with the universe.
	philtar.ucsm.ac.uk /encyclopedia/europe/wicca.html (1712 words)

	Dianic Wicca
		Dianic Covens (after the Roman Goddess Diana) are Wombyn~only and the male aspect is neither mentioned nor invited, whatever the sexual preferences of the Wombyn.
		Dianic Covens are non~hierarchical and focus on the individual; there are few rules or requirements for membership and little emphasis on initiation.
		Dianic Covens have a Priestess, but She is only Priestess for the purpose of leading a specific Ritual.
	www.angelfire.com /goth/amethystroze/dianic.html (1181 words)

	Dianic Wicca
		Some Dianic's are allied or involved with a certain lineage, but most of the Dianics still acknowledge Zsuzsanna Budapest as their founder, even though they might not acknowledge her as their foremother.
		The Dianic celebrate the Goddess in her triplle aspect of the Maiden, Mother, and Crone, as it is the entire life cycle that we all experence.
		The Dianic tradition is practiced within covens and groves, these groups are autonomous, and create their own structures, and leadership.It is often within these groups that have been formed out of pears to rotate their leadership.
	members.tripod.com /ladyshadowfeather/id40.html (752 words)

	Dianic Wicca
		Dianic Wicca is very similar to traditional Wicca in practice (see section below for a discussion of their differences), but differs significantly from it in beliefs.
		Many Dianic Wiccans believe that before recorded history there was a universal matriarchy which worshipped the Goddess, had matrilineal family structures, and had equality between the sexes.
		Like other Wiccans, Dianic Wiccans form covens, attend festivals, celebrate the eight major Wiccan holidays, Samhain, Beltane, Imbolc (or Imbolg), Lammas, the solstices and equinoxes (see Wheel of the Year) and the Esbats, which are rituals held at the full moon.
	www.fastload.org /di/Dianic_Wicca.html (826 words)

	Dianic Wicca - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Dianic Wicca, Dianic Witchcraft, and Feminist Dianic Witchcraft are all common titles for the Neopagan Feminist Dianic tradition.
		Dianic Wicca can be very similar to traditional Wicca in practice (see section below for a discussion of their differences), but differs significantly from it in beliefs.
		Many Dianic Wiccans believe that before recorded history there were widespread or universal matriarchal or matrifocal cultures which worshipped the Goddess, had matrilineal family structures, had social equality between the sexes, and did not practice war.
	en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Dianic_Wicca (1458 words)

	TRADITIONS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Z Budapest is well known for her involvement in Dianic Wicca, from her inspiring writings to her Susan B. Antony Coven in Los Angeles, California, formed in the 1970’s.
		Dianic Wicca does have a strength and a stigma involving its connection with the feminist movement.
		Georgian Wicca was founded by George Patterson in 1970, and was given legal status by the Universal Life Church in the early seventies as the Church of Wicca of Bakersfield, California.
	www.magickmind.net /traditions.html (1687 words)

	Dianica FAQ< (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		A: Wicca is a pagan religion, and honors the gods of old, before the time of christianity.
		A: Dianic Wicca is a branch/tradition of Wicca that places emphasis on the feminine.
		Dianic Wicca honors the Goddess: Diana, Isis, Innana, Hecate, Kali, and all her other names.
	members.tripod.com /~Dianica/faq.htm (413 words)

	Wicca
		Nonetheless, Wicca is often called the "Craft of the wise" as a result of this misconception.It appears that the word may be untraceable beyond the Old English period.
		Wicca has developed in several directions and institutional structures from the time it was brought to wider attention by Gerald Gardner.
		Gerina Dunwich, an American author whose books (particularly Wicca Craft) were instrumental in the increase in popularity of Wicca in the late 1980s and 1990s, disagrees with the Wiccan concept of threefold return on the grounds that it is inconsistent with the Laws of Physics.
	www.crystalinks.com /wicca.html (2457 words)

	Wicca - WiccanWeb.ca (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Wicca is a collective term for a group of Neo-Pagan religions that are found in many different countries, though most commonly in English-speaking cultures.
		In addition, not all practitioners of Wicca are witches, and not all witches are practitioners of Wicca.
		Gerina Dunwich, an American author whose books (notably, Wicca Craft) were instrumental in the increase in popularity of Wicca in the late 1980s and 1990s, disagrees with the Wiccan concept of threefold return on the grounds that it is inconsistent with more than one law of physics.
	www.wiccanweb.ca /wiki/index.php/Wicca (3806 words)

	Thelemapedia: The Encyclopedia of Thelema & Magick \| Wicca (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		This can be a reference to both the initiatory tradition, where initiates are assigned a degree and generally work in covens, and to Solitary Wicca, where practitioners self-dedicate themselves to the tradition and generally practice on their own.
		While the ritual format of Wicca is undeniably styled after late Victorian era occultism, the spiritual content is inspired by older Pagan faiths, with Buddhist and Hindu influences.
		Gardnerian Wicca was an initiatory mystery religion, admission to which was at least in theory limited to those who were initiated into a pre-existing coven.
	www.thelemapedia.org /index.php/Wicca (2847 words)

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		Wicca is a religion which honors the Earth through worshipping the God and Goddess, as represented by the masculine and feminine aspects of the universe.
		Dianic Wicca is a relatively new phenomenon in relation to traditional witchcraft, though the Goddess Diana has been revered since ancient times.
		Dianic Wicca is on the main a feminist religion, usually (but not always) being for women only.
	www.coven-of-cythrawl.com /Dianic.htm (487 words)

	Wicca
		Unlike other traditions, Dianic focuses on the worship of Diana, the ancient greek Goddess and consequently, a higher percentage of women and feminist beliefs are found in Dianic covens.
		Wicca, in all its incarnations, is probably one of the longest and most persecuted religions in history.
		Feminist practitioners such as Zsuzsanne Bedapest and her branch of Dianic Wicca have emphasized the feminine aspect much more than traditional Wicca, to the extent that men are excluded from their covens (Neitz, 367).
	www.magma.ca /~yeti/wic.html (3807 words)

	Religious Movements Homepage: Wicca
		It has been used as a term of derision toward the goddess worshippers by others, rarely does someone self-identify as Dianic, except in the case of initiates of the Texas Dianics, who use the term to describe themselves, largely because Diana was one of the tutelary deities of the group.
		Despite all the misinformation concerning Wicca in popular culture, it should be obvious that none of it applies to true adherents of the Wiccan craft.
		Perhaps another attractive aspect of Wicca is the opportunity for feminists to identify with the persecuted of Europe's Witch-hunt who were victims of the strongly patriarchical structure of Christianity (Neitz, 359).
	religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu /nrms/wicca.html (6247 words)

	Witchcraft Today
		As a religion, Wicca or the Craft is a revival and/or reconstruction of the pre-Christian religions of Europe, especially Northern Europe (Celtic or Norse traditions) but also Graeco-Roman, Egyptian, or Levantine traditions.
		Wicca's rituals are based on the four seasons (solstices and equinoxes).
		Dianic tends to emphasize the female aspect of the Goddess (sometimes excluding the God).
	witches.monstrous.com /witchcraft_today.htm (1113 words)

	wicca
		Wicca is one of the most influential traditions of modern Paganism.
		Dianic craft is based on feminist principles and Hedgewitches follow a more solitary path.
		Certainly, the word "Wicca" is less evocative and emotive than "Witchcraft" but whatever their perceived differences, they both share the same commonality in their beliefs and practices.
	www.greenbard.8m.com /wicca.htm (2873 words)

	Branches of Wicca (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Alexandrian Wicca is the creation of Alex Sanders (with his then wife Maxine) who claimed to have been initiated by his grandmother in 1933.
		It seems to me the Wicca they practice and teach should not be called Celtic at all; but since a lot of it is made up or put together by them from other traditions they should also give it a made-up name; say Frostism.
		Stregheria and Wicca celebrate many of the same rites or Festivals even though the names are not the same and sometimes they occur on a slightly diffferent date.
	www.pagans.org /wicca/branches/branches.html (2022 words)

	Wicca and Asatru
		In Wicca, the predominant culture of choice is that of the Celts, which reflects the British Isles origins of Wicca itself, although various others may approach Wicca with a Greco-Roman framework.
		Wicca occasionally feels a stigma in being a "contemporary approach" because it secretly desires to be the survivor of an unbroken tradition.
		In close relationship to issues of leadership, one of the distinctive attributes of Wicca is the domination of a student teacher relationship between members of a coven and the coven leader.
	www.webcom.com /~lstead/wicatru.html (8909 words)

	Wiccan Traditions
		As "The Church and School of Wicca" the material is presented to students by correspondence, though the course is virtually the same as the material presented in their book The Witches Bible.
		Dianic Feminist Wicce is a tradition started by Ann Forfreedom that is both religious and practices magick.
		"Dianic Feminist Wicce encourages female leadership, insists that a Priestess must be present for a Circle ritual to be held and involves its practitioners in feminist and humanist issues." Groups work either skyclad or robed.
	www.joellessacredgrove.com /wiccantraditions.html (1661 words)

	Dianic FAQs - UNIVERSAL LIFE CHURCH SEMINARY
		This denomination or tradition is sometimes referred to as Dianic Wicca, the Dianic path, Dianic Wicce, Dianic Witchcraft, the Dianic Craft, Feminist Dianic Witchcraft, Dianic Faerie Faith, McFarland Dianics, and/or Dianic Feminist Wicce.
		The term Dianic was first pinpointed by Margaret Murray in 1921, in her literary work "The Witch-Cult in Western Europe," at a time when witchcraft was still banned and forbidden in Britain.
		Forfreedom’s Dianic Feminist Wicce emphasizes female leadership and insists that a Priestess must be present for all ceremonies and rituals.
	www.ulcseminary.org /faqs/dianicFaq.php (1039 words)

	Wicca/Witchcraft 101 - Myths 1: Myths Created by Non-Practisioners [Eldritchs Crypt]
		Wicca neither promotes or reveres the Gods of Judeo-Christianity, including the Judeo-Christian "god" of evil, who some Christians call "satan." In some Christian sects, anything that is not Christian is "of satan," this includes secular thought, technology, scholarship, medicine, and yes, even Wicca.
		Wicca (specifically) believes that deity, whether divine as interpreted by the ancient world, or modern concepts of deity, is either without gender, beyond gender, or reflective of the human race and having both genders.
		Dianic Wicca, in almost all it's forms, stresses a feminine divinity but does not deny the concept of male deity.
	crypt.eldritchs.com /wicca/myths1.html (1568 words)

	CollegeWicca.com - Wiccan Traditions
		Wicca may borrow from Druidry, and the two may be similar, but they are not the same.
		The tradition differs from Gardnerian Wicca in that it uses the wand to symbolize Air and the athame or sword to symbolize Fire.
		Alexandrian Wicca is also more flexible to the needs of its members, and is therefore more liberal than the strict rules that come with Gardnerian Wicca.
	www.collegewicca.com /basicfiles/types.html (975 words)

	:.::..girl germs..::.: v4.0
		Zsuzsanna Budapest is one of the pioneering mothers of Feminist Dianic Wicca.
		As with many Traditions in Wicca, the faces practitioners choose to view as the Goddess' aspects are gleaned from everywhere- from the Ashanti to the Zulu, from Aja to Zywie.
		Old Dianics sometimes keep the same Wheel of the Year as other Traditions, but the Wheel that Feminist Dianics often use is slightly different from that of other Traditions.
	girlgerms.net /dianicism.html (834 words)

	Dianic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The term Dianic is derived from the Greek goddess of hunting, Diana.
		Dianic Wicca, a feminist lineage tradition of Wicca started by Zsuzsanna Budapest.
		The Apple Branch - A Dianic Tradition, a combination of Dianic Wicca, Old Dianic, and Faerie faith.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dianic (179 words)

	wicca (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Alexandrian Wicca uses essentially the same tools and rituals as Gardnerian Wicca, though in some cases, the tools are used differently, and the rituals have been adapted.
		The first Dianic coven in the U.S. was formed in the late '60s by Margan McFarland and Mark Roberts, in Dallas, Texas.
		Georgian Wicca was founded by George 'Pat' Patterson in 1970, and was given legal status by the Universal Life Church in the early seventies as the Church of Wicca of Bakersfield.
	www.ctwp.org /wicca.htm (2303 words)

	religion: pagan: wicca: traditions: dianic
		Dianic circle providing education and services to Los Angeles area women.
		Dianic Women's circle located in Boston, Massachusetts in the tradition of Mountainwater and Budapest.
		One reference source's entry on Dianic Wicca, its difference from Wicca, its roots and characteristics.
	www.spiritandsky.com /religion/pagan/wicca/traditions/dianic (357 words)

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