Who are the Wiccan gods? Your Simple Guide to Wiccan Deities | Welcome to Wicca now

The Triple Goddess is the main goddess in Wicca. Also known as the moon goddess, she is the primary representation of the divine feminine power. It is closely connected to the earth and the moon.

As the mother of the earth, she represents physical energy that allows life to grow. Makes sense since only females are capable of raising and giving birth to a child. The Earth Mother is associated with domesticated animals, fields and crops and her energy is seen as nurturing and tender. She can be seen in other religions, for example as the goddess Gaia in Greek mythology.

Her flexibility and willingness to adapt when needed means she is the manifestation of all things changing. She is the mistress of the cycles of the earth in its constant flux of birth, growth, death and rebirth. She keeps the wheel of the year turning, shedding the old and constantly bringing in the new.

The Wiccan Wheel of the Year is an important part of Wicca. Learning the Sabbaths is a must!

In her role as the moon goddess, she rules the night and the cycles of the tides. This is closely related to the Earth Mother and her association with fertility, as tidal cycles are said to reflect a woman’s monthly fertility cycle. The moon goddess is the mistress of emotions and intuition. She represents the wisdom that comes from our darker side, able to explore one’s shadows in order to grow. The moon goddess has also taken many forms throughout history. Just look at the two most common examples of the Greek goddesses Artemis and Diana.

Artemis is one of the best-known depictions of the universal moon goddess.

The triple goddess

The triple goddess is the moon goddess and the earth mother. She is a triple deity, represented either as a single goddess changing in an annual cycle, or as one goddess with three distinct aspects. She represents the phases of the moon, waxing, full and waning, reflecting the phases a woman will go through in her life. It is very likely that the idea of ​​a single goddess representing three different ideas came from feminist Jane Harrison.

The acclaimed and controversial work posited the early existence of a peaceful and intensely creative female-centric civilization in which people, living in harmony with nature and their own feelings, worshiped a single female deity. The deity was seen as representing the earth and had three aspects, the first two of which were Virgin and Mother; she did not name the third. …”

Ronald Hutton, an English historian specializing in contemporary paganism

Jane Ellen Harrison drawn by Theo van Rysselberghe, pencil, 1925

Although Gerald Gardner did not believe in the triple goddess, other Wiccan practitioners were drawn to her. Robert Cochrane, another coven founder active around the same time as Gerald Gardner, pondered how he brought the triple goddess into the modern Wiccan movement. He died in 1966, and it was not until the 1970s that the triple goddess as we now know her became so firmly entrenched in Wiccan worship. Now let’s talk a little bit about the 3 different forms of the goddess.

This is the symbol most associated with the triple goddess representing the 3 phases of the moon and the 3 forms of the goddess

The Three Aspects of the Triple Goddess The Maiden

Virgo is associated with the crescent to wax phase of the lunar cycle. She represents youth, sexuality, enchantment and beginnings. She is also seen as the goddess of dawn, sunrise and spring. She is fresh and full of potential, just like the new moon and its growth. She is considered innocent, youthful, confident and intelligent. She loves to explore and discover new things while representing creativity and the growth of new ideas.

She is the aspect of the Goddess you would call on when you need help with anything to do with a new beginning, be it a new relationship, job or project.

The Maiden, a depiction of Spring

The mother

When the moon is full, the mother aspect of the goddess comes to the fore. The mother is the life giver of all things on earth. She is the representation of fruitful fertility, responsibility, adulthood and the fullness of life. Their time of day is noon and their season is summer. She is the mistress of the lushest time of the year, when the fields are full of crops and the young animals are growing up. She is considered by some to be the most powerful aspect of the goddess, for what can be more powerful than giving life?

She is the aspect of the Goddess you would invoke when you need help with fertility, motherhood, protection, attaining inner peace, intuition and stability.

The triple goddess in her mother aspect.

The crown

The old lady, who was also called Hag (fortunately not anymore), comes into its own when the moon is waning. She is the representation of life after children, aging, past lives, and death. The Crone is considered to be the least understood and most popular aspect of the Goddess. It makes us think about death, which is often associated with evil and wickedness.

This aspect of the Goddess is considered wise and is said to guide us into the next phase of our lives. She reminds us that death is a normal part of the cycle of life, that it is just like the lunar cycles that diminish until they become nothing and then start over when they become abundance. Her seasons are autumn and winter and she rules over the sunsets and nights.

The Crone is the aspect of the Goddess you would invoke if you desire spiritual guidance, help in ending a relationship or job, menopause, or strong protection.

The triple goddess in her ancient aspect.

All aspects of the Goddess represent the life cycle to which we all belong, and although you can now connect with a form of her, you will no doubt learn to love all of her aspects as time goes by. I could certainly use the wisdom of the ancients, the protection of the mother, and the trust of the maiden!

The Wiccan God

Now that I’ve covered the Wicca Goddess, we can jump into the Wicca God. As I mentioned before, there is no god that you MUST worship if you choose to become Wiccan. There are so many options that you can choose any god to speak to you. With that being said, there is one god that is commonly considered “THE” Wiccan god, and that is the Horned God, also known as the Green God.

The horned god

The Horned God represents the masculine side of divine duality worshiped as a Wiccan god. He is

“the personification of life force energy in animals and the wild”

the 2006 On-Faith news week.

The Horned God is the representation of the sun, hunting, death and magic. Gerald Gardner believed that there was an equal balance between the sexes, however some newer forms of Wicca, including Dianic Wiccans, elevate the Goddess to the highest point of worship, while some more traditional Wiccans believe the Horned God takes precedence.

This image of the horned god was discovered on the Gundestrup cauldron, which was built between 200 BC and 200 BC. and 300 AD.

The Wiccan god, like the goddess, has a dual nature. He is both the hunter and the hunted. He is the sun during the day, almighty and powerful, and also the sun during the night, darkened and hidden. Also known as the Green Man, an ancient god of fertility whose motif is still a common architectural ornament around the world.

The Horned God is a nature deity most commonly depicted with horns, hence his name. Horns are an ancient symbol of male masculinity and have been used in representations of their gods since pagan times.

This Wiccan god is a symbol of the natural world, some see him as the soul of every animal hunted. He can be the victim, the animal that is killed so that the collective tribe can live on, which is why he is both the hunter and the hunted. Unfortunately, I think he’d be pretty disgusted with the way we’re treating the natural world now. It represents harmony with nature, which is definitely not something we’re doing right now!

The Horned God was personified in the Greek god Pan. Pan is a ½ goat ½ human character, sometimes with horns, sometimes without. Pan was worshiped ecstatically in feasts that included much wine and orgies. The Church hated this, and so the Horned God became the idea of ​​the devil, the lord of evil. The church has long been pretty smart about how it’s changing people’s religious beliefs. Instead of trying to dissuade people from an idea, they just twisted that idea into something that better suited their agenda.

The fact that the Horned God is a god who helps guide people into the afterlife does not help him cause and misrepresentation. Death is a natural part of life, but the horned god, like the crone, is reviled for helping guide souls into the next phase of existence. He is not a demon trying to draw souls into the depths of Hell, he is a protector and father figure who reverses nature and natural life. He is definitely not the lord of evil that the Church is trying to recognize.

The relationship between the Horned God and the Triple Goddess

The duality of the Horned God along with the three aspects of the Triple Goddess form the 5 points of the pentagram. The Horned God is in a cyclic relationship with the Triple Goddess. He dies when the crops are taken up in the fall, is buried in the winter, and is reborn from the womb of the Triple Goddess in the spring, when all is fresh and green, so that he can impregnate her and begin the entire cycle again. This reflects the cycle in the natural world of the 4 seasons…