who is our goddess and god

[Charly]

I am getting confused everyone talks about the "Goddess" and everyone means a differnt one. Is that how it's suppose to be? I'm just so new to acuaclly talking about this. I have so many questions.

[celticwave]

I know, its a bit confusing, i'm not sure myself. But by The Goddess, it refers to the female version of The God. From what i've gathered, the goddesses that we invoke are a form of her, if that makes sense? Sort of like when you invoke brigid, your invoking the aspect of the goddess that relates to maidenhood and ispiration. Atleast thats what i've gathered. Similarly with the god.

Another thing is the triple goddess, which is her three faces isuppose, as the maiden, mother and crone. I think thats from the female cycle of life or something.

Elyse

[waterglyph]

From my understanding, it depends on what Wiccan trad you follow.

Some trads follow "All Gods are One God and all Goddesses are One Goddess". In that case, when someone brings up the Goddess, they could be talking about Brigid, Freyja, Artemis, or whatever "aspect" of Her they wanted to emphasize at the time.

Others believe that all the Gods and Goddesses exist separately. So the Wiccan Goddess isn't the same as, let's say, Isis. (Ie: They're both Goddesses - just not the same one.)

So I guess it all just depends on which of those two feels to fit more with you and appeals to your logic more. Neither are necessarily more right than the other - there's many followers of both POVs.

[celticwave]

I agree, i think how you view the goddess and god is up to you, i jsut gave you my view, but that doesn't mean its right just what i'm comfortable with.

Elyse

[silvermists]

From what I understand, the people who believe in the God and Goddess (most Wiccans do), they believe they are the male and female aspects of the All (everything). All Gods and Goddesses from other pantheons are merely traits of the God and Goddess pulled apart and given a special name.

Other Wiccans believe in specific or all of the pantheons such as Greek, Roman, Celtic, Egyptian, North American, etc.

Krissi

[Isis]

For me, being a Taoist/Pagan (heh, does that make me a Taogan? :p)
the Goddess is the female aspect of the Divine. There is a male and female side to the Divine.

The God/Goddess names are but facets of the female and male aspects.

For instance, Morrigu is feminine - and she represents particular energy of the female aspect. She is a warrior goddess, in some cases the protector of women.

To honor her, is to honor the female warrior/protector part of the Divine. To utilize that energy for a purpose.