Wicca - Goddess and God




 

The Goddess

The Goddess is the universal mother.  She is the source of fertility, endless wisdom and loving caresses.  As the Wicca know Her, She is often of three aspects:  The Maiden, The Mother and the Crone, symbolized in the waving, full and waning of the Moon.  She is at once the unploughed field, the full harvest and the dormant, frost-covered Earth.  She gives birth to abundance.  But as life is Her gift, She lends it with the promise of death.  This is not darkness and oblivion, but rest from the toils of physical existence.  It is human existence between incarnations.
Since the Goddess is nature, all nature, She is both the Temptress and the Crone; the tornado and the fresh spring rain; the cradle and the grave.
But though She is possessed of both natures, the Wicca revere Her as the giver of fertility, love and abundance, though they acknowledge Her darker side as well.  We see Her in the Moon, the soundless, ever-moving sea, and in the green growth of the first spring.  She is the embodiment of fertility and love.
The Goddess has been known as the Queen of Heaven, Mother of the Gods that Made the Gods, the Divine Source, the Universal Matrix, the Great Mother, and by countless other titles.
Many symbols are used in Wicca to honor Her, such as the cauldron, cup, labrys, five-petalled flowers, the mirror, necklace, seashell, pearl, silver, emerald…to name a few.
As She has dominion over the Earth, sea and Moon, Her creatures are varied and numerous.  A few include the rabbit, the bear, the owl, the cat, dog, bat, goose, cow, dolphin, lion, horse, wren, scorpion, spider and bee.  All are sacred to the Goddess.
The Goddess has been depicted as a huntress running with Her hounds; a celestial deity striding across the sky with stardust falling from Her heels; a Crone walking by waning moonlight seeking out the weak and forlorn, and as many other beings.  But no matter how we envision Her, She is omnipresent, changeless, eternal.

The God

The God has been revered for eons.  He is neither the stern, all-powerful deity of Christianity and Judaism, nor is He simply the consort of the Goddess.  God or Goddess, they are equal, one.
We see the God in  the Sun, brilliantly shining overhead during the day, rising and setting in the endless cycle which governs our lives.  Without the Sun we could no exist; therefore it has been revered as the source of all life, the warmth that bursts the dormant seeds into life and hastens the greening of the Earth after the cold snows of winter.
The God is also tender of the wild animals.  As the Horned God He is sometimes seen wearing horns on His head, symbolizing His connection with these beasts.  In earlier times, hunting was one of the activities thought to be ruled by the God, while the domestication of animals was seen to be Goddess oriented.
The God’s domains include forests untouched by human hands, burning deserts and towering mountains.  The stars, since they are but distant suns, are sometimes thought to be under His domain.
The yearly cycle of greening, maturation and harvest has long been associated with the Sun, hence the solar festivals of Europe (further discussed in Chapter Eight: The Days of Power) which are still observed in Wicca.
The God is the fully ripened harvest, intoxication wine pressed from grapes, golden grain waving in a lone field, shimmering apples hanging from verdant boughs on October afternoons.
With the Goddess He also celebrates and rules sex.  The Wicca don’t avoid sex or speak of it in hushed words.  It’s part of nature and is accepted as such.  Since it brings pleasure, shifts our awareness away from the everyday world and perpetuates our species, it is thought to be sacred.  The God lustily imbues us with the urge that ensures our species’ biological future.
Symbols often used to depict or to worship the God include the sword, horns, spear, candle, gold, brass, diamond, the sickle, arrow, magical wand, trident, knife and others.  Creatures sacred to Him include the bull, dog, snake, fish, stag, dragon, wolf, boar, eagle, falcon, shark, lizard and many others.
Of old, the God was the Sky Father, and the Goddess, the Earth Mother.  The God of the sky, of rain and lightning, descended upon and united with the Goddess, spreading seed upon the land, celebrating Her fertility.

Fonte: Wicca A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner

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