Slide 16 Title : Deities

Slide 16 text:Al-USA: Semitic, the ancient Phoenician name of Isis.
Athena: Greek Goddess of strength and wisdom.
Anthropormorpism: The creation of Gods in human form.
Aphrodite: Greek Goddess of Love.
Apollo: Greek sun God.
Arachne: Greek, spider Goddess.
Aradia: Italian Goddess of magick.
Arianarhod: Welsh Goddess of the Silver wheel.
Arsinoe: Egyptian/ Greek Queen wife to Ptolomy, her name is one of those that was the key to deciphering the Rosetta Stone. Deified as a Goddess of Love.
Artemis: Greek nature and lunar Goddess, protector of girls.
Arthur: Deified once and future King of Britain
Astarte: Canaanite, Greek translation of Isis.
Baal: Phonecian, Semetic, New England name of the Sun God.
Banshee: Irish, a fairy spirit who weeps for the dead.
Bast: Sister of Isis, goddess of passion and play.
Binah: Hebrew, primordial cabalistic Goddess.
Blodeuwedd: British, flower face, wife of Llyr.
Bran: Manx, Welsh God of protection, whose head is buried under the Tower of London.
Branwen: Irish Goddess of birds especially the sparrow.
Cerridwen: Celtic Goddess of the Cauldron of rebirth.
Cernunnos: same as Herne, the Horned God Father Nature.
Dag: Irish, Norse the "good God" of the Sun.
Deities: The Gods.
Demeter: Greek earth mother.
Diana: Roman, the huntress, Goddess of maidens and archers.
Ea: Hebrew ancient sea Goddess.
Epona: Celtic horse Goddess.
Eros: Greek God of Love.
Eriu: Irish deified Queen.
Eru: Irish, deified Queen.
Freya: Norse Wife of Odin, Goddess of the chariot and cats.
Geb: Egyptian God of sky and stars.
Hathor: Cow headed sister of Isis, Goddess of the hearth.
Hecate: Greek Goddess of death and battle.
Herne: Celtic Green Man the Forest Lord.
Hourus: Son of Isis, the hawk faced God.
Isis: The great earth mother goddess of Egypt.
Janus: Romanized name for the two faced Druid God of life/death.
Liban: Irish mermaid of Lough Neagh.
Llew: Irish, deified warrior God of protection.
Llyr: Welsh, the unacknowledged son of Arianarhod and husband of Blouddywd.
Ma: A most ancient name of the Goddess.
Mannanan: Irish, Manx and Welsh sea God.
Mara: Chaldean sea Goddess.
Merlin: British, an immortal sorcerer.
Morgan LeFay, sister of Arthur, a sorceress and traveler to the land of the Fairie
Morrigu: Irish Raven goddess of the battlefield.
Mu: Egyptian, very ancient name of a water Goddess.
Nepthys: Sister of Isis the cup bearer, water Goddess.
Oberon: Elf Lord and warrior that guards the door way to the land of the Fey.
Odin: Norse, God of wisdom, brought the Runes to earth.
Osiris: Husband of Isis, God of the Egyptian dead.
Pan: Greek God of Nature.
Rhiannon: Celtic Goddess of birds.
Sekhmet: Winged cat faced Goddess of time and space.
Set: Egyptian, the evil brother of Osiris.
Sheila-na-gig: Irish, an English name for a carved figure with exposed genitals found on old buildings.
Taliesin: Celtic, a Bard whose music enchanted all.
Thor: Norse storm God.
Thoth: Egyptian God of knowledge.
Vulcan: Greek God of the forge, the guy Aphrodite turned down.

...and many many more........

Slide 17 Titile: Early History of Wicca

Slide 17 Text: <picture> The legends and activities of Druid Women seemed to drop out of literature after 1900. The histories of Druidism that include mention of the middle east also disappear after that time too. However, indelibly in Ancestral Memories the Goddess is first known as Ma'a. Mother Nature is the creator in ancient Phoenician mythology. The Goddess mysteries religion still grows like a hardy Iris bulb out of the Earth.

At the ending of the Piscean Age the Mother Goddess returned. By the back door of WWII the renaissance began with discovery of her image. In the 1940's, a series of explorations were made in Europe and what was then called the USSR. The digs yielded carvings that became known as "Venus" figures.

In the caves in Western France at Laussel and Lespurge, rough figures were revealed. In Austria the now well known "Venus of Willendorf" was found. Carved of wood, bone, stone and clay the archetypal Mother figures were found dispersed throughout the context of the Paleolithic Age. There are figures that have been given firm dates of between 18,000 and 20,000 B.C.E. Goddess figures were also found in Florida. Data from rock shelter and cave drawings include the repeated occurrences of significant placement of the Venus Goddesses. In 80% of the finds the Venus was a central figure in the petroglyphs of game and produce.

Scholars began to conclude from this evidence what Wiccans have long known. These primitive sculptures represented the physical evidence of the Earth's first worship. This was a matriarchal product of the earliest culture. The Aborigines of Australia remember a time 300,000 years ago when a matriarchal Goddess was worshipped. Some sources report that Isis was worshiped as the Earth Mother during pre-dynastic Egypt about 70,000 B.C.E.

The abstract significance of the "Willie" sculpture is far-reaching. The urge to collect representations of this figure in art and jewelry affects many women and men. The pull of these energies is in the subconscious. This is the call of Mother Nature. The dawn of the Age of Aquarius has brought the renaissance of the non-combative earth-friendly way of the priestesses of the past. As guardians in our bodies and in our ancestor memories women carry on traditions of the old ways. Indigenous peoples lived in harmony with Earth, her cycles and the slow electricity of the land. This memory is appealing.

Slide 18 Title : Isis

Slide 18 Text: <picture> Isis is the Great Goddess of marriage, love, happiness of old Egypt. She wore a throne on her crown to symbolize that her body is the throne on the children who she nurtures. She became the culmination of all fine feminine virtues. The grandest Temples of Isis were at Thebes, Sais and Memphis. She was remembered in the Great Mother aspect. Later as the Goddesses who were called Ceres, and Pallas. Isis survives Greek song and legend, along with the Goddesses called the Pleiades.

Greek legend gives us the birthplace of Isis at the Pleiades. The Seven sisters are a cluster of start that is visible to the naked eye. They are a beautiful sight on either an autumn night, when they are visible in the east, or seen in the south on winter nights. The Sisters are said to be the daughter of Atlas (!) and Pleione. The stories of the Sisters are as rich and multi-cultural as the diffusion theory and would require a chapter of their own.

The Phoenicians also agree that the Pleiades are the birthplace of Isis. They refer to the Sisters as the daughters of God. Manat is a Persian Goddess who is similar to the Egyptian goddess of Truth - Ma'at. Al-lat or Ast is close to the spelling of the Egyptian name of Isis. Isis is actually a Greek derivation of the name Ast. Al-Uzza the "Strong One" is the same as Astarte or Neith the Goddess of protection.

Zeus was the Greek equivalent of Hourus. The new testament even preserves these famous phrases which were rewritten form the Egyptian and Greek. It was not a burning bush who told Moses the paradoxical phrase "I am, that I am." But Isis. The verb for "am" did not exist in the Aramaic of those times. It was a badly translated sentence from the statue.

Isis' magic and calamities were the mightiest of all before or since. The temples of Isis were a serious challenge to Christianity until her worship became punishable by death in 426 C.E. from Roman emperor Constantine. Thus the ORIGINAL holy family was almost wiped out The ruling class was forced to allow a tiny part for their replacement Goddess Mary. In the tumultuous years around 500, Catholicism would never have survived the wars that would have ensued with the conquered population if there were no Goddess at all. The images of Isis did not dim for another fifteen centuries. She multiplied. The other faces of Isis worship include: Defender, Harvest Hearth and Moon Goddesses. The Goddess of the hearth in the Egyptian pantheon was called Hathor. This cow-headed Goddess represented the home and family needs of her patrons. In the passing of time, the myths of the two Goddesses merged Often a cow-headed Goddess figure may be called "Isis" though it may not be her. As a Defender Isis was fearsome. As are all the All-mother Goddesses Within her power was the ancient Quabbalistic gateway between birth and death Through her abilities as a birthing-mother she held within her womb the power to trap spirits and force them into the confines of earthly existence. The power of Isis over life and death extended into her ability to break down, tear up and ingest her enemies. Her totem animal in this aspect is the Vulture-Goddess. Like the sacredness of composting, her anabolic powers were used to recycle the energies of her patrons. The goddess Nieth also was related to these defensive attributes.

"I am all that was, is, and will be, and no one shall lift my veil."

Not only have these pagan sources been unacknowledged but it became punishable by death to know that this was done. Even the fig leaves that were sacred to Isis were borrowed.

slide 19 Titile: Father Nature

Slide 19 Text: The Green Man is the fellow that takes care of the woods, the trees, flora and fauna. He's the god of the hunt, the forest and the forest animals. Call Him Father Nature. He has other names like Cernunus and Herne and Kern. Read about him in The Witches God by the Farrars. Jack O'the Green is the same, slightly different customs vary from one area of old Europe to the next.

Osiris the Egyptian Father God and husband of Isis was murdered by Set, his brother, and chopped up. Isis magically recovered all the pieces except the phallus. She then managed to conceive her son Hourus from the mostly dead body of her husband. The dying father/son transformation originated in this legend. Hourus became the avenger of negativity, and a protector against evil. He is best known as the familiar golden Hawk in heiroglyphs. Hourus learned healing from his mother.