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Faery-Faith (Wiccan sect)


  • Here are entered works on the Wiccan sect in which the primary myths are drawn heavily from the myths of ancient Celtic gods and goddesses, and whose primary deity is Dana, the Mother Goddess. Works on the ecstatic cult whose primary deity is the Star Goddess and whose gods are both male and female in one are entered under [Feri (Wiccan sect).] Works on the Dianic tradition that does not have a pantheon, and instead emphasizes the feminine in humanity, in nature, and in god, and whose members believe in energies that are correlated to the thirteen lunar months of the Celtic lunar tree calendar, are entered under [Faerie Faith (Wiccan sect).]
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    • Faery Wicca (Wiccan sect)
    • Irish Faery-Faith (Wiccan sect)
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  • Sources

    • found: Work cat.: Reidling, Kisma. Irish cosmology & Faery Glamoury, 2004:title page (Faery-Faith traditional wisdom) page xxvii (An introduction to the Faery-Faith)
    • found: Stepanish, Kisma. Faery Wicca, 1994:book 1 p. xvii (Faery, the Ancient Ones, the Irish gods and goddesses; Faery Wicca is a practiced branch of the Old Religion; an Earth-centered religion in which Dana (God), the Great Mother of all gods, is the primary deity; elder priests and priestesses are called Ollamh) p. 11 (the primary myths are drawn heavily from the Mythological Cycle, primarily those of the Tuatha De Danann [a.k.a. the Faery); the Mythological Cycle is also the genesis of the Celtic Irish gods and goddesses) p. 141 (founder: Tuatha De Danann; no exact date of origin; one of the lasting folk-traditions found in Wicca; often linked to Druidism, but it is an entirely different system)
    • found: Cyber witch web site, Feb. 3, 2018, viewed from the Internet Archive February 3, 2018:When is a Celt not a Celt? (Faery Wicca; calls the Priest and Priestess of her tradition the "Leprechaun" and "Banshee,"; [Stepanich claims] Faery Wicca was created by none other than the Tuatha de Danaan
    • found: Sarah Anne Lawless web site, viewed October 15, 2017(Kisma Stephanich's Faery Wicca)
    • found: Stepanich, Kisma K. The Irish American Faery-Faith Tradition, viewed November 13, 2017(the modern folk practices known as the Irish Faery-Faith)
    • found: Internet Archive, viewed November 13, 2017:Faery-Faith Network (Faery-Faith Tradition)
  • General Notes

    • Here are entered works on the Wiccan sect in which the primary myths are drawn heavily from the myths of ancient Celtic gods and goddesses, and whose primary deity is Dana, the Mother Goddess. Works on the ecstatic cult whose primary deity is the Star Goddess and whose gods are both male and female in one are entered under [Feri (Wiccan sect).] Works on the Dianic tradition that does not have a pantheon, and instead emphasizes the feminine in humanity, in nature, and in god, and whose members believe in energies that are correlated to the thirteen lunar months of the Celtic lunar tree calendar, are entered under [Faerie Faith (Wiccan sect).]
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    • Notes under [Faerie Faith (Wiccan sect); Feri (Wiccan sect)]
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  • Change Notes

    • 2017-11-13: new
    • 2019-07-31: revised
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