Religious Myth

Mirror, Mirror

It's all the same. The Christian Holidays and the Wiccan Wheel of the Year may at first seem to be unrelated, but they are actually very similar. Most of the holidays, great and minor festivals, fall at or around the same day. Easter or Ostara, and Christmas or Yule, to name the most well known.

A lot of people have noticed this, and have urged everyone to see how similar we really are, but some people will just not listen. There are almost more similarities than there are differences. The Wiccan mythology of the Wheel of the Year is an almost exact match to the Bible based cycle of religious holidays Christians celebrate.

The Wiccan Wheel of the Year; the God Fathers the Sun God with The Goddess... Christianity; Jehovah God Fathers Jesus the Son God with the Blessed Mary. That's right, sounds pretty similar.

According to my estimation, since we Christians celebrate the birth of Jesus on December 25, this mythological Immaculate Conception would have taken place in very late March or early April. This is the same time frame where Wiccans are celebrating Ostara, focused on the fertility of the Goddess and the Land, and Christians are celebrating Easter, focused on the redeeming sacrifice of Jesus Christ's death and resurrection. Oh yeah, easter eggs and the easter bunny, too. Come on, you have to admit, Christians celebrate fertility too, we just don't do rituals to the goddess. This time of year, the Virgin Mary will be overcome ("possessed") by the Holy Spirit ("Divine Wisdom/Divine Feminine/Goddess") and God will impregnate her with the Immanuel, while the Wiccan Goddess prepares to welcome her God. And then in December, near the Winter Solstice, while the Wiccan Goddess births the Sun God who will bring glory and light to the world, in completion of the miracle, Blessed Mary births our Lord Jesus Christ, who will bring the glory of God's Kingdom and salvation to the world.

Another similarity: In Wicca the Goddess is the ever virginal Maiden, the fertile Mother with her child God, and the barren Crone, revered and consulted. In Christianity, Mary is the ever Virgin Mary... the blessed Holy Mary Mother of God, the image of Madonna and child... and after Jesus is grown, she is hallowed still, and we see the imagery of the older Mary holding the crucified Christ...

Why don't people realize they worship the same Divine One, in different ways, with different names?

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