Wicca Magical Deities: A Guide to the Wiccan God and Goddess, and Choosing a Deity to Work Magic With (Wicca for Beginners Series)

Because of his power over the seasons, any Earth festival is appropriate for worshipping the Dagda, but his association with life and death make Samhain a particularly good choice.

Osiris

The earliest deities we have records of tended to be associated with the essential components of the physical Universe—the sky, the Sun, bodies of water—and the most basic of life’s needs and functions—safety, shelter, success on a hunt. The Sumerian sky god Anu is one of the earliest known examples, though there are doubtless older ones which are

many Wiccans to see her as an ultimate triple goddess.

At Beltane, the God has reached maturity and mates with the Goddess to ensure that he will be reborn again at the start of the next New Year.

They spread their culture and religion throughout the lands they occupied, but when it came to Greece, which predated Rome by about 1000 years, they really were no match. With a much richer culture, Greece was widely influential in the Mediterranean region, and so it made more sense to adopt many of their myths, ideas, and even deities. However, th

The principal deities included those who resided on Mount Olympus, the tallest mountain in Greece, and are often referred to as the Olympians. These include Zeus, the ruler of all other deities, Aphrodite, the goddess of love and beauty, and Apollo, the god of music, poetry, and the Sun, among other associations.

Likewise, the “Great Mother” could be said to contain various goddesses, such as the Greek Gaia or the Egyptian Isis.

the Celts believed in reading omens in the behavior of birds and the entrails of sacrificial animals, and would consult such oracles before undertaking any important activity. And like many pagan societies, they marked important points on the Sun’s journey around the Earth with ritual ceremonies—particularly at Imbolc, Beltane, Lughnasa, and Samhai