Notes

 

 

[1] C. G. Jung, Man and His Symbols, Picador, 1978, p.58, 69, 78, 85, 87 and 90.

 

[2] This was originally added into Wicca by the Farrars in Eight Sabbats for Witches,

Hale, 1992, pp. 24-7. The Oak and Holly King were based on ideas in The White Goddess, A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth, by Robert Graves, first published in 1948.

 

[3] Aleister Crowley, John Symonds and Kenneth Grant ed., The Complete

Astrological Writings, 1988, p.42. The Sun crosses the equator at the autumn equinox and dips below it which can be seen as a kind of crucifixion. This, of course, contrasts strongly with the crucifixion of Jesus at Easter, around the time of the vernal equinox.

 

[4] Published today as Charles G. Leland, Aradia or the Gospel of the Witches, Phoenix Publishing Inc, 1999.

 

[5] Ibid., quoted on the back cover.

 

[6] See J.B. Russell, A History of Witchcraft, Sorcerers, Heretics and Pagans, Thames and Hudson, 1991, pp.148-52.

 

[7] See Ronald Hutton, The Triumph of the Moon, A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft, Oxford University Press, 1999, pp.145-146.

 

[8] Charles G. Leland, op. cit. pp.18-20.

 

[9] It needs to be stated here that this is not the notion of Lucifer in a Christian

sense. For Wiccans, Lucifer was the angel of light who fell into existence on the Material Plane. This descent from Spirit into physical manifestation has nothing whatsoever to do with a descent into evil that rejects goodness.

 

[10] Charles G. Leland, op. cit., p.5.

 

[11] On the Isis and Osiris myth see Sir James Frazer, The Golden Bough, Clarendon

Press, 2000 pp.364-8.

 

[12] The Gundestrup cauldron was found in Himmerland, Denmark, 1891 and is

currently housed in the Danish National Museum, Copenhagen.

 

[13] See http://www.pantheon.org/areas/mythology/europe/celtic/articles.html

for many articles on Celtic deities.

 

[14] An account of Lugh's decisive campaign can be found in the Cath Maige

Tuireadh or Battle of Magh Tuireadh

here http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/T300010/index.html

 

[15] On this see Robert Graves, The White Goddess, p.302.

 

[16] Ibid, p.301

 

[17] Ibid, p.302

 

[18] Artwork depicting this famous story can be found here

http://www.uwm.edu/Course/mythology/0600/apollo.htm

 

[19] On Tammuz see Frazer, Ibid, pp.325-6.

 

 

[20] An excellent source for the Baldur myth is The Prose Edda, which can be found

at http://www.northvegr.org/lore/prose/index.php