The Goddess and the God are a rather hard concept to put into words. The Goddess and the God are everything and everywhere. They are the sun, the moon, the sky, the oceans, ants, flowers, nature, everything. You can see their splendor in a sunset, a child, a tree, in the stars; it's everywhere, you just have to look and see it. They reveal themselves quite often in the most simplist forms. That seems quite a contradiction to what I just said about them being complex, but it's true. Take a walk in the woods, or look at a butterfly, you'll see it. The Goddess and The God are inherent in nature, and since they are so intwined in nature, we have to treat nature with just as much respect as we would a divine being.
I see the Goddess and the God as being part of the same being, just different aspects of that being. When I say "Goddess", I'm referring to the female, creative aspecet of that being. Both The Goddess and The God are equal, neither deserving more respect than the other. When you start focusing on just The Goddess, or just The God, things become unbalanced and unnatural. The ideal is a perfect balance of both energies. They are all of the dieties that have ever existed, and the ones that will exist.
I see all the different gods and goddesses of all the different religions as being the same being; almost but not quite the same idea as the 99 names of Allah, each name refers to a different aspect of that God. When you call the Goddess by the name of Bridget or Margawse, you are calling upon those aspects of The Goddess.
The Goddess is the universal mother. She is fertility, endless wisdom and love. She is all aspects of nature, harmful and helpful. Wiccians acknowledge both aspects of Her nature.
The Goddess has three aspects; The Maiden (Anu, Elaine, Blodeuwedd), The Mother (Badb, Arianrhod, Margawse), and The Crone (Morgan LeFey, Cerridwen, Macha). The Maiden is innocence, Springtime, renewal, youth, dawn and the continuation of all life. The Mother is the richness of life, nurturing, Summer, the day and a teacher. The Crone is darnkess, night, the rest before the continuation of life, wisodom, counsel and reincarnation. Each of these aspects shows different stages of a women's life, and each can be placed with the phases of the moon; The Maiden being the waxing moon, The Mother the full moon and The Crone the waning moon.
The God is a figure that has appeared in myth, religion and stories for eons. He is the consort for the Goddess. They are equal and one, niether higher nor lower than the other. The God is the sun, endless rising and setting. The God is a tender of wild animals, and Lord of The Hunt. All areas untouched by human hands are considered his domain. Of old, the God was the Sky Father, and the Goddess the Earth Mother.
I don't know if I made my thoughts on this clear or not. I hope I did. If not, I'll go back through and try to clean them up a little.
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