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The difference between witches and pagans and what is common between them
Can a witch be pagan? -Yes, they can.
Can a witch not be pagan? – Yes, they can.
Can a pagan not be a witch? – Yes, they can.
Pagans do not pray to gods, I mean, they may very well do that, but it wouldn’t be a reason to call someone a pagan. Pagans idolize nature. Nature is their god, and all the rest of the gods they call by name are nothing but personifications of nature and her children, her power and her other manifestations.
When you interact with reality this way, witchcraft becomes a natural way of interacting with this world. Because, what other language should one communicate to nature in, when nature herself is god? In nature’s native language! And it is a language of signs, legends, myths, tales; it involves perceiving yourself as part of the landscape, as part of the surrounding environment. But never as a king or any other high-ranking being presiding over nature and humans, animals. This is a totally different worldview.
A Pagan Worldview
In a pagan worldview, witchcraft is simply a form of interaction, as natural as it is for people to speak in a language they think in or simply speak well. But in this case, witchcraft is the native language that a pagan speaks, however, it doesn’t necessarily involve formal practice of witchcraft, like we understand it.
May we call a witch a person who speaks with the forest, whispers with the grass, enchants the river, summons the rain? Mere observers of this will indeed confirm: Of course he’s a witch! But the pagan person in question doesn’t think he is. He’ll ask: “Why have you decided that I am a witch? What’s the witchcraft here? What do you even call witchcraft? I am just here, existing”.
This is more or less how pagans perceive the world. We lost this skill a long time ago, but it is never too late to remember it. It comes back bit by bit. Re-establishing a pagan worldview within yourself– one can’t even call it a tradition, it is truly a worldview– idolizing nature, sensing nature as if it were a live woman, a mother. One should treat her as a live mother, and speak to her in a respective manner.
When this skill returns, what others call witchcraft will also appear, but then you won’t call it that way.
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