A Witches' Bible: The Complete Witches' Handbook
by Janet Farrar, Stewart Farrar

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Book Review: Wicca hates men?
Summary: 2 Stars

For one they make the statement that men and women are equal but women are more equal. Example: "A woman," says Carl Jung, "can identify directly with the Earth Mother, but a man cannot (except in psychotic cases)." First off this statement they bring up as 'fact' rather then what it was supposed to be in the first place which is mere opinion. Not only this but I can't help but feel that this statement is used to put men on the back burner in their religion and women on the top.

Another statement that they make is even more disturbing and proves to me that their beliefs are even more male biased.
"For balance it is, and must be, which is why we emphasize both the essential equality of man and woman in a Wiccan working partnership and the advisability of the High Priestess's being recognized as 'first among equals' in her own relationship with her High Priest and the coven."
First off this statement itself is a counterdiction. How can a men and women be equal but women be more equal and with the High Priestess on top and the High Priest the lap dog? That just doesn't make any sense, also it strikes me that their is a little hint of a pyramed scheme in it with no one able to equal the High Priestess. Yet this further proves to me that the authors all though male and female have no idea of what balance is really about nor for that matter what equality is really about that is from my own impression, 'equality of man and woman and neither above the other but rather complimenting each other,' sadly this is not what they are trying to say at all if you read between the lines.

One last paraphrase I'd like to make that is actually amusingly inaccurate, "You will search in vain throughout the history of religion for a sacrificed and resurrected Goddess." This is not completely true actually, Tiamat being slayed by Marduk to create the Heavens, the Earth, etc. Is by all accounts a sacrificed Goddess. The funny thing about what many points this book trys to bring up about a sacrificed god is that this wasn't how ancient cultures or later cultures looked upon all the gods at all.

They also try to make the statement that their are only triple goddesses and no triple gods. This statement in itself is is highly ignorant, Odin had three forms, that are infact very similiar to the maiden, mother, crone aspect infact.

Also they are even more hypocritical when they state, "We tried to extract a pattern, not to impose one; and extracting is not easy." I'd have to disagree, infact ever sense I picked this book up that is all they have really done is impose this belief. The proof is very easy to find especially when you come accross things like, "a concept to which we cannot attune ourselves." After stating their opinion that the winter being male and the summer female is wronge.

However I am simply amazed after they express their disagreement on this subject that they still stagnantly believe in the Lord Of The Underworld and that the Goddess rules over life. Fact is that this book in itself as well as many other books I've read in the past about Wicca including Starhawk and many others that Wicca is all about the hatred towards males in general.

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• Subjects > Religion & Spirituality > Earth-Based Religions > Wicca
• Witchcraft
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