What would YOUR Wiccan Holy Book be?
For those of you who don't know me, I don't identify as a Wiccan or even purely as a pagan. But I DO bring many pagan aspects to my spirituality. I plan to major in comparative religion when I finish massage therapy school in a coupla months, and have a real heart for understanding and honoring all faiths. It's just how I roll.
So on my mantle I have displayed many holy texts -- the holy Bible, the holy Koran, a collection of Mormon scriptures, the Bhagavad Gita, and the Tao Te Ching. I've got a couple others for filler so it doesn't look so bare. As you can see, my collection is far from complete. I'd like to get a collection of Buddhist sutras and the Tibetan Book of Living and Dying (aka - the Tibetan Book of the Dead). Of course the idea of Divinely inspired word is pretty western, so the same ideas can't be applied across the board, but I'd sure like to try.
My question is this -- I would like to honor Wicca and other pagan religions (oh, I've got the general "mythology" collection as well, though it's really told from a cultural-historical perspective) on my mantle, but this is difficult because to my knowledge there is no specific book which wiccans and/or other pagans would necessarily regard as a holy text, even in a loose sense of the word. There's the Rede, but a) it's quite short and b) difficult to find standing alone in bound form.
So what, in *your* faith, would be a book that is so sacred to you personally that it would come close to belonging in a collection of this sort? Would it be your own personal book of shadows, over anything anyone else would have written? And if this be the case, how could I put together my own book of shadows as I don't do much spellwork and my faith structure isn't purely wiccan?
Any and all thoughts are appreciated!
So on my mantle I have displayed many holy texts -- the holy Bible, the holy Koran, a collection of Mormon scriptures, the Bhagavad Gita, and the Tao Te Ching. I've got a couple others for filler so it doesn't look so bare. As you can see, my collection is far from complete. I'd like to get a collection of Buddhist sutras and the Tibetan Book of Living and Dying (aka - the Tibetan Book of the Dead). Of course the idea of Divinely inspired word is pretty western, so the same ideas can't be applied across the board, but I'd sure like to try.
My question is this -- I would like to honor Wicca and other pagan religions (oh, I've got the general "mythology" collection as well, though it's really told from a cultural-historical perspective) on my mantle, but this is difficult because to my knowledge there is no specific book which wiccans and/or other pagans would necessarily regard as a holy text, even in a loose sense of the word. There's the Rede, but a) it's quite short and b) difficult to find standing alone in bound form.
So what, in *your* faith, would be a book that is so sacred to you personally that it would come close to belonging in a collection of this sort? Would it be your own personal book of shadows, over anything anyone else would have written? And if this be the case, how could I put together my own book of shadows as I don't do much spellwork and my faith structure isn't purely wiccan?
Any and all thoughts are appreciated!