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TSN
I'm... from Earth.
Member # 31

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But which goddess is "the" goddess? *decides that it is Artemis, since he likes that name* :-)

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Cargile
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TSN, that's the freedom of it. You get to pick and choose the most appropiate Goddess that fits you. Or God.

Er, how 'bout Sol III instead of Terra?
hehe

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Jubilee
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All the Goddesses are one Goddess and all the Gods one God. Choose whatever name you feel most comfortable worshiping, and there you go. I personally just call her "Goddess" or sometimes "Mother" ... If I have to be formal, I sometimes use Luna. But The beauty of it, as Cargile expressed, is that in the Wicca tradition you can choose whatever name of whatever Goddess you want, and whatever name of whatever God you want (be it Allah, or Jesus, or Zeus) and you are still worshipping the divine life force that protects us.

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Jaresh Inyo
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I'm going to stick my tongue out at the next person who calls my dear planet anything but Earth.

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Bernd
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Terra.

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TSN
I'm... from Earth.
Member # 31

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Jubee: Luna, eh? So, since Luna is the moon, and Artemis was the Greek godess of the moon, I guess I was right after all... :-)

Oh, BTW, I feel most comfortable not worshipping anything, so I guess my god would be called Nihil? ;-)

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The Excalibur
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There once was a series of books, I can't remember the writer, about a guy who can barley remember being taken from his home planet as a child, and spends his life looking for home. He knows the name is either Earth or Terra, but can't remember which. any time he mentions either name the aliens remark, "you come from a planet named after dirt".
The guys name was Earl Dumerest.
Terra comes from Terra Firma, doesn't it??

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TSN
I'm... from Earth.
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It's the other way around. "Terra" is the Latin word for Earth or earth/land/ground.

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