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>> OK -- PS -- Wiccans are of many stripes -- and 
>> British Wiccan are their OWN stripe, as you well know. Some of them are
>> folklorests par excellence, and some are not. Let's keep those
>> generalizations
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>Brit-trads, eclectics, fluffies... yes.  Many stripes, many flavors.  I know. 
>No offense is meant, and I DID say I was generalizing as a possible reason why
>the Glastonbury temple is co-opting Brigid's name and throwing about phrases
>like 'The Goddess'.  Polytheists don't tend to use the overarching 'The
>Goddess' phrase...

Yes, we do. :~)) and The God :~)), too. We just don't go around saying it's the
same idea as the many dieties of the ancient world. Like I said, we don't live
in that world any more. The strength lays in the community, many Pagans of all
sorts who can somehow get along and go to each others' parties and have a grand
time. It's a faith of expierence, mystical expression and very little dogma. 
The Brits are *different* in a lot of ways to the American community. I have
spent enough time with some Elders of the British tradtions to realize that
some of the differences are not readily reconciled. But, we still get along.
Lezlie
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