Rite of Wicca
The sabbats.
Samhain to Mabon, the wheel's eight spokes: the circle cast, the season's story enacted, cakes and wine to close.
⏱ eight times a year◌ the coven or the solitary
Understanding it — context, not catechism: how this rite is held
The Wheel of the Year has eight sabbats: four cross-quarter fire festivals (Samhain, Imbolc, Beltane, Lughnasadh) and the two solstices and two equinoxes. The eightfold arrangement is a mid-twentieth-century synthesis drawing on Irish, Anglo-Saxon, and other sources rather than an inherited pre-Christian calendar — a fact contemporary Wiccans generally acknowledge openly, having moved away from the earlier claim of unbroken descent from an ancient witch cult.
The same ground, other faiths
rites that share this one's ideas
Ebo is an exchange, not an apology.
Yoruba Religion · core tenet
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Ritual sustains the order of the world.
Vedic Religion · core tenet
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Dharma sustains the cosmos; to live rightly is to live in accord with it.
Hinduism · core tenet
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Vesak.
Buddhism
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Paryushana.
Jainism
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The commandments are how the covenant is lived.
Judaism · core tenet
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