Extraterrestrial wiccans, pagans and the like

[kengr]

Dunno if I'd actually, use this in a story, but I figure that it's an interesting question in its own right.

What affect would being on another planet have on pagan/wiccan practices?

Both other places in the solar system, Mars, the moons of Jupiter and Saturn , etc and colonies on earth-like worlds around other stars.

Lack of the moon, *being* a moon, and in the casae of extra-solar colonies, the very constellations being different would be the merest beginning.

so, anybody have ideas?

Comments

[freetrav.livejournal.com]

It would ultimately depend on which of the umpty-leventeen traditions your wiccans or pagans follow - I’ve read fic where none of the differences of extraterrestrialism would matter in the least, and I’ve read fic where they are so tied to terrestrial timekeeping and astronomy that even moving them to Mars would more-or-less destroy the group.

If you want to explore this further, I think you’re going to have to define your tradition better.

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

[fayanora.livejournal.com]

Well consider for a moment that I follow the religion of a culture from another planet, a planet with three moons and virtually no seasons. I suspect neopagans of many kinds would adapt to new worlds. They'd probably still pray to their original Mother, as well as to their adoptive Mother.

Heh, now consider the possibilities of neopagans on a terraformed planet/moon. Which would kinda make that world the literal child of Mother Earth, via the humans.