When I say Bugs Bunny, you have a picture in your mind, and we have communicated much ancillary matter by holding that common cultural icon in our minds. When a historian or Asatru or Marvel comic fan says "Thor" likewise there is an immediate mutual understanding (and grounds for endless dispute, discussion and exploration of the nature of that divine entity).
Individual Wiccan belief in Gods varies from a simplistic adoration of a pair of pseudo-parental Sky Fairies one Male one Female, to a non-theistic interpretation that draws strongly on the work of Jung on Archetypes. WIccans are not defined by a common doctrine, but only by a reverential attitude to nature and the place of human beings in it; acknowledgement of the power of romantic and sexual love and the duality of masculine and feminine natures; and a dual solar/lunar ritual calendar. Beyond that everything is up to individual interpretation.
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