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Posted: Sat Apr 24, 2010 5:48 pm
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Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2010 12:56 pm
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1) Christianity, at the very latest, ceased to be a closed tradition in 300 CE when a common written source was decided on. It has since become a more than open tradition that actively recruits people. Wicca has not yet reached either point, and currently it appears it won't due to how it was created as an initiatory tradition.
2) The people who created new sects of Christianity were themselves Christian. People calling themselves "shamans" in the US, and charging huge amounts of money to initiate people into "shamanistic" traditions are not Tuvan. I've spoken to some and they have not known who the Tuvan are. They got the word from Western Anthropologists and other New Age practitioners and, with the exception of one person who uses "Incan Shaman" as his descriptor and is part of the living Incan tradition, tend to be unaffiliated with any tradition or loosely following a weird, quasi-Lakota tradition. The Druidic tradition was broken and largely destroyed centuries ago. Wicca is a living tradition that has, in fact, split as Christianity did into sects founded by Wiccans (see: Alexandrian, etc...).
In other words, sects of Christianity and sects of Wicca are similar. The Tuvan have not broken into sects, so far as I know, and those using their name for their spiritual/religious figure have no relationship with them at all. The Druids we know to little about to speculate about what they did while their tradition was alive, but it certainly is not now, so there is no one to break into sects.
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