There are many different religions throughout the world; but is there a 'right' one? They are all right! However, what is "right" for one person may not be the answer for his or her neighbor. Each of us must find our own truth, be it Wicca, Christianity, Buddhism or one of the countless other religions that are found throughout the world.
Over the ages, people in widely scattered countries and villages sensed the Presence of a 'Supreme Power'. In an effort to understand this Presence, each separate person created their own stories and legends about this Being, to try to personalize and relate to what they could not understand. There were no planes for easy transport between continents, no phones, no satellite television - no easy communication. Yet, each person continually worshiped some form of Creative Power. Villagers who depended on the sea for their living, wrote of gods and goddesses whose love and anger was expressed by a good catch or a destructive typhoon. Farmers who depended on the land for their existence told stories of earth divinities who controlled fate by either granting good harvest or damaging hailstorms. All over the earth, people related this Power they sensed to what they knew - that their very existence depended upon the notions of nature and the cycle of the seasons. Even if the various tribes had been able to communicate, the sea gods would have meant nothing to those who lived inland, and the gods of the jungle would have been confusing and distant to those who did not have to survive the difficulties of the tropical forests.
Various myths about these supreme beings were passed on from father to son, mother to daughter, generation to generation. After decades of tales told around the campfire, these myths gradually ceased to be mere examples of what could be and became, instead, undisputed fact. In an attempt to answer the question of the origin of mankind and, consequently, explain how d...