Burning Times

[MommaKatt35]

The term Witch means Wise or The Wise..@Yeoldwolf EXACTLY!!!!!!!!!!!

[Yeoldwolf]

Well Wicca I believe does mean the wise ones. But what people forget is that not all witches belong in that belief :)

[rosiediaz00]

This song continues to remind me to trust my intuition....Gracias!

[kazul889]

Wow can people just enjoy the song or leave the page if you don'?t... why waste your time (and anyone else reading your comment) disrespecting someones video when you can just hit the back button??

[AnimaSeverem]

I knew I'd run across people butting heads over the Burning Times.

[athenazg]

Thank you for posting the Album and Artist Info!!

[skanemermaid]

I'm a burning times denier.

[QuintanaZoray]

I have a version of this song sung by Julie Felix. really amazing how she sings it. But then again I love this song no matter who sings it (appart from myself, but that has to do with my singing voice, but I'm working on that one lol)

[nakiarobinson23]

i dont understand why everyone is getting worked up over this song? i mean it's just a song. it's not like it's a news report. an i feel sorry for men out there who are wiccan and dont like the song because it only speaks on the woman side. yes men died too, and maybe it wasnt put in the song because women are usually looked down on and many people want to change that, so they highlight the women more because the man is basically already up on the pedestal

[nakiarobinson23]

i love this song and it speaks the truth, but all those who died for their beliefs are reincarnated and live within each pagan! :)

[DarkWillUser]

@nakiarobinson23 Why would Christians that were killed by other Christians want to be reincarnated and live inside Pagans? Don't you think you disrespect their memory by saying something so contrary to what they believed at the time of their deaths if their beliefs were why they died?

[nakiarobinson23]

@DarkWillUser hello!!!! anybody home????? this song is about the "burning times" when PAGAN people,may i repeat, PAGAN, were burned and tortured because of what they believed in. i was referring to the SONG! may i repeat the SONG! all those innocent pagans that died were reincarnated and live on through the pagans in the world today! i wasnt referring to the christians. YOU JUST WANT TO ARGUE WITH EVERYONE WHO COMMENTS ON THIS SONG DONT YOU?????????????

[DarkWillUser]

@nakiarobinson23 Thanks for the condescending attitude, much appreciated in an exchange between (I assume) two adults. This VERY song that you are "screaming" at me about mentions the Pope and the Inquisition. I have simply pointed out the historical FACT that the Spanish Inquisition to which this song refers had *nothing* to do with Pagans and that this song is factually inaccurate and is Anti-Christian. This has apparently enraged you and a few others, but the facts are the facts. I am sorry.

[nakiarobinson23]

@DarkWillUser excuse me? why are you getting so worked up about this? it happened in the passed and we can do nothing about it OK! times have changed and you need to calm down. and give it up...you're fighting a lost cause. and i looked at that site and it seems bogus. give it up and move on with your life because i certainly have. be happy cause i am. and you cant keep people from liking this song. and whos to say what really happened??? just please give it up, i'm bored with this coversation.

[DarkWillUser]

@nakiarobinson23 I am not fighting any "cause". I originally came here to express my opinion with one single statement. Something that you and Lester couldn't seem to handle because it disagreed with your views. Now you are trying to say that I am the one "all worked up" when you are the one that shouted "Hello!! Anybody home????" at me in the first place. I am merely responding to people. If you are so bored with this conversation, stop conversing. Its quite simple.

[miawick1]

@DarkWillUser I have simply pointed out the historical FACT that the Spanish Inquisition

Oh boy, where to begin when going against so much ignorance all at once ^^ This song is about inquisition, right, but where exactly did it say it would mean the spanish inquisition ? We allready had hundreds of years of inquisition in europe before the spanish inquisition even started. We have 4 main inquisition movements in europe, each consisted of severall inquisitions.

[DarkWillUser]

The "Witch Hysteria" did not sweep most of Europe. That is nonsense. Long before the witch burnings did take place, most of Europe had converted to Christianity, and rather peacefully I might add. Anyone that actually WAS accused of being a witch and punished for it was generally falsely accused of Devil Worship and was by no means a Wiccan or a Pagan. SOMETIMES it did happen, which is why I use words like "most" rather than "all" in my posts, but nowhere near on the scale this song portrays.

[miawick1]

@DarkWillUser The "Witch Hysteria" did not sweep most of Europe. That is nonsense.

AGAIN read up some basic history facts before you go on arguing.

btw Paganism was never gone, it had only gone underground. You just have to look how many pagan rituals and traditions have survifed till today to see that. Christmas does m ostly consist of pagan traditions, as does christmas, halloween and many other holydays and traditions that are still practiced today

[DarkWillUser]

@nakiarobinson23 so your so called "Burning Times" were NOT about Pagan people AT ALL despite what this song says. They were about CHRISTIANS accused of heresy. And the "Witch Burnings" that did take place as well as the trials in America in places like Salem were also usually directed at CHRISTIANS accused of Satanism and not actual Pagans. The witch hysteria of Europe was largely restricted to Lutheran Germany and Anglican England by the way and had nearly NOTHING to do with the Inquisition.

[miawick1]

@DarkWillUser The witch hysteria of Europe was largely restricted to Lutheran Germany and Anglican England by the way and had nearly NOTHING to do with the Inquisition.

Its really fascinating how you manage to mix a few facts with so much utter nonsense in such few words ^^ The whitch hysteria was what started the inquisition movement in the first place with the so called medieval inquisition. Only later they also started to go against heresy starting with the prosecution of the Cathars.

[DarkWillUser]

@nakiarobinson23 And no, I do not "just want to argue" with anyone who comments on this song. I came and made a comment about how I feel about this song and was taken to task for it. For the most part, I just keep responding to those who address me. Nakia, I invite you to visit the website "Wicca for the Rest of Us" (use google) for a more balanced look at what really went on back then, the woman who maintains this site is an actual practitioner of Wicca BTW and not a Christian or Anti-Pagan.

[nakiarobinson23]

@DarkWillUser ok look, you are the only one on here screaming at people about this. well all i can say about "wicca for the rest of us"...you cant argue with an idiot because then that makes you an idiot. and why are you so sensitive about this??? i mean calm down, meditate for a moment, because i would never have written three paragraphs to one single comment like you have.

[nakiarobinson23]

@nakiarobinson23 this song was about pagan people who died ok? yeah maybe some of them were christians, but dont you think most of them were pagan also? some of those people werent event either, people would get mad at someone and just scream "witch!" and they were burned. but dont you get it? the burning times were targeted towards pagan people. they burned our sacred books and tried to diminish our teachings, but thank the lord and lady, the oral teachings brought it back to us. )O(

[nakiarobinson23]

Respond to this video...and if the first place i didnt even respond to you sir, i didnt, i commented on the song and the song only, you werent in my mind when i wrote that, because i knew something like this was going to happen sir. and about that women on that website, may the lord and lady bless here, and bless you to think before you speak, bless it be )O(

[DarkWillUser]

@nakiarobinson23 If you would look at your post you will see that you used far more caps and question marks in a row than I did. Online, all caps is considered yelling or screaming. Why am I so sensitive? Because I hate hate. Period. As a gay man I know what its like to have lies told about you and spread about you. Homophobes tell interesting and harmful whoppers about us all the time. Hateful lies are dangerous. Its how Hitler got multitudes to want to kill Jews. That is how it starts.

[DarkWillUser]

And I make more than one post because the space that youtube gives isn't always enough to make my point. I just don't understand why you are so dead set on believing what this song says about the Inquisition going after Pagans when it just simply did not. That it killed "9 Million" when it simply did not. This not Wiccan or Pagan history, despite what the song says. Why can they not sing about their own history? Not enough there to feel properly persecuted for them?

[Raiinsong]

Love it, cried, when I listend to it for the first time just now, reading the lyrics. Thankyou for the upload.

[DarkWillUser]

@Raiinsong Bigotry is certainly something to cry about, no matter what form it takes, I agree.

[Inokodeyuu]

I love love love this song!!! )0(

[badcat225]

anywhere i can download this?

[pagangwynne]

Great song and a great version. Who is singing it ?

[RavenSylpheG]

Though wicca is the base for my personal religion, this song still give me chills, and hits a sad spot in my heart and soul.

I don't see this song as Anti-Christian, more against those who used the church as a sword to conquer, who were afraid of the women who held power in the pagan cultures. The inquisition they speak of may not be a specific one but an in-general one, from the rise of the roman church to even today. Notice they say 'european women,' not wiccan/pagan women.

Blessed Be )O(

[TiffanyDoll]

9 million is an giant miscalculation that was disproven years ago. Wiccans had nothing to do with the Burning times. Please Google "Wicca For The Rest Of Us" and read the essay on "The Burning Times" and Marget Murray. This Old religion myth kills me. Blessed Be.

[DarkWillUser]

This song's melody is lovely, its too bad that the lyrics are marred with bigotry and slander against Christians and attacks on their theology, in addition to MAJOR historical inaccuracies and a lack of concern for any males that might have suffered during this period. So the song is Anti-Christian and Misandrist. I can't believe I used to love and sing this song over and over in my youth. When you break it apart is a cruel and hateful song.

[Lesterfinnigan]

@DarkWillUser Give it up. Attacks on Christian theology? If your theology contains teachings that lead to a 700 year span which killed countless innocent people then it's not slander to condemn those acts. Christianity has slandered itself.

And your thoughts of the song being misandristic are way off base, like much of the rest of your comment.

[DarkWillUser]

Pay attention to your own words. "Its not slander to condemn those *acts*. I agree its not slander to condemn murderous acts, but the song goes further and ridicules Christian *teaching* in a most hateful way, and it uses falsehood and gross mischaracterization to do so. There is nothing at all to respect in that, nor is there anything to respect in your use of anti-Christian vitriol to defend anti-Christian vitriol. I invite you to take TiffanyDoll up on her suggestion. Educate yourself.

[Lesterfinnigan]

@DarkWillUser Dude, I never once made any assumption about your personal religious views, so put away your victim card. Also, this is a song, not a historical documentry. Do you troll the comments for war songs nagging about historical accuracy? You're making this out to be a hell of a lot more than it is. Yes, the song is glorifying the plight of the female witch during the burning times, it's not the anti-Christian misandristic demon that you're accusing it of being.

[DarkWillUser]

@Lesterfinnigan reread what you typed. "If your theology..". You assumed that Christian theology was my theology. And apparently you equate making such assumptions with victimizing others, though I myself never once felt that you were trying to make me into a victim. And if I ever come across a war song that makes hate inciting, false claims about others, I will indeed comment on it. I can't imagine how you can say that the song is not anti-Christian.

[Lesterfinnigan]

@DarkWillUser When I said "Your theology" I didn't mean you personally. If the song was negatively talking about robots because they blow away humans with their eye lazers and you commented that the song had a dim view of robots, me saying something like "Well, if you spend your days blowing up humans with your eye lazers then humans will likely be pissed" makes sense. It doesn't mean that I am considering you a robot with eye lazers.

[Lesterfinnigan]

@DarkWillUser And yes, whether or not you're Christian, you are playing a victim card. When you whine about how it "ridicules Christian teaching in a most hateful way" you are saying that it is being victimized. It's not. It WAS Christian teaching that led to the 700 year Inquisitian.

And again, it's a fucking song, not some kind of historical documentry! Yes, it inflates what really happened. Tons of songs do so, and if you're trying to learn history from songs you have serious problems.

[DarkWillUser]

@Lesterfinnigan but it *does* ridicule Christian teaching. Pointing this fact out doesn't mean I am pulling out a "victim card". Get real. Also, Christians do not view Jesus as "a dead man on a cross", they view Him as God Incarnate and as having resurrected and ascended into Heaven. This is common knowledge. It wasn't love and kindness that motivated the song writers to sing about evil Christian "domination" and then to blame it on their "worship of a dead man on a cross".

[Lesterfinnigan]

@DarkWillUser Christian teaching led to the Inquisitian. THAT is a fact. Calling the religion on its own 700 year span of bullshit is not ridiculing it. Yes, you are playing the victim, you won't stop whining about how the song is unfair as it's derogatory toward a belief system that killed thousands of innocent people. It's not unfair or bigoted to point out that this happened BECAUSE IT DID. You'd have to be a psychopath to not have a negative view on what happened during the Inquisition.

[DarkWillUser]

@Lesterfinnigan actually, I initially made a comment about why I don't like the song and you keep going off the deep end. Its you who won't shut up. lol You are clearly interested in defending hatred to the death. Your own bigoted words make this abundantly clear. You can't be conversed with at all. Nazi.

[Lesterfinnigan]

@DarkWillUser hahaha. Again, criticism is not hate speech. It is not bigotry. Christianity DID cause the Inquisitian. That's a fact. It's not hate speech to talk about it. It's not bigotry to have a negative view of the systematic slaughter of thousands of innocent people. The song does NOT call for violence to be delivered upon Christianity or its followers. It's not my fault if you don't understand the basic concept that is Freedom of Speech. No one is being victimized here.

[DarkWillUser]

@Lesterfinnigan You claim you want me to "shut up" yet continue to try to bait me because you can't stand that I hold the opinion I do. The Spanish Inquisition didn't form in a vacuum. There are many contributing factors, and btw, the Inquisition had almost *NOTHING* to do with Pagans. If anyone should have written a song called "The Burning Times" it should have been Jews and Muslims that faked conversions to Christianity as well as Christian "heretics". CERTAINLY not Pagans.

[DarkWillUser]

Its ridiculous that the Neo-Pagans of today want to claim for themselves what happened to mainly *CHRISTIANS* of that day and age. This is not PAGAN history and it is even less so Wiccan history. And should Christians come up with a hate song about witches called "The Burning Times" about the MANY times in early Christian history when Pagans burned THEM at the stake? Fed them to wild animals in the coliseums? When Nero burned down all of Rome just to get at Christians?

[miawick1]

@DarkWillUser Christian history when Pagans burned THEM at the stake? Fed them to wild animals in the coliseums? When Nero burned down all of Rome just to get at Christians?

And what exactly had wicca to do with that ? I have no idea how you got the idea wicca is the religion of pre christian rome, or at least one of it. Thats just makes no sense.

This is not PAGAN history and it is even less so Wiccan history.

Oh boy, ever heared about the inquisition of the whitches in the middle ages ?

[DarkWillUser]

@miawick1 Wicca had absolutely nothing to do with it at all because Wicca didn't exist at the time. It also didn't exist during the Spanish Inquisition. I never once said it was the religion of Pre-Christian Rome. It wasn't anybody's religion til the 1950s, really. And nope, I never once heard of the "Inquisition of the Witches". The Inquisition was instituted by Ferdinand and Isabela (not the Pope) to combat supposedly false conversions of Muslims and Jews, Not Pagans and Witches.

[DarkWillUser]

@Lesterfinnigan This song is 100% self serving BULL SHIT and it incites people like YOU to get all worked up and to climb up on your high horses about Christians and rant and gibber and cackle at anyone who doesn't share your same world view. All because of irresponsible, blatant LIES and historical THIEVERY. These fucking song writers stole the history that they skew, the history of OTHER people for themselves so they can win "the most persecuted" award. Its SICK. So GET OVER yourself.

[johnoshaugh]

@DarkWillUser what're you gettin' so worked up about? The history is not skewed....... DARK will, no doubt!

[DarkWillUser]

@johnoshaugh The song is nearly 100% crap. 9 Million women did NOT die. It was in the thousands, not the millions and they were men and women alike. Plus almost NONE of them were pagans or witches. They were Christians accused of heresy or false conversion.  The Inquisition didn't give a crap about witches one way or the other. It was concerned with other things, such as Muslim inroads after 100 years of being enslaved by the Turks. Educate yourself. Google "Wicca for the Rest of Us".

[miawick1]

@DarkWillUser Plus almost NONE of them were pagans or witches.

If you have ever been to college you should sue them and ask for your money back. At least your knowledge in history is practically nonexistent. Or are you knowingly trying to spread false information ? Witch persecution was a big thing during the dark ages. What do you think where the term "witch hunt" comes from ? Even the usa had a few dark chapters in that direction, i just mention the salem whitch trials, that are still famous

[DarkWillUser]

I am sure you enjoy ridiculing me as you make your points, but it doesn't make your words any more accurate. Yes witch persecutions existed during the dark ages and in some areas, it was outright hysteria. There were indeed witch hunters. I have never once denied that. What I HAVE denied is the source of that hysteria and persecution as declared by the writers of this song. I also deny that these so called "witches" were necessarily Pagans (& certainly not Wiccans).

[DarkWillUser]

@miawick1 You are extremely fond of straw men. Never once did I ever claim that there were never witch hunts or witch persecutions.They did exist, & they were *largely* Protestant affairs as I stated. I am familiar with the Inquisition that you mention that focused on Cathars.You want SO badly for this to be about Pagans, it wasn't. Even when the word "witch" was used, it was used against Christian "heretics" & not Pagans and CERTAINLY not Wiccans. The song is still grossly inaccurate. Sorry.

[miawick1]

@DarkWillUser Never once did I ever claim that there were never witch hunts or witch persecutions

You claimed that the inquisition was mostly against heretics etc, and practically never against whitchcraft, which is utter bullshit. You should perhaps read again what nonsense you wrote here. The ridiculous deserves to be ridiculed ;)

it was used against Christian "heretics" & not Pagans and CERTAINLY not Wiccans.

the wiccans today see themselves in the tradition of the whise whitches of that time

[DarkWillUser]

@miawick1 And my claim was correct and I still stand by it.

Wiccans today "See themselves in the tradcition of the "whise whitches" of that time? Great for them. The fact that they are trying to turn someone else's history into their own made that clear to me already. Doesn't make it true. But be that as it may, the Inquisition was still not about witches, but have fun believing it was.

[miawick1]

@DarkWillUser The fact that they are trying to turn someone else's history into their own made that clear to me already.

It is THEIR history, since they live in that ageold tradition, whats so hard toi get about that ? But even if we leave the wiccans out you made the same claims about the pagans

the Inquisition was still not about witches

For the last time,get your facts straight.You are still talking ONLY about the SPANISH inquisition, but AGAIN there where many inquisitions,4 major ones->

[miawick1]

@DarkWillUser and the first big inquisition was against pagans, whitches, catharism and waldensians. It was established in the year 1184 by a PAPAL(as in pope) bull entitled Ad abolendam by POPE Lucius III . So stop ignoring the facts you dont like and recognising only the ones that fit your extremely incomplete idea of how history happened.I mean are too lazy to use google or are you too stupid? Just google medieval inquisition and look up the facts, ALL the facts, you lack quite a lot of them

[miawick1]

@DarkWillUser And my claim was correct and I still stand by it.

OBVIOUSLY not ! You are twisting the facts or ignoring them till what is left gives you the desired result. Your position is completely debunked if you take ALL facts into account. Todays wiccans are the descendants of the wise women of the dark ages, since they live in the same tradition. Wicca didnt suddenly crop up out of nowhere. They are the rightfull heirs of the medieval whitches and celtic druids.

[Lesterfinnigan]

@DarkWillUser And give it the fuck up with all the hate talk. Even if the song did ridicule and poke fun at the religion over and over again, that isn't hate speech. The song is not asking for listeners to burn churches or kill Christians. It's a SONG about a time period in history where Christians DID kill innocent people for having beliefs seperate from theirs. If you think that's unfair to talk about then you are insane. No religion, Christianity included, is above criticism. Get a grip.

[DarkWillUser]

@Lesterfinnigan You also make some assumptions about my personal religious views simply because I dislike this song. Many non-Christians, Wiccans, Pagans and Neo-Pagans actually detest this song and the hateful spirit behind it and gladly disassociate themselves from it. Also as TinyDoll has stated, the "9 Million" number is a MASSIVE miscalculation. As is the song's notion that the Spanish Inquisition specifically targeted women and did so out of a fear of their "power". Misandristic Rubbish.

[davidlugh]

Thank you for posting this. As a Wiccan HP, I am so pleased to see this music uploaded. Blessed Be. Let the circle be open but not unbroken....continue the heritage of our Elders by teaching and leading by example. D.

[nekodemon20]

this song is amazing )0(

[xGoddessxWitchx]

Great song. )O(

~)O( Blessed Be )O(~

[chrislostangel]

the song has a point which is what i love about it as a witch i understand why people fear what they dont understand all i can say is keep your mind clear. to those who hide behind the name wiccan i have to agree why hide you follow a path of love and protection why would you hide that its like hiding your pentagram i could care less who sees it if they ask about it i tell them what it actully means if they try to tell me i amgoing to hell i say its ur hell not mine

[Merytsetesh]

I like the song and the message, but I wish it didn't perpetuate the myth of 9 million witches dying. 1, it wasn't anyway near that number, and only a fraction of the accused were actually killed, so it's more like 50,000. 2, most were Christian. While it's certainly possible that the church stumbled across some people practicing magic, it couldn't have been a lot. The Burning Times isn't a tragedy because witches died, it's a tragedy because it shows the danger of intolerance we still face.

[christianwitch1]

This is a beautiful and sad song. Thank you so much for posting! :)

Blessed be.

[TamKea23]

@onestrangegirl1115

Your answer is yes. I'm willing to bet there are more that are unaccounted for.

[AABSteen]

@onestrangegirl1115

I think so, they hadn't mentioned that if they weren't sure.

[OnyxMarigold]

love this song

BLessed be

[ThePAGANboi]

great song, blessings

[onestrangegirl1115]

where their really 9 million women that died?

[welshguy94]

@onestrangegirl1115 no the number is not known but was a lot lower, in ireland only 4 people were killed for witchcraft, germany had the highest with 26,000. and it wasnt just women who suffered but men too.

[MrRichardQED]

@welshguy94 The real number isnt known but i would say 9 million could be right.

Now why they talk about women only, well to understand that you need to understand wiccan lore, the wisdom of maiden, mother and crone. A man who practises witchcraft is a women in a way, deep inside him, otherwise he couldnt parctise witchcraft, for witchcraft is the female power in us.

[welshguy94]

@MrRichardQED witchcraft is female power within us hmm intresting, but i dont see how u support that "wiccan lore" doesnt just speak of the triple goddess but also a god, (horned god,oak king/holly king bein common) wicca brings in the balence of male and female with tools,elements,ect represntin both i dont think u could say that its just female

also u talked about wicca and witchcraft as one thing there not

this song is not about wiccans witchcraft is not wiccan so "wiccan lore" doesnt apply

[MrRichardQED]

@welshguy94 You are right that wicca is about balance, and worships male and female gods. But the witchcraft itself is seen as a female power. the male powers where god for other things. But to really explain that would need a lot more space then we have here. You can PM me, if you want to know more.

[witchcerridwen]

@welshguy94 there is indeed a diffrence between the two.but what i dont like is that some people say they are wiccan because they are affraid to say they are a witch.and thats wrong cause u have nothing to do with wicca yet you hide behind their name.

[DarkWillUser]

@MrRichardQED you clearly do not understand Wiccan lore, because authentic Wiccan Lore is about both the God and the Goddess together as a whole, you cannot have one without the other. The Goddess has no special pride of place over the God or vice versa in Wicca. Wicca is NOT a Goddess Cult. For that, follow Starhawk. Elevating one sex over the other is not mysticism, its sexism. Period.

[miawick1]

@DarkWillUser @DarkWillUser @DarkWillUser Erm i think you pretty much misunderstood what i said, or i formulated it a bit strange because of the language barrier. What i meant is not that the godess stands over the god. but that in a man not only the male powers are but both male and female. I was talking from my side as a man, sure if you are a woman you can also say that whitchcraft is the male power in us. I wasnt elevating anything over anything,

Next time ask instead of rant !

[DarkWillUser]

@miawick1 my response was for MrRichardQED who stated that Witchcraft is a "female power". Is that you under a different youtube account? Anyway, I responded to statements like "But the witchcraft itself is seen as a female power. the male powers where god for other things." Interestingly enough the "male powers" are not specified by the poster. The word "Witchcraft" itself is a bit broad to be placed in such a tight box, if you ask me. Everyone has a different understanding of it.

[miawick1]

@DarkWillUser "Interestingly enough the "male powers" are not specified by the poster".

They are in another comment. You see this was a longer discussion that started out under another video, and had also here severall comments if i remember right (though it was a while ago, so it might have been also another video). During that conversation we posted links to severall videos to each other, and thus it came we spread our discussion like this over youtube. So you see its allways better to ask->

[miawick1]

@DarkWillUser "my response was for MrRichardQED who stated that Witchcraft is a"female power"

No I didnt,and that was allready pointed out to you.QUOTE:"A man who practises witchcraft is a women in a way, deep inside him,otherwise he couldnt parctise witchcraft".It is extra specified that we talk about a MALE whitch here,not whitchcraft in generall.And a male whitch needs female power in him to practise whitchcraft.You statet yourself that you need both.AGAIN ask instead of attack for no reason

[poppy2040]

this song just holds so much meaning and i am so addicted!

[johnmckinlay67]

Lovely version. Thank you.

[moonsword17]

This song is beautiful. Thank you for the gift of this song. Blessed be. )O(

[ladykatherine1]

This song is rather inaccurate. There were many men burned as witches too. It wasn't nine million either. It was about nine hundred thousand. It's extremely sexist toward men when paganism reveres both genders. Yes, women are powerful. Some women are superior. Some men are superior. It's about the person, not the gender. The fact that the feminist movement is trying to attach itself to paganism is horrifying. I am female and I can honestly say that by demonizing sexuality feminism has hurt women

[ladykatherine1]

@ladykatherine1 more than helped them. Voting rights were gained, but the movement went about it in all the wrong ways. They made women feel ashamed of their sexuality and demonized men's. Now everyone is afraid to be who they are. Paganism is not some prize poodle for the feminist movement. We are ourselves. This is thoroughly disgusting.

[drunkonpunk013]

@ladykatherine1

thank you for pointing that out. As a male pagan, I often get that awkward feeling when I'm at a pagan gathering and I hear: "Wicca! A rallying cry for women everywhere!" Sometimes I'd like to raise my hand and politely cough :)

While I do understand that Wicca is a great outlet for women who have been suppressed over the centuries, it's not a purely feminime religion. After all, me and the goddess are pretty tight :)

[Mandesita]

@drunkonpunk013 :) I agree with you brother. I do love to meet pagan men, although where I live, I don't know any :( And besides, wiccan is a religion about balance between the male and female sides we all carry within us.

[TheRainbowPeeps]

The goddess lives

[NatureFaerie]

Love this tune,love it!

[GrahamAndras]

I love how it just breaks into the Goddess Chant

[1946Priss]

"Stripping her downwith mining and the poisons of their war..."

[Lirleni]

Do you know when this album (Ebenezer's MakeOver) was released? I have this same version of this song on CD by Rumors of the Big Wave, titled Burning Times. (from 1993)

[lewieWaide]

What a beautiful song! I love it, thank you for shaing :)

[maniacmarshmellow]

Oh thank you thank you thank you for putting this song on here!!! :) :) :)

[makemecremate1]

We gotta  remember people fear what they dont understand, and fear is the first step to failure

[FaeriesFrolics]

I thought there were only 2 versions of this song it appears there is a third. You have Christy Moore, a woman who song it alone that was really powerful and now this. I like it,

[scybyte]

brightest blessings and thanks for posting this great song

[shakyamunibuddha]

Traducción al español:

Al fresco del atardecer, ellas solían reunirse

Bajo las estrellas en el prado que rodeaba un gran roble

En los momentos señalados por las estaciones

De la Tierra y las fases de la Luna.

En el centro, una mujer

Igual a l@s demás, respetada por su valor.

Una de tantas a las que llamamos Brujas,

Sanadoras y Maestras de la sabiduría de la Tierra.

[shakyamunibuddha]

Y la gente crecía con los saberes que ella compartía,

Hierbas curativas, conjuros para Purificar sus Espíritus.

¿Podéis escucharles entonando oraciones sanadoras?

Recordando a las sabias, celebrando en la música y la danza...

Isis, Astarte, Diana, Hecate, Demeter, Kali, Innana

Isis, Astarte, Diana, Hecate, Demeter, Kali, Innana

Isis, Astarte, Diana, Hecate, Demeter, Kali, Innana

[shakyamunibuddha]

Hubo aquellos que se hicieron con el poder,

a través de la dominación,

Sometidos a rendir culto a un hombre muerto en una cruz.

Buscaron controlar a la gente sencilla,

reclamando obediencia a la iglesia de Roma.

Y el Papa creó una inquisición.

Era una guerra contra las mujeres cuyo poder temían.

En el holocausto contra el pueblo de la Naturaleza,

murieron nueve millones de mujeres europeas.

[shakyamunibuddha]

Y cuenta la historia de aquellas que a cientos,

Permanecieron juntas hasta su muerte en el mar,

Mientras cantaban alabanzas a la Diosa Madre,

Rechazando la traición, las mujeres murieron para ser libres.

Isis, Astarte, Diana, Hecate, Demeter, Kali, Innana

Isis, Astarte, Diana, Hecate, Demeter, Kali, Innana

Isis, Astarte, Diana, Hecate, Demeter, Kali, Innana

[shakyamunibuddha]

Ahora la Tierra es una Bruja, y los hombres siguen quemándola

Hiriéndola con la minería y los venenos de sus guerras.

Para nosotras/os la Tierra aún es una Sanadora,

una Maestra, una Madre,

La tejedora de una red vital que nos mantiene vivas/os.

Nos da la inspiración para ver a través del caos.

Ella nos da coraje, es nuestra voluntad de sobrevivir.

[shakyamunibuddha]

I love this song!!!!!!!! thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!

Do you have the translation in spanish?

Saludos desde España!

[rachylelisabeth]

amazing!!!

[YaoiWiccan]

I can say from first hand experience that Christians hatred towards pagans is very much alive.

[DraculHemming]

@YaoiWiccan This is very true... BTW love your name.

[trafficlights1]

@YaoiWiccan

I think that may have something to do with there being direct insults towards pagans in the bible, something about pagans being materialistic and we shouldn't be like them.

I couldn't believe it when i first heard it personally, if it wasn't for the fact that I'd heard it in church i wouldn't have (I'm a Christian, but i still support & believe in Paganism.)

Personally I don't see what people hate so much about Paganism, it's a great religion.

By the way i love your name!

[DarkWillUser]

@YaoiWiccan I can say from first hand experience that *some* Pagan hatred towards Christians is very much alive. This song is one example.

[belthazar51]

amazing song to remind us who we are, were we came from ,how far we have come..................,and how much ferther we still need to go thank u for posting this

[Susiehm]

thank you for posting this. Did you know you can save this as a FLV and then encode it to an AVI and Cool edit then rips the music from the video to a mp3? *s* (It was the only way I could get it.I just love it.)

[Mharverian]

If I die in a future, that my rests be in peace in a celtic country.

[Mharverian]

Cuando muera en un futuro quiero que sea en algún país celta. Es mi más grande deseo.

[WitchyWitchieWitch]

What beautiful way for the truth to be tolled !!!!!!

[aveburytree]

@WitchyWitchieWitch I thought you had heard this song before.

[AABSteen]

wauw!!! so beautiful!

Blessed Be )O(

[jbarkingdarling]

I love this amazing beautiful truthful song which tells us where our natural religion went, down the memory hole...but its coming back now

[Thalarctos8]

Blessed Be!!! )0(

[TheDreamingTiger62]

thank you for posting this song

[MistPyxie]

such a beautiful song. I'm glad that doesn't happen as much anymore.

[ainavirin]

Bewitching

[onestrangegirl1115]

this song always makes me want to cry!

[ravenstar100]

educational and beautiful.

we will always survive, our ways are too bone deep to betray or forget.

its now illigal to accuse someone of witchcraft, and we have our human rights at last. we are lawers, doctors, even soldiers, we will always be here!

)0( )0(  )0

[Chatheryna]

I fell in love with this song! Beautiful! I can't stop listening to it!

Thank you so much for sharing!

Blessed be!

)O(

[thewolffrompennswood]

A note about this song: this version is NOT Charlie Murphy (who originally wrote the song), but Peter Alsop and Friends. I have the Charlie Murphy version on vinyl (yes, it's that old! LOL!), but don't have the capability to put it on here. In my opinion, the Charlie Murphy version is the best. Also have Kenny & Tzipora's version, but again, I lack the capability to put it here.

[SkylarHawk31]

@thewolffrompennswood

Wolf - I have those versions too and prefer them also. However, this one isn't bad. I wish I could get Kenny & Zip's version on CD but sadly haven't seen it anywhere.

[sexycowsdontmoo6]

i love the lyrics...i heard a song with the same title by inkubus sukkubus but this one is good too

[SakurasasukeSakura]

wow this is amazing )O( Blessed be.

[Robyn91827]

this is a beautiful song. thank you for posting the lyrics

Blessed be )O(

[TomDeLongeROCKS21]

ah at first i didn't like it, but i like the lyrics.

[jellyfishhh]

I am addicted to this song.

:D

[johnoshaugh]

@jellyfishhh me too! :)



[tgem7]

I like Kenny and Tzipora's version better

It's on their 1988 album "Fairy Queen"

Last song side 2.

NOTE: if anybody out there can put it on you tube I WOULD BE EXTREMELY GRATEFUL :)

BLESSED BE

[Zylophila]

I love this song and thank you for for posting it and the lyrics!!!

Brightest Blessings!!!

)O(

[alexhogan]

My 9 year old is going to have a fit over this!!!! Thank you!

[bemyescape119]

Do you have the full version, with the intro music?

[KeepMusicPagan]

this is the full version...

well, I cut out the talking at the end, but I don't think that counts

[purrjenny1]

This is a really cool song.

[Charsi96]

OMFG!

My brother told me about this song! And now, I LOVE IT!

[Pyro0611]

Omg! I love this song! It's a so simple song, but yet... One word: fantastic!

[KeepMusicPagan]

That's what I said when I first heard it, It's one of my all-time favorites

[ravenstar100]

@KeepMusicPagan could you please tell us all were you got this song from? i cant find it on any download sites (bugger).

blessed be.