I do NOT worship nature.

All I know about pagans is that they do not worship God, but worship many gods and goddesses ACTUALLY thats not accurate either! yes SOME do worship numerous gods/goddess' BUT certainly not all of us do..I personally dont worship ANYTHING for starters and secondly I DO NOT see any gods/goddess' as being seperate from me...rather they are each a part of me, different aspects of me, NOT seperate beings if that makes sense.. AND actually there are some Pagans who DO believe in the Christian god but their Pagan path is the stronger part and one step further there are Christians who are also Pagan but their Christian part is the stronger or more dominate part.

I guess that means that you worship yourself, rather a sad state to be in, in that you have nothing outside yourself to compare yourself with to improve your spiritual condition. Now I believe that every god, or goddess, or combination are false gods. And there can be no fellowship with unbelievers with Christians, that means not that we cannot associate with them at work or on myLot but that we cannot marry them and go to places where they would like to go, but we would not - gambling places in Las Vegas. So really those pagans who think they are Christians are not being honest. They are still pagans.

I think I used the concept "wheel of the year" incorrectly. I more meant that most pagans follow the seasons and harvest etc. My understanding is that paganism is based on the ancient traditions which were used when cultivating crops were essential to survival. If they did not have a successful harvest they would starve and die. Also had no scientific information on how things worked so they used gods to represent different aspects that were important to their survival. Pagan traditions who lived in drought stricken areas often prayed to a rain or water god. In the mayan tradition you see a jaguar god. You wouldn't see that in Europe because there are no jaquars in Europe. My understanding of Wicca is that it is a new age religion. It has only been around for 60 years.

Wheel of the Year is usually used when referring to the neo-pagan "Eight Festivals" so that's why I was a little confused. You are right that deities are often associated with particular creatures or places. This is particularly true in beliefs where polytheism and animism are a feature. This is not to say that the gods "represent aspects", sometimes they are gods who have particular duties or who ARE the landscape. There are certain river gods who ARE the river. Cloda in Scotland is the River Clyde, Sabrina in England is the River Severn. They don't represent the river they are the river.

The Wheel of the Year is a fairly modern construct. Pagans of many flavours follow seasonal cycles but that can vary greatly depending on where they live and what seasons they experience! My own group does celebrate first planting in February but only if the ground isn't frozen or too wet to actually go out and do the planting. Ditto harvest, it's harvest when the crops are ready not on a particular calendar date. Worship is a very strange word. It does imply bowing down to something which isn't the case in a lot of beliefs. Honouring might be a better word. I think half the problem is that a lot of the books on "Wicca" are not actually about Wicca but a sort of watered down New Agey version.

I suppose we should be grateful it wasn't King Kev! Watered down Wicca is about right. They never get any Hard Gards in to debate 'cause a) they won't they are under oath and b) they'd eat the others for a light snack!