Sinhalese Paganism

Sinhalese Paganism is not identified as a religion. It is known as folklore. But the Sinhalese folklore is rich and colorful enough to identify as a Pagan Religion.

Most of the pagan practices went underground as a new religion came to popularity. In west, it was Christianity. In Sri Lanka, it was Buddhism. But unlike in western countries, Buddhism did not replace ancient pagan practices.

Buddhism blend with the pagan practices and allowed people to continue their old ways.

Sinhalese Paganism has a lot of components taken from South India.

Purpose

Wicca was started in England. Most of the practices of Wicca comes from the Celtic, Pictish, Norse and Stregha pagan practices. As Wicca is spreading through the world, people around the world embraces this new path. Some parts of the Wiccan path may not be well applied in some parts of the world.

For an example, the Wheel of the Year that applies to Europian countries, America would not be same for a country in monsoon climate system. Therefor some practices, terminology of Wicca has to be reformed to suit for people in these parts of the world.

In this project, we try to maintain the core concepts of Wicca and configure the peripheral beliefs and practices. And we further try to blend the regional pagan beliefs and practices in to this Wiccan Tradition without deforming the style and aura of Wicca.

We focus the people in South Asian reagon in this project. To make this project a success we will do many research and finally form a coven of the New Eastern Tradition.