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- An athame or athamé (/əˈθɒm/, /əˈθɒmə/, /ˈæθəmeɪ/, or /ˈæθɪmɪ/) is a ceremonial blade, generally with a black handle. It is the main ritual implement or...
- commonly known as Athame, is often used in Wiccan ritual. In Gardnerian Wicca these are symbolic of the element of fire. Athame is elemental in nature...
- Wicca, mainly for the cutting of herbs and inscribing candles. Unlike the athame, which in most traditions is never used for actual physical cutting, the...
- the circle is used to cut the doorway, such as a sword, staff or knife (athame), a doorway is cut in the circle, at which point anything may p**** through...
- Wands serve a similar purpose to athames (ritual daggers), though the two objects have their distinct uses: an athame is used to command, whereas a wand...
- pursuing friendly conclusions to fights but is able to pick up his wand and athame if he has no other choice but to do so. His true purpose for attending Kimberly...
- Hieros Gamos. It is generally enacted symbolically by a dagger (known as an athame) being placed point first into a chalice, the action symbolizing the union...
- perform the rite. In the symbolic version the high priestess plunges the athame, or ritual knife that represents the masculine, into a cup or chalice which...
- knife (known as an athamé), a staff (known as a stang), a cup (or commonly a chalice), a stone (used as a whetstone to sharpen the athame), and a ritual cord...
- chalice, as a feminine principle, is often used in combination with the Athame (ceremonial black-handled knife), as male principle. Combining the two evokes...