Which group of pagans practiced witchcraft and goddess worship within the ancient per

Which group of pagans practiced witchcraft and goddess worship within the ancient period?

Didi they not just refer to themselves as pagans?? HM, interesting question..

as far as I'm concerned, modern day paganism/ witchcraft/ goddess worship USN;t really that based on the old stuff- I'm a Wicca and i don't even know what the old stuff is meant to be

I am not a Wiccan, but an ethical question's response makes sense to me. If you mean which group of pagans practiced witchcraft and goddess worship in the Modern sense -- nobody. Wicca is exactly a modern religion, and most evidence for old witchcraft we have are either curse tablets or collections of objects of the sort which in other contexts we call fetish objects made by root doctors.

From the Ice Age we have small statuettes -- usually small enough to fit in your palm -- of stylized women with their genitals emphasized. These actually do seem related to iconic images of goddesses from around the Meditteranean which became part of the Classical religion denounced as pagan (from Paganus, countryman). There is actually no evidence before Graves, who admitted he want his essays and so forth to be read as poetry, of an overriding Mother Goddess. Tamuuz, the dying god was of overweening importance as well. I might mention that I found it hysterically funny that Hellboy 2: the Golden Army, which was released around the hundredth anniversary of the finding of one of those ice age statuettes, called the Venus of Willendorf, featured a seven foot tall replica of her in the Auction scene.

There is one more issue: the Black Hat. You know what I mean, the one sold on Halloween. You will see versions of it in pictures of old British country women up through the nineteenth century. Even today it is still part of the traditional dress of women in parts of Wales and Brittany. They have also found at least remnants of, and probably surviving examples among the Russian steppes in permafrost graves, and they seem to be associated with substantial women, possibly priestesses or witches, of Indo-European heritage.

So there are cultural connections between what we call witchcraft and actually goddess worship, but most of what is practiced today is modern.

Ancient Egpyt, I would say. They practiced magi ck, and also worshiped a lot of Goddesses as well as Gods.
Popular Goddesses that they worshiped were Isis, Nepthys, and Hathor.
I hope this helps you.

Witches have always just been people practicing a craft worship ping their indigenous God/disses.

Goddess-centered religions are rare, even in history.

There has never been an ancient Goddess-worship ping Witch religion. Those theories have long since been debunked.

The Egyptian goddess Isis was the most well-know in worship.

Please define "the ancient period."

Many pagan groups throughout time have practices variants of witchcraft and worship one or more Goddesses.
-Scarlet