CLARIFICATION ON MISLABLING

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Druwayu is not pagan, heathen, mystical, or occultist. Being called a pagan, heathen, mystic or occultist, or any combinations of these is regarded by Druans as a blatant slur used even in academia out of habit and willful ignorance. It expressed laziness and shoddy scholarship as well. These terms are commonly misapplied and rooted in meanings that do not reflect our tradition:

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• Pagan: Latin pagus (“bound one”), from pag- meaning “tied, fixed, or bound”; not merely “country dweller.” The term historically implied someone outside a civic/religious order.

• Heathen: Germanic hǣth (field) + pagus (bound one), originally referring to enslaved laborers or those outside established religious systems. Heathen was also alone often applied to nomadic people known for having temporary encampments on heaths or open fields and was applied in another slanderous sense of "uncivilized and barbaric."

• Mystic: Greek múō + Latin mútus/mythus/mythos, meaning something spoken but when applied in the sense of mute, it simply means something unspoken and therefore secret and unknown depending context, rather than "hidden." The context applied with "mystery" sects or groups that held inner "secret teachings" not spoken to outsiders. 

• Occult: Latin oc + celare, literally “hidden from view/eye,” associated with secretive practices when referenced as a mystical and occult order. When so applied it meant ultimately appearing to be one thing externally than what it actually is internally and therefore an embedded concept of deception. Christianity itself also existed initially as a mystical occult order which is the actual inspiration behind such concepts twisted in modern times. 

 

Mystical Occult Orders:

 

Historically secretive organizations, often operating with restricted membership; Christianity historically functioned in a similar manner as fragmented secret societies requiring special initiations before learning anything about it (often on claims of persecution which is more likely over stated since it wasn't the only game in town as it were that did the same thing).

 

Why this matters:

 

Druwayu is a transparent, self-contained spiritual tradition. While superficial similarities with these categories exist, our practices, teachings, and cosmology are original, open, and communal, rooted in the One and Three, Drikeyu, and the customs of Druwayu. Druwayu does not restrict leadership to only men or women, but welcomes both.  

 

SEVEN POINTS OF CLARITY

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✅ Members are encouraged to share their journey, insights, experiences, honest inquiry, and personal reflection if they choose to do so.

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❌ Members do not officially represent the Church – they are part of our collective, but official representation is limited to leadership of the Drusidu.

 

✅ Our clergy of recognized Warlocks and Witches may officiate weddings or lead spiritual gatherings, but their words and practices are their own expressions of this culture, tradition and religion.

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❌ The Church of Druwayu does not deny anyone their right to have political affiliations, opinions or views. Our view is controlled speech is not free speech and one cannot be honest if they are denied the freedom to speak their own mind.

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✅ We encourage individual freedom of personal, autonomous self determination and civilized debates, and to confront misrepresentations and fallacies when they are presented.

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❌ The Church of Druwayu is not directly aligned with any social or political party. If members lean more to one party pr another, it will be based on what aligns the most closely with our teachings and customs, including the demand for the separation of Church and State without exception.

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✅ Members and clergy are not to impose Druwayu upon anyone. Nor will anyone else be allowed to impose themselves upon Druwayu, our members, or the clergy.

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FEMINIST SEXISM IS NOT WELCOMED

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Such discrimination, coercion, and ideological manipulation

are incompatible with Druwayu’s principles and will never be tolerated.

 

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Druwayu rejects the fiction of a so-called “big bad Patriarchy,” a narrative rooted in the ideological distortions of extremist feminist matriarchal frameworks that misuse spirituality to justify misandrist rhetoric and paranoid social theories. These ideologies promote the effeminization of men, the forced masculinization of women, and personal indulgences falsely framed as divinity—claims to authority and godhood that neither exist nor have ever existed.​