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FEREFERIA




The first formal Neo- pagan organization in the United States was Fereferia founded in California in 1957 by Fred Adams, then a graduate student in LA State. College. Adams, an artist, astrologer, student of mythology and ancient cultures was inspired by utopian authors such as Robert Graves to create his own vision of Utopia, a "response to a planet in crisis". Fereferia, which comes from the Latin words "wilderness festival," was an intricate Goddess and nature-oriented system that preached an abandonment of technology and a return to a peaceful, loosely, organized vegetarian society, with an emphasis on tree crops, which he said were much more productive than the fields. Adams coined the term eco-psychic, and incorporated his group in 1967.


Adams saw a return to the worship of the divine female as essential if mankind was to save itself. While many other pagan groups emphasized the Mother Goddess. Fereferia emphasized the maiden: Kore, or Persephone, the Goddess of Spring. "Evo Kore!" was the salutation among followers. Adam's maiden was playful, sensuous, and erotic. He maintained that humans must recapture their sensuality via nature, a connection lost in industrialization. His partner, Lady Svetlana supported a balanced, perfect planet with about 10 to 20 million non-aggressive persons collected in groups of no more than 1,000. They would live on fruits, berries, nuts and vegetables, and the social structure would be 'egalitarian.' Their rituals were celebrated in open-air henges oriented to the four cardinal points and the polestar. The first henge was established in 1959 in the Sierra Madre Mountains. Choosy about initiates, Adams had only about 50 members by the 1970's. The organization was still in existence in the late eighties.



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