Well, imo, all Wiccans are Pagans, but not all Pagans are Wiccans, if that makes any sense. I can understand that, but how are they related? ;) I think Kim might have addressed this, but I'll do so too (it's a hobby of mine, you know). All Pagan religions believe in several common tenets: A belief in multiple Gods or Spirits (God and Goddess, Gods and Goddesses, animistic spirits, totems, etc.) that are expressed through nature. Judeo/ Christian religions see God as apart from the earth (God created the earth from on high, in Heaven). Pagans believe that the earth and all who live thereon are expressions of the deities, be they Gods, spirits, or whatever. Christians see time as a line--the earth was created on a particular day, and will end on a particular day. All Pagan religions see time as a series of cyclic events---the seasons, the phases of sun and moon, the phases of a persons' life, etc. All Pagan religios share a belief in the continuence of the soul within these cycles---karma, reincarnation, the Summerlands of rebirth, etc. (As opposed to the christian concept of the destination of the soul---Heaven or Hell). Wicca is specifically the European Pagan religions, as interpreted by several teachers and authors within the last century (though some of us practice the religion, or aspects of the religion, that predate these teachers, and have been preserved in one form or another through the Burning times). There is not now, nor has ever been, a unified Wiccan religion---each community and tribe/clan in old Europe had its own practices and myths, usually based on common elements. But in modern Wicca there are cohesive traditions (I use the word "Tradition" to denote a system of worship that has been handed from teacher to student for at least three Craft generations---about 15 years). Two of these come from the earliest modern Wiccan pioneers---Gerald Gardner (Gardnerian tradition) and Alex Sanders (Alexandrian tradition). All Wiccan traditions center upon the worship, through ritual, of a God and Goddess, or a pantheon of Gods and Goddesses, generally European or Egyptian in Mythic origin. Most Wiccan traditions reverence the teachings of two liturgical pieces, the Wiccan Rede (see a prior post) and the Charge Of The Goddess. Most Wiccan traditions center upon a relationship between a Priestess and/or Priest and their students, culminating in an initiatory experience that ordains the new initiate as a Priest/ess, and involves vows to serve the Gods of the tradition or coven. In the last decade, many people new to Wicca have sought to use the Wiccan ritual model as a basis for ecclectic blends of other Pagan and non-Pagan traditions, creating a synthesis that varies from individual to individual and from coven to coven. This synthesis, called Ecclectic Wicca, often lacks some of the bases of older, more established traditions, sometimes through lack of training in these, other times because the teacher or seeker does not deem these appropriate to her/his work.