ABSTRACT
In The Cyber Spellbook, popular Pagan authors Sirona Knight and Patricia Telesco (2002) devote nearly 30 pages to a variety of gods and goddesses drawn from pantheons around the world, and they attribute to each deity properties and powers suitable for invocation on the Web. Anna Perenna, for example, “is a Roman Goddess of cyber sexuality and fertility,” and Annapurna, the “Great Hindu Mother Goddess . . . can make your Web site profitable, within the cyber world” (Knight and Telesco 2002: 51). Morgana, on the other hand, “is a Celtic Goddess of fertility and war who can help you reconfigure your [computer] system,” and Mother Mary, “the Christian archetype of the Mother Goddess” is useful “when creating new businesses, crafting new ideas, and signing contracts” (Knight and Telesco 2002: 70). Few religious figures-well known or otherwise-escape their notice. Nwyvre, the “Celtic God of space and the firmament” according to Knight and Telesco,“is a good choice for UFO and contact experiences” (2002: 72), and even the Buddha, the “enlightened one,” is pressed into service.“A God of solar energy and zero point energy,” they write, “he embodies the wisdom of solar power and ‘free’ energy in calculators, radios, toys, laptops, homes, and automobiles” (Knight and Telesco 2002: 56).
