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25 Jul 2024

The Pagan Sites of Europe Remembered (32): Druid's Temple, Ilton

Colin Liddell Thursday, July 25, 2024 0

Part job creation scheme, part neopagan LARP, the Druid's Temple at Ilton in North Yorkshire is a little over 200 years old, but it is...

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27 May 2024

Pompeii

NEW PAGAN ART UNEARTHED AT POMPEII

Colin Liddell Monday, May 27, 2024 0

Pompeii is the gift that keep giving. Since it was buried by a shower of volcanic ash almost 2000 years ago, the middle-sized Roman town h...

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26 May 2024

Sardinia

A TRIVIALISING BBC REPORT ON SARDINIA'S MAMUTHONES (1964)

Colin Liddell Sunday, May 26, 2024 0

A BBC report from 1964 on the Sardinian tradition of the Mamuthones. In addition to getting the number wrong (there are 12 Mamuthones - to...

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3 Jul 2023

Survive the Jive

THE KILLING OF THE EARL OF RONE AT COMBE MARTIN

Colin Liddell Monday, July 03, 2023 0

The Hunting of the Earl of Rone is an ancient ceremony in the village of Combe Martin in England which resembles the film “The Wicker Man”...

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30 Jan 2023

pagan sites Europe

The Pagan Sites of Europe Remembered (31): The Temple of Apollo, Taymouth Castle, Perthshire

Colin Liddell Monday, January 30, 2023 0

Built in 1774, the Temple of Apollo at Taymouth Castle was part of the Neoclassical affectation that was then rife in much of Europe. Was it...

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5 Oct 2022

Stonehenge

The Gods of Prehistoric Britain

Colin Liddell Wednesday, October 05, 2022 0

According to the historian Ronald Hutton, Britain has the richest of all pagan heritages in Europe. In a wide-ranging and witty lecture, Hu...

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15 May 2022

Shintoism

SUMMONING THE GOD

Colin Liddell Sunday, May 15, 2022 0

How the gods are summoned in Japan.

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1 Apr 2022

Rhodes

The Pagan Sites of Europe Remembered (30): The Acropolis of Lindos

Colin Liddell Friday, April 01, 2022 0

Following the defeat of the Titans, the World was divided between the three brother gods Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades. In book XV of Homer’s ...

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27 Dec 2021

Neo-Paganism

El Tío and the Authenticity of Neo-Paganism

Colin Liddell Monday, December 27, 2021 0

Neo-Paganism is usually assumed to be some LARPy middle class hipsters dressing up as Druids, carrying out some fake and over-elaborate, obv...

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23 Sept 2020

Trevor Cox

Stonehenge was Built to Amplify Sound During Ancient Rituals

Colin Liddell Wednesday, September 23, 2020 0

A new study by acoustics engineers at the University of Salford suggests that the ancient pagan religious site of Stonehenge may have been d...

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