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25 Jul 2024
The Pagan Sites of Europe Remembered (32): Druid's Temple, Ilton
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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...
27 May 2024
NEW PAGAN ART UNEARTHED AT POMPEII
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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...
26 May 2024
A TRIVIALISING BBC REPORT ON SARDINIA'S MAMUTHONES (1964)
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A BBC report from 1964 on the Sardinian tradition of the Mamuthones. In addition to getting the number wrong (there are 12 Mamuthones - to...
3 Jul 2023
THE KILLING OF THE EARL OF RONE AT COMBE MARTIN
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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”...
30 Jan 2023
The Pagan Sites of Europe Remembered (31): The Temple of Apollo, Taymouth Castle, Perthshire
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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...
5 Oct 2022
The Gods of Prehistoric Britain
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According to the historian Ronald Hutton, Britain has the richest of all pagan heritages in Europe. In a wide-ranging and witty lecture, Hu...
15 May 2022
SUMMONING THE GOD
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How the gods are summoned in Japan.
1 Apr 2022
The Pagan Sites of Europe Remembered (30): The Acropolis of Lindos
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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 ...
27 Dec 2021
El Tío and the Authenticity of Neo-Paganism
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Neo-Paganism is usually assumed to be some LARPy middle class hipsters dressing up as Druids, carrying out some fake and over-elaborate, obv...
23 Sept 2020
Stonehenge was Built to Amplify Sound During Ancient Rituals
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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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