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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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Labels: Apollo, Apolloism, Neo-Paganism, pagan sites Europe

1 Apr 2022

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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Labels: acropolis, Athena, Lindos, pagan sites Europe, Rhodes

27 Mar 2018

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The Pagan Sites of Europe Remembered (29): The Cathedral of Milan

Colin Liddell Tuesday, March 27, 2018 0

The proportions of a garden shed combined with the ostentation of the Babylonians. The Cathedral of Milan is in many ways symptomatic ...

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Labels: John Ruskin, karma, Milan, Minerva, pagan sites Europe

6 Oct 2017

The Pagan Sites of Europe Remembered (28): Bull Rock, Ireland

Colin Liddell Friday, October 06, 2017 0

With Halloween approaching, let us consider a site connected with the Irish god of the dead, Donn. Out in the sea off the South We...

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Labels: Celts, Donn, Ireland, pagan sites Europe, Samhain

31 Mar 2016

The Pagan Sites of Europe Remembered (27): Harzburg Castle

Colin Liddell Thursday, March 31, 2016 0

There is strong but confusing evidence that Harzburg Castle in Germany was once an important pagan site. Given the extent of the cultu...

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Labels: Charlemagne, Germany, Harz Mountains, Harzburg, Krodo, pagan sites Europe, Saturn, Saxony

2 Jan 2015

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The Pagan Sites of Europe Remembered (26): The Temple of Lacinian Hera in Southern Italy

Colin Liddell Friday, January 02, 2015 0

The holiest pagan site in Magna Graecia, the part of Southern Italy settled by the Greeks, was the temple of Lacinian Hera. This was si...

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Labels: Crotone, Hera, Hercules, Lacinius, Magna Grecia, pagan sites Europe

20 Oct 2013

The Pagan Sites of Europe Remembered (25): Killycluggin, Ireland

Colin Liddell Sunday, October 20, 2013 0

Across the border from Northern Ireland, a couple of miles from the village of Ballyconnel (pop. 747) in County Cavan, can be found the...

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Labels: Cavan, Crom Crúaich, human sacrifice, pagan sites Europe, St. Patrick, stone circle

25 Sept 2013

The Pagan Sites of Europe Remembered (24): Belle Île, France

Colin Liddell Wednesday, September 25, 2013 0

The island of Belle Île, part of Brittany, lies to the West of the mouth of the River Loire, the biggest river in France. The Atlantic ...

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Labels: 2013, Belle Île, Dionysus, France, human sacrifice, Namnites, pagan sites Europe, Posidonius, roof ritual

5 Jul 2013

The Pagan Sites of Europe Remembered (23): The Parthenon, Athens

Colin Liddell Friday, July 05, 2013 2

The most prominent pagan monument in Europe is the still impressive ruins of the temple of the Parthenon. Its name means "the apar...

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Labels: Athena, Jacques Carrey, pagan sites Europe, Poseidon, The Parthenon, Zeus

21 Apr 2013

The Pagan Sites of Europe Remembered (22): Bardsey Island, Wales

Colin Liddell Sunday, April 21, 2013 0

Bardsey is a small island measuring about one mile long and a little over half a mile wide. It lies nearly two miles off the Western...

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Labels: holy island, Merlin, pagan sites Europe, Wales

9 Mar 2013

The Pagan Sites of Europe Remembered (21): The Temple Complex of Samothrace

Colin Liddell Saturday, March 09, 2013 1

One of the most important sites of pagan remains in Europe and the world is the temple complex on the Aegean island of Samothrace, loca...

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Labels: Axieros, Axiokersa, Axiokersos, Castor + Pollux, Hades, Hecate, Hermes, Kadymlos, pagan sites Europe, Persephone, Perseus, Plutarch, Samothrace, sanctuary, Zerynthia

21 Dec 2012

The Pagan Sites of Europe Remembered (20): Windsor Forest

Colin Liddell Friday, December 21, 2012 0

On the South side of the British monarch's royal residence at Windsor Castle, stretching over an area of 5,000 acres, is Windsor G...

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Labels: Cernunnos, Father Christmas, George III, Herne the Hunter, hobby horse, oak, pagan sites Europe, Shakespeare, Theodore of Canterbury, Windsor Forest, Woden

28 Aug 2012

The Pagan Sites of Europe Remembered (19): The Stone of Mannan, Clackmannan, Scotland

Colin Liddell Tuesday, August 28, 2012 1

Mannan is an ancient Celtic or pre-Celtic sea god. He is known by the names Manannan mac Lir in Ireland and Manawydan fab Llyr in Wale...

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Labels: Clackmannan, Cunedda, Lookabootye Brae, Manannan mac Lir, Manawydan fab Llyr, Mannan, pagan sites Europe, Scotland, Votadini

21 Jul 2012

The Pagan Sites of Europe Remembered (18): The Temple of Adranus, Adrano, Sicily

Colin Liddell Saturday, July 21, 2012 1

Adranus was a fire god of the Sicels, the original inhabitants of Sicily at the time when the island was colonized by the Greeks and Ca...

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Labels: Adranus, Claudius Aelianus, democracy, fortune, local autonomy, pagan sites Europe, Plutarch, Sicily, Timoleon

20 Jun 2012

The Pagan Sites of Europe Remembered (17): Ranheim, Norway

Colin Liddell Wednesday, June 20, 2012 0

An artist's illustration of the temple site at Ranheim In 2011, the site of a pagan temple was discovered in Norway at a place ...

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Labels: Frey, Freya, Norway, Odin, pagan refugees, pagan sites Europe, Ranheim, Thor

5 Apr 2012

The Pagan Sites of Europe Remembered (16): The Temple of Pasiphae-Ino, Thalames, Greece

Colin Liddell Thursday, April 05, 2012 0

Plutarch in his Lives of Agis and Cleomenes mentions the Temple of Pasiphae at Thalamiae, an oracular site in ancient Laconia. Those w...

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Labels: Agis, Cleomenes, Daphne, Dionysus, Ephors, Hera, Ino, Minos, Minotaur, oracle, pagan sites Europe, Pasiphae, Pausanias, Phylarchus, Plutarch, Poseidon, Thalames

24 Mar 2012

The Pagan Sites of Europe Remembered (15): Cave of the Sibyl, Cumae, Italy

Colin Liddell Saturday, March 24, 2012 0

Sibyls were priestess of Apollo noted for their oracular abilities. They usually occupied temples that were connected to caves or grott...

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Labels: Amedeo Maiuri, Apollo, Cumae, oracle, pagan sites, pagan sites Europe, Sibyl, Virgil

23 Mar 2012

The Pagan Sites of Europe Remembered (14): Saint-Pierre-de-Montmartre, Paris

Colin Liddell Friday, March 23, 2012 0

The church of Saint-Pierre-de-Montmartre is one of the oldest churches in Paris. It was consecrated by Pope Eugenius III in 1147, in ...

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Labels: Abbot Hilduin, Lugus, Mercury, pagan sites Europe, St. Denis

18 Sept 2011

The Pagan Sites of Europe Remembered (13): Goodmanham, Yorkshire

Colin Liddell Sunday, September 18, 2011 1

Goodmanham is now a small village in the Eastern part of Yorkshire, but in the 7th century it was the site of an important temple of th...

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Labels: Bede, Christianization, Coifi, desecration, Edwin, pagan sites Europe, religious coup d'état, Woden

21 Jan 2011

The Pagan Sites of Europe Remembered (12): Teltown, Ireland

Colin Liddell Friday, January 21, 2011 0

Teltown Cottage Teltown, also Telltown or the more Gaelic Taillten, is the name of a place in County Meath, Ireland, that once he...

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Labels: Blackwater River, burial mounds, Dindsenchas, Kells, Lugh, Lugus, Maghmor, pagan sites Europe, Taillten, Tailtiu, Teltown

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