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Originally posted on The Slavic Polytheist: Being a mentally ill “pagan” is all sorts of fun. (high levels of sarcasm here) Mostly because of all the people out there the broader community who all seem obsessed with how everything has to be “naturally” done, or go back to nature, etc. etc. ad nauseum, blah blah…
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Originally posted on Gangleri's Grove: It’s been a really rough week and I’m not in the mood to mince words today with this piece. This weekend is set aside in our calendar to remember and hopefully honor those who died while in active service to our country. Today I skimmed an article at Patheos,…
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Originally posted on Gangleri's Grove: Last week an academic friend and colleague, who is soon to be teaching a class on Pagans and Christians in the Roman Empire, asked me a rather complicated question. My friend L. plans to include a brief survey of contemporary Pagan and Polytheistic religions as part of the course, to…
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I sit in class and listen to my professor a kind, erudite, and educated man call my gods ‘stupid’. To the south a man lays down his life when Christians demand he desecrate his shrines. I sit in classes and argue with seminarians who tell me polytheists never had theology And in Syria a girl […]…
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This is your only SPOILER WARNING for this article. I will be going very deeply into these episodes, so don’t read if you haven’t seen them and want to be surprised. VOY: Barge of the Dead B’lanna Torres has a near-death experience, after a shuttle accident (which seem to happen with disturbing frequency in Voyager!) during…
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I found an awesome blog full of Ozark folklore, including the uses for things like herbs and such. A great source of info regarding traditional American magic and folkways. Anyone interested in such things should go check it out.
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Originally posted on rotwork / tlapalatequiti: A few months ago I asked polytheists to ponder the question: your god is a volcano and decides to kill 40,000 people – what do you do? Well, my God is the hurricane, and right now His names are Harvey and Irma. I spoke with Him this week, and…
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Originally posted on antlered: This is not about crystal energy grids or such. I’m literally talking about the power grid (power plants and transmission lines and so on) and its place in my religious practice. I’ve always been a good tech-obsessed 90’s kid. I grew up fixing appliances, ruining reverse-engineering any VCR or phone that gave…
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