The Pagan Files

. "Christianity gets a bad rap in Alejandro Amenabar 's 'Agora ', a historical epic in which the early church is shown violently oppressing other faiths, science and women in its bid for politi...

http://alkman1.blogspot.com/2009/05/agora.html

. Την Αλεξανδρινή φιλόσοφο της σχολής του Πλωτίνου (μαθηματικές και εμπειρικές σπουδές) Υπατία έκαναν γν...

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. . Some of the Gods mentioned in the Bible: Adrammelech     II Kings 17:31   Sepharvite God. Anammelech      II Kings 17:31   Sepharvite God. Ashima         �...

http://alkman1.blogspot.com/2009/04/gods-of-bible.html

. An Italian archaeologist says she has discovered what is believed to be the oldest site of religious worship in Cyprus, a temple which is about 4,000 years old. The find at the Pyrgos-Mavro...

http://alkman1.blogspot.com/2009/04/italian-dig-uncovers-oldest-temple-in.html

. KHANTY / Hanti (obsolete: OSTYAKS) are an endangered indigenous people calling themselves Khanti, Khande, Kantek (Khanty), living in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug , a region historically kno...

http://alkman1.blogspot.com/2009/01/khanty-people.html

. Spriggans is the name given to a family of fairies in Cornish folklore, they are the closely related to the Piskies, but were generally believed to be darker and more dangerous than their mi...

http://alkman1.blogspot.com/2008/11/spriggans.html

. THE APPROVAL OF THE LAW ALLOWING CREMATION IN GREECE PAVES THE WAY FOR THE FIRST INCINERATION FACILITIES TO BE BUILT WITHIN TWO YEARS THEY may need to hold their breath for another couple...

http://alkman1.blogspot.com/2008/10/cremation-now-allowed-in-greece.html

. The Anastenaria is a traditional ritual of fire walking which dates back to pagan times. Barefoot villagers of Ayia Eleni near Serres, and of Langada near Thessaloniki, and other places, ann...

http://alkman1.blogspot.com/2008/07/anastenaria-ancient-ecstatic-fire.html

. Representatives from Japan's minority Ainu people bow their heads after the Japanese parliament recognised their indigenous status A bear-worshipping indigenous minority of northern Japan are...

http://alkman1.blogspot.com/2008/06/bear-worshipping-ainu-to-flourish-again.html

. Cleanthes (331-232 B.C.) was a disciple of Zeno the Stoic. He considered the universe a living being and said that god was the soul of the universe and the sun its heart. Most glorious of th...

http://alkman1.blogspot.com/2008/06/cleanthes-hymn-to-zeus.html

. ΒΊΟΣ ΓΕΩΡΓΊΟΥ ΠΛΉΘΩΝΟΣ ΓΕΜΙΣΤΟΎ Σχετικά με τα νεανικά του χρόνια δεν υπάρχουν πολλά ακριβή στοιχεία. Τα...

http://alkman1.blogspot.com/2008/04/blog-post.html

. MITHRAS, God of the Morning, our trumpets waken the Wall! ' Rome is above the Nations, but Thou art over all!' Now as the names are answered, and the guards are marched away, Mithras, also a...

http://alkman1.blogspot.com/2008/03/song-to-mithras.html

. I. Introduction “Yes, my friends, believe with me in Dionysian life and the rebirth of tragedy. The age of the Socratic man is over; put on the wreaths of ivy, put the thyrsus into your h...

http://alkman1.blogspot.com/2008/03/who-was-that-masked-god-symbolism-of.html

. Vikings did not dress the way we thought Vivid colors, flowing silk ribbons, and glittering bits of mirrors - the Vikings dressed with considerably more panache than we previously thought. ...

http://alkman1.blogspot.com/2008/03/more-on-viking-clothing.html

. A runway fashion show in Viking times would have spotlighted women cloaked in imported colored-silk gowns adorned with metallic breast coverings and long trains. This surprising claim is the...

http://alkman1.blogspot.com/2008/02/viking-women-dressed-provocatively.html

. Excavations at Zeus's mountaintop "birthplace" suggest the site's ash altar was in use at least 5,000 years ago—a thousand years before the earliest known versions of the myth of the Greek ...

http://alkman1.blogspot.com/2008/01/worship-at-zeuss-birthplace-predates.html

. Inanna (or Inana) was the paramount goddess of the Sumerian pantheon. Even though she was never considered the "mother goddess" technically, she headed a long line of historical female deiti...

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SHIMLA: It was a moment of pride for all those who believe in the basic values of Indian culture and fundamental rights when 151 men, women and children were given an opportunity to return to the...

http://alkman1.blogspot.com/2007/12/150-convert-christians-return-to.html

. The original name of this song was: THE CANTICLE OF THE CREATURES Most High, all-powerful, all-good Lord, All praise is Yours, all glory, all honour and all blessings. To you alone, Mo...

http://alkman1.blogspot.com/2007/11/canticle-of-brother-sun-by-francis-of.html

. Translator's Introduction Julian, like Epictetus, always calls the Christians Galilaeans because he wishes to emphasise that this was a local creed, "the creed of fishermen," and perhaps to ...

http://alkman1.blogspot.com/2007/11/emperor-julian-against-galilaeans.html

. "Several more contributions to an alternative point of view on the subject of work penetrated past the intervening layers of my prejudice ... ... One was the apparent absence of a word for '...

http://alkman1.blogspot.com/2007/11/leisure-in-action-work-as-play-yeguanas.html

. This prayer song, performed in a sacrificial festival of the Cheremiss people (indigenously called the Mari) was preserved by the scientist, A. Genetz, in the Krasnoufimsk kray of the Perm ob...

http://alkman1.blogspot.com/2007/11/pagan-mari-sacrificial-prayer-from-19th.html

. That we’ve broken their statues, that we’ve driven them out of their temples, doesn’t mean at all that the gods are dead. O land of Ionia, they’re still in love with you, their soul...

http://alkman1.blogspot.com/2007/11/ionic-by-constantinos-cavafis.html

. Influential Classical scholar who brought methodological rigour to the study of Ancient Hellenic religion and ritual Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood was an international authority in the field ...

http://alkman1.blogspot.com/2007/11/christiane-sourvinou-inwood.html

. Hate you, Christ, I do not, or seek. I believe In you as in the others gods, your elders. I count you as neither more nor less Than they are, merely newer. I do...

http://alkman1.blogspot.com/2007/11/hate-you-christ-i-do-not-by-fernando.html