Paganism

The term paganism originates from the Latin word paganus, originally meaning country dweller but later on a pagan. It is analogous with heathenism and heathenry. Paganism is a rather new concept, formed in the pre-Christian Europe by Christians to describe the ideology of those who weren't Christians. The latter lived most often in the countryside, while the first Christians lived in cities. Hence the expression paganism.

Nowdays, paganism includes many old polytheistic, shamanistic, pantheistic, animistic and indigenous folk religions, and also some newer ones such as neo-paganism. Common for them all is belief in many gods, lack of need for converting others and a richness of mythology .

Nowadays paganism is no longer merely a pejorative term used by monotheistic religions, and the blogosphere is saturated with pagan content. Find out about the relationship between Catholicism and Witchcraft or about different kinds of practitioners of paganism. One can also align oneself with the rhytms of the earth, learn about old pagan myths or about Candlemas according to the old traditions.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Paganism”

• On Being “Sensitive” to the Paranormal

  
  Merry Meet — Authority: 110
  It’s hard enough being sensitive. I’m not talking paranormal sensitive–I’m talking compassionate to the plight of others. On top of that, I’m sensitive to changes in season, temperature, and even the moods of others. I am apparently affected by fluctuations in EMF and temperature. It’s probably not ...
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• Corvino: The slippery slope of religious exemptions

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 158
  This morning, I didn’t feel like getting out of bed. I wasn’t sick; just tired. But I had a full workday scheduled. Suddenly, an angel of the Lord appeared unto me and said, “Behold, today is a sacred day, and you must not work.” Sweet! Okay, maybe I was dreaming. But as the 17th-century philosopher Thomas ...
  18 hours ago

• Cloud Bursting

  
  MysticWicks Online Pagan Community and Spiritual Sanctuary — Authority: 166
  Cloud bursting always seemed like a pretty cool ability. Its pretty easy to create the illusion of bursting clouds, but I want to hear if anyone has experienced this phenomenon first hand.
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• I am dreaming of…initiation?

  
  Property of a Lady — Authority: 112
  A few days ago, I dreamed that someone I knew was an expectant father, and his wife was in labor. I was to be the labor coach and, while my friend waited nervously outside, I went in to attend to her.When I entered, I discovered the “wife” was an elderly Native American; a shaman (I [...]
  2 days ago

• A Newly Martyred Priest

  
  Byzantine Ramblings — Authority: 123
  The Following two reports are from InterfaxFirst, this report...2009-11-20 13:41:00Famous Orthodox priest killed in MoscowMoscow, November 20, Interfax – The famous priest Daniil Sysoyev, the rector of the St. Thomas Cathedral, has been killed in Moscow, a source in law enforcement agencies told Interfax.The priest ...
  3 days ago

• Azoth

  
  MysticWicks Online Pagan Community and Spiritual Sanctuary — Authority: 166
  Im trying to find out all I can on Azoth as a term, ideology, ect. I understand the word as it is used in alchemy and know the illustration of the 7 pointed star in Basil Valentines Azoth of the Philosophers, but I can find almost NO information on the book itself or any copy of it. I know of Azothoth/ Azotharoth in ...
  4 days ago

• Ho Ho… WTF?

  
  Executive Pagan — Authority: 119
  So, lots of folks seem to be buzzing about the new Gap commercial that mentions Solstice in the same breath as Christmas, Chanukah and Kwanzaa. The general trend that I see breaks down like this: Pagans – “Ooh, cool! We’ve arrived!” Most other commentators – “It’s the end of civilization!” ...
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• Object Oriented Constructs

  
  MysticWicks Online Pagan Community and Spiritual Sanctuary — Authority: 166
  I am professional web developer & programming often consumes my life. In my line of work, I work with Object Oriented PHP. Its essentially an applied perspective for working with code. Amazingly I found a way to apply this perspective with constructs & have had massive success. The usual thing we do when ...
  5 days ago

• Loughcrew & a rose bouquet

  
  Blogtrotter — Authority: 118
  Less known, harder to reach, more intimate than Newgrange, Loughcrew needs as of yet no replica mound, no twinned museum, no solstice lottery. On Meaths highest hill, Carnbane East invited us, with a practical and symbolic key, into its narrowed womb-chamber. Of course, as on Taras softer declivity a few hours ...
  5 days ago

• HOMOSEXUAL-FASCIST "LIBERALS," WHO SANG, "BABY, YOURE A RICH, FAG JEW"?

  
  REAL LIBERAL CHRISTIAN CHURCH — Authority: 130
  All you homosexual-fascist "liberals" out there, who was it who sang, "Baby, youre a rich, fag Jew," and did you and/or do you censor him for it? Do you want every reference to him banned from the public domain? His name is not in the Book of Life of Jesus Christ, is it? Is your name there? Are the names of the ...
  6 days ago

• Newsflash: Global Warming is Caused by the Sun

  
  Defending. Contending. — Authority: 524
  After Noah’s flood receded, God promised Noah that, “As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease” (Genesis 8:22). If cold and heat remain, that rules out the possibility of runaway global warming, and I doubt that He chooses to show us this ...
  6 days ago

• Sigh

  
  Chronicles of Atlantis — Authority: 138
  Axelrod Signals Obama Will Try to Strip Abortion Language From Health Care Bill
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• Tara & a travellers tale

  
  Blogtrotter — Authority: 118
  Only 300 feet elevated, but Taras eminence does appear, once youre on it, to expand. 16 counties from this navel, this fifth province, supposedly can be seen, but not when I stood there. An Atlantic storm had washed over Meath, neither mountain nor bog. Gales scoured tourists off the hill, but left a few (neo-)pagans. ...
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• Are We Going Full Speed Backward To Paganism?

  
  Sola Dei Gloria — Authority: 508
  Below is the link to an interesting article published in the November/December Discernment Newsletter. The editor, Jewel Grewe and her late husband Travers, wrote Strange Fire – The Rise of Gnosticism in the Church . If you’ve not read it, I hope you will. This small book can be read online here . It never ...
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• Maynooth & a black cat

  
  Blogtrotter — Authority: 118
  A poignant visit on Samhain to what was Irelands Catholic citadel. There for a conference on alternative spirituality in the island, quite a contrast. As I entered the two-hundred-year-old courtyard towards my dorm room, twin Gothic spires and gathering clouds matched a Halloween mood. Tonight, as I post this, its ...
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• Odin from Lejre? No, its Freya!

  
  Aardvarchaeology — Authority: 513
  So youre a metal detectorist and you find a silver figurine at storied Lejre in Denmark. It depicts a person sitting in a high seat whose posts end in two wolves heads. And on either arm rest sits a raven. The style is typical for about AD 900. So when you hand the thing over to the site manager, he of course ...
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• Thirteen Moons - Repost

  
  Aquila ka Hecate — Authority: 116
  Tuesday, March 13, 2007 Im reposting this more-than-2-year-old item. Interestingly, I find my views havent changed on this topic. Thirteen Moons Despite my new-found head-in-the-sand resolution not to read a newspaper or watch the evening news or listen to a newscast (two-year-old-toddler brutally raped and ...
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• Goddess Lovers....just go and have a look at this!

  
  The Creative Spirit — Authority: 120
  Ive known Cari for longer than I care to remember.....12 years at least and possibly as long as 15! Doesnt time fly when youre having fun! We belonged to an amazing bunch of folk, worldwide and all Calligraphers or Lettering Artists and we belonged to a huge group... LONG before Social Network Sites came into being. ...
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• What do you considered to be "Advanced"?

  
  MysticWicks Online Pagan Community and Spiritual Sanctuary — Authority: 166
  Ive been going about reading and learning for almost 11 years now. I am very adept at casting, calling, spell work, ritual, herbal lore, candle magick, ect. I work with both the Goddess and God energies, I know (but dont use) "dark" magick (not out of fear, but general karma. I have enough bad energy trailing me ...
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• The Wild Hunt

  
  The Mouth on Wheels — Authority: 104
  Today was very good indeed. My latest art work was assessed and well received. The format was changed a little from our usual assessments in that we usually do a presentation then its open to questions, but this time we had to stay silent while our classmates assessed our work, then we gave the presentation. I really ...
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