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PIE
Here is a really fun site on Proto-indo-european peoples…
I just find this all so fascinating.
I hope you do as well!
http://www.ceisiwrserith.com/pier/whatwasideology.htm
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The silliness of “isms”
Gizzley Adams wasn’t a pagan… or was he?
Once again… my thoughts are brought around to the silliness of “isms”. In this happenstance pagan”ism”. Having had the long held critique of the silliness of shaman”ism” I have been left looking at pagan”ism” in a similar light. The suffix “ism” denotes a belief system., in this case the belief system of a pagan, or person of the land, country or rustic environment. Now how vague of a statement is it to apply an “ism” to a word that defines a rustic type of folk? From the point of place based relational ontology… Read more »
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Animism @ Ning
I am glad to announce the opening of a new animism community on Ning through the efforts of Corwen ap Broch who has done a wonderful job in organizing and designing a Ning community. The community provides chat, blogs, forums, file uploads and more, and is focused on animism in a broad sense such as is described by Graham Harvey and others. Please check it out and sing up and join the discussions!
Animism @ Ning
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Deism, Poetic Reasoning ,and the Intuitive Language
To day there is debate between the secular humanists and the spiritual seeker about the value and place of reason and logic. Both parties in this debate are engaged in a dualistic thinking that you are either one or the other. The problem is not in reason or in spirituality it is in the way we think about these things. First the atheists and humanists are generally defining the words through the lens of mainstream Christianity. Secondly the spiritual side of the debate is not always looking through that lens. In this debate a third perspective is being ignored. The…
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Local Deities and Bioregional Cosmology
A few weeks ago a my friend Kansa at PostPaganism on Tribe related the following story to us:
“I was invited to a “Friends & Family” party at an Italian restaurant before it officially opened over the weekend. There i am, drinking a delicious Chianti, eating really good pizza and having a wonderful conversation with somejazz chick next to me. And all of a sudden, there was a catholic priest BLESSING the restaurant’s oven with holy water and prayers. The oven, I later found out, also had a name and a pic ture of the owner’s grandmother [ . . .]…
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Lessons from the Seasons
The end of this month I will have lived at the confluence of the Snake River and Clearwater Rivers for a 2 years. I have now witnessed the regions seasonal cycle in full twice. It has been a good deep winter, where snow has capped the high Palouse grasslands and mountains and been nice and rainy and cool in the warmth of the valley. The spring comes early to the valley and the trees come alive with pink and white flowers. Summer is a quick blazes of heat, and autumn is nice and rambling with golden and red Rocky mountain…
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Thoughts on Death and Cosmology
My grandfather died about a week ago. The man was probably suffering from and undiagnosed mental illness for some time, which got progressively worse with time. Because of this my connection and closeness to the man was limited, but he was my grandfather and he was a part of me. His deaths forced me to think about, look upon, and examine death in my life and to confront my own mortality. We had been expecting his passing. He met death at his own terms and simply quite taking his medication, for this I learned to admire the man in a… Read more »
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Sacred Eclology (an excerpt )
I am often critical of Paganism, for distancing itself from ecology. There is more talk about magic and occult ritual then there are deep theological and philosophical discussions about ecology. It would apear, there is a division between Modern Paganism in America and Europe. The fallowing excerpt is writin from a U.K. perspective. Anymore even the word paganism seems to drift further from being earth-centered or nature-based in practice, where some self-identified pagans, reject that aspect inplace for a humanistic polytheism, ethnic reconstructionism, or occult and new age practices. So, when I came acrost the fallowing article, I was elated… Read more »
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Indigenous Traditions and Modern Paganism
I always like it when I run across the rare honest critic of paganism from within. This article is one such example.
in some of its critique of appropriation by eclectic neopaganism, the author makes some comments which suggest at a lot of what we talk about on the PostPaganism tribe. Such as the fallowing.
“Nature religions – a group of religions of which many indigenous traditions are a part – are religions based on Nature and the Sacred Land. Almost all these indigenous traditions that we supposedly seek to emulate were/are Nature religions – they saw the Divine embodied in Nature,…
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Three Branches of Modern Paganism
I have identified three major currents within modern paganism I will call branches. The division I am going to suggest is not a concrete division, where as groups within one current can easily overlap with groups in another current. I work with these divisions because I feel there are specific strands with different goals and approaches and find Modern Paganism a better general term to compare these groups. Some of these groups make great effort to distinguish them as different from NeoPaganism, and these three branches are designed to indicate those contrasts.
NeoPaganism:
The term neo-paganism is first seen in print during… Read more »
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