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    What are the sources of knowledge for paganism?

    I appreciate the insight. I myself see paganism as a nature religion with Nature as its primary source. This must include personal experience or gnosis (I am still trying to separate the idea of gnostics from gnosis). I also agree with imperial naturalism. Science is perfectly compatible with...
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    What are the sources of knowledge for paganism?

    The Abrahamic religions have divine scripture as their source of knowledge. Buda had a method to attain knowledge and I am not familiar enough with Hinduism to know their source or sources of knowledge beyond reading the Upanishads. What are the sources of knowledge for pagans?
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    The Rise of Paganism

    origionally posted by Legiononomamoi [However, the 19th century was also marked by the production of grimoires, "secret" orders, and the development of magic frameworks (e.g., mappings from macroscale to microscale, incorporation of kabbalah, among other things) as well as a lengthy tradition...
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    The Rise of Paganism

    The song were from the oral stories told and retold in Iceland but they were written down by someone who was Christian. This does not make them incorrect but rather a reminder that there could have been Christian interpretations in the writing. But even with that we are lucky to have anything...
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    The Rise of Paganism

    So one of the reasons might be ancestry. A pagan faith involving a return to beliefs that Irish Celtics or Anglo-Saxon or Norse. I can completely understand this reasoning but Celtic and Germanic cultures had an oral tradition. They unfortunately they did not leave us with anything written. We...
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    The Rise of Paganism

    From what I read there was a shift in the 1950s from an intellectual interest in pagan myths to a serious form of religion. I have no doubt that people before this time had interest and that some people seriously saw themselves as pagan but by the 1950 there was clearly an change in the number...
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    The Rise of Paganism

    It appears that what we might call modern pagan religion could be seen to start in 1951. This is the year the witchcraft acts of England was repealed. Contributors like Margaret Murray with multiple publications and James Frazer with his book The Golden Bough and C. Leland's book Aradia created...
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    The Rise of Paganism

    It is not fair to say our ancestors were not nice people when referring to the tribes of Northern Europe. Neither the Celts nor the Germans had a written language so most of what we know about them comes for the Romans and Greeks who thought they were barbarians. It is interesting that Julius...
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    The Rise of Paganism

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    The Rise of Paganism

    No matter what people think about the pagan religion its followers are on the rise. I find the word pagan to be an interesting problem. I have read many discussions about it meaning but it remains in use. The irony of the word and why some polytheists do not like the word is evidently from its...
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    The Rise of Paganism

    Since the 1950s, there has been an amazing rise in the number of people turning to a pagan religion. In addition there is an expanding diversity in the types of pagan faiths. It is interesting that in a time where science is expanding our knowledge at a rapid rate we find so many people looking...
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    The return of pre-christian religion

    To fallingblood - Appreciate the input. What I wonder is what happened. Could environmental changes caused such an impact that their attitude toward nature change that much. The are records from missionaries who spoke to the Iroquois trying to change their religion. The responses indicate a...
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    The return of pre-christian religion

    To fallingblood - I appreciate your comments. I am familiar with the pristine myth but I agree with Thomas Vale more. There is clearly some conflicting information about the subject but this leads to another interesting question as to why Native Americans changed there relationship from a...
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    Can pagans unite?

    The reason is asked about uniting pagan religions is not to have everyone believe the same thing but to help in overcoming 2000 years of propaganda from Christian religions. Anyone interested in a pagan religion is first met with the incredible diversity of practice. The second is the negative...
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    The return of pre-christian religion

    Ecologists do not think that the northeastern forests were destroyed by the American Indians in that area. There were conflicts in Native Americans. In never meant to imply there were not. The fact that the Europeans were tolerated at all and helped was impressive by the Indians. What the...
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    The return of pre-christian religion

    I studied and did papers on differences between native American impact and European impact in the area from Virginia up to New York. The records from the time of Jamestown up to the expelling of the Cherokee from North Carolina all support what I have said. They are public records although many...
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    The return of pre-christian religion

    I do not know where you get your information but it is so far off I do not understand. The Native Americans of the Northeast and Southeast did not do what you said. What little clearing the did was minimal and does even compare to the agricultural practices of the Europeans that came to america...
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    Can pagans unite?

    One of the problems with someone interested in pagan religions is the diversity of terms describing all of the different types of faith. In one aspect the diversity of the pagan religions is one of its best strength along with that pagan religions are tolerant. I would not want this to change...
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    Who Decides the Names of the Gods?

    Many of the norse names may be from real people in the past that through oral tradition are converted into divine beings. There are some which we do not see a possible connection but the explainations have been lost when the oral traditions were stopped and not translated to written language.
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    The return of pre-christian religion

    to falling blood - I am not that familiar with kill pits and the impact they had. I am most familiar with northeastern and southeastern Native American cultures and feel you cannot equate their impact on and their view of nature with the Christian Europeans impact on and view of nature. Of...
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