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The Lombards: The “Barbaric” Germanic Warriors Who Changed Italy

Ancient Origins 25 Oct 2021

As the Roman Empire crumbled, the history of the ancient world was undoubtedly marked and shaped by more than one powerful Germanic tribe ... The Lombards were no exception ... langaz (long) and bardaz (beard) ... In time, their pagan religion was also abandoned ... They started as Pagans yet ended as Christians. They began small and poor but ended big and rich ... D ... .

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Several DAR events planned for October

The Courier Times 16 Oct 2021

The Major Hugh Dinwiddie Chapter DAR met on 2 Oct., 2021, at 1 p.m. at Historic Knightstown Inc. building ... to 7 p.m. on the Oct ... on Oct. 24 ... From the earliest celebrations of an ancient Celtic (Wiccan) holiday, Samhain, with a rich history involving paganism, Christian church, traditions from other countries to our American traditions, to before 731 AD.

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Commentary: Wealth and the power of the gospel (part II)

Daily Press Victorville 25 Sep 2021

In the first of three letters Paul writes on pastoral ministry, he addresses the lowest and the highest of the Roman social strata — slaves (1 Tim 6.1-2) as well as “those who are rich” (1 Tim 6.17-19) ... Some of these “rich” had been converted from paganism (Acts 19.18-20).

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Everything that's wrong with sentencing a white supremacist to read Jane Austen and Charles Dickens

The Conversation 07 Sep 2021

But 21-year-old Ben John wasn’t sentenced to prison ... Moral literacy ... Whether its Austen’s understanding of personal morality, Dickens’ righteous indignation, Hardy’s stern pagan virtue, all of these authors have something rich to teach us which no other experience, other than intimate connection with their novels, can possibly match ... Dickens ... .

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Feast Day of Agia Kyriaki the Great Martyr (live church service)

Greek City Times 06 Jul 2021

Maximian urged her not to throw her life away, promising her wealth and marriage to one of Diocletian’s relatives if she would worship the pagan gods. Saint Kyriaki replied that she would never renounce Christ, nor did she desire worldly riches ... He told Hilarion to either convert Kyriaki to paganism, or send her back to him.

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Sandi Squicquero: Celebrating our freedoms

The Tribune Greeley 03 Jul 2021

With the turmoil of the pandemic subsiding, families are getting ready for barbecues, family and fun ... Happy Birthday America! ... Here in America you are free to live whether rich or poor, Muslin, Christian, Buddhist, Protestant, Pagan or Atheist or any other sect; no one has the right to harm you because of your religious beliefs or skin color ... ....

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February’s First Four

Lakota Country Times 25 Feb 2021

She also collaborated in writing The Sun Dance Opera (1913) and Oklahoma’s Poor Rich Indians (1924). She concluded her article, “Why I Am a Pagan,” in a 1902 issue ... If this is Paganism, then at present, at least, I am a Pagan.”Zitkala Sa died on January 26, 1938, in Washington, DC.

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The Power of Magick: Why Materialists, Atheists and Marxists Need it

Dissident Voice 28 Jan 2021

Pagans were naturally anti-authoritarian. Most pagan values were anti-capitalist. Most neo-pagans are pro-science ... One holiday where we can see the power of ritual for neo-pagans is on May Day, dancing round the Maypole ... Pagan traditions have a rich historical system to draw from that easily competes with the Catholic Church.

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Sutton Hoo: The Anglo Saxon treasures that inspired The Dig starring Ralph Fiennes

BBC News 17 Jan 2021

What was found? ... Brown's belief that his initial finds in 1938 were of a rich ship burial which had been robbed was confirmed in excavations led by Prof Carver from 1983 ... Prof Carver told BBC History magazine the "extravagant and very richly-furnished" pagan burials were probably in reaction to the spread of Christianity ... Find BBC News.

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Persona 5 Royal: 10 Recipes You Can Use To Fuse Beelzebub

Game Rant 12 Jan 2021

Humans have always been fascinated by the supernatural ... RELATED ... Beelzebub is often depicted as a demon in popular culture, though this entity has origins that date back before Christianity as a pagan god ... 10 Attis & Baal - $388,054 ... Some with European pagan origins, others with Babylonian, Egyptian, Greek, or another of the world's rich lore ... Japan.

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One Man Spent 60 Years Building a Mysterious and Sketchy Cathedral

The Daily Beast 03 Jan 2021

In the blue-collar suburb of Mejorada del Campo, Spain, a 94-year-old ex-monk named Justo Gallego has been building a cathedral with his bare hands since 1961 ... NEWSLETTERS ... The cathedral had a whiff of Gaudí to it—all rounded arches, brightly painted columns, and stained glass with pagan motifs. It was a window into a rich imagination ... HE CAN’T TALK ... .

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Appreciation: My lunch with travel writer and transgender pioneer Jan Morris

Finger Lakes Times 14 Dec 2020

They can be Christians or Hindus or Muslims or Jews or pagans or atheists. They can be young or old, men or women, soldiers or pacifists, rich or poor ... In fact, she confessed, in the early 1990s, in a ceremony rich with flowing robes and Druid overtones, Morris had been installed ...

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A spooky tale from singer Seiko Matsuda in Folklore

Straits Times 03 Dec 2020

Get ready for a new season of scares. WarnerMedia this week announced the second season of the HBO Asia Original horror anthology series, Folklore ... The episodes will be directed by a mix of established and up-and-coming local directors from seven Asian markets ... "We have a rich heritage of folklore and myths that can be traced to pagan Philippines ... ....

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As Christmas approaches, we should remember the pagan rituals that came before it

New Statesman 02 Dec 2020

[see also ... Yet for someone like me, whose sympathies are pagan and animistic, it sounds a bit rich, considering what happened to the rites and beliefs of those who were here before St Columba and his ilk turned up. This year, the loss of that old, pagan reverence for the land seems particularly poignant ... -->. Andy Hallam / Alamy. RSS ... .

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Appreciation: My lunch with Jan Morris, writer, traveler, transgender pioneer

The Los Angeles Times 21 Nov 2020

They can be Christians or Hindus or Muslims or Jews or pagans or atheists. They can be young or old, men or women, soldiers or pacifists, rich or poor ... In fact, she confessed, in the early 1990s, in a ceremony rich with flowing robes and Druid overtones, Morris had been installed ...