Still too busy to write the really startling post that’s in my head. So here some more links.<\/p>\n
¶ “White folks Was Wild Once Too” — The video, in case you missed it<\/a>.<\/p>\n ¶ You thought that Lord of the Rings<\/em> was about a Quest? Actually, it illuminates questions of property law as well<\/a>.<\/p>\n ¶ The Druidbook blog discusses homegrown American polytheism<\/a>. I like this approach.<\/p>\n ¶ You could call these people a sort of priesthood of the dead<\/a>.<\/p>\n ¶ An online petition for a European Pagan Memory Day<\/a>. Interesting idea, but do online petitions ever accomplish anything? And do signatures of people not living in Europe help or hurt?<\/p>\n ¶ Watch this<\/a>, and you will never think of Bollywood music videos in the same way again.<\/p>\n ¶ Contrary to what you probably have read, the Thuggees of early 19th-century India may not have been Kali worshippers at all<\/a>.<\/p>\n ¶ A definitive list of fluffy and non-fluffy Paganisms<\/a>? It’s a wiki<\/a>, so you can jump into the discussion. 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The data from other English-speaking countries are suggestive\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":192,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=192","url_meta":{"origin":1001,"position":3},"title":"Joseph Wilson: A Craft Pioneer’s Life","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"May 26, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Joseph Wilson published one of the first American Pagan newsletters, The Waxing Moon, in the 1960s and through his correspondence with Robert Cochrane, established the \"1734\" tradition or current or call-it-what-you-will in American Craft. (Another version of 1734 history is here.His spiritual autobiography is now appearing serially in The Cauldron,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"American religion\"","block_context":{"text":"American religion","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=american-religion"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":950,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=950","url_meta":{"origin":1001,"position":4},"title":"Gallimaufry with Rice","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"November 7, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00b6 How is your vocabulary? I donated 300 grains of rice the first time that I tried this online game. Then the AI started serving up all these Latinate terms. Level 50 is the top?? (Hat tip: Odious and Peculiar.)\u00b6 Ancient Egyptians dealt with zombies too. 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