{"id":1529,"date":"2010-04-21T11:42:10","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T17:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1529"},"modified":"2010-04-25T09:29:22","modified_gmt":"2010-04-25T15:29:22","slug":"no-it-wasnt-the-provocative-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1529","title":{"rendered":"No, It Wasn&#8217;t the Provocative Women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.interfax-religion.com\/?act=dujour&amp;div=214\">Icelandic Pagans who caused the volcano to erupt<\/a>, say Russian Orthodox clerics, countering the<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1520\"> Shiite Islamic cleric who blamed women for inciting the lust of hapless men<\/a> and thus, somehow, earthquakes.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>They noted that Iceland &#8220;has recently become a center of European  neo-paganism of Aryan occult kind, which has Nazi character&#8221; as Iceland  has headquartered the Association of European Ethnic Religions that has  recently worked out a draft of merger between the World Pagan Assembly  and International Pagan Alliance.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>UPDATE: Monday the 26th is the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.blaghag.com\/2010\/04\/in-name-of-science-i-offer-my-boobs.html\"> Boobquake protest<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was Icelandic Pagans who caused the volcano to erupt, say Russian Orthodox clerics, countering the Shiite Islamic cleric who blamed women for inciting the lust of hapless men and thus, somehow, earthquakes. 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Clifton","date":"July 6, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Icelandic Pagan religion \u2014\u00a0 Norse gods and the \"Hidden Folk,\" right? Um, there is more. \"Iceland's pagan Zuist religion hopes to build temple.\" Zuist leader \u00c1gust Arnar \u00c1g\u00fastsson told the paper that the group had always planned to have a place of worship for its followers, but given the movement's\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Iceland\"","block_context":{"text":"Iceland","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=iceland"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2096,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=2096","url_meta":{"origin":1529,"position":1},"title":"An Icelandic Approach to the &#8220;Reburial&#8221; Issue","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"December 6, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Here is a twist on the controversy over the reburial of ancient remains: Bury the skeleton and grave goods at the museum. Of course, it helps it the remains are Norse and the museum is the Viking World Museum in Iceland. Not so many problems of cultural continuity there. According\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"archaeology\"","block_context":{"text":"archaeology","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=archaeology"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.vikingaheimar.is\/resources\/images\/template\/img2.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1317,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1317","url_meta":{"origin":1529,"position":2},"title":"Gallimaufry with Chariots","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"February 26, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"\u2022 Icelandic Pagans curse the nation's economic rivals. See what happens when you mix polytheism and international banking? (Via Pagan Newswire Collective.)\u2022 I do like what Iceland may do for freedom of the (online) press.\u2022 We are the Empire, and we have the chariot-racing to prove it. 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