{"id":4754,"date":"2012-11-30T04:19:43","date_gmt":"2012-11-30T11:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=4754"},"modified":"2018-06-15T12:38:51","modified_gmt":"2018-06-15T18:38:51","slug":"pentagram-pizza-buy-it-by-the-slice-in-the-occult-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=4754","title":{"rendered":"Pentagram Pizza: Buy It by the Slice in the Occult City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Pentagram Pizza\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/pentagrampizza1.jpg?resize=126%2C150&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"pentagram pizza\" width=\"126\" height=\"150\" \/>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teemingbrain.com\/2012\/11\/29\/awakening-the-esoteric-spirit-mapping-the-occult-city\/\">David Metcalfe writes in depth<\/a> about the &#8220;Mapping the Occult City&#8221; event that<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=4718\"> I mentioned earlier.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The one true religion \u2014\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/depletedcranium.com\/the-one-true-religion-the-church-of-aircraft\/\"> the Church of Aircraft<\/a>. It has some bizarre rituals too.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Dver on polytheism: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/forestdoor.wordpress.com\/2012\/11\/15\/gods-are-not-characters\/\">Gods are not characters.<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 A rare book on witchcraft \u2014 a manual for prosecutors, similar to the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Malleus_Maleficarum\"><em>Malleus Maleficarum\u00a0<\/em> <\/a>\u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.therecord.com\/news\/canada\/article\/841220---rare-book-on-witchcraft-discovered-in-alberta-library\">has been re-discovered in the library of the University of Alberta (the article is a little unclear.)<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Its pages describe cackling wenches sailing across the night sky on broom sticks, frolicking in nocturnal orgies of twisted delight and casting Satanic spells to doom crops with lightning and hail.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The usual. But note that the organized persecution of witchcraft was coincidental with the rise of modernity, not the Middle Ages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 David Metcalfe writes in depth about the &#8220;Mapping the Occult City&#8221; event that I mentioned earlier. \u2022 The one true religion \u2014\u00a0 the Church of Aircraft. It has some bizarre rituals too. \u2022 Dver on polytheism: &#8220;Gods are not characters.&#8221; \u2022 A rare book on witchcraft \u2014 a manual for prosecutors, similar to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[337,40,29],"class_list":["post-4754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-pentagram-pizza","tag-polytheism","tag-witchcraft"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-1eG","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4161,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=4161","url_meta":{"origin":4754,"position":0},"title":"Pentagram Pizza for May 1","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"May 1, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Four toppings this evening. . . \u2022 This made me laugh. \u2022 Some occult-cult films from the past reviewed by Peg Aloi. \u2022 Teaching a course in \"world religions\" is not as simple as it looks, once you start sorting out \"religion,\" \"religious,\" and questions of group identity. \u2022 In\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"academia\"","block_context":{"text":"academia","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=academia"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/pentagrampizza-126x150.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4420,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=4420","url_meta":{"origin":4754,"position":1},"title":"Pentagram Pizza: Some Good Reads and Free Music","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"July 6, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"\u2022 Finding a complementary relationship between Paganism and Tantra at The Pagan Perspective. Not this: My sabbatical led me down the rabbit hole of tantra, or rather neo-tantra, which turned out to be nothing more than a mobsterized store front for polyamory and polysexuality. Now I am the last person\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"music\"","block_context":{"text":"music","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=music"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/pentagrampizza-126x150.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":8711,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=8711","url_meta":{"origin":4754,"position":2},"title":"Pentagram Pizza Cut into 12 Slices","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"July 23, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\u2022 Everything old is new again \u2014 young Chinese discover the Western zodiac and think that it is cooler than \"Year of the Monkey,\" etc. \u2022 \"Witchcrap\" from The Daily Beast website \u2014 \"These Modern Witches Want to Cast a Spell on You.\" Modern witchcraft combines feminism, self-help, and wellness.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Albania\"","block_context":{"text":"Albania","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=albania"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/pentagrampizza1.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":8198,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=8198","url_meta":{"origin":4754,"position":3},"title":"Pentagram Pizza at the Mongolian Grill","author":"Chas S. 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