{"id":4848,"date":"2012-12-25T05:26:33","date_gmt":"2012-12-25T12:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=4848"},"modified":"2012-12-25T05:28:37","modified_gmt":"2012-12-25T12:28:37","slug":"more-on-europes-oldest-paganism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=4848","title":{"rendered":"More on “Europe’s Oldest Paganism”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following up on last July’s post about Mari Paganism<\/a>, here via Forging the Sampo <\/em>is another contemporary journalistic article with links.<\/a><\/p>\n

Two of the grandmothers are less concerned, lying down in the grass in their shawls as their grandsons collect wood for the fire. \u201cIn [Orthodox] Church, you have to stand for hours. I can\u2019t deal with that. The glade is better. Much more comfortable.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You will find the same article linked as well as other material at the MariUver<\/em> blog.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Following up on last July’s post about Mari Paganism, here via Forging the Sampo is another contemporary journalistic article with links. Two of the grandmothers are less concerned, lying down in the grass in their shawls as their grandsons collect wood for the fire. \u201cIn [Orthodox] Church, you have to stand for hours. I can\u2019t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5,53],"class_list":["post-4848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-paganism","tag-russia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-1gc","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5788,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=5788","url_meta":{"origin":4848,"position":0},"title":"New Book on Ukrainian Paganism","author":"Chas S. 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