{"id":6240,"date":"2014-01-25T16:58:25","date_gmt":"2014-01-25T23:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=6240"},"modified":"2018-06-15T12:36:46","modified_gmt":"2018-06-15T18:36:46","slug":"pentagram-pizza-from-romes-enemy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=6240","title":{"rendered":"Pentagram Pizza from Rome’s Enemy"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"pentagrampizza\"<\/a>\u00b6 The word went around last week of the passing of Jonas Trinkunas (1939\u20132014), founder of the revived Lithuanian Pagan group Romuva.<\/a> This Lithuanian website has video of his funeral ceremony,\u00a0<\/a>everyone in archaic ritual gear, lots of singing and drumming. (Video may be slow to load.)<\/p>\n

\u00b6 “Perhaps the future Carthaginians were like the Pilgrim Fathers leaving from Plymouth \u2013 they were so fervent in their devotion to the gods that they weren\u2019t welcome at home any more.” But do not let that sentence give you any warm feelings until you have read the rest<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u00b6 The polytheists’ Ark was round, but still held animals<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00b6 The word went around last week of the passing of Jonas Trinkunas (1939\u20132014), founder of the revived Lithuanian Pagan group Romuva. This Lithuanian website has video of his funeral ceremony,\u00a0everyone in archaic ritual gear, lots of singing and drumming. (Video may be slow to load.) \u00b6 “Perhaps the future Carthaginians were like the Pilgrim […]<\/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_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[121,231,131,230,202,5,337,40],"class_list":["post-6240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-africa","tag-carthage","tag-europe","tag-lithuania","tag-middle-east","tag-paganism","tag-pentagram-pizza","tag-polytheism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-1CE","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4754,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=4754","url_meta":{"origin":6240,"position":0},"title":"Pentagram Pizza: Buy It by the Slice in the Occult City","author":"Chas S. 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