{"id":6474,"date":"2014-05-13T15:42:57","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T21:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=6474"},"modified":"2014-05-13T15:44:41","modified_gmt":"2014-05-13T21:44:41","slug":"sampling-the-pagan-blogosphere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=6474","title":{"rendered":"Sampling the Pagan Blogosphere"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00b6 Andy Letcher goes to Helston in Cornwall for Flora Day, with flowers, pageantry, and the Furry Dance:<\/a><\/p>\n

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Then there is the Furry Dance itself. According to Ronald Hutton, the first mention of any Mayish activities in Helston is in 1600, but the dance is the last surviving Cornish Processional Dance (of which there were once many). It became popular, and formalised, in the nineteenth century, a legacy that remains, giving it the feel of something out of Trumpton<\/a>.<\/div>\n
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There are four dances throughout the day, each processing right round the town and in and out of select shops and houses. They’re driven along by the Helston Town Band playing that<\/b> tune.<\/div>\n
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If it’s a contender for the most irritating tune ever written then that’s only because some of us are old enough to remember Terry Wogan’s ghastly 1978 chart-topping rendition of the song (which is a later addition). In fact the tune is full of pomp and brilliantly infectious. It echoes round the streets and does the job of spurring the dancers on.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u00b6 Apuleius Platonicus tries to put to rest the idea that Hitler and his inner circle were some kind of Nazi Neo-Pagans with a post titled “Hitler Hated Heathens<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

I disagree though with his flip over to the position that Hitler was therefore pro-Christian. In fact, he regarded both Catholic and Lutheran clergy and those would revive ancient Germania as useful idiots<\/em> \u2014 fine if they helped the cause; otherwise, they got a nice holiday at a camp in the countryside. Since the majority of Germans were Christians, it helped to have compliant clergy give the Nazi message a Christian garnish\u2014 pray for the troops, etc.<\/p>\n

\u00b6 At Invocatio<\/em>, scholar of esotericism Sarah Veale looks at the Harvard Black Mass story, which has set a black cat among the journalistic pigeons this week<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The shock value of Satanic transgression, ironically\u2014and ideally\u2014will lead to greater discussion about the place of religion in the public sphere. Will it lead to acceptance for marginalized groups? I\u2019m not sure. But it illustrates quite clearly that the laws are for all.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(We saw what you did there, Sarah.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00b6 Andy Letcher goes to Helston in Cornwall for Flora Day, with flowers, pageantry, and the Furry Dance: Then there is the Furry Dance itself. 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