{"id":727,"date":"2006-09-30T22:27:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-30T22:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=727"},"modified":"2006-09-30T22:27:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-30T22:27:00","slug":"gallimaufry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=727","title":{"rendered":"Gallimaufry"},"content":{"rendered":"

An occasional blog stew.<\/strong><\/p>\n

—Yvonne Aburrow<\/a>, writer, blogger<\/a>, and Web developer, has created a Pagan theologies wiki, with this entry on “conversion” as understood in Paganism and some parallel academic theory<\/a>.<\/p>\n

–Oral traditions–literary, religious, folkloric, and other–are the focus of the Journal of Oral Tradition<\/a>, now online with downloadable PDF files of articles, such as Stephen Mitchell on “Reconstructing Old Norse Tradition”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

–I have a whole multi-part series coming up on new thinking about “Celts,” but meanwhile, I heard the music of Turlough O’Carolan<\/a> performed last night<\/a> in Walsenburg, Colorado<\/a>, which is probably only the second time in history that that has happened. The first time would have been a year ago during the first<\/em> Spanish Peaks International Celtic Festival<\/a>, which is still going on.<\/p>\n

–Speaking of music, my old friend Bryan Frink is collecting political songs (generally satirical) at a new website<\/a>. Check out the post-Katrina “Battle of New Orleans.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An occasional blog stew. —Yvonne Aburrow, writer, blogger, and Web developer, has created a Pagan theologies wiki, with this entry on “conversion” as understood in Paganism and some parallel academic theory. –Oral traditions–literary, religious, folkloric, and other–are the focus of the Journal of Oral Tradition, now online with downloadable PDF files of articles, such as […]<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-bJ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1119,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1119","url_meta":{"origin":727,"position":0},"title":"On Not Being a Textual Religion","author":"Chas S. 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Gods are real.And these gods are everywhere, in all aspects of existence, all aspects of human life.\u201d James Hillman Minneapolis writer is compiling an anthology of modern, polytheistic experiences, tentatively titled Return of the Gods: The Varieties of Polytheistic\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"polytheism\"","block_context":{"text":"polytheism","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=polytheism"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10239,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=10239","url_meta":{"origin":727,"position":4},"title":"Anderson\/Feri Tradition Material Cataloged at Valdosta State University","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"February 21, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Anderson (1917\u20132001) and Cora Anderson (1915\u20132008) founded the Feri tradition of Witchcraft (which had multiple spellings). Since their passing, their papers and home library has been divided among several recipients: the Oakland, Calif., public library, the New Alexandrian Library, and some private purchasers. A large number of their books,\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\/2019\/02\/Victor_H_Anderson.gif?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":737,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=737","url_meta":{"origin":727,"position":5},"title":"I have seen the future of Paganism, and it’s polyester","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"October 14, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Jason Pitzl-Waters adds more on Paganism in the YouTube era. 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