{"id":7286,"date":"2015-06-17T08:52:36","date_gmt":"2015-06-17T14:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=7286"},"modified":"2015-06-17T08:52:36","modified_gmt":"2015-06-17T14:52:36","slug":"coming-soon-to-a-pagan-catalog-near-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=7286","title":{"rendered":"Coming Soon to a Pagan Catalog Near You"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"perun's

Photo from Slavorum.org.<\/p><\/div>\n

Along with medieval weapon bits, archaeologists digging in in the old center of K\u00f6nigsburg, <\/a>now the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad<\/a>, on the Baltic Sea, discovered these pendants symbolizing the god Perun, dating from the late Middle Ages<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The article ends, “What can we say, time to buy Perun’s Axe pedants!”<\/p>\n

Next to the news article, a link to a story titled “Which Slavic God Are You?<\/a>” (Veles, thanks for asking.)<\/p>\n

Things are changing.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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