{"id":7896,"date":"2016-04-11T13:25:36","date_gmt":"2016-04-11T19:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=7896"},"modified":"2016-04-11T13:57:42","modified_gmt":"2016-04-11T19:57:42","slug":"magic-in-philadelphia-worshiping-game-characters-and-a-holy-mountain-in-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=7896","title":{"rendered":"Magic in Philadelphia, Worshiping Game Characters, and a Holy Mountain in Scotland"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo: Penn Museum<\/p><\/div>\n

\u2022 If you live in or near Philadelphia, visit the U. of Pennsylvania museum for “Magic in the Anciet World,” an exhibit that “explores some of the magical objects, words, and rituals used in ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, and Rome<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

\u2022 When a Chinese grandmother left an offering at a statue of a video-game character, social media there lit up. But was she merely carrying on tradition<\/a>?<\/p>\n

\u2022 “Last temple of the Celts” might be overstating the matter just a little, but it’s an interesting article about a holy mountain in Scotland.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u2022 If you live in or near Philadelphia, visit the U. of Pennsylvania museum for “Magic in the Anciet World,” an exhibit that “explores some of the magical objects, words, and rituals used in ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, and Rome.” \u2022 When a Chinese grandmother left an offering at a statue of a video-game character, […]<\/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_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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[38,203,116,33,225,56,17],"class_list":["post-7896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-celts","tag-china","tag-egypt","tag-greece","tag-magic","tag-rome","tag-scotland"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-23m","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7290,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=7290","url_meta":{"origin":7896,"position":0},"title":"Odds and Ends: Runic Duct Tape, Ebola, Etsy","author":"Chas S. 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There are some earlier uses of \"Celtic,\" again referring to the Gauls, from the late 17th century.\"Celts\" begame fashionable as Noble Savages after Scotland, in\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":998,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=998","url_meta":{"origin":7896,"position":4},"title":"DNA, the Celts, and Roman Britain","author":"Chas S. 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