{"id":7913,"date":"2016-04-22T10:42:57","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T16:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=7913"},"modified":"2018-06-15T12:35:58","modified_gmt":"2018-06-15T18:35:58","slug":"pentagram-pizza-from-the-godmothers-recipe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=7913","title":{"rendered":"Pentagram Pizza from the Godmother’s Recipe"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"pentagrampizza\"\u2022 The archaeologist Margaret Murray played a key part in the origins of Wicca \u2014 and she was occasionally a magic-worker herself, by her own admission in her memoir My First Hundred Years<\/em> (1963).<\/p>\n

Ethan Doyle White examines her role in a guest post at Adventures in History and Archaeology<\/em>, <\/a>noting, “Murray\u2019s interest in magic was not solely personal, but rather had a strong professional dimension to it as well.”<\/p>\n

\u2022 Mama Fauna goes Herne-hunting in Alaska, with unpredictable results.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2022 John Michael Greer writes an essay, “A Wind that Tastes of Ashes<\/a>,” on the recent flap over accusations that “fascists” (never defined) and the “New Right” (never defined) are infiltrating Pagan groups. “After all, there\u2019s another kind of power that\u2019s just as illegitimate and destructive, and that\u2019s the power of demagogy: the brute force of a frightened and furious mob whipped up into a frenzy by rhetoric of the sort we\u2019re examining.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u2022 The archaeologist Margaret Murray played a key part in the origins of Wicca \u2014 and she was occasionally a magic-worker herself, by her own admission in her memoir My First Hundred Years (1963). Ethan Doyle White examines her role in a guest post at Adventures in History and Archaeology, noting, “Murray\u2019s interest in magic […]<\/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":[260,5,337,79,6],"class_list":["post-7913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-alaska","tag-paganism","tag-pentagram-pizza","tag-politics","tag-wicca"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-23D","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6062,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=6062","url_meta":{"origin":7913,"position":0},"title":"Pentagram Pizza: Where You Find an Eagle Eating a Snake . . .","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"November 3, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00b6 After reading this article, I think I will write something for Fate magazine about how Tenochtitlan was really a Mexica overlay on a forgotten Roman colony. Should be good for a few chuckles. \u00b6 After a long hiatus (in comic book years), Asterix the Gaul returns. \u00b6 An old\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"archaeology\"","block_context":{"text":"archaeology","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=archaeology"},"img":{"alt_text":"pentagrampizza","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/pentagrampizza.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4927,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=4927","url_meta":{"origin":7913,"position":1},"title":"The Basic Split in Pagan Witchcraft","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"January 1, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"As I posted earlier, the issue of The Pomegranate now in press has an article about Robert Cochrane, one of the first English witches to use the term \"traditional\" in opposition to Gerald Gardner's Wicca, back in the 1960s. In fact, my own current researches are going to force me\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"England\"","block_context":{"text":"England","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=england"},"img":{"alt_text":"Issue 2 of the British newsletter Pentagram, November 1964, price 2s, \"for private circulation only.\"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Pentagram2.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1111,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1111","url_meta":{"origin":7913,"position":2},"title":"The Pentagram in 1964","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"January 12, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"I have more reviews coming, but for now, here is a PDF download of the first issue of The Pentagram, August 1964, price two shillings.As far as I know, it was the first attempt to create a publication for the various branches of British Witchcraft, then only about fifteen years\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"England\"","block_context":{"text":"England","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=england"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":719,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=719","url_meta":{"origin":7913,"position":3},"title":"Wiccan soldier’s plaque to show pentagram","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"September 14, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"The memorial plaque for Sgt. Patrick Stewart, who died in Afghanistan, will display a Wiccan pentagram.[Nevada] state officials said they had received a legal opinion from the Nevada attorney general's office that concluded federal officials have no authority over state veterans' cemeteries. They now plan to have a contractor construct\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5201,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=5201","url_meta":{"origin":7913,"position":4},"title":"Pentagram Pizza without External Validation","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"February 12, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"\u2022 Pharoah Tutankhamun was a lot more important dead than he ever was during his short life. So for him, can we say that the embalmers and craftsmen did give him immortality? \u2022 Magic is a way of living: or why Dion Fortune got it wrong, from Anne Hill. \u2022\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Egypt\"","block_context":{"text":"Egypt","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=egypt"},"img":{"alt_text":"pentagrampizza","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/pentagrampizza.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":860,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=860","url_meta":{"origin":7913,"position":5},"title":"VA Approves the Wiccan Pentagram","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"April 23, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"The first message (from a Pagan staffer at the American Academy of Religion) hit my inbox at 12:28 today, and then the Colorado Pagan email lists lit up: The Veterans Adminstration approved the pentagram for veterans' grave markers. 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