{"id":8481,"date":"2017-02-26T18:29:30","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T01:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=8481"},"modified":"2017-02-26T18:29:30","modified_gmt":"2017-02-27T01:29:30","slug":"pagan-basics-how-you-talk-to-your-food-how-you-are-buried-and-other-linkage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=8481","title":{"rendered":"Pagan Basics: How You Talk to Your Food, How You are Buried, and Other Linkage"},"content":{"rendered":"

Graves in the necropolist of Bouc-Bel-Air (Bernard Sillano, Inrap).<\/p><\/div>\n

\u2022 The slow abandonment of Pagan religion might be reflected in burials from early medieval France.<\/a> <\/strong>“Within some of the tombs, the archaeologists discovered objects that suggest the persistence of pagan rites, even though Christianity was becoming more prevalent.” None of the articles that I have read give dates for these burials, so I am guessing they were from earlier than 1000 CE.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Women like the witch archetype because she is powerful<\/a>.<\/strong> “On some level, all of the contemporary trappings of witchiness tap into that desire to feel powerful.”<\/p>\n

Now you know. I suppose that it had to be said, and that my readers are mature enough to deal with this knowledge.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Be buried in the Neolithic way so that your descendants may venerate you properly.<\/strong> It’s now possible in Britain<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 <\/strong>She was a Celtic warrior-woman, in a sense \u2014 but not in Britain, Ireland, or Gaul.<\/strong> <\/a><\/p>\n

\u2022 “Animism at the Dinner Table.” <\/a><\/strong>From Sarah Lawless’ blog \u2014 really, this is the basic basic level of a Pagan life. It is more important than pantheons, Lore, texts, dressing up like the ancestors and all the stuff that people get worked up about.<\/p>\n

What if we didn\u2019t strive to be like the ancients, whose true ways are long lost and whose skills are beyond many of us at this time, but instead decided to bring the philosophy of animism to the dinner table? What would it look like? To be honest, it would look foolish to an outsider as it would involve talking to plants and animals, talking to our food sources, as if they were sentient and could understand us. Most of the old prayers collected as folklore weren\u2019t really prayers at all, they were people talking to plants and to wild spirits.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read the rest<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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