Best of the Pagan Web
Here are some things I have noticed in my trip around the Pagan Blogosphere.
Chas Clifton praises an unintentional Pagan classic Donna Tartt’s The Secret History.
“The Secret History is a different sort of drug: it whispers of power and liberation in a seductive Romantic way, filtered through the mind of a 4th-century C.E. Hellenistic intellectual, the kind who would have referred to Christians as ‘atheists.’”
Sage at Goddessing meanwhile brings to our attention a BBC Series on Goddesses.
“Updated on Wednesdays, this week’s program is an interesting 13 minutes of goddess lore, interviews from London to Kathmandu to Manchester, temple chanting, and current issues. It includes a brief interview of P. Monaghan on Kali.”
The Pagan Prattle has more on the ongoing harrasment of Darla Wynne, who recently won a case Great Falls, South Carolina prohibiting the city council from saying prayers to specific gods.
“A parrot belonging to a Wiccan woman who launched a legal challenge to her town’s unconstitutional prayers has been slaughtered in a highly ritualistic manner. Darla Wynne, of Great Falls, South Carolina, came home one night last week to find her parrot, Little One, beheaded with his heart cut out. A note warned her she would be next.”
Finally my favorite occult investigator Tim Boucher tells us all about the banning of occult symbols in schools.
“in closing, i’d say that one man’s occult is another man’s religion. the boundaries between the two are impossibly vague. any attempts made to define something as occult will almost certainly not hold up under closer scrutiny and historical research. and the whole reason that symbols exist and are valuable to humans is that they can never be nailed down 100% to any one meaning.”
and that seems a good place to end this one.
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