The Wild Hunt (https://wildhunt.org/author/sean)
Highly alienated, over-educated, and under-employed, Sean McShee is a San Francisco ex-pat currently living in Fort Lauderdale. He writes on HIV issues and health issues for South Florida Gay News, and blogs movie reviews at http://dreamingnoir.blogspot.com/. He has worked with Reclaiming, the Feri Tradition, Radical Faeries, and now is studying with ADF.
Our correspondent, Sean Little, who has been following the story for years, offers analysis and a final round-up of the Oak Flat case, examining the critical legal battles over sacred land, the evolving interpretation of “substantial burden,” and what this precedent means for Indigenous and minority religions in the United States.
Despite continued pending federal court cases, the Trump Administration has invoked national security in order to turn Oak Flat, federal land that is sacred to the Apache, into a two-mile wide pit for copper mining.
Archaeological discoveries in the Eurasian steppe reveal striking parallels to Herodotus’s accounts of Scythian funerary rites. From sacrificed horses to towering burial mounds, these findings offer a haunting glimpse into ancient ritual practices—and their potential meaning for modern Pagans.
A new study of an ancient Egyptian ritual vase from the 2nd century BCE uncovered a surprising recipe. Researchers found signs of plants with healing and mind-altering effects, fruit wines, honey, and traces of human fluids, suggesting unusual ritual practices.
New research uncovers disturbing evidence of ritualized killings in the British Iron Age. A burial pit in Dorset and a 2,000-year-old cold case provide, for the first time, clear insight into the shocking, community-sanctioned nature of human sacrifice during this period.
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