Culture
Pagan Community Notes: Week of December 12, 2024
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In this week’s Pagan Community Notes: Yule Lads, Juno, the Oak Moon, upcoming events, and—just like on cable television—Nostradamus makes an appearance.
Arts & Culture
Reykjavík unveils the manuscripts that gave us Norse mythology
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A new exhibition of medieval Icelandic manuscripts showcases the earliest versions of many core texts of Norse mythology and Icelandic literature, including the Poetic Edda and the Saga of the Greenlanders, which details the Norse discovery of the New World.
Arts & Culture
“The icon of beauty:” Apollo Belvedere restored and unveiled at Vatican
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After multiple restorations and delays caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the newly restored Apollo Belvedere has been unveiled at the Vatican Museums to much fanfare and praise.
Culture
Opinion: To Honor the Ancestors
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Like a “Sunday Catholic” who is extremely devout on Sunday mornings but lives a decidedly un-Christian life for the rest of the week, we can all too easily make grand speeches over the drinking horn at blót but neglect to put intention into action when we step out into the wider world. Are we honoring the ancestors in our lives? Or are we dishonoring them?
Culture
A Dispatch from Greater Chicagoland Pagan Pride
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Despite challenges from rain, COVID-19 and venue changes, Greater Chicagoland Pagan Pride returned triumphantly, uniting nearly 1,000 attendees with workshops, rituals, and activism-focused teachings, all celebrating the power of community, resilience, and finding one’s voice.