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Archaeologists investigating a 6,500-year-old sanctuary in the Czech Republic have identified entrances aligned with solar and lunar cycles, revealing a monumental ritual landscape that predates Stonehenge by more than a thousand years.
“Children make up rituals,” writes Meg Elison in this retrospective on Zilpha Keatley Snyder’s novel. “They make up stories. Like the kids in The Egypt Game, they make up religion, even if their parents assure them that they have religion at home.”
In this week’s Pagan Community Notes: the Covenant of the Goddess addresses AI and sacred practice, the community mourns Priestess Miriam Chamani and philosopher Brendan Myers, and, on a lighter note, rescue pug Jinny Lu claims a crown.
From hundreds of mice deposited at an ancient sanctuary on Crete to Bronze Age offerings in a Czech wetland and a ceremonial landscape surrounding an English spring, this week’s Hounds Archaeology explores new evidence of ancient ritual practices.
In this week’s Pagan Community Notes: Io Diana Lucifera! Mortellus shares their experience running for local office, National Geographic explores the revival of Braucherei, Star’s Tarot offers the week’s reading, and The Wicker Man receives a new spiritual successor.