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Ancient DNA has overturned two centuries of assumptions about a Bronze Age burial near Stonehenge, revealing that a renowned goldworker, long believed to be a man, was a woman who may have held spiritual authority.
In this week’s Pagan Community Notes: The Aquarian Tabernacle Church responds to a gubernatorial candidate, Salem celebrates 400 years, a belated remembrance of historian Carlo Ginzburg, NEPA Pagan Pride and Chaos and Cunning make headlines, and the Old Ladies Against Underwater Garbage show the world how to care for our waters.
Welcome to the inaugural What the Hounds?—our new roundup of the stories that made us stop, reread the headline, and wonder what we had just read. This week: rosaries, religion bans, and an Anubis murder case.
After more than a century of uncertainty, archaeologists have identified a temple in Türkiye once attributed to Demeter as a rare sanctuary of Hecate, reshaping understanding of the ancient goddess’s worship beyond her better-known cult center at Lagina.
“I have spent so much energy in my life and activism fighting against things I don’t want,” writes Meagan Fischer. “I think any move toward being in a more conscientious relationship with the land and beings around us is a step toward repairing the schism between much of human civilization and the rest of this planet.”