In this week’s Pagan Community Notes, congratulations to Cherry Hill Seminary graduates! A rising Black Moon is ahead just before the new solar year. And speaking of which, blessings of Janus! We look at some New Year’s Day traditions around the world. After all, in our opinion, nothing brings in the new year better than a little Witchcraft!
Latin America
Lessons of the Canebreak: a dispatch from North Carolina
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Did the virtue of This Goddess of the Mountain Waters fail us? After a walk along the river after the disaster from Hurricane Helene in Western North Carolina, Prof. Enrique Gomez a resident of the areas, sees lessons in nature and in the stories of Mexica ancestors.
Editorial
“They’re eating the cats” is a lie with a long history, and Pagans should be concerned
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TWH’s Editor-in-Chief, Manny Moreno, responds to the claims that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, are abducting and eating the pets of other residents. The baseless claim has deep roots in racism, xenophobia, and religious intolerance, and has been levied against practitioners of Vodou and modern Paganism.
Indigenous Land
300 year old feathered cloak returned to Brazil’s Tupinambá de Olivença people
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A cloak of thousands of scarlet ibis feathers, sacred to the Indigenous Tupinambá people of Brazil, has been in Danish hands since the 1600s. Now it has finally been returned to Brazil in the midst of an ongoing dispute over Indigenous rights in the country.
Indigenous Land
“Water cult” temple may re-write Indigenous history in South America
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In Peru’s Virú Valley, the remains of pre-Incan water cult may rewrite human history in the region while also highlighting the critical importance of water for our survival and the urgent need for preservation efforts to protect invaluable cultural heritage.
Indigenous Land
Supernatural figures highlight the spiritual complexity of the Amazon
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Archaeologists explored a colossal rock in the Colombian Amazon with 3,200 ochre paintings, revealing ancient mythology and intricate human-nature relationships.