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A chance encounter at the Temple of Diana Nemorensis led to a story about the recent rediscovery of a long-lost marble inscription confirming that Naples once housed a Temple of Diana reconnecting the goddess of the hunt with the city’s 2,500 years of layered devotion.
In this week’s Pagan Community Notes, we share breaking news: Latvia has become the first European Union nation to legally recognize an ethnic religion, passing the Law of the Latvijas Dievturu Sadraudze to affirm Dievturība as a traditional faith and grant it full legal rights — including marriage, education, and spiritual care — within national law.
As we begin October, we too are lucky. Bart Everson reminds us that each of us exists because an unbroken chain of ancestors survived long enough to pass life forward. Through luck, resilience, and countless generations, their breath becomes ours. Honoring them is both remembrance and gratitude for being here.
Greater Chicagoland Pagan Pride drew hundreds to Riis Park for workshops, ritual, and activism under the theme “Revolutionary Reflections,” balancing community celebration with resilience after disruptions by evangelical protesters crashed the event.
At a 90-minute rally-like gathering, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth outlined planned changes to the U.S. military, blasting “wokeness,” tightening combat standards for women, and vowing “no more beardos” or Nordic Pagans in the ranks.