Paganism
Saints, love, chocolate, and goatskins: How we got from Lupercalia to Valentine’s Day
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We review the Pagan and not-so-Pagan history of the Valentine’s Day holiday, right down to the goat-skin loin clothes.
Living
Offerings
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My room became a Wunderkammer of sorts, filled with strange and magical items right alongside cheap pieces of mass-produced plastic that made me laugh and reminded me of my friends. The ways in which I saw the gods grew into a visual language, a series of physical metaphors grounded in my everyday experience and sprawling across my living space. Like all languages, it began to create its own meaning.
baking
Column: Cider Bread, a Devotion
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“It is midnight on a Wednesday evening, which is the time I like to bring gifts to the gods. I tear the cider bread into nine pieces and leave it there. In the morning the bread is gone, taken by the gods or the squirrels, who in any event share much in common.”
Featured
Column: What’s Right with Pagan Commercialization
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Alan D.D., TWH’s Venezuela correspondent, writes about finding Pagan items for sale next to manga and metal band T-shirts – and why that’s a good thing for the future of Paganism in Venezuela.
Featured
Columna: Lo bueno con la comercialización pagana
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Alan D.D., nuestro correspondiente venezuelano , escribe sobre encontrando artículos paganos en venta al lado de dibujos de manga y camisetas de metal bands, y considera por qué eso es algo bueno para el futuro del paganismo en Venezuela.