Paganism
Column: Do Gods Belong in Museums?
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While working in Tromsø’s Polar Museum, Lyonel Perabo considers the way Pagan relics are kept behind museum walls – and how modern Pagans might bring new life into those objects.
Paganism
Meet our Ancestors: a new Google exhibit of Chauvet-Pont-d’Arc Cave
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A new online exhibition by Google and Syndicat Mixte de la Grotte Chauvet helps us explore the famous and endangered artwork in the Chauvot cave.
Paganism
“A Coven A Grove A Stand”: Revisiting the history of UK witch hunts
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A new exhibition in Great Britain explores the history of witch hunts.
Paganism
“Sights and Sounds of Ancient Ritual”: an exhibition
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The Wild Hunt reviews an ongoing exhibition at the Yale University Art Gallery, “Signs and Sounds of Ancient Ritual,” which explores the world of ancient religious ritual through human sensation.
Culture
Agents of Faith: an Exhibition
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Votive offerings are a universal phenomenon that help define sacred space. In many ways, they are irreligious, focused within an emotional moment followed by supplication or remembrance. They are acts of promise or faith that maintain a connection to a person or an event. While they sometimes anticipatory in nature and offered in the hopes a request to be fulfilled, they are typically constructed and offered after the fact. Indeed, the word votive in English derives from the Latin votivus, meaning “vow.”