The Wild Hunt (https://wildhunt.org/tag/italy)
The Norse myths are laced with a melancholic focus on the end of an age. Karl Seigfried notes that today it also feels as though a way of living is passing. But just as Ragnarök leads to a rebirth, so too might our own times – if we are willing to work for it.
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: participants in Nemi, Italy, join a torchlit procession ahead of the Feast of Diana; Cat Nights begin soon; the documentary Blacklisted is set for release; FAUN unveils a new single from their forthcoming album; plus Star’s Tarot of the Week and a roundup of upcoming events.
The fashion house Fendi has sponsored a two-year restoration of the Grotto of Diana at the Villa d’Este, a Renaissance villa that belonged to a cardinal in the Catholic Church who decorated his vast estate with many depictions of classical myth.
In this week’s Pagan Community Notes, concerns about The Pagan Awareness Network in Australia Inc. (PAN Inc.) circulated this week (don’t worry, they are doing well), we take a moment to honor Pamela Coleman Smith whose imagery revitalized tarot cards, academic conferences on What is a witch?, Creating Culture and Connection in Treacherous Times, and the goddess at the Crossing Place, plus Spring Mysteries. Spirit Northwest and a new temple to Ceres.