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Pagan Community Notes Week of October 30, 2023
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In this week’s Pagan Community Notes: various conservative Christian churches express annual concerns about Halloween and Wicca, Pumpkin explosion, Announcements and more news.
Paganism
Devotional street art: an interview with Markos Gage
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In the heart of Melbourne, Australia, Markos Gage works and lives creating public art inspired by mythology and his own personal spirituality. Gage identifies as an Hellenic polytheist, Dionysian artist, and Bacchic Orphic. He said, “I’m a devotee to Dionysos and claim some kind of initiation into his mysteries. I identify these mysteries as Dionysian Artist.” Gage grew up in Frankston, and was reared by his mother and grandmother.
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Pagan Community Notes: BLM Down Under, Donald H. Frew, Pagan Dawn and more!
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MELBOURNE — The Black Lives Matter movement has reached Australia. So far, there have been rallies in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, and Brisbane. The ABC, Australia’s state-owned and funded national public broadcaster, reported that 3,500 people attended the Melbourne rally on Sunday, July 17. The movement, which began in the U.S., has a struck a chord with Australia’s aboriginal people. Although aboriginal people make up only about 3% of the Australian population, they reportedly make up 26% of the prison population.