Paganism
Column: A Discovery of the Buckland Museum of Witchcraft and Magick
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Lyonel Perabo recounts his recent visit to the Raymond Buckland Museum of Witchcraft and Magick near Cleveland, Ohio.
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.
Ancient Egypt
The Queens of Egypt: An Exhibition
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We have a look at the National Geographic Museum’s new exhibition Queens of Egypt that explores the powerful women who governed during their time and their legacy the continues even today.
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.”