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“I have discovered that parks help fill a void for me,” writes Meagan Fischer, “of finding community in my devotion to the web of life. After years of frantic activism, I am learning to care for myself for the long haul, to surround myself with beauty.”
After all, isn’t contemporary Paganism somewhat akin to this very church? A relic from ages past that fell or nearly fell out of used, only to be rediscovered and refitted in order to conform to both the needs of a new age, and the idea we modern men have of a sacred past?
Setting out on his bicycle in southern Sweden, Lyonel Perabo heads out in search of the Ale’s Stones and the Uppåkra archeological site, once home to one of the most important Heathen temples ever excavated.
In our new Pilgrimages series, TWH’s editor-in-chief, Manny Tejeda-Moreno, explores the famous Temple of Diana Nemorensis in Nemi, Italy.
Eric O. Scott dreams about the strange pilgrimage site called St. Patrick’s Purgatory and wonders what such a ritual might look like in a Pagan context.