Culture
First Hellenic Polytheist Temple in 1700 Years is Open and Encounters Aggressions
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The first Hellenic Polytheist Temple in 1700 Years opens last week in Greece and was met with both religious and governmental pushback.
Arts & Culture
Television from a Pagan World: Reviewing KAOS and Twilight of the Gods
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“When I was a teenage zealot, I used to imagine what television might be like in a world that was primarily Pagan,” writes Meg Elison. “I’ll never see that world, but this year a small window opened on it. Over the last week, I got acquainted with two Netflix shows about the Pagan world as it might have been: KAOS and Twilight of the Gods.”
Culture
The First Modern Temple of Zeus in Cyprus
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In Cyprus, George Constantinou, a priest of the Hellenic Ethnic Religion at the Supreme Council of Ethnic Hellenes, revived ancient traditions by constructing the world’s first licensed modern temple dedicated to Olympian Zeus, overcoming significant challenges.
Europe
The Olympics, a pagan festival?
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Journalist Sean McShee compares the modern Olympic Games to the Olympics of antiquity.
Paganism
Temple to Pan discovered beneath Byzantine Church in Israel
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A new find at a recently excavated Byzantine church in the Banias Nature Reserve in Israel reveals a temple to the god Pan.