Word: paganism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have been the Odin or Wodin of the Norsemen; also, human sacrifice among the Aztecs (not practiced by pre-Norse Moundbuilders). Finally, Mr. Brewer has completed the interpretation of the famed Aztec Calendar Stone, partially interpreted by Professor Valentini in 1875. This stone, found and buried as pagan by the Spanish in 1551, was unearthed in 1790 and embedded in the walls of the Metropolitan Cathedral ^ of Mexico City. About ten feet in diameter, shaped like a round shield, it was (according to Mr. Brewer) carved in 1090 A. D. to mark the reformation of the Moundbuilder-Aztec chronology upon...
Vast numbers on the Pagan Party gaze
...reported that: 1) Roman Catholic families, enjoined not to attend the cinema, have very widely eschewed the cinema houses which they individually patronized, but have sought others in parts of their cities where they are not known. 2) At Guadalajara many self-styled devout Roman Catholics, imperfectly converted from paganism, are to be seen on their knees in streets praying to Xochimilco, the pagan god of Mexico City's canal district, imploring him to loose floods upon President Calles as a punishment for the President's disrespect toward the Virgin of Guadalupe...
...Jewish folklore and inscrutable foreign catchwords thrown in like sacred seasoning. Occasionally there came a flash of lofty poetry. Whether or not he was a fake medium, a paranoiac, epileptic, self-deluded, oversexed demagog, Mohammed was undoubtedly a grand and grotesque figure with a good memory and a shrewd pagan appraisal of Moses and Jesus as capable men who had founded religions by giving their subconscious selves free rein...
...pagan squirm of a senile...