Word: paganisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some countries-including our own-still preserve practices of Nazi origin, such as the cult of the dead, without discrimination of religious belief, or ... the cult of the Cross of the Fallen, before which cold political homage is rendered . . . The cause has gone, but we go on breathing a pagan, Nazi atmosphere...
...Fearless Pagan...
When Gary wrote Aissa Saved (published in 1932), he thought he had done it. A too-weedy clearing in the same bush out of which he later hacked Mister Johnson, it was the story of an African girl bursting with savage life who tried her pagan best to be a Christian; the inevitable friction burnt her alive. In spite of its authentic glare and beat, the book sold badly and Gary "got no bean of royalty." The next year, a second book about Africa, An American Visitor, fared even worse. His first break came in 1936 when The African Witch...
...languid charm of October Island. While Sam files reports of "no progress" to his superiors, she scouts around the island and one day digs up an hermaphroditic sculpture. Shocked, she heaves it into the volcano. Her Christian mission, she decides, is to destroy as many of these pagan relics as possible. The natives find her constant digging odd, but since she tosses everything into Rahabaat's volcano, they find her piety admirable. When, in a moment of hunger, she eats a portion of roast piglet left on the altar of Rahabaat and the god fails to strike her dead...
Everybody is overjoyed. The natives have lost most of their children, are half-Christian, but have their virgin goddess. Irma has lost her husband, is half-pagan, but has the adoration she loves. As for Author March, he has had the pleasure of some deft ironic thrusts, at the expense of almost everybody but the reader...