Word: paganisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...story that it was Leif Ericsson, not Ogier and the princess, who deserves the credit. But Author Myers is dissatisfied with all accepted versions of Leif's adventures, and offers a revised one: Leif was not on his way to Christianize Greenland-he was simply an old-fashioned pagan, making sea tracks from Norway because he couldn't stand Christianity at home...
Saints, satans, and Scouts will stalk the streets of Cambridge tonight in celebration of the age-old pagan-Christian holiday, Halloween...
...today, the 152-year-old school which produced "educated pagan Indians" and Daniel Webster in its youth, is both a fake and a phenomenon among its contemporaries...
Christian and pagan philosophers have proclaimed the sadness and transience of human life. But the Jew, who has known more of tragedy than most men, has remained "the one true optimist; his love of life is 'strong as death.' " And he has held firm to the belief that "tachlis [purpose] and not tragedy . . . is the meaning of life...
...early 17th Century, the Americas sparkled with 70,000 churches. As the baroque influence increased, façades and portals were encrusted with a rich mixture of Christian and pagan symbols: angels topped by feathered headdresses; decorative borders of puma heads, papayas, pineapples and bananas; mermaids playing native guitars side by side with powerful primitive versions of the saints...