Word: paganization
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...Piltdown Man. The remains of a 7th century Christian bishop named Eorpwald had been found in the tomb. But in the coffin rested a shockingly priapic fertility idol. Ever since, disconcerted historians had been trying to adjust their theories to this evidence that the good bishop had relapsed into paganism. But Middleton knows something his fellow medievalists do not. Soon after the un earthing, the discoverer's son, Gilbert Stokesay, boasted in a moment of drunken glee that he had planted the pagan relic himself as a huge practical joke on "our deadly tame-cat ways and our cheap...
...Ripening Seed is drenched in a pagan delight with the moods, sights and fecundities of nature. If the novel has a drawback, it stems from what might be called Colette's gland-directed theory of personality, a tendency to reduce all thought to desire, all spirit to sensation. But rarely has the self-contained world of adolescence burst its pod under the touch of so loving yet unsentimental and sharp-eyed a gardener...
...point of the story is that the little girl grew up to be a movie star named Marilyn Monroe, and the dream came true on such a preposterous scale that her new wide world has fallen at her feet. In Hollywood's pagan pantheon, Marilyn Monroe is the Goddess of Love. Furthermore, she has shown signs of becoming a good actress, and many a once-skeptical professional now thinks she may become an outstanding...
...Christian is at home in history and in a forward-moving, developing universe, whereas the pagan, radically...
...like this," said Jesuit Archaeologist Antonio Ferrua, who headed the digging, "has ever been found in an early Christian cemetery." Some of the paintings show episodes from the life of Christ (the Sermon on the Mount) and from Judaeo-Christian legend (Lot and his daughters), while others are wholly pagan. Cleopatra is shown in a flower garden, holding an asp to her breast. A cubicle is devoted to the labors of Hercules. Other pictures seem to be scenes from contemporary Roman life, such as a teacher apparently lecturing about anatomy...