Word: pagans
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What we want most from Roman drama is good old pagan decadence, and Rome hears our prayers. There are bloody rituals, lewd pantomimes and a show-stealing turn by Polly Walker as Atia, Caesar's scheming niece; with her flaming red hair and willingness to trade sex for power, she's like a Latin version of The O.C.'s villain Julie Cooper. The series humanizes figures we know as marble busts: Caesar is a calculating pol, Mark Antony (James Purefoy) a narcissistic ass and Octavian (Max Pirkis)--Atia's son and the future Caesar Augustus--a precocious boy with...
...There'll be several thousand pagans in Melbourne celebrating this news under the full moon tonight." GAVIN ANDREW, Pagan Awareness Network spokesman, after the Australian state of Victoria introduced legislation to repeal a 200-year-old anti-witchcraft...
...What has made patronymic names practical, however, doesn?t explain what made them fashionable. The revival of Nordic traditions may be a reaction to the cultural impact of globalization. Two years ago, some descendants of the Vikings took another major step into to the past when the pagan Asa religion was granted official recognition, granting tax benefits to those organizing the worship of Odin, Thor and other Norse gods. "It's all the same movement," says Senior Researcher Else Marie Kofod of the Danish Folklore Archives. "In these years, many old traditions are revived because there is a need...
...this nostalgia will go is hard to predict. Although the popularity of plays recreating legendary battles and love stories of the Viking era has been increasing in recent years, there are still only a few thousand Danes who attend full-moon services to Norse gods and goddesses and other pagan rituals. And no-one has yet begun building longboats to reclaim past glories. Chances are that the Danish Viking nostalgia will be satisfied with reviving patronymic names...
Though Identity often sounds Fundamentalist, it is anything but. Identity followers believe they are saved by race rather than grace and welcome followers of Nordic pagan cults alongside Bible believers. The movement scorns Fundamentalism's support for Israel and its opposition to British Israelism. Unlike Fundamentalists like Jerry Falwell, who advocate involvement in the U.S. political system, Identity advocates despise the Federal Government, calling it ZOG (the Zionist Occupation Government...