Beyond the trend and the credulity of "magic seekers," paganism is real, and the renewed interest seen recently in many countries — above all the most Christianized and industrialized ones — in reviving or at least commemorating their past, is entirely genuine. It is a shame that language barriers and commercial standards so often prevent us from looking beyond northwestern Europe.
Halloween, October 31st, the night of witches, one of the most famous popular festivals, has its origins in the syncretism of the Celtic end-of-summer feast known as Samhain and the Christian celebration of All Saints' Day. Brought to the United States by Irish immigrants in the 19th century, it did not become a mass celebration until 1921. If you want to learn more about this tradition, you can search here:…
Taken from https://historia.nationalgeographic.com By: Abel de Medici It is well known that Halloween derives from an ancient Celtic festival, Samhain, but that is not its only origin. The popular celebration draws on elements from various European cultures and has many parallels with an ancient Roman tradition, the mundus patet, which, like Samhain, was…
Kettil Runske is the hero of several folk tales that have been told for centuries throughout Sweden, but chiefly in the region of Götaland and the shores of Lake Vättern, where they apparently had their origins. Runske means "knower of runes" and, according to legend, he gained this knowledge by stealing three runic staves from Odin himself. The first to record the story of Kettil was the Swede Olaus Magnus in 1555, in his celebrated Historia de gentibus septentrionalibus. As far as I know, the tales of Kettil have been translated into other languages very rarely, and even within Sweden he is no longer as famous as he once was. The following summary has been compiled by comparing several internet sources.
Published in The Sun on March 18, 2023. As AI (Artificial Intelligence) becomes more prominent in our daily lives, it won't be long before the worlds of religion and technology merge. The idea of robot gods and ChatGPT-generated sermons terrifies some people — and rightly so, according to certain experts.
Summers always fly… winters walk. Charlie Brown, Charles M. Schulz In winter, no warmth, no light, no full day; night and morning blur together, everything is mist and twilight, the window is fogged and you cannot see clearly. The sky is a crack, the whole day is a cellar: the sun has the look of a pauper. Terrible season! Winter turns to stone the water of the sky and the heart of man.
Interview first published in September 2018, in issue 12 of El Ciervo Blanco magazine. Cuba is an island of wonders that never stops surprising you. Saying so is stating the obvious, but what follows is always something new. In Cuba lives Alexander Suarez Méndez — an ordinary enough name, until it appears alongside others such as Gay McKeon, Paddy Keenan or Liam O'Flynn, at which point it takes on a very particular significance. Not that the Cuban needs outsiders to shine on his own merits; the trouble is that "we" are so often incapable of recognising our own talent — it takes someone from "outside" to point it out.
On September 7th, LEMPO will arrive — a psychological horror video game for PC and PlayStation. The publisher is PID Games and the developer is One Trick Entertainment. Lempo promises players a terrifying experience inspired by Finnish mythology, centered on exploration and the uncovering of mysteries. The player must take on the role…
The Scarlet Witch's son, Billy, may be one of the most popular Young Avengers, but his codename, Wiccan, has long been a source of controversy for borrowing the name of a religion still practiced today. In recent issues of the Guardians of the Galaxy comic it becomes clear that…
Most Spanish Ásatrú-Odinists consider themselves the rightful heirs of the pre-Christian Norse religion, pointing to the presence of several Germanic tribes on the Iberian Peninsula between the 5th and 8th centuries (the Suebian kingdom of Gallaecia, 409–585, and the Visigothic kingdom of Toledo, 549–725). They attach little importance to — or outright reject — everything that happened before or after the Visigothic period, which, for its part, did enjoy remarkable stability and put down deep cultural roots.