To be an Italian Pagan means to say "mamma mia" a lot... and really mean it.

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I took a course of chemotherapy about 5 years ago that made me sick, aching, and debilitated in many ways, and nearly killed me. I was not receiving adequate medical care. The treatment consisted of interferon and ribavirin to get rid of my hepatitis C. These drugs are very powerful and very dire. The treatment is supposed to go for 6 months. Last ( Read more... )

Göbekli Tepe, in southeastern Turkey, is a site now being excavated that bridges the Paleolithic and the Neolithic. Dating back to 11,500 BCE, it is the earliest known candidate for the origins of both agriculture and institutional religion. It contains as many as 20 stone circles composed of sculpted megaliths of 10 to 50 tons each.

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You Scored as Euterpe
You are Euterpe, the muse of music. You are an inventor, and you constantly come up with new ideas. You are happy when everyone else is happy.

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This dream was so vivid, with such a quality of reality, I did not feel it to be dreamlike. It came complete with childhood memories that had never really happened, or maybe it was something real from childhood I had forgotten but incorporated into the dream. Actually, I had never been to St. Louis in childhood. The scene in the dream wasn't ( Read more... )

In writings about Italian regional cooking, you often find mention of the vegetarian side of Mezzogiorno cuisine. When Sicilians talk about the lack of meat on their tables, though, that doesn't apply to the fish and seafood in their cuisine. I suppose that's due to the legacy of the Catholic Church and their allegedly "no meat" Fridays and Lent ( Read more... )

Mother, return us to your breast: Toward a thealogy of Islam
Johanna-Hypatia Cybeleia

What happened in the encounter between Islam and Goddess religion?
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Copper Stewart is a remarkable Witch of old West Virginia working-class stock who has been exploring ways for patriotic Americans to reclaim the Pagan heritage of our democracy, through our relation to spirits of the land and the Goddess of Liberty. See his blog: http://www. ( Read more... )