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To be an Italian Pagan
To be an Italian Pagan means to say "mamma mia" a lot... and really mean it.
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Italo-Celtic
1. I was listening to Celtic Woman and began wondering why, amidst all the Irish music, they'd included the Italian song "Nella Fantasia" written by Chiara Ferraù and Ennio Morricone. What's so Celtic about that? There's more connection between the two than meets the eye.
2. Italo-Celtic is a subfamily of the Indo-European languages. At some point ( Read more... ) -
Alessandra Belloni and what her music means to me
Alessandra Belloni is a percussionist, singer, dancer, and folklorist from the region of Apulia in southern Italy. Her art is centered on the dance indigenous to Apulia, the tarantella.
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Italy: Female Muslims to discuss their rights on Women's Day
Comments: I support the sisters in my mother country (that's not a mixed metaphor, is it?) for doing this, I see it as part of the wave of Muslim sisters doing it for themselves that has been building in the past couple of years, from the women's council on Islamic law begun in New York in 2006 to the current Muslim women's organizing in TorontoBut ( Read more... ) -
The Damanhur temple complex... utterly astonishing
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=495538&in_page_id=1811
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Thanks to copperstewart for e-mailing this to me. It's absolutely mindblowing.Iranian lesbian threatened with deportation in Britain could find refuge in Italy
From the Washington Blade online ( Read more... )Ancient Etruscans were immigrants from Anatolia
As an Italian woman whose Pagan faith is traced back to Neolithic Anatolia, this news is highly significant for me. It just confirms what I already knew. What the ancients knew.Ancient Etruscans were immigrants from Anatolia, or what is now Turkey ( Read more... )Christians and me
This is just a look at current relations without going back over the whole history of my experience with Christianity ( Read more... )Italian Yoni temple of the Goddess
Prehistoric well found in Apulia ( Read more... )
