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Good news for Hellenic women and “teh dredded m00nbl00dz”

newdance Jun 22, 2011 17:12

It’s not miasma.

I’ve reasoned this before, but didn’t feel arsed to citing a source before.

Today, I was looking through old threads in a LiveJournal community, and came across a thread discussing this topic, and some-one in the comments said they could cite quotes from Walter Burkert on this, that menstruation ≠ miasma. I had Greek Religion ( Read more... )

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More on the word “Pagan” and the Inter-Pagan&Polytheist community

newdance May 29, 2011 23:26

(Expanded from a comment responding to my last entry)

I still have so many really mixed feelings about this issue. On one hand, I can see some remaining usefulness in “pagan” as a vague label. I’ve also had a lot of experiences with people who know VERY little about suffixes and prefixes and root-words in the English language, and so the word “ ( Read more... )

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