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Pagan & Shinto News: Environmentalists back campaign to save Stonehenge

Pagan & Shinto News: Environmentalists back campaign to save Stonehenge

Last updated on: August 19, 2018 at 11:30 am by Megan Manson

Pagan & Shinto News: Environmentalists back campaign to save Stonehenge 2018-08-19T11:30:10+00:00 Megan Manson

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Top stories in Paganism and Shinto for August 10th – 19th:

Environmentalists back campaign to save Stonehenge
Ancient Greek shrine to Artemis discovered
Torii gate collapses at Shinto shrine featured in anime

Pagan News

Why saving Stonehenge is an environmental issue
Friends Of The Earth
You might be wondering why environmentalists like Friends of the Earth are so interested in Stonehenge right now…

HexFest 2018 met with protests from Catholic groups
The Wild Hunt
HexFest 2018 was met with street protests Saturday for the first time in its four year history…

Katy Perry accused of stealing song, turning it Pagan
The Wild Hunt
The artists behind the 2007 piece entitled “Joyful Noise” not only say Perry used it without permission, but that she “irreparably tarnished” their work by associating it with Pagan imagery in her music video…

Activist Witches Protest Trump Immigration Policy at Detention Center
Den Of Geek
The Coven of the Corvid takes on The Ursula Detention Center in McAllen, Texas…

Witchcraft in the #MeToo Era
New York Times
Nearly 80 covens and pagan organizations operate in the New York Metropolitan area, according to the pagan networking site The Witches’ Voice…

Neo- paganismoffers something old and something new
Economist
Attempts to recreate the nature-loving worship of old are gaining popularity even if they are based on guesses…

The Magical Roots of Feminism on Film
Syfy Wire
The witch has always been synonymous with feminism, even before the term was even coined…

Covenant of the Goddess at a turning point
The Wild Hunt
The Covenant of the Goddess finds itself at a turning point after its 43 years of existence. Its members are “graying,” or getting older, and membership numbers are declining…

The radical Welsh doctor who became an Archdruid and helped change the law by cremating his son
Wales Online
Dr William Price was an eccentric and famous Welsh character in Victorian Britain who paved the way for the legalisation of cremation…

Why millennials in search of spiritual support are turning to witchcraft
Mail Online
A growing number of young women are turning to witchcraft as a way to relax and ground themselves in turbulent times…

Five New Moon rituals – from witches spells to burning herbs
The Mirror
For people who err on the more spiritual side, the new moon represents a time for new beginnings and getting rid of all things toxic in our lives…

Celtic spirituality draws pagans and Christians alike
Religion News Service
At least four publishers are venturing into Celtic spirituality with new titles that seek to strike a chord with both Christians and pagan groups…

Witching woman: This artist is reviving her family’s tradition of water witching
CBC
While there is no hard science to support the practice, the tradition — also known as dowsing — is alive and well…

Tailtiu remembered at Lughnasa
Lughnasa traditionally falls at the midway point between the summer solstice and the autumn equinox. Our event was held on Aug. 1 at the Ripley-Greer Studios in Manhattan…

Shinto News

The torii at Washinomiya Shrine, before collapse. User: (WT-shared) NY066 at wts wikivoyage [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], from Wikimedia Commons

Japanese anime fans shocked by torii gate collapse at Washinomiya aka the Lucky Star Shrine
SoraNews24
Real-life location for the Lucky Star anime forever altered as iconic gate comes tumbling down…

Abe forgoes Yasukuni visit on anniversary of WWII surrender, sends ritual donation instead
Japan Times
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe skipped a visit to Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Wednesday, the 73rd anniversary of Japan’s surrender in World War II in 1945…

Why are divine NZ maths problems hanging in a Japanese shrine?
Voxy
There will soon be a uniquely New Zealand mathematical contribution to a Japanese shrine, thanks to a University of Canterbury doctoral graduate…

This Shinto shrine’s gorgeous glass gateways are the only ones of their kind in all Japan
SoraNews 24
There’s only one place in Japan where you’ll see a torii that’s practically clear…

Star-crossed lovers would appreciate a Tanabata rerun
The Asahi Shimbun
According to the legend of Tanabata, a flock of “kasasagi” magpies spread their wings to form a bridge across the Milky Way and reunite the star-crossed lovers Orihime and Hikoboshi only once a year on the night of July 7…

Other News

Statue of Artemis at botanical garden in Copenhagen.

Important finds in Amarynthos of Evia In Greece confirm sanctuary belonged to Artemis
Tornos News
A 12cm bronze quiver, believed to be part of a statuette of Artemis, and another base for a statue mentioning Artemis, Apollo and their mother Leto, confirm the identification of the sanctuary as belonging to the goddess, even though a temple has not been discovered yet…

Proposed Tunnel at Stonehenge Alarms World Heritage Groups
Courthouse News
A plan to build a 1.8-mile-long tunnel next to Stonehenge has fired up archaeologists to protect one of the Earth’s most beloved World Heritage sites…

Orkney to get memorial for island witch trial victims
Scotsman
Women put on trial for witchcraft on Orkney will soon have a permanent memorial in their name some 400 years after many were strangled and burnt to death…

Derry Area Historical Society’s Lammas Day Festival celebrates area’s agricultural heritage
Trib Live
It was the Derry Area Historical Society’s annual Lammas Day Festival, a time to celebrate agricultural history of the sprawling cornfields and other farms that make up Derry Township and the surrounding municipalities…

Bucking superstition, Japanese woman tunnels way to top of civil-engineering world
Japan Times
According to the superstition, the god of a mountain is a jealous woman who will cause accidents if a woman enters the construction site of a tunnel…

How a small Fife town became a ‘hotbed of witch-finding and punishing’
The Scotsman
A mixture of religious fanaticism and fear of military invasion led to dozens of innocents branded witches and executed in Inverkeithing…

More foreign tourists making pilgrimages to real-life anime locations in Japan
The Mainichi
Suga Shrine located in a residential area of Yotsuya in the capital is currently known by most anime fans as one of the locations for such pilgrimages…

Behind the extraordinary art of the ‘Walt Disney of Japan’
Troy Media
The Summer 2005 issue of The Journal of Religion and Popular Culture said “representations of kami [gods] and the natural world in Miyazaki’s films express an underlying belief of the early Shinto worldview, that is, continuity between humanity and nature”…

Ancient Egypt expert unwraps 6,000 year old mummy secret
The Yorkshire Post
Ancient Egyptians were embalming mummies 1,500 years earlier than previously known – around 6,000 years ago, a Yorkshire based expert revealed today…

Kichijōji: Did you know this town in Japan is named after Goddess Lakshmi?
The Indian Express
A town near Tokyo, Japan — Kichijōji — has been named after Hindu Goddess Lakshmi…

Unsolved mysteries: Japanese fans of the occult are engaged in a never-ending search for the truth
The Japan Times
While many Japanese may not consider themselves particularly religious, much of the nation’s folklore and ghastly legends are rooted in Shinto, Buddhist and even Christian traditions…

Marvel meets Mesopotamia: how modern comics preserve ancient myths
The Conversation
Ancient Mesopotamia, the region roughly encompassing modern-day Iraq, Kuwait and parts of Syria, Iran and Turkey, gave us what we could consider some of the earliest known literary “superheroes”…

Another Ancient Sphinx Is Discovered Near the Valley of the Kings
Artnet News
A previously unknown statue of a sphinx has been discovered in Egypt, the general director of Luxor Antiquities, Mohamed Abdel Aziz, announced on Sunday…

How ancient riddle of Peak’s stone circles is being solved
Ripley And Heanor News
For generations we have wondered exactly what prompted neolithic man to build large stone circles across the Peak District…

New Date For Greek Eruption That May Have Inspired Atlantis Myth
Discover
A long-standing controversy over the date of a volcanic blast that possibly inspired the myth of Atlantis may have been resolved with the aid of ancient tree rings, a new study finds…

‘Witches’ launch Europe’s biggest Halloween party
BBC
Hundreds of people dressed as witches gathered in Londonderry to celebrate 400 years of the city’s walls and launch Europe’s biggest Halloween party…

The Satanic Temple Rallies for Religious Liberty in Arkansas
Patheos: For Infernal Use Only
The Satanic Temple (TST) has organized a “Rally for Religious Liberty” in defense of pluralism near the Arkansas State Capitol 10 commandments monument…

BBC journalists nearly stoned to death by crowd who thought they were witch-doctor child killers
The Independent
Documentary team violently attacked while investigating black-magic deaths of victims whose body parts were used as charms”…

Grandfather killed on suspicion of practicing witchcraft
Lusaka Times
Police in Serenje district in Central Province have arrested a 22 year old man of Mulilima area for allegedly killing his 86 year old grandfather on suspicion of practicing witchcraft…

Woman Thrashed On Suspicion Of Being A Witch In Nabarangpur
Kalinga TV
A woman in Pateiguda village under Nabarangpur Town Police limits sustained critical injury after her in-laws branded her as a ‘witch’…

Man, 39 ‘killed’ 60-year-old sister over witchcraft
Daily Trust
A 39-year-old man has been arrested by the Gombe State Police Command for allegedly killing his 60-year-old sister which he accused of witchcraft…

In Rural India, Protecting Women From Witch Hunting
Self
More than 2,500 people have been assaulted and killed in witch hunts across India since 2000, according to estimates by the National Crime Records Bureau. The vast majority of them are believed to be women…

Woman accused of witchcraft ostracised
Kathmandu Post
Radha Chaudhary, who was publicly tortured over witchcraft allegation in her village five months ago, continues to be ostracised by her neighbours and classmates…

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