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Pagan & Shinto News: Australian Pagans Respond To Bushfire Crisis

Pagan & Shinto News: Australian Pagans Respond To Bushfire Crisis

Last updated on: January 26, 2020 at 10:04 pm by Megan Manson

Pagan & Shinto News: Australian Pagans Respond To Bushfire Crisis 2020-01-26T22:04:37+00:00 Megan Manson

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Australian Pagans respond to the bushfire crisis
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Acts of kindness and love: Australian Pagans respond to the bushfire crisis

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As bushfires continue to burn out of control across several Australian states, there have been many gestures of support from Pagan organisations and individuals across the country…

Modern witches are using TikTok’s algorithm to spread their message
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Witches of TikTok, as they’re referred to, are typically young girls with a keen interest in witchcraft who use the platform to create a community of people fascinated by the occult…

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Shinto News

Festival-goers at Yukake Matsuri get doused on frigid morning
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Hell on Earth: A Look at Japan’s Volcanic “Hell Valleys”
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The concept of “hell” or “the underworld” is prevalent in religion, legend, and mythology throughout almost all countries of the world. In Japan’s traditional Shinto religion, however, that idea was almost non-existent…

Other News

Glass ‘witch bottle’ from Civil War found in Virginia highway median
Boston 25 News
A glass “witch bottle” dating from the Civil War and likely used as a rare ritual item to ward off evil was found by researchers during an expansion of a Virginia highway…

Stonehenge Alliance calls for A303 tunnel to be scrapped in open letter to government
Salisbury Journal
The Stonehenge Alliance has called for the A303 Stonehenge Expressway Scheme to be scrapped, in an open letter to the Secretary of State for Transport…

Ministers do battle over £2billion Stonehenge tunnel as Treasury ‘complains it is not worth the money’
Mail Online
Ministers are doing battle over whether to go ahead with a £2billion tunnel under the historic Stonehenge site…

Voice of 3,000-year-old Egyptian priest brought to life
BBC News
Scientists have fulfilled a mummified Egyptian priest’s wish for life after death – by replicating his voice with artificial vocal cords…

Petition launched to make St. Brigid’s Day an Irish national holiday
Irish Central
Herstory, a movement that aims to write women back into Ireland’s history, has launched a campaign to make Feb 1, St. Brigid’s Day a national holiday. Once upon a time, this date was celebrated by the Celtic people as the festival of Imbolc, dedicated to the goddess of fire, who we now call St. Brigid…

Satanists desecrate church by breaking in to carry out occult ceremonies and rituals
Mail Online
St Botolph’s Church has become an unholy altar for devil worshippers who use it the sacred building to sacrifice animals and play with Ouija boards…

You think this is a witch hunt, Mr President? That’s an insult to the women who suffered
The Conversation
US President Donald Trump has tweeted ‘Witch Hunt’ approximately once every three days since his inauguration two years ago…

When did the vulva become obscene?
The Conversation
The phallus is seen as a powerful image, whereas the vulva is upsetting to many. But this has not always been the case…

How the belt of a goddess revealed the true colours of the Parthenon marbles
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Research, original thought and a few gambles completely changed the academic community’s perception of some of the world’s greatest treasures.

Meet Bonbibi: The Forest Goddess Worshipped By Hindus And Muslims Alike
Youth Ki Awaaz
In an age when Hindu majoritarianism has divided India on communal lines, and Islamic radicalism is on the rise across the globe, a local goddess revered by both Hindus and Muslims shines a beacon of hope on what it means to be truly pluralistic…

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