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Uploaded 29-10-20

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Thumbnail Photograph Used under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
The photograph is attributed to Wikimedia Commons user Malloym: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicca#/media/File:Wiccan_'Book_of_Shadows'.jpg

References:
Ethan Doyle White, Wicca: History, Belief, and Community in
Modern Pagan Witchcraft, (Sussex Academic Press, 2016)


Sabina Magliocco, Witching Culture: Folkore and Neopaganism
in America, (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004)


Ronald Hutton, The Triump of the Moon: A History of Modern
Pagan Witchcraft, (Oxford University Press, 2019)


Leon A. van Gulik, “The Blind Moondial Makers: Creativity and
Renewal in Wicca,” in Magic and Witchery in the Modern West
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)


Patricia Iolana, “Pagan Scholarship from a Pagan Perspective,”
Religious Studies Project.


Photo Attributions:

Beltane Altar, Flickr user RaeVynn Sands, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wiccan_altar_(1).PNG

Activist photograph, Wikimedia user Ycco, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wiccan_event_in_the_US_(1).PNG

God and Goddess busts, Wikimedia user Ντεβ, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Horned_god_and_moon_goddess.jpg

Pentacle altar, Wikimedia user, Malloym: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicca#/media/File:Pentacle_on_wiccan_altar.jpg

Wicker Horned God, Wiccan Pentacle, all from Ethan Doyle White: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wicker_Horned_God_outside_the_Museum_of_Witchcraft_and_Magic.jpg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wiccan_Pentacle_on_display_in_the_Museum_of_Witchcraft_and_Magic.jpg

Diana sculpture, copyright wikimedia user, David Monniaux: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Falguiere_Diana_p1070131.jpg



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Uploaded 13-10-25

Archaeologist Jens Notroff, who spent years excavating Göbekli Tepe, joins me to discuss what this 12,000-year-old site reveals about the dawn of civilization, religion, and art.



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In the mid-3rd century CE, Emperor Decius ordered that everyone in the Roman Empire is to offer a sacrifice to the Roman gods. This caused a controversy among Christian communities as bunches of Christians refused to sacrifice and ended up being jailed, tortured, or executed. But was this edict specifically an anti-Christian decree? Or did Decius inadvertently stumble into a theological controversy?

Uploaded 10-05-16

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Photo Attributions:
Decius: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decius#/media/File:Emperor_Traianus_Decius_(Mary_Harrsch).jpg

Diocletian:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diocletian#/media/File:Istanbul_-_Museo_archeol._-_Diocleziano_(284-305_d.C.)_-_Foto_G._Dall%27Orto_28-5-2006.jpg

Theadelphia Libellus: http://www.luther.edu/archives/research/digital-collections/papyrus/images/

Libation Vessel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libation#/media/File:Omphalos_pushkin.jpg

Libating Priest statue: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libation#/media/File:RMW_-_Opfernder_Togatus.jpg



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