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Some Thoughts on a Contemporary Cernunnos

That the Horned God speaks directly to contemporary needs and sensibilities may readily be deduced from the hundreds—if not thousands—of contemporary visual images that He has inspired.

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The Astounding Pagan Revival

Really, in the long history of human religion, the Pagan Revival has got to be one of the most surprising—and unforeseen—developments of all.

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Rethinking the Ostara Hare

“I shall go into a hare, with sorrow and sighing and mickle care, and I shall go in the Devil's name; aye, till I come home again.”

—Isobel Gowdie

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How Do You Know When a God Is a God?

Every Pagan knows that there are gods walking among us: seen, unseen, and (most often of all, I suspect), seen but unrecognized.

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If the Secret of Eleusis Were Revealed to You, What Would You Do?

Here it is: the only surviving text of the Mysteries of Eleusis, committed to writing by the last hierophant after the destruction of the Sanctuary in 394 ce. After 1600 years, the Secret of Eleusis is finally revealed.

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In Which the Goddess Returns to Jerusalem

Evarékhekha ve-Asherá u-ve-Yahvetá

"I bless you by Ashera and by her Yahweh."

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Why I Don't Call the Horned God 'Cernunnos'

The Horned God is assuredly one of the preeminent (and, I would contend, patron) gods of the Pagan Revival, and I would be willing to hazard a guess that in English-speaking Pagandom at large, He is named by the majority of His votaries as “Cernunnos.”

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'Flower of Trees': An Ostara Song by J. R. R. Tolkien (Well, Kind Of)

Well, you gotta love word geekery.

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