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Paganism
Paganism is an umbrella term for a variety of religions, many of which are polytheistic or pantheistic. Some are attempts to reconstruct ancient religions, while others are quite recent. A few examples of Pagan religions are Wicca, Celtic Reconstructionism, and Asatru.
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Many questions come to mind. How influenced by contemporary religions were many of the scholars who wrote the texts available today? How many scholars have simply assumed that males have always played the dominant role in leadership and creative invention and projected this assumption into their analysis of ancient cultures? Why do so many people educated in this century think of classical Greece as the first major culture when written language was in use and great cities built at least twenty-f
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― When God Was a Woman
― When God Was a Woman
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Yet rather than calling the earliest religions, which embraced such an open acceptance of all human sexuality, 'fertility cults,' we might consider the religions of today as strange in that they seem to associate shame and even sin with the very process of conceiving new human life. Perhaps centuries from now scholars and historians will be classifying them as 'sterility cults.
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― When God Was a Woman
― When God Was a Woman
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