" She went on to put forward the idea that this typically confirmed " some original, private experience, so that the most common experience of those who have named themselves pagan is something like ' I finally found a group that has the same religious perceptions I always had '.

Although his writings are all commentaries on Aristotle and other authors, rather than original compositions, his intelligent and prodigious learning makes him the last great philosopher of pagan antiquity.

The original population of the Caucasus followed different pagan religions.

While folk beliefs and traditions of all Slavic peoples indeed are the richest resource for reconstructing the ancient pagan beliefs, these may very likely have lost their original mythology and sanctity.

The Jesus Mysteries-was the original Jesus a pagan god?

Some customs or songs from such pagan ceremonies survived well into Christian times under the guise of folklore, but their original meaning was completely forgotten over the centuries.

Her feast day was the feast of Imbolc, and the cross made of rushes today is very likely the descendant of a pagan symbol whose original meaning may have been locally understood even into the early 20th century in rural Ireland.

The church of All Hallows now stands on or near the site of the original pagan temple.

However, the common practice of the Christian Church was to replace existing pagan deities and places of worship with analogous persons and rituals of Christian content, so it seems more likely that Saint-Vitus was created to replace the original Svanto-Vit.

The Stones of Avebury, Wiltshire | Avebury ( Milbury in the serial ) The original stone circle was built during megalithic Great Britain and inhabited by a pagan folk led by a Druid priest.

Another term Agaw which refers to the Agaw people, the original inhabitants of northwest Ethiopia, is considered derogatory since it incorrectly associates the community with the pagan Agaw.

The road pattern shows an original circular enclosure, suggesting pagan Celtic origins.

In its original and traditional forms, Wicca is a duotheistic pagan religion that honors a God and a Goddess equally.

Most of what is known about elements of this original belief system is based on the analysis of legends, the study of place names and scant historical references to pagan rituals practised by the Basques.

Popular holiday-related folklore includes Krampus and Knecht Ruprecht, a rough companion to Santa Claus ; the Lutzelfrau, a Yule witch who must be appeased with small presents ; the Osterhase ( Easter Hare-the original Easter Bunny ); and Walpurgisnacht, a spring festival derived from pagan customs.

Clement of Alexandria ( 2nd century, philosopher and commentator on pagan and Christian information ) speaks of the Word as " the Alpha and the Omega of Whom alone the end becomes beginning, and ends again at the original beginning without any break " ( Stromata, IV, 25 ).

* Kenneth Cragg: It can be emphasized that the Qur ' anic injunctions that were urgent in the original pagan setting of the first Muslims, led them to reach a true monotheism.

The songs were arranged to hint at a pre-Christian pagan European culture and vary between traditional songs, original Giovanni compositions and even nursery rhyme in " Baa, Baa, Black Sheep ".

He also accounted for the errors of pagan philosophy and Catholic divinity by the theory of corruption by successive apostasies from a divine original.

The oldest part of the Church of S. S. Peter & Paul – the Anglo-Saxon chapel – still survives today and in it can be seen an ancient stone ( c. 820AD ) decorated with pagan carvings which is thought to have been brought down from the original 7th Century chapel at Tuesley on the hill.

As elsewhere, Christianization involved the co-opting of original folk culture into a Christian context, including the conversion of pagan sacred sites and feast days into Christian ones.

The authors propose that Jesus did not literally exist as an historically identifiable individual, but was instead a syncretic re-interpretation of the fundamental pagan " godman " by the Gnostics, who were the original sect of Christianity.

In ancient Rome, it was also a term for the magistrate called a censor ( in the original sense, rather than the later politicized evolution ), who castigated in the name of the pagan state religion but with the authority of the ' pious ' state.

After his death, the king was buried in the church which he had built ; his original tomb has been lost, while his alleged remains are preserved in the shrine where he was reburied after being declared a saint ; his saintliness, however, was never very widely acknowledged outside the bishopric of Liège where he may still be venerated by tradition.

Marble bust found in the shrine room, the original of which is in the British Museum.

* The Basilica of Guadalupe, the shrine founded on the original site on Tepeyac Hill in Mexico City

A sanctuary, in its original meaning, is a sacred place, such as a shrine.

Karzai re-enacted the original coronation of Ahmad Shah Durrani at the shrine of Sher-i-Surkh outside of Kandahar where he had leaders of various Afghan tribes, including a descendent of the religious leader ( Sabir Shah ) that originally selected Ahmad Shah Durrani in 1747 as key players in this event.

This view may well reflect a later development but is not the original interpretation since Dius Fidius was not confined to the private fides in early times, when matters of public relevance ( such as the first international treaty of Rome, the one with Gabii ) were preserved in his shrine, i. e. put under his jurisdiction.

Egypt ’ s oldest oracle was the shrine of Nekhbet at Nekheb, the original necropolis or city of the dead.

The original source of the name is Loreto, a small town in Italy, which has a noted shrine of pilgrimage.

A shrine thought to be dedicated to the prophet Rubin is the only original structure that remains on former village's lands.

Behind the façade are remains of the original pillars and a shrine

Local villagers refer to the original tree from which most others derive as Shui-sa, or " water fir ", which is part of a local shrine.

Local villagers refer to the original tree from which most others derive as Shui-sa, or " water fir ," which is part of a local shrine.

In 1991, during a restoration exercise behind the shrine which was till then believed to be that of the Emperor, the original brick-lined grave was discovered.

The original St. Edward's Crown, used at the coronation of English monarchs, was considered a holy relic, kept in the saint's shrine at Westminster Abbey, and therefore not worn by sovereigns at any other time.

Taibo's shrine was set up in today's Meicun and the original wood structure was destroyed during the wars over the course of history.

St Mary's chapel was built on the site of the shrine, although 1601 refers to the date it was restored and not the date of the original structure.

The original building contained a replica of what was even then the famous shrine of " Our Ladye of Bradstowe ", but which seems then to have been moved to a private manor even closer to the shoreline than the surviving portion of the present building.

The site of the original shrine was just outside the west gate of the medieval town wall of Ipswich, today this is marked by a plaque and a statue of Our Lady.

His original shrine in Chichester Cathedral was a richly-decorated centre of pilgrimage which was destroyed in 1538.

This original image is kept beneath the plinth of the shrine.

The original image of Lord Madan Gopal was shifted from the shrine to Karauli in Rajasthan for safe keeping during Aurangzeb's rule.

According to the Hindu Endowments Board, the current managers of the temple, the existing deity in the principal shrine of the temple is the original installed by Pillai in 1827.

Prior to the Korean war, the original shrine was situated in the now North-Korean province of Hwanghaedo, where the clan land of Pyeongsan is situated.

: Faust is not seen in Funbari no Uta ; volume 31 of the original series revealed that Faust died during the invasion of the Plants and his photograph had been placed amongst those in the Funbari Hot Springs's shrine, which includes Yoh's father Mikihisa and the inn's original owner,.