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Post by Lionheart on Nov 7, 2007 10:23:13 GMT 2
hmm not really a pagan place, but a few years ago i went to see the eldest rock carvings in Europe in the north of Norway, near Alta ( a village about 700-800 km's above the polar circle. They were in a very good condition ^^ quite nice to see.
Besides that i also went to see the rock carvings in batsfjord ( also northern norway but a bit more northern) the rock carvings there are a bit "younger" than the Alta ones...
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Post by CrazyMary on Nov 8, 2007 3:59:03 GMT 2
Next weekend I'm flying to Uluru for the first time. Uluru is a massive sandstone rock and has great cultural significance to the Aboriginal peoples associated with it. Their connection between land and spirituality is demonstrated by the fact that visitors are asked not to climb the rock and not to take parts of the rock home. Unfortunately, tours are still operated to climb Uluru. I'm taking a "base" tour of Uluru, walking around it on the ground. I'm interested to learn more about Uluru's place in Dreamtime stories and see some rock art. Uluru has areas where "secret women's business" and "secret men's business" is conducted. These rituals and forbidden areas are still observed. (And I'm also looking forward to a camel ride at dawn, but that's a different story! ) www.zetleins.onau.net/photos/uluru.JPGUluru is said to change colour quite dramatically at sunrise and sunset: www.trekearth.com/gallery/Oceania/Australia/photo129258.htm
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Post by DaveTheRake on Nov 8, 2007 9:20:34 GMT 2
pics, please!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by aussieklaani on Feb 15, 2008 4:35:59 GMT 2
Australia is one massive Pagan Place,
Every state - Territory has sacred aboriginal land that must be respected...
You get eery feelings when you go to these places........The dream time stories are fascinating....I love to play my didgeridoo and get into the spirit of the area...
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Post by pellonpekko on Mar 13, 2008 18:38:46 GMT 2
Rome is the Old pagan Empire. If you go to visit Rome you could find many monuments of Pagan era.
I'm studying Art History at University here in Rome.
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Post by duncan on Mar 13, 2008 21:56:59 GMT 2
"New agers are better than Christians" - hm, yeah that's tollerant.
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Post by Nordis on Mar 16, 2008 20:02:15 GMT 2
"New agers are better than Christians" - hm, yeah that's tollerant. So? People are still free to tell their opinions, even the ones regarding religions. Don't tell me that someone saying that offended you?
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Post by duncan on Mar 17, 2008 17:43:19 GMT 2
It isn't so much a case of offensivness as rudeness. I'm sure you know fine well what reaction would arise if one was to subsitute the word "Muslim" or "Jew" in there.
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Post by Nordis on Mar 17, 2008 17:59:33 GMT 2
It isn't so much a case of offensivness as rudeness. I'm sure you know fine well what reaction would arise if one was to subsitute the word "Muslim" or "Jew" in there. It would be just unmature from members of those religions to get offended by such a comment, which they propably would do anyways. Actually, I think that someone non-jewish or non-muslim would react first, just because those two religions are such taboos that even mentioning them gets people's hair standing up. IMO criticism and comparison on religions should be handled just as any other criticism. It's the only way of getting rid of myths and prejudices that surround muslims, jews, christians and all those new age groups. Therefore: I would also like to know WHY new age is better than christianity.
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Post by duncan on Mar 18, 2008 0:38:52 GMT 2
Ditto. It was the arbitry, sweeping nature of the comment with nothing to back it up (or even being related to anything) that I was trying to pick up on.
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Post by ps on Apr 2, 2008 7:55:47 GMT 2
Mari El republic in Russia is a big pagan place. Plenty of mari people are pagans. Traditions have somehow survived Christian missionarys, Soviet repressions and current politics. The most sacred places are so called "holy groves" where maris come to worship Yumo (the chief god).
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Post by nefikuolema on Jul 20, 2008 2:49:10 GMT 2
I don't know if my reply fits this thread, but we have really nice celtic outdoor museum in Letovice (near Brno). It's called Isarno. Here is the web: www.isarno.comI wouldn't know about this, but I was there on Svatobor about a month ago. It was a one day festival with a huge battle between Vikings and Slavonians. Honestly - I don't know who won the battle But it was really beautiful. Village full of vikings, old weapons and armour, lots of mead, interesting lecture about viking battles and lots of things to buy (I bought 3 neklaces, a ring and a t-shirt). Warriors were from Czech, Hungary, Slovakia, Poland and even a couple of them were from Sweden and Norway I think. I'm going to go there next year again! Here are some of my photos of Isarno (from Svatobor): s185.photobucket.com/albums/x192/nefikuolema/svatobor 08/fotak/
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Post by korpikrissy on Jul 28, 2008 22:00:57 GMT 2
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Post by evelina on Jul 29, 2008 19:49:14 GMT 2
not a pagan place at all, but in my opinion it's quite an interesting thing to see. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hill_of_Crossesthe Hill of the Crosses in northern Lithuania. i've been there a couple of times and i must say it's great to visit even for a non-believer
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Post by dragnagen on Aug 7, 2008 4:52:52 GMT 2
Here in the eastern part of the state of Illinois there aren't really any active pagan places, although from where I'm writing this I can see a field that used to be an Indian village, but that's fairly common around here. Along the Mississippi and Illinois rivers to the west however, there are quite a few sites. Along the Illinois river there's Dickson mounds: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dickson_Moundsand along the Mississippi there's the Cahokia mounds: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cahokia. I've been to Dickson mounds many times, but never to Cahokia. Neither of them are still active places of course (Cahokia was abandoned more than six centuries ago) but they're still very interesting anyway.
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