Channel 4 - Pagans 1 of 4 Sexy Beasts - Richard Rudgley
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Other torrents related to my favourite subject; humans and human behaviour: http://thepiratebay.ee/user/3bord3/ Be sure to share at least 1.00, and buy it if you liked it. *********************************************************************************** Pagans 1 of 4 Sexy Beasts *********************************************************************************** ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- General Information ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Type.................: documentary - dokumentär Production...........: Channel 4 Author/Presenter.....: Richard Rudgley ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Description ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paganism (from Latin paganus, meaning "an old country dweller, rustic") is a term which, from a Western perspective, has come to connote a broad set of spiritual or cultic practices or beliefs of any folk religion, and of historical and contemporary polytheistic religions in particular. The term can be defined broadly, to encompass the faith traditions outside the Abrahamic monotheistic group of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The term Pagan is from Latin paganus, an adjective originally meaning "rural", "rustic" or "of the country." As a noun, paganus was used to mean "country dweller, villager." In colloquial use, it could mean much the same as calling someone today a 'country bumpkin' or a 'hillbilly'. Soruce: Wikipedia Before Christianity arrives in Northern Europe, including places that is now known as France, Germany, Great Britain and Scandinavia, the people who lived there where by definition all Pagans believing in Pagan religions with Pagan culture. In other words, from the perspective of the Christians ?we were all Hillbillies? who lived here in northern Europe. The Vikings in the far north was the last people who converted to Christianity. When groups of people convert to another belief system and an other religion. That never comes easily. Think about in terms of yourself converting from Christianity to Islam or the other way around for instance. One of the main reasons of the bad reputation of the Pagans and their culture and religions is in fact the product of Christian propaganda over the decays. Through history and prehistory, the representations of the ancient gods and traditions followed by pagans have been marred by propaganda from other religious groups eager to rein in those they defined as `wild barbarians`. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Author/Presenter - Richard Rudgley ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Rudgely is an Oxford-trained anthropologist and critically acclaimed author of "Lost Civilisations of the Stone Age" Also winner of the Prometheus Award, British Museum. [1], who has since presented three series on Channel 4. Heads the Department of Reproductive Medicine at the Hammersmith Hospital in London. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pagans 1 of 4 Sexy Beasts ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paganism of all varieties has come into sharpest conflict with mainstream religions over its view of sex and sexuality. Some of this is propaganda, generated by early Christians as part of their attempt to oust the old religions. However, it also reflects the pagan view that human beings are equal to and interdependent with the world they inhabit and that sexuality is a powerful and natural element in people?s lives. Though historical accounts lead us to images of stone dildo-wielding women flashing their genitals at cattle, chieftains having sex with horses before slaughtering them and whipping sessions in mixed saunas, the underlying theme is of human similarity with animals and nature. Where modern religion aims to emphasise the difference between humans and the world around us, portraying sexuality as taboo, the ancient pagan perspective blurs these boundaries and explores all the elements of the world on equal terms. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Other torrents related to my favorite subject; humans and human behaviour: http://thepiratebay.ee/user/3bord3/
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"The Vikings in the far north was the last people who converted to Christianity."
Bullshit. :( The writer has probably never heard of Estonians, Lithuanians, Latvians, Finns, Sami and numerous ethnic minority groups. There are still some pagan nations in Siberia.
Bullshit. :( The writer has probably never heard of Estonians, Lithuanians, Latvians, Finns, Sami and numerous ethnic minority groups. There are still some pagan nations in Siberia.
Estonians, Lithuanians, Latvians, Finns are of course hardley minority ethnetics groups :) But the series have some insight about these countrys contribution as well.
north and south american pagans were the last be forced to convert, but i guess you folks already knew that, eh?
In the 19th cenury in Ireland, there was a witch in county Clare called Biddy Early - she never went to mass, and the priest was always denouncing her...he went up to the house to give out to her, and his horse wouldn't move, then when it did, it threw him in a ditch. There were many of these witches etc at that time. there are still families who buy warts and mind cursing stones etc.
Also in the 19th century, both the catholic and the protestant churches in Ireland mounted huge drives to get people into mass - in some places like Donegal, mass attendance was as low as 30%...they got it up to nearly 98%!!! Scarey. but that was the underpinning that made Ireland so Catholic in the 20th century.
I'm just pointing out that there are pagan survivals everywhere, but I do believe that there were a lot more pagan communities in Ireland too, unconverted, just a couple of centuries ago. They then had to go to mass etc to blend in and survive, and then were brainwashed and abused in the schools when the Cathjolic Church took over Ireland in the 40's. Having control of the schools (and NUI Colleges etc) they rewrote the history to portray Ireland as always a catholic and 'holy' country. but St. Brighid was reared by a Druid, and CSt. Columba met one as well
If you look into your own culture, you'll see many survivals etc.
In Ireland, there's always been people who never go to mass, never got involved.
Also in the 19th century, both the catholic and the protestant churches in Ireland mounted huge drives to get people into mass - in some places like Donegal, mass attendance was as low as 30%...they got it up to nearly 98%!!! Scarey. but that was the underpinning that made Ireland so Catholic in the 20th century.
I'm just pointing out that there are pagan survivals everywhere, but I do believe that there were a lot more pagan communities in Ireland too, unconverted, just a couple of centuries ago. They then had to go to mass etc to blend in and survive, and then were brainwashed and abused in the schools when the Cathjolic Church took over Ireland in the 40's. Having control of the schools (and NUI Colleges etc) they rewrote the history to portray Ireland as always a catholic and 'holy' country. but St. Brighid was reared by a Druid, and CSt. Columba met one as well
If you look into your own culture, you'll see many survivals etc.
In Ireland, there's always been people who never go to mass, never got involved.
I was never converted
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