European PaganismRoutledge, 13 maj 2013 - 392 sidor European Paganism provides a comprehensive and accessible overview of ancient pagan religions throughout the European continent. Before there where Christians, the peoples of Europe were pagans. Were they bloodthirsty savages hanging human offerings from trees? Were they happy ecologists, valuing the unpolluted rivers and mountains? In European Paganism Ken Dowden outlines and analyses the diverse aspects of pagan ritual and culture from human sacrifice to pilgrimage lunar festivals and tree worship. It includes:
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Dividing the Landscape | |
Spring Lake River | |
Stone and Tree | |
Land | |
Growth | |
Statues Shrines and Temples | |
A Few Aspects of Gods | |
Priests | |
School of Geography The University of Birmingham | |
Cradle to Grave | |
Unity is the Thing | |
Afterword | |
Bibliography | |
Index | |
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Christian Paganism | |
Ken Dowden | |
Pagan Rite | |
Pagan Time | |
Lyon | |
Index nominum I gods mythic entities and festivals | |
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altar ancient animals Apollo Athens Bremmer Brunaux Burkert Caesar Caesarius calendar called celebrate Celtic Celts Century ceremony Chapter Christian church citing Coligny Calendar cult culture dance dead divination Dowden druids English Erchia evidence fana fanum feast festival Gallic Gallic war Gaul Gaulish German Germania goddess gods Greece Greek Gregory Gregory of Tours Grimm grove Helmold Holder holy human sacrifice Hutton ibid idols Indo-European inscriptions instance Irish king language Latin text Leite de Vasconcellos lightning Lithuanian Martin of Braga Maximus month moon Nilsson offerings pagan particular Pausanias perhaps Philippson 1929 placenames Pliny the elder Poseidonios practice priest priestess priesthood religion religious rites ritual rivers Roman Rome Roux and Guyonvarc’h sacred sacrificed Samhain sanctuary Sermon sheep shrine Slavs society springs statue stone Strabo Tacitus temple things transl trees Vasconcellos 1905 Vries Website word worship Zeus