Hints and tips:
...Hall’s column on how to host a pagan Halloween party (2021): https://on.ft.com/3QwpoxI – This isn't halloween related, but we loved this recent piece on how to cook a six-dish autumn feast (the formatting...
...And when the women sing the spine-tingling, a cappella “Hold This House Together”, they seem to be commenting on far more than the 1960s. ★★★★☆ To May 27, almeida.co.uk Ain’t Too Proud Prince Edward...
...Set among 34 acres of parkland and surrounded by ancient cedar trees, the Grade I-listed Jacobean mansion was originally built in 1623 for Lady Mary Reade, a young widow who would go on to marry Sir Edward...
...The origins of Halloween can be traced back to Samhain (pronounced “sow’en”), a pagan festival that for many is also considered Celtic New Year....
...Its people worship a semi-pagan religion where birds appear to them as gods; they hunt and fish for their sustenance, which, since the climate has turned tropical, now includes yams and sugar cane....
...Nixey’s version espouses a narrative familiar to the readers of Edward Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Christianity is seen as a brutal force for philistinism and iconoclasm....
...Accompanied by the drone of traditional gaida bagpipes and the beat of sacred drums, a semi-pagan ritual is played out as dancers enter a trance-like state before walking barefoot on to a pit of glowing...
...But, from 1547, during the reign of the boy-king, Edward VI, a much more aggressive onslaught was launched on all images equated with “idolatry”....
...The peoples and culture of Scandinavia in the Viking age – 800-1050, the period that this exhibition covers – are generally thought of as “pagans”, in contrast to some of the Christian peoples they conquered...
...There’s 2011 Dirty & Rowdy Sémillon from Napa, for instance 2011 Gonzalo Gonzalo Gran Cerdo declassified Rioja; and cool-climate Pagan Pinot Noir from Holly’s Garden in Australia. 66 West Broadway, +1 212...
...Of the several accounts of The Rite of Spring that I have sat through, three have, for me, realised Stravinsky’s vision of pagan ritual: Kenneth MacMillan, Pina Bausch, Leonid Massine....
...There is a most beautiful passage in Edward Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, of great sensuous finesse and power, that locates, somewhat tristfully, the “mistake” made by the taste of Justinian...
...So the museum’s first room, “A Hall in 1630”, is decorated with evergreens (a pagan symbol of hope and fertility that early Christians adoped to symbolise everlasting life)....
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