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...It’s a very dark production, very dramatic, very black,” says Págan....
...Washed in ocean blues and tropical greens, the sets and costumes are attractive but thin, with so many elements — pagan figures from equatorial cultures, Sun Ra’s Afrofuturism, images out of Frida Kahlo,...
...TS Eliot’s poem, much quoted at this time of year, captures the paradox of the gospel story about three foreign monarchs whose skill in pagan astrology leads them to uncover the birth of the Christian Messiah...
...https://on.ft.com/3Q9oBBD – FT’s video interview with Jamie Lee Curtis, ‘A Life in Acting in a Changing Hollywood’ (May): https://on.ft.com/3QdBJWl – Check out Luke Edward Hall’s column on how to host a pagan...
...In Shanghai, Advent has been uncluttered by political dynamics, unlike the pagan festival of Halloween....
...Then there was Hypatia, head of the Mouseion in Alexandria, a pagan and a mathematical prodigy who built astrolabes and hydrometers, wrote exercises to accompany Diophantus’s Arithmetica, and probably lived...
...Considered “the last remaining pagan on the hillside”, she is derided by the mission fathers as “a heathen and obstinate witch”....
...Next up are new albums by the Pet Shop Boys (“stripped-down electronic with a cinematic orchestral side”) and Gibbons (“quite pagan Wicker Man folky, quite dark”)....
...Yet in the best-known, post-pagan version of the tale, Baldur stands in for Jesus, symbol of rebirth. All very syncretic. All very Christmassy....
...When I first started in the 1990s, bankers eagerly anticipated bonus announcement day like pagans counting down the days to the annual harvest festival....
...“The Kiss” installed in Montparnasse cemetery in 1910, revealing the lovers’ squatting legs, scandalised with its hint of pagan fertility....
...Whatever you celebrate at this time of year — Easter, Passover, Ramadan or some ancient pagan calling — take the time to rejoice....
...of Palestinian Christians, fled their homes in Gaza City for the relative safety of Saint Porphyrius, which was named after a fifth century bishop who first established a church on the site to replace a pagan...
...Some time later, I contacted a Facebook group, the Swansea Pagan Moot, some of whose members had performed rituals in the cave and written poems in honour of the “Red Lady”....
...This month, three ovoid-shaped black glass and metal Alexander McQueen candles created with the brand’s designer Sarah Burton will be released: Ghost Flower, Pagan Rose and Savage Bloom....
...A Rabelaisian event with pagan origins, it finds the menfolk donning freaky hand-carved masks and setting off fireworks in a drunken frenzy, blithely unconcerned about the flammable dried sedge costumes...
...Goldfrapp, who sings and co-writes the music, has a performer’s taste for role play, variously appearing in past albums as dance floor dominatrix or pagan folkie....
...The right to roam movement merely draws upon sinister, ancient pagan rites reminiscent of Wicker Man. Marian GladstoneLeicester, Leicestershire, UK...
...Mexico, for example, Surrealism was feminised by a group around Leonora Carrington, Remedios Varo, Kati Horna, their paintings suffused by allusions to Mexico’s ancient matriarchal societies, sorceresses, pagan...
...Some early Christians considered it too pagan, while others encouraged it: in the sixth century, Pope Gregory the Great suggested churches take inspiration from pagan midwinter festivities and deck the religious...
...On their Facebook page (every modern pagan has one), the group describe themselves as “a fully inclusive pagan group”. This intrigued me. I grew up with quite a broad sense of the divine....
...I began with everything: artefacts, antiquities, western religious art, relics from ancient civilisations, the Tang terracotta figures, Chinese ceramics, Vietnamese Buddhas, 18th-century Burmese pagan disciples...
...My cousins joked that I was there as the control — if I (someone without any faith, practically a pagan) were to see the statue move, we would all know it was fake....
...It is commonly believed that Cromwell abolished Christmas when he assumed power, an erroneous notion that Costin wishes to debunk, together with the clichéd Midsommar pagan ritual....
...The Catholic Church probably only placed St Valentine’s Day in mid-February to supplant pagan festivities. The Eastern Orthodox Church meanwhile celebrates two Saint Valentines in July....
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