Religion at Copenhagen and other Pagan News of Note
Top Story: We are still in the midst of the Parliament of the World’s Religions in Melbourne, but that event seems to be increasingly haunted by the upcoming/overlapping UN summit on climate change in...
View ArticleJust How Pagan is Copenhagen?
Even though negotiations for a new global climate accord at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen seem to be rapidly deteriorating, with frustrated demonstrators trying to force...
View ArticleNew exhibit explores Viking Age women’s role as sorcerers and prophets
A new exhibition at Denmark's National Museum uses the figure of the völva, a female oracle and sorcerer, to explore how pre-Christian Scandinavians thought of time, religion, and destiny. Continue...
View ArticleDanish museum returns a Roman emperor’s head to Turkey
A bronze head of the Roman emperor Septimus Severus, illegally trafficked from a shrine where he had been worshiped as a deity in antiquity, will be repatriated from Denmark to Turkey. Continue reading...
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