pagan
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Modern directors and adapters are wary of the civic and cosmic levels, perhaps out of fear that pagan prophets and citizen choruses will seem artificial or dated.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 6, 2026
Glenn Turner, the former owner of a pagan and metaphysical shop, is running as a member of the Green Party.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026
Judith Mair, a visiting professor at Edinburgh Napier University says the festival of Hogmanay in Scotland goes back to pagan times.
From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2025
It was struck at a time when pagan beliefs were starting to give way to Christianity, and its design appears to straddle this time of change.
From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2025
This account presented Muslim and Christian philosophers with a problem which had not worried their pagan predecessors: how did it come about that the four elements did not form perfect concentric circles?
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
They cremated their dead, spoke the Germanic ancestors of Old English and were pagans.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
Wearing Celtic clothing and elaborate, nature-inspired headdresses, druids and pagans danced around the Neolithic stone circle in Wiltshire thought to have been built by distant ancestors to align with the movements of the Sun.
From BBC ● Dec. 21, 2025
In the ’90s, Westwood took a lot of inspiration from pagans.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2024
And at Stonehenge's equinox celebrations in England, druids, pagans, and anyone else who wants to join in gather to witness the sunrise over the ancient stones.
From National Geographic ● Sep. 21, 2023
For a millennium or so there were ancients and moderns, which corresponded roughly to pagans and Christians.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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