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The Puck Fair
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Jimmy, a feisty white mountain goat, was crowned king of Ireland on Friday at one of the country's oldest fairs.
Dating back centuries, the Puck Fair is an annual festival of drinking, music and dancing celebrated in the town of Killorglin in southern Ireland. Each year a male goat is caught in the surrounding mountains, paraded through the town to a beat of drums and pipes, and then placed in a 12 metre stand where he reigns as king for three days.

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RE: Pagans
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The ancient Mayan people of Mexico used to set off in the middle of the night on a risky journey across open waters, in search of honour from their moon goddess. Now, 500 years later, a group of their descendants are determined to revive the tradition.
A fitting start to the journey that was to take place under the night sky - with dances and prayers to the moon goddess and the mistress of the seas.

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Basque Myths and Legends
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There is a vast collection of myths and legends which still exist today thanks to the great Basque oral tradition.
Even most primitive man felt the need to give meaning to the phenomena and natural cycles which conditioned his existence. He interpreted them, named them, found an explanation for them, and with these answers built up his own myths, legends, and religions. These formed the framework for his relation with nature and with anything else in his environment which was incomprehensible or supposedly magic.
Primitive Basque man was converted to Christianity very late. He was also all but cut off from other cultures by an inhospitable and very inaccessible geography. Thus he came to invent a vast collection of myths and legends which still exist today thanks to the great Basque oral tradition.
For him the mountains and valleys developed an almost human significance, and in the bowels of the earth ran rivers of milk, out of the reach of mortals. Two powers ruled nature and their designs conditioned human life: the god of the firmament, "Ost" or "Ortzi" - equivalent to the Roman god Jupiter, the Greek Zeus or the Germanic Thor, and "Ilargia", the moon, a feminine force which emerged from the world of hidden things.

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Atheism
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India is known for tolerance to difference in opinion and thoughts. There were multiple religions spawned in India due to diversity among Indian people. Although, in modern days, most of the Indians remain religious and do believe in God, traces of Indian history shows the existence of Atheism in ancient Indian societies

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Lost Slavic Mythology
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From Slavic mythology up to today, little has been preserved with the people. At best, we have heard of Perun, Svarog or Veles.
As opposed to the ancient Greek, Slavic mythology did not leave any written documents behind. Why?
Slavic peoples did not use writing before Christianisation. Due to illiteracy, Slavic believes, and myths together with them, continued to be passed down orally after Christianisation and the beginning of literacy and in time have disappeared into oblivion".
Up to today, little has been preserved with the people. At best, we have heard of Perun, Svarog or Veles. We see the word Triglav as a toponym and we do not know that Triglav was a three-part Slavic god who unified three roles of beings. The realistic one, the unrealistic and the right one.

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Pagans
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Pagans in Dorset claim their growing popularity is making them a target for threats and abuse.
The Dolmen Grove, a Weymouth-based druid group, says a dead bird with a noose around its neck was left on the windscreen of its van.

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Welsh dragon flag
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A Welsh Christian group is calling for the traditional Welsh dragon flag to be replaced by the cross of St David.
The Welsh Christian Party says having a red dragon - an animal it believes symbolises the devil - on the national flag is at odds with Wales' position as a Christian nation.
It is calling for the flag which has officially been in place since 1959, to be replaced with the black and gold cross of St David.

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Worshippers who believe in the 12 gods of ancient Greece have held a ceremony at the Temple of Zeus in Athens.
This is a landmark event to celebrate official recognition of their religion by a court last year.
The Greek Orthodox Church has said they are miserable resuscitators of a degenerate dead religion.
But the ceremony went ahead, with crowds watching priests and priestesses, who said the event was a symbol of their civic rights.

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Ossetian Pagans
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Pagan remnants of ancient tribe guard Russia's Caucasus
Few other parts of Russia are as closely guarded as the passes into the Caucasus, but when Ruslan Yenaldiyev looks up to the knife-like mountain range, his faith is not in tanks and satellites, but a bearded man on a white stallion.

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Ancient goddess Al'Lat
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The misogynic moslem religion has its origins in goddess worship. Allah is a revamped version of the ancient goddess Al'Lat, and it was her shrine which has continued - little changed - as the Ka'bah.
The known history of Mohammed reveals that he was born around 570 CE into a tribe of the Quraysh, who not only worshipped the goddess Q're but were the sworn guardians of her shrine. By 622 Mohammed was preaching the ways of his god, Allah, and was driven out by his own tribe as a result.
Pre-islamic worship of the goddess seems to be primarily associated with Al'Lat, which simply means 'goddess'. She is a triple goddess, similar to the Greek lunar deity Kore/Demeter/Hecate. Each aspect of this trinity corresponds to a phase of the moon. In the same way Al'Lat has three names known to the initiate: Q're, the crescent moon or the maiden; Al'Uzza, literally 'the strong one' who is the full moon and the mother aspect; then Al'Menat, the waning but wise goddess of fate, prophecy and divination. Islamic tradition continue to recognise these three but labels them 'daughters of Allah'.

According to Edward Rice Al'Uzza was especially worshipped at the Ka'bah where she was served by seven priestesses. Her worshippers circled the holy stone seven times - once for each of the ancient seven planets - and did so in total nudity. Near the Ka'bah is the ever-flowing well, Zamzam, which cools the throats of the countless millions of pilgrims.

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