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2 days ago · The 2021 UK government census revealed that the Isle of Wight is no longer ‘Christian’. 47.7% of Islanders defined themselves as Christian, down from 59.3% in 2011. 61,572 said they had no religion in 2021, up from 39,960 in 2011. The number of Satanists living on the island has however more than trebled, from 5 to 18.
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2 days ago · Anglo-Saxon paganism was not based on faith, but on rituals intended to bring benefits to individuals and the community. As kingship developed, it probably came into conflict with the entrenched priestly class.
3 days ago · Odin, in his guise as a wanderer, as imagined by Georg von Rosen (1886) Odin ( / ˈoʊdɪn /; [1] from Old Norse: Óðinn) is a widely revered god in Germanic paganism. Norse mythology, the source of most surviving information about him, associates him with wisdom, healing, death, royalty, the gallows, knowledge, war, battle, victory, sorcery ...
2 days ago · Aryan or Arya ( / ˈɛəriən /; [1] Indo-Iranian *arya) is a term originally used as an ethnocultural self-designation by Indo-Iranians in ancient times, in contrast to the nearby outsiders known as 'non-Aryan' ( *an-arya ). [2] [3] In Ancient India, the term ā́rya was used by the Indo-Aryan speakers of the Vedic period as an endonym (self ...
2 days ago · The Illyrians (Ancient Greek: Ἰλλυριοί, Illyrioi; Latin: Illyrii) were a group of Indo-European-speaking people who inhabited the western Balkan Peninsula in ancient times. They constituted one of the three main Paleo-Balkan populations, along with the Thracians and Greeks .
6 days ago · The University of Cambridge has had previous issues with Alfred the Great & co. Last year it was reported that the department responsible for early medieval history was teaching students that the Anglo-Saxons were not a distinct ethnic group, in an effort to tackle “myths of nationalism” and make the university curriculum more “anti ...
4 days ago · La religion grecque antique se déroule en général dans le contexte de la cité grecque , qui détermine plusieurs de ses aspects : les particularités locales sont très affirmées, chaque cité ayant son panthéon de divinités, ses sanctuaires et rites, parfois sa propre mythologie. On peut donc parler d'une religion athénienne, d'une ...
