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Pagan Origins of Easter

Pagan Origins of Easter

The older European and pre-European holiday traditions were not based upon claimed religious phenomenon, but rather upon the seasonal characteristics of nature. The ancient traditions were founded by people who were highly aware of seasonal change and arranged their lives and festivities around them accordingly, explicitly marking the spring and fall equinoxes as well as [...]

March 29, 2013 HHR Indigenous/Pagan Voice 2

The Murder of Two Swamis

The Murder of Two Swamis

The brutal murder of Swami Lakshmanananda Saraswati (1927–2008) was blamed for sparking of a wave of killings where rampaging Hindus massacred innocent Christians in India’s eastern state of Orissa. At least that was the view from reading the western media outlets which rely heavily on extremist and hardcore fundamentalist Christian outfits for their information. [...]

March 21, 2013 Ranbir Singh Analysis/Insights, Archives, News updates 0

Ram Swarup,Hindus and Neo-Paganism

Ram Swarup,Hindus and Neo-Paganism

The late Ram Swarup (1920-98), definitely the most important Hindu philosopher of independent India’s first half-century, liked to point out that other cultures had traditions similar to Hinduism before Christianity or Islam wiped them out. As he put it in his path‑breaking study of polytheism, The Word as Revelation (1980): “There was a time when [...]

May 2, 2012 Dr Koenraad Elst Indigenous/Pagan Voice 0
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