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Sentence Examples Stravinsky then turned to a pagan rite of a girl dancing herself to death before the elders in order to propitiate the god of spring. They were not as amenable to conversion to the official religions of the Roman Empire as the other pagan peoples the Roman has conquered. It was a pagan myth, full of the evocative imagery of pagan myth that intuited something true and, in a curious way, helped me to seek heaven. The pagan deities' idols Baal and Ashera, on the other hand, had no such scruples. The reason is that there were some bad pagan customs surrounding cemeteries, and he wanted to distance his people from them. Tobernalt is an ancient, pagan assembly place, approximately three miles east of Sligo town, near the shores of Lough Gill. At the far end of every ancient pagan basilica there was an elevated area called the bema. Naturally, he regarded the pagan Platonists as mistaken in accepting polytheism, everlasting world-cycles, and the transmigration of souls. He goes to pagan shrines, worships disgusting idols, and lends money for profit. As they were thought to have made prophecies in pagan times, the classic sibyls are shown just above and below the central panels. We brought monotheism to a pagan world, and guaranteed women's rights in marriage. Just to clarify the issue, Dobson goes on to condemn Earth Day as a pagan celebration of Mother Earth. Translation was left to a few eccentric sinologists or missionaries, whose main concern after all was to save a few pagan souls. Was he unconverted and just as lost as any pagan idolater in the ancient world? Across in Biggar, the bonfire celebrations date back to the pagan times when fire was worshipped. I was amused when he said it reminded us of what Christmas was about, as the nativity scene had nothing to do with the pagan festival. But nevertheless, we note that the new cultus was threatening to eliminate the profitable pilgrimages to the pagan shrine. Wiccans, Druids and other pagan practitioners will be there to celebrate their faith. The first movement is full of blistering winds and brazen sounds, as from an ancient, pagan army. At least in its outward forms, this religion does not look so very different from that of the pagan Britons under Roman rule. Show More Sentences With no room for metaphor and no place for pagan poetics, Protestant discourse was undermining both a symbolic and a social status quo. Sun worship was marked by the use of the halo, or nimbus, which originated with the pagan Greeks and Romans to represent their sun god, Helios. Celebrity is seen not only as a pagan form of religious idolatry but also as the very possibility of culture, cult, and community. Mistletoe, however, was not tolerated by the church, for it was long associated with Druidic pagan rites, including links to human sacrifice. Apparently, today's purveyors of pagan religions have sidestepped this question by changing the labels. And he had, if not a revulsion towards the pagan priesthood, then a fear of them and their devotion to their heathen religion. It is impossible to reconstruct fully the pagan beliefs and practices of either Celts or Germans as these were not written down. He is also credited with inventing the Celtic cross, by superimposing the pagan sun symbol onto the crucifix. Theologians attack his anti-religion stance and the heretical simply don't buy his pagan leanings. Thus, like the pagan of old, the materialist ends up subjecting man to the subhuman. From her Celtic features, it was easy to image her as a witch or pagan high priestess. But the hobbits, like the Riders and the other mortal inhabitants of Middle-Earth, seem to have no religion at all, not even a pagan one. In pagan Europe it was a festive holy day celebrating the first spring planting. In fact Aurelian was a pagan who set up a religion dedicated to Sol the sun god. I have noted that biblical religion opposed the supernaturalism of the ancient pagan. Missionary zeal tends to offend the religious sensibilities of people by denouncing their native religions as false and pagan. Most ancient pagan beliefs place more emphasis upon the non-uniformities of Nature than the regularities. It is the difference between pagan idolatry and true worship of our Creator and Redeemer, the Lord Jesus Christ. How has pagan idolatry, the very same sort of idolatry that Paul encountered in Ephesus, corrupted much of the Christian-professing world? He draws science and aliens, nature and mathematics, pagan icons and purity in beauty. Show More Sentences The Temple of the ancient Israelites is the original Hebrew expression of pagan consciousness. The fair, as a harvest festival with distant pagan origins, takes place in the hot mid-September. The concept for this exhibition came from the Celtic pagan festival that celebrated the femaleness of things. For the pagan, the alienation from divinity is so palpable and painful that it must be overcome at all costs, even if ethics are the price. Like most Greek cities, Corinth had an acropolis, called Acrocorinth, which was used as a place of defense and for pagan worship. Now Constantine had had enough of their pagan attempts to frustrate his policies. Adherents of Wicca, a pagan religion, worship nature and focus on positive energy. Casebolt offered 20 labels, including pagan, atheist and agnostic in his Midwestern survey. Crowley's own voluminous writings, published and unpublished, contain no reference to a religion of pagan witches. My God isn't better than yours nor yours better than mine but as a witch and a pagan I carry our haunting history in my soul and still grieve. They'd have nothing left on which to point the finger at those godless evil pagan usurpers, no way to exploit the issue and make people afraid. This interpretation was then bolstered by Tacitus' dry laconic wit and Lucretius' pagan atomism. For good measure, they defaced some of the pagan reliefs adorning its walls. These include a palisaded enclosure, a possible pagan temple, and what appears to be part of a Roman amphitheatre. Vedic Invocations, which are deemed animistic and crudely pagan by many scholars, merely invoke God through his attributes and functions. The central symbol of much of the ancient pagan cult in biblical Canaan was the Ashera tree, symbol of the Goddess Ashera incarnate. However in the pagan period, rock crystal was used to make crystals balls about 2 inches in diameter. There is nothing ostensibly subversive about the images in theological terms, but they seem irresistibly to evoke the vicious pagan anti-type. She was said to have been martyred after refuting 50 pagan philosophers who were sent to argue her out of her faith. Our pagan ancestors had a wild and boozy time presided over by the Lord of Misrule, who got up to rude and mischievous pranks. Show More Sentences For example, built into the pagan ritual are demands for parents to burn their children as a sacrifice to the gods. It is a cheerful pagan rite that can be traced at least as far back as the Saturnalia and Kalends of Roman times. The Mongols were pagan, brutal savages who were not to be trusted, he declared. Particularly in the Saxon pagan period, gold jewellery was often inset with precious or semi-precious stones such as garnet. Martianus was pagan and sufficiently well-read in Greek to translate Aristides Quintilianus' treatise on music. In pagan times poets were thought to be gifted with second sight, able in a trance or frenzy to foretell future events. The Roman Pantheon is the most preserved and influential building of ancient Rome. It is a Roman temple dedicated to all the gods of pagan Rome. The goddess Nature is an amoral pagan personification, her laws harsh and ineluctable. They sent up a fragrance of sweet oil and illuminated the soft wall-paintings of pagan heroes and gods. She also sells pointed boots, tight black trews, crinolines, and hooped corsets along with jewellery and accessories hinting at pagan and alternative sub-cultures. They find the Temple defiled and turned into a pagan sanctuary. The supervisory board of the Bulgarian National Bank was a straight jacket for the elite, which drained the financial system in a pagan and barbarian way. His hope for Europe was that it return to those happy Middle Ages before a pagan Enlightenment and soulless industrialism had destroyed Faith and Freedom. For thousands of years, music has played an important role in human civilisation, from religious and pagan ceremonies to rituals and social events. The pagan insisted that divinity was in trees and in all of nature. Excavation of the graves revealed an astonishing world of pagan beliefs. In her opinion, Judaic biblical laws and tradition are sacred and unchangeable, and Kornfeld's presumptuousness in altering them makes him a pagan. In many pagan myth cycles, of paramount importance is the winter. These beliefs existed within the interstices of official faith and ritual and churchmen did not necessarily see them as pagan, unchristian, heretical or erroneous. After all, there were Anglo-Saxon pagan gods to sing about as well. Show More Sentences For a pagan Platonist its particularity seemed scandalously incompatible with divine immutability and with a universal operation of providence in the cosmos as a whole. Following a preliminary inspection of the site, Mr Downe said he believed the ruins were part of a prehistoric roundabout that may have also been used for pagan ceremonies. These people who, while believing in a god and goddess, follow the ancient pagan religions that revere the wonders and beauty of nature and its changing seasons. I had a romantic notion that the roots of the Irish jig lay in far distant celtic, pagan roots, but it may be that it was just an import from 17th Century Continental Europe. The Alma bridge in Paris where Diana met her death, it was claimed, was built at a site of pagan sacrifice and ritual combat for the Merovingian kings. The eve of All Souls' Day is celebrated in many cultures and countries, but a lot of the customs surrounding this magical day have their origins in pagan Celtic customs. To the ancient Celts, spring signified fertility and growth, as marked by Beltane, or May Day, one of the four pagan fire festivals to mark the seasons. Whether or not the bull, tauros, is Dionysius in one of his forms, there is no doubt that the performers link the ritual to the old pagan mysteries. To the south, in England, heathenism still reigned in the various kingdoms ruled by the Jutes, Angles, and Saxons, and pagan gods were worshipped. The graves contain some of the earliest pagan Anglian settlers in Britain, who arrive from their Germanic homelands not long after the end of Roman rule. We hear about pre-Christian religion, pagan beliefs, shamanistic rituals and healing drums, and the story is narrated in ambiguous and multivocal words and concepts. She believes that Sheela-na-gigs are representative of the more earthy strand of Celtic spirituality and were used as a pagan representation of birth, abundance and fertility. Actually, if you go back to nearly all the ancient pagan forms of magic in western and northern Europe they nearly all revolve around systems of libations and offerings. Such imposing classical receptacles are associated with pagan temples, worship and libations, and they thus introduce a sense of solemn ritual and ceremony. When one pagan group was ordered to dismantle a totem pole over which libations were poured, they simply placed a bust of Lenin on top and continued as before. Gradually, the pagan and sexual passions the moon inspires demonstrate that these inhibitive prisons cannot prevent the transgressive mingling of sacred and profane love. Bealtaine, apart from being the Irish word for the month of May, was a festival in pagan Ireland celebrating Spring and heralding the arrival of Summer. Throughout history the tattoo bears the mark of paganism, demonism, Baal worship, shamanism, mysticism, heathenism, cannibalism and just about every other pagan belief known. This was in the notorious letter to Michelangelo, published in 1550, in which the writer roundly denounced the pagan profanity and immoderate artistic license of the painting. Yet, it was at the hill of Tara that St. Patrick lit the first Paschal fire in 433, which local high king Laoighire regarded as defiance against his pagan gods. Show More Sentences I was just researching Lady Godiva to see if I can find out whether there are any pagan religious roots to the story, because I feel like there must surely be. It was a coldish night, but everywhere there was a pagan semi-nudity. Smith doubted that Perchta descended from a pagan goddess, but thought that she was the personification of Epiphany, derived through folk etymology. They sought to transform such pagan revelries into the feast of Christ's circumcision, a calendrical amputation that proved spectacularly unsuccessful. Some vessels and jewellery are adorned with traditional pagan motifs, such as hunting and Bacchic scenes, or Hercules wrestling the giant Antaeus. Some tattoos are of course more obvious in their meaning, but a good number of others draw on mythology, pagan runes, organizational logos and acronyms. Further laws were passed against remaining pagan practices over the course of the following years. For example, it is provided that all persons present at a pagan sacrifice may be indicted as if for murder. During the Dark Ages the island was settled by Jutes as the pagan kingdom of Wihtwara under King Arwald. Of particular note is the survival of the pagan fascination with the forest in the retention of Christmas tree even today. The Germanic peoples knew little of cities, money, or writing, and were still mostly pagan, though were becoming increasingly Arian. References are made to periodic outbreaks of pagan worship, especially of Freya, among the Saxon peasantry as late as the 12th century. Licinius, aided by Goth mercenaries, represented the past and the ancient pagan faiths. In 392 he forbade even private honor to the gods, and pagan rituals such as the Olympic Games. Patricia Monaghan says there is no evidence that the shamrock was sacred to the pagan Irish. But he remained a resented outsider, and the northern British kingdoms preferred to ally with the pagan Norse of Dublin. This may have been true, as much of Scandinavia was pagan at the time, but there is no data to corroborate the assertion. There is no evidence of reversion to pagan burial practices during Sweyn's reign. Monasteries were founded as campaigns to Christianise pagan Europe continued. Well dressing ceremonies are held in most of the villages during the spring and summer months, in a tradition said to date from pagan times. Show More Sentences The older, smaller stone was raised by King Gorm the Old, the last pagan king of Denmark, as a memorial honouring Queen Thyre. The last High King inaugurated in the pagan style was Diarmait mac Cerbaill. Anciently, the religion of the Cornish Britons was Celtic polytheism, a pagan, animistic faith, assumed to be led by Druids in full or in part. This does not use names of calendar units derived from the names of pagan deities. They refused to celebrate Christmas because they believed it was based on pagan festivities. During his return to Northumbria Wilfrid's ship was blown ashore on the Sussex coast, the inhabitants of which were at that time pagan. He also worked to combat pagan practices, building a church at Melrose on a pagan site. During his stay, Wilfrid attempted to convert the Frisians, who were still pagan at that time. Wilfrid spent the next five years preaching to, and converting the pagan inhabitants of Sussex, the South Saxons. At that time, a pagan army attacked Bamburgh and attempted to set its walls ablaze. While most pagan religions express a worldview that is pantheistic, polytheistic, or animistic, there are some monotheistic pagans. The term pagan is not attested in the English language until the 17th century. As Hellenic culture was the dominant pagan culture in the Roman east, they called pagans Hellene. Dhul Khalasa is referred to as both an idol and a temple, and it was known by some as the Ka'ba of Yemen, built and worshipped by pagan tribes. The 19th century also saw much scholarly interest in the reconstruction of pagan mythology from folklore or fairy tales. Wicca draws upon a diverse set of ancient pagan and 20th century hermetic motifs for its theological structure and ritual practices. The names of these holidays that are commonly used today are often taken from Germanic pagan holidays. He concluded that the idea that medieval revels were pagan in origin is a legacy of the Protestant Reformation. The emperor Charlemagne decreed that the burning of supposed witches was a pagan custom that would be punished by the death penalty. Part of an ancient pagan marriage tradition involved the bride taking a ritual bath at a bathhouse before the ceremony. Show More Sentences Russian pagan practices were often akin to paganism in other parts of the world. This idea of respect for ancestors, or ancestor worship, is common in pagan folk religions. The High Kings of Ireland continued pagan practices until the reign of Diarmait mac Cerbaill ca. That a pagan like Clovis could ask Christ for help shows the adaptability of Germanic polytheism. This is in direct correspondence to the Germanic pagan ideals of fealty to one's lord. Other words for supernatural beings in personal names almost all denote pagan gods, suggesting that elves were in a similar category of beings. The second proposal is pagan origins for the custom of rolling objects down the hill. It is usually said to have originated as a pagan festival celebrating the arrival of summer, fertility, or both. The poem is composed orally and extemporaneously, and the archive of tradition on which it draws is oral, pagan, Germanic, heroic, and tribal. On this view, the pagan references would be a sort of decorative archaising. In the pagan world, kings were often seen as either ruling with the backing of heavenly powers or perhaps even being divine beings themselves. In pagan religions, the king was often seen as a kind of god and so was an unchallengeable despot. Constantius II appointed Themistius, a pagan philosopher and teacher, as chief architect of this library building program. Her back arched, and in the moonglow she looked like a pagan offering, mysterious, delectable, irresistible. Because of pagan syncretism, it is also associated with white magic up to the present day. Other laws, while not aimed at pagan belief as such, forbid particular pagan practices. Before the Roman occupation, the dominant religion in Wales was a pagan one, led by the druids. In the east there was a gradual transition among the pagan Saxons from cremation to inhumation. Names with a Latin element may suggest continuity of settlement, while some places are named for pagan Germanic deities. He asks how pagan gods who exhibit the same destructive passions and obscene desires as wicked humans can be worthy of worship. Show More Sentences Dancing was in progress, or, rather, one of those orgiastic ceremonies which passed for dancing during this pagan period. A Viking poem portrays the environment as strongly pagan, with chanting Valkyries deciding who would live and who would die. Justin called himself a Samaritan, but his father and grandfather were probably Greek or Roman, and he was brought up a pagan. He visited the pagan King Bridei, King of Fortriu, at his base in Inverness, winning Bridei's respect, although not his conversion. Holy Roman Emperor Otto II had assembled a great army of Saxons, Franks, Frisians and Wends to fight against the Norse pagan Danes. The book is a historical narration focusing on the pagan peoples from the earliest time up until the time Orosius was alive. Thus, it was Charlemagne's weak successor, Louis the Pious, who destroyed his father's collection of epic poetry on account of its pagan content. The Huns fell upon the Thervingi, whose staunchly pagan ruler, Athanaric, sought refuge in the mountains. Some theologians such as Thomas Aquinas discussed Trajan as an example of a virtuous pagan. It is said that he was desirous of erecting a temple to Jesus but was dissuaded by the pagan priests. The pagan emperors' tombs of the Mausoleum of Augustus and Castel Sant'Angelo were rifled and the ashes scattered. Upon his victory in 787 at Verden, Charles ordered the wholesale killing of thousands of pagan Saxon prisoners. Charles ordered the Frisian pagan shrines destroyed, and so wholly subjugated the populace that the region was peaceful for twenty years after. He also demanded the permission to send missionaries into this pagan region unmolested. Valhalla is mentioned in euhemerized form and as an element of remaining Norse pagan belief in Heimskringla. Constantine's sons banned pagan state religious sacrifices in 341, but did not close the temples. However, many temples remained open until Theodosius I's edict of Thessalonica in 381 banned haruspices and other pagan religious practices. Eugenius made some modest attempts to win pagan support, and with Arbogast led a large army to fight another destructive civil war. Another church was built on top of the hill where pagan statues stood before. While most pagan religions express a world view that is pantheistic, polytheistic or animistic, there are some monotheistic pagans. Show More Sentences Boniface's campaign of destruction of indigenous Germanic pagan sites may have benefited the Franks in their campaign against the Saxons. Private, albeit not public, pagan sacrifices and rites were to remain legal. Snorri was also part of this revived interest, examining pagan myths from his perspective as a cultural historian and mythographer. In 391 and 392 he issued a series of edicts essentially banning pagan religion. Pagan festivals and sacrifices were banned, as was access to all pagan temples and places of worship. Another similarity shared with the pagan perspective was the view of the relationship between disease and the individual. Unlike pagan Rome, high medieval Europe did not have a complete ban on human dissection. The Chuvash language was a descendant of the Bolgar language, spoken by the pagan Chuvash people. In Britain, many churches at the tops of hills are thought to have been built on the sites of earlier pagan holy places. Well dressing ceremonies are held in many villages during the spring and summer months, a tradition said to date from pagan times. It was impossible to avoid pagan terminology altogether, however, and the Seventy relaxed their vigilance when dealing with poetry. A gothic cathedral must not be called upon to blossom into ungothic or unreligious or pagan embellishments. He did indeed have a thoroughly pagan, materialistic, unforgiving eye. And likewise the Easter bunny, a bizarre pagan myth if ever one there was. Try your hand at pagan games such as spear throwing, quoits and kayles and tip cat. The architect had problems with the bishop, who preferred a traditional Latin cross plan and disliked the pagan associations of the Pantheon. It began as a pagan holiday known as the Samhain festival, a day the dead roamed the Earth and the living made sacrifices in their honor. His intellectual opponents included the heretic Marcionites and Valentinians, and the pagan Cynic Crescens. Reformation zeal had long stigmatized calendary festivals as pagan and was phasing out community drama as papist. Only the pagan Anglo-Saxons who arrived in England from Germany needed christianising after Iona. Show More Sentences This matriarchal society is governed by high priestesses who worship the goddess, Nyx and perform pagan rituals. The monotheistic revolution demythologizes the pagan religions by unmasking their gods as idols. Union with her is a pagan fantasy inasmuch as it is a disincarnate, yet nevertheless sensual, possession. A NUNEATON woman has played a pioneering role in getting the pagan faith of Druidry officially recognised as a religion. Plinker thinks that the biblical Canticles secularize these pagan analogues. The ultimate goal of Hesychastic practice is salvation, and ancient pagan learning is irrelevant to it. All pagan religion and philosophy reposes immediately or ultimately on the doctrine of preexistence. Popular times are pagan festivals, such as Hallowe'en, Beltane, the summer and winter solstices and the autumn and spring equinoxes. But it is necessary to recognize that for Lewis, as for the great pagan tradition of neo-Platonism and gnosticism, existence as such is the ultimate sham. Except for his Origenism and allegorical tendencies, Gregory followed Basil in his Trinitarianism, Christology, Mariology, and handling of pagan literature. It somehow got picked up by neopagans and has become commonplace since the 1991 movie The Doors, in which Jim Morrison gets married in a Celtic pagan ritual. However, celebrations of Christ's birth, death and resurrection being said to be Christianising of their pagan rites is not a complete or balanced view of the facts. A pagan could justifiably complain that it was the Christianisation of their simple traditions that led to the commercialisation of this time of year. Goshdarnit, it's not only them pagan towelheads what needs converting. Antaean Binchey, connected to roots and absorbed with a female, pagan, earth-orientated rural and mythological order, is dispossessed and expelled from home. Wensley derives from Woden's ley, or meadow of the pagan god Woden. Unlike Kuchum and his Mohammedan Tatars, many of these groups were pagan. A classical pagan view of medicine in which the main focus was on treating and curing disease survived as the practice of medicine evolved through the Middle Ages. Medicine in the Middle Ages had its roots in pagan and folk practices. After its establishment under Khan Asparukh in 681, Bulgaria retained the traditional Bulgar religion Tengriism and the pagan beliefs of the local Slavic population. Show More Sentences A turning point came after the Battle of the Frigidus of 395, ending the last serious attempt at a pagan revival in the now Christianized Roman Empire. From 389 to 393 he issued a series of decrees which led to the banning of pagan religious rites, and the confiscation of their property and endowments. Odin is mentioned or appears in most poems of the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from traditional source material reaching back to the pagan period. Traces of pagan mythology and worship are also found in toponymy. By the end of the 10th century, only the Scandinavians remained pagan. Old Russian folklore takes its roots in the pagan Slavic religion. According to this account, the previous inhabitants, a few Irish monks, known as the Papar, left the island since they did not want to live with pagan Norsemen. Unlike the Irish texts, the Welsh term commonly seen as referring to the druids, dryw, was used to refer purely to prophets and not to sorcerers or pagan priests. He also conquered the Isle of Wight, which was still an independent pagan kingdom, and set himself to kill every native on the island, resettling it with his own people. Many converted societies transformed their pagan deities into saints. Among the immigrant Britons, there were some clergymen who helped the evangelisation of the region, which was still pagan, particularly in rural areas. On the night of 30 April the Beltane Fire Festival takes place on Calton Hill, involving a procession followed by scenes inspired by pagan old spring fertility celebrations. The longest is called Nine Herbs Charm and is probably of pagan origin. On the other, his warband in the earliest sources includes former pagan gods, and his wife and his possessions are clearly Otherworldly in origin. By the early 6th century the church had developed separate dioceses, with bishops as the most senior ecclesiastical figures, but the country was still predominantly pagan. The Wiccan writers Janet Farrar and Gavin Bone have postulated that Wicca is becoming more polytheistic as it matures, tending to embrace a more traditionally pagan worldview. The term pagan is from Late Latin paganus, revived during the Renaissance. Gradually, from the 5th century onwards, pagan tribes from the east, including the Angles and Saxons, conquered eastern and southern Britain, which later became England. It is not clear if Bede meant that Augustine rebuilt the church or that Augustine merely reconsecrated a building that had been used for pagan worship. They convert the commoners and flamens, turn pagan temples into churches, and establish dioceses and archdioceses where the flamens had previously held power. Show More Sentences When his father saw him he fumed terribly, cursing like a pagan, and asking whether his son were a roysterer fit for the gallows as well as a fool fit for a cassock. But rather than admit that, we hopped on to Google and discovered the Easter Bunny originates from Eostre, the pagan Goddess of Easter, who changed a bird into a hare. Examples from Classical Literature The whole account of the Grail reads like a not-too-successful attempt to christianise a purely pagan legend. The same original pagan character is shown in the re-birth episodes existing in Brythonic literature. She is as pretty a little pagan as ever, said Perior, glancing at Miss Paton. Too good for banning, and too bad for blessing, it reminds us of a tradition of the pagan mythology, in any attempt to settle its character. Traditionally, May Day was a pagan holy day marking the first spring planting. Standing on this were the Tartarean shapes of the pagan harpooneers, always the whale-ship's stokers. Winner Sandra, an archaeologist from Yorkshire, belongs to Comitatus, a pagan re-enactment group. Who could ever have imagined that Deutero-Isaiah's new Moses would eventually be Cyrus, the uncircumcised pagan emperor of Persia? This pagan unworldliness carried to its ultimate mystical point is what makes the work of Lewis so intense and his evaluation so fearless. When a great misfortune happens, charity, which is divine love, and as blind as pagan love, ought not to look into the causes of it. Is there fate amongst us still, send down from the pagan world of old, that such things must be, and in such way? I do not ask you for liberty, as a guilty one would, nor for vengeance, as would a pagan. The term pagan was then utilised for the entire idolator civilisations worldwide. With his grave face he resembled a booted and misshapen pagan burning incense before the oracle of a Joss. Stephens examines the religious experience of second-century CE pagan sophist Aristides as expressed in his religious diary Sacred Tales. And that smooth, insinuating, violent pagan was philadelphus Maccabaeus! He himself and his philosophy of life were purely Epicurean, Hedonistic, or pagan, in the sense in which we use those terms to-day. There remain also a few pagan lyric poems, which are all not only somber like 'Beowulf' but distinctly elegiac, that is pensively melancholy. These were all, at the time of their settlement, either pagan or Arian. It comprised a multilingual dream sequence in pagan terms, not disdaining verbal and pictorial descriptions of dismemberments by Cupid and phallic worship of Pan. Show More Sentences His mental palate, indeed, was rather pagan, and found a savouriness in a quotation from Sophocles or Theocritus that was quite absent from any text in Isaiah or Amos. His heroines especially exemplify it, and I should be safe in saying that his Ethelbertas, his Eustacias, his Elfridas, his Bathshebas, his Fancies, are wholly pagan. Each of the victims has a Druidic pagan cross branded into their bodies. Find more words! 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