The British government has, after a lengthy vetting process, recognized Druidism or Druidry as a religion and granted it charitable status. The commissioners in charge of such decisions apparently had a hard time getting their collective heads around the idea that not all religions are monotheistic, textual, dogmatic, priestly, hierarchical, institutionalized, or systematic.
As the Toronto [...]
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As you can see from Texas A&M’s anthropology aggregating site (which is one of my favorite places on the net), at least a dozen stories have appeared in the past week about new archaeological finds near Stonehenge. Using ground penetrating radar and other non-invasive technology, archaeologists have discovered another henge — which was wooden, approximately [...]
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A few weeks ago, I watched “The Fourth Kind,” which fortuitously features Milla Jovavich as the main character. Although supposedly based on “actual events” in small-town Alaska, my research turned up little by way of fact to support that assertion. What intrigued me about the movie, however, was the Sumerian aspect (I won’t say more [...]
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