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4 days ago · A supportive community of writers who can answer all of your questions about what it means to be Pagan, and how to find the right faith that works for you.
2 days ago · Spiritualism. The Ouija ( / ˈwiːdʒə / WEE-jə, /- dʒi / -jee ), also known as a Oujia board, spirit board, talking board, or witch board, is a flat board marked with the letters of the Latin alphabet, the numbers 0–9, the words "yes", "no", and occasionally "hello" and "goodbye", along with various symbols and graphics.
2 days ago · New Age is a range of spiritual or religious practices and beliefs which rapidly grew in Western society during the early 1970s. Its highly eclectic and unsystematic structure makes a precise definition difficult.
5 days ago · In Aztec thought, ceremonies for the earth were inextricable from the calculation of time: not only were rituals carried out in accordance with established Mesoamerican calendar cycles, but time itself was believed to have a major impact on the fate and conditions of the sacred landscape.
2 days ago · Evidence also exists (primarily in the form of church records of suppression) of a thriving popular culture based on pre-Christian traditions centring on harvest, marriage, birth, and death rituals.
4 days ago · In the simplest form of reciprocity, men exchanged sisters, and women brothers. Such exchanges took place between different moieties, clans, or families. Most kinship-and-marriage systems provided for the possible replacement of spouses and for parent surrogates. Infant betrothal was common.
4 days ago · In Mesoamerican thought, both in the past and present, caves are ambiguous spaces associated with indwelling good and evil deities that can be coaxed, flattered, or angered by humans. It is for this reason that rituals in caves were used as a place to petition and honor these deities so vital to human well-being.
