1. ^  The semantic development of post-classical Latin paganus in the sense "non-Christian, heathen" is unclear. The dating of this sense is controversial, but the 4th century seems most plausible. An earlier example has been suggested in Tertullian De Corona Militis xi, "Apud hunc [sc. Christum] tam miles est paganus fidelis quam paganus est miles infidelis," but here the word paganus may be interpreted in the sense "civilian" rather th ...

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Pontifex Maximus - Christian usage. In Christian circles, when Tertullian furiously applied the term to Pope Callixtus I, with whom he was at odds, ca 220, over Callistus' relaxation of the Church's penitential discipline, allowing repentant adulterers and fornicators back into the Church, under his Petrine authority to "bind and loosen," it was in bitter irony: "In opposition to this [modesty], could I not have acted the dissembler? I hear that there has even been an edict sent forth, and a p ...

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Main article: History of Finland Finland's language strife Fennoman Finnish mythology Finnish paganism Foreign relations of Finland Agreement of Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance Finlandization Paasikivi-Kekkonen Line Historical figures Mikael Agricola Per Brahe List of Presidents of Finland Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim Artturi Ilmari Virtanen List of ...

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List of fictional institutions - Religious charities and foundations. Faith Heritage Alliance - The Dead Zone (TV series) Young Men's Reformed Cultist of the Ichor God Bel-Shamharoth Association (or Young Men's Pagan Association) -Discworld (parodies the YMCA). See also List of fictional religions List of fictional institutions - Places of worship. First Church of the Gooey Death and Discount House of Worship ...

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In the 4th century some Germanic tribes, notably the Goths, adopted Arianism. From the 6th century, Germanic tribes were converted (and re-converted) by missionaries of Celtic Christianity. The influence of the Roman Catholic Church over Germania also began in the 6th century, firstly among the Franks, after Clovis I embraced Catholicism in 496. The Lombards adopted Catholicism as they entered Italy, during the 6th century. Christianization of Anglo-Saxon England began around AD 600, influenced by Celtic Christianity from the north-we ...

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Unlike the history of Christianity in the Roman Empire, conversion of the Germanic tribes took place "top to bottom", in the sense that missionaries aimed at converting Germanic nobility first, which would then impose their new faith on the general population. Consequently, Christianity had to be made palatable to these Migration Age warlords as a heroic religion of conquerors, a rather straightforward task, considering the military splendour of the Roman Empire compared to the comparatively primitive Germanic armies, and the legendary victor ...

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He was born in Vienna in the Austrian Empire to Karl Anton List, a prosperous middle class leather goods dealer, and Maria List. He grew up in the Leopoldstadt district of Vienna. Like the majority of his fellow Austrians at that time, his family was Roman Catholic, and he was christened as an infant in St Peter's Church in Vienna. In 1862 a visit to the catacombs beneath the Cathedral of Saint Stephan made a deep impression, and List regarded the catacombs as a pagan shrine. As an adult he claimed he had then sworn ...

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List of islands of the United States - Inhabited. Swains Island Ofu Island Ta‘ū Island Rose Atoll Olosega Island Aunu‘u Island Tutuila Island Cocos Island Guam Rota Saipan Tinian Farallon de Pajaros Maug Islands Pagan Island Guguan Agrihan Island Sarigan Island Anatahan Island Asuncion Island Farallon de Medinilla See Is ...

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List was strongly influenced by the Theosophical thought of Madame Blavatsky, which he blended with his own Wotanist religion and Germanic Paganism to develop the direct occult precursor of Nazism. List claimed that the Hermionen mentioned in Tacitus was a Latinized version of the German Armanen, and named his religion the Armanenschaft, which he claimed to be the original religion of the Germanic tribes. His conception of that religion was a form of sun worship, with its priest kings as legendary rulers of ancien ...

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Characters have died in the course of the story and remained so, in a departure from the convention of comic strip comedy. Elements of fantasy (fairies, boob-vampires, etc.) take the story into the realms of the surreal, though it keeps a thread of realism. This fantastic aspect is embellished by the appearance of such characters as the Pope, a Clown for Christ and Unitarians who are depicted as Borg. Oh My Gods! has a characteristic "Playschool" like drawing style, with characters only having eyes, one perspective, and no fingers. Th ...

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Oh My Gods! - Main Characters. Stan - The standard lead character and main troublemaker. Vera - The feisty female who also works at the local metaphysical store. Victor - Instigator of many problems and the boy who "isn't all there." Winston - Big geek with trivial knowledge about pointless topics to spare. Oh My Gods! - Supporting Characters. Fundie - As the name suggests, a stereotypical fundalme ...

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The 13th century eddaic account of Odin likely contains some Christian elements. The scene where Odin hangs from a tree as a sacrifice to himself has been suggested to reflect the crucifixion of Jesus, down to the detail of having his side pierced with a spear; however, archeological evidence, such as the above mentioned Tollund Man, clearly establish that this form of sacrifice existed before the time of Christ and thus is most likely developed independently. Other inconsistencies, such as that Odin was hung by a rope from a tree whereas Je ...

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Snorri Sturluson's record of the Edda is striking evidence of the climate of religious tolerance in medieval Iceland, but even he feels compelled to give a rational account of the Aesir in his preface. In this scenario, Snorri speculates that Odin and his peers were originally refugees from Troy, etymologizing Aesir as derived from Asia. Some scholars believe that Snorri's version of Norse mythology is an attempt to mould a more shamanistic tradition into a Greek mythological cast. In any case, Snorri's writing (particularly in Heimsk ...

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Odin - Modern popular culture. Main article: Odin in popular culture With the Romantic Viking revival of the early-to-mid 19th century, Odin's popularity increased again. Odin, under the German form of his name, Wotan (pronounced ['vo:ta:n]) is one of the main protagonists of Richard Wagner's opera cycle, Der Ring des Nibelungen. This depiction in particular has had influence on many subsequent fiction writers. ...

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Odin is an ambivalent deity; Old Norse (Viking Age) connotations of Odin lie with "poetry, inspiration" as well as with "fury, madness": Several myths do associate Odin with wisdom and poetry. Odin left his eye in the purifying waters of Mimir's spring for wisdom. Odin gives to worthy poets the mead of inspiration from the vessel Óð-rœrir.[1] Odin is associated with the concept of the Wild Hunt, a noisy, bellowing movement across the sky, leading a host of the sl ...

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Worship of Odin dates to Proto-Germanic paganism. The Roman historian Tacitus probably refers to Odin when he talks of Mercury. The reason is that, like Mercury, Odin was regarded as Psychopompos, "the leader of souls". Parallels between Odin and Celtic Lugus have often been pointed out: both are intellectual gods, commanding magic and poetry. Both have ravens and a spear as their attributes, and both are one-eyed. Julius Caesar (de bello Gallico, 6.17.1), who mentions Mercury as the chief god of Celtic religion. A likely conte ...

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The goddess Freyja is described as an adept of the mysteries of seid (shamanism), a völva, and it is said that it was she who initiated Odin into its mysteries. In Lokasenna, Loki verbally abuses Odin for practising seid, condemning it as a unmanly art. A justification for this may be found in the Ynglinga saga where Snorri opines that in following the practice of seid, the practitioner was rendered unmanly. Another explanation is that its manipulative aspects ran counter to the male ideal o ...

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It is attested in primary sources that sacrifices were made to Odin during blóts. Adam of Bremen relates that every ninth year, people assembled from all over Sweden to sacrifice at the Temple at Uppsala. Male slaves and males of each species were sacrificed and hanged from the branches of the trees. As the Swedes had the right not only to elect king but also to depose a king, the sagas relate that both king Domalde and king Olof Trätälja were sacrificed to Odin after years of famine. It has been argued that the killing of a combat ...

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According to the Prose Edda, Odin was a son of Bestla and Borr and brother of Vé and Vili and together with these brothers he cast down the frost giant Ymir and created the world from Ymir's body. The three brothers are often mentioned together. "Wille" is the German word for "will" (English), "Weh" is the German word (Gothic wai) for "woe" (English: great sorrow, grief, misery) but is more likely related to the archaic G ...

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Germanic neopaganism - Ásatrú. Ásatrú is an Old Norse compound derived from Ása, the genitive of Áss, which refers to the Aesir, (one of the two families of gods in Norse mythology, the other being the Vanir), and Trú, literally "troth" or "faith". Thus, Ásatrú is the "Æsir's faith." The term is the Old Norse/Icelandic translation of Asetro, a neologism coined in the context of 19th century romantic nationalism, used by Edvard Grieg in his 1870 opera Olaf Trygvason. Th ...

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