Channel 4 - Pagans 2 of 4 Magic Moments - Richard Rudgley

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I found the series to be really interesting because it forces you think of things from an other perspective than you are used to. Rudgley believes for instance that the heritage of the Pagan culture still effect people of northern Europe in a major way. The term Pagan is from Latin paganus, an adjective originally meaning "rural", "rustic" or "of the country." As a noun, paganus was used to mean "country dweller, villager." In colloquial use, it could mean much the same as calling someone today a 'country bumpkin' or a 'hillbilly'. Paganism is a term which, from a Western perspective, has come to connote a broad set of spiritual or cultic practices or beliefs of any folk religion, and of historical and contemporary polytheistic religions in particular. The term can be defined broadly, to encompass the faith traditions outside the Abrahamic monotheistic group of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Soruce: Wikipedia Before Christianity arrives in Northern Europe, including places that are now known as France, Germany, Great Britain, Poland and Scandinavia, the people who lived there where by definition all Pagans believing in Pagan religions with Pagan culture. In other words, from the perspective of the Christians ?we were all Hillbillies? who lived here in northern Europe. The Vikings in the far north was the last people who converted to Christianity. When groups of people convert to another belief system and an other religion. That never comes easily. Think about it in terms of yourself converting from Christianity to Islam or the other way around for instance. One of the main reasons of the bad reputation of the Pagans and their culture and religions is in fact the product of Christian propaganda over the decays. Through history and prehistory, the representations of the ancient gods and traditions followed by pagans have been marred by propaganda from other religious groups eager to rein in those they defined as wild barbarians. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Author/Presenter - Richard Rudgley ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Rudgely is an Oxford-trained anthropologist and critically acclaimed author of "Lost Civilisations of the Stone Age" Also winner of the Prometheus Award, British Museum. He has presented three series on Channel 4. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tillägg till texten ovan på Svenska ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Själva tanken på att vi skandinaver/nordbor var de sista i Europa att anamma kristendomen förklarar en hel del varför vi här uppe i norden sågs som vildar (barbarer) och som senare kallats vikingar. Dessutom som jag skrev här ovan är det en dramatisk förändring i människors liv att gå från en religion till en annan, från en kultur till en annan, från ett trossystem till ett annat. Till exempel är ofta människor av annan religion/kultur sedda som man inom psykologin kallar för en utgrupp. Detta kan ha lett till att vikingar till de kristnas förvånade fasa inte tänkte två gånger innan de rånade kyrkor och dödade präster där det dessutom genom kristendomens effektiva skattesystem (tionde) samlats en hel del skatter. Förutom det var det mest präster och kyrkfolk som skrev historien, eller som över huvudtaget skrev något på den här tiden. Vi här i norden har behållit en hel del av vårt pagan-arv i och med till exempel vårt heliga midsommarfirande där midsommarstången ju till och med likar en fallossymbol som befruktar moderjord. En tanke jag har att släppa en serie om Vikingar av BBC i nästa session av torrents. Finns det önskemål om det vore det kul om detta dryftades i form av ett inlägg här nedan. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pagans 2 of 4 Magic Moments ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Today magic is used as a form of entertainment. It still thrills us to see an apparently impossible phenomenon happen before our eyes. Reaching back through to prehistoric times, the pagan magicians, who could conjure material from nothing or predict the future, would almost certainly have been held in the highest regard. They would not have been tricksters like the conjurers of today. In historic and prehistoric times, it would have taken great knowledge to understand the seasons, through their relationship to solstice. Predicting this yearly cycle would have been crucial to the agricultural societies of the time ? a science to those who understood, but magic to those who didn?t. The fine art of producing the first bronze artefacts would also have been greatly respected. The ability to produce a knife from an ore is still magical, even though we now understand the chemistry. As for drug-induced shamans talking to the spirits, they must have appeared exceptionally powerful. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Other torrents related to my favorite subject; humans and human behaviour: http://thepiratebay.se/user/3bord3/

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3bord3 (2007-08-01)

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