Paganism or pagan is a wide traditions that emphasize nature and a revival of ancient polytheistic and animistic religious practices. some of the paganism religions roots in about 19th century in European nationalism but most of the pagan groups trace their organization group to 1960s. paganism is not a traditional religion but it does have some common characteristics that joins in great variety of other traditions. one of those is the believes in divine presence in nature and the other one is the believe of reference of the natural order in life all of these are part of their traditional believes spiritual growth is related to the cycles of the earth.also paganism or pagan are interested in revival of ancient polytheistic this tradition are included in part europe and in britain they like to reconstruct and aim to revive there lost rituals and tradition pagans also worships a variety of gods and goddesses this includes spirits that can represent there national heroes as well there lost ancestral family's .
As we all known pagans usually embrace there own believes as sacred as it be there rituals are sacred as well if we all know that pagans rituals are all usually interconnected to the nature itself and sometimes its connected to there god as well.
I read in this Website: Living paganism&witchcraft: Meaning, Purpose, Identity& Integration with the article entitled living paganism&witchcraft made by Gede Parma in this article he illustrate the life of a pagan is simple and and mystical. as we all know that pagans inhabits the rituals of talking to there god in nature even ancestor they believed that they can communicate with there god and goddesses they pray for them for there protection they also believe that they can also communicate to there ancestor you call it mysterious but this there believe this still been done by the new pagans or (neo pagans).
"The Pagan life cannot be typified by the superficial or the skin-deep. Paganism is not a new age label of convenience, nor is it a fantasy role-playing game. Paganism is being in the raw moment, treasuring and revering the natural flow and tides and continuously celebrating the gift of this divine Earth. Our deity is here and now, timeless and in all places. Many call this immanent divinity the Goddess, and yet it is equally illuminating and valid to identify this powerful presence as the Horned God who dances, dies, and is reborn. The divine evolves and changes just as we do – and so does our spirituality. We too must, as the Goddess, have our anchor: the Earth upon which to stand. Like the Horned One we must allow ourselves the sacrament of movement, to dance and attain ecstasy. This can all be done in the simplest of ways, or we can choose to indulge in ceremony and symbol. It is all true and good as long as we are true and good to ourselves and others.'' stated by Gede Parma.
I believe Gede Perma is trying to say that paganism is a religion that respects nature that there goddess given them there believes and there divine rituals in nature and weird sacrificial rituals but they are not different from the other believes that we all know because in our world today we have are own believes and rituals that we always done in every single day of our life but to us its seems normal and explainable than the other believe pagan believes is a natural believes that many people inherited we can t change there own believes and there life habits as long they are true to there self and they have a good intention in there life.
By learning that all of our believes in this world are all equal even what religion and believes that you lived in we are still welcome to live in harmony and we can still bond to them even what strange there culture they have as long that they are not doing some harm to other people they know well its aright. many people hate to get along with them because they are afraid and they don't know what will happened if we mess up with them but in reverse . they are thinking the same thing that what we are thinking to them. so living in this world has there own great responsibility. it is not are responsibility to judge there culture in what culture we have.
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