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Re: The Pagan 'problem'

Sep 16, 2010, 12:18

Yes, hardwired in so much as the 'god gene' would have us believe.

I was thinking more in terms of cultural nurture however than of human nature. The rhythms of the English language for example have barely changed in two thousand years (or more) and the sounds we use to express how we see the world, and how those sounds are arranged into sentences, are part and parcel of who we are.

Many cultures outside the European 'consciousness' see the world in a totally different way to how we see it; they have words that we don't have (or don't have words that we do have) and they string them together in a different way. Underneath all those perceptions run cultures moulded from millennia, and the differences between them are fascinating. You won't find the same love of nature in many cultures as you do here (even though our love may be formalised into tending gardens and allotments) and you won't find the same love for animals in many places elsewhere, nor our staunch independence and sense of freedom - it is these things that have sprung from our traditions and make us what we are today - most of the time without us hardly even realising it.

So, it may be Thor's day here, and tomorrow it will be Freya's day, but in at least three other countries today is the day of Wood, and tomorrow will be the day of Fire, and in some places it is not even 2010 : -)

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