tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post6184530025782420348..comments2024-03-28T23:42:09.625+00:00Comments on Poul Anderson Appreciation: Witches And The Time PatrolKetlanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08588156788583883454noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post-3135588714151692112017-03-15T14:47:46.779+00:002017-03-15T14:47:46.779+00:00Dear Mr. Stirling,
Thanks for commenting. Yes, I...Dear Mr. Stirling, <br /><br />Thanks for commenting. Yes, I recalled reading of how Gerald Gardner lived in the Far East for a time when I looked him up.<br /><br />I don't want to cause any offense to neo-pagans, but their religion, even when loosely modeled on past pagan pantheons of the kind I listed above, feels unreal, rootless, and unhistorical to me. And I keep remembering how more and more people found the old gods increasingly unsatisfactory by the time of the period set by Poul Anderson for THE GOLDEN SLAVE.<br /><br />SeanSean M. Brookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13973738112230622557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post-84110158129260817342017-03-15T03:19:52.447+00:002017-03-15T03:19:52.447+00:00Gardner cribbed heavily not only from Western esot...Gardner cribbed heavily not only from Western esoteric sources (the Golden Dawn and so forth) but also from Indian religions and philosophies -- he'd lived there for some time.S.M. Stirlinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18091131550027851275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post-13171477624351900642017-03-13T01:45:17.859+00:002017-03-13T01:45:17.859+00:00First sentence of the second paragraph, I omitted ...First sentence of the second paragraph, I omitted "said" after "As you...". Second sentence, "no" should be "not." Dratted typos!<br /><br />Sean Sean M. Brookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13973738112230622557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post-11586601880672531692017-03-13T01:43:02.268+00:002017-03-13T01:43:02.268+00:00Kaor, Paul!
Of COURSE there was no pagan "un...Kaor, Paul!<br /><br />Of COURSE there was no pagan "underground" Western or Eastern Christendom. The very last pagan nation in Europe, the Lithuanians, converted to Catholicism around 1400, and nothing has ever been said of an "underground" of Lithuanian pagans!<br /><br />As you the neo-paganism we see today is just that, NEO. And no even accurately modeled on the real pagan cults of the past! Because, as I've said in another note, to seriously examine the Classical, Celtic, Mid Eastern, Egyptian, or Eddaic pagan gods is to see how FLAWED they were.<br /><br />SeanSean M. Brookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13973738112230622557noreply@blogger.com