Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 11:02:57 -0800
From: Matthew Weber 
Subject: RE: (urth) DOORS: The Hero, The Otherworld, The Ending

At 11:52 AM 1/17/03 -0700, Dan'l wrote:

>Your use of the word Catholic seems to stem from the
>proposition that "Catholicism came from the imposition of
>a male-centered Semitic religion on top of a dyarchical
>male/female European pantheon."

Dan'l, I think I'm getting your posts before Andy's, so excuse me for 
reacting to him through you.

Anyway, what exactly is this "dyarchical male/female European 
pantheon"?  Are we talking about the Horned God & Lady thing?  I thought it 
had been pretty well established that the so-called Old Religion was mostly 
invented by Gerald Gardner.  There were multitudes of local practices and 
beliefs across the whole of Europe, and lots of them were similar, but 
Wotan is not Zeus is not Lud.

Oh, and to answer your question, Asatru is a contemporary revival of Old 
Norse pre-Christian religion.


Matthew Weber
Curatorial Assistant
Music Library
University of California, Berkeley

Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him.
         The Holy Bible (The Old Testament):  _The Book of Job_, chapter 
13, verse 15


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