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Can Landscapes Create Culture?

The coastline of Caria is familiar to tourists. Yet just inland, within a broken terrain of mountain massifs, enclosed basins, and river valleys, lies a landscape that classical history has quietly struggled to place. Lees verder

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Part One of Coven Life

The series begins with the threshold itself: the moment when Witchcraft ceases to be something we have only read about and becomes something we must enter.
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Introduction to the ‘Coven Life’ Series

This essay is the first in a seven-part series exploring the lived reality of coven-based Witchcraft. Although the focus is coven life, the deeper questions belong equally to solitary Witches: how practice becomes embodied, how trust and responsibility shape magical work, and how each of us participates in a tradition larger than ourselves. Lees verder

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Tales of the Mediterranean – The Enigma of Sardinia – Nuragic Civilization – Part 3

The Nuraghi provide the ideal bridge between Sardinia’s prehistoric spirituality and its enduring cultural identity. We are invited to consider how spiritual, social, and political life may have developed. The mystery surrounding the Nuraghi and the Nuragic civilisation is also part of this fascination. Lees verder

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Remembering Peter J. Carroll – by Julian Vayne

Julian Vayne explains why Peter J. Carroll was important and recalls personal memories. The core of Carroll’s contribution was the idea, expressed clearly in Liber Null, that belief is not a truth to be defended, but a tool to be used. Lees verder

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Obituary Peter J. Carroll (1953-2026)

Playful, irreverent, sceptical and just provocative enough to make you stop and think, Peter J. Carroll transformed the landscape of modern magic. Pete’s influence reaches far beyond the tradition he helped to create. Lees verder

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Review: Introduction to the Mabinogi

For those who walk a Pagan path, myths are landscapes of meaning, vessels of memory, and gateways into a deeper relationship with the seen and unseen worlds. This book offers a welcoming entrance into one of the great treasures of Welsh literature: the Four Branches of the Mabinogi. Lees verder

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The Philosophy of Wicca: Reflections on Fertility

Among the many aspects explored in Wiccan practice, fertility is perhaps the one that most frequently divides opinions and gives rise to misunderstanding. This occurs because the concept is too often reduced to a purely biological or social meaning, when in Wicca — and in much of the Western magical tradition — it carries a far broader philosophical, energetic, and spiritual dimension. Lees verder

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Tales of the Mediterranean – the Enigma of Sardinia – Part 1

When visiting the Museum of Cagliari in Sardinia, Morgana was most strongly drawn to the human form rendered in miniature that echos an old and widespread tradition of female figurines found across prehistoric Europe. Lees verder

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Tales of the Mediterranean – the Enigma of Sardinia, Mamuthones & Issohadores – Part 2

Each year, during Carnival, the village of Mamoiada becomes the stage for one of Sardinia’s most compelling performances: the procession of the Mamuthones and Issohadores, a ritual that clearly predates Christianity. Lees verder

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