Knowledge Commons | Pagan Studies | Activity https://hcommons.org/groups/pagan-studies/ Activity feed for the group, Pagan Studies. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 08:14:26 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 d265276fc3c93ebda28dfa0362b9d32f David Olmsted deposited Druid-Akkadian Dictionary - 2024: Druid-Akkadian to English and English to Druid-Akkadian in the group Pagan Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1885233/ Sun, 05 May 2024 03:01:32 -0400 This dictionary presents the language used by the Neolithic farmers who migrated into Europe and around
the Mediterranean basin from the Middle East starting around 6500 BCE. This migration ended up forming
a new culture and new civilization which ended up being suppressed by the Roman and Hellenistic empires
and then by their descendant, the…[Read more]

]]> 0 511ec1fe9b7fe45e9d2f433f6204cd3c Alejandro Quintero deposited The Many Faces of God: Astrotheology of the Bible in the group Pagan Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1841556/ Sat, 15 Apr 2023 02:25:25 -0400 Angels, as mythical beings, appear and disappear suddenly throughout Biblical Texts, without any clear explanation of their origins or metaphysical ranks. Whether they are considered circumstantial theophanies or entities with granted self-existence and specific divine functions; such metaphysical entities have a vital presence in the religious…[Read more]

]]> 0 bb81a93e5dac0e07fa4585d24a12d23b S M Sigerson deposited FUTURE HUMAN EVOLUTION - Can we change human nature? in the group Pagan Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1826849/ Sat, 17 Dec 2022 02:23:56 -0500 Humanity's age-old dilemmas are often set down to what we call human nature. Even the most philosophical shake their heads in despair at this, as an impassible boundary to progress. Though some have denied its existence, studies indicate that we do indeed have a nature, instincts, and patterns of behavior which are endemic to our species. Even…[Read more]

]]> 0 69adecdd28abac6ebd082ad7b4f1be6d David Olmsted deposited Inscription on Nestors’ Cup (730 BCE) is not Greek but is Alphabetic Akkadian in the group Pagan Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1779486/ Fri, 22 Apr 2022 02:23:50 -0400 The text on Nestor’s Cup (750-700 BCE) is not Greek as many claim but is actually Alphabetic Akkadian. Its three-line text is a debate about the cause of a drought. The first line blames the life network goddess Ayu and her eagle vultures while the second line blames emotion magic with its owls (like the Athenian owl). Alphabetic Akkadian was t…[Read more]

]]> 0 a8b7c3c100cdb1b10daee8169c213ce2 David Olmsted deposited Heraklez (Hercules) Originated in Etruria as Revealed by Pottery Images having Bidirectional Alphabetic Akkadian Pottery Texts (550 BCE) in the group Pagan Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1774612/ Mon, 14 Mar 2022 02:25:06 -0400 Heroes and Demons entered the northern Mediterranean culture between 600 and 500 BCE when the culture was transforming from the magical Ancient Pagan Paradigm to a lordified Paradigm which forced deity personification making them lords in a royal pantheon instead of powers. This caused an explosion in the number of deities and other divine realm…[Read more]

]]> 0 a82f78e58fc5a5f3f6600990136985a4 David Olmsted deposited Introducing Demons - Reinterpretation of Images on Etruscan Tombs and Pottery Forced by Their Alphabetic Akkadian Translations (500-400 BCE) in the group Pagan Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1773090/ Fri, 25 Feb 2022 02:23:50 -0500 The past inability to translate Etruscan texts has meant that the interpretation of Etrucan art has been mostly speculation. This interpretation has been made even more difficult because this was the time when new demon imagery (Cyclops, Skadi) not seen in the past was being introduced as Etruscan religious culture was changing from the magical…[Read more]

]]> 0 65caad186274d870d958315466eef791 David Olmsted deposited Many Minoan Linear A Ritual Supply Texts Surrounding a Drought Translated in Alphabetic Akkadian (1700 BCE) in the group Pagan Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1761751/ Fri, 17 Dec 2021 02:23:43 -0500 The commercial level trading which emerged at the start of the Bronze Age was made possible by a common written language. That language was Akkadian in its syllabic (cuneiform) form, its phonetic form (Phaistos Disk and these Minoan Linear A tablets) and all the early alphabetic texts prior to the rise of Greek and Latin. These translated Minoan…[Read more]

]]> 0 2e182bc10b73162df35564f7b7101cea David Olmsted deposited Translation of the Minoan Phaistos Disk in Alphabetic Akkadian (Updated) in the group Pagan Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1752243/ Sat, 18 Sep 2021 02:29:46 -0400 The Phaistos Disk is the missing link connecting Mesopotamian cuneiform Akkadian with its Mediterranean alphabetic forms. As such it is a hybrid phonetic and alphabetic text dating to about 1800 BCE. It is a philosophical/religious debate about the cause of a recent drought, the first written debate in history. The key to its translation was its…[Read more]

]]> 0 6dee4b8c4c339d1d79c5f2d1943ddddc David Olmsted deposited Dan Stele Translation in Alphabetic Akkadian (840 BCE) in the group Pagan Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1745539/ Tue, 13 Jul 2021 02:24:05 -0400 This fragmentary text is a debate about the cause of a drought between a Phoenician magic crafter devoted to the motion power class of the Ancient Pagan Paradigm and an Israelite life priest devoted to the life-growth powers. Each side blames the drought on the ineffectiveness of the other. Because the stele fragments were used as fill for or in a…[Read more]

]]> 0 5092aabce8b77ea4d074fa34ac2ded17 David Olmsted deposited The Pre-Classical Pagan Worldviews based on Archeology and Extrapolation from Primary Bronze Age/Early Iron Age Texts in the group Pagan Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1744734/ Mon, 05 Jul 2021 02:23:41 -0400 Accurate knowledge of ancient Pagan culture has been lost because it was superseded by the Lordified, Revealed, Dualist (LRD) religious paradigm of the modern and classical eras. This lack of cultural understanding has corrupted archeological interpretation and prevented until recently the translation of the earliest alphabetic texts around the…[Read more]

]]> 0 5eb6f5770ac71089d706f4468f0f4280 David Olmsted deposited Penptah (Tabnit) Sarcophagus Text from Sidon is a Phoenician / Israelite Debate over the Great Bronze Age Drought (1170 BCE) - Updated in the group Pagan Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1743506/ Fri, 25 Jun 2021 02:28:33 -0400 This Phoenician letter style text dating to 1170 BCE was written in the empire language of Alphabetic Akkadian which was used by traders and temples for cross-cultural communication. Phoenician, like all other alphabetic writing, derives from the commercial Minoan writing tradition but is a separate letter style lineage apart from the lineages of…[Read more]

]]> 0 4a176a6abd25ca715788a323e95ae25c David Olmsted deposited Translation of Bronze Etruscan Piacenza Liver Reveals Liver Divination Practices (400 BCE) in the group Pagan Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1741794/ Thu, 17 Jun 2021 02:28:58 -0400 While liver divination was known to have been practiced by the ancients no one really know what that involved until now. This object is a bronze liver covered in writing which describes a divination result about the cause of a drought. This bronze liver was found in the northern Italian Po valley in 1877. The liver is divided into four main…[Read more]

]]> 0 b0823f2e9e47e5d9c6ef3bf926ba5ece David Olmsted deposited Punic War Text Translations from Carthage in Alphabetic Akkadian (246 to 146 BCE) in the group Pagan Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1741788/ Thu, 17 Jun 2021 02:28:49 -0400 Two well preserved Punic texts from Carthage are translated and fully justified according to the scholar’s standard showing that Phoenician letter style texts are actually in the Akkadian empire language just like all other pre-Hellenistic Mediterranean texts. The black temple plaque has a poignant yet sophisticated argument blaming first one d…[Read more]

]]> 0 c5f02b260bb006d28c48eeeb276b8c9b David Olmsted deposited Translation of el-Khadr Spearheads Found Near Bethlehem Show they were used in Rituals involving Yahu - 900 BCE in the group Pagan Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1741780/ Thu, 17 Jun 2021 02:28:43 -0400 This paper translates the inscriptions found on five bronze spearheads found near the village of el-Khadr located 2 miles (5 km) west of Bethlehem. Their underlying language is Alphabetic Akkadian and not Hebrew. These spearheads were part of a cache of 26 found near Bethlehem which were first published by Frank Moore Cross in 1954 and 1980. Four…[Read more]

]]> 0 703e9c2190c2e53a3615ba304d997a46 David Olmsted deposited Archeological Texts Show a Religious Conflict Component in the Naxos Island Revolt (499 to 494 BCE) in the group Pagan Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1741349/ Mon, 14 Jun 2021 02:23:54 -0400 As revealed by later Greek records, the Naxos revolt was a socio-economic conflict between rural interests and commercial trading interests which led to the much larger Greek/Persian wars. While the socio-economic component is true, these three archaeological texts also show that the revolt was triggered by a drought and sustained by religious…[Read more]

]]> 0 9c3e19ef2c97231b7fa6702227a060d4 David Olmsted deposited Nora Stone from Sardinia Translated in Alphabetic Akkadian Gives Statement about Purpose of Phoenician Temples (730 BCE) in the group Pagan Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1741345/ Mon, 14 Jun 2021 02:23:52 -0400 The text on this large stone stele is a defense of Phoenician temple activity. Consequently, it was likely placed outside the main temple in the Phoenician trading port of Nora on the southern coast of Sardinia. Its theme is also Phoenician in that it is promoting emotion magic to overcome a drought. This drought is most likely the drought of 730…[Read more]

]]> 0 e5afa20b3c0cbac65ef9f605d40fdba5 David Olmsted deposited Gold Foil Texts Found at Etruscan Pyrgi Temple Translated in Alphabetic Akkadian Mention Yahu (600 BCE) in the group Pagan Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1741341/ Mon, 14 Jun 2021 02:23:50 -0400 Three texts inscribed on gold foil were found in a holy relic repository located in a side room to a Pagan temple near Pygi, Italy. Their language is Alphabetic Akkadian yet their text styles are Phoenician and Etruscan. They are a philosophical debate about the cause and cure for a recent drought. The Phoenician text argues that emotion magic…[Read more]

]]> 0 6be473adbce690e86833f6ea4a8085b9 David Olmsted deposited Three-Way Debate of the Jerusalem (Jehoash) Tablet in Alphabetic Akkadian Proves it is Authentic (980 BCE) in the group Pagan Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1741334/ Mon, 14 Jun 2021 02:23:41 -0400 This tablet was declared a fraud my many because it could not be translated from Hebrew yet this paper proves the tablet is authentic because it can be translated from Alphabetic Akkadian, a script unknown when the tablet was discovered. This tablet was once stored in a treasury room in Jerusalem’s royal palace or first temple as evidenced by m…[Read more]

]]> 0 10e4e5315c9cffcae65017d9a42aafe3 David Olmsted deposited Moabite Stele Translation in Alphabetic Akkadian Shows Early-Jewish / Phoenician Religious Debate Over a Drought (980 BCE) in the group Pagan Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1740832/ Tue, 08 Jun 2021 02:25:12 -0400 The Moabite Stele text is a line by line philosophical/religious debate. It was written in Alphabetic Akkadian which was the common trading language of the ancient Mediterranean as evidenced by a growing corpus of texts. The Moabite text is also the earliest archaeological linguistic evidence of Jewish (Judahite) culture yet discovered. This is…[Read more]

]]> 0 dded6a348fd680681b6138853332e82a David Olmsted deposited Three Religiously Themed Philistine Texts in Alphabetic Akkadian (1160-960 BCE) in the group Pagan Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1740825/ Tue, 08 Jun 2021 02:25:08 -0400 Three previously untranslated Philistine (Sea Peoples) texts are translated in the empire language of Alphabetic Akkadian/Aramaic. Their script style is in the Minoan lineage which began with the Phaistos Disk and continued on with Linear A. Unlike those texts these texts are now fully alphabetic meaning their inner word signs are consonants…[Read more]

]]> 0 8952a7d6cc2ee25ba8511f5ee518a254 David Olmsted deposited Alphabetic Akkadian Texts at Serabit el-Khadim Reference Drought and Magic Crafters (1170-1140 BCE) in the group Pagan Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1740817/ Tue, 08 Jun 2021 02:25:04 -0400 Translations of three graffiti type texts dating from the last years of ancient turquoise mine at Serabit el-Khadim in the Sinai blame jealousy for an ongoing drought. This drought is continuing due to the lack of magic crafters needed to overcome that negative emotional magic. These texts are in alphabetic Akkadian using a script which derives…[Read more]

]]> 0 af4f69da7a882ff2f0697a562c015e30 Yvonne Aburrow replied to the topic Introductions in the discussion Pagan Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/pagan-studies/forum/topic/introductions-6/#post-29334 Sun, 08 Mar 2020 15:27:20 -0400 Welcome Patricia. I know a lot of Polish Wiccans who will be very interested in your books.

I had The Bath House at Midnight but didn’t find the magic described in it to be very different from the rest of Europe. I was expecting more chyerti (bannikoi, domovoi, leshy etc).

]]> 185f76502a2f09a920103793f80049ce Patricia Robin Woodruff replied to the topic Introductions in the discussion Pagan Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/pagan-studies/forum/topic/introductions-6/#post-29326 Sat, 07 Mar 2020 20:21:55 -0500 Nice to meet you!  Patricia Robin Woodruff here.  I've been deeply immersed in the study of the ancient pre-Christian religions of the Slavic area (Old Europe and beyond).  It's been an exciting adventure of discovery.  Now I just need some grad-students to help me write about 25 papers while I work on my 5 volume set of books The Roots of Sla…[Read more]

]]> 076ab31357eb17f2f20ff8bed1c04978 Yvonne Aburrow started the topic Introductions in the discussion Pagan Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/pagan-studies/forum/topic/introductions-6/ Sat, 07 Mar 2020 17:20:51 -0500 Hi, my name is Yvonne Aburrow, and I studied Contemporary Religions and Spiritualities at Bath Spa University from 2006 to 2008.

I have written several books, most recently on inclusive Wicca.

]]> cfe00319b9b90932573814f7adb603f6 Yvonne Aburrow created the group Pagan Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1680243/ Sat, 07 Mar 2020 17:07:55 -0500 0