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Please note that Vuya.net is back online after the terrible storms. We apologise for the inconvenience, but hey... who's gonna argue with Mother Nature?

I've uploaded photos of the storm for your viewing pleasure.

See you all online

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Arias

Greetings Vuya!Pagan Subscribers.

We are looking for someone to help us out with our two newsletters. This position is not a paid position (at this stage) but the shear volume of work involved in just keeping the site up and current has taken us a bit away from our newsletters which have now fallen a little into disuse.

Anyone interested in assisting us with this project, please contact me directly for more details.

Kind regards,

Arias and the Vuya!Pagan Team

SOURCE: PAGANCOUNCIL.CO.ZA
Reproduced with permission of SAPC

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"DALI’S WITCH HANGS IN THE LEGISLATURE BUILDING OF WITCHCRAFT SUPPRESSION

Strange but true! Mbombela Municipality is owner of one of the best kept secrets in the country. It owns an original Salvador Dali dry-point etching of a naked woman riding on a broom. The etching by the Maestro, enhanced with gold powders, is entitled Sorciere au Balai (Sorceress with a Broom 1968/9) and has been the property of the Nelspruit Municipality for at least two decades.

Art lovers and Witches can admire the priceless work of art at the Department of Education’s Annual Exhibition in Nelspruit this week."

For those of you who would like to see it sometime in the future, please remember that the artwork is in safekeeping but it can be viewed by previous arrangement with the Arts and Culture Unit, Mrs. Bessie Pienaar.

SOURCE: SPACEWEATHER.COM

SOURCE: IOL.CO.ZA

Geneva - Plants deserved respect, a group of Swiss experts said on Tuesday, arguing that killing them arbitrarily was morally wrong.

In a report on "the dignity of the creature in the plant world", the federal ethics committee on non-human gene technology condemned the decapitation of flowers without reason, among other sins.

The commission did not object to genetic engineering, since this did not threaten plants' "autonomy" that is their capacity to reproduce or their capacity of adaptation. - Sapa-AFP

SOURCE: Citizen.co.za

CHRIS BATHEMBU

JOHANNESBURG - Today is Halloween, or what has become known as “The Festival of the Dead”.

But some people, including church and traditional leaders, are deeply concerned about the traditions of Halloween and the harm the beliefs in witchcraft
associated with it may cause society.

"South African artist Diana Fegen has been making a name for herself for the last decade or so producing stunning paintings both electronically and in traditional media. Until recently distribution of her work has been confined to her home country. This changed with the display of several pieces of individual tarot art she had displayed on a South African website called "Vuya!" that caught the eye of TIW Practitioner Trystn M. Branwynn. A fortuitous introduction by Vuya! owner Arias Indlovu led to the inception of the creative partnership that has produced the Witches Picture Book. More of Diana's stunning work can be viewed on www.vuya.net and on Diana's own site: http://www.dahliadragon.com

Wasteful food packaging is among the fastest-growing environmental concerns for shoppers worldwide, according to a poll.

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Lawyers for Human Rights have sent a letter to various departments basically stating the following:

"Our clients therefore request that your department inform the Mpumalanga Legislature to desist from any further attempts to pass the envisaged legislation, presently known as The Mpumalanga Witchcraft Suppression Bill of 2007"

"...our clients are of the view that the 1957 legislation is also unconstitutional as it infrindges their rights to religious freedom. Our clients therefore demand that your legislature give an undertaking that it will not proceed with the relevant legislation."

ATTENTION ALL SOUTH AFRICANS!!

OUR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS ARE UNDER THREAT AND WE HAVE TO ACT NOW!!!!

Briefing:

The Department of Health has gazetted new legislation that makes all forms of counselling, advice-giving, spiritual coaching, or “spiritual treatment and help” illegal unless practised by a registered clinical psychologist.

Support South African Pagan Witches!
Sign our Petition against the proposed Mpumalanga Witchcraft Suppression Bill.

http://pagancouncil.za.net/ follow the link: PETITION

Please pass this call for support along to everyone you know.

SOURCE: BBC.NEWS.CO.UK

Pagans have pledged to perform "rain magic" to wash away a cartoon character painted next to their famous fertility symbol - the Cerne Abbas giant.
A doughnut-brandishing Homer Simpson was painted next to the giant on the hill above Cerne Abbas, Dorset, to promote the new Simpsons film.

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Print this off, complete it at your leisure; then type up your answers and post them here.

Crossword #2

SOURCE: NOVINITE.COM

 

A marble statue of the Phrygian goddess Cybele was found Wednesday in Bulgaria's seaside town of Balchik. File photo by pbase.com

Bulgarian archaeologists found Wednesday a 30-centimeter-long marble statue of the Phrygian goddess Cybele in the seaside town of Balchik.

The rare find was unearthed during excavation works, done because of the construction of a new private hotel.