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SOURCE: TELEGRAPH.CO.UK

A 400-yard naked "Green Goddess" is to be carved into the Northumberland landscape, under a new plan revealed by a mining company.

Dubbed the "Goddess of the North", Northumberlandia will be made from two million tonnes of earth dug out from an open cast mine in Cramlington, and tower 112ft into the northern sky.

The Goddess, designed by artist Charles Jencks, will recline over the Shotton open-cast mine and form the centre piece of a new public park at the site.

SOURCE: EXAMINER.COM

Is paganism taking over America?

When I wrote a column about whether the decline in the numbers of Catholics is due to the refusal of the Catholic hierarchy to modernize, several readers commented that it seemed to them that modernization itself was the problem.

They felt that more conservative churches are growing in numbers and those that have become too liberal are the ones declining. In a test of that theory, I went looking for the fastest growing religion. It turned out to be Paganism and/or Wicca.

SOURCE: SPORTS.ID.MSN.COM

Inside one of a cluster of traditional mud and grass thatched huts in Kenya's coast region, two elderly men sit in front of fire with their legs crossed on a mat -- deep at work.
One of the men, a sexagenarian, scribbles some words in Arabic on a wooden board covered with white sand.

"Yarabi," he shouts loudly, as a group of young men at one end of the room watch attentively.

SOURCE: The South Coast Fever

typed in by Arias

Witch-hunters appear in court

by Angela Kelly

The court recently took a grim look at witch and wizard hunting on the South Coast.

Witchcraft is viewed in a serious light by the judicial system.
The regional court in Port Shepstone was packed with 50 people charged with one count of public violence, one count of malicious damage to property and four counts of imputing
witchcraft.

Imputing witchcraft, or accusing someone of casting spells or cursing someone, is considered a grave offense.

SOURCE: TELEGRAPH.CO.UK

By Melanie McDonagh

Stonehenge was probably the place not to be yesterday at 4.58am. The site had been turned into a cross between the Glastonbury Festival and the Notting Hill Carnival, with an estimated 36,500 revellers waiting for sunrise on the Summer Solstice, including assorted druids, Wicca devotees, King Arthur Pendragon (formerly known as John Rothwell), a few recreational drug-users and thousands of people out for as good a time as you can have at that hour of day.

Original artwork by South African Pagan Artist Draegared.

SOURCE: CPHPOST.DK

Sankt Hans Aften

SOURCE: CANADA.COM

By Derek Spalding, Daily News June 18, 2009

The first official day of summer kicks off Sunday, marking the bright summer solstice.

The sun will rise earlier and set later than on any other day of the year.

Our shadows, at noon on this day, will be the shortest we'll have seen in 12 months and Nanaimo's most sprightly will dance to live music, eat delicious food and drink margaritas outside one of the downtown's finest restaurants.