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Sacred, secular, or sacrilegious? prehistoric sites, pagans and the Sacred Sites project in Britain

December 23, 2011 By Medievalists.net

This paper introduces our Sacred Sites, Contested Rites/Rights Project (www.sacredsites.or.uk), now in its fifth year, and explores issues and tensions developing within today’s Britain around prehistoric
‘sacred sites’ and ‘heritage’, and their appropriation by a wide range of interested or concerned
groups.

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The Winter Solstice Season and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

December 23, 2011 By Medievalists.net

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - Tolkien

Does the season of the dark and the increasing day correspond to our own journeys into the dark and a celebration of light with new understanding and strengthened connectedness? Perhaps there is more than a bit of Pluto symbolism in our activities of the winter solstice.