{"id":986,"date":"2006-07-02T11:38:16","date_gmt":"2006-07-02T10:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/2006\/07\/02\/dancing-on-olympus\/"},"modified":"2006-07-02T11:38:16","modified_gmt":"2006-07-02T10:38:16","slug":"dancing-on-olympus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/2006\/07\/02\/dancing-on-olympus\/","title":{"rendered":"Dancing on Olympus"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Mount<\/center>Looks like something a little unusual was going on recently up on the slopes of one of Europe’s highest mountains.<\/p>\n

Last week, like a thunderbolt from Zeus himself, <\/a>an unexpectedly large horde of pre-Christian devotees descended on Mount Olympus for the annual Prometheus festival.<\/p>\n

Many wore white robes although a minority, it is true, came wearing little more than their love for the 12 ancient gods. But a bit of near-nudity notwithstanding, their arrival might have gone unnoticed had it not been for the fact that there were 4 000 of them dancing in the wood-encircled meadow halfway up the mountainside.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Apparently, though, this has really, really annoyed some people.<\/p>\n

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This year, despite fierce protests from the Orthodox Church, pagans were allowed to set up a cultural association. Now they want to take their battle to the ancient temples of Greece in the hopes of one day having the religion officially recognised.<\/p>\n

…”What their worshippers symbolise, and clearly want, is a return to the monstrous dark delusions of the past,” hissed Father Eustathios Kollas, who presides over the community of Greek priests. “They should be stopped.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This should be interesting to watch. I have strange visions of this issue winding up in front of the European Court of Justice <\/a>at some point, if some involved EU citizen feels his or her right to worship freely is being infringed…<\/p>\n

[tags]Greece, religion, paganism, pagan, Greek Orthodox, Olympus[\/tags]<\/p>\n

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