pagan
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The story is that in this period Scandinavia became distinct unified Christian kingdoms from a series of disparate and decentralized pagan tribes.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026
“Stobaeus offers his son a strictly pagan view of the afterlife, as a grim and joyless eternity spent underground.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 8, 2026
Modern directors and adapters are wary of the civic and cosmic levels, perhaps out of fear that pagan prophets and citizen choruses will seem artificial or dated.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 6, 2026
It was struck at a time when pagan beliefs were starting to give way to Christianity, and its design appears to straddle this time of change.
From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2025
We don’t have pagan altars in our cellars anymore.
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
They cremated their dead, spoke the Germanic ancestors of Old English and were pagans.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
In the ’90s, Westwood took a lot of inspiration from pagans.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2024
And at Stonehenge's equinox celebrations in England, druids, pagans, and anyone else who wants to join in gather to witness the sunrise over the ancient stones.
From National Geographic ● Sep. 21, 2023
Druids and pagans joined a colourful mix of visitors to mark the longest day of the year at the ancient site in Salisbury.
From BBC ● Jun. 21, 2023
For a millennium or so there were ancients and moderns, which corresponded roughly to pagans and Christians.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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