BUREAU OF LOST CULTURE – A Short History of the Pagan (23/06/2023)
‘This is the Dawning of the Age of Aquarius’ said the first song in the hippie musical Hair in 1967.
As thousands gather at Stonehenge to welcome the summer solstice sunrise and hundred of thousands gather at the Glastonbury festival, Ethan Doyle White came to the Bureau of Lost Culture to talk about Paganism.
Glastonbury itself is regarded by many as a ‘pagan place’ and many of those 8000 people who gathered at Stonehenge might describe themselves as pagans – part of a counterculture- or re-counterculture that has roots going back to the pre-Christian era.
But what does Pagan mean? Where did the word come from and what do modern pagans believe, think and do?
We hear about Wicca, Heathens and Druids and delve into earth mysteries, magic, the New Age and psychogeography.