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Composer: Loreena McKennitt
Title: Greensleeves
Radio2 - The Mind
Radio3 - The Soul
Subject: Deo Shadow
Authour: Matt Habermehl
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Title: episode33
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Pagan Origins of the Olympic Games
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Pagan Origins of the Olympic Games
Posted by: Copperwoman on Monday, February 08, 2010 - 01:00 PM
 by Patti Wigington
The Olympic Games are one of the most highly anticipated events in the sports world today. The Games are a huge event, attracting athletes from nearly every country. Although it has turned into a marketing and merchandising behemoth, the original purpose of the Olympic Games was a far less secular one. During the early years of the Olympics, events were held not as a way to collect multimillion-dollar endorsements, but to honor the gods of ancient Greece.
The early Olympic Games have been called the "total pagan entertainment package" by author Tony Perrottet, author of The Naked Olympics: The True Story of the Ancient Games. The Games featured art, poetry readings, writers, plays, painters and sculptors. There were street shows including fire eaters, jugglers, dancers, acrobats and palm readers. <snip>Around 400 c.e., the Roman emperor Theodosius decided the Olympic Games were too pagan in nature, and banned them completely. This was part of the Roman Empire's shift towards Christianity.
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