Indigenous/Pagan Voice

A Roman Catholic priest is collecting and saving hundreds of traditional pre-Christian religious artefacts in southeast Nigeria that new converts to Christianity had planned to burn. The collection includes carvings of pagan deities and masks, some of them more than a century old and considered central to the pre-Christian religion of the Igbo people, who traditionally [...]

Author: Vamsee Juluri   Note: an edited version of this was first published in The Print on November 1, 2021. The version below restores some sentences and some links.   The meeting between India’s ‘Hindu nationalist’ Prime Minister Narendra Modi and (nobody said “Christian Expansionist”) Pope Francis reminds me of a phenomenon that media researchers have been talking about for over a century now – propaganda. Propaganda [...]

Candice Reed a math teacher was caught in a video wearing a fake Native American headdress while trampling around the classroom has been doing the same weird trigonometry lessons for almost a decade. Based at John W. North High School in California, the Riverside Unified School District said in a statement that he was on [...]

  Protest new signage in front of Chhatrapati Shivaji’s statue after change in airport management Shiv Sena workers on Monday vandalised and then removed the ‘Adani Airport’ signboard displayed near the statue of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj near the airport in Mumbai, claiming the company was trying to change the name of the airport. “These signboards [...]

Leaders of indigenous groups in Canada said Thursday that investigators have found more than 600 unmarked graves at the site of a former residential school for indigenous children. Similar graves, but smaller in number, were discovered in the country a few weeks back. The bodies were discovered at the Marieval Indian Residential School, which operated [...]

The remains of 215 children, some as young as three years old, were found at the site of a former residential school for indigenous children.. [...]

“So spoke the Blessed Mary / Oh, my brother, Elijah of Thunder! / How shall I not weep /  When I’m coming from the lands of India …” – Serbian Epic Folk Poetry, Vuk Stefanović Karadžić,  Pjesme, 1814 [...]

Od svih indo-evropskih naroda, Sloveni su oni koji danas zauzimaju najveću teritoriju, na evro-azijskom kontinentu. Takođe, Sloveni su najmnogoljudnija ento-lingvistička grupa na evropskom kontinentu. Danas ih ima oko 300 miliona. Slovenski narodi se tradicionalno dele na istočno-slovenske (Rusi, Belorusi, Ukrajinci), zapadno-slovenske (Poljaci, Česi, Slovaci, Lužički Srbi, Kašubi) i južno-slovenske (Srbi, Hrvati, Bošnjaci, Slovenci, Makedonci, Bugari). [...]

“And above all, don’t let us forget India, the cradle of the human race, or at least of that part of it to which we belong, where first Mohammedans, and then Christians, were most cruelly infuriated against the adherents of the original faith of mankind. The destruction or disfigurement of the ancient temples and idols, [...]

On 26th January 1788, Captain Phillip planted the British flag at Sydney Cove. Today Australia Day signifies the illegal occupation of Australia to First Nations peoples. Colonists declared the country uninhabited or Terra Nullius to avoid compliance with British law. Since then a combination of methods to brutally subjugate, slaughter, enslave, oppress, breed out and [...]