1. Pagan Cult to Christian Ritual: The Case of Agia Marina Theseiou.
- Author
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Lalonde, Gerald V.
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FERTILITY cults , *FERTILITY rites , *RITES & ceremonies , *PAGANISM , *CHRISTIANITY & other religions - Abstract
Focuses on the early-modern fertility and healing rituals of the Church of Agia Marina in the Theseion district of Athens, Greece. Possibility that the rituals of Agia Marina had origins unrelated to pagan antiquity; Chronology of Agia Marina or at least of Christina worship at this site which have influenced some of the claims regarding the fertility ritual of rock-sliding; Examination of the parts of the interior of the cave down to its bedrock surface; Suggestion that there was no chronological cleavage between paganism and Christianity that would have facilitated the contact and syncretism of pagan and Christian religion.
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- 2005