Titles on DVD: Heretical visionary sacraments amongst the ecclesiastical elite : a DVD video slideshow / written by Carl A.P. Ruck and Blaise Daniel Staples ; produced by Peter Webster ; narrated by Carl A.P. Ruck. Melusina of Plaincouralt : a DVD video slideshow / written by Carl A.P. Ruck, Blaise Daniel Staples, and José Alfredo González Celdrán ; produced by Peter Webster ; narrated by Carl A.P. Ruck.

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It was mainly just the European urban centers that converted to Christianity, and often more for political or commercieal interest, rather than as a matter of faith. The old religions persisted in the villages of pagani, pejoratively named after them as Paganism. The Christians built their sanctuaries upon the pagan sites, expropriating their numinous past, commonly incorporating the actual architectural remnants and assimilation the symbolism of the former dities. The wisdom of those deposed gods and theri rites persisted in less objectionable forms, disguised to delude the censors, as country festivals and quaint tales, often about the fairy folk who coexisted with this world and could be accessed by magical procedures that perpetuated ancient visionary sacraments of ecstatic shamanism. Econded in tales seemingly as simple as Snow White with her poisoned red and white apple are themes traceable back to the great epic of Homer, about a hibernation bear hero called Odysseus, and the Mesopotamian Gilgamesh, as well as the cherished lineage of the leading families of Europe who derived their original empowerment from the pre-christian fairy deities.

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