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 Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2005 2:26 pm
Do you guys know what some of your ansestors practiced. I know for a documented fact, that I have several ansestors accused (some were killed) of being witches.
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Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2005 2:41 pm
I know that my recent (grandparents and such) ancestors practice christianity, while I can say that it is more than likely that I had ancestors who practiced celtic religions such as druidry seeung as how almost half if not more came from Ireland and Scotland.
Pertaining to how you know from documents that some of your ancestors were accused of witchcraft, I would wager to say that there are a vast majority of people with ancestors accused of witchcraft. The whole middle ages had to deal with that. That's a timeframe from 900 A.D. to about 1500-1600 A.D. thats a timeframe of 600-700 yrs. not to mention that there was a rather large number of people accused of being a witch.
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Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2005 2:53 pm
Christianity and Native American Shamanism to my knowledge. On both sides of my family several generations back from several of my Native American Great Great Great Grandparents I'm directly descended from the Native American Cherokee Nation, and from my White European side on my mother's side I'm directly descended from King Robert the Bruce of Scottland (The King in Braveheart). I'm also descended from Knights.
I know my Great Great Great Grandmother on my mother's side who was a Native American Cherokee Indian practiced Native American Shamanism and she passed that knowledge down to her grandaughter who is my Great Grandmother who I knew when I was little. And obviously by being descended from Scottish Royalty that would be a form of Celtic Christianity probably. That's what I know.
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Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2005 5:45 pm
I know for a fact that it was Shinto on my mothers side, dating back, a long, long way. Probably some buddhist too, since my greatgrandomther was the one that came over from Japan, and I know that she was Shinto. On my dad's side, probably Christianity for a long way, though possibly some other things mixed in as well. I'm not really sure on my dad's side though. My grandma was an orphan, and my grandfather fled the country and entered Canada as a refugee, so he hadn't taken any personal items with him. That religious background is cloudly, but I'm pretty sure most were Christian.
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Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2005 6:00 pm
Well, my parents and grandparents are non-religious. I am a pantheist.
My mom's family: very orthodox Catholic
My dad's family: never very strict with religion...always avoided it
((there has always been a few pagans, but many were deleted from the family tree because of it))
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Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2005 7:26 am
my ancestors were Picts. they lived in scotland before the celts, dyed themselves blue, went into battle naked, and worshipped a goddess named Brigid who protected seafarers and blessed marriages.
she was later adopted as a "saint" by the Roman catholic church.
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Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2005 11:20 am
Saint Brigit to be exact.
My mother's side follows VEEEERY strict Armenian Orthodox Christianity. they were probably following it for over one thousand years, seeing as documents written by my great great great grandmother confirm Christianity. In becoming a Pagan, I broke a nearly 2000 year old tradition. Boo hoo.
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Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2005 11:55 am
Well, since my family has just been non-Irish for only the last few generations, my ancestors were probably druids at some point before becoming Catholics thanks to St. Patty. Though, now with all the outside blood mixing in, I'm a bit of everything, so chances are, my ancestors are anywhere from shamanists to pagans to other sects to Christianity.
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Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2005 12:19 pm
I'm a quarter Italian, a quarter German and half Polish, which means at least three forths of my ancestors were probably Catholic. And before that, they'd have been members of the ancient Pagan tribes of Europe. I also take pride in the fact that a quarter of my ancestors would have anciently been Hellenes, as I am in love with ancient Rome.
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Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2005 3:16 pm
Isn't Hellenicism following the Greek pantheon?
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Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2005 3:51 pm
Son of Axeman Isn't Hellenicism following the Greek pantheon? I believe it can apply to either... don't take my word for it though, I'm really not sure sweatdrop I know it definitely does apply to the Greek though. As for me... well, my dad's side all through the males (dad, gradad, great grandad etc.) have all been very much black Irish, though it's been diluted along the way they've all still very much got the look of it. I do too, actually, except that I have brown hair, not black. My mom's side is almost entirely British, and then on both sides I've got other stuff from that area, Swedish, Norwegian, Icelandic etc. So I've got some Norse background, with quite a bit of Druidry and Catholocism/Protestantism. I'm 1/8 Hebrew as well, which means that if you trace it back far enough there's probably a bit of Egyptian as well. There may or may not have been Greek ancestors, but I wouldn't be surprised.
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Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2005 6:34 pm
Son of Axeman Isn't Hellenicism following the Greek pantheon? Hellenism is Graco Roman. The only major difference between the Greek and Roman versions are the names of the gods. That and the fact that the Greeks followed the religion passionatley by choise, and the Romans basically forced the religion on their empire as the official religion of the state.
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A Murder of Angels Captain
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Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2005 10:32 am
Yeah, I was wondering weither the Greek and Roman gods were the same with diffrent names, or diffrent dieties that all just eerily resemble eachother. Some recons I know say that they are the same, while others claim they are diffrent. All I DO know is that the ancient Trojans were the ancestors of the Roman race.
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Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2005 11:59 am
Son of Axeman Yeah, I was wondering weither the Greek and Roman gods were the same with diffrent names, or diffrent dieties that all just eerily resemble eachother. Some recons I know say that they are the same, while others claim they are diffrent. All I DO know is that the ancient Trojans were the ancestors of the Roman race. Well, I should mention that MOST but not all of the gods were simply renamed. All the gods major to the greeks stuck around with a new name, but in that area of the world, there were also many local dieties which got more attention and joined the pantheon when the Hellenic religion took root in Rome. And yes, the Trojans were ancestors of the Romans. They were also part of the Greek race.
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A Murder of Angels Captain
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Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2005 5:15 pm
I am 100% southern Irish.... most of my family has practiced Christianity for a very long time now, but about 20% of my family still practices or has once practiced paganism.
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