From:	Ereskanti@***.com Ereskanti@***.com
Subject:	US background count, etc. (was RE: the value of education)
Date:	Wed, 14 Jul 1999 20:38:41 EDT

In a message dated 7/14/1999 5:30:18 AM US Eastern Standard Time,
james@************.force9.co.uk writes:

> >>This is what I mean. More than background counts. Sure Europe would have a
> >>high background count from it's violent history. But the land there was
> not
> >>in touch with it's people in the same way as places like the Americas and
> >>Australia.
>
> WHAT? How on *earth* can you say that? Druids? Celtic mythology? Wiccan-
> model
> witchcraft?

Ahem/urhm....folks, the topics of "who had more magic in their backyard" are
almost irrelevant. Nearly every continent (with *possibly* the exclusion of
Antarctica) have had some form of "pre-organized" religious or belief-based
structure in effect in their past (ancient, near-middle, or other).

The fact remains that "the Americas" are the target of the Awakening more so
than other material simply because the originators of the game are far more
familiar with "American Media Belief" than any other major form out there.

I am *MORE* than certain that Neo-druidic, hetite, hindu, shinto,
amerindial-mysticism, proto-catholic, tribal lorian, etc...ad nauseum...exist
on every continental region currently....

-K



>
> And the people of Europe are still the same people who've always
controlled
> that land, regardless of what name they may give to their current set of
> tribes. It has had no reason to rise up and protest.
>
> Hmmmm....true to an extent...but....
>
> >>By contrast the Americas, particularly north America have seen an extreme
> >>level of desecration of sacred sites.
> >>While in Europe a pagan temple has had a Christian church built over it.
>
> Thwap! Wrong - building a Christian church over a pagan temple was
> desecration
> of the worst kind for the pagans. Their temples were burnt, and the
churches
> built
> over them to emphasis the triumph of the Nazarene over the Earth Gods...
>
> Which is worse, I ask you: your sacred site being destroyed, or your
sacred
> site being
> destroyed, and the destroyer building a temple of their *own* over it?