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In Japan, Greek-influenced Olympics meet another kind of pagan heritage
Greek pagan pageantry encounters a culture with its own deep sense of myth and magic.
Traditional Japanese torii gates line a stairway in Kyoto, Japan. Torii gates often mark the entrance to a Shinto shrine or sacred space. Photo by Dave Weatherall/Unsplash/Creative Commons
July 23, 2021
(RNS) The lighting of an eternal flame, the spiritual aura of heroism and triumph, the parades at once boisterous and solemn: The Olympic rituals that stir our hearts each time the Games roll around all take their inspiration from pagan Greek religious life, as interpreted by the classics-besotted Europeans who revived the event in the late 19th century.
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