Mysteria Misc. Maxima: November 2nd, 2012

Mysteria Misc. Maxima is a weekly feature which brings together links on religion and esotericism from around the internet.

• Congratulations, Sweden, you now have your very own Stonehenge. Enjoy your subsequent drummer shortage. (Live Science)
• The Pope’s collection of Popemobiles goes on display. (Religion News Service)
• Muslims make a pilgrimage to the cave where the Koran was revealed. (Reuters)
  
• Carol Christ talks about Platonic Dualism and themes of matricide in the allegory of the cave. (Feminism and Theology)
• What’s it like to be young, single and Mormon? (Religious News Service)
  
• The Twelve Tribes of Israel may have been scattered, but their memory lives on in delicious craft beer. And yes, it’s kosher. (PaleoJudaica)
• Damon Lycourinos at the Religious Studies Projects jumps into the debate about what Western esotericism is as an academic discipline. (Religious Studies Project)
• And then Egil Asprem responds. (Heterodoxology)
• Peter Forshaw gives a digital lecture on Heinrich Khunrath, who combined Christianity with occult ideas. (Heterodoxology)
• Not sure what to get that special someone in your life? How about a cache of ancient amulets? (PaleoJudaica)
• David Godwin, author of Godwin’s Cabalistic Encyclopedia, passed away. (The Magickal Universe)
• Pagans who identify as LGBT have different ways of coming to terms with heteronormative representations of deity. (Whereto We Speed)
  
• Put your hands up and step away from the altar? Some tips for Greek Reconstructionists on pouring a libation. (The Allergic Pagan)
• Vegetarian witches rejoice! Dragon’s blood doesn’t come from dragons, but from a cactus-like plant that contains red pigments. (Sioux City Journal)
• Readers of this blog know what I sucker I am for all things Winnipeg, so this documentary about Pagans in the The ‘Peg really gets my motor running. (Letter from Hardscrabble Creek)
• We talk a lot about assessing a magickal teacher, but on the flip-side: How do you know if you’re ready to teach? (Standing at the Centre)
• Finally, those of you who believe in God only to avoid the hellfire of eternal damnation may be getting a raw deal. Science steps in and proves that the climate at the Pearly Gates is actually much hotter than hell. Also, according to science, neither after-life abode is really habitable. So, uh, purgatory it is? (Exploring Our Matrix)

Photo by azrael74.