Paganism

The experimental pagan folk collective Heilung will perform at the Lycabettus Municipal Theater on October 12, promising a journey into its members' ancient Scandinavian roots. Founded in Copenhagen in 2014, Heilung uses ancient instruments and languages to create a unique auditory and visual experience, celebrating Norse and early medieval traditions.

According to legend, Rome was born April 21, 753 BC, when Romulus, the survivor of its feuding twin founders, hitched his plow and furrowed a circular perimeter in the hills above the Tiber River. Everything inside was urbs, city space consecrated by priests who interpreted the will of the gods; everything outside was ager - unhallowed open territory.

An estimated 2,100-year-old rare marble statue of Cybele, the mother goddess of Anatolia, has been unearthed in excavations in Ordu, which is a port city on the Black Sea coast of Turkey. The historic sculpture of Cybele sitting on her throne weighs 200 kilos and is about 110 centimeters tall.