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Magickal Weekend’
Pagans gather in EMU
By Diane Winocur
Ot thm Emerald
About 40 Pagans — the only physical sign of
their unique beliefs hanging in five pointed
stars around their necks — stood in a circle,
holding hands and chanting, "We are one with
the infinite sun.”
They were celebrating their Pagan history, a
history traced by its followers to pre-Christian
times The Northwest saw its first regional
gathering of Pagans at a "Magickal Week
end," two days of nature-worshipping work
shops and rituals this weekend in the EMU.
The Oregon Pagan Association sponsored
the events, bringing speakers and performers
to Eugene Pagans, witches, followers of the
Goddess cult, and other members of the Na
ture Spiritual Movement attended
During their introductions, many at the
seminar said they had never known more than
three Pagans in their lives, and had attended
the weekend in hopes of meeting others with
philosophies similar to their own
Paganism is not a religion, in that it has no
creed or authoritative structure, but is more
aptly described as a lifestyle, says Salena Fox,
high priestess of the Church of Circle Wicca
Her title, she says, exists only as required by
the IRS to function as a legal church
In Paganism, ' each person is his own min
ister," eliminating a need for hierarchy, she
says
The world s nature worshippers share three
basic views with "Neo-Pagans, or those just
discovering Paganism in Western Europe and
the United States
These are a sense of the earth s life cycles
and ecology, a feminist consciousness of the
equality and worth of all individuals, and a
“Goddess concept” in which the deity is not
external but can be found within oneself, and
all things, through meditation, she says
Paganism had been relatively unknown to
the popular press until an article appeared in
People magazine in late 1979, Fox says The
Photo by Ench BookmlhoiOe
About 40 Pagans celebrated their alternative
lifestyle at the University this weekend.
number of Americans declaring adherence to
the Pagan lifestyle since then has increased
dramatically to more than 80,000, she claims
Rituals of nature and the cycles of life were
the focus of Saturday's workshops Pagan
celebrations of the changes in the cycles of the
moon, sun, and planets were discussed Many
of these celebrations have been adopted in
whole or part by Christianity, she says
"Yuletide," for instance, was celebrated as
the winter solstice and the annual death of the
harvest god for thousands of years before
Christ s birthday usurped the date, Fox says
Politics and pleasure mix
at Iranian New Year fete
By Sandy Johnstone
Of Vw Emurmkl
Even an authentic Persian
dinner and entertainment didn’t
disguise the fact that the Iranian
New Year celebration was
meant to bring Iranian issues to
the forefront of the campus
"We want to inform people of
what is happening in Iran," says
Bijan, of the Iranian Student
Association Bijan does not al
low his last name to be printed
because he fears repercussions
from Iranian officials "The
mass media does not reflect the
repression that is happening in
Iran We want to inform Amer
icans."
Bijan says the main message
proposed by the entertainment
was simple "Iranians need to
get united and fight tor freedom
and democracy,” he says The
event was sponsored by the
Iranian Students Association
and the Foreign Students Or
ganization
Folk dancing, siide shows and
choral presentations brought
this message to the approxi
mately 400 people who attend
ed the Sunday celebration A
genuine Persian dinner featur
ing sholehzard — a pudding-like
dessert — dressed up the poli
tically-oriented event
The slide show and songs
brought a serious note to the
program, with some of the slides
graphically portraying death
and oppression The economic
plight of the Iranians, including
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items like government support
ed black markets on scarce
items and runaway inflation, al
so was emphasized
The most effective en
tertainment presented by the
Iranian Students was a face
tious play on the problems of the
Khomeini regime In the play,
one character says that
everything that once belonged
to the Shah's regime now
belongs to the new government
“Corruption, repression — bull
shit like that,' responds another
character
Friday, the Iranian Student
Association had some trouble
with the Iranian Student As
sociation in the United States, a
group that supports Khomeini
' There is no logic behind
what they (the pro-Khomeini
group) say They had to attack
us physically.'' says Bijan,
speaking of a confrontation in
the EMU lobby where both Iran
ian groups were distributing in
formation Both groups deny
starting the argument
A spokesperson for the
pro-Khomeini group, Firooz,
says his group wants to defend
the Iranian Revolution as a
turning point in Iranian history
that hasn't fulfilled all its goals
and has been troubled with
economic difficulties and war
He says his group supports the
current government in Iran
“The overwhelming number
of people here are against the
current regime," says Amin, a
representative of the Iranian
Students Association.