Comments on: Atlanta’s pagan roots

By: Being Amber Rhea » Blog Archive » links for 2008-11-01

Being Amber Rhea » Blog Archive » links for 2008-11-01 — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 12:30:34 +0000

[...] Atlanta’s pagan roots « pecanne log ::: ladyblogging atlanta Heh. "Well, where do you think Druid Hills got its name, hmmm? This forested neighborhood was once, as early as 200 B.C. by some Atlanta History Center estimations, the pagan kingdom of Keyll Gyn Yiarrey Druaightagh. Even after the British settled the land as a penal colony, these cloaked polytheist mistletoe-worshippers remained powerful in this area, building strange formations out of the native granite and sacrificing debtors who wandered into their sacred grove to their ancestor gods." (tags: funny heh atlanta halloween) [...]

By: pecanne log

pecanne log — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 21:33:50 +0000

It’s the Melkite Catholic church now.

By: e/b

e/b — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 19:54:12 +0000

Asa Candler’s house looks like the Mormon joint on Ponce. Did they steal it?

By: Atlanta blogs today | Fresh Loaf

Atlanta blogs today | Fresh Loaf — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 15:37:01 +0000

[...] Eve, which harkens back to a celebration of the riches of the fall harvest, the fine ladies at Pecanne Log take a look at Atlanta’s pagan roots. Druid Hills, don’t you get it? Bookmark [...]

By: Chris G.

Chris G. — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 13:16:15 +0000

Funny post. I grew up in this area, and I always wondered about the origins of the name. My brother went to Druid Hills High School, and I believe they are called the Red Devils. They had a required course in polytheistic animism.