{"id":3838,"date":"2012-12-19T07:59:18","date_gmt":"2012-12-19T15:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/?p=3838"},"modified":"2012-12-19T11:06:21","modified_gmt":"2012-12-19T19:06:21","slug":"another-example-of-redeemed-paganism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/2012\/12\/19\/another-example-of-redeemed-paganism\/","title":{"rendered":"Another example of redeemed paganism"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Cain&#8217;s clan, whom the Creator had outlawed<br \/>\nand condemned as outcasts. For the killing of Abel<br \/>\nthe Eternal Lord had exacted a price:<br \/>\nCain got no good from committing that murder<br \/>\nbecause the Almighty made him anathema<br \/>\nand out of the curse of his exile there sprang<br \/>\nogres and elves and evil phantoms<br \/>\nand the giants too who strove with god<br \/>\ntime and again until He gave them their reward.<\/p>\n<p>-Beowulf, Seamus Heaney translation, l.106-114<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So we take monsters, but give them an Old Testament back story. This sort of mixing of folk beliefs with the Biblical narrative reminds me of Lewis&#8217;s &#8220;redeemed paganism&#8221;, featured throughout the Narnia Chronicles. It&#8217;s no stretch at all to say he is doing the same thing the Beowulf author was doing with his story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cain&#8217;s clan, whom the Creator had outlawed and condemned as outcasts. For the killing of Abel the Eternal Lord had exacted a price: Cain got no good from committing that murder because the Almighty made him anathema and out of the curse of his exile there sprang ogres and elves and evil phantoms and the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/2012\/12\/19\/another-example-of-redeemed-paganism\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Another example of redeemed paganism&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3838"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3841,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3838\/revisions\/3841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}