Pagans in NYC and is Not the Trumps
Anna Lewis plays with her daughter Maya Cousineau, 5, in Washington Square Park during the Pagan Pride Festival on Saturday, October 1, 2016. Lewis says, "I don’t really care if they (my children) are practicing Pagans later on but... I want them to feel apart of the earth and that they are important members of it."
(Cassi Alexandra / Gothamist)
(Cassi Alexandra / Gothamist)
Pagans, druids, wiccans and others gathered in Washington Square Park for the annual NYC Pagan Pride Festival sunday.
The event, which benefited City Harvest, was a way for pagans and the “pagan-friendly open-minded folk" to participate in workshops, enjoy performances and drum circles, peruse magical merchandise vendors and simply learn more about various facets of paganism.
Photographer Cassi Alexandra spoke to over a dozen participants, who spoke about self-awareness and being able to accept each other. Dawn Hunt, whose company Cucina Aurora Kitchen Witchery makes infused olive oils for cooking, said, “If you are a good person in the world and you do the right thing by people then you can’t fail, nothing good ever came from hate, fear or bigotry.”
Paganism has existed for thousands of years, pre-dating the larger monotheistic religions that dominate the world today. While often thought of as wild and hedonistic, paganism looks for the divine in nature as opposed to one singular God. There’s also not one specific “religion” of paganism, but rather a belief system that can encompass a number of ethnic and pre-Christian religions.
IN Gothamist
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