monochrom's <http://www.monochrom.at/polytheism>International Year of
Polytheism supports this news story:
A former employee of a Tennessee insurance company is objecting to a
"ceremony" held at the construction site of a new building because it
called on "the gods on the structure" for "good fortune and
fertility." The report on the ceremony came in an e-mail from Blue
Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee, which is constructing a new nearly
$300 million office building at Chattanooga. A spokeswoman for the
company told WND the report comes apparently from an employee
dispatched by the company to celebrate the "topping" ceremony of the
building, with the report then transmitted to the insurance company's
e-mail list. "Upon arriving at the construction site we were greeted
by the workers preparing to lift this tree with the crane. Why were
they lifting the tree to the top of building one? Well according to
the Scandinavian tradition from long ago, after the final foundation
is complete you are to raise a tree to the top of a building to bless
it. It was to 'bless' the house with fertility. But people still use
the tradition to bless the structure with good fortune. It is a
request for a blessing from the gods on the structure to provide good
fortune and fertility," the company's e-mail said.
<http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=65800>More info
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