We had a wonderful chat last night, which Emily posted the transcript of with this funny – but accurate! – description:
A lot of this was unfamiliar territory for me–I learned a lot! Read on to find out the difference between inspiration and prophecy (and oracular work and prophet work); how anything can be considered a form of art that can open you (yes, YOU) up to the divine; and what barf and prophecy have in common. That last bit is, uh, a lot more fun to read than it sounds.
Click here to read it in full.
I also added the collaborative prayers you guys came up with a while back to The Boukoleon so folks can readily access and use them. Speaking of prayers, we’ve got a lot of gods and spirits on that page who currently don’t have any. Please see what you can do about remedying that. (And remember: you do not have to be a member of the thiasos to contribute!)
And while you’re at the site looking around, be sure to check out Jack Faust’s discussion of how Orpheus, like a lot of contemporary musicians, has a fondness for gold chains:
And at the heart of it all, at the moment between the pulse of that brilliant heart-beat, sits the ghost of Orpheus, wearing a new outfit and continuing to inspire those individuals long after the collapse of the Greek and Roman empires of antiquity.
And this intriguing question posed by Markos Gage:
The gentleman said that the dig was a series of open top tunnels that cut into natural caves. A manmade and natural labyrinth. His theory was these tunnels were used in initiation rituals, the to-be-initiate would be chased through the tunnels while being attacked by both physical and mental torment only for it to stop when they came to the end to find an image of the god. If you have any information on this I’d love to hear it. I’ve been looking into it since hearing, but found nothing. Then again, I know others have better connections than me.
If anyone knows anything about this I’d like to hear more as well.
Tagged: thiasos of the starry bull
