So, I was reading Jack Faust’s post These dialogues are riddled with hostility, and generally divisive overall, and specifically this paragraph:
What happens when we ignore the purificatory functions of ecstasy? What happens when we forget that Dionysos is not merely a god of ecstasy, but also of liberation – both temporally during life* – and after death? What happens when we pre-suppose a God associated with the arts, the Muses, and an ecstatic oracular center (the Delphic Oracle) is composed of ‘cool rationality’? What happens when we forget that Apollo had ecstatic cults associated with him, such as the Hirpi Sorani? What happens when you ask inapt questions rather than read, say, the Orphic Hymns or translations of Orphic tablets and gold-leaf inscriptions and try to formulate an idea about the over-arching cosmology in which the cultists themselves felt they lived, and the literary bricollage which inherently aided them in their spiritual tasks?
When it struck me: we need to write a communal prayer to Apollo Soranos!
We invited him into the pantheon and even set aside a day to venerate him as part of the weekly cycle of devotions but unlike everyone else on that list he doesn’t have a communal prayer.
That’s just rude.
And while we’re at it we should come up with one for Melinoë since she was added to Mondays alongside her mother.
And if you want to contribute individual pieces for individual divinities that’s cool too. At the moment the prayer pages are kind of bare.
Tagged: apollon, melinoe, thiasos of the starry bull, writing
