I’m kind of a hoarder of links. Since this computer is a piece of shit I won’t be taking it with me, so I figured I’d collect some of the best and share them with you guys.
Movies
Crazy Wisdom: The Life and Times of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
Sacred Flesh
Jacob’s Ladder
Spider-Man porn
Books I need to buy
The Myth of Paganism: Nonnus, Dionysus and the World of Late Antiquity by Robert Shorrock
The ‘Orphic’ Gold Tablets and Greek Religion: Further Along the Path by Radcliffe G. Edmonds III
Redefining Ancient Orphism: A Study in Greek Religion by Radcliffe G. Edmonds III
The Orphic Hymns translated by Apostolos N. Athanassakis
The Orphic Argonautica translated by Jason Colavito
Dionysos and Orphism
Dionysos in Archaic Greece: An Understanding through Images by Cornelia Isler-Kerényi
Whose Gods are These? A Classicist Looks at Neopaganism by Sarah Iles Johnston
Recycling Laertes’ Shroud: More on Orphism and Original Sin by Radcliffe Edmonds III
Tearing Apart the Zagreus Myth: A Few Disparaging Remarks On Orphism and Original Sin by Radcliffe Edmonds III
The Titanic Origin of Humans: The Melian Nymphs and Zagreus by Velvet Yates
The Salvific Function of Memory in the Archaic Poetry, in the Orphic Gold Tablets and in Plato: What Continuity, What Break? by Alexis Pinchard
The Appearance of the Gods in the Dionysiaca of Nonnus by Laura Miguélez Cavero
Rosicrucian Digest Volume 87: The Orphic Mysteries
Orpheus and Counterculture by Ronnie Pontiac
Poetry and Mysteries: Euripides’ Bacchae and the Dionysiac Rites by Jens Holzhausen
Mystic cults in Magna Graecia edited by Giovanni Casadio and Patricia a. Johnston
Greece and Italy
Italian Fairies by Raffaella Benvenuto
Italian Popular Tales by Thomas Frederick Crane
Rue’s Kitchen
Customs and Traditions of the Liturgical Year
A Reassessment of the Feast of Fools: A Rough and Holy Liturgy by Max Harris
Popular Piety in the Middle Ages: What is Popular? By Leonard E. Boyle
The Saints of Epilepsy by Edward L. Murphy
Roman Agricultural Magic by Britta K. Ager
Tarantism by J F Russell
From Godan to Wotan: An examination of two langobardic mythological texts by John Stanley Martin
Medieval Domestic Devotion by Jennifer Kolpacoff Deane
Defining the ‘Strano’: Madness in Renaissance Italy by Nicole Cama
Consorting with the other: Re-constructing scholastic, rhetorical and literary attitudes to pagans and paganism in the Middle Ages by Teo Kia Choong
Transvestites, Saints, Wives, and Martyrs: The Lives of female saints as read by fifteenth-century Florentine women
Shape of the Beast: The Theriomorphic and Therianthropic Deities and Demons of Ancient Italy
Religious Tourism in Roman Greece
Dancing Devils and Singing Angels: Dance Scenes in German Religious Plays
Associations in the Greco-Roman World by Philip Harland
The sacrificial rituals of Greek hero-cults in the Archaic to the early Hellenistic periods by Gunnel Ekroth
Ancient Greek Cults: A Guide by Jennifer Larson
Heroikos by Flavius Philostratus
And this inspiring song by Boyd Rice:
Tagged: christianity, dionysos, greece, hellenismos, heroes, italy, orpheus, rome
