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Hail Apollo of Wolf City
My homeland is Lycopolis. I am Apollo and I have lost my life in the land of Pharos. I was still a child, when I was kidnapped at the age of sixteen and a half. Now I serve the throne of Osiris from...
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the best medicine
Who? Apollonios Dyskolos, Katepseusmenes istorias 5.23 According to Thersites the Locrian in the fourth book of his On the Consulship of Fabius Dorsennus, the temple of Athene Gelaste in Atella, built...
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commedia erudita
Before you go getting too excited about that last post I should probably explain some things. The book cited by Apollonios Dyskolos is “On Made Up Stories.” 5/23 is a Discordian number. Thersites is a...
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let’s play a game!
Oh, and one of the statements in this post is a lie. Anyone wanna take a crack at guessing which it is? If you get it right I’ll award you a copy of one of my books.
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flowing milk for the infant god
That moment when you realize Sleepytime Gorilla Museum’s A Hymn To The Morning Star works as a hymn to the Starry Bull. Like, without having to change a single word. Even the visuals are pretty spot...
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That would be pretty sweet.
The Lokrians have a grove and an altar of the Meilichioi. The sacrifices to the Meilichioi are offered at night, and their rule is to consume the meat on the spot before sunrise. (Pausanias,...
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when the Minotaur was born the world cried tears that filled the ocean.
Bit of a pun with that last one. You see, Tony Todd was in a really, really bad film called The Minotaur. Really bad. (But also, kinda, a little awesome – though I’ll never admit it publicly!) I’d pay...
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Now, obsession turns to invitation. Doorways transform to portals.
Here I lie: Fabius Dorsennus was one of the first authors of Atellanae fabulae, a Roman adaptation of the tragicomic phylakes plays invented by Rhinthon of Tarentum. Dorsennus became a stock character...
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God from the machine.
I am quite proud of the lazzi that kicked all this off. (Ya know, Lazzi (/ˈlɑːtsi/; from the Italian lazzo, a joke or witticism as the people’s cyclopedia defines it. Here’s a collection of some.) The...
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“Who are you?” asks the beautiful and brightly shining Truth
image from here alethodoxy = ἀληθῆ δόξαν περὶθεῶν Proklos, Platonic Theology 4.31.10–16 The initiation is not accomplished by thinking and reasoning in general, but by the silence beyond and higher...
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Erikepaios, unforgettable seed
Look at the fuck have you done Made a world where the father doesn’t know his son But the drugs let the child know God if he want Fucker, you lookin’ at one, know that you are See that glow off my...
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Ride a bear, become a God!
Yvonne Aburrow believes that Gods can appear disguised as mortals so we should show respect to every stranger, as they could be a potential divinity. A reasoned and laudable proposition, to be sure;...
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The Other Red Meat
“Some went insane. They never did become completely still. One could tell from their eyes–because their eyes shone. These were the people who cut up and cooked corpses, who killed their own children...
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Is everybody in?
Getting ready for the hilasmós and symposion. Hail Athene Glaukopis, weaver, battle Goddess, protector of the Dead!
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Bene omnibus nobis
The hilasmós and symposion went wonderfully, as you can read in the account Galina provided here. We had a full house and everyone enthusiastically threw themselves into honoring Athene and the Dead....
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Friends don’t let friends become Marxist werewolves
Mixing religion with politics invariably leads to lycanthropy. That’s the take-away from Cinzia Arruzza’s Philosophical Dogs and Tyrannical Wolves in Plato’s Republic, which I’ve been reading over the...
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Let’s make a dithyramb!
I’ll kick it off (I do it thunderstruck with wine) and then you guys add your own stream-of-consciousness verse. Don’t overthink it, just let the words flow and follow upon what the last person...
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The Library is a Labyrinth
Galina reposted a piece she wrote on how a woeful misinterpretation of source material leads to erroneous notions such as Freyja, Queen of the Valkyries and why this matters. To do polytheism right...
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poetry
“Have the monks stopped meditating? They all seem to be tweeting.” – Werner Herzog
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