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Dionysian Women
I need to raise some funds for a couple devotional projects I’ve got coming up (on which more anon; I would also like to remind folks that I offer various services to the community) so I’m going to...
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Starry bullae
You may have noticed that there hasn’t been much going on around here these last couple weeks beyond the scheduled daily posts for the Starry Bull pantheon; then again, you may not have. I’ve been...
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Hail to you Pasiphae, on this your day!
Pausanias, Description of Greece 3.26.1 From Oitylos to Thalamai in Lakonia the road is about eighty stades long. On it is a sanctuary of Ino and an oracle. They consult the oracle in sleep, and the...
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for whom it is reserved
Sophokles, Choral Ode from Antigone God of the many names, Semele’s golden child, child of Olympian thunder, Italy’s lord. Lord of Eleusis, where all men come to mother Demeter’s plain. Bacchus, who...
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Hail to you Orpheus, on this your day!
Philostratos, Heroikos 28.8 Since Lesbos was not very far from Troy, the Greeks sent emissaries to the oracle there. And the oracle came, I think, from Orpheus. For after the deed of the women, his...
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Hail to you Medeia, on this your day!
Hyginus, Fabulae 26 Medea, an exile from Corinth, came to Athens to the hospitality of Aegeus, son of Pandion, and married him; to him Medus was born. Later the priestess of Diana began to censure...
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You can keep your “progress” and “modernity”
Here’s an excerpt from Oludamini Ogunnaike’s From Heathen to Sub-Human: A Genealogy of the Influence of the Decline of Religion on the Rise of Modern Racism. Abstract: This essay traces a genealogy of...
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Behold!
Behold! Starry Bull Tradition: the Musical. Showing now, in the theater of your mind!
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Hail to you Herakles, on this your day!
Plutarch, Life of Nisias 25.1 Presently their diviners announced to the Syrakousans that the sacrifices indicated a splendid victory for them if only they did not begin the fighting, but acted on the...
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Hashtag Starry Bull tradition
The Starry Bull tradition is a set of recurring symbols, repeating themes, a rotating cast of Characters, circles within circles, the Labyrinth out of time and the Story behind all the stories. It is...
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Hail to you Semele, on this your day!
Pindar, Dithyrambs Fragment 75 Clearly seen are the bright symbols of sacred rites, whensoever, at the opening of the chamber of the purple-robed Horai, the fragrant spring bringeth the...
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Resist!
John Beckett, writing on the mainstreaming of neopaganism, observes that: … like the Methodists, we draw our members from the mainstream culture. And so like the Methodists (and pretty much every...
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“It is overfull. No more will go in!”
This is why if you would come into the presence of the holy you must divest yourself of the modern. Or as Paul Reps relates in Zen Flesh Zen Bones: A Collection of Zen and Pre-Zen Writings: A Cup of...
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Where the tradition part of the Starry Bull tradition comes in
We in the Starry Bull tradition are especially blessed when it comes to historical and literary documentation. For instance, you can choose between the Spartan, Italian, post-Classical and Northern...
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The Year of the Black Sun
The secret cabal of mystai who determine matters pertaining to the public expression of the Starry Bull tradition have come up with a festival calendar for 2017 e.v. and over the next couple months...
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community requires personal investment
In case you’re curious this is one of the devotional projects I alluded to here and here. In order to keep the price manageable for folks since I know far too many are struggling financially I want to...
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Hail to you Sirens, on this your day!
Euripides, Helen 167 Helen of Troy: Winged maidens, virgin daughters of Gaia, the Sirens, may you come to my mourning with Libyan flute or pipe or lyre, tears to match my plaintive woes; grief for...
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