the blood of a tree
Over at reddit /pagan a bunch of people are arguing about maple syrup. I can’t tell if that is some fucking brilliant dadaesque satire of the community or if that’s legitimately how bad things have...
View ArticleHail to you Dead, on this your day!
Anonymous, Akhbar Al-Zaman 174 He became infatuated with these spirits and starved himself; his body gave up food and drink. When he became ecstatic the spirits desired him as he desired them, so they...
View ArticleHail to you Harlequinade, on this your day!
Bryony Dixon, Chaplin and the Harlequinade Understanding this theatrical device is essential to understanding the harlequinade. Characters established in the main pantomime story (a young girl, her...
View ArticleHail to you Melinoe, on this your day!
Orphic Hymn 71 to Melinoë I call upon Melinoë, saffron-cloaked nymph of the earth, To whom august Persephone gave birth by the mouth of the Kokytos, Upon the sacred bed of Kronian Zeus He lied to...
View ArticleHail to you Hekate, on this your day!
Virgil, Aeneid 4.609 Hecate whose name is howled by night at the city cross-roads. To learn more about Hekate and her role within the Starry Bull tradition, click here.
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Good news! The Starry Bull 2017 calendar has been fully designed and the files sent off to the printer. I’m waiting on the proof before I put in the full order, which will likely be a run of 25-50...
View ArticleThis again?
Back in July, Rhyd Wildermuth and Ryan Smith brought Galina up before Heathens United Against Racism (notorious for booting out the majority of its LGBTQ members in an undemocratic coup, as detailed...
View ArticleThe light of truth is uncomfortable for those with much to hide
Since I wrote a fairly lengthy post rebutting Mr. Smith’s groundless accusations against my wife, I figured it was only sporting to give him a heads up. From: Sannion <sannion@gmail.com> Date:...
View ArticleNever back down from a bully.
Ryan wrote back: From: Ryan Smith <rcsmith215@gmail.com> Date: Sat, Oct 1, 2016 at 12:58 AM Subject: Re: To: Sannion <sannion@gmail.com> And you have some very pathetic delusions of...
View ArticleThe Gods & Powers are unhappy & They have made clear what to do about people...
The light of truth must really be getting to him: From: Ryan Smith <rcsmith215@gmail.com> Date: Sat, Oct 1, 2016 at 1:36 AM Subject: Re: To: Sannion <sannion@gmail.com> You don’t matter and...
View ArticleThat poor dragon is in for quite the bellyache.
I guess he’s running out of steam, poor fellow: From: Ryan Smith <rcsmith215@gmail.com> Date: Sat, Oct 1, 2016 at 2:13 AM Subject: Re: To: Sannion <sannion@gmail.com> You just tried to...
View ArticlePray for him.
Concerned by the unequivocal threats he’s been making against me, I wrote back to Mr. Ryan with the following: From: Sannion <sannion@gmail.com> Date: Sat, Oct 1, 2016 at 2:04 AM Subject: Re: To:...
View Articlethe saddest thing
“I’m important! Pay attention to meeeeeeee!” Well, I just finished watching Manôushe: A Gypsy Love Story and there has been no further harassment from Mr. Smith, so I’m going to chalk another one up...
View ArticleDo you want to preserve ancestral traditions? Then clearly you are crazy and...
One of my secret informants sent me a snippet of a Facebook conversation that Ryan Smith, Amy Hale and their buddies were having back in 2014 which puts what’s been going on the last couple months in...
View ArticleThis man is dangerous
“I already have enough dirt on you to bury you.” – Ryan Smith Since it’s only a matter of time now before I get hauled before the Committee on Un-Heathen Activities and Thought Crime and forced to...
View ArticleWe are pariahs.
Although I laughed off most of Mr. Smith’s tirade of impotent rage and delusion, one of his statements actually stuck with me: And your only real allies worth speaking of are pariahs. Of course, I...
View ArticleA Survival Manual for the Aristocrats of the Soul
There’s a whole strain of Orphic tradition which equates death with slumber and postulates that this world is nothing more than a binding dream. Well, well, as you say, life is strange. For I tell you...
View ArticleMen Among the Ruins
I’ve had a number of ecstatic and mystical experiences while drunk (anywhere from lightly buzzed to stumbling around puking on myself) or on weed, ‘shrooms and other variously legal substances. I’ve...
View ArticleMetaphysics of War
One of the three major symbols of the Starry Bull tradition (along with the Labyrinth and Triskelion) is the Sonnenrad or Schwarze Sonne, which we refer to as the Midnight Sun. The evocative phrase...
View ArticleThe Mystery of the Grail and the Ghibelline Imperial Concept: Initiation and...
Unlike a lot of folks I don’t get my hate on when it comes to Constantine the Great since he was basically an opportunistic devotee of Dionysos who exploited the potential for social cohesion in the...
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