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Come on baby, take a chance with us
He came to a door and looked inside. So, earlier I mentioned that Wednesday is the noumenia of Thriambion, a month whose name is associated with triumph and rebirth. Today I read this post by Tess...
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Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin.
In September I’ll be going out to celebrate a festival with House Sankofa in honor of Dionysos and the dead who belong to him. Although I’ve been actively maintaining their cultus for a while now and...
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Just a heads up
There will be no oracular session during the month of August. This has been my tradition almost from the beginning, and is an expression of mourning for Mark Antony and Kleopatra who were unjustly...
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End of Summer
Dver is having a sale at Goblinesquerie: I need to clear out some old inventory in my Etsy shop, Goblinesquerie, in anticipation of hopefully adding some new stuff soon (probably my last round of bone...
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Odin gave much for a sip of mead
To find out why, tune in to Wyrd Ways Radio tonight at 10:00pm EST / 7:00pm PST when our guest will be James Lindenschmidt, a Pagan whose sacred vocation is meadmaking. Drink mead! Hail Odin! Tagged:...
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Everything you ever wanted to know about mead
The show’s up and can be found here: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/witchschool/2013/08/08/pagan-warrior-radio-wyrd-ways-livepagan-music-project Good stuff starts about 63 minutes in. Hail Odin! Drink...
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If she succeeds, she will “travel a road, a sacred road, which other famous...
According to the Ionian philosopher Heraclitus (fr. 15 DK), Hades and Dionysos were the same. The concept of a chthonian, underworld Dionysos who had a role to play in the fate of the soul was...
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Polytheism without borders
Something that Ruadhán said recently has got me thinking: And, to be perfectly blunt, most of the “co-religionists” I’ve personally interacted with, explicitly or implicitly (through their actions...
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You are not alone
One of my favorite sources relating to the ancient cult of Dionysos is this inscription from Miletos dated to 276 BCE: Whenever the priestess performs the holy rites on behalf of the city … it is not...
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Super Taranta!
Second time I read the bible I was thinking it’s alright When I was thinking aydadayda(?) I v dushe vse na gitarkah Ayy yay Shadows of forbidden ancestors Come with me To the future now!! Tagged:...
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Hail to you Pompeiia Agrippinilla! May you never thirst.
Torre Nova (Sicily, Italy). AGRW 330 = IGUR 160 = Achille Vogliano, “La grande iscrizione bacchica del Metropolitan Museum.” American Journal of Archaeology 37 (1933) 215-31 = PHI 187794 = ID# 4194...
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Let’s get the ball rolling …
Several of you have said that you would like more material on getting a devotional practice started. So what I think would be really cool is if people blogged about that, that way we could get a...
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Hail to you Alcmeonis! May you never thirst.
Bakchai of the City say ‘Farewell you holy priestess.’ This is what a good woman deserves. She led you to the mountain and carried all the sacred objects and implements, marching in procession before...
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Hail to you Olympias! May you never thirst.
All the women of these parts were addicted to the Orphic rites and the orgies of Dionysos from very ancient times (being called Klodones and Mimallones), and imitated in many ways the practices of the...
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Hail to the Daughter With Green Hair
“When a Scythian dies his nearest kin lay him upon a waggon and take him round to all his friends in succession: each receives them in turn and entertains them with a banquet, whereat the dead man is...
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Let’s play a game!
Reading over the responses to this post it’s clear that the things people need most are resources on how to start a devotional practice and real world contact with other people. (And I’m not...
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Hail to you Erigone! May you never thirst.
Nor did the morn of the Broaching of the Jars pass unheeded, nor that whereon the Pitchers of Orestes bring a white day for slaves. And when he kept the yearly festival of Ikarios’ child, thy day,...
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Hail to you Chorea and the Haliai! May you never thirst.
The tomb they call that of the mainad Chorea, saying that she was one of the women who joined Dionysos in his expedition against Argos, and that Perseus, being victorious in the battle, put most of...
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