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The 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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Last chance to pre-order your Starry Bullae

After the Feast of the Bacchic Martyrs on Friday I’m going to begin working on the Starry Bullae, as discussed here. For this preliminary batch I’m going to make them in three styles: * luck *...

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Got calendar?

Good news! Got the proofs back and the 2017 Starry Bull festival calendars look absolutely amazing. The order is in and they should be available by next week. Even better news – thanks to our various...

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Trust me, I can take you there …

Pentheus: So, how do I look? Look at my face. Is it more similar to my mother’s Agave’s or to Ino’s? Dionysos: Hmm… to tell you the truth, when I look at you carefully… I think I can see both of them...

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Order yours today

The calendars arrived this afternoon and I’ll be sending the first batch out over the next couple days. Thanks to community fundraising and a generous anonymous donation the cost of design and...

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burn

Within each of us there is a potent lifeforce, fiery and primal and mad to experience everything that there is. But in the rush to do so it wears itself down, becomes dull and sluggish and apathetic....

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we are headless

A common Greek proverb runs “begin all things with the Gods” and so I’ll start with the Starry Bull pantheon. If our tradition were to have a creedo (and we do not) it would run something like this: We...

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Let’s see what we can do to help

The Wild Hunt is struggling to meet its fundraising goals. With only 8 days remaining, they’ve still got 52% or close to $10,000 to go. Let’s see what we can do to help. If you contribute any dollar...

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Just do it.

In addition to the Wild Hunt fundraiser, I’d like to draw your attention to another worthy cause: This is my 3rd year participating in Extra Life (I have raised $200 at least each year) I do this...

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One side of a conversation.

sannion [6:02 PM] de nada. how you doing? sannion [6:02 PM] what’s going on? sannion [6:03 PM] how’s he doing? sannion [6:04 PM] well, no one likes him so depression has never really learned to behave...

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the blood of its prey is the milk of the world

  A quote from The Book of Ezekiel by J. Michael Straczynski: You believe you stand upon solid ground, that the earth is firm beneath your feet. You are wrong. The ground moves beneath you, it swarms...

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Numenius would be proud.

sannion [6:49 PM] or at the very least you lose your fear. none of this is metaphor. sannion [6:51 PM] then don’t sannion [6:52 PM] then do. [6:52] or do something else. sannion [6:53] take a plunge...

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Happy Halloween everyone!

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Last Chance

If you wanted to get a reading with one of the new systems from Hunting Wisdom: A Bacchic Orphic diviner’s manual by donating to the Wild Hunt or the LA Children’s Hospital  fundraisers today’s your...

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Metaphysics 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...

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The 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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They throw handfuls of leaves and salt into the fire and say, ‘So many...

I just posted this in the Bacchic Underground: The Kalends of January is approaching, and as that’s the official start of the 2017 Starry Bull festival cycle I thought we should do it up in style. In...

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Peace Frog

As bad as this is – and it’s pretty fucking bad – be prepared for much worse come next Tuesday.

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The Lords are waiting

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Dude, I just read the stupidest fucking thing ever.

proteus [5:49 PM] Dude, I just read the stupidest fucking thing ever. sannion [5:49 PM] do share! proteus [5:50 PM] This just fucking pisses me off....

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