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A white woman, often in a white dress and with black hair, appears in a number of similarly Dionysiac scenes on 4th century BC bell-kraters, especially by the Restored, Telos and Black Thyrsos...
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Hell Hath No Fury
Medeia may just be the most controversial member of the Bacchic Orphic pantheon – and that’s saying something since Dirke is on the list! Most people are likely only familiar with Medeia from the...
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Tending the Bull
The Starry Bull tradition is a contemporary expression of Bacchic Orphism with roots in mainland Greece, Crete, Southern Italy, Asia Minor and North Africa. At its heart lies passionate devotion for...
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Breaking the fourth wall
It would seem that I have dropped the thread of The Game and, embarrassingly, cannot recover it. Danger of doing rhapsōidia in public, I suppose. Rather than wrestle my Muse into submission (as if!)...
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This is why in the Greek West the psychopomp and shape-shifter Dionysos held...
Participants in catabatic rituals in the Greek West left us traces of their experience that were at odds with the solemnity and darkness we associate with the chthonic realm. Rituals for underworld...
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You’ve got nothing to lose but your chains – and your mind.
Spider brings the Dead by G. Krasskova I think I’m going to write a Wandering Heroes tetralogy. Movement One: Orpheus among the Argonauts. Movement Two: Tales of Brave Ulysses. Movement Three:...
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Go Buy This
Howling Divinity A Starry Bull Poetry Collection By Fiona Husch 50 Pages $10.00 Available on Lulu here:...
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Anus ad amphoram
After Phaedrus Nanna, once a purple-dyer from Lydia, then a slave in a Senator’s Campanian estate, and finally kicked out on the streets, when she grew too weak and too feeble to work, came upon an old...
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Not to touch the earth, not to see the sun
Icily the lisping thespian man playing Caesar’s wife on the Globe stage proclaims, “When beggars die there are no comets seen. The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.” And truly the...
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Never get involved in a land war in Asia, especially during winter
Antony drew his soldier’s cloak over his head – no different than what any of the men who marched with him had to keep the frigid Armenian gusts at bay; what he lost in comfort he made up in respect...
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Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line
Alexander’s second cousin, with eyes like a stormy sky, Aeacid blood in his veins, and ivy-leaves cut round his wrists, Pyrrhos the Epeirōte, handsome in his tarentine cloak, watched himself try on...
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Blessed
Alexie of Ochakiv, was a demichristian who still drowned dolls for rusalka on the shores of the Dneiper, and made secret offerings to Veles and Jarilo at the sun wheel’s turning, though he’d received...
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So Long Marianne
In the square of St. Denys there sits a many-branched oak they’ve turned into a gallows; strange fruit sways in the breeze at dawn, as the dwarf speaks riddling backwards and a murder of crows gather...
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