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Listen to this
Both people who are looking for basic information on how to start a devotional practice and those who want some more advanced and thoughtful polytheist discussion should listen to tonight’s episode of...
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Hail to you Gaius Cassius Sextus! May you never thirst.
For good fortune! Gaius Cassius Sextus, archiboukolos, built this shrine for the god Dionysos and for his fellow-initiates at his own expense. – AGRW 60 Tagged: dionysos, heroes, may you never thirst
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Hail to you Isidoros! May you never thirst.
And those called the Boukoloi created a revolt in Egypt and joined with the other Egyptians led by the priest Isidoros. First, in the cloaks of women, they tricked the centurion since they appeared to...
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Hail to you John the Baptizer! May you never thirst.
From the John-Book of the Mandæans: Yahyā opened his mouth and spake to Anhar in Jerusalem: “If I leave the world, tell me, what wilt thou do after me?” “I will not eat and will not drink,” she...
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And a happy Feast of the Beheading of John the Baptist to you all!
It is read that the decollation of Saint John Baptist was established for four causes, like as it is found in the Book of Office. First, for his decollation; secondly, for the burning and gathering...
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The Dance of Salome
The vile girl on the advice of her wicked mother Herodias asked that she be given the head of John the Baptist on a platter. Herod became apprehensive, for he feared the wrath of God for the murder of...
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Every stone of it was sacred
Place, and the asssociations of place, had for a Greek a deeper meaning than they can possibly have in our nore diffused and undifferentiated world, where a man can move a hundred, or a thousand,...
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Necromancy
Mr. Mojo Risin’ it looks like there’s another communal controversy brewing; should I weigh in? 4-6-6: Life goes on absorbing war 5-1-6: with ravaged limbs and wet souls. 1-2-2: Of our elaborate plans,...
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Hail to the Bacchae of Southern Italy! May you never thirst.
From the Senatus Consultum de Bacchanalibus: The consuls Quintus Marcius son of Lucius and Spurius Postumius son of Lucius consulted the senate on the seventh of October in the Temple of Bellona....
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Hail to the Bacchic Martyrs! May you never thirst.
15. After despatching these officers to their several employments, the consuls mounted the rostrum; and, having summoned an assembly of the people, one of the consuls, when he had finished the solemn...
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Honoring our Martyrs
The cult of Dionysos Bakcheios took root in Sicily and Southern Italy when the region was heavily colonized by the Greeks. It swiftly spread to Rome, Tuscany and the cities of the north so that a few...
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If you want to get started
I recommend checking out Galina’s page on polytheist heroes and martyrs as well as this online ancestor shrine, which has a section where you can light a virtual candle and leave words of remembrance...
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Hail to you Phryne! May you never thirst!
Phryne was accused of asebia because she held a komos in the Lykeion. This is what Euthias, who prosecuted her, said: I have now proven that Phryne is impious because she has participated in...
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Hail to you Julius Caesar! May you never thirst.
Upon this motion, our cavalry on the left fell upon Pompey’s right wing. Meanwhile the clashing of armor mingled with the shouts of combatants, and the groans of the dying and the wounded, terrified...
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Hail to you Klea! May you never thirst.
That Osiris is identical with Dionysos who could more fittingly know than yourself, Klea? For you lead the Thyiadic dances at Delphi and have been consecrated by your father and mother in the holy...
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Hail to you C. Antonius Apellas! May you never thirst.
C. Antonius Apellas from Blaundos, having been punished by the god often and many times because, although he had been called, he did not want to come and be present at the mysteries … – BWK 108...
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Hail to you Galatas! May you never thirst.
Galatas, The Dionysiasts buried him. – IG VII 686 Tagged: dionysos, heroes, may you never thirst
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Two new books by Galina
This first one was originally released at the start of August, but I’ve been so busy I haven’t gotten around to pimping it out yet. He is Frenzy: Collected Writings on Odin He is Frenzy collects all of...
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Don’t expect much content here at The House of Vines over the next couple weeks
I must sincerely apologize, dear friends, but I’ll be doing the weekly ritual for the community tomorrow instead of as planned, this past Sunday. As I was getting ready to start on the 1st I was hit...
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