Apolitical Dionysianism
Responding to my call for writing prompts, Sarenth posed the following: Would you tackle the intersection of politics and Dionysian and/or Starry Bear work/cultus? Dionysos is a radically inclusive...
View ArticleEis Oros!
As reported on Slicing Up Eyeballs, Dead Can Dance (who have played in the background of more of my rituals than I can count) will be releasing their next album on November 2nd. It is going to be: a...
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One Tin Soldier rides away
Back in the early months of the year I started getting messages from various people that I needed to connect with my Native American ancestors because they were going to play an important role in the...
View ArticleRose of Mysterious Union
Click here for Parts I and II of my argument. Although Carl Michael Bellman (1740-1795), “Sweden’s Shakespeare” and founder of the notorious Bacchi Orden mock-chivalric secret society, memorably sang...
View ArticleStrange Spirits in a strange land
You remember that poem from almost 200 years ago I mentioned in the last post – Adam Oehlenschläger’s Om Vanerne, which posits that Óðr is Dionysos; well, I just noticed it contains some rather on...
View ArticleDon’t act like a Celt; drink wine.
Although the esteemed Emperor Julian would not have approved of the antics of the leftist ὄχλος on display during the recent hearings, I think Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s own testimony would have been...
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But wine is still the superior beverage. Obviously.
Look, I didn’t mean to “drink shame” anyone. I like beer just fine; hell, back in Eugene where my neighborhood alone had four professional microbreweries beer was my primary form of liquid intoxicant....
View ArticleNymphai
Leaving aside the whole issue of how modern man tends to be disconnected from his environment and oblivious to its life-cycles – including far too many pagans and polytheists, if you ask me – the...
View ArticleBegin where you are
Selections from Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood’s Persephone and Aphrodite at Locri: A Model for Personality Definitions in Greek Religion The first determining factor is clearly the worshipping group and...
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If you want to know more
Floyd G. Ballentine, Some Phases of the Cult of the Nymphs https://www.jstor.org/stable/310497?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents W. R. Connor, Seized by the Nymphs: Nympholepsy and Symbolic Expression in...
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an inheritance for others
Why one writes is a question I can answer easily, having so often asked it of myself. I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live. I could not live in any of the...
View ArticleConceptum ex nihilo
In. Out. In. Out. In. Chest heaving, sweet breath, sacred ancestors’ gift, circulating, spinning like a pretty pinwheel caught in a backwards-whirling hurricane all through his tall, bullish frame,...
View ArticleTalkin’ about the man
Around the time he read the line; “But time stands still for Roland ‘Til he evens up the score.” It dawned on Drew that there was nothing new about his frantic rose red scribblings. They were just...
View ArticleWhat can I do?
All you can do is what you can do One of my favorite stories about the Ptolemies comes down to us from the Roman author Claudius Aelianus who compiled his Varia Historia or Historical Miscellany in the...
View ArticleDionysian sacred kingship and the Ptolemies
For the ancients Dionysos was not merely the sight-seer par excellence; he traveled with a mission. Numerous ancient legends speak of his bringing wine and viniculture to various localities. Here are...
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My gift to you.
Since today is my birthday I am going to begin creating a new divination system modeled on the Greek, Phoenician and Hebrew alphabet oracles. A lot will be packed into these, including cleansings,...
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The Bacchic Orphic Alphabet Oracle (BOAO): Part One – The Tokens
The Bacchic Orphic Alphabet Oracle (BOAO): Part One – The Tokens Α (Alpha) = Bull Skull Β (Beta) = Grape-cluster Γ (Gamma) = Goat Δ (Delta) = Door Ε (Epsilon) = Serpette or Pruning Knife Ζ (Zeta) =...
View ArticleI did a thing
I recently sat down with Sarenth Odinsson and James Stovall Around Grandfather Fire to discuss “topics ranging from Dionysus and his Toys, to Odin, Runes, tribalism, pop-culture polytheism,...
View ArticleTruth, like a summer’s breeze, washes over the internet
Yesterday my Google News Feed felt I would enjoy an article by Princess Weekes, assistant editor of something called “the Mary Sue.” It was wrong. Very, very wrong. The article, entitled 5 Greek...
View Articleand I know who you are.
The Lord has shown me what my soul must say on its ascent to heaven, and how it must answer each of the powers on high. I have recognized myself, it says, and gathered myself from every quarter, and...
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