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You’ll find his grace in the ritual.
Most of us today in the West operate under a fairly simplified conception of what constitutes Ho Anthropos, The Man. Man is a body and a mind with the mind subdivided into its conscious and...
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A frenzied storm is coming
Here is the table of contents for Frenzy, so that you may keep track of its progress. Note that the links go to very rough drafts of articles which may undergo substantial revision before seeing...
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Keep vigil! The land has let loose her dogs upon me.
Pandeís Prevelákis, Barcarole (1909-1986 CE) The waves rock me in a cradle, the Dionysian festival of flowers is being celebrated in the heavens, and the stars are falling. The mind no longer...
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Nine Songs for the Gallows God “But some occasions for these names arose in his wanderings; and that matter is recorded in tales. Nor canst thou ever be called a wise man if thou shalt not be able to...
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Dionysiac baroque
I finished listening to Dead Can Dance’s latest release Dionysus, and have been sitting with my thoughts for the better part of an hour now. I liked it … I guess. I mean, really, how could I not? That...
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Give me metaphors unraveled, poetry defined Bring me the head of Dionysus, but please don’t spill out the wine Trade the future for the present, trade me ashes for my history I don’t need to look...
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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...
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Although Carl Michael Bellman (1740-1795), “Sweden’s Shakespeare” and founder of the notorious Bacchi Orden, memorably sang of the union of Dionysos and Freyja (or Fröja as she appears in the Fredmans...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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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