To Roma
Hail to you Roma, gentle and peace-loving Goddess who delights in the songs of maidens and the flowers that grow upon the seven hills. You smile as you watch the triumphant general parade through your...
View ArticleTo Yahweh
Hail to you Yahweh, Lord of the high mountain, mighty bull who thunders in heaven and shatters the chains of your pious people. You have an honored place among the assembly of the Gods, and command...
View ArticleTo Poseidon
Hail to you Poseidon, dweller beneath the waves, lover of all ocean life, protector of those who sail upon the sea. Your beard is like the moss that clings to a rock on the shore, and your eyes are...
View ArticleTo the Sicilian Muse
O Muse of Sicily with strong Doric voice sing to me a song of the land of my people, the thrice–holy island of the maid who weaves an image of the world as she waits for the embrace of her...
View ArticleAnd two for Sobek
To Sobek I sing of Sobek, the great beast of the Nile, who lurks beneath the surface, unseen and swift-swimming, until he decides to pounce upon his prey which goes down with a single bite. He is a...
View ArticleAll the World’s a Stage: Episode 2. Enter Dionysus
How it all got started. (More or less.)
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An old conversation on a relevant topic. I’ve been having a great theological conversation with my friend Petros which I thought might be of interest to some of you here, so I asked his permission to...
View ArticleIt puts the chernips on its skin or it gets the hose again.
I see that people are fighting about miasma again. (Wow, y’all really like being spiritually dirty, don’t ya?) As usual, there seems to be some significant misunderstandings about what miasma is and is...
View ArticleOn prohibition and entheogens
I believe that the prohibition of marijuana is wrong bordering on immoral. The consumption of this naturally occurring product is illegal only because the United States Federal government has declared...
View ArticleRemember those who died for the Gods and Truth
But part of why I had such a visceral reaction to the man’s dishonest appropriation is because this is the exact tactic that the Christians took in antiquity: If those who are called philosophers,...
View ArticleTo Medeia
For Ellen. Queenly Medeia with midnight braids and sharp white teeth, lips the color of virgin’s blood on a flint blade, cheeks smooth and pale as bone, dress shimmering like serpent scale as you stir...
View ArticleTo the Kouretes
For Petros. I summon to these prayers the dancemad, hauberk-clad Lads who slam their ashen spear butts to the ground and scream ferociously in time to the thunder-summoning kettledrums and double-pipes...
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will be written in order of inspiration
For $25 I will praise the God or Spirit of your choosing. Some conditions apply. Upcoming Hymns include: To Elen of the Ways To Pasiphaë To Kirke To the Korybantes To the Daktyloi To the Titans To the...
View ArticleTo Andvari
For F. I call to the careful one, the cunning dwarf who lost his ring but retained his gleaming wealth, Andvari who lives behind the shimmering waterfall where the long-toothed pike swim freely and the...
View Articleunformed
Dionysos and I are having an odd trip down memory lane. Specifically back to 2002, when Serj Tankian released the independent project Serart with Arto Tunçboyaciyan. I walked half way across Las Vegas,...
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The honey of the Pontic Sanni
Pliny the Elder, Natural History § 21.45.1 There is another kind of honey, found in the same district of Pontus among the people called Sanni, which from the madness it produces is called maenomenon....
View ArticleTo Kyberia
Here’s something I wrote back when I was maintaining my first website. Some of the details are a little outdated, but in general it still works. I was having difficulty updating my website, when in...
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