New Content
I’ve added some new content to the Bakcheion site: The Mystery of the Midnight Sun Tangled Windings Waves of Madness A Longing for Distant Places Carried Away The Rose of Mysterious Union
View ArticleGebo
Galina received a package today from an Etsy artisan; included was a lovely hand-written note on a page torn from a book. The book was a collection of the plays of Shakespeare; the leaf is page 39,...
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I had a wonderful Walpurgisnacht – how about you? After paying cultus to the Sorceresses of the Starry Bear line I went on a meandering, intoxicated ramble through the forest and cemetery near our...
View ArticleThe Sorceresses of the Starry Bear line
Freyja Hyndla Gullveig Gróa The Vǫlur Baba Yaga Argimpasa Hekáte Melinoë Kírkē Pasiphaë Ariadne Mēdeia The Klodones “Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and caldron bubble. Cool it with a...
View ArticleAuch ich in Arkadien
It is my belief that the Goddess Freyja appears in Greek mythology under the guise of Kírkē, daughter of Helios and sister of Pasiphaë. I first began to form this belief after reading in Simon Halink’s...
View Articlewoven words
The material I posted to the Bakcheion is not complete without this piece; likewise it should help contextualize some of the more obscure allusions in my set of Daily Hymns for Freyja. Oh, and for...
View ArticlePolytheists are everywhere
Look who’s presenting at a prestigious Medieval Studies conference? I’m going to see if we can record the session and throw it up on Youtube; I’ll also be posting a lot of updates from the conference...
View ArticleOpal
Here is the playlist I have put together called Opal. And here is Vyacheslav Ivanovich Ivanov chilling in the Tower while listening to it:
View ArticleTo Elen of the Ways
For Ellen. I call to you, secretive Goddess of the woods, the grassy steppes, the marshland rich in flowers and the unheimlich realm of dream and vision; you who run through the night with the herds,...
View ArticleHow are you Chuck?
This was a really interesting conversation. Definitely worth a listen.
View ArticleOoooh, oh oh oh.
I am way behind on correspondence because I have spent the last couple days working on a new installment of my poetic cycle, which I am tentatively calling Catharsis. If I keep going at this rate I...
View ArticleAbout things today, and fallen leaves
Just a note to let my dear readers know that I’m still alive, however much my inbox might suggest the contrary. It’s been another productive absence as I’d estimate we’re about 3/4 of the way through...
View ArticleTo Athene of Himera
For Alisa. I call to the industrious Goddess who collects with her sisters Sicilian flowers of every hue and fragrance, and who delights in the musical laughter of the playful Nymphs that lure lovesick...
View ArticleI want you – unless you’re white. Then you can just fuck right off.
Uni, the mascot of inclusive Rainbow Heathenry Karl Siegfried (who has a doctorate in double bass which he feels entitles the bearer to speak authoritatively upon Heathen matters) has come up with...
View ArticleIn other stupidness …
My wife was recently doxxed by some mouth-breathing Antifa member who likely lives in his mother’s basement and never sees the Sun unless there is some free speech to squash at the local university....
View ArticleWelcome the coming of Spring, the Bacchic season
Meleager, The Garland 9.363 Windy winter has left the skies, and the purple season of flowery spring smiles. The dark earth garlands herself in green herbage, and the plants bursting into leaf wave...
View ArticleNiaiserie
Wild Hunt reported on a Dionysian mural that was recently taken down because someone on Facebook complained, calling it “satanic.” As gross as I found the artist’s apology (“I would like to publicly...
View ArticleThen you break down and cry
Well this is such A sad affair I’ve opened up my heart So many times But now it’s closed Oh my dear Every salted tear it wrings Bitter – sweet … applause But when the show’s in full swing Every once...
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