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The Christian heresiarch Carpocrates (whom I posted about here and here) was born in 2nd century Egypt and ended his days in Asia Minor, which had a pronounced Bacchic presence. Around this time there...
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Jakob: For Mysterium magnum is nothing else than the hiddenness of the Deity, together with the Being of all beings, from which one mysterium proceeds after another, and each mysterium is the mirror...
View ArticleYou become what you eat
The Orphic prohibition on eating certain animals isn’t vegetarianism (though it was sometimes mistaken for such in antiquity) nor is it driven by sentimentality – it is straight up a taboo in the...
View ArticleAuthors of the God’s sufferings
The creatures who hunt the young God down, tear him apart and devour his flesh raw aren’t Titans. It was Onomakritos who first called them that: Those about the sanctuary say that the Mistress was...
View ArticleSo what do you think will happen when you die?
I am often asked what the position of the Starry Bull tradition is with regard to metempsychosis or reincarnation. We don’t have one. This may strike some as peculiar since we place such a strong...
View ArticleOh sure. Blame the spiders.
Spiders blamed after broken siren played creepy nursery rhymes randomly at night to UK townsfolk
View ArticleIo Dionysos!
I am putting the finishing touches on my substantially redesigned temple space in preparation for Foundation Day, which will inaugurate Year Two of the Bakcheion. It will consist of a divination...
View ArticleLusios and Bakcheios
Pausanias, Description of Greece 2.2.5-7 The things worthy of mention in Corinth include the extant remains of antiquity, but the greater number of them belong to the period of its second ascendancy....
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Stoicheia
Here are the central panels of the dual Dionysos shrines, waiting to be installed. Bakcheios Lusios For perspective these panels are about 3 1/2 to 4 feet tall – which is gonna make for some big...
View ArticleAn open call
The Hudson Valley Bakcheion will be hosting our first public ritual in early January. If you’re going to be in the area and would like to join us, shoot me an email.
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You sweet, naive bastard.
Something I wrote back on 8-25-01: Something has been lost from the world. We dwell in our comfortable cities, in our comfortable homes, living our comfortable lives, dying each day as our soul is...
View ArticleImages from the Karneia
Look at how the young boys run! Chests heaving, fists pumping, thighs tensing, naked feet slapping the pavement as they hurtle towards the prize. The grape-laden man runs, not naked like them, but...
View ArticleThe Synopsis of Eunomius
A pre-Starry Bull account of the myths of Dionysos. There are many accounts of Dionysos’ birth. I shall begin with the Orphic one. In it, Demeter and her daughter Kore, who one day would be called...
View ArticlePrayer for an Oracular Dream
Hear me, kindly Lord of the Earth’s rich bounty, master of my passionate heart, Dionysos at the head of the triumphant procession, Bromios entwined in ivy and ripe bunches of grapes, Zagreus who dwells...
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