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Help an Orpheotelest out, would you?
Anyone got a spare $20,200? I’d really like this statue of Dionysos by Ukrainian artist Andrey Ozyumenko for the Bakcheion.
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Alright, I take back all the shitty things I’ve said and thought about Missouri as they have formally reinstalled Ceres. Good on them. I still hope Representative Mike Moon and his family are afflicted...
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Shifting Seasons, Shifting Faces
An attendee at our recent Lenaia celebration had an interesting question for me, “If we are calling Dionysos up from the underworld then how has he been able to interact with us these last couple...
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Speaking of hibernation …
There are also two periods when Dionysos feels most Óðr-like to me – the first stretching roughly from November 11th to January 6th and the second running from April 1st to June 24th. When it comes...
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My name is not just an expression of who I am, but has served as an infallible guide through the maddening twists and turns of my spiritual life. For instance, I’ve only been doing and talking about...
View ArticleWild Ukrainian dances for the God of Song
L. M. Hollander, The Old Norse God Óðr in The Journal of English and Germanic Philology, Vol. 49, No. 3 (Jul., 1950) Against this theory, Falk raised the objections that the name of Óðr is not...
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Iconography can be tricky
Artistic renderings of Óðr are few and far between, likely because of the paucity of information on him in the lore. So it was kind of cool to stumble across this image from Mythology Wiki: Except …...
View ArticleMay you never thirst, Scott Walker.
Fuck. I was in a Scott Walker sort of mood this morning (likely because yesterday was the anniversary of David Bowie’s passing) so I put together this by no means complete playlist. While tracking down...
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Before I venture forth to cause mischief I want to leave you with this link to the works of Zaur Hasanov. Assuming you want more context for the Figs and Honey post.
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a white day for slaves
One of the reasons that Óðr has been on my mind of late is because we have entered the White Season according to the Bakcheion calendar, during which Dionysos: acts out the role of the Magician come...
View ArticleHail Dionysos Nyktelios!
Are you wandering in darkness? Are you drowning in your shame? Are you weary, or sick and tired of living in the blackness of this age? Come with me and meet the one who makes the night like day. And...
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Of light in the darkness
Oh, there’s more! Starry stuff, that is. Did you catch the month-name we use for the Bakcheion calendar? (Hint: it’s here.) That’s right – Στέφανος, the month of Flower Crowns. As in the one Ariadne...
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The Stranger King
Something else I’m thinking about: the assumption that the cultural institutions of the ancients were ageless and unchanging. They weren’t. For instance, when did the Athenians stop celebrating...
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Orestes Mainomenos
As you go from Megalopolis to Messene, after advancing about seven stades, there stands on the left of the highway a sanctuary of Goddesses. They call the Goddesses themselves, as well as the district...
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a game of telephone
History is a bit like a game of telephone, isn’t it? Couple hundred years from now they’ll be talking about how tomorrow’s holiday honored King Martin Luther II, and how he freed the slaves or...
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Here’s the music I’m listening to as I work on the Hermes piece: Northern Star.
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the mother calls the Kyklopes to her child
Kallimachos, Hymn 3 to Artemis 46 When any of the maidens doth disobey her mother, the mother calls the Kyklopes to her child; and from within the house comes Hermes stained with burnt ashes. And...
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