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Hail Borysthenes!
I rather like these coins from Olbia, depicting Borysthenes the river-God of the Dneiper. In earlier mints his bovine attributes are more pronounced, including one with super cute bull ears to go with...
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Dolphin money
The Olbians really liked dolphins, and minted many types of coins with them on it. There are the famous “dolphin coins” themselves: A more detailed example of which you can see here: As well as more...
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It’s important to read lots of different scholars on a subject and to keep in mind 1) they are only as good as the sources they’re working from and 2) everyone has biases, which shape how they...
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A wind brought me from Troy to the Kikonians
So, you know my whole theory that Freyja is Kírkē and Óðr is Odysseus, who has forgotten that he is Dionysos? Well, I found something that could be interpreted as further confirmation. And I don’t mean...
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The Quest for the Flower
I think the magical restorative flower depicted on the Shield of Dionysos is the one that Óðr (either alone or with his comrades) went searching for when the Gods of Ásgarðr were suffering from the...
View ArticleWell, that’s a little weird
So yesterday I make the post about Dionysos and wind-storms and Odysseus’ ship being driven off course – and this morning I’m scrolling through my newsfeed and see a story about a ghost ship that...
View ArticleThunderstruck
“Pfffft! But Sannion, your last post is just ridiculous. Dionysos is the wine-God, not a storm-God.” Well, someone should probably tell him that – cause the acorn sure didn’t fall far from the old oak...
View ArticleMy God is a Monster-killer
“And what’s this nonsense about him slaying Giants? He’s a peaceful, fun-loving God – during the Gigantomachia all he did was ride in on the back of a donkey. The animal brayed and it frightened the...
View Articlefuck off
“Durp durp. A bunch of Neopaganish blather. I don’t like what you’re doing to Dionysius or Asatru by mixing them all up like this.” I have no affiliation with Ásatrú, which is a particular religion...
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Too honest?
And there goes another long-time online acquaintanceship up in flames. Man, I’m really shitty at this whole “playing well with others” thing. I’ve got around 600 people still subscribed to House of...
View ArticleThe Journey Begins
The instinct to take the last post down after getting up from my nap was strong, and only got stronger as the evening wore on. I don’t like showing vulnerability to begin with, and when you consider...
View ArticleHow dark is the cosmic web?
This interesting story came across my newsfeed: The universe is permeated by a vast, invisible web, its tendrils weaving through space. But despite organizing the matter we see in space, this dark web...
View ArticleThe Sun is a Spiderweb
At least that’s what scholars think the Neolithic Spiderweb Stones in Denmark signify: FROM ANCIENT NATIVE AMERICANS TO the classical Greeks to today, spiders and their webs have long had symbolic and...
View ArticleSomewhere up there midnight strikes
Evening rises, darkness threatens to engulf us all But there’s a moon above it’s shining and I think I hear a call It’s just a whisper through the trees, my ears can hardly make it out But I can hear...
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From the 38th Book of Nonnos of Panopolis’ Dionysiaka: The Satyrs dived into a bear’s cave, and hollowed their little bed in the rock with sharp finger-nails in place of cutting steel; until the...
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The crack inside your fucking heart is me
I’m listening to Marilyn Manson’s Speed Of Pain, and the opening lyrics remind me of Saint John’s Eve: They slit our throats Like we were flowers And our milk has been Devoured
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an Orphic mask
Pssst. The “me” in that last post is Dionysos-Óðr. He wears the oracular severed head of John the Baptist/Ivan Kupela/Jean de l’Ours like an Orphic mask when he wanders through Christianized lands....
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The Patron Saint of Actors, Magicians and Epileptics
The danger of wearing a mask, of course, is that in time you may end up becoming that which you pretend to be. This truth of the theater is perfectly illustrated in the tale of Saint Genesius of Rome,...
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