On the plus side
Apparently the next plague had to be cancelled because a pharmaceutical company was dumping chemicals in the water and all the frogs died off.
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Is it too soon to start wearing Mad Max fetish gear and resorting to cannibalism? I’m, uh, asking for a friend.
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a serious conversation about asses
In an effort to find something other than our present pandemic to talk about I’d like to have a serious conversation about asses. No, not those ones. These asses: Specifically the asses that Dionysos...
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Or you could do this
If you’re at a loss for what to do, consider heeding Amanda Artemisia Forrester’s Call to Unite in this Time of Crisis and participate in the group ritual she’s leading for those afflicted by the...
View ArticleBanish with laughter. And cocks.
The earliest reference to Priapos that has come down to us is a comedy by the 4th century BCE playwright Xenarchos; all we know is its title which was named for the ithyphallic divinity who, following...
View ArticleSo many, many cocks.
“Now as to the rites of Liber, whom they have set over liquid seeds, and therefore not only over the liquors of fruits, among which wine holds, so to speak, the primacy, but also over the seeds of...
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A lot of folks who are working from home during the present pandemic have been complaining on social media about the increased amount of time they’re being forced to spend with loved ones and family....
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Haec sine dubio familia Herlichini est
Relevant to the last post, here are some selections from Robert Lima’s Stages of Evil: Occultism in Western Theater and Drama on the Northern roots of Harlequin. The ancestral lineage of Arlecchino...
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If, like me, you have been thinking “what this situation really needs is the eruption of a supervolcano,” then we may not have long to wait — according to National Geographic a chunk of Yellowstone the...
View ArticleThe new normal
From the Mercury News: coronavirus is bringing a plague of dangerous doomsday predictions. From Inquisitr: two asteroids nearly collided with our planet today, one coming within 437,100 miles of us....
View ArticleHappy Noumenia folks!
According to the Bakcheion calendar today is the Noumenia of the month Νεβρίς (Nebris) which is named after the sacred cape or sash of fur worn by Dionysos and his frenzied devotees. Most often this...
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beneath the beast skin
Oppian, Cynergetica 4.354‑424 Leopards are overcome also by the gifts of Dionysos, when crafty hunters pour for them the crafty draught, shunning not the anger of holy Dionysos. Leopards are now a...
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Last night I went out for a cigarette and there was a deer in our front yard. Its beautiful, stupid eyes met mine for a moment and then it blithely resumed munching leaves until I said, “My, you’d make...
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Here’s a fun site while you are socially isolating: https://earthquaketrack.com/ Did you know that there have been: 136 earthquakes in the past 24 hours 1,027 earthquakes in the past 7 days 4,802...
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While I dig the cosmic connotations the Orphics gave the nebris, it can mean many different things to different people. For instance, it can be a symbol of personal liberation: Edith and I are Maenads...
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If a fawn-skin can be so polyvalent, why assume that an earthquake or a viral pandemic can mean just one thing and one thing only? The stories we share, and what we believe about them, matter. Be...
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