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“Only one answer, and it is this: the heart,” said the Queen.
From Neil Gaiman’s short story The Return of the Thin White Duke: The Duke contemplated losing his head to this woman, and found the prospect less disturbing than he would have expected. A wind blew...
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all things move and nothing remains still
I was rereading the honey, castration and aischrorrêmosunai portion of my piece on the Priapic mysteries when something about this passage from Plato caught my eye. Take that which we call ousia...
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I know a lot of folks favor Sweet Child O’ Mine, November Rain or even Welcome to the Jungle but this has always been my favorite Guns N’ Roses song:
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Even more controversially my favorite Nirvana song is: Though Something In The Way is a close second.
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Good reads
Hey guys! Here are some good polytheist posts to start your Thursday off right. What it’s like to be a Spirit-worker by Galina. Tetra’s exploration of a Picasso painting and how it relates to various...
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He hears you; he speaks the words that heal
One of the primary forms of Dionysos venerated within the Starry Bull tradition is referred to by his epikleseis Eubouleos meaning “He of Good Counsel” and Epikoos “He who Listens.” In Bacchic Orphism...
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Hail He Who Listens
The next community prayer session will be Saturday, April 11th. If you would like to be included comment below or e-mail your request to sannion@gmail.com.
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I just had a vision of a shooting at a mall movie theater. The shooter uses a rifle with a scope. I really hope this turns out to be nothing, … Continue reading the floor was slick, but not with soda
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an altar to a different God
Álvaro de Campos: Multipliquei-me, para me sentir, Para me sentir, precisei sentir tudo, Transbordei, não fiz senão extravasar-me, Despi-me, entreguei-rne, E há em cada canto da minha alma um altar a...
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as temperate as if they had been sober
Sextus Empiricus, Adversus Mathematicos 6.8 Thus Pythagoras, when he once observed how youths who had been filled with Bacchic frenzy by alcoholic drink differed not at all from madmen, exhorted the...
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Hail Semachus and his Daughters!
I was cleaning out my drafts in Gmail where I keep random links, quotations, snippets of peculiar phrases and title ideas for unwritten blog posts when I came across these passages on the obscure...
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through the long night
She anointed Mark Antony on the head and the hands and mouth—the head that thinks of great deeds, the hands that accomplish them and the mouth that utters wise words.
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Dream Is Destiny
Clement of Alexandria, Stromateis 5.8.49.3 So what? Does not Epigenes, in his book On the Poetry of Orpheus, in exhibiting the peculiarities found in Orpheus, say that by “the curved rods” (κερκίσι)...
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passing through the gate
Lucius Ampelius, Liber Memorialis There are five Libers: the first, son of Jupiter and Proserpina; he was a farmer and inventor of wine; his sister is Ceres. The second Liber, son of Melo and Flora,...
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Sole di mezzanotte
Paulus Orosius, Historiarum Adversum Paganos Libri VII 1.13 In the five hundred and sixtieth year before the founding of the City, the Cretans and Athenians engaged in a bitter struggle in which both...
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