Speaking of fiery destruction …
Dung-beetle of Etna: The big kind. Because the mountain is also big. Aristaios, the story goes, was the only Giant to survive on the Sicilian mountain called Etna; the fire … Continue reading Speaking...
View Articleseeds of hope
Two posts from my wonderful wife you should read. First up, Galina shares what it’s like living with chronic pain. And then there’s an update on our household’s effort to transform our land. I’m really...
View ArticleStarry Bull Soul-parts
I’ve been interested in the idea of a multi-part soul since at least my Greco-Egyptian days, and for the last couple years I’ve felt a pressing need to develop such a system for the Starry Bull...
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Happy Thomas Morton day!
From the Wikipedia article on Thomas Morton Morton’s religious beliefs were strongly condemned by the Puritans of the nearby Plymouth Colony as little more than a thinly disguised form of heathenism,...
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Hail Father Freedom!
Read something interesting this morning by Anthony Comegna: In 1627, Thomas Morton and the residents, friends, and allies of Merrymount gathered together for a celebration of life and leisure. The...
View ArticleVínland History X
Here is a documentary clip about Thomas Morton that Tetra posted with the following commentary: Here’s an interesting low-budget film on Thomas Morton and his prosperous Bacchic colony that flourished...
View ArticleApocalypse bingo
So far we’ve had a global pandemic, locusts ravaging Africa and the Middle East, numerous earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and devastating storms, economic collapse and a sharp turn towards...
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a new expletive
Hey guys, I have a new expletive – Saint Fuck! He’s one of the Phallic Saints of the Catholic Church. Specifically Saint Foutin, the former Pothin or Pothinus, first bishop of Lyon. Over time the...
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some tips on how to celebrate Agrionia alone
Agrionia, the festival of savagery, is coming up on 28 Kantharos (or May 20th, by the common reckoning.) With the quarantine still in place throughout much of the country most of us aren’t going to be...
View ArticleAnother important piece of American history they don’t teach in the schools
The chapter from Gordon Rattray Taylor’s book I cited in a new expletive goes on to mention Father Divine. Man, that stirs up the memories. Back when I used to hang out in the AOL chat rooms I had...
View ArticleHail to you dance-weaving Dionysos!
It’s 3:33 in the morning and I am listening to Bacchus by Corvus Corax while watching the COVID-twerk video muted and on loop.
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Isud vinum, bonum vinum, vinum generosum
Diodoros Sikeliotes, Library of History 3.63 In the same manner the account that Dionysos was born of Semelê they trace back to natural beginnings, offering the explanation that Thuonê was the name...
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Reddit virum curialem, probum, animosum
Did you know that Dionysos is in the Iliad a lot more than people realize? He is!
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Amazonomachia
From what does the place Panhaema on the island of Samos derive its name? Is it because the Amazons sailed from the country of the Ephesians across to Samos when they were endeavouring to escape from...
View ArticleRaphèl mai amècche zabì almi
Incidentally, this COVID-twerk hack also works with the aha vs Nickelback How You Remind to Take On Me mashup, and Alex Winston’s Here Kitty Kitty and Muse’s House of the Rising Sun covers. You’re...
View ArticleLooking forward by looking back
One of the most important functions of tradition is that it serves as a point of reference which allows us to make sense of our own all-too-often chaotic and confusing lives by furnishing us with a...
View ArticleNine Songs for the Gallows God
“But some occasions for these names arose in his wanderings; and that matter is recorded in tales. Nor canst thou ever be called a wise man if thou shalt not be able to tell of those great events.” —...
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