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An old conversation on a relevant topic
WordPress recommended this link on my last post, wherein I made some rather smart remarks to some interesting theological questions put to me by an old friend. Enjoy.
View ArticleSilent Lucidity
I was a kid when Empire came out, so didn’t really get a lot of the broader themes explored therein, but I was sooo into it, playing the cassette over and over until my step-father would pound on my...
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Cocaine & Cowboy Boots
Question for those who have pre-ordered a Bakcheion Year Four (2022 e.v.) calendar; and if you haven’t, you should do so soon! – do you want me to include a little pamphlet explaining how it works...
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Fairies Wear Boots
Fun fact! The upcoming year requires intercalation, meaning we’ll have thirteen lunar months this time around to keep things synched with the solar cycle. Some ancient Greek systems just repeated the...
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Boots on a Dance Floor
Music is an essential part of my devotional practice, and over the years I’ve assembled numerous playlists for Dionysos. (And before YouTube and MP3s there were mix-tapes – with actual cassettes...
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Don’t miss out
If you’re still interested in getting a Year 4 (2022 e.v.) Bakcheion calendar shoot me an email and I’ll give you payment details. I’ll be sending the files to the printer over the weekend and mailing...
View ArticleBoots and cats, boots and cats…
While beatboxing with Siri can be fun I have a better game to play. Spot those Toys! Each of the videos on this playlist feature at least 3 or 4 of the Toys of Dionysos – and some contain all. Can you...
View ArticleBoötes is the Arctophylax
I’m currently reading a couple articles y’all might find interesting. First, a general overview of Boötes and its related constellations, and secondly E. Antonello’s suggestion that roughly 5,000...
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Preparing for Yule
We just finished our ritual for the 4th week of Sunwait, a modern Heathen custom counting down the time until Yule. In addition to copious prayers and offerings to our assorted Gods and Ancestors, we...
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What day is yours?
On the Bakcheion calendar today marks the beginning of our Foundation Day festival, which continues roughly for the next two and a half weeks. Foundation Day is a modern observance of our temple,...
View ArticleTo the Stars
Orphic Hymn 7. To the StarsIncense: Aromatic Herbs I call forth the sacred light of the heavenly stars,and with devotional prayers I summon the holy demons.Heavenly stars, dear children of dark...
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Strenae
One of the customs we carried over into Foundation Day from earlier winter festivals such as Brumalia, Saturnalia and Kalends is the giving of strenae (“good luck presents.”) If you aren’t sure what...
View ArticleWhat the seig heil?
Oh, WordPress stats – you gave me an early Foundation Day present. Apparently I got some traffic from a blog post entitled “Nazis do not belong in Hellenism” wherein it was argued that I’m one because...
View ArticleSpeaking of Foundation Day presents
Here’s a collection of links relevant to the Starry Bear tradition. Appropriate since this is the time of year when we honor Dionysos as Óðr.
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The God Who Gives
I would like to take a moment to remind folks that the truly important things cannot be purchased at Walmart, Amazon, or Etsy – in fact they can’t be bought or sold at all. These are the gifts of the...
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Rhythm is a dancer
It’s a bad pain day, so I was up early reading when I came across this passage from the anonymous Stoic treatise Epitoma disciplinarum: Rhythm is believed to be named after Rhythmonius, the son of...
View ArticleWhen your thing gets wild
Wendy held the bottle of pomegranate liqueur upside downand peered through its neckhole;depressingly, it was indeed quite empty.Not surprising considering how muchshe and her sisters had drunk, but...
View ArticleLook at that sky, life’s begun
At one end of the room there was a bull’s skullon a red blanket, with ivy wound round his hornsand plates of cakes and meatand pomegranates and grapesand bowls of wine and candlesand spread out like...
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