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Bacchus on Etsy

Fatty Coixi, is the strongest of the Coixi. He has the strength of 5 elephants. He is very lovable and thinks that everybody is his best friend....

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Man it feels good to be charitable

Tonight I carried some bread and honey and garlic and a little baggy with the sweepings from my home to the park and when a homeless person approached me asking for a smoke I said, “You look hungry, my...

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Give til it hurts this holiday season

So last night I discussed modifying my practices to bring them more into line with the Hellenic polytheist mainstream. Not only do the majority of people either perform the deipnon as an act of charity...

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Stay Weird

Here’s an interesting piece by Ruadhán on the disneyfication of weird. Tagged: heathenry, hellenismos, magic

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Something to keep in mind if you’re converting to Christianity

Thomas said: “We have heard that there are some on the earth who take the male seed and the female monthly blood, and make it into a lentil porridge and eat it, saying: ‘We have faith in Esau and...

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strange gods are coming

So I was watching this clip from Poland’s version of The Voice and I thought holy shit she is so Melinoë: Speaking of which … I went back to the park where I saw the strange street kids graffiti a...

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He really wanted those figs

The next day as they were leaving Bethany, Jesus was hungry. Seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to find out if it had any fruit. When he reached it, he found nothing but leaves, because...

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Some things to think about.

Celebrating diversity and variance without losing the balls of one’s own expression. Radical, Aggressive, Hypersensitive, A-historical, Unenlightened and Illegitimate. Be Out. Be Proud. A brief...

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Tune in tonight at 7:00pm PST or 10:00pm EST

Our guest on Wyrd Ways Radio will be Kullervo and we intend to put on a sham trial and hold him personally accountable for two thousand years’ worth of Christian atrocities. You won’t find that kind...

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Why choose plastic when you can have the real thing?

Nimue Brown has an interesting piece on plastic pagan gurus you should read. Speaking of which I’d just like to remind folks that I’ve still got slots available for the intro to Dionysian devotion...

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Before the End

On October 29th I did some enkoimesis work with Spider and Hermes to see if I could gain any insight on the whole Bacchic Orphic strangeness. My first dream, which lasted until around 3:00am, was kind...

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This is why folks need to read William James

Happy monist Panathenaia! P. Sufenas Virius Lupus made this thoughtful and intelligent post on polytheism and relativism and so of course he’s getting pounded by the monists, because that’s what they...

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Opening the Phrontisterion

I’ve been feeling like I need to do more for Dionysos lately, so I’m going to start teaching a comprehensive 13 week course in January. It will cover things like who Dionysos is, his relationship to...

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Aidesia, saint of pagan mothers

When people go on about the great pagans of antiquity who deserve to be remembered today, everyone mentions Hypatia but she wasn’t the only exceptional female philosopher that the exceptional city of...

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Stercus olet foedum, quo plus vertendo movetur

So there’s this interesting conversation going on – here, here, here and I’m sure plenty of other places as well – that really helped clear some things up for me. The suggestions given for how to turn...

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Our tribute to Lady Olivia

It is through the language of Art and through the holy knowledge of symbols that the Deities share their glories with their children. The beauty of music brings the harmony of interweaving spheres of...

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This video is so Erigone

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Doubt Comes In

ORPHEUS & FATES Doubt comes in And strips the paint Doubt comes in And turns the wine Doubt comes in and leaves a trace Of vinegar and turpentine Where are you? Where are you now? Doubt comes in...

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ginandjack is running an artistic agon for Dionysos

Needless to say, I think you should contribute something. Here are the details: 1) This is not a tumblr giveaway, no amount of likes or reblogs will win you anything or up your chances of winning....

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He, on a moonless night, in verses speaks thus

I went to the park earlier to clear my head and possibly do some devotional writing. So I’m sitting there having a cigarette and thinking about how Melinoë fits into my evolving cosmology when a...

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