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Remember!
In a comment left on my previous post, Galina remarked: I also think it’s great that you’re talking about female orpheotelestai. I suspect people forget that was a thing. Sadly, I encounter that all...
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Sometimes it is unclear where the myth ends and the allegory begins
Sometimes it is unclear where the myth ends and the allegory begins, and this is because to the Neoplatonists there is no distinction: it is not that Zeus represents the Demiurge, but that Zeus is the...
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Reminder about The Mysteries
Just a friendly reminder that I’ll be doing the initial test run with The Mysteries tomorrow (September 1st) so if you’d like to reserve your slot you’d better act fast.
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A rare opportunity to perform human sacrifice
During the Persian War the great Athenian hero Themistokles made a special offering to his God Dionysos: Themistokles was sacrificing alongside the admiral’s trireme and three prisoners of war were...
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Last Day of August
Feeling this song today by 3rd Secret, an alt-rock supergroup consisting of members from Soundgarden, Nirvana, and Pearl Jam. I mean, they’re no Temple of the Dog, but it’s still a pretty catchy tune....
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The initial test run with The Mysteries was smooth and clear – now I just need to hear back from the clients to see how accurate the results I got were, and I’ll be adding the system to my repertoire....
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Don’t miss out!
Since we usually do our weekly house divination on Sunday or Monday I’m extending the test run of the mysteries through the weekend. If you’d like a reading shoot me an email at sannion@gmail.com and...
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A young lady’s prayer
Via Jane Austen’s World. A young lady’s prayer for a husband, from The New Lady’s Magazine, October 1791: “From a prophane (profane) libertine, from one affectedly pious, from a profuse almoner, from...
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Beneath their influence devotees of Bacchus and Venus are born into the...
“The Pleiades, sisters who vie with each other’s radiance. Beneath their influence devotees of Bacchus (god of wine and ecstasy) and Venus (goddess of love) are born into the kindly light, and people...
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My research habits are rather peculiar, I admit. Take the other night’s session which began with Varga Timea’s Telesphorus: A healing child god in Roman Dacia, which led to the Genii Cucullati and then...
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Festus Avienus, Descr. orb. terr. 761–763, GGM ii.184hic cum plaustra poli tangit Phoebeius ignis, nocte sub illustri rota solis fomite flagrat continuo, clarumque diem nox aemula ducit There [at...
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The majority of what we possess of Orphic literature has come down to us in fragmentary form, mostly via quotations from late Neoplatonists who were likely using a compilation made in the Hellenistic...
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An Orphic conversation
Galina and I had an interesting conversation tonight about the Orphic text I posted earlier and certain parallels between the Vitki in the Northern tradition and Orpheotelestai within the Starry Bull...
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Speaking of wives
Speaking of wives, did you know that Sokrates (who himself espoused many Orphic ideas) had two of them? [fr. 54a Wehrli = Cyril Adv. Iul. 6.186] For Porphyry has again written as follows about him:...
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Suidas s.v. Nemesis Nemesis : Vengeance, justice, outrage, divine jealousy, fortune. ‘Perceiving Nemesis, the executioner of braggarts, who pursued them with justice.’ And again : ‘he did not escape...
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