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Adorable

This band is so cute that I want to kill them to preserve the cuteness. Tagged: music

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Piety possum says …

From the beginning we have been saying one thing, and this one axiom is at the core of everything we write and teach: honor the Holy Powers (gods, ancestors, spirits). Honor them, in whatever way you...

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I have a special plan for this world

This is what it’s like inside my head. Why would you ever want to be me? Tagged: spirits

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committed

Tonight was the noumenia and around dusk when I should have been preparing to make the customary offerings I found myself procrastinating. I was physically exhausted from all of the packing and...

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I want the whole damn world to come dance with me

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You don’t say.

So I was watching this clip and thinking, “Damn. Alex Ebert really needs to play Dionysos or Orpheus in a film.” Of course, I’ve thought that since Truth but seeing his performance there … wow. I go...

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If I Were Free

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What can we do?

My Thracian Adversary has an interesting post up asking the question “What can we do to change the tone of discourse in our communities?” I have a very simple solution: shut off comments. The whole...

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Apparently there are some hurt feelings over the graveyard gods ritual

Specifically I am being called out for including a piece for Loki right after the piece for Marvel Loki. People are saying this was a dig at the PCP crowd and I had no right to question the...

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Personally, I’m glad you got rid of the Comments.

I’ve been having a great theological conversation with my friend Petros which I thought might be of interest to some of you here, so I asked his permission to share. He agreed and here we go!...

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Cleaning out my bookmarks

I’m kind of a hoarder of links. Since this computer is a piece of shit I won’t be taking it with me, so I figured I’d collect some of the best and share them with you guys. Movies Crazy Wisdom: The...

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he would reply that one should observe ancestral customs, and it was not his...

Athenaios, Deipnosophistai 7.297d Agatharchides, at any rate, in the sixth book of his European History, says that the Boeotians sacrifice eels which are of surpassing size, putting wreaths on them,...

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Support traditional marriage.

Tagged: hellenismos, politics

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The end of an era

I began the monthly Dionysian oracular sessions shortly before moving to Eugene and pretty much assumed that I’d be carrying them forward when I left. That was a pretty large assumption – and one that...

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Wow, this is like a Bacchic Orphic creedo

Tagged: dionysos, music, orpheus

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Happy Lenaia!

Lenaia, one of my favorite Dionysian festivals, is coming up this weekend so I figured I’d post about it to get everyone in the spirit. The Lenaia was one of the most important festivals of ancient...

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The stones of Dionysos Enorches

Stones have been made and mailed off for: Taylor Duffi Rebecca Alex So expect them soon! If you requested one and don’t see your name there contact me and we’ll sort things out. Also, if you’re...

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On the next episode of Wyrd Ways

Our guest will be Julian Betkowski who is an artist living in Western Pennsylvania and has been a practicing Pagan for the last ten years. He writes for the Agora blog on Patheos Pagan, as well as...

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A Dionysian perspective on Orphism

I believe that Orphism was originally a Thracian cult of ecstasy that came to Athens with the slave population along with the rites of Kotys, Bendis and Sabazios. Back in their native country the...

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The Restoration of the Mysteries

I don’t want to talk about this.   Every fiber of my being is resisting – and that’s why I’m going to do it. “The way of the transgressor is hard.” I’ve called this series Blurring Boundaries for a...

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