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Eisegesis kai ekphrasis
Although I would never describe myself as a philosopher I do spend a great deal of time thinking seriously about my gods. I consider intelligence and creativity to be among the noblest gifts of the...
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Can I get an Io Evohe, brothers and sisters?
I keep hearing about the dangers of excess piety. Man, I don’t even know what that is. Those words don’t exist in the Dionysian vocabulary. It’s too much when you burst into flames from being too...
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it hurts to set you free
Here is Galina’s account of our Lenaia observance: I didn’t see it coming but He dredged up a feral, wounded fragment of my soul and threw it out there giving that part of me voice. It was...
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Divination and oracles
Since announcing my retirement as an oracular priest I’ve had several people ask me to clarify my views on the differences between oracles and divination. I’ve touched on this previously, for instance...
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Hail Hera!
Galina is running an artistic agon for the goddess Hera. For details click here. Tagged: hera
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Drive the dark away
One of my last acts before traveling East was to participate in the 1st annual Eugene Perchtenlauf. Dver has posted some photos and video footage of the event here. Tagged: eugene, spirits
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How have I never seen this movie?
Joan Defers reviews Terror at Orgy Castle which is full of boob magic, rat BDSM, grape-smashing Estonian Bacchanals and a black goat with glitter horns. I seriously need to up my ritual game. Tagged:...
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What are you doing this March?
Polyphanes will be attending an international conference on Hermes and Mercury that’s being hosted by the classics department at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. The conference is open...
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Plato weighs in on the latest controversy
I say, then, that for every man and everywhere it is most beautiful to be rich and healthy, and honored by the Greeks, to reach old age, and, after providing a beautiful funeral for his deceased...
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The archive of tonight’s show is up
We had a wonderful conversation with Julian Betkowski about the direction the polytheist and pagan communities are headed in, magic, respect for diversity, engagement with the gods and spirits and how...
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The work of Memory
Tonight I’d like to talk about one of the greatest devotional hymns ever written about the god Dionysos: Simple Minds’ 80s classic Don’t You (Forget About Me). Granted, most people probably haven’t...
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Turn off comments. Let an ox sit on your tongue.
Theognis 815-816 (tr. J.M. Edmonds): An ox that setteth his strong hoof upon my tongue restraineth me from blabbing albeit I know. βοῦς μοι ἐπὶ γλώσσῃ κρατερῷ ποδὶ λὰξ ἐπιβαίνων ἴσχει κωτίλλειν καίπερ...
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a joy for ever
Apollonios Rhodios, Argonautica 4. 425 ff A purple robe which the divine Charites had made with their own hands for Dionysos in sea-girt Dia. Later, Dionysos gave it to his son Thoas, Thoas left it to...
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to turn away the tempest
Apollonios Rhodios, Argonautika 1.1132–1141 Jason supplicated the goddess with many prayers to turn away the tempest, as he poured libations on the blazing sacrifices. At the same time, upon Orpheus’...
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Quem quaeritis redux
“You should have known I would be about my father’s business.” Yeshua smiled, his young eyes animated by a fire that Miriam could not comprehend. She and her husband Yosef had spent the last couple...
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My calendar for 2014
I’ve been mulling over what to do with my religious calendar since I got here. It wasn’t just a matter of deciding which festivals I wanted to keep and then calculating the dates for the year – I had...
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the dead are with us
Xanthias: I have it, master: ’tis those blessed mystics, souls of those who were initiated into the mysteries in life, which we were told would be sporting in the area. They are singing the Iakchos...
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How can I not?
Here’s a powerful account of a fellow Dionysian’s Lenaia observance: I’ve had friends and family commend me for doing things, in spite of my grief — for attending concerts, going dancing, seeing...
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My, that has interesting implications.
Although I was aware that Suidas derived Mimallones from μίμησις or imitation I didn’t know that Klodones was related to the word Κλωθω or spinner. In the reign of Argaeus king of Macedonia, the...
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It’s like a flashmob … of death
Palaiphatos, Peri Apiston 33 Also false is the myth about Orpheus – that four-footed animals, snakes, birds and trees followed him as he played his lyre. Here is what I think happened: in Pieria...
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