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Not all scholars treat their subject matter with condescension.
While tracking down the Palaiphatos quote I used in the last post I came across a pdf of a chapter from M. Owen Lee’s Virgil as Orpheus: A Study of the Georgics which contains the following...
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polytheist leadership conference
At the end of 2013 a lot of us were feeling shell-shocked from a year of near constant verbal warfare. While conflict is nothing new to our respective religious communities what really stood out was...
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A Bacchic Orphic perspective on the dead
τούτων δὲ πάντων οἱ περὶ θεῶν τε λόγοι καὶ ἀρετῆς θαυμασιώτατοι λέγονται, ὡς ἄρα καὶ θεοὶ πολλοῖς μὲν ἀγαθοῖς δυστυχίας τε καὶ βίον κακὸν ἔνειμαν, τοῖς δ’ ἐναντίοις ἐναντίαν μοῖραν. ἀγύρται δὲ καὶ...
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Dionysian purity
What role should miasma play in the devotional life of an average Dionysian? Well, first off, I don’t think that there is such a thing as an “average Dionysian.” We are all unique, our experiences...
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polytheism is about engagement with the holy powers, not adolescent rebellion
Galina has responded to John Halstead’s attempt to appropriate the term polytheism and define us out of the equation. Having already accused her of suffering from tourettes it should be interesting to...
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I know you will return to me
This has long been one of my favorite modern treatments of the myth of Persephone: Sure, a couple of the details are a bit off – but on the other hand puppets make everything better. However, listening...
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άμύμων
I’m getting ready to make the next batch of Enorchean stones, which I’ll do on the feast of the new moon of Evoheios. This time, however, the rocks will be gathered on the shore where I was baptized...
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An explanation of the last post’s title
Quoth Wikipedia: The secret of the Lernaean spring was the gift of Poseidon when he lay with the “blameless” daughter[2] of Danaus, Amymone. The geographer Strabo attests that the Lernaean waters were...
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Quidnam inferorum
So I was reading through the comments to Jason Mankey’s excoriation (107 and counting – my, folks have a lot of time on their hands!) when I came across these remarks by Christine Hoff Kramer, the...
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we are the children of Dionysus
Borrowing Nietzsche’s definition, we are the children of Dionysus, sailing in a barrel and not recognising any authority. We are a part of this force that has no final answers or absolute truths, for...
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And people wonder why there’s conflict
It’s not enough that they think that someone who believes in one god or no gods at all still qualifies as a polytheist somehow – apparently they’re really, really shitty at history as well as math. Or,...
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On this day a god was slain
To mourn the unjust assassination of the great Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, I recommend that people play the almost as awesome Viva Caligula. The point of the game is to lead our noble...
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Please don’t be disappointed
The other night I woke up screaming, drenched in fear sweat. I had been dreaming that I was at the Hellenic Revival Gathering, hanging out under the shade of a bald cypress tree having a smoke while...
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those who walk in smoke
From Dead Kings and Saviour Gods – Euhemerizing Shamanism in Thracian Religion by Dan Attrell: As the undisputed masters of healing herbs (according to the Greeks), the Thracians were no strangers to...
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Thirsty?
Inspired by reading the accounts of pagan tea shared by Rhyd Wildermuth and John Halstead, I made the following offer to Mr. Halstead: All this talking at each other isn’t really accomplishing...
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Where do we go from here?
Last night Mr. Halstead and I set up a date for some pagan tea, which will be happening next Friday. I suspect we’ll have a lot to talk about. For instance why even though he’s come out definitively...
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This is not a war you’re going to win
My Thracian Adversary just released a potent trifecta of awesomeness which you can read here, here and here. Of the three I think the last is the most important for passages such as this: I really...
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Speaking of cool people doing cool stuff
Kantharos is sponsoring a global rite in honor of Dionysos on February 2nd. We add our voice to the chorus of a song sung by maenads of old. As the heirs to the bacchic mystics our ancestors rites do...
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