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We should all be striving for more precision in our language
On the occasion of the Paganalia/Sementivae festival P. Sufenas Virius Lupus shared some important thoughts and made the following resolution: I’m going to call myself a “devotional polytheist” from...
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confirmation of a taboo
Technically I do not have taboos, I aphosiousthai: Aphosiousthai (άφοσιουσθαι), verb: to eschew on religious grounds or hold in abomination, to fulfill an obligation, to restore hosia (purity) after a...
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Memory destroys peace
To millions of Christians, they are a symbol of peace. But to a pair of larger birds, the two doves released in the Vatican yesterday were nothing more than a chance for a bit of Sunday morning sport....
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puppies!
The word I couldn’t remember last night was orphninos: ὄρφνῐνος, “dusky dark”: a color created through the mixture of black, red, and white. Pl.Ti.68c, cf. Duris 31 J.; put by X. between πορφύρεος and...
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For those who are interested
Here is Georgi Mishev’s White, red and black: Bulgarian healing ritual. Several people also sent me PDFs of it, so I should be good if it goes down again. I have a strange hunch this has something to...
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The Orphic Arts
I’m going to see if I can track down the herbs mentioned in that scene from the Orphic Argonautika: juniper dry cedar prickly boxthorn weeping black poplars copper sulfate soapwort safflower odorless...
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probably not a good idea to poison one’s readers
I was actually planning to do some extensive research before I set about collecting the materials for the satchels since things associated with the Chthonioi do tend to be rather harmful to the...
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Fuck
So I was thinking about the incident with the birds this morning. Sure, the Pope is Christian but he’s also the Pontifex Maximus of Rome and when augury goes that badly … there are going to be...
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Continuing the thread of Orphism and drugs
Here’s something wonderfully weird I found on Tumblr called Ask Orpheus the Cave-Dwelling Spider. Apparently he lures those block-shaped creatures into his den with psychoactive mushrooms. Or...
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Προγονους στεφανου
“O my son! pour out thy wine on the tombs of the just.” – The Teachings of Ahiqar 2.13 Galina’s next Ancestor Work 101 course will be starting in March: This course explores the basics of ancestor...
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Sono pazzi questi Romani
Over the weekend Galina and I will be hosting an Imbolc ritual for Brigit, with members of House Sankofa coming from various parts of New York and the Northeast to attend. While they’re here we’re...
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avoid men like this
Euripides, Hippolytos 948–957: Are you, then, the companion of the gods, as a man beyond the common? Are you the chaste one, untouched by evil? I will never be persuaded by your vauntings, never be so...
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well-endowed jesus
Here are the search terms that brought people to my site over the last seven days. the house of vines 14 possum 10 anthesteria 8 erigone 8 bacchus 5 xxx vines 5 aphrodite school appropriate 4 couple...
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firm
If you are looking to regain a firm and confident theology … click here. Tagged: polytheism
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blessed
I’ve been doing some research on Olbia, the Greek settlement on the Black Sea in the region now known as the Ukraine. Not only was this a melting-pot of Greek, Skythian, Persian and Asiatic cultures...
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everything I could find related to Anthesteria in the Suidas
[Note: these quotes are not arranged alphabetically - I may go back at a later date and amend that.] s.v. Ἀνθεστηριών “Anthesterion” It is the eighth month amongst Athenians, sacred to Dionysos. It is...
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Lethe kai Mnemosyne
P. Sufenas Virius Lupus has a lovely post called Everything I Ever Needed To Know About Devotion, I Learned From Watching Hanuman which contains lines like this: When you tear open your chest, you...
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Teasing out the Deukalion thread of Anthesteria
Hesiod, Works & Days 54ff And he bade famous Hephaistos make haste and mix earth with water and to put in it the voice and strength of human kind, and fashion a sweet, lovely maiden-shape, like to...
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In remembrance of Erigone
Kallimachos, Aitia 1.1 Nor did the morn of the Broaching of the Jars pass unheeded, nor that whereon the Pitchers of Orestes bring a white day for slaves. And when he kept the yearly festival of...
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The New Wine we were promised
Act One: Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin. I was recently asked to say a few words on a topic that is near and dear to my heart – hero cultus within contemporary polytheism. My literary...
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