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he came to a door and looked inside
As part of my observance of the noumenia of Evoheios (the Attic Anthesterion) I shall be performing divination using the Oracle of the Doors to get a feel for how the month is going to go. If you’d...
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orgiastic
The ancients’ intercourse with the cosmos had been different: the ecstatic trance. For it is in this experience alone that we gain certain knowledge of what is nearest to us and what is remotest to...
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fascism is the manifestation of the collective
Nevertheless I do not support the aims of the Golden Dawn. And so I am passing on this note from a reader: Hey Sannion, A few weeks ago I went to a meeting in my neighborhood to discuss the threat...
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SPQR
I was having a discussion with some colleagues wherein I said: My ancestors were Romans. If you had culture worth appropriating, we did. Hell, we even had a ritual to bribe people’s gods to switch...
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the dead of Deukalion
As I’ve been getting ready to move into Anthesteria headspace (sure, we’ve got a week and a half until it starts but there’s no such thing as being too prepared) I’ve been thinking a lot about...
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Pagan Tea Time rocks!
Galina and I just wrapped up a very pleasant conversation with John Halstead via Skype. We covered a wide range of topics and got a sense of each other outside of our online personae. What do you...
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Polytheist Leadership Conference a go!
Galina, Chantel de Eros and myself just got back from checking out hotels for the Polytheist Leadership Conference and have decided to go with the Quality Inn in Fishkill, New York. They were clean and...
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Woa.
John Halstead posted an account of his Skype session with Galina and myself: I’m here to tell you that you can sit down with that person from the Internet who you think hates you and have a civil, even...
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Bios. Thanatos. Bios.
I don’t recall ever reading such a myth before (and I’m quite familiar with Diodoros’ work) but it’s sure interesting in light of this Anthesteria thread I’ve been following, wouldn’t you say?...
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I am parched with thirst and perishing
For our next venture into “pagan tea”, Galina and I will be meeting with Terence P. Ward (who blogs at paganspace and true pagan warrior) but this time we’ll be meeting him for actual tea at a local...
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You the Starry Eyed
Aelius Aristides, Orationes Nothing can be so firmly bound, neither by illness, nor by wrath or fortune, that cannot be released by Dionysos. Tagged: dionysos
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Longing for Dionysos
When I lower my head that final time I pray my soul will be carried away to that land I’ve visited so often before. I’ve walked through its shady culverts in dream and tasted the pure water that flows...
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My life in the Labyrinth
I can’t hide from you no matter how far I travel or what strange passageways I turn down for you are always there, the hunter of my heart, with your bull’s shape lurking in the shadows and your breath...
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Memories
This happened when I went back to Marysville for my mother’s funeral. After a particularly difficult evening with my sister and her boyfriend I went out for one of my walks. I was thinking about how...
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Death, for the Orphics, was like a really intense drug trip.
Once the soul is separated from the body it wanders around in a strange and dark place – exhausted, hungry, thirsty and steadily losing its mind. It is surrounded by indistinct phantoms that...
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My name is Asterios
Gold tablet from Pelinna νῦν ἔθανες καὶ νῦν ἐγένου, τρισόλβιε, ἄματι τῶιδε. εἰπεῖν Φερσεφόναι σ’ ὅτι Βάκχιος αὐτὸς ἔλυσε· ταῦρος εἰς γάλα ἔθορες· αἶψα εἰς γάλα ἔθορες· κριὸς εἰς γάλα ἔπεσες. οἶνον...
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Italian Orphic ritual combat between bullman and werewolf
Something about the wolves in the Deukalion thread was sticking out for me. And then tonight in my studies I came across this quote by fellow Sicilian Diodoros in his Library of History 3.65.4-6: Now...
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Tonight’s guest is …
… Rhyd Wildermuth, one of the rising voices in the polytheist community who blogs at paganarch.com and as part of the Patheos group blog A Sense of Place. We have a ton of great stuff to discuss with...
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Attention Hellenics!
Terence P. Ward – who was a delight when we shared pagan tea over the weekend – brought to my attention this great networking tool for Hellenic Polytheists of all types (Traditionalists, Syncretists,...
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More on the fish taboo
A while back I mentioned that since getting into Orphism I aphosiousthai seafood and especially fish. I’ve always attributed my aversion to these creatures to the sacred story recounted by Plutarch:...
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