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truth
This is the face I made while reading Nicole Danielle’s How Pagan Tumblr is Pretty Accurate… which contains gems such as this: because to many of them social justice isn’t so much about a cohesive...
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Good stuff!
We had a really good conversation with tonight’s guest Rhyd Wildermuth, (who blogs at paganarch.com and as part of the Patheos group blog A Sense of Place.) We discussed the disruptive nature of...
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Circles, etc.
So here’s an interesting variation on the Orphic story: In the poem, Sir Orfeo, king in England, loses his wife Heurodis to the fairy king, who steals her away from under an ympe-tre (a tree...
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Mense Maio malae nubent
I need to check on this, but I think Sir Orfeo comes the closest of all our sources to giving us a date for the abduction of Eurydike: It befell, at the beginning of May when the sun’s heat banishes...
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And even more circles
And to give this some added perspective – Eurydike is thought to have originally been an epiklesis of Persephone meaning “Widely Ruling.” The actual name of Orpheus’ wife, according to Hermesianax of...
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That ties it together nicely
Orpheus is the one who first sang about the rape of Persephone, according to the Parian Chronicle: From when Demeter, coming to Athens, invented the seed corn, and the first festival of ploughing time...
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Yeah, that’s really going to help the situation
Recognizing that they can’t hold their own intellectually pagans have taken to lampooning polytheists through cartoons: You know who else liked cartoons? Nazis. Tagged: paganism, polytheism
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People get the community they deserve
Monte posted an announcement this morning explaining that Temenos Thessaly has canceled the Hellenic Revival Gathering for all too predictable reasons: Our coming out and offering of our temenos...
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Who’s coming to the Polytheist Leadership Conference?
Hey folks! We’ve got the website for the Polytheist Leadership Conference up and running and are now accepting registrations. polytheistleadershipconference.wordpress.com/ We’ll be updating the blog...
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Need guidance?
I’m going to be doing some divination tomorrow night in preparation for going into Anthesteria so if you’ve got some questions or would just like a status check send me an e-mail at sannion@gmail.com...
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Anthesteria is almost here
Alexander Polyhistor, Successions of Philosophers FGrHist 273 F 93 Hermes is the steward of souls, and for that reason is called Hermes the Escorter, Hermes the Keeper of the Gate, and Hermes of the...
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The fruit of discord
One of my regular readers sent me an e-mail about the cancelation of the Hellenic Revival Gathering (I’d include a link here, but it looks as if the Temenos Thessaly blog has already been taken down)...
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every beginning is an end; every end a beginning
The Arrival of the God “For in the month Anthesterion a trireme raised into the air is escorted into the agora which the priest of Dionysos steers like a helmsman with its lines loose from the sea.”...
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Five fingers make a hand
Aridela asked the probing question Are the loud the many? Are the negative the most powerful? To which I replied back in March of 2013 Yes. Most emphatically yes. This wasn’t the fault of a couple...
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θύραζε κῆρες
Speaking of boxes … Curious was not your average Carebear. Oh, to look at her you would not have thought she was any different from her brothers and sisters. She was small and round, with soft lavender...
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a sickness of the modern age
Galina reminds us that Catholic devotion is just as controversial as the polytheist variety. Tagged: christianity, paganism, polytheism
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Then Orpheus sang of the stones that Pyrrha threw
I’ll be going out in a couple hours to dig some rocks from the snow and ice covered shores of the river in order to create the next batch of the Enorchean stones. I was originally going to make them on...
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that’s piety, bitches
So I was reading through that treasure trove of ancient information known as the Suidas when I came across this interesting passage: Meaning plucked, made smooth. But properly, pruned fig-trees; for...
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Some things to keep in mind as we go into Anthesteria
First, Aridela shares an account of her experience of Choes back in 2011: Time slowed to nothing. Sex and death and madness were intertwined. But even as I thought of describing it that way as it...
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