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Resist Wiccan attempts to jizz on you
Reading this post by Galina on Wiccanate privilege and cosmic money shots, I was reminded of one my favorite Greek myths: Jove, Neptunus, and Mercury came as guests to King Hyrieus in Thrace. Since...
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Hail to you Dionysos Bakcheios, on this your holy day!
Hear the words of your people! May they be pleasing to you! Tagged: dionysos
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They make themselves pure by washing with another’s blood, as if you could...
… they roam together – the night-walkers, the magicians, the Bakchai, the Lenai, the participants in mysteries full of unholy rites. Their processions and phallic hymns would be disgraceful exhibitions...
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How the thiasos of the Starry Bull will be organized
I’ve been having some interesting conversations with folks about the thiasos of the Starry Bull which has helped clarify my own thinking on certain matters and brought up others I hadn’t considered...
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Hail to you Persephone, on this your holy day!
Hear the words of your people! May they be pleasing to you! Tagged: persephone
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The V word
“Were Orphikoi ascetic vegetarians?” I was asked this question tonight and it’s an important one because I know for me personally that was a pretty huge stumbling block to involvement with this...
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Dismembering a myth
Wikipedia describes what many people consider to be the central myth of the Orphics: Zeus had intended Zagreus to be his heir, but a jealous Hera persuaded the Titans to kill the child. Like the infant...
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Chthonic Dionysos and the Saints of the True Vine
I’ve had a couple people ask about the relationship between Dionysos and Haides in Bacchic Orphism. That is a complex topic, something I anticipate I’ll be devoting a fair amount of space to in the...
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Well, at least they’re not just doing it to us
While the debate over the Wiccanate privilege session at Pantheacon is still raging I was interested to note the latest post by Wiccan elder Aiden Kelley arguing for the inclusion of atheists even...
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puzzling
So while the neopagans are still puzzling over why we’re just not that into them some interesting things have been going on in the realm of polytheism. We’ve received a couple more submissions for...
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release from cares
I am really happy with the response that this challenge has received. (Though remember, at the akousmatikoi stage everything is voluntary!) So far some very beautiful things have been shared for...
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Hail to you Ariadne, on this your holy day!
Hear the words of your people! May they be pleasing to you! Tagged: ariadne
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It’s important to prepare yourself
One of the reasons that I’m being so hardcore with the requirements for the thiasos of the Starry Bull is that we don’t play around when it comes to initiation in the Bacchic Orphic mystery tradition....
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We’ve got two more goddesses!
MadGastronomer has composed some absolutely gorgeous cult-hymns for the gods and spirits of the thiasos of the Starry Bull which I highly recommend you check out. She also has the interesting...
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Hail to you Aphrodite, on this your holy day!
Hear the words of your people! May they be pleasing to you! Tagged: aphrodite
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Have a seat
Some primary sources on the rite of enthronismos described here. Apuleius, Apologia 56 Could anyone who has any idea of religion still find it strange that a man initiated in so many divine mysteries...
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Baking with Bakchoi
Michael Sebastian Lùx recently wrote in with the following suggestion, which I’d like to share with all of you. I was looking at your Orphic page and found something that is near and dear to my heart....
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Starry Aphrodite
I was asked to elaborate on the role of Aphrodite within the Bacchic Orphic mystery tradition of the thiasos of the Starry Bull, which is something that absolutely needs to be done though I’m not sure...
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Hail to you Hekate, on this your holy day!
Hear the words of your people! May they be pleasing to you! Tagged: hekate
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Hail to you Hermes, on this your holy day!
Hear the words of your people! May they be pleasing to you! Tagged: hermes
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