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Hail to you Heroes, on this your holy day!
Hear the words of your people! May they be pleasing to you! Tagged: heroes
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Dionysos exists at the extremes
Courtney wrote the following in response to my post It’s important to prepare yourself: When I tried to describe this to my husband, he said it sounded less like a religious ritual and more like a...
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Thiasos of the Starry Bull now on Facebook!
There’s now a place for akousmatikoi of the thiasos of the Starry Bull to gather on Facebook for networking, discussions of the divinities, lore and practice of our tradition as well as sharing...
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Greetings and Bacchic blessings to you from your archiboukolos!
I am blown away by the outpouring of prayers, poetry and heartfelt expressions of devotion you guys have been posting for the gods and spirits of our tradition. I know for me, personally, adopting...
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question
Something else that I’m really enjoying are the responses to the polytheist meme that Galina came up with. First up, here’s her own response to question #3: My life has been hard. Without going into...
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Break on through to the other side
Sunday is the noumenia of Eleutherion (going by the month-names of my idiosyncratic calendar – which I guess is now the official calendar of the thiasos of the Starry Bull) and I intend to make...
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Hail to you Heroines, on this your holy day!
Hear the words of your people! May they be pleasing to you! Tagged: heroes
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Why does this keep happening?
Seeing this story on the Wild Hunt about the closure of yet another pagan community center I was reminded of this oratorical exercise I wrote a while back, Against those who fetishize the building of...
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Stay the fuck home
Reading through Julian Betkowski’s latest post I was dismayed to hear that people are warning him against associating with the likes of Galina and myself and others are considering not attending the...
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As an added incentive for coming to the conference
Early on in the planning stages we decided to limit the Polytheist Leadership Conference to just lectures, workshops and roundtable discussions even though we would have preferred to have folks offer...
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Do not hastily share this information with anyone, for you will find its like...
Jigglebird. That’s my new swear since fuck apparently offends people’s delicate sensibilities. It comes from a passage in Aristophanes’ play Amphiareus: Jiggle from its foundations the rear end of the...
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Hail to you Nymphs and Satyrs, on this your holy day!
Hear the words of your people! May they be pleasing to you! Tagged: spirits
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I’m really excited about this one, folks!
Tune in at 10:00pm EST on Wednesday, March 5th when our guest on Wyrd Ways Radio is going to be Rev. Tamara L. Siuda, the Nisut-Bityt of the Kemetic Orthodox faith: Her involvement with the religion...
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And by the law of the river
The Gurôb Papyrus … in order that he may find … on account of the rite they paid the penalty of their fathers. Save me, Brimô, Demeter, Rhea and armed Curêtês! So that we may perform beautiful...
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I have so many questions
The caption for this image reads: Dionysos (sitting left, at the end of the couch) and Ploutos (sitting right, holding a cornucopia) surrounded by satyrs and maenads. A satyr is helping and supporting...
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Sorry, Connecticut.
Diogenes Laertios, Life of Empedokles 4 Satyros tells us that he had been present when Empedokles was practising magic; and that he professes this science, and many others too in his poems when he...
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Where do you get your ideas from?
I’ve enjoyed answering questions about Bacchic Orphism and the thiasos of the Starry Bull, so if there’s anything further you’d like to know drop me a line at sannion@gmail.com. At the moment I’m...
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Bacchic Orphics are artisans of the sacred
I’ve finished the Enorchean stones and will be mailing them out on Monday. There are three left unclaimed, so if you want one shoot me an e-mail. This is the last batch I’m making as I want to move on...
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The thiasos of the Starry Bull is both egalitarian and authoritarian
I received an e-mail from a member of the thiasos of the Starry Bull asking a lot of great questions, beginning with whether it’s permissible to adapt the schedule of holy days (since the week begins...
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The core pantheon of the thiasos of the Starry Bull
Dionysos Hermes Hekate Persephone Ariadne Aphrodite Melinoë The Heroines - Arachne - Semele - Erigone - Diktynna - Charilla - Dirke - Ino - The Oinotrophoi - Medea - Eurydike - Olympias - Paculla Annia...
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