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Surprise!
Polyaenus, Stratagems 1.1 In order to gain admittance into the cities during his Indian expedition, Dionysos dressed his troops in white linen and deer skins, instead of gleaming armour. Their spears...
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Archive available
Here’s the link to tonight’s show: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/witchschool/2014/03/20/ptrn-presents-circle-talkwyrd-ways-live-pagan-music-project Definitely not to be missed, especially if you’re a...
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weekly chat
So for those who are interested in participating in a weekly chat we need to settle on: 1) A day (I’m fine with anything but Wednesdays, since I’ve got Wyrd Ways every other week) 2) A time (my...
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Black is beautiful
Over at Patheos Sunweaver posted a piece making light of Zeus. In the comments FeistyKat remarked: oh one other thing…Zeus was the youngest child…and yet he is the only one portrayed as gray haired in...
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Our weekly chat
Since there wasn’t an overwhelming response in favor of a particular day and most of the folks who contacted me privately said that they were flexible and would go along with whatever the group or I...
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It does.
Alfred Watson Hands , Coins of Magna Graecia: The Coinage of the Greek Colonies of Southern Italy pages 12-14 The mystic emblems, the Krateros and Distaff, appeared on the very early didrachms of the...
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Sortes Empedocleae
Empedokles of Akragas was a Sicilian holy man and wonder-worker who, combining elements of Orphism with indigenous Italian traditions, created a philosophy that anticipated atomic and evolutionary...
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10 signs a monist may be molesting your child
Smell is perhaps our strongest sense and the one most keenly tied into memory. This afternoon I was shopping at the health food store when my partner handed me a canister of mulling spices to sniff....
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On the heroes Empedokles and Euthymos
In my post on the Sortes Empedocleae I said: Empedokles of Akragas was a Sicilian holy man and wonder-worker who, combining elements of Orphism with indigenous Italian traditions, created a philosophy...
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Songs in the key of Melinoë
I call upon Melinoë, saffron-cloaked nymph of the earth, To whom august Persephone gave birth by the mouth of the Kokytos, Upon the sacred bed of Kronian Zeus. He lied to Plouton and through treachery...
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Her tears founded a city
Pausanias, Description of Greece 10.10.6-8 The bronze horses and captive women dedicated by the Tarentines were made from spoils taken from the Messapians, a non-Greek people bordering on the...
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The dolphin appears on the coins of Tarentum for this reason
Pausanias, Description of Greece 10.10.8 As her tears fell in showers, and she wetted the head of Phalanthos, he realized the meaning of the oracle, for his wife’s name was Aethra. And so on that...
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The Tarentines were sons of Spartan virgins
Strabo, Geography 6.2-3 Accordingly, the Partheniae went thither with Phalanthos, and they were welcomed by both the barbarians and the Cretans who had previously taken possession of the place. These...
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The hippie deities of Tarentum
Arthur Evans, The horsemen of Tarentum 14-18 The Tarentines, as we know, in return for the patriotic fraud by which the dying Phalanthos had secured the perpetual duration of the city, decreed him...
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The Greek Taras became the Roman Tarentum which became the Italian Taranto –...
Arthur Evans, The horsemen of Tarentum 89-92 The coins of this Molossian type are characterized by the appearance on the Tarentine dies of a peculiar and well-marked representation of Taras as a...
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I’m going wandering in honor of one of the Aletides
One of the reasons that I made this series of posts on the heroes of Tarentum is because I plan to make a pilgrimage there this summer in observance of La Festa di San Pietro e Paolo, a festival of...
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Taurus draconem genuit et taurum draco
I’ve probably read this passage a couple hundred times over the last two decades and more and yet I just tonight noticed where Arnobius claims this verse came from. Arnobius of Sicca, Adversus Nationes...
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You are going to die.
So why don’t you do something nice for Charon now? Tagged: gods, writing
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I am Asterios.
Ever notice the whorls of your thumb? The reason you never escape the labyrinth is because you are the labyrinth. Tagged: thiasos of the starry bull
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The essence of Bacchic Orphism
Euripides, Rhesos 962-73 The black earth will not take my son. I will ask the virgin Persephone, daughter of Demeter, giver of fruit, to let my son’s soul remain here on earth. She is obliged to show...
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