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A question from your archiboukolos
How’s your dancing coming? Aelian, Varia Historia 3.40: The satyr companions of Bacchus in dancing are by some named Tityri; which name they had from teretisms* (wanton Dances) in which Satyrs delight:...
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Hannah Arendt
The emotions I feel are no more meant to be shown in their unadulterated state than the inner organs by which we live. (The Life of the Mind 1978) The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many...
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Speaking of tyrants …
I know that the rat bastards at the TSA won’t allow certain things on the plane (it totally has to do with stopping the terrorists from using bubblegum, mouthwash and propecia shampoo to hijack the...
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Hungry Spirits
Tomorrow is the noumenia of Dasyllion, the month derived from Dionysos’ epiklesis Dasyllios “He of the Wild Wood.” It is interesting that this falls right before Walpurgisnacht since that is...
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My book is nearly done
Didn’t know I was working on a book? Neither did I! Got a compulsion the other Night to put together all of the writing I’ve done on Bacchic Orphism, Tarantism, the Mysteries, Art and the Gods and...
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She can talk to us, even without her name. She says: ‘Hold on.’
Alley Valkyrie shares a beautiful and fascinating account of the “street paganism” she’s encountered among the homeless population in Eugene in her piece titled The Lost Lords of Neverwhere: Initially...
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My Next Orphic Art Project
For my next Orphic Arts Project I may be creating a Net of Orpheus, a tool that should be useful in diagnostic situations and sacrifices. (I say “may” because I have some concerns which I express at...
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Orpheus is frequently present in my spirit
Aristophanes, The Frogs 1030-33 For consider how useful our noble-minded poets have been from the beginning. Orpheus revealed to us the mysteries and abstinence from murder, Mousaios taught us cures...
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My plans for the Polytheist Leadership Conference
I’m still waiting to hear back from a couple people, but this is very close to being the Conference roster. Galina and I will be meeting with the hotel manager tomorrow to go over some stuff and then...
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Who is Hera?
Hera is so much more than just the goddess of marriage, though that is perhaps the most profound expression of her powers and nature. The true key to understanding who she is is change, growth and...
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On the noumenia
Noumenia means the festival of the new moon, which the ancient Greeks considered to be the appearance of the first sliver, something that can take some getting used to if you’re more familiar with the...
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Putting the social in social media
Hey Starry Bull thiasitai and other folks, we’ll be having our next online chat on Thursday – and this time I’ll actually attend! (Mad props to Emily for unexpectedly filling in – she did such a great...
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Get your groove on … ethically!
On the next episode of Wyrd Ways Radio (Wednesday, May 7th) our guest will be Lee Harrington an internationally known spiritual and erotic authenticity educator, gender explorer, eclectic artist and...
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neoplatonic bricolage orphic cosmology
And Zeus appoints Dionysos as king of all the gods of the universe and confers on him the highest honours… (Proklos, Commentary on Plato’s Timaios 42d) … it is said that Hephaistos made a mirror for...
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Hymn to Eris
Eris, I sing, wild Goddess of Discord, who at the wedding of Peleus and Thetis was snubbed. Kingly Zeus forbid her to attend the banquet, where there was fine food and wine that flowed as water. When...
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Archilochos or don’t fuck with poets
If you like this piece or the work I’m doing here at the House of Vines please consider donating to Rhyd Wildermuth so that he can attend the Polytheist Leadership Conference in July. Of all the...
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I live in my obsessions
I think the most perfect representation of Archilochean verse in the modern era is Lana Del Rey. All the good stuff is real but isn’t, myself included. I think obsession is a good word to talk about. I...
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The gods never forget the important people even after they die.
Aelian, Natural History Critias accuses Archilochus of slandering himself. ‘If’ says he ‘Archilochus had not published such an account of himself abroad in Greece, we should never have known that he...
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What a shame it ends so abruptly.
A nearly complete poem by Archilochos has come down to us in P. Colon. 7511. What a shame it ends so abruptly. Back away from that, [she said] And steady on … Wayward and wildly pounding heart, There...
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Molon labe II
I, admittedly, have an ambivalent relationship to Pythagoreanism. On the one hand it developed out of the same Magna Graecian cultural koine as Bacchic Orphism and there is a lot of intersection...
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