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Magna Graecia was a great place to be a woman
So a trope’s going around that “misogyny is to Hellenismos what racism is to Heathenry” which I can only assume is being perpetuated by people who are ignorant of history. Women were treated pretty...
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We’re all whores here
Oh, and another thing that torked my gurzzle about that last post was the insinuation that there’s a moral chasm between art and pornography which some of the commenters were trying to make. Mitch,...
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On the Creation of man
I am reminded of a myth that I never heard before. Once, Zeus the King of the Gods, conceived in his mind the idea to create man, and behold, man appeared in his primal form, like unto a chunk of...
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Blessings
Hear my prayers, o gods, for I am one who has burned incense for you, and adored your image in its shrine, and set out bread and meat to nourish your body, and poured cool water and sweet wine to...
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Faith matters
Lately I’ve noticed a fundamental flaw in a great deal of polytheist thinking, and that’s the ambivalence with which faith is regarded. Many go so far as to assert that they have no faith whatsoever,...
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Remember, remember the eighth of Mayvember
We’ve got our chat at Zoho tonight from 9:30-11:30 pm EDT for Starry Bull and other folk. We’re going to discuss books and dancing and getting together for ritual at the Polytheist Leadership...
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Anyone got $33.33 to spare?
My Thracian Adversary has proposed a drinking game at the Polytheist Leadership Conference: For every $33.33 donation made to Rhyd’s cause, I will take on one drinking-game-parameter (such as “take a...
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amazing scholarship
In order to build up excitement for the release of my new book Heart of the Labyrinth: further writings on the Bacchic Orphic Tradition I put together this list of articles and books that can be found...
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To the Gods of Hellas
Sing to me, clear-voiced daughters of heavenly Zeus, of the whole company of the Immortal Gods of Hellas, and do not let me forget any of the august divinities, nor let my voice falter as I praise...
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Really sexy
Saul of Tarsos, before he met a pissed-off Jesus on the road to Damascus and got transformed into Saint Paul, was a tent-maker and traveling merchant who occasionally took contracts as a hired assassin...
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Yet another reason to avoid fish
You may remember that I was clued in to the fact that I needed to observe the Orphic prohibition on seafood after an evening spent puking my guts out and how shortly afterwards I discovered a possible...
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The Other Aphrodite
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. Everyone knows...
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R-E-S-P-E-S-T
John F. Becket makes a valiant attempt at unpacking the statement “A poor magician is a poor magician.” In particular I like how he emphasizes that the standards for gauging “success” are subjective...
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Hope to see you there!
Greetings from your archiboukolos, members of the Starry Bull thiasos and others! This week’s chat will start at 9:30pm EDT on Thursday with an agenda of: * Discussing the Prophets of our tradition...
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The Muses in Mythology
If you like this piece or the work I’m doing here at the House of Vines please consider donating to Julian Betkowski so that he can attend the Polytheist Leadership Conference in July. On Mount...
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Hellenismos is Beautiful
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. We live in a...
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Are you a failure?
Alexandria was home to people who had no home, strangers who had left the old world of limited opportunities and restricted notions of family and society to chase fortune and freedom in the hopes of...
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The Message of Osiris
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The Prayer of Kleia
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. I am Kleia, the...
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