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For Souchos
I sing of Sobek, the great beast of the Nile, who lurks beneath the surface, unseen and swift-swimming, until he decides to pounce upon his prey which goes down with a single bite. He is a potent king...
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Santu Paulu meu de le tarante che pizzichi le caruse ‘nmezz’all’anche
Remember how I argued that Saint Paul’s brand of Christianity ultimately won out because he was so good with his mouth? Well, that’s apparently why he’s venerated in Sicily: In her study of...
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Just in case this isn’t obvious …
I’m using art and erotic persuasion to ensorcel you so that you’ll give money to my friends. Isn’t it odd how there’s these repetitive themes running through the material I’ve reposted over the last...
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magic
Terence P. Ward has a challenge of his own: I’m excited that I can get to this conference and also have a little extra to assist, but after seeing Ruadhán McElroy’s donation challenge, I realized I...
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That shit ain’t cool
As a Dionysian I heartily support Sulphur Blue’s stance against making fun of crazy people: It doesn’t matter if you think someone is “faking” it or not. You do not get to sit back and laugh about...
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βίος. θάνατος. βίος. ἀλήθεια. Ζαγρεύς. Διόνυσος.
And Aridela shares one of the most beautiful things I’ve read in ages. Tagged: dionysos
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Mullets are against my religion
To flesh out the last post I figured I’d go back through Lycophron’s Alexandra to see if he had any other obscure Magna Graecian mythological allusions of interest – and I’m so glad that I did,...
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Get your weekly Bacchic Orphic fix
Tonight at 9:30pm EDT on Zoho chat, where we’ll be: * Discussing the Prophets of our tradition (Orpheus, Mousaios, Melampos, Empedokles, John the Baptist, Jim Morrison, etc.) * An introduction to...
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Nietzsche was only partly right.
While I was putting together this piece on the heroes of Greater Greece (an exercise in the sort of regionally specific polytheism that my Thracian Adversary will be presenting on at the Conference) I...
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Honey dripping from a phallos
And in a pattern that I’m no longer even questioning, an insight about Herakles was accompanied by an insight about Kronos. One of the reasons why I offer mead in libation to Dionysos from time to time...
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You in?
It’s time to get serious about the Dionysos ritual we’ll be doing off-site Friday evening during the Polytheist Leadership Conference. If you want in drop me a line so I can start putting stuff...
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this week’s challenge
So, if you were in the chat on Thursday you got a sneak peek at this week’s devotional challenge, but for everyone else here it is. I’d like to see folks come up with a web of association for the gods...
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Time to get serious.
You can find the official schedule for the Polytheist Leadership Conference as well as an interesting proposal here. Time to get serious. Tagged: polytheist leadership conference
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Systemic
The last couple days have been massively productive for me. I ended up downloading systems of divination for use with all of my primary gods and spirits. Here are the systems that I will henceforth be...
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Rods of Aphrodite Kastina
The gods and spirits have been very good to me over the last couple days – my divination kit is now complete! I still have to flesh out a couple of the systems and I have to make almost all of them...
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Our cult has cool shit
We got the Starry Bull Hymnal and Calendar sets back from the printers earlier in the week and they look fucking amazing. A lot more professional than I had anticipated (the binding is really nice and...
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Speaking of the Conference
I’m putting together a ground crew to handle the preliminary and onsite logistics of this thing so if you’re interested in volunteering contact me at sannion@gmail.com and I’ll put you on the list. We...
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Prayer
If you like this piece or the work I’m doing here at the House of Vines please consider donating to Ruadhán McElroy so that he can attend the Polytheist Leadership Conference in July. In Plato’s...
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Submit to Holy Words
Now that the Starry Bull Hymnal and Calendar set is out of the way I’m ready to start working on the devotional anthology I mentioned a while back. Entitled Holy Words for the Gods and Spirits of...
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I’m a fucking idiot
I mentioned in the last post that the Starry Bull Gathering is going to be in 2016 – since that’s different from what I’ve been saying I figured I ought to elaborate a bit. I had originally been...
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