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may the whole world get drunk on Dionysos!
I was going through Heart of the Labyrinth to find a proper prayer to open the Dionysos ritual with when it struck me – why not use the collaborative hymn that the thiasos of the Starry Bull came up...
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Getting ready for the Conference
Julius Firmicus Maternus, De errore profanarum religionum 6.6 There was also another Liber in Thebes, a tyrant famed for his magical powers. Gaining control of the women’s wits by certain potions and...
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Strabo, Geography 7.7 At the base of Olympus is the city of Dium, near which lies the village of Pimpleia. Here lived Orpheus, the Ciconian, it is said — a wizard who at first collected money from his...
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Livy, History of Rome 39.8-12 A low-born Greek went into Etruria first of all, but did not bring with him any of the numerous arts which that most accomplished of all nations has introduced amongst us...
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Sophokles, Oeneus frag. 1130 You shall learn all! We come as suitors, we satyrs, we sons of nymphs and ministers of Bakchos, living near to the gods. We have mastered every proper trade — fighting...
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Acts of the Apostles 28.1-6 After we were brought safely through we learned that the island was called Malta. The native people showed us unusual kindness, for they kindled a fire and welcomed us all...
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Selections from the fifth book of Hippolytus Romanus’ Philosophoumena Worshipping, however, Kyllenios with special distinction, they style him Logios. For Hermes is the Word who being interpreter and...
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Sokrates the Rhodian, History of the Civil War Book 3 as quoted in Athenaios, Deipnosophistai 4.29 But Cleopatra having met Antony in Cilicia, prepared a royal entertainment, in which every dish was...
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Jazz hands
In case it wasn’t clear that last series of posts was a densely woven spell – hence the recurring and interconnected themes – to boost the persuasive power of my words during the Conference. The...
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Art is epiphany
The image I started the spell with is Dionysos Chthonios from Bruce Rimell’s series on the Eleusinian Mysteries. I don’t necessarily agree with all of his conclusions about said mysteries but holy fuck...
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It almost tells a coherent story
Tarentum was a Spartan colony, and also one of the major centers of Dionysos-worship in Southern Italy. Since the colonists tended to carry their ancestral cults with them one may naturally wonder what...
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Good thing I’m Sannion
Looks like I’ll be presenting at the Conference after all. I have no idea what that’ll be on but I’ve got over 24 hours to come up with something, which is more than enough time to produce a...
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Looks like Dionysos is going to get his big public ritual after all
With several possibilities to present on (Dionysos, Orphism, Magna Graecian polytheism, hero cultus, etc.) I decided to take it to the mat and see what he wanted me to do and got a very clear message...
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When it rains …
Had another presenter pull out – which means that if people want a party to happen, people need to make the party happen. Tagged: polytheist leadership conference
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This quote is full of all sorts of interesting
Plutarch, De sera numinis vindicta 22 Having thus said, the spirit quickly carried Thespesius to a certain place, as it appeared to him, prodigiously spacious; yet so gently and without the least...
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There’s comfort in numbers and loneliness in precision.
One of the reasons I don’t care as much about the pagan-polytheist culture wars as others is that most of the conversations going on around that are so generalized that they have little application to...
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Chats are fun!
We had a really good chat on Thursday which prompted a couple excellent follow-up posts over at the Boukoleon (which you can find here and here.) Previously Chat Logs were available only through the...
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Join us
July 17th at 9:30pm EDT in Zoho for an online chat on the role of music in the Bacchic Orphic tradition. Tagged: thiasos of the starry bull
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the next episode
Everyone’s apparently talking about this thing that happened in Fishkill over the weekend so Galina and I will be devoting the next episode of Wyrd Ways Radio to a discussion of it. Hopefully some of...
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consider stopping by
On Sunday, July 20th I’ll be giving a talk on the gods and spirits of Bacchic Orphism and performing divination at Notion-N-Potions in Beacon, NY. If you’re in the area, consider stopping by. Tagged:...
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