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A while back I suggested that we should come up with a collaborative hymn for Melinoë. Madgastronomer kicked things off with these lines: I pray to Melinoe She of the double nature The light in the...
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A while back I suggested that we should come up with a collaborative hymn for Apollo Soranos. Madgastronomer kicked things off with these lines: I pray to Apollo Who runs with wolves Who knows and who...
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Five songs for the thiasos
Tuxedomoon – I Heard It Through the Grapevine Spoek Mathambo – Control Mykki Blanco – The Initiation Alexander – Truth Low Roar – I’ll Keep Coming Tagged: Five songs for the thiasos
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A summer breeze sweeps through a war-torn land
John M. had a couple questions following the Conference: 1) The term war was used a lot and while I asked at the panel, I did not get a good answer. With whom are we at war? 2) I got the impression...
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This shit actually works
I point out – not to gloat, but educate – that all the major difficulties that came up for people occurred outside the confines of the Conference. This is why you divine, consecrate and perform the...
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to stand outside the body was to experience death itself.
Continue then your confident boasting, take up a diet of greens and play the showman with your food, make Orpheus your lord and engage in mystic rites, holding the vaporings of many books in honor....
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What does polytheist mean?
Honoring many gods. Now that that’s been settled folks can move on to more interesting things like this. Tagged: polytheism
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After the gods, you guys are what make the thiasos so awesome
A couple powerful pieces were posted to the Boukoleon recently that I’d like to draw your attention to. Jack Faust added the second installment in his series on the golden chain of Orpheus: Very few,...
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Latest chat log
Here’s the chat log for last night, where you can read a very serious conversation the thiasos had on Magna Graecian weredolphins. Tagged: thiasos of the starry bull
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Vignettes
Three oracles from Dionysos, as delivered by his prophet Jim Morrison. The First Oracle 6-3-1: The old get older and the young get stronger 1-6-2: [Inarticulate screaming] 1-5-4: We could plan a murder...
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Honor Melinoe
Maiden with dark and light eyes, mistress of many shapes and many wiles - you were born from grief and so know how to guide souls through the winding maze of pain and madness. You care for those whom...
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circles
Reading this passage by Aridela: As it got darker, I heard a pack of coyotes yipping in the distance. I realize my state is a bit more altered than I thought, when I feel that instead of having a sky...
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The thiasos has a new festival
A thiasos member (and if he wishes to out himself I’ll amend this post with his name) had some questions about Karneia. I took the matter to Apollon through divination and ended up getting this oracle...
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How do you make the one many and the many one?
In a recent discussion I mentioned bricolage: Though it’s evolved organically the Starry Bull pantheon is tightly-knit with a lot of intersection among its members. Many of them have a habit of...
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The Deeper you go, the Harder it gets
Wise words from Dver: I have been shifting the way I approach ritual, magic and devotion at a fundamental level, and while I know it’s “for the best” (in the sense that it will bring me in line with...
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In mingled cries the dithyramb should ring
Plutarch, On the E at Delphi 9 As for his passage and distribution into waves and water, and earth, and stars, and nascent plants and animals, they hint at the actual change undergone as a rending and...
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The Joy in Life
I want this guy to tell stories about Dionysos at all of my festivals: Tagged: dionysos
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What if they threw a flame war and no one showed up?
So, apparently, while we were all off at the Conference a super important big controversy was raging through what remained of the blogosphere. In summary: devotional polytheism is, like, so 2012 and...
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There’s more to the story
I just read this article about using the Homeric Hymn to Demeter to reconstruct the mystery-rite of Eleusis. I think one could come up with a very lovely and powerful ritual that way but it wouldn’t...
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Let’s change the tone of discourse in our communities – together!
As ridiculous as the latest identity politics tempest in a teapot is (and it is) it got me thinking: why are our communities so prone to these flamewars? We’re all sick of it, right? I bet everyone has...
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