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Hope to see you there!
And if you’d like to explore miasma from a Bacchic Orphic perspective, join us this Thursday at 9:30PM EDT at Zoho where we’ll be tackling this as well as some of our upcoming festivals (such as the...
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Pentheus
Dionysos can take your suffering away. He can do anything. But most of the time he won’t, and that’s why everyone hates him. How could anyone hate Dionysos? He’s so awesome. Get to know him and you’ll...
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At the heart of it all … a bull in a cave
i. ‘I saw a white bird with outstretched wings. It alighted on the figure of a woman, clad in blue, who sat there like an antique statue. The bird perched on her hand, and in it she held a grain of...
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Want your very own divination system?
I need to pick up some books that come with fairly hefty price-tags and so was thinking of ways to raise some extra cash when it occurred to me – I have a pretty novel skill. At first I just kind of...
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NYRDCon
To keep the momentum going for Polytheist Leadership Conference 2015 Galina is putting together a New York Regional Diviners Conference in November. I’ll be presenting and doing readings – hope to see...
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Let’s get miasmic!
Some interesting conversation is developing in the comments to my post suggesting we talk about miasma instead of engaging in stupid internet arguments like this. Galina took a shot at answering the...
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Καὶ τὸ ὅλον τοῦ μέρους μεῖζον
Galina posted an important announcement about the Polytheist Leadership Conference. Click here to read it. Tagged: polytheist leadership conference
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A man once said
Political doctrines pass, but humanity remains. We go to battle against the plutocratic and reactionary democracies of the west who, at every moment have hindered the advance and have often endangered...
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Syncretism, fuck yeah!
Franz Winter, A “Greek God” in a Japanese New Religion: On Hermes in Kōfuku-no-Kagaku Yet if someone delves deeper into the main writings there is another figure that is very important and often...
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Gnomai of Melampos
You’re not really living if you’re still afraid of dying. Tagged: gnomai of melampos
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A brief account of how I became an evil cult leader
I hold the title of archiboukolos (“chief cow-herder”) of the thiasos of the Starry Bull. One may naturally wonder what that entails, how I came to hold this title and by what authority I do so....
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An important message from Christopher Blackwell
I was just interviewed by Christopher Blackwell (I’ll be sure to post the link once it’s up as I’m sure you’re dying to read my thoughts on Bacchic Orphism, regional cultus and the inherent superiority...
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Ever more miasma
Really good discussions are going on around miasma (some of which I’ve previously collected here and here) but I also wanted to direct you to some older pieces, such as Suz’s thoughts on miasma and...
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If you’re not following the Boukoleon you should!
Just over the last couple days, Markos has discussed the Dionysian and Phrygian elements in the French revolution: Back to the Phrygian cap, Attis is a transsexual god known to been castrated, usually...
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Melissa is dying
Have you read Rhyd Wildermuth’s latest piece on Alley Valkyrie’s latest piece for the Wild Hunt? You should. Tagged: oracles
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War is the father of all
Reading P. Sufenas’ thoughts on the lack of a Greek eschatology, I was reminded of the notion Plutarch discusses in one of his Pythian Dialogues of the existence of a plurality of competing worlds....
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a representation of the wondrously-wrought stars and of the vault of heaven
Ambrosius Theodosius Macrobius, Saturnalia 1.18 The Romans call the sun Liber, because he is free (liber) to wander — as Naevius puts it: Here where the wandering sun flings loose his fiery reins and...
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How it works
Everyone who wants to understand how communication with gods and spirits works should read this comic that Erik found for us.
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Whiskey helps the goddess Hera through her identity crisis in this short film...
Tagged: aphrodite, athene, demeter, hellenismos, hera, zeus
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