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A maiden will I die
Oh she looked out of the window As white as any milk But he looked into the window As black as any silk Hello, hello, hello, hello Hello you coal black smith Oh what is your silly song? You shall...
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A chatty bunch
This Thursday at 9:30pm EDT we’ll be having a discussion about our upcoming festivals in the thiasos of the Starry Bull and also getting used to the new location and format, as we’re moving our weekly...
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The Feast of the Dionysian Kings
The Feast of the Dionysian Kings is coming up, so I figured I’d talk a little about that and how folks can celebrate at home. The term “Dionysian King” refers to a specific category of the dead we...
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Some background for the festival
Assorted epithets related to Kingship Adôneus = “Ruler” Ausonius, Epigrams 29.6 Aisumnêtês = “Ruler over all” Pausanias, 7.19 Anaktes – “the Lords” Cicero, De Natura Deorum 3.53 Anax = “Lord”...
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What are your suggestions and what are you going to do?
Reading Galina’s declaration that August is Polytheist Community Outreach Month: Ancient polytheisms promoted civic virtues and involvement in one’s local community. We have a lot of tremendously...
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Devotio
As a way of tying these two threads together (the Feast of the Dionysian Kings and August as polytheist outreach month, in case you’re curious which threads I meant) your archiboukolos would like to...
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Taking off the mask for a moment
I made this post not only out of a strong desire to see polytheists coming together to do good works in their local communities and for some of that work to be done in the name of the dead who are dear...
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Arma virumque cano
Pete Helms just let me know that he’s extending the deadline by a couple days for the Ares/Mars devotional anthology. If you’ve got something, please send it in and if you’re going to write something...
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Search term poetry
maiden in white comforts her knight will you give everything for what you love? what did the greeks burn for offerings? what are the god anubis’s associations with the sea? is the cave in caesaeria...
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Wednesday is going to get wyrd with two Odin’s folk on the air
A while back we had one of our guests help us do a special episode of Wyrd Ways Radio where individuals who had suffered sexual abuse were given space to tell their stories, since many had been forced...
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A wizard of words: thoughts on Orpheus and Hermes
I like questions, and Theomai had a really good one: I actually had a question which involves Starry Bull-esque things: is there any kind of strong connection with Orpheus and Hermes? I’m feeling out a...
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There’s nothing ambiguous about me
My proposal of a blood drive for the Dionysian Dead has run into a pleasantly unexpected snag – turns out a lot of thiasos folk are … Not able to donate blood because of the antiquated rules of the Red...
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How serious are you?
Now that I’ve explicitly stated my intent with the blood rite a lot of you are going to back out. Some might even be horrified enough to leave the thiasos. Good. It’s the ones who aren’t, the ones who...
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That’s cool.
I better come clean. As much of a genius as I am, I didn’t really come up with the idea for the Bacchic Orphic blood rite on my own. Basically all I want to do is get drunk with a bunch of people in...
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The Northeast is a happening place for polytheism
In September there’s going to be a Hellenic polytheist meet-up at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, organized by Kaye. Be sure to fill out the Google form she provides! And in November there’s the New...
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Today is the Feast of the Dionysian Kings
Today is the Feast of the Dionysian Kings, and we had a pretty good discussion on the underlying themes of the festival and some ways to celebrate it last night in the thiasos’ fancy new Skype chat. It...
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Him do we honor this day
When suddenly, at midnight, you hear an invisible procession going by with exquisite music, voices, don’t mourn your luck that’s failing now, work gone wrong, your plans all proving deceptive—don’t...
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Worth a shot
This whole feud over immersive vs devotional polytheism was getting a little absurd so I found a post where a lot of the folks on the other side were discussing things and extended an olive branch: Hi...
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It’s a llama. I wear llamas now. Llamas are cool.
The Lammas edition of ACTION by AREN (Alternative Religions Education Network) is out and it includes an interview with yours truly, which I’ll be posting below momentarily because clicking links is...
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So change the world.
Galina and I were interviewed on the variety show Pagans Tonight, which turned into a really good conversation about syncretism, adapting festivals to one’s local environment, the need for diversity...
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