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narrow and tight is the road that leads to life
Margites was famed in antiquity for his foolishness. The man was such a simpleton, in fact, that he didn’t know what sex was or how to do it. Eustathius tells the following story about him: He did not...
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The theme song of the thiasos of the Starry Bull
Psychotropic Cult Of The Oracular Sacrificial Severed Head. Tagged: thiasos of the starry bull
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It was a nice world while it lasted.
I do my damndest to remain ignorant of current events. I only watch cop shows and cartoons, don’t read the paper, shun social media and spit in the general direction of people who try to inform me of...
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For added context
I don’t always say what I seem to say, so in case you’re unfamiliar with the Weeping Philosopher’s words, here’s an excursus from the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy: For Heraclitus, flux and...
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Surprisingly, Wikipedia says it better
Dike eris, “strife is justice” If objects are new from moment to moment so that one can never touch the same object twice, then each object must dissolve and be generated continually momentarily and...
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You should buy this book
Collected between these two covers is a wealth of poetry born from divine inspiration, spanning two decades of the author’s life: tales of the gods and goddesses of multiple pantheons, songs of nature...
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The Words of Apollon
Since I have divination systems for all of the members of the Starry Bull pantheon I figured it only appropriate to devise one for our newest inductee as well. Modeled on the Homeromanteion and the...
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The five points of our faith
Markos posed some really good questions, which I’d like to address: I understand that the Thiasos is eclectic with a empathise of Chthonic, Dionysian aspects, but I have a question: where do we draw...
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Why Jim?
I’ve discussed why I consider Jim Morrison to be a modern-day hero, but I was recently asked by Alder Knight, (of the immensely enjoyable Once Bitten, Twice-Born), why he seems to be singled out for...
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I am pretty sure there’s something in here to piss off everyone
As a Magna Graecian polytheist I found Rhyd Wildermuth’s latest piece for The Wild Hunt Blood Cries Out from the Soil and the conversation it sparked rather interesting. Brief history lesson here....
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Dionysos is paradox
So there’s a discussion playing out on Tumblr about whether all the gods love all people which was started by someone’s comment that Aphrodite hates asexuals, based on a rather shallow reading of...
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Stump the archiboukolos!
This week we’re not going to have a formal topic for discussion so folks can just ask whatever questions they want about Bacchic Orphism, Magna Graecia and anything having to do with the workings of...
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Got the results back
So Apollon gave us an oracle requesting that the thiasos of the Starry Bull observe the Karneia festival: On the full moon closest to autumn’s equinox, make harvest-offerings and honeyed libations to...
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Karneia represents the coming culmination of the Dionysian cycle
Lykeia (of Beloved in Light) has contributed a guest piece on Apollon Karneios, Dionysos and the Karneia festival to the Boukoleon blog, which you can read here. Tagged: apollon, dionysos, festivals
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I have arrived at a decision
I’ve tried to make this process as little about me as possible, which is why on top of not just picking a date I even abstained from being part of the team of diviners. Not only am I uncomfortable with...
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Hail to the Black Bitch!
Narkaios Alepou shares his experience of the Hekatesia. What fears will you leave at the cross-roads tonight? Tagged: festivals, hekate, thiasos of the starry bull
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the sacred use of animal bones, including divination
Dver announced the release of her latest book, Working with Animal Bones: Humans have had a long and complex relationship with animal remains since our earliest days. Skulls and bones in particular...
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