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Honey for the Mistress of the Labyrinth
As part of my observance of the Pannychis of Ariadne this weekend (we’ve got about eight people coming up and it’s going to be totally badass with fire and temple snakes and the whole shebang) I plan...
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If you’re in the area
The next public ritual that House Sankofa and the thiasos of the Starry Bull are jointly putting on is the Praxidikaia on Saturday, September 20th. Sacrifices will be made on behalf of the ancestors...
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The mortal ally
The story says that the giants found Bacchus inebriated. After they tore him to pieces limb by limb, they buried the bits, and a little while later he arose alive and whole. We read that the disciples...
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Entheogens
Entheogens aren’t for everyone, especially not as a dedicated path. Even though I think everyone can potentially benefit from them I usually try to dissuade folks because if you’ve got unresolved shit...
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Happy Pannychis everyone
I still recall the taste of your tears. Echoing your voice just like the ringing in my ears. My favorite dreams of you still wash ashore. Scraping through my head ’till I don’t want to sleep anymore....
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Getting ready
Ariadne: Gone! He has fled, My only companion, My splendid enemy, My unknown, My executioner-god! … No! Come back! With all your afflictions! All my tears gush forth To you they stream And the last...
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it was a good festival
Our Pannychis is done. Most of the participants are feeling on a par with this poor marble bull who is covered in filth and lost both his horn and leg during the proceedings. Despite that it was a...
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Is Z. Budapest a terrorist?
It would seem so: Z Budapest August 31, 2014 at 3:20 pm says: At Pantheocon there are all the Fetish addicts, from nazi outfits to chained women, whips used ,makes me throw up. As an Elder I am...
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Hey folks
The Pannychis of Ariadne ended up being more intense for me than anticipated. As a result I didn’t get around to doing the divinations I’d planned and my head’s still not screwed on properly, which is...
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Another day, another BNP behaving badly.
Following on the heels of Z. Budapest’s incendiary remarks, news is circulating that Christian Day, a prominent figure in the Salem, Mass. occult and pagan scene you may remember from his attempt to...
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So many questions
Looks like Christian Day is hosting his Hex Education online radio show tonight: Tune in live tonight at 9pm Eastern for Hex Education, an irreverent Witchcraft radio show featuring your hosts,...
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Leadership
If nothing else this week’s outbursts by BNPs Z. Budapest and Christian Day have highlighted the need for accountability and responsible leadership in our communities, a theme in this summer’s...
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You do not speak for Hellenismos and you certainly do not speak for our gods
When Brandie Elaine jumped in to criticize me for calling out Christian Day for stating he hoped a woman who had been abused and stalked would be raped as well, I was sickened by her moral cowardice:...
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The Boukoleon is a happening place
Made a bunch of updates to the Boukoleon, including: Poetry page for Dionysos Poetry page for Melinoë Poetry page for the Heroines Merchandise page Shrine pics page While you’re there, be sure to check...
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Daybreak
So apparently Christian Day has apologized for outing people and telling a woman he hoped her stalker finds and rapes her and that’s supposed to make everything magically better. That woman, stronger...
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Day in and day out
Amorella Moon made a powerful public statement, which begins: Nothing like waking up from a fitful days sleep to find that half of the witchy community is staring at you, waiting for you to say...
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Help Randi Get Well
It may not be possible to change the attitudes and behaviors in our communities, but here’s something that you CAN do something about. One of our thiasos members, who recently moved to attend grad...
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You guys are fucking amazing
In less than a day you’ve already raised over $800 to Help Randi Get Well. Wow. Now that’s community! Tagged: thiasos of the starry bull
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Salvation Is a Deep Dark Well
The founder of our tradition enters the written record in the 6th century before the common era through the Magna Graecian poet Ibykos of Rhegion: Onomaklyton Orphēn, he wrote, “name-famous Orpheus.”...
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All the good stuff is real but isn’t, myself included.
The gold tablet from Pelinna reads: Now you have died and now you have been born, thrice blessed one, on this very day. Say to Persephone that Bakchios himself freed you. A bull you rushed to milk....
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