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How to get started with Dionysos
A couple people recently wrote me with this question so I’m going to share something that seemed to help a lot of folks in the Dionysian devotion class I taught a while back. If you have a dedicated...
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Orphic rap battle
Edward Butler got it going with this: This nonindifference of the world also underlies the depictions of the “mystic nursing” of animals. There, however, the bacchant provides milk for a soul depicted...
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Lord of the Labyrinth
This conversation got me thinking about this passage from Origen: And accordingly he likens us Christians to those who in the Bacchic mysteries introduce phantoms and objects of terror. (Contra Celsum...
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Just because an experience is real doesn’t make it true
Saw this dude arguing that monism is more spiritually evolved than pragmatic pluralism because he experienced phenomenal reality fade away into non-dualistic awareness during meditation. Thing is,...
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a year with the gods
All this talk of death and mysteries got me thinking about my own mortality. Preposterous, I know, since I’m going to live forever – but what if? What if I knew with absolute certainty that I was...
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Trip through the Labyrinth mix
Over at Facebook the thiasos is discussing the use of music in ritual, so I decided to put together a compilation of appropriately atmospheric songs. Though they work individually, listened to together...
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Let’s make the most of it folks.
Polytheist.com is live! Not only do polytheists now have a place of their own to network, share ideas and read material from some of our top names and rising stars – but I think this is going to end up...
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Happy birthday Melinoë
Tonight we celebrate the nativity of Melinoë, whose sorrowful conception is narrated in the Orphic Hymn devoted to her. I’ll be using two images on my Melinoë shrine, both created by members of the...
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for your delectation
A couple cool things were posted today at the Boukoleon that would make good reading during the festival of Melinoë’s birth. Here is Adriana Mejia’s reaction to Melinoe’s origins: Then Dionysos comes...
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And she will reveal herself to you
A lot of folks have found it difficult to connect with Ariadne. Part of that, I think, is just her nature. Her name means the very, very holy one and Holiness is always remote. (Even in distorted...
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Thiasos of the Starry Bull questionnaire
A while back I mentioned that a large part of my leadership method involved listening. As anyone who has visited the Boukoleon or our Facebook page can attest, the thiasos of the Starry Bull is...
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Thiasos of the Starry Bull pantheon
Principle gods Apollo Soranos Haides Hermes Dionysos Principle goddesses Aphrodite Hekate Melinoë Persephone Heroes, divinized mortals, daimones and other spirits Alexander the Great Mark Antony...
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Leader of vaporous phantasms
As I was putting together my plans for the Melinoeia (which ended up going in a completely different direction than intended, something I generally take to be a sign of effective ritual) I felt a...
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When we support each other our communities grow stronger
The deadline to get your submission in for Óski’s Gift is fast approaching. Odin will be choosing the winner through divination on the Autumn Equinox so all entries must be in three days before then,...
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I have heard you, Listeners.
Hello folks, I wanted to thank everyone who took the time to answer my list of questions (there’s a lot of thoughtful feedback and some great ideas I’ll be implementing over the next couple months) and...
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Please help
Clicking through the recommendations on Youtube, I ended up at this song: I have a melancholy and nostalgic attachment to the original because of some stuff that was going on in my life when I first...
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Don’t miss this week’s chat
This Thursday we will be going over the relevant material and putting together a rough template for the Praxidikaia festival which is coming up on the 23rd. This is your chance to have a hand in...
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love the gods and question everything else
Really impressed with the response my questionnaire has received thus far – close to twenty folks have written in out of the 130+ members listed on the Facebook group, which is statistically quite good...
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In the solemn feast of Bacchus it is very well done to dedicate an egg
Plutarch, Symposiacs 2.3 When upon a dream I had forborne eggs a long time, on purpose that in an egg (as in a Carian) I might make experiment of a notable vision that often troubled me; some at...
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Ariadne was conceived in a very unusual manner
Procris forsook Kephalos and went off as a fugitive to Minos the king of Crete. She found on arrival that he was afflicted by childlessness and promised a cure, showing him how to beget children. Now...
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