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These are also the subjects of Orpheus’ poems
Clement of Alexandria, Exhortation to the Greeks II Baubo, having received Demeter as a guest, offers her a draught of wine and meal. She declines to take it, being unwilling to drink on account of...
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What do you want to know?
Since several people mentioned that they were feeling overwhelmed by the density of information our tradition contains and would like to know how to get started I wanted to write some more material on...
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Apollo’s son is scary
From The Visions of Zosimos And saying these things, I slept, and I saw a certain sacrificing priest standing before me and over an altar which had the form of a bowl. And that altar had fifteen steps...
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What are you doing tomorrow? Hopefully listening to Wyrd Ways
Tomorrow night at 10:00pm EST on Wyrd Ways Radio we’ll be discussing oracles and divination and the upcoming diviners’ conference which will be held in Fishkill on November 29th. Be sure to tune in –...
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Ours is an emergent tradition and what that means
Rede Seeker had a great question: I would appreciate an explanation of why this Tradition is so rich in material. Why was it so well preserved when material from the Northern Tradition is so scarce?...
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Unzip your mind
Can I have a pen? I can’t talk without a pen. When you’re crazy, you sometimes have to let your hands do the talking. The way you deal with this is, you learn to be a passenger in your own body. They...
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Of Earth and Heaven
I’ve been toying with the idea of writing an introductory guide to the Starry Bull tradition for a while now. Although the foundations were already laid with Ecstatic: for Dionysos, Strange Spirits:...
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The river of dreams in the land of death
In Greek tradition river-gods are often depicted as bulls with human heads, much like Euthymos and Dionysos Hebon. Asterion is the name of the Minotaur. It’s also the name of a river in Euboia: The...
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Communal hymn for Apollo Soranos
I pray to Apollo Who runs with wolves Who knows and who tells I pray to Apollo of the Starry Bull Flying the forests at night Feet aflame with the pine underfoot Whose hands have seized the sacrifice...
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Communal hymn for Melinoë
I pray to Melinoe She of the double nature The light in the darkness and the dark in the light I pray to Melinoe of the Starry Bull I offer praises to Melinoe born of savage power. I offer praises to...
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Good job, folks!
So here’s what we currently have in the way of communal hymns for Apollo Soranos and Melinoë. Do you guys feel that they are done or still need more work? I’ll keep this open so you can contribute more...
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Drink from the river and find your way to me
As I was purchasing some asterion root this song came on: I take that as a pretty good sign. Tagged: dionysos
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A ram I fell into milk
Sometimes it astounds me how dense I am. Though I was struck by the interesting parallels between traditional Xhosa and modern psychonaut experiences with this plant and Orphic and Lernaean mysteries...
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We are bulls and goats, not lambs.
I was utterly sickened by a story on the Wild Hunt I read this morning about the Antelope Valley Pagan Pride Day event held on September 27th. It wasn’t the Christian protesters who interrupted the...
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Jesus is not meek and mild
As if advocating baring one’s throat to the oppressor wasn’t bad enough, a bunch of neopagans in that thread keep arguing that their nice Christian friends somehow nullify the threat posed by the...
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Accept no substitutes!
Jose Prado had a very strong reaction to my post “Jesus is not meek and mild.” He accused me of distorting the image of Christ and asked what I thought of several problematic myths such as Athene’s...
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Our orange and black plague will soon consume them all
Here’s a fascinating article on Halloween as a tool for imposing American cultural hegemony. Tagged: festivals, politics
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lunacy
In my last post I wrote: After a strange encounter with a lunatic in the desert who belonged to a sect of baptai (devotees of the Thracian goddess Kotys) he began to suffer from delusions himself –...
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Oh Gus, this again? Really?
Rhyd Wildermuth posted a really insightful piece at the Wild Hunt entitled The Multitude and The Myriad. (And I’d just like to take a moment to thank Jason Pitzl-Waters for making an effort to cover...
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You can’t please everyone all the time – but you sure can piss ‘em off by...
A Wiccan threw a hissy-fit in the comments to Rhyd’s latest thoughtful and balanced piece, which ended with this threat: The question then becomes why is The Wild Hunt going down this path of seemingly...
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