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Pray for the ancestors on Il Giorno dei Morti
Derveni Papyrus col. 6.1-11 … prayers and sacrifices appease the souls, and the enchanting song of the magician is able to remove the daimones when they impede. Impeding daimones are revenging souls....
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The elements of Tartaros
Damascius, Commentary on Plato’s Phaedo 2.145 The four rivers are the four elements in Tartaros: the Okeanos is water, the Kokytos or Stygius earth, the Pyriphlegethon fire, the Acheron air. Opposite...
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And am I born to die?
Idumea is one of my favorite Christian hymns. It just sounds so fucking Bacchic Orphic – at least until you get to the final stanza. So I finally broke down and filked it. And am I born to die? To lay...
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Speaking of bricolage …
I’m working on inventing a game called “Bacchic Orphic hopscotch.” The inspiration for it came from Alan M Stanier’s Vestiges of Pre-Christian Ritual in the Game of Hopscotch: Thus it seems the game...
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Labyrinth Bread
I got a spam from some Greek guy who wanted to make my penis bigger. Seeing as my penis is already large enough that I can wrap it around my waist several times and still have it dangle down to my...
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He’s an odd god after all
Jack Faust and Markos Gage are having an interesting conversation about intoxication and Dionysos. Since this is a topic near and dear to my heart (and I was cited) I figured I’d chime in. I’ve had a...
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Just say no. (That leaves more drugs for me.)
There’s a decided lack of slippery slopes and ad hominems in this conversation Jack, Markos and myself are having on entheogens and ekstasis. Isn’t that, like, breaking some kind of rule of...
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I do it thunderstruck with wine
Orphic tablet from Thurii To the First-Born, to Mother Earth, to Cybela, daughter of Demeter. Zeus, Air, Sun. Fire conquers all. Avatars of fortune and Phanes. Moirai that remember all. You, O...
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Ololyge
I was interviewed recently about animal sacrifice for the Wild Hunt. The piece ended up being better than I had any reason to hope, but not as good as I had been expecting, sad to say. It taught me a...
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You ready to get struck?
In happier news, my next book will soon be released! The recitation of hymns during festivals, temple rites and domestic cultus is an ancient part of Hellenic and Italian religion. Collections of hymns...
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Tradition and the gods will show us the way
Porphyry, The Philosophy from Oracles frags. 314 and 315 (= Eus. PE IV; 8, 4 – 9, 7.) Frag 314 Following after what has been said concerning piety we shall record the responses given by [the gods]...
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Just to be clear …
What people think we’re advocating: What we’re actually advocating. Tagged: hellenismos
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Leto, I pray, may they not be forgotten!
Leto took pity on Galateia because of her unremitting and distressing prayers and changed the sex of Leukippos into a boy’s in order to save the child from her murderous father. In memory of this...
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Achilles, I pray, may they not be forgotten!
Statius, Achilleid 323; 363 Achilles is softened, and blushes for joy, and with sly and sidelong glance repels the robes less certainly. His mother sees him in doubt and willing to be compelled, and...
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Mise, I pray, may they not be forgotten!
Orphic Hymn 42. To Mise Incense: Storax I call upon law-giving Dionysos who carries the fennel stalk, unforgettable and many-named seed of Eubouleus, and upon holy, sacred and ineffable queen Mise,...
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Primeval ones, I pray, may they never be forgot!
Damascius, Dubitationes et solutiones Time [as we have already observed] is symbolically said to be the one principle of the universe; but ether and chaos are celebrated as the two principles...
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Aristodemus, I pray, may they not be forgotten!
Giovanni Casadio, Dionysus in Campania Let us now revert to Aristodemus. Besides his uncontrolled—but ritual—wine-drinking habit, which proved his undoing in the end, another indication of his...
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Herakles, I pray, may they not be forgotten!
Ovid, Fasti 2.331ff As chance would have it, the Tirynthian youth was walking in the company of his mistress; Faunus saw them both from a high ridge. He saw and burned. “Ye mountain elves,” quoth he....
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Melinoë, I pray, may they never be forgotten.
Communal hymn for Melinoë of the thiasos of the Starry Bull 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...
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The Transgender Rite of Ancestor Elevation
http://trans-rite.tumblr.com/ Tagged: spirits
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