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All things flow
I’ve been using the time since I stepped down as archiboukolos to evaluate a lot of things in my life, especially my focus and practices. What kind of Dionysian will I become this time? I have more...
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Will you remember the trans dead?
A ritual outline and some other useful information has been posted at the Trans Rite site and Alder has compiled a list of some of the queer and transgender dead who may be honored at this time. If you...
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Something cool and something very uncool
In the post before last I mentioned the lunar calendar, which reminded me of Ruadhán’s New Boeotian calendar which has been getting some rave reviews. While there I stumbled across some comments by...
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Instead of putting up your little plastic flags, why don’t you give that...
You can’t just toss people on the trash heap when you’re done exploiting them. Tagged: politics
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Modern doesn’t always mean progress
Though it sickens me, it doesn’t exactly surprise me that Todd Jackson holds the views that he does. Men who come forward with stories of sexual assault are often met with disbelief, derision and...
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Sticks of evil
So there’s this toy called Evil Stick. It looks like a pretty pink fairy wand until you peel the sticker off to reveal a little girl cutting herself, presumably in some arcane ritual that calls for...
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A book of Starry Bull mythology
When I published Strange Spirits Volume One my intention was to leave it without sequel, but then I came across this quote: Another fragment attributed to the same play is 912 (Nauck): To you ruling...
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Fragments from Euripides’ The Cretans
Minos [. . .] She alone dared this crime Chorus My Lord, you must think: how can you hide it, cover up these horrors Pasiphaë There is nothing to gain now by deceiving you; what has happened is already...
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And sometimes King Minos wears bull horns on his head
Spending my days painting dolphin frescoes Bull-leaping naked In the palace of Minos And he has a labyrinth With a man-eating bull They say it’s a death maze Don’t get trapped in the death maze!...
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I know why the caged bird sings
While I think Alberto Bernabé goes to absurd lengths to maintain the fiction that Orphics didn’t eat meat or practice animal sacrifice, twisting meaning and rejecting the obvious reading of the text to...
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Did Nazis try to steal a fragment of Euripides’ Cretans?
literally David Sansone writes: P. Berol. 13217 is a leaf from a parchment codex, written in the late second century, preserving 52 lines of Euripides’ Cretans, including the whole of Pasiphae’s...
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Tips for aspiring Orpheotelestai or Don’t do what Sannion does
I’ve got a mountain of e-mails to respond to and you know what? They’re just going to sit there for a while. See, I’ve had a really shitty day today and to cap it off a friend and client of my partner...
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We wouldn’t be having this problem if people would just stick to the gods of...
It seems that the controversy du jour is cultural appropriation, which is always so much fun to talk about. Since people are being so free with the advice I’m curious what their take on my situation...
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A Bacchic Orphic devotional rite
The rite: Cleanse with chernips. Apply ash, clay or gypsum. Put on prayer shawl. Ring a bell seven times. Inscribe or trace a labyrinth. Light a candle. Offer incense. Make a triple libation of: - wine...
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Very evocative of the mysteries of the tradition.
As far as incenses for this rite go, some traditional suggestions are given here. Or one can use this special blend that was commissioned for the Starry Bull tradition. Dver describes it as follows:...
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All Good Things …
Be sure to tune in for this week’s episode of Wyrd Ways Radio as it’ll be our last. We had a good run and helped foster quality dialogue on some really important issues in the pagan and polytheist...
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interesting things
Art by Freya Jobbins Ruadhán has some interesting things in the works: I decided to look up ancient formS, yes, plural, of the Hellenic alphabet, and holy hells, there’s nearly two dozen surviving...
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Spider of Mars
In case you haven’t noticed I have a thing for spiders. Well, really one Spider in particular – but that’s led to a general curiosity about all things arachnid. Over the years I’ve read tons of books...
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Dance magic dance
That last post may be a bit too densely tangled for folks to follow, which is why I included the key in the title. What we have here is a bricolage tale of an otherworldly spinner (appearing sometimes...
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