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Guide to getting started
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Ritual etiqutte
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An interview about Dionysos from the past
Back in 2011 when Galina and I were just online acquaintances she interviewed me for her column at Patheos about the release of Ecstatic. Rereading this I realized there were some useful tidbits in it...
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Thrasymachos will never kick sand in my face again!
Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. (Plato, The Republic 7.536e) Tagged: philosophy
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You’ll be surprised by something, alright.
Kitty offers this helpful advice on How to Find Real Fairies: Dozens of various Native American tribes have their own stories of little people from the hills and mountains. So it is almost inevitable...
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Kind of hard to argue with the logic of that
More fairy lore from Kitty the Dreamer, this time from her piece The Life of a Fairy: Their Diet, Habitat, Reproduction and More! If we go by classic literature, in JM Barrie’s Peter Pan, fairies were...
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Communicating with the gods
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We offer beauty
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Why do we celebrate festivals?
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Aphrodite Eschatos
O Zeus, a fine thing it is to die having known the sound of the aulos, for only to those that have are the joys of Aphrodite permitted in the afterlife. For those who are uneducated in its ways on the...
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The power of whiteness
The reason I titled the last post Aphrodite Eschatos is that the video basically captures what I think death is like for the blessed initiate. I mean, it even starts with a butterfly flitting about in...
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Learn to make offerings the Bacchic Orphic way
Alright folks, I’ve put together a rough curriculum for the class on Bacchic Orphic offerings and am now opening it up for registration. We’ll begin on May 1st and cover the following: Week One: why...
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The Cave of the Nymphs
The video for Negură Bunget’s Curgerea Muntelui: Warning: under the right circumstances this video can result in nympholepsy. Reminds me of the time when Orpheus placated the nymphs whose homes had...
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Baptism
The purple-clad prince rose like a goat capering gaily down the slopes of the golgothean mount, dripping and trembling, he was brought up from the river by the hand of the baptizer clad in animal...
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like dolphins, dolphins can swim
One of the devotional activities I do for the dead who belong to Dionysos is read accounts of their lives, whether they come down to us second-hand through the likes of Plutarch and Livy, or more...
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because of the witness of Dionysos
Ariadne, that daughter of subtle Minos whom Theseus bore off from Crete towards the hill of sacred Athens; yet he had no joy of her, since, before that could be, she was slain by Artemis in the isle...
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just like any real philosophical sect
It is as if that motley band of vegetarians and wizards which thought itself from time to time to be the Pythagorean school felt the need to possess a set of handbooks, just like any real...
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In his Historical Commentaries, Euphorion says that Dionysius the younger, tyrant of Sicily, dedicated a lamp-stand in the town-hall of the Tarentines that was capable of holding as many burning lamps...
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Always reblog John Constantine.
There’s a discussion on Tumblr about fanfic and Hellenismos, to wit: I really don’t care what other people say or do in regards to their practice and religion but I’m honestly kind of worried about the...
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