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Coming together to celebrate Dionysos at Many Gods West 2015
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What’s next?
After spending a couple days mulling over what I could teach, I realized the three-pronged approach I’d come up with just wasn’t clicking for me. I have developed a very idiosyncratic teaching style...
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Exciting.
Dver is now offering one of her special hand-crafted incense blends (which normally sell out within 24 hours of being listed) as a perk for contributing to the Bakcheion fundraiser. Click here if you...
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consistency is the hobgoblin
Starry Bull design by Markos. I’ve been doing that thing I do again. I kill a persona in order to create a new one; get the specifics of how to act it out from Dionysos and then proceed to ignore that...
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Play the game. Everybody’s doing it.
I’ve been working with the Toys, on and off, for about twelve years now. In that time I’ve done a ridiculous amount of research. Then today, after going antiquing with Galina to find representations...
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Speaking of Dionysos and Many Gods West …
I plan on offering an off-the-schedule workshop on the Toys of Dionysos at MGW early Friday and then a Toy séance the following evening. If you’re interested in attending either of these shoot me an...
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I have faith that we’ll make it
Apotropaic Dionysos by the Gargarean There have been a couple significant cancellations, so the organizers of Many Gods West asked if I’d take my private workshop on the Toys of Dionysos public....
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I’ve been obsessively listening to the song I included in the last post (where I once again humbled myself to beg for money to put on the bebakcheumenia) since I found it. I was only so so on the song...
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Don’t make us break out the erotes
If you haven’t donated to the Bakcheion fundraiser, please consider doing so. Every little bit helps.
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Help us be almost as awesome as Kate Bush.
Your donations will help up us put on something almost as awesome as Kate Bush. Thank you.
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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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360
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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I wouldn’t know anything about that
“To my mind, what’s impressive about Lovecraft is his profound cosmic negativism: the idea that mankind is confronted by horrors that are completely beyond his comprehension, forces against which he...
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Hellenism on the go
I’m trying to raise funds so that we can get a ritual team together to put on a big celebration for Dionysos at Many Gods West. We need to cover transportation, food, lodging, ritual supplies as well...
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Do it for Dionysos.
Our special commemorative t-shirts to help raise funds for the bebakcheumenia at Many Gods West are now available in a variety of sizes and styles. The image is quite special and was designed by...
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