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In addition to the DIO shirts and jackets, we now offer items with this slick Starry Bull image designed by the talented Markos. Five dollars from the sale of each item will go to help put on the...
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dissimilar
An excerpt from the Dissimilar Doubles which appears in the Heart of the Labyrinth. Her life had grown too small, too familiar, too confining. She ached to experience something new, something...
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Ariadne will shank a bitch if she don’t get her honey
KN Gg702 (Documents, no. 205) pa-si-te-o-I me-ri AMPHORA da-pu2-ri-to-jo po-ti-ni-ja me-ri AMPHORA pansi theoii meli amphiphoreus daburinthoio potniai meli amphiphoreus To all the gods, one jar of...
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Unveiling gesture
Female bust (Ariadne) from the Louvre: This life-size statue of a woman, veiled and wearing a crown of vine branches and leaves (an attribute of Dionysos), probably represents Ariadne. She held the...
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welcome to the Bacchic Grotto
It doesn’t feel like the right time to start something like the Magical Mystery Tour, so instead I’m opening the Bacchic Grotto, which will be a more dynamic and participatory version of the House of...
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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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an open letter to the community
Don’t you dare drag me, the Bakcheion, our god Dionysos or the difficult and serious work that was done by these talented and devoted folks over the Many Gods West weekend into your bullshit online...
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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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Preparation
The initiate sits upon the three-footed camp stool trembling with holy terror, uttering not a word. The lord of the rites, arrayed in whites and the cloak of purple night, dances round the fire...
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Attunement
Orpheus sat on a rock deep in the forest, and took from his vagabond sack the tortoise-shell lyre, that lovely instrument which beguiles and enchants, given him by shining, wolf-loving Apollon, who got...
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Bouphonos
Alexander of Pherai climbed the stairs leading out of the sacred underground chamber, taking them two at a time, his breath coming heavily, his bare chest covered in sweat and blood that was blackest...
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Stoicheía
A hush settled upon the room and the shadows lengthened, but little Dionysos seemed not to notice. The unhappy child sat by himself telling stories of other times and distant places he longed to visit...
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I’m not a scholar, but I play one on the internet
I share my name with a number of individuals, among them a Sannion who lived in the Tauric Chersonesos or the modern Crimea. On a lark tonight I decided to see if I could find anything further about...
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Wine Blossom addresses the Blue-Green Honey Man
Oh mead-sweet father of mine, fear not for I did not drink of those waters which bring forgetful slumber, and I hear every tear that’s shed for me, every prayer mother recites, raising her bird-like...
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aibohphobia
The King over the Skythians examined himself in a mirror of fine Greek workmanship, turning his head this way and that and back again, trying not to see a reflection of his father’s cruel, dull face in...
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This is not a poem about Dionysos
After JH. Dawn, with rose fingers and indigo arms, walked through the land of Hesperia driving out Night of the star-speckled cloak; yellow amber hung from her pale throat, saffron gown swayed with...
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That’s not snow.
When I’m searching for fresh inspiration I often turn to the spirits who provide me with writing prompts via divination. Tonight’s session resulted in the following: 2-1-2: blows cold this season...
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Devotional art challenge #1
And so, after consulting with the Toys our very first devotional art challenge is: The face you see reflected in the mirror is not yours. You have two weeks to turn that into art. As much art in as...
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Katabasis
The lights in the room are out, with only the soft honeyed glow of the shrine’s candles to see by, as I stumble about on unsteady feet, half here and half over there. My vision swirls and dances, as...
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Winter
And the winner of the That’s not snow/Flying Phalloi contest is … Ellen, with this gorgeous submission: Winter by Ellen The cock’s crowing met the Sun, so late now, – arising He followed me and the ax,...
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