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Serious or self-satire?
“Flowers for Anthesteria” by Neve Antheus I’ve got about three weeks until the Starry Bull catechesis course commences. A sensible man would spend this time chilling out or, you know, actually...
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Everything Dances … As the World Falls Down
Cover of the forthcoming What Flowers in the Dark Apotropaic Dionysos Markos Gage Δ and Wayne McMillan 2015 This should be an interesting week. I’ve got stomach surgery, I’m giving a lecture and...
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Non sequitur (literary device)
I have always had a certain fondness for Kinesias humorously lampooned by Aristophanes in The Frogs and Lysistrata, and accused by Lysias the orator of having truck with sinister and malign Spirits....
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That time necromantic Jesus had a conversation with the skull of a Starry...
I just read an interesting account of “The Narrative of the Father Arsanis, King of Egypt, and how our Lord, to whom be Glory, raised him to Life” in Emmanouela Grypeou’s Talking Skulls: On Some...
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the Bull in the one case and god Apollo in the other
This article just keeps getting more interesting: A similar story may be found in the hagiographical literature on St. George. In a writing preserved in Sahidic Coptic, which is entitled “The Encomium...
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Subtle. Real subtle.
I was just listening to “Spirit” by Bauhaus, the latest addition to my Starry Bull myth mega mix, when I happened to notice the following pop-up ad:
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Hands off
Some of you may recall from before the purge that one of the southern Italian folk saints I have a strong interest in is Saint January (or in Italian San Gennaro), whose precious blood is kept in a...
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How droll
Whilst tracking down links to provide some background info on the last post for my readers, I happened upon something terribly amusing which appears to have escaped my notice up to now, despite a...
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Mysteries
Gold tablet from Pelinna Now you have died and now you have been born, thrice blessed one, on this very day. Say to Persephone that Bakchios himself freed you. A bull you rushed to milk. Quickly, you...
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see the glow off my body, you know I’m a star
Currently reading Anthi Dipla’s Ariadne with Mitos and Stephanos; Initiation, Abduction and Marriage in the Cretan Labyrinth, which contains the following: The victory dance (geranos, meaning also the...
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You’re doing a bang up job guys
Saw a news story this morning: BAGHDAD (AP) — A suicide bomber on Sunday rammed his explosives-laden fuel truck into a security checkpoint south of Baghdad, killing at least 47 people and wounding...
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Something I anticipate will be as effective as a monologue by Teiresias
In the past I have gone into some of the reasoning behind my staunchly apolitical stance, and how that’s necessitated by the public nature of the work I do for Dionysos. Mine is a God who extends...
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The specters of Marx and Mussolini made me write this
This is a Nαός You know what the saddest thing about this urge to blur the lines between religion and politics is? These people are so insecure in their convictions that they have to foist their views...
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Coming soon to an Amazon near you …
Psellus, Concerning Dæmons The Mysteries of these demons, such as the Eleusinia, consisted in representing the mythical narration of Zeus mingling with Deo and her daughter Phersephatté. But as...
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Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.
The above quote is by Sigmund Freud. All you need do is look at some of the flower myths of Greece and Rome to see that, as with so many other things, Freud was wrong about this too. While you’re...
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in excelsis Deo
Lloyd D. Graham, Resurrecting the Maiden Roy D. Kotansky argues that a segment describing four of Jesus’s miracles in the earliest of the synoptic gospels – Mark 4:35-5:43, to be precise – is set not...
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The End comes sooner than you think
Those of you who follow The Wild Hunt (not that one, this one) already know that the Polytheist Death Guild has an awesome new site, but the rest of you should definitely check it out. Better yet,...
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