I am braving the snow and ice and frigid winds to go down to the riverside and collect rocks for the making of magical Enorchean Stones. This will be the last batch since I’m running low on the yarn that Ariadne and Spider gave me and I generally feel it’s time to move on to different Orphic arts, so if you want one you better act fast! While I’m there I’ll be pouring out libations for the chthonic nymphs and the dead of Deukalion. Then I’ll be heading out to the shed where Galina and I perform animal sacrifice to drink in a silent memorial for the hero Orestes, brother of Erigone who was pursued by the Furies to Ikarian Athens. Later, once I’m well and truly drunk, we’ll sneak into a schoolyard and hang dolls of yarn from trees and swing for the Mournful Maiden in atonement for ancestral crimes. Then more wine and music and movies (I’m thinking Manoushe and Lickerish Quartet would be appropriately thematic – perhaps Hellbound: Hellraiser II if the night goes a certain way) and madness and ineffable mysteries of the bull-horned one.
And pictures. There’ll be plenty of pictures. Because a thing doesn’t exist on the internet unless there are pictures!
Tagged: anthesteria, ariadne, dionysos, erigone, festivals, heroes, magic, orestes, orpheus, religious practice, spirits
