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And even more circles
And to give this some added perspective – Eurydike is thought to have originally been an epiklesis of Persephone meaning “Widely Ruling.” The actual name of Orpheus’ wife, according to Hermesianax of...
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every beginning is an end; every end a beginning
The Arrival of the God “For in the month Anthesterion a trireme raised into the air is escorted into the agora which the priest of Dionysos steers like a helmsman with its lines loose from the sea.”...
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12 Evoheois
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...
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I invoke the Bride and I invoke Bakchos
Tagged: anthesteria, ariadne, dionysos, erigone
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Happy Choes everyone!
Before I bring the night to a close I wanted to share this picture of the yarn dolls we made for Erigone: We ended up having to go to a couple different places because the playgrounds we’d scoped out...
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Oh yeaahh!
WordPress says that this is my 3,000th post so I figured I ought to make it an auspicious one. Here’s my latest project – a collection of sources on the Bacchic Orphic tradition:...
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Honor the Heroes and Heroines
A couple folks have asked who the Heroes and Heroines are in this particular system, which is a really good question since it’s rather difficult to perform effective cultus if you don’t know who it is...
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It does.
Alfred Watson Hands , Coins of Magna Graecia: The Coinage of the Greek Colonies of Southern Italy pages 12-14 The mystic emblems, the Krateros and Distaff, appeared on the very early didrachms of the...
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Tyler Perry’s Hell Hath No Fury Like A Woman Scorned
Since today is Friday, the day set aside each week by members of the thiasos of the Starry Bull to honor the heroines, I figured I would talk about someone who may just be the most controversial member...
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Honey dripping from a phallos
And in a pattern that I’m no longer even questioning, an insight about Herakles was accompanied by an insight about Kronos. One of the reasons why I offer mead in libation to Dionysos from time to time...
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The Astragalomancy of Herakles Bouraikos
Anyone who has read their Shakespeare knows that Herakles is associated with dice: If Hercules and Lichas play at dice Which is the better man, the greater throw May turn by fortune from the weaker...
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Things are coming together nicely
I’ve spent the last couple weeks fleshing out my systems and putting together a proper Bacchic Orphic diviner’s kit. I now have systems for use with all of the core members of the Starry Bull pantheon...
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Vagrant myths
As I mentioned a while back I’ll be going on a spiritual pilgrimage at the end of the month to the city of Tarentum. One of the things that I’m really looking forward to seeing while there is the famed...
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We’ve been busy
After getting back from Pittsburgh (which you can read an account of here and here) my partner Galina and I decided to rework some of our shrines. You can see the one for Apollon and the Mousai she put...
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The Story
You would hear a story – the story – Mousaios? Very well, I will tell it. But first let all the profane ones close the door of their ears – it is not proper for the like to take such holy words into...
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Spider of Mars
In case you haven’t noticed I have a thing for spiders. Well, really one Spider in particular – but that’s led to a general curiosity about all things arachnid. Over the years I’ve read tons of books...
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Dionysos in Italy
My current obsession is figuring out how Dionysos got to Italy. You see, practically every country – if not city – where he was worshipped has a myth of arrival, which has him appearing to a...
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caryagiti
Miranda Shaw’s description of gaṇacakra: The feast is an esoteric ritual that unfolds in many stages. The sacred space for the ceremony is demarcated by geometric designs drawn on the ground with...
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As a devotee of Erigone I would personally like to apologize to all of the Jews.
You see, on March 20th an asteroid named after her passed over the star Regulus, obscuring its visibility from New York to Ontario for a whole twenty seconds or so. According to the good folks at...
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I smiled into the mirror
I think I’ve had a breakthrough of sorts. So as you know I’ve been struggling to figure out what I should do since stepping down as archiboukolos, especially since everything I’ve attempted to do has...
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