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To Erigone
I remember you who remained faithful to your father even unto death, Erigone crowned with solemn rites during the festival of flowers, when the daughters of our city swing in somber joy for you while...
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To Erigone II
Erigone whose tender feet know the dance of those who desire the ecstatic embrace of the deliverer who comes from afar, wearing an unfamiliar face and bearing unexpected gifts, gifts that tear open the...
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Lamento
The constellation Bootes. The Bear Watcher. Some have said that he is Icarus, father of Erigone, to whom, on account of his justice and piety, Father Liber gave wine, the vine, and the grape, so that...
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Found it!
Thankfully I published this version in Ecstatic. I find the story of Arakhne as told in Ovid’s Metamorphoses a lot more profound than many people do. What I get out of the story, that a lot of others...
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So I saw this post arguing that Christopaganism is inherently eclectic, and...
Although it’s not usually intended that way these days, it’s actually a fairly value-neutral term to me. One of the most important philosophical schools that developed during the Hellenistic era was...
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L’esorcismo di Maria
The hemp was rough and scratched her throat as Mary slid the noose down into place. She closed her eyes and stood there for a moment with her white linen dress, beautiful as a bride, and her rosary...
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Hail to you Erigone! May you never thirst.
Nor did the morn of the Broaching of the Jars pass unheeded, nor that whereon the Pitchers of Orestes bring a white day for slaves. And when he kept the yearly festival of Ikarios’ child, thy day,...
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Don’t expect much content here at The House of Vines over the next couple weeks
I must sincerely apologize, dear friends, but I’ll be doing the weekly ritual for the community tomorrow instead of as planned, this past Sunday. As I was getting ready to start on the 1st I was hit...
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More analysis of a rite
And here is the script that we started with. I say “started with” because we left a lot of room for improvisation. It’s my general feeling a script should be a guide or suggestion only. Depart from it...
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Following the thread
So as I mentioned previously Idmon of Kolophon, the father of Arachne, was a phoinekes or dyer of purple from Lydia. In Arachne’s tapestry she includes a scene involving the seduction by Bacchus of...
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Ahhh …
This is the flag of Sicily, where my people are from. The triskelion or trinacria was originally used by the Phoencian settlers of Sicily and is thought to have some association with Baʿal Hammon who...
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Agriope means wild-eyed
Athenaios, Deipnosophistai 597a-599b I omitted also to mention the female flute-player Nanno, the mistress of Mimnermos, and Leontion, the mistress of Hermesianax of Colophon. For he inscribed with...
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Signs you’re doing it right
Last night Dver and I celebrated Skeneia which is a banquet in honor of Persephone and Chthonic Dionysos. It doesn’t normally fall on November 1st but because of some last minute calendrical juggling...
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Will you find what you’re looking for in the heart of the labyrinth?
Enter, if you dare. Tagged: ariadne, dionysos, erigone, haides, heroes, orpheus, persephone, spirits
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the lover of strange things, the poet and saint who speaks from beyond the grave
So I was reading Pseudo-Melito of Sardis’ Apology from the Spicilegium Syriacum when I came across this interesting passage: But touching Nebo, which is in Mabug, why should I write to you; for, lo!...
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blessed
I’ve been doing some research on Olbia, the Greek settlement on the Black Sea in the region now known as the Ukraine. Not only was this a melting-pot of Greek, Skythian, Persian and Asiatic cultures...
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everything I could find related to Anthesteria in the Suidas
[Note: these quotes are not arranged alphabetically - I may go back at a later date and amend that.] s.v. Ἀνθεστηριών “Anthesterion” It is the eighth month amongst Athenians, sacred to Dionysos. It is...
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In remembrance of Erigone
Kallimachos, Aitia 1.1 Nor did the morn of the Broaching of the Jars pass unheeded, nor that whereon the Pitchers of Orestes bring a white day for slaves. And when he kept the yearly festival of...
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Mense Maio malae nubent
I need to check on this, but I think Sir Orfeo comes the closest of all our sources to giving us a date for the abduction of Eurydike: It befell, at the beginning of May when the sun’s heat banishes...
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