And am I born to die?
Idumea is one of my favorite Christian hymns. It just sounds so fucking Bacchic Orphic – at least until you get to the final stanza. So I finally broke down and filked it. And am I born to die? To lay...
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I’m working on inventing a game called “Bacchic Orphic hopscotch.” The inspiration for it came from Alan M Stanier’s Vestiges of Pre-Christian Ritual in the Game of Hopscotch: Thus it seems the game...
View ArticleLabyrinth Bread
I got a spam from some Greek guy who wanted to make my penis bigger. Seeing as my penis is already large enough that I can wrap it around my waist several times and still have it dangle down to my...
View ArticleWhere do we go from here?
Butterypoundcake wrote: I never in my life thought I’d ever be saying something like this but it’s time to reclaim the word Pagan from the NuAtheist Pseudo-Pagans. Polytheism as a new popular term...
View ArticleSerious play
Though I’m recovering swifter than the doctors anticipated, I’m still largely out of commission and maintaining a minimal online presence. This period of forced inactivity has given me ample...
View Article‘Joy and gladness be in this house!’
As is my custom I’ll be consulting Dionysos, Hermes and Spider on the Kalends of January to see how the upcoming year will unfold. In addition to a reading for the community, which I’ll post, and...
View ArticleHe lives … sort of.
It seems I was overly optimistic about my rate of recovery. Though the knee itself mended swiftly, I’ve been having a serious problem with lingering inflammation in the leg which has me immobile and...
View ArticleThe aniconic idol-maker – how’s that for a paradox?
Shortly after moving here I began receiving two conflicting strains of advice from my gods and spirits. On the one hand I was pushed to acquire a bunch of statuary and sacred images, which went against...
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