“Antinous for Everybody”
This is one in a long line of posts that I never thought I’d make…not in a million years, actually, but our spiritual lives and traditions have ways of taking us unexpected places, and there’s very...
View ArticleSacred Nights of Antinous 2016–Ophidia
Just as a temporal note: since this is the Sacred Nights of Antinous, I am counting anything that is posted during the night of a given date (even if it is after midnight) as qualifying for the date;...
View ArticleSacred Nights of Antinous 2016–Panthea
Tons going on at present, some of which I’ll be sharing with you in the coming days both photographically and otherwise…but I wanted to offer a few things today for the Panthea festival–our...
View ArticleSacred Nights of Antinous 2016: Festival of Osiris
For today’s poem, I’m making good my (long-overdue!) vow to Brett Buffalo (from early 2015!) for a poem which is related to Antinoan Egyptian subjects. Here goes… Hymn to the Antinoöpolitan Sunrise...
View ArticleAnd, More Death…
In an ordinary year, we would mark the death of one of our most famous Sancti today, Matthew Shepard, which occurred in 1998. This isn’t an ordinary year, for so many reasons, it appears… One of my...
View ArticleRemember Vegas (Yet Again!)?
I’ll be making a second, somewhat short post today, but wanted to get this one out first…this one might have some thematic relationship, in a kind of (very!) roundabout way, to that additional post...
View ArticleCelebrate Bisexuality Day 2016
Today rounds out the observances listed on my Calendar for the month of September. While the teaching quarter at one of my colleges (the main one) is one week finished now (and only eleven to go!), and...
View ArticleEleusis 2016
From Musaeus (I) Muses Heavenly, help me sing the praises of Kaukon, son of Kelainos, grandson of earth-born Phylos, worthy heir to bring the Mysteries of the Goddesses of Eleusis to Messenia, to...
View ArticleDeath of Lucius Marius Vitalis 2016
He had been lying on a bed, in intense pain, coughing… He fell into a swoon, dizzy, with a white haze outlining his vision as it faded to black… Time passed, and he was not sure how long it had been....
View ArticleWell, Isn’t That Interesting? ;)
Since I’ve been in Finland, I’ve already eaten reindeer (it was delicious!), and something for desert last night that in Finnish means “rich knight”–so, a werewolf’s dinner, most certainly! Tonight, I...
View Article“Crazy Idea” August Devotions for August 7th: Hermes
At last, we come to the final installment in this series that has given meaning to my life once again taken a lot more of my waking time for the past week than I had ever expected it would…both for...
View Article“Crazy Idea” August Devotions for August 7th: Hekate
And, we’re down to the final two now! I’ll have the last one (Hermes) up later today as well, but in the meantime, here She is! [I have to admit to some trepidation with writing about Her, and about...
View Article“Crazy Idea” August Devotions for August 2nd: Lug
May as well keep it goin’…!?! LUG 1. Write a basic introduction for the Deity. Lug mac Ethlenn is one of the most well-known of the Irish Deities, who was born of a Tuatha Dé father and a Fomoiri...
View Article“Crazy Idea” August Devotions for August 1st: Antinous
This will be the first installment of this series, as mentioned here earlier. The questions/topics for this were derived from this list by Galina Krasskova, slightly modified in a few cases, and will...
View ArticleIt looks like the Hibernii have won…?!? (The results of and schedule for the...
While I know it wasn’t a “contest” per se, I’ve had more individual requests for Irish Deities and Heroes than any other in my crazy idea for the month of August. Given, though, that the highest page...
View ArticleThe Fourth Perfection
I’m nearly done reading the entirety of Walking the Worlds 2.2, which I posted about almost two weeks ago, and there are some pieces in it (like Edward Butler’s!) that I enjoyed a great deal; others...
View ArticleDevotion is Simple–It Need Not Be Otherwise
There are a few rather important holy days (and tides) approaching in the next week and following, and now that I have some time (though, at the same time, not!), I might be able to post more...
View ArticleBirth of Vitalis 2016
The library on the Boat of Millions of Years was an enviable one by the standards of any earthly academic institution, and would be more than one could hope for any mortal scholar; but for the Gods,...
View ArticleTo Drown in Significance, Drown Insignificance…
One of the things I often wonder about as a modern polytheist is the following: are the “odd things” which we sometimes end up doing, falling into, or finding ourselves involved with “odd things”...
View ArticleAn Interview with S. J. Tucker!
It has been just over a year since S. J. Tucker’s album Stolen Season was released (you can read my review of it here!), and she has been very busy and active doing her usual awesome travel-and-music...
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