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Trophimoi Festival 2014: Achilles
Achilles to Hermes I call upon the very-great son of Maia, the watcher over flocks from Arcadia, the slayer of Argos and father of Pan– But, today, I do not call on you as Hermes before-the-gates, nor...
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Toward a Graeco-Egyptian Pantheon…?!?
The following is just crazy enough that it might make sense…or, at least it seems so to me in my current sick state. (!?!) Reflecting to an extent on some things that Edward Butler said on Wyrd Ways...
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Mantinoe’s Day 2014
Mantinoë Hermogenes was a son of a noble family, and you the daughter of an ancient line. Your people came to Bithynia as colonists and his likewise, though of native nobles he was sprung, too. When...
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An Earnest Entreaty…
I am on the road again…and am typing this from the safety of a (relatively inexpensive!) hotel room in one of the northeastern suburbs of Seattle. I made the long trek down here today (leaving my...
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They Deserve More…
After this post the other day, I thought I’d be better with keeping up on my ritual calendar lately. Nope. I missed Fosterage Day on Tuesday (when I was teaching, traveling, and...
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The Daimon and Antinous (and Felix Natalis Mihi!)
Well, today has been mostly pleasant thus far, though not entirely to plan (and after this yesterday, what could be?–I had less than four hours of sleep, alas…); though I have to say, of the good...
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The Gods Are Polytheists!
I wasn’t sure that I’d write anything of great substance today; and, after you read what’s below, you might not be sure of that, either. ;) However, the Internet often provides unexpected grist for...
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Completing the first half of the year…
So, before the night is over and we move into the second half of the year, I want to finish talking about the last few days and the events involved in them. Despite much of Saturday being frustrating,...
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Lucius Marius Vitalis’ Birth, 2014
The Unfinished Book You were a true child of Hermes, a son of letters, and so like the lovers of the winged-sandal’d god you were swept up less jealously than the west wind and put upon a path of...
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What do PSVL’s daily practices look like?
A while back (probably a month or more now), MT asked me about my daily practices, and if I could describe them. This is one of many posts I’ve been meaning to write if and when there is time, but I...
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Percy Jackson and…Titanismos…?!?
If I don’t do this now, I suspect I won’t get to it for another few weeks…so, here goes. I alluded to a further film review here, here, and here previously, and now, at last, I’m getting to it. It’s...
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Several Amusements…
…some of which are more–and a different type of–amusing than others…!?! First, the most common search terms that have turned up pages on my blog recently include the following four things: –polytheist...
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Festival of the Lion Hunt, 2014
Nine Questions I. Numenios to Antinous on the Lion Hunt N: Was it your spear-head that was too dull? A: No, for it was so sharp it could cut a hair of the lion’s mane going downstream in the Nile. N:...
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Herakles and Antinous 2014
The Hidden Labor of Herakles “Tell me, O Herakles, slayer of the Nemean Lion, what happened when you went down to Hades’ realm in pursuit of Cerberus of the three-heads.” “I shall not stint in...
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An Honest Accounting
Just a short while ago, I had the usual first installment of the Lion Hunt ritual, written by Erynn Rowan Laurie several years back (involving nine red candles, and prayers to Antinous the Lover,...
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Is Hanuman Hadrian or Antinous?
In the spirit of my entry from a few months back on whether Hadrian is more like Hades or Demeter, here’s another such syncretistic spot of speculative theology. And remember: the “is” in the subject...
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Praying to the Computer Deities…
…Whoever you might think they are–Thoth and Seshat, Hermes and Athena, Ganesha and Saraswati and Hanuman, Brigit the Poet and Lug, Odin, Ogmios, Mercury, WHOMEVER!!!–I could use any spare prayers you...
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Philesios–?
One day, someone doing literary archaeology on the Ekklesía Antínoou might find a few things that are “odd,” needless to say, in the earliest version of the Antinoan Petition which exists in my...
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But, would you drink out of it?
I have to admit, one of the things that initially appealed to me about Wicca when I first heard of it back when I was first getting into paganism and polytheism was the symbolism of the chalice, and in...
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Sacred Nights of Antinous 2014: Final Thoughts
So, at last, the nine days of the Sacred Nights of Antinous are coming to an end for this year. It has been a strange nine days, to say the least…Many things did occur, some still have not, and others...
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