The 2012 Creative Writing Pledge Drive will come to a close with the end of the week. If you like what I’m doing here at The House of Vines, well, here’s an opportunity to show your appreciation and support and get something cool in the process! For $15 I will write a poem or hymn [...]
Posts Tagged ‘creative writing pledge drive’
Final reminder about the 2012 Pledge Drive
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged creative writing pledge drive, nysa press, oracles, writing on 04/16/2012 | 3 Comments »
An Orphic digression
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged ariadne, creative writing pledge drive, dionysos, eros, gods, mythology, philosophy, zeus on 04/10/2012 | 13 Comments »
For many, questions of how we got here and what our true nature and purpose are are of supreme importance. I am not an especially deep thinker, being more concerned with pragmatic issues, and as such I do not have a definitive set of cosmological and anthropogenic beliefs. There are a number of stories that [...]
And for my 800th post …
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged creative writing pledge drive, dionysos, heroes, holy fool, magic, writing on 04/06/2012 | 9 Comments »
An inspiration.
Qui nihil amat, quid ei homini opus vita est?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged christianity, creative writing pledge drive, dionysos, italy, paganism, philosophy, religious practice, rome on 04/06/2012 | 11 Comments »
Galina Krasskova, my generous patron for the piece you are presently reading, asked me to talk about the distinctions between belief and faith and how these are relevant to the various contemporary forms of paganism. Which got me thinking. There are still historians who will tell you that the age of faith came to an [...]
This makes me so happy
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged creative writing pledge drive, holy fool, writing on 03/29/2012 | 11 Comments »
Two people have found my blog searching for medieval gay porn. Sadly, I have not written any … yet.
Announcing Sannion’s Divination and Creative Writing Pledge Drive 2012
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged creative writing pledge drive, nysa press, oracles, writing on 03/28/2012 | Leave a Comment »
It’s been a while since I’ve done one of these but I can use some extra cash with an assortment of festivals, unexpected bills, positive life-changes, etc. looming on the horizon. If you like what I’m doing here at The House of Vines, well, here’s an opportunity to show your appreciation and support and get [...]
A morning and evening prayer
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged ariadne, creative writing pledge drive, dionysos, nymphai, religious practice on 10/20/2011 | 5 Comments »
For Galina. Morning Prayer As the golden light of dawn spreads across the vineyard and the forested mountain where the nymphs dance after bathing in the rushing waves of the pure river, I hail the noble son of Semele and loud-thundering Zeus on high, bull-horned and ivy-crowned Dionysos, giver of wine and countless blessings, he [...]
Cuius enim panem manduco carmina canto
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged creative writing pledge drive, dionysos, ecstatic, festivals, writing on 10/19/2011 |
As you can imagine, putting on something like the Ecstatic event isn’t going to be cheap. Thanks to Dionysos finally getting me a job I’m in a position to cover it, but just barely. (Especially when you factor in all of the upcoming festivals and activities we’ve got going from October to December.) To ease [...]
The other side of the story
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged creative writing pledge drive, dionysos, egypt, greece, mythology, politics on 07/25/2011 | Leave a Comment »
For Solo. Far from Greece in the lands of the east where mountains rise like the bones of some gigantic dead beast, where life is short and hard and full of scarce pleasure, where men toil under the cruel yoke of tyrants and wives are counted of little worth save for when they bear strong [...]
The New Wine we were promised: I
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged alexander the great, alexandria, apollon, creative writing pledge drive, dionysos, egypt, festivals, gods, greece, hellenismos, herakles, heroes, jim morrison, kleopatra, marcus antonius, music, philosophy, ptolemies, religious practice, rome on 07/20/2011 | 8 Comments »
For Castus. Act One: Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin. I was recently asked to say a few words on a topic that is near and dear to my heart – hero cultus within contemporary polytheism. My literary patron (whose generosity is exceeded only by his wisdom) had some specific criteria in mind [...]
Artemis: a goddess for today’s woman
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged alexandria, apollon, artemis, christianity, creative writing pledge drive, gods, greco-egyptian, hellenismos, hera, hypatia, paganism, politics, zeus on 07/14/2011 | 1 Comment »
For Balladeer. A proper woman should have no interests outside the home. Her whole life is defined by her relationships to others. As a child she is to be chaste and obedient to her parents, dutifully performing her chores and learning the skills she’ll need to be a good wife and mother. After marriage she [...]
Athene and Neith: A comparison
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged athene, creative writing pledge drive, egypt, gods, greco-egyptian, greece, judaism, neith, zeus on 07/14/2011 | Leave a Comment »
For Amanda. According to the Greco-Roman historian and philosopher Plutarch of Khaironeia, the goddess Neith – whom he identified with his own Athene – was a primordial creatrix and one of the oldest divinities known to man. In her temple at Sais, he records, there can be found the following inscription above her monumental cult-statue: [...]
To Hermes, god of the internet
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged creative writing pledge drive, hermes on 07/12/2011 | 4 Comments »
For Meg. Properly do we hail the inventor of words and cunning tricks, Hermes, the slayer of Argos who saw and recorded all, as the master of the internet, this invaluable technology that lets us know what’s happening across the globe at all times, lets us access the accumulated lore of ages past, order anything [...]
We do not live in a just society
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged creative writing pledge drive, oregon, politics, rome on 03/29/2011 | 25 Comments »
I don’t normally discuss politics here at The House of Vines except when it intersects with religion, but I’m so peeved right now that I’m going to make an exception. As many of you know I’ve been out of work for a while now, though not for trying. Oregon was especially hard hit when the [...]
Invocation of Hathor
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged creative writing pledge drive, egypt, hathor on 03/29/2011 | 4 Comments »
For Heather. Hail to you goddess of the golden face, shining radiantly in the clear blue sky, O mistress that loves the mountain top and the harsh red lands far from the fertile river. You are the lovely one who dances in the trees, she who gives cool shade to those wandering in the West. [...]
I will dance for you
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged creative writing pledge drive, egypt, hathor, thoth on 03/29/2011 | Leave a Comment »
For Heather. I will dance for you Hathor, even when my heart is heavy with sorrow and my soul bruised by life’s afflictions. I will dance all the more at times like these for it is then that I need your beauty and joy the most! Long ago the king of the gods was inconsolable [...]
The Eye of Horus
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged creative writing pledge drive, dionysos, egypt, greco-egyptian, horus, religious practice, seth on 03/28/2011 | 2 Comments »
For Amanda. Whenever offerings are presented to the Egyptian gods it is customary to say “I give to you the Eye of Horus,” which refers to a very ancient myth. Once, long before men inhabited the earth, the gods called Egypt their home. Originally Rē had governed the gods with goodness and wisdom as their [...]
Birds of a feather
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged alexander the great, alexandria, arsinoe, creative writing pledge drive, dionysos, egypt, gods, greco-egyptian, hathor, horus, isis, mythology, osiris, philosophy, ptolemies, seth on 03/25/2011 | 2 Comments »
For Amanda. A lot of people when starting off on a Kemetic or Greco-Egyptian path have a difficult time making sense of the proliferation of Horus gods. Even if one ignores the abundance of regional manifestations and just focuses on the two most important and commonly encountered versions – Horus the Elder and Horus the [...]
Final reminder
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged creative writing pledge drive, dionysos, movies, mythology, oracles, persephone, religious practice, writing on 03/21/2011 | 7 Comments »
There’s less than two weeks left in the Creative Writing Pledge Drive, so if you wanted to commission a piece now’s your chance to do so! For $15 I will write a poem or hymn for you. For $25 I’ll write an essay on the topic of your choosing. For $30 you can get an [...]
Pentheiad
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged creative writing pledge drive, dionysos, mythology on 02/23/2011 | 1 Comment »
For Tim. I came to Thebes to speak with my cousin, the king. He did not recognize me, even though we were kin. I tried to show him the truth, but he was cunt-hungry, convinced that the things in his head were what others cared about. (And they call me mad!) How absurd. He bound [...]
