Drunk on the poetry of the one who promised the new wine, you asked for the gifts of Dionysos and the grace to receive them. It was given to you, an exchange of a life for a life, yours for him ever after. And you invited them in. Now he hunts in the night with [...]
Posts Tagged ‘hermes’
A wonderful dithyramb of the land below
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged ariadne, christianity, dionysos, harlequin, hermes, heroes, holy fool, italy, jim morrison, magic, nymphai, persephone, pinocchio, poseidon, spider on 05/25/2012 | 3 Comments »
Syncretism
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged christianity, dionysos, egypt, greco-egyptian, hermes, horus, isis, mythology, osiris, philosophy, rome, serapis, seth, thoth on 05/25/2012 | 3 Comments »
Rigid of posture in his elaborate throne, Serapis watches grave and silent as his bride the good sister Isis holds court addressing all in the hall of justice with strong-hearted and vigilant Harpokrates on her lap and Hermes great in magic, great in deeds, great in devising words and the mysteries they contain, kneels at [...]
Great poetry becomes myth
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged dionysos, hermes, holy fool, nymphai, religious practice, spider on 05/25/2012 | 1 Comment »
Great poetry becomes myth. You know you’re doing it right when random street graffiti starts making sense, showing signs from the gods like distorted images in a mirror. This is my world: burying a bull’s head in the back yard, running in the woods possessed by dead kings, dancing with depressed spiders and headless saints, [...]
Deus et Homo
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged dionysos, gods, harlequin, hermes, holy fool, italy, magic, religious practice, rome on 05/24/2012 | 5 Comments »
Via. Also, I heart Tilda Swinton of NotTildaSwinton. Much love and success to the Winnemem Wintu. Sacris rite paratis: Women’s Responsibilities in Household Rituals by Judith L. Sebesta was a very interesting read. This is an interesting use of liquid latex. The costume of Arlecchino with alternating patterns of red and black represents the gates [...]
The marotte addresses the audience
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged dionysos, hermes, holy fool, magic, philosophy, writing on 05/09/2012 | 2 Comments »
I am a hoarder of links, a crazy cat lady of valence, patterns obsess me. I can weave a fabulous story from the slenderest of threads. Give me any two random points and I can find a connection between them. Sometimes I see things that aren’t there. I can’t control it. Even if I wanted [...]
My partner’s new book is out
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged apollon, dionysos, hellenismos, hermes, local focus polytheism, magic, nymphai, paganism, writing on 05/07/2012 | 1 Comment »
Dwelling on the Threshold: Reflections of a Spirit-Worker and Devotional Polytheist by Sarah Kate Istra Winter Within the myriad traditions of modern polytheism, some are called to a deeper and more consuming level of engagement with the gods, spirits, and otherworlds. These mystics, devotees, shamans, god-spouses, seers, spirit-workers and others often must craft a unique [...]
Happy Walpurgisnacht!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged dionysos, festivals, hermes, heroes, holy fool, nysa press, spider, writing on 04/30/2012 | 10 Comments »
I was originally going to hold off on this announcement for a little while longer, but tonight feels like a more appropriate occasion, so here goes … Some of you may recall that I’ve been working on a book. Well, thanks to an observation Dver made some time back, I decided to split it up [...]
The Fool’s new attire
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged dionysos, harlequin, hermes, heroes, holy fool, magic, nymphai, philosophy, religious practice on 04/30/2012 | 5 Comments »
Imagine the sort of man so given over to the divine that even his fashion sense is dictated by religion. A man whom holiness clothes like an actor putting on a costume that tells a fanciful story to remind the people that the strange god is among them. A man whose bible is high-heeled leather [...]
Vino nuovo in otre nuovo
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged christianity, dionysos, hermes, heroes, holy fool, italy, magic, nymphai, oracles, oregon, ptolemies, spider, writing on 04/30/2012 | Leave a Comment »
The verse which the taranta-kissed dominus Bacchus of liberty whispers in my ear is orgiastic, triumphal columns of letters marching with elephants, jugglers, actors, mobile shrines, wine-pouring statues and sixty foot phalloi through the city streets. Once you open the door and let them in the poetry runs around wild in your head like Lydian [...]
The domino mask of Arlecchino becomes the Gorgoneion
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged ariadne, dionysos, hermes, holy fool, italy, magic, spider, writing on 04/30/2012 | Leave a Comment »
The magician is always on the edge of being proven a fraud until he does something spectacular, something fabulously miraculous, the revelation of something which the audience has never seen before, something that defies reasonable expectations and shatters all the rules of the phenomenal world. He makes them dream while awake and wonder if this [...]
Have you ever had the realization
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged aphrodite, ariadne, dionysos, gods, hermes, heroes, holy fool, local focus polytheism, nymphai, ptolemies, spider on 04/27/2012 | 6 Comments »
Have you ever had the realization that your religion kind of creeps you out – and that’s why you like it. I mean, consider this: a god who was murdered as a baby and came back as a king bleeding wine prophetic spiders headless saints a vagrant magician who invents his own languages a whore [...]
My heart belongs to the Mezzogiorno
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged aphrodite, ares, athene, christianity, demeter, festivals, gods, hera, herakles, hermes, heroes, holy fool, italy, nymphai, zeus on 04/23/2012 | 6 Comments »
But a part of me is deeply in love with Venice, too. How could it be otherwise when the Venetians still carry out things like the Sensa Festival, where the city ritually marries the sea: What does it mean for a city to ‘marry the sea?’ The curious metaphor refers to an annual fertility rite [...]
Looking forward to attending this
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged arsinoe, dionysos, eugene, gods, hermes, ptolemies on 04/07/2012 | Leave a Comment »
Wednesday, April 11, 6:00 p.m. Downtown Eugene Public Library FREE On Wednesday, April 11, at 6:00, the Downtown Eugene Public Library will host an illustrated archaeology talk, “Passage and Perception in the Sanctuary of the Great Gods, Samothrace,” by Bonna Daix Wescoat. She is an Associate Professor of Art History at Emory University specializing in [...]
I celebrate the sacrament of language
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged dionysos, eugene, hermes, heroes, holy fool, local focus polytheism, magic, thoth, writing on 04/05/2012 | 2 Comments »
I celebrate the sacrament of language. Every time I write I touch the face of my god, breathe his power into my words, make changes in the world, however minute. It’s fucking intoxicating! And maybe, being a writer, you walk a fine line with hubris and must always ask yourself, “How much of me do [...]
Zeitgeist und Eternal Recurrence
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged christianity, dionysos, gods, hermes, italy, magic, mythology, writing on 04/02/2012 | 2 Comments »
A good poem isn’t just the words on the page – it is also comprised of the thoughts it stirs up in the mind of the readers. Necessarily this means that the poem is in perpetual transformation as a result of what each new audience brings to the equation. Which is why the accomplished poet [...]
Aphorisms
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged anthesteria, ariadne, dionysos, hermes, jim morrison on 03/17/2012 | 6 Comments »
Hush now, child. You’ve had your first taste of wine. Every nation now dances his mystery. No land is enemy to him; all his enemies are dead. So eat, drink and be merry – and pray tomorrow doesn’t come. If you can’t grasp the unity of horror and beauty, how will you handle the full [...]
A song from the land of the midday sun
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged alexander the great, ariadne, christianity, dionysos, egypt, greece, hermes, heroes, holy fool, italy, magic, marcus antonius, mythology, nymphai, oracles, philosophy, pinocchio, ptolemies, religious practice, rome, serapis on 03/01/2012 | Leave a Comment »
Be warned – there is an equal mixture of lies and mysteries here. Act I: Ruminations of the illustrious actor Marco Antonio, innovator of the commedia dell’arte While waiting to go on stage in the piazza of the church of Saint Mark in Venice, Italy where are revered the relics of Alexander the Great, whom [...]
My whole cosmology is contained in this video
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged aphrodite, dionysos, hermes, holy fool, music, ptolemies, religious practice, spider on 01/07/2012 | 5 Comments »
Let me tell you an Eiraphioteion story
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged christianity, dionysos, gods, hermes, holy fool, italy, local focus polytheism, magic, paganism, philosophy, spider, writing on 12/29/2011 | Leave a Comment »
It begins with the realization. It was the Jägermeister that did them all in. Effluvium. He realized that that was all that they were. Effluvium. And that’s when it all went to hell. Or at least when he realized that they were all already there. [Remember, the clown can descend into depths where mortals fear [...]
The Brumalia season is in full swing
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged arsinoe, dionysos, festivals, greece, hermes, holy fool, nymphai, poseidon, religious practice, rome on 11/30/2011 | 6 Comments »
Brumalia was a festival that developed in the waning days of Imperial Rome and only seemed to gain in popularity under the Byzantines until it was forcibly suppressed by ecclesiastical authorities in the 7th century. Meaning roughly “Winter Festival” it spanned the better part of a month with special activities set aside for each day [...]
