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I’ve been thinking a lot about sacrifice lately. Yule is approaching and that is a time where I often give appropriate sacrifices to Odin and it’s time to start thinking about what the winter will entail, and to start making the necessary preparations should animal sacrifice be part of that. I take the necessity and…
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While all the drama with the truck has been going on, I have still been working on my homestead. Quite by accident, we discovered how to make our own charcoal, which is saving us lots of money. We were cooking in our grill, using small logs of wood from the property. Alex finished cooking the…
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To challenge myself, I decided to write this poem with 5 words per line instead of 3. Just that small change made this poem much, much harder. Not only does it get harder to think of words that all start with that same letter that fit the theme, but it gets hard to evoke the…
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“Together come and follow to the Phrygian home of Cybele, to the Phrygian forests of the goddess, where the clash of cymbals ring, where tambourines resound, where the Phrygian flute-player blows deeply on his curved reed, where ivy-crowned maenads toss their heads wildly.” — Catullus, poem 63 Kybele (pronounced Ku-bel-EE) is a Goddess of the…
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ancient agricultural abundance bountiful bighearted blessed eternal everlasting eleusinian furious ferocious fierce guardian germinates grain mad mother maudlin noble nurse [of] nations questing questioning queen perfect plants poppy seeds sown silently troubled tribes thank, [and] worship wandering woman
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Sannion’s online Temple for the Starry Bull Tradition, the Bakcheion, is now live, and yours truly has contributed poetry to the temple pages for Athena, Arakhne, Dionysos, the Muses, Kybele, Artemis, Ariadne, Semele, and Hermes. Check it out, and consider contributing some of your own work. Evoe!
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I wrote last month about how I was thinking about adopting P. Sufanas Virius Lupus’s idea of using prayers to Wepwawet, Hekate, and Janus at the beginning of rituals to open the way for the other Deities being honored and to protected to sacred space. It has the added benefit of being another way to…
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I sing now of the Great Queen of Irkalla Goddess Who dwells in pregnant darkness Fearsome Queen Corpse Queen Ereshkigal of the razor eyes and inflamed heart Oft-forgotten sister of bright Inanna Fearsome Queen Corpse Queen Ereshkigal, Who rules in brilliant blackness In the howling abyss Where hungry spirits thirst for…
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Guardian of His mother’s chamber Assistant in beginnings, remover of obstacles Noble and sweet, kindest and most forgiving Elephant-headed God of learning Shiva’s son, head of the celestial hosts Housed in the root chakra of every living thing Always popular is Ganesha
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Originally posted on Gangleri's Grove: He is… He is so many things to me… words are weak in His presence and weak on this page as I struggle to shape them into something approximating His power. He is a maw. That’s what started all of this, another poet calling Him a maw. And He is…
Temple of Athena the Savior 