• Originally posted on Gangleri's Grove: It’s been a really rough week and I’m not in the mood to mince words today with this piece. This weekend is set aside in our calendar to remember and hopefully honor those who died while in active service to our country.   Today I skimmed an article at Patheos,…

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  • Originally posted on Per Sebek: After almost a year of hard work, and some wonderful amazing contributors, we have finally got the Sobek Devotional published! ❤ It is now available to purchase here: https://neosalexandria.org/bibliotheca-alexandrina/current-titles/devotionals/lord-of-the-carnelian-temple-a-devotional-in-honor-of-sobek/ Please go and support this amazing book, and see what a wonderful devotional we’ve created for Sobek. ❤ Share this far…

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  • Theogamia/Gamelia

    Did anybody else notice that the Festival of the Marriage of Zeus and Hera falls on VALENTINE’S DAY this year????? It’s a good thing I don’t have an significant other, so they can’t get offended when I say I’m going to spend the day with the Gods instead  of them.

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  • There’s a still a couple of hours left (ends at 9PM EST), so hurry over if you want to leave a submission of your own.   To the Lady of Endurance by Amanda Artemisia Forrester Some may find it strange That You are named Victory Woman When You have endured so much pain The death…

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  • Quick Update

    So, Life Be Crazy. Yes, I continue to live and breath. I had to move. The homesteading went bust. I’m planning on writing a much longer post about why I failed at this attempt, and what people who want to homestead themselves can learn from my failure. The gist is that we bit off more…

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  • Polytheist vs. [Neo]Pagan

    Originally posted on Gangleri's Grove: Last week an academic friend and colleague, who is soon to be teaching a class on Pagans and Christians in the Roman Empire, asked me a rather complicated question. My friend L. plans to include a brief survey of contemporary Pagan and Polytheistic religions as part of the course, to…

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  • Powerful. Heartrending.

    I sit in class and listen to my professor a kind, erudite, and educated man call my gods ‘stupid’. To the south a man lays down his life when Christians demand he desecrate his shrines. I sit in classes and argue with seminarians who tell me polytheists never had theology And in Syria a girl […]…

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  • This is your only SPOILER WARNING for this article. I will be going very deeply into these episodes, so don’t read if you haven’t seen them and want to be surprised. VOY: Barge of the Dead B’lanna Torres has a near-death experience, after a shuttle accident (which seem to happen with disturbing frequency in Voyager!) during…

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  • Ozark Encyclopedia – F – Feathers

    I found an awesome blog full of Ozark folklore, including the uses for things like herbs and such. A great source of info regarding traditional American magic and folkways. Anyone interested in such things should go check it out.

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