• Ludi Romani

    In Rome the Ludi Romani were celebrated from September 5th to the 19th. This two-week festival was the oldest games and were established to celebrated Jupiter Optimus Maximus. In the midst of the festival, on the 13th, a feast is held in honor of the triad of Jupiter, Juno, and Minerva. On that day in…

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  • So this is the week of the historical Eleusinian Mysteries, which by my calculations started yesterday and will continue until Monday the 11th. The Hellenic Pagan group Hellenion has their monthly communal libation this Saturday, naturally to Demeter and Persephone this month. Fall is upon us now. Although in the Wiccan Wheel of the Year…

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  • When Your God Is a Hurricane

    Originally posted on rotwork / tlapalatequiti: A few months ago I asked polytheists to ponder the question: your god is a volcano and decides to kill 40,000 people – what do you do? Well, my God is the hurricane, and right now His names are Harvey and Irma. I spoke with Him this week, and…

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  • Originally posted on Gangleri's Grove: Devotional Collage for Persephone by Amanda Artemisia Forrester ? ? ************* Be sure to check out my other sites: Wyrd Curiosities at Etsy My academia.edu page My amazon author page. Walking the Worlds Journal My art blog at Krasskova Creations My blog about all things strange, weird and medieval. And…

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  • Originally posted on Gangleri's Grove: Both by Amanda Artemisia Forrester Hail to You, Silent One, Nameless One! Beautiful flower, with a steel core Who walks the sunlit paths of the world above And the ghostly roads below Only You can live in both worlds Only You can taste of the forbidden fruit of the dead…

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  • Hymn for Freyja

    A very nice, evocative hymn to Freyja.

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  • Sooooooo……

    I’m not dead. Yeah, I know. I’m sorry. I keep saying that I’ll do stuff and then I don’t. I’ve been fighting depression this summer, and dealing with the government, earlier this year I had bad/stalking neighbors to deal with (they are finally gone, both of them, THANK THE GODS!!!) and other stuff that just…

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  • Sacred Power Grid (Or: Spirits are Weird)

    Originally posted on antlered: This is not about crystal energy grids or such. I’m literally talking about the power grid (power plants and transmission lines and so on) and its place in my religious practice. I’ve always been a good tech-obsessed 90’s kid. I grew up fixing appliances, ruining reverse-engineering any VCR or phone that gave…

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  • Originally posted on Gangleri's Grove: Apparently Emily Kamp, this month’s “Polytheistic Voices” interviewee, is getting a bit of harassment on her tumblr page because she was interviewed by me. Really pathetic, folks, but unsurprising (though I constantly marvel at the lack of nuanced reading comprehension in some of my critics. Wow. There are resources that…

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  • Submission to Loki Agon

    Originally posted on Gangleri's Grove: To Loki by Amanda Forrester My head is on fire. I can see it all – The threads of destiny, of wyrd, coming together, I see the ghastly fate of my sons, I feel the bindings tying me to the boulder I see the red, weeping eyes of my loyal…

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