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Originally posted on mainer74: Women In Heathenry You know, I thought we were getting it right. OK, for all of those who like to talk to me about white privilege, I will freely acknowledge I know nothing about growing up anything else, of course they know jack sh*t except fairy tales about my life either…
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To Poseidon The Earth-Shaker inhales And the tides come in The Holder of Earth exhales And the tides go out O Poseidon, you are the mightiest of the Olympians! Your realm extends to cover three-fourths of the world The only part of our planet still mysterious to man Unknown, Unpenetrated, Is the dark world beneath…
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So a new month rolls around. Autumn is truly upon us now, and so too is another round of the God of the Month Club. The Gods from the Neos Alexandria pantheon are Haides and Poseidon, and the God from the Other category is the Norse Goddess Idunn/Idunna. Its interesting that both Haides and Poseidon…
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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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As promised at the beginning of September, here is the review of Bibliotheca Alexandria’s Potnia, the Devotional for Demeter! I really enjoyed this devotional. It was bigger than I expected, they clearly got a LOT of submissions. I surprised, but delighted, at how many fictional submissions were included. There was a play and a musical,…
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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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(a few parts of this post come from Journey to Olympos’ Demeter chapter . More of my meditations and thoughts from this month may similarly work their way into the book. Demeter is the Goddess of crops and grains, agriculture and horticulture. She was responsible for the fertility of the world. It is She…
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Olorun’s messenger Shango’s Assistant, Crown of Yemaya Umbilical Guardian Man and woman both, ambiguous androgyny Ancestral protector of children Rainbow Serpent dancing in the clouds Exuberant gifter of abundance and tranquility
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My childhood was not exactly a happy one, for reasons I’m not going to go into. But I have one bright spot in the memory of that time, something that I had buried away until a few years ago, because I didn’t think I could get that feeling back. When I was (about) 11 or…
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