• Bakcheion

    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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  • Homestead Update

    We’ve started harvesting and drying the lemon balm. You need to make sure that you pick the leaves off the stems if you are going with the paper bag method, since the stems will hold onto moisture more than the leaves. And that will lead to molding eventually. The lemon balm we planted was a…

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  • Apis I sing now, Who brings the Nile Inundation Ptah’s beautiful soul incarnated Invincible warrior Who drives off Egypt’s enemies Solar disk in between His horns Begotten of a ray of light from heaven Unfettered vigor, raw strength, creative energy — Life embodied! This is what You are! Long may I offer You my worship,…

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  • To Apis (repost)

    I hail holy Apis, the bull-formed God The fertile one, Whose throaty bellow heralds the spring’s awakening He Who brings all good things to the Two Lands Fierce and powerful, He drives off the invaders And gorges them on His horns Great Apis, soul of Ptah, You are solid and firm None may sway You…

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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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  • GMC Poetry: To Ereshkigal

    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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  • GMC Poetry: To Ganesh

    I sing now a hymn to Shri Ganesh Called also Ganapati, or One-Tusked Ekadanta The great elephant-headed God of India Who I have never honored before. Ever-Blissful, Son of Parvati, Remover of Obstacles and Lord of Good Fortune Gentle Ganesha hears all prayers directed His way, For He is the bridge that connects all the…

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  • Homestead Plans

    So, we bought this land in December of 2015, and started to make trips out here right away. We didn’t move here permanently until March 2016. So we have not spent a full year on the property yet. I think it’s important to not make major decisions about the land until we have been through…

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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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  • So the first Hindu God we’ve had for the God of the Month Club has come up, and appropriately enough, it’s Ganesh, one of the most cross-culturally popular and recognizable of Hindu Deities. Hinduism has the distinction of being the largest Polytheist religion practiced today, and with the added benefit of having an uninterrupted line…

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