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Excellent post. This entitled attitude is far too common in Paganism today. amor et mortem I was relieved to have recently been unfriended on Facebook by a woman who didn’t like my response to her questions in a post she’d tagged me in. This woman–let’s call her Rachel–announced that she was going to embark on…
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Well, I did not do as much as I wanted for Oya this month. Since Oya is from an entire different system, and I know so little about Yoruba or Voodoo tradition, I was intending to seek out an elder to interview about it. I obviously didn’t get to that. I’ll either do that the…
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these are short prayers for the sacred days of the lunar month. I wrote these years ago, when I first book, Songs of Praise, was published. Most of these are historically attested to as the Athenians considered the days sacred to the God named. I added the days for Asklepios and Dionysos, since They did not…
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Hail to the Cow-Eyed One Joyful Hathor, Beloved of all the Gods, Divine Midwife, Nurse of Horus. Great Hathor, you are more than the Lady of Love Golden One, You are the Mistress of All Good Things Lady of Cheerfulness, Goddess of beer Lady of Beauty, Mistress of Myrrh You dance in the Temple precinct…
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Hail to You, Green-faced, Ram-headed one! Great Khnum, Divine Potter, Most ancient of Gods! From the mud of the Holy River Neilos You bring forth life Your deft hands work upon the earth, shaping it upon Your wheel, Turning it from black goo, into a living creature Into a human, an animal, a God. You…
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Oya is the West African Yoruba Orisha of winds, storms, fire, and transformation. She is also believed to be the Goddess of the Niger River in Africa, and the Amazon River in Brazil, where the worship of the Orishas was transplanted to the Americas along with the slave trade. Several of the sites I looked…
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So, the plans for the Derksen cabin did not work out. Turns out they can’t deliver a 32 x 12 building across our little rickety bridge, the delivery contractor does not think it would make it. Opps. Thankfully they give a full refund anytime before delivery if you cancel or they can’t bring it for…
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Ebony skin glistens Stretched taut over hard muscle An arm raises above a dreadlocked head Sunlight glints across the razor-sharp machete edge Thick lips pull back in a sharp grin Just as razor-sharp as the weapon A bloodcurdling cry bursts forth from deep in the throat As the machete drops with deadly accuracy. Eyes black as…
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The sky and the stars make music to You. The sun and the moon praise You. The Gods exalt You. The Goddesses sing to You. The Temple of Dendera, Ptolemaic Period The Egyptian Gods are collectively referred to as the Neteru, Netjeru or Netjer. Kemet is the real name for Egypt, which means “the…
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Temple of Athena the Savior 