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I’ve been promising these for a while. I hadn’t gotten around to taking them off the camera, but here they are now! Some of these pictures were taken in the beginning of December and some near the end of December. We have already done several trips out to Rolla to take loads of our stuff, and…
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This was originally published on the Neos Alexandriaqwebsite, but I thought it would be good to re-post it here too, since there is little information about Ptolemy out there. Who was Ptolemy Soter? by Amanda Artemisia Forrester [Excerpted from the author’s class “Olympos in Egypt: An Introduction to the History of Alexandria, the Ptolemies,…
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In honor of Artemis’ sacred day in the Greek lunar calendar.
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I can’t wait to build one of these!
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Really looking forward to this one. I’ve written a few short poems for Nephthys, but I think I may do some research and see if I dive a little deeper to write something good for this devotional. Here is a link to the post on the editor’s blog, if you’d like to contact her for…
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Yes, I did reuse one of the same pictures I used for the Hekate collage, I had a couple of cards with that picture and it was just so evocative and magical.
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So, today is the Noumenia, the New month in the Greek Calendar. Although Noumenia means literally “New Moon”, it is not on what is astrologically called the new moon, which is really the dark moon. Rather, it occurs a few days later, when the first sliver of light appeared. It was considered one of the…
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Tonight, the last night of the lunar month, belongs to Hekate in the Athenian calendar. Tomorrow is the New Moon, or Noumenia, starting a new cycle in Greek reckoning. Not the new year, since that’s the first new moon after the summer solstice. I’m not sure what month is starting up either, since its been so long since…
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On this, Kybele’s holy day Worshipers gather in the dark The drums pound out a deepening sound Firelight flickers, casting an eerie glow The priestess dances Whirling around Feet never touching the ground Her long hair swirls around her face A halo, a crown, a black fog She spins and spins, in her own…
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One of my favorite devotional activities is making colleges for the Gods. I save them in a large binder that serves as a kind of portable altar, too. This is the college for Rhea-Kybele, the Mountain-Mother.
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Temple of Athena the Savior 