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Purify the Circle walk around the ritual space with the khernips bowl, sprinkling the water around the perimeter. Say: You are pure! You are pure! By this holy water, this ground is made pure. In the name of Jupiter and Roma, this space is now a holy sanctuary. Walk in another circle, taking the bowl…
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I just added two new pages, one with an essay on Hellenic Ritual for beginners and one with pictures of the complete Temple. They are on pages instead of in a post because I want them to be easily available all the time. Check them out! And please take a moment to leave comments on…
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Now this looks interesting!
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Hi everyone. Sorry its been so long since I blogged, I got unbelievably sick. I’m doing much better now, but for a while all I could do was sleep. It wasn’t even the kind of cold where I could lie in bed with a laptop and work on my writing. No, I was really out…
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Spring is finally starting in South Bend Indiana. Appropriately enough, the warmest day we’ve had all winter was on the first day of Anthesteria. In this climate, there are no flowers yet, but the snow began to melt on the first day of the festival, and yesterday I heard birds chirping for the first time.…
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Wepwawet (Upuaut, Wep-wawet, Wep-waut, Wepuat, or Ophois in Greek) is a canid Deity like Anubis. He is sometimes considered a jackal, but others believe Him to represent a wolf. He is depicted very similarly to Anubis, but is gray-colored instead of black, or sometimes with a white head. Greek sources say that Wepwawet’s animal is…
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Anubis’ sacred plant is the cypress, a tree that Greeks as well as the Egyptians associated with death and mourning. Cypress oil is a great offering, and burning it during ritual is very effective. He prefers strong incense, especially myrrh, cedarwood, and the traditional frankincense. Beer and bread is the standard offering to pretty much…
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First of all, the Maetreum of Cybele, Magna Mater, a Pagan monastic order in Catkill, NY, has been fighting for tax exempt status for five years. Their battle has been fineally getting attention, from the the New York Times and the Daily Mail. The good news is that the New York Times article is pretty…
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