lived polytheism
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For over two years, I have been working in dementia care, wrestling with madness in a very real form. I have sat with the elderly as their spirits left this world, bound for whatever afterlife their Gods have in store for them. In this place I grappled with spirits, both of passed-on humans and of…
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Because I totally need another project.
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So, I finally watched American Gods last fall. Despite the hype, I wasn’t going to, because I’m not a fan of the “Gods need our prayers, worship, and belief to live” trope. I’m not sure whether I hate that trope or the “Gods are aliens and magic is science we don’t understand” storyline more. Both…
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I was going to include these in my next Round-Up of Interesting Links, but I decided that TP Ward’s posts on the theme of Pagans and money deserves its own entire intro. It deserves to be considered on its own. Pagans have an interesting, complicated relationship with money. I’ve seen Pagans drop hundreds of dollars…
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About month ago, we killed and ate our rooster. (I’ve been behind on my blogging, there has been a lot of work to do) This was the first time we have actually slaughtered an animal. Of course, this is a part of homesteading, but it was a monumental step for my brother and I. The…
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My submission to Lykeia’s Agon for Artemis in honor of Mounykhia. Still a week left if you want to submit something! A Homesteader’s Prayer to Artemis by Amanda Artemisia Forrester O Artemis, bright daughter of Leto, Who knows not the touch of man, Wild Virgin of the Woods Who runs with Her nymphs…
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This is my submission Alexeigynaix’s Athena Agon, and to that Athena devotional as well. Athena of Farmers by Amanda Artemisia Forrester My Lady Athena I have worshiped You for decades now, Since my heart first lurched at the sound of Your name When I was just a child. I have followed You through…
Temple of Athena the Savior 