Natib Qadesh

  • GMC: Ereshkigal

    Ereshkigal, the Queen of the Great Below, or the Sumerian Underworld, is less well known today than Her brighter sister Inanna. The Underworld is also called Irkalla. Sometimes Her name is given as Irkalla, in the same way that in Greece Haides could signify both the Underworld and its ruler. Ereshkigal is the daughter of

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  • Hello all. Today I am interviewing Tess Dawson, the editor of Anointed, the newest Bibliotheca Alexandria anthology celebrating the Deities of the Near and Middle East. Full disclosure: I have nine poems published in this book. How long have you been a Canaanite Pagan? Also, what term do you prefer to refer to your religion

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  • Yesterday I went to the South Bend Library Book Sale, and I made out like a bandit! I spent only $33, and got a HUGE bag of over 40 books, most of them good, scholarly stuff on Greece and Egypt, with titles like “Daily Life of the Etruscans”, “In the Shadow of the Pyramids”, and

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  • Round-up of interesting Links

    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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