Rome
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Roma is the personification of the city of Rome, and all the qualities and virtues that made Rome great. She was the guardian of the city and the empire, in the same way that the statue of Lady Liberty is the symbolic guardian of Ellis Island, the gateway to America. In many ways Roma is…
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Today is the last day of the Floralia, a festival celebrated in Rome from April 27th to May 3rd. At parties everyone wears crowns of flowers, and the table is strewn with sweet scented roses. A guest who drank too much dances with twigs in his hair. His indiscretion induced by wine. A drunken lover…
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One significant way that Roman Religion (Religo Romana) differs from Greek is in their veneration of the Lares and Penates, of which their were no Grecian counterparts. Every Roman family had their own set of personal Gods. They were the guardians of the house and the protectors of the family. The Lares were deified ancestor…
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Tuesday was the Ides of March, the death of Julius Caesar. This was my first year celebrating it, although I have always admired him greatly. It was a simple celebration, just myself. I arranged the altar with Roman symbols, such as the she-wolf suckling Romulus and Remus, and the center was, of course, a picture…
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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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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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Instead of reproducing here the essays and other works I’ve had published online in other places, I thought I’d share them in a list of links for folks to look at if they’d like. I’ll have to do another listing for the poetry eventually. Essays: An Introduction to Janus Asklepios the Physician Healing with Artemis…
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Things are about to get very busy for me religiously. This Friday I’m holding a public Adoration of Aphrodite ritual. This is not a ancient festival but a modern ritual I wrote to celebrate the Golden Goddess since we are so close to Valentine’s Day and I didn’t want to do Lupercalia. I don’t want…
Temple of Athena the Savior 