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Good job, folks!
So here’s what we currently have in the way of communal hymns for Apollo Soranos and Melinoë. Do you guys feel that they are done or still need more work? I’ll keep this open so you can contribute more...
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Communal hymn for Melinoë
I pray to Melinoe She of the double nature The light in the darkness and the dark in the light I pray to Melinoe of the Starry Bull I offer praises to Melinoe born of savage power. I offer praises to...
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Leader of vaporous phantasms
As I was putting together my plans for the Melinoeia (which ended up going in a completely different direction than intended, something I generally take to be a sign of effective ritual) I felt a...
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for your delectation
A couple cool things were posted today at the Boukoleon that would make good reading during the festival of Melinoë’s birth. Here is Adriana Mejia’s reaction to Melinoe’s origins: Then Dionysos comes...
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Happy birthday Melinoë
Tonight we celebrate the nativity of Melinoë, whose sorrowful conception is narrated in the Orphic Hymn devoted to her. I’ll be using two images on my Melinoë shrine, both created by members of the...
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Honey for the Mistress of the Labyrinth
As part of my observance of the Pannychis of Ariadne this weekend (we’ve got about eight people coming up and it’s going to be totally badass with fire and temple snakes and the whole shebang) I plan...
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I forgot what I was going to call this post, but at least I’m no longer thirsty!
Since Apollon was admitted into the Starry Bull pantheon I suppose it’s only natural that I’ve been thinking a lot about his mother and her relationship to Bacchic Orphism. The two of them are rather...
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The Story
You would hear a story – the story – Mousaios? Very well, I will tell it. But first let all the profane ones close the door of their ears – it is not proper for the like to take such holy words into...
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To play with the sad girl
Perhaps Haides adopted Makaria so that Melinoë would have a companion. It’s not good to be all alone down there with only monsters and sad, gibbering shades to play with – it does funny things to one...
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Honor Melinoe
Maiden with dark and light eyes, mistress of many shapes and many wiles – you were born from grief and so know how to guide souls through the winding maze of pain and madness. You care for those whom...
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Add your voice
A while back I suggested that we should come up with a collaborative hymn for Melinoë. Madgastronomer kicked things off with these lines: I pray to Melinoe She of the double nature The light in the...
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Let the thiasos hail all-glorious Apollon!
So, I was reading Jack Faust’s post These dialogues are riddled with hostility, and generally divisive overall, and specifically this paragraph: What happens when we ignore the purificatory functions...
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As Herakleitos once said …
There’s been a lot going on behind the scenes with the Polytheist Leadership Conference which has resulted in me having to substantially revise the schedule – including one of our presenters dropping...
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Honey dripping from a phallos
And in a pattern that I’m no longer even questioning, an insight about Herakles was accompanied by an insight about Kronos. One of the reasons why I offer mead in libation to Dionysos from time to time...
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Hail to you Melinoë
Maiden with dark and light eyes, mistress of many shapes and many wiles – you were born from grief and so know how to guide souls through the winding maze of pain and madness. You care for those whom...
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And in thiasos of the Starry Bull news …
I am really enjoying the contributions you guys have made to our communal hymns and so I’ve decided to extend the deadline for another week to see what else materializes. Once they’re finished I’m...
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You will be heard.
One of the things that’s most bothered me about what I’ve been reading since the Kenny Klein story broke is how often the sufferers of abuse in our communities have been deprived of their voice. People...
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Songs in the key of Melinoë
I call upon Melinoë, saffron-cloaked nymph of the earth, To whom august Persephone gave birth by the mouth of the Kokytos, Upon the sacred bed of Kronian Zeus. He lied to Plouton and through treachery...
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We’ve got two more goddesses!
MadGastronomer has composed some absolutely gorgeous cult-hymns for the gods and spirits of the thiasos of the Starry Bull which I highly recommend you check out. She also has the interesting...
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