Since it’s halfway through the calendar year (and still the beginning of HMEPA’s 699.3), I thought I’d revisit some of my goals for the year and describe where I am with them, with a focus on the ones related to religion. I do goal-setting to keep myself honest about my aspirations for the year; conversely, … Continue reading Reflecting on Goals
Category: polytheism
To Eris
On the occasion of the fifth day of the lunar month.¹ 🌒 Lady of blades and of apples, of stratagems devised in retribution, the clashes of bronze are yours, strong words at marriage-feasts, this cycle of anxious rewording. Daughter of Night, your insatiable will drives all things into mixture, as bright oil meets opaque water. You … Continue reading To Eris
Reflections on Social Media
So, yesterday was the new year according to the HMEPA calendar — I did an hour and fifteen minutes of ritual, and my apartment still smells like frankincense incense and oil. I prayed to the Horai for their blessings in 699.3 (because we all need that right now), alongside gods I worship on a personal basis, … Continue reading Reflections on Social Media
Thoughts after reading Opsopaus’ comments on Delphic Maxim 107
A further exploration of a Twitter thread on concord and our polytheist communit(y/ies).
Some scattered reflections after visiting the Met
Yesterday, I went into NYC on the Metro-North because there are exhibits at the Met that I wanted to see. I was in the Met for about six hours, and here's what I saw: Watercolors of the Acropolis — Émile Gilliéron was a watercolorist who did some very large-format works to document architectural sculptures on … Continue reading Some scattered reflections after visiting the Met
Catharsis
A poem for Thargelia.
Publication FYI — “Is My Libation To-Go Cup Authentic?” in Eidolon
In December, I pitched an article to Eidolon on modern Hellenic Polytheism, authenticity, and how we use/read the Classics. It just came out! You can go read it here.
Sallust: On the Gods and the Worlds V
V. Concerning the first Cause. After this, it is requisite that we should know the first cause, and the orders of gods posterior to the first, together with the nature of the world, of intellect, soul, and essence; likewise that we should speculate providence, fate, and fortune, virtue and vice, and the good and evil … Continue reading Sallust: On the Gods and the Worlds V
Sallust, Part II: Remixing ON THE GODS AND THE WORLD XV
XV. Why we honour the Gods, who are not indigent of any thing. From hence we are presented with a solution of the doubts concerning sacrifices and other particulars relative to the cultivation of divinity; for that which is divine is not indigent of any thing. But the honours which we pay to the gods, … Continue reading Sallust, Part II: Remixing ON THE GODS AND THE WORLD XV
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