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Stillness, Tumult, and Links

21 February 2021 ~ kaye ~ Leave a comment

On February 15, I drew the Greek Alphabet Oracle zeta (Ζ) for the week — flee the very great storm, lest you be disabled in some way. In previous years, I braced for something to happen because receiving this oracle (to recap: about what I needed to keep in mind to work towards aretē that … Continue reading Stillness, Tumult, and Links

My Personalized Version of the Prayer to All of the Gods I

6 February 20217 February 2021 ~ kaye ~ 2 Comments

Over the course of the past week or so, I have been using "Prayer to All of the Gods I" as my main shrine prayer, albeit with some modifications to incorporate a few other deities beyond the scope of the original prayer. It's a lot of libations, a lovely smattering of incense, and ... you … Continue reading My Personalized Version of the Prayer to All of the Gods I

The Future Is More Than Us

15 January 2021 ~ kaye ~ 2 Comments

Sometimes, I fantasize about people who are utterly unlike myself being able to draw from their religious practices in ways that are unremarkable, not avant-garde. I think about the kids of polytheists today two decades from now waking up for a day of work and praying at a wall shelf shrine held up with command … Continue reading The Future Is More Than Us

Two Poems for Apollôn’s Circle

13 November 2019 ~ kaye ~ Leave a comment

Kyklos Apollôn's listserv is not very active anymore (although I've heard the group is somewhat active on Facebook now). A decade ago, I wrote two short poems for use during the ritual, which was/is timed to occur when the sun rose at Delphi each Sunday morning. It was usually in the middle of the night … Continue reading Two Poems for Apollôn’s Circle

Uncovering

10 October 201910 October 2019 ~ kaye ~ Leave a comment

I got to thinking about veiling, binding one’s hair, and modesty, and then about a cluster of other issues that arboresced from there. This post is a product of that.

Revisiting my Childhood Copy of D’Aulaires’ BOOK OF GREEK MYTHS

25 August 2019 ~ kaye ~ Leave a comment

Infrequently on KALLISTI and elsewhere, I have referred to a copy of D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths that I had when I was a toddler. This weekend, the book fell into my hands again. It is, indeed, held together with duct tape. … although the duct tape isn't really working out, is it? One of … Continue reading Revisiting my Childhood Copy of D’Aulaires’ BOOK OF GREEK MYTHS

Something I Read About Nonviolence

21 August 2019 ~ kaye ~ 7 Comments

Today, a conversation about the normalization of calls for violence on social media sparked me to wonder what kinds of ethical and moral writings existed about nonviolence — ones that did not take a Christian perspective. While Googling a variety of terminology (nonviolence, ahimsa, &c.), I ended up finding Mark Kurlansky's Nonviolence: The History of a … Continue reading Something I Read About Nonviolence

Sallust: On the Gods and the Worlds V

18 March 2019 ~ kaye ~ 1 Comment

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

Pythia and tripod from a Greek vase. Wikimedia commons.
15 March 2019 ~ kaye ~ Leave a comment

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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