I’ve been going to PantheaCon for many years. For about a decade it’s been held at the Doubletree Hotel in San Jose, California, a large convention hotel. It’s gladdening to see it growing to where it now attracts about 3000 people from far and near. It can be overload with workshops, presentations, and rituals going [...]
Archive for February, 2011
PantheaCon & The Two Party System
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Gender, PanthheaCon, Queer on February 28, 2011 | 34 Comments »
Animist Cinema
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Animism, Miyazaki, Shinto, Totoro on February 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The term animism has a primitive ring for many, so it might comes as a surprise that one of the world’s most successful film directors is making animist films, yet that is true of Hiyao Miyazaki. A huge number of children and adults have viewed My Neighbor Totoro. The movie’s protagonist, the little girl Mei, [...]
The MU & the Many
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Burroughs, Laurie, Pasolini, polypraxy, reenchantment on February 13, 2011 | 4 Comments »
The MU & the Many While interest in polytheism is increasing in western countries, much of Neopaganism seems to be in a headlong rush to mainstream (that is, model on Christian forms) itself; parallels could be made with the gay and lesbian movement. Paganism rose into the public light, at least in part, as a [...]
Welcome!
Posted in Uncategorized on February 9, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Mast: A long pole or a spar rising from the keel or deck of a ship and supporting the yards, booms, and rigging. Nuts (as acorns) accumulated on the forest floor and often serving as food for animals (from Merriam-Webster’s). Welcome to Finnchuill’s Mast, a blog of pagan, polytheist, animist, and ecological matters! The Mast [...]
