It took me about half a year to read all of this huge compendium of all things Dionysian by H. Jeremiah Lewis, better known as Sannion. It’s that kind of work, a banquet of essays, resources, stories and lots of poetry celebrating this marvelous, very multi-faceted god. In his introduction, he writes of the original [...]
Archive for January, 2012
Ecstatic: For Dionysos, A Book Review
Posted in Uncategorized on January 27, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Assumption of Ganymede
Posted in Uncategorized on January 22, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Today, January 22nd, is a day associated with the Assumption of Ganymede by some traditions. Ganymede was a beautiful Trojan prince whom Zeus became enamored of and took (in eagle form) to Olympus where he became the divine cupbearer. It should be noted that in ancient societies the role of cupbearer was an important one, [...]
El Polin: a Phallic Spring
Posted in springs, tagged California, local paganism, orientation, San Francisco, springs on January 15, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
An integral part of any earth-based spirituality is learning about your local landscape, coming to know your place, orienting, if you will. Well, that’s probably an important factor in just about any religious system, but as pagans that means with our Land, among other things. Knowing one’s watershed is an ecological principle. I find looking [...]
Cave Dreaming: Chauvet
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Chauvet, Herzog, Ice Age art, Minotaur, myth, Paleolithic on January 12, 2012 | 3 Comments »
Werner Herzog, director of some of my favorite films, such as Aguirre, the Wrath of God, Nosferatu the Vampyre, The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, and Where the Green Ants Dream among many others, has made a fascinating documentary, entitled Cave of Forgotten Dreams, about the Upper Paleolithic cave Chauvet. Chauvet was only discovered in 1994 [...]
