Dver at A Forest Door and Jason at The Wild Hunt have written about the infringement of religious liberty of this California tribe, but as it is close to the heart of my concerns at finnchuillsmast I wish to expand on it here. The Winnemem are attempting to hold a very important initiation [...]
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The Winnemem Wintu’s Struggle for Religious Liberty
Posted in Animism, California, tagged California, Indigenous, Rivers on May 24, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Finding Your Mountain, Coming Home
Posted in Animism, California, Druidism, local paganism, orientation, San Francisco, tagged Animism, Califia, Celtic, Druidism, Evans-Wentz, Land Goddess, Local Focus Paganism, Sacred Mountains on May 22, 2012 | 1 Comment »
I feel an important part of orienting to landscape as a Pagan is to find a sacred mountain. Many readers are probably familiar with Walter Evans-Wentz, the author of the early twentieth century study of the Celtic fairy faith. Some know he edited and compiled translations of the Tibetan Book of the Dead also, but [...]
Animism On The Mountain
Posted in Animism, California, Druidism, local paganism, orientation, tagged Animism, Druidism, local paganism, Practice on May 13, 2012 | 1 Comment »
The mountain strikes me with its exuberant greenness. Green covers such an expansive chromatic range, the pastel of lichens, the dusky dark of some of the conifers, the emerald brightness of the moss in the dripping woods. Then the mottled grays speckled with russets, ochres, oranges, and the glassy reptilian shininess of the greens, blues [...]
PantheaCon Reportage: The Excellent & The Good
Posted in California, tagged Brigid, Celtic Paganism, Dionysos, Druidism, PantheaCon, Queer, Saraswati on March 2, 2012 | 2 Comments »
The bad has been gotten out of the way, so now to the excellent and the good of my experience. First off there was the excellent “Brigid and Sarasvati: Goddesses of Poetry and Inspiration” by Erynn Rowan Laurie. It’s really striking to see how many similarities Brigid and Saraswati have from water associations and symbolism [...]
Gender Trouble Again: Pantheacon 2012
Posted in California, tagged Gender, PantheaCon, Transgender on February 24, 2012 | 2 Comments »
It’s unfortunate on so many levels that what happened in one corner of PantheaCon last weekend threatens to overwhelm all else (and I am so glad that I was pretty much unaware of this until the end of the Con as I was able to enjoy so many positive things there)—but it’s one of those [...]
Pantheacon 2012
Posted in California, tagged California, Celtic, PantheaCon on February 16, 2012 | 2 Comments »
The 18th PantheaCon is almost upon us. The offerings look particularly rich this year! I’m giving a workshop on Echtrai, Immrama, Aisling, and using the lore as a guide for one’s own ‘journeying’ on the 20th. https://pantheacon.com/wordpress/at-pantheacon/whats-happening/program-guide/ PantheaCon is at the Doubletree Hotel in San Jose, California from Friday though Monday over the President’s Day [...]
