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A Post-Festival Guide to Anthesteria
I realize this would have been a more useful post BEFORE the festival happened this year, but I only just thought of it. I’ll try to remember to link back to it when Anthesteria rolls around next year....
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Your darkness is shining
Today begins Anthesteria, one of the most profound and beautiful festivals for Dionysos. We will call up the dead with the horn today, invite them to arise from the earth along with the flowers, just...
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A drought in Hel
There’s a drought in Hel and the dead are thirsty But what will they drink? What will they drink? There’s a drought in Hel and the dead are thirsty But what do they drink? What do they drink? There’s a...
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Anthesterion 11
PITHOIGIA. Mist rising off a snow-covered field, white on white. An almost full moon in the dusk sky, glowing through the haze. Bowls inscribed with prayers, filled with dark wine which overflows in...
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Anthesterion 13
KHUTROI. Creeping into my heart all day, the miasma, a heaviness. I spend a large amount of my life serving and calling to spirits that others would run from, and yet somehow this festival always hits...
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Anthesteria Photos
PITHOIGIA: Dionysos shrine with Anthesteria offerings potted irises, since the flowers here were buried under snow for the first time in seven years Viridian wine – I chose it for the description on...
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A Typology of Spirits
This is just something that came to me the other night when I was pondering the nature of spirits, and the different types of spirits one might encounter. I ended up with the following breakdown, based...
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Martinmas
Offering bowl with nuts and berries, honey, and bear gingerbread cookie (I made these myself), turnip lantern, bear figurine, ales featuring hibernation and an antlered bear, and my stone mortar with...
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Hermes in the Cemetery #8
Here it is, the last cemetery visit for Hermes. (I will be doing something different to honor Him for the remaining four months of the year.) For this, I travelled slightly outside of Eugene proper, to...
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Less like people
I just re-found this quote I’d saved and it seems like a good time to post it, considering it’s that time of year. I’m not in tune with the dead, generally speaking – I think it’s because I’m not in...
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In the marshes, through tangled trees,within the sacred precinct, I follow footworn paths across The Moundsand down into a hidden hollowwhere dark leaves slowly decay in dark poolscreating shadows in...
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