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Personas: Spider Πείνα (Hunger)
http://www.spankwire.com/white-girl-with-dog-collar-interracial-sex/video274523/ Foolishly her father had left Ragno’s loom with her, a half-finished portrait of some Egyptian queen on it, fondling a...
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Personas: Dionysos Ευαστηρ (The one who cries euoi)
“Zeus leaned over the bed, with a horned head on human limbs, lowing with the voice of a bull, the very imitation of bullhorned Dionysos. Again, he put on the form of a shaggy lion; then he was a...
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A is for All of it in a nutshell
I see a lot of folks have decided to tackle the Pagan Blogging Challenge for 2013, and I guess I’m one of them. I toyed with the notion of doing it the first time around but my stuff is so weird and...
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Personas: Marcus Antonius Τραγοιδος (Who sings like a goat)
We tread on earth in our divine disdain And crush its blood out into purple wine, Staining our feet with hot and amorous stain, The foam involving all the sensual shrine Of love whose godhead dwells...
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Matrices
This was written at the behest of Lady S. as part of the “Marysville is hell” creative writing pledge drive. If you would like to commission a poem, short story or essay click here for details. To...
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Curiouser and curiouser.
While I was confirming that I had the spelling correct for the title of the last post — which is a notation left on a legal document believed to have been written by Kleopatra herself and has become...
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Detail of Giampietrino’s Cleopatra’s Death
“Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders round as ravens claws.” ― Jim Morrison Tagged: jim morrison, kleopatra
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An oration for the Ides of March
Superior souls perform superior deeds; this is why they pierced Caesar on the forum steps. Every plunge of a dagger was an attempt to extinguish his brilliance so that the mob didn’t have to see how...
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Isn’t it nice when your UPGs are confirmed?
So during her recent trip to the United Kingdom, Dver (who is currently posting some great accounts of the places she visited and things she saw there; my favorites are Dionysos at the British Museum,...
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This is where I live
Here are some pictures of my home which consists of nothing more than a computer, some books and representations of my gods and spirits. And here’s a video: Tagged: aphrodite, ariadne, christianity,...
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I have returned!
Ended my month of silence a little early because tomorrow is the anniversary of the death of one my dearest heroes, the imperator Marcus Antonius. Having learned, then, that Cleopatra was alive,...
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This is the man we honor today
Essential extracts from the Life of M. Antonius by Plutarch. He had also a noble dignity of form; and a shapely beard, a broad forehead, and an aquiline nose were thought to show the virile qualities...
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Just a heads up
There will be no oracular session during the month of August. This has been my tradition almost from the beginning, and is an expression of mourning for Mark Antony and Kleopatra who were unjustly...
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Hail to you Marcus Antonius! May you never thirst.
“For Kleopatra had enslaved him so absolutely that she persuaded him to act as gymnasiarch to the Alexandrians; and she was called ‘queen’ and ‘mistress’ by him, had Roman soldiers in her bodyguard,...
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you’re never more than four feet from a spider
Back in my Greco-Egyptian days I often pondered the near absence of spiders from the Kemetic mythic tradition. Aside from the Opening of the Mouth Ceremony and a single reference to Isis as a black...
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Starry Aphrodite
I was asked to elaborate on the role of Aphrodite within the Bacchic Orphic mystery tradition of the thiasos of the Starry Bull, which is something that absolutely needs to be done though I’m not sure...
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Running with the Apis
Marcus Antonius pushed open the door to the Queen’s private chambers, sending the startled ladies in waiting and guards scurrying off. Even had he not been the Queen’s recent husband, they wouldn’t...
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A long strange trip
Dver came up to New York City for a visit recently, and as I mentioned we stumbled upon a group of Persians getting ready for a Nowruz parade which was synchronistically delayed so as to coincide with...
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The Club of Inimitable Livers
If you like this piece or the work I’m doing here at the House of Vines please consider donating to Ruadhán McElroy so that he can attend the Polytheist Leadership Conference in July. . Kleopatra and...
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He knew
Riders on the Storm is among my top five favorite Doors’ songs. Inspired by the famous country tune Ghost Riders in the Sky (which is a cowboy version of the Wild Hunt mytheme) it was the final song...
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