In about three weeks, we’ll be doing our devotional at Pantheacon! If you want to help get it going, there are a few things we could use help with: We’ll need people to help with the ritual. We have the Priest (me) and one to assist me, and one drummer. Another person or two to […]
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A Prayer to Cthonic Dionysos
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I wrote this for a friend of mine who was working with Dionysos in the Underworld. With their permission, I’m sharing it here, in case anyone else has a need for it. A prayer for Dionysos in the Underworld I call to Dionysos in the Underworld The Dancer in the Dark Who journeys in the […]
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Thiasos Bakkheios Through the Year
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The ritual year for Thiasos Bakkheios starts with the Winter Solstice. The calendar of Attica (which many Hellenic reconstructionists use to set their ritual year) begins with the first new moon after the Summer Solstice, but I’ve found that scheduling with modern folks works better if the calendar starts closer to the secular new year. […]
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We Need a Sacred Bartender
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Update from Thiasos Bakkheios: We recently had another chanting and drumming and (some) dancing devotional. I’m going to report on it as best I can. Only some of these are my personal recollections; certain gaps in my memory had to be filled in with information supplied by “dude, you were so wasted” stories people told […]
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Gang Aft A-Gley
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The best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men gang aft a-gley–and also those of polytheists. For our August devotional, I’d planned for Thiasos Bakkheios to have a high-woo trance journey, so that each member could meet the god in person, and discover which aspect of Dionysos they most resonated with. Well, no. Scheduling problems, on-the-job injuries, […]
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Dionysos is an American God
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Last week, Sannion wrote this piece about America as a Dionysian country. Essentially, he looks to an ideal of (or an idealized imagining of) certain aspects of the land and culture of the United States, and sees a clear pattern of Dionysian spirit in our art, politics, and history. The essay is not unproblematic, and […]
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Thiasos Bakkheios
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I’ve started, together with half a dozen friends, a Dionysian devotional group I’m calling Thiasos Bakkheios. It means, roughly, “Folks who come together to perform rituals to Bakkhos.” I am no expert in any form of Greek, so if someone reading this can confirm that I’m using the words correctly, that would be great. Better, […]
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Live, My Strange Children
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PCon Crash
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PantheaCon went well, by and large. Never without incident, of course – there’s waaaaaay too many people there for that to ever be the case. But far more good than bad. Being me, and hypercritical, and moody in February, I … Continue reading →
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PCon Prep
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PREPARE ALL THE THINGS! WAAAAAAAAAAAUGH! That is all. –Ember–