Hellenism, Practical Guides
Why This Is Genuinely Harder Than It Looks The ancient Athenian religious calendar was lunar, civic, and deeply tied to a city-state infrastructure that simply does not exist anymore. Festivals were timed to specific lunar months that do not align cleanly with the...
Hellenism, Practical Guides
An Uncomfortable Topic Worth Addressing Directly Animal sacrifice was central to ancient Greek civic religious practice, full stop. Pretending otherwise to make the tradition feel more palatable to modern sensibilities would be dishonest, and dishonesty about...
Celtic, Community & Connection, Critical Thinking, Modern Pagan Life, Practical Paganism
Paganism broadly is growing. Every sociological measure that tracks religious identity in the United States and Britain shows a consistent increase in people identifying with earth-based, polytheistic, and pagan spiritual paths. The number of people calling themselves...
Hellenism, Mythology and Archetype Breakdowns
The Story Itself In one Orphic version of the myth, Zagreus is a son of Zeus, sometimes identified closely with or as a form of Dionysos, born from a union with Persephone. The jealous Titans lure the young god, distract him with toys, including a mirror, and tear him...
Celtic, Critical Thinking, Modern Pagan Life
Here is something that doesn’t get said enough: there is no ancient Celtic tradition waiting intact for modern practitioners to simply receive and repeat. What exists is fragmentary evidence, good scholarship, living folklore at the edges, and a community of...
