Hellenism, Mythology and Archetype Breakdowns
A Secret That Actually Held It is worth sitting with how unusual this is. The Eleusinian Mysteries, centered at the town of Eleusis near Athens, operated for over a thousand years, and the core secret of what actually happened during the culminating initiation rite...
Hellenism, Mythology and Archetype Breakdowns
Two Popular Modern Readings, Both Worth Questioning Persephone’s story has had a real moment in modern retellings over the past several years, and two competing popular framings have emerged. One treats her purely as a victim of abduction, full stop, emphasizing...
Mythology and Archetype Breakdowns, Norse, Practical Paganism
Start Here Have you ever tried to read Norse mythology and found yourself lost? The gods are fighting giants, a squirrel is running up a tree, someone gives up an eye for wisdom, and it is not entirely clear what any of it has to do with anything else. Most of the...
Hellenism, Mythology and Archetype Breakdowns
A God With a Documented Origin Story Most ancient deities have origins lost somewhere in prehistory, accumulated slowly across centuries of local cult practice we can barely trace. Serapis is unusual because we can point to a specific historical moment and a specific...
