Our ancestors had a mythic understanding of the world, in which multiple realities were possible.
The Hosting of the Cailleach at Tigh nam Bodach
The Cailleach is one of the oldest-living beings in Celtic mythology. She has a conversation with Fintan the Wise, a seer who traveled to Ireland […]
Dionysus & the Anthesteria, Festival of Love & Death
“We are mortals. It’s not possible for us to maintain that peak of pure experience, of divine joy, indefinitely. Some try and manage an intimacy […]
Dogs in Mythology & Folklore
Dogs and hounds are sacred and otherworldly in many cultures and prevalent in many myths, particularly those regarding the gods of the wild places. They […]
Ancestor Reverence in New Orleans
While the world held its breath to see what midnight on the Solstice held, I watched the bright constellations in the country sky, listened to […]
Lilith: Our Mother, who Art in Hell
The Prophet of the Peacock-Quill Hath drunk God’s Blood from out the Cup Of Iblis and the Blessed Few That with Eve’s brood refuse to […]
Worshippers to the Front-Lines: Another Pagan on 2012, God-Recruitment, and the Growing Darkness
When you open yourself to the Gods, the Dead, and the Spirits, when you weave magic and develop *ghos-ti- with your Allies, it is only […]
Julbock & the Sacred Goat
The Sacred Goat is an important part of my spirituality, and throughout the world and throughout time has represented life, death, ecstasy, eroticism, secret knowledge, […]
Ritual Jewelry & Jasper Hagstones
I have always loved ritual jewelry. My preferred way of approaching the Gods is wearing nothing but raw or handcarved gemstones. I need to feel […]
Always on the Edges of Vision
We cannot doubt that barbaric people receive such influences [“invisible beings, far wandering influences, shapes that may have floated from a hermit of the wilderness”] […]