Missa pro Defunctis. Mass for the Dead. We don't call it that, any more, we call it the Requiem Mass; the Defunctis part is maybe a little too literal for our death-averse culture to be comfortable with. Mozart wrote his Requiem as he himself was dying, dying of syphilis or food poisoning or straight-up poisoning or an overabundance of the ( Read more... )

as re-told and re-interpreted by Kathryn, bona-fide pagan ( Read more... )