Ok, starting on the first day of Saturnalia until the 25th I'm going to focus on one of the ADF virtues daily. Working from the bottom up the first is Fertility/Creativity so I've decided to post the rather meh fan-fic I wrote a while ago (also the only fan-fic I've ever written). It's written as an origin story for the Ghost Fox Killer since DC ( Read more... )

This opening ceremony is mostly based upon Min Tzu's folk Taoist ritual "Knocking at Heaven's Door" found in his Chinese Taoist Sorcery with significant modifications and adaptations.

( Opening the Temple's Door )

Needing a bit of spiritual retreat from the insanity of my life, Sunday morning I visited Ching Ter Meitreya Temple for the Beginner's Class and morning service ( Read more... )

Blah - I'm going to this tomorrow Ching Ter Maitreya Temple's Nature Loving Festival (Well apparently now a much scaled down 'fundraiser' instead of their original intention - PDF) I'd write a bit about the syncretic Taiwanese NRM behind the temple and some thoughts about transplanted religious movement in America but with what's been going on ( Read more... )

Did a marathon of the Tokyo & Special arcs of Otogi Zoshi and I've got a few things on my mind - I like an Anime that actually makes me think from time to time. I tend to think the series was meant as a counterpoint to Neon Genesis Evangelion based on what when on in the series and the last special episode.

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First, before I forget, primaldog has opened an Etsy shop, * The Relic Hound *, to sale his crafts - check it out.

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( Ignorant musings on the Heian arc of Otogi Zoshi )

Well I came down to Cincinnati for the weekend to meet with my parents, I got there in mostly one piece but heading into Cincinnati the Greyhound bus hit apparently hit a large dog (people who say it said it looked like a Great Dane). The driver was saying his mandatory speech approaching X speech when *BUMB! - BUMP* along with the bus swerving ( Read more... )

I thought I posted these before but I don't see them so here are some links on Indo-Paganism:

The Indo-Pagan Project

PaganWiki: Indo-Paganism

A bit from a Hellenic Recon who is attempting to reconstruct the Greco-Buddhist tradition which flourished in the Indo-Greek Kingdom (which was established by one of Alexander's generals) and Central Asian ( Read more... )

Been reading Xiaofei Kang's The Cult of the Fox: Power, Gender, and Popular Religion in Late Imperial and Modern China (Review from the Taipei Times) to learn more about Chinese views of foxes before my presentation for PSA and saw this interesting tidbit while reading today (passage is quoting from the Wanquan county (Hebei) gazetter (1933)):

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The other day Chad and I were talking about his East Asian History class Mao Zedong. He found it hilarious when I mentioned Mao's apparent status of a deity in parts of China - so as an randomish post on Religion (which I haven't done lately) here's some bits about the Cult of Mao:


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