Okay gang-here is a question for all the RR's* and HP's** out there on my friends list ( Read more... )

I have been thinking lately-Is it necessary for someone to have a formal initiation? Or is it possible to self initiate one's self? I have always thought that if you or said person felt a strong draw to a path or a set of paths and wished to get involved in said path but preferred to be solitary in said path, is their 'initiation' less valid then ( Read more... )

While for the most part this blog as been just a collection of random thoughts, ideas, and finds on Moroni and my polytheist path-I am thinking of expanding upon that to include more indepth posts about Moroni, Nephites, Lamanites and how from my personal path they relate. Sort of a tapestry of religion. I have always felt that religion can't be ( Read more... )

Okay I have been thinking lately-and those on my Flist ( and anyone else too) that identifies as Hellenic or Religio Romana ( Read more... )

I am looking for the Orphic Funerary texts-

Can anyone suggest a good translation of them? Books?

Adonis, having become androgynous, behaved as a man for Aphrodite and as a woman for Apollon." - Ptolemy Hephaestion, New History Bk5 (as summarized in Photius, Myriobiblon 190)

http://www.theoi.com/Olympios/AphroditeLoves2.html

Here is a thought, Let's discuss-

Castor And Pollux Erastai?

What do you guys think?

Borrowed from Hernestuso in ecclesiaantioi ( Read more... )

"Egyptian influence ( Read more... )

Night took on an even more important role in several fragmentary poems attributed to Orpheus. In them, Night, rather than Chaos, is the first principle. Night occupies a cave or adyton, in which she gives oracles. Kronos - who is chained within, asleep and drunk on honey - dreams and prophesies. Outside the cave, Adrastea clashes cymbals and beats ( Read more... )