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Proclus the Eclectic Neopagan14 comments

Ryan wrote 7 months ago: Recently I’ve found the following passage (from The Life of Proclus or Concerning Happiness by Marin … more →

Tags: Neoplatonism, Proclus, Devotional Polytheism, polytheism, Eclectic Hellenism, Marinus, Eclecticism

Where Shall Wisdom Be Found? (An Eclectic Hellenist’s List to Remind Himself What Matters)11 comments

Ryan wrote 7 months ago: I haven’t posted anything personal in awhile, so perhaps this will fit the bill. This is not a poem. … more →

Tags: Ancestors, Culture Heroes, Devotional Polytheism, Eclectic Hellenism, Eclectic Reconstructionism, Harold Bloom, Heroes, Heroines, I AM Series

Then through my dream the choir of gods was borne . . .2 comments

Ryan wrote 7 months ago: Gustave Moreau – Phaethon The Fall of a Soul  by John Addington Symonds (October 5, 1840 … more →

Tags: Poet-Heroes Series, Neoplatonism, Plato, John Addington Symonds, Gustave Moreau

Orphism and Orphica4 comments

Ryan wrote 8 months ago: Sonia Delaunay – Rhythm Chords [Passages 14] by Robert Duncan For the Thing we call Moon conta … more →

Tags: Robert Duncan, Orphic Tradition, Rainer Maria Rilke, Robert Graves, Sonia Delaunay, orphism

H.D. aka Hilda Doolittle (September 10, 1886 - September 27, 1961)6 comments

Ryan wrote 8 months ago: On this day, in 1886, the poet Hilda Doolittle (aka H.D.), was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Of a … more →

Tags: Poet-Heroes Series, h.d. (hilda doolittle), eros, oreads

Ezra Pound's Religio or, The Child's Guide to Knowledge6 comments

Ryan wrote 8 months ago: Religio or, The Child’s Guide to Knowledge by Ezra Pound What is a god? A god is an eternal state of … more →

Tags: Ezra Pound, Devotional Polytheism, polytheism

Chaldean Hekate

hellenicheart wrote 9 months ago: Did you know that just because a God is in the Greek pantheon doesn’t mean they’re Greek? Eh, you pr … more →

Tags: Pagan, hellenic, Greek, Hellenic Heart, greek paganism, Greek witchcraft, Chaldean Orcales, chaldean, Chaldean Hekate

Happy New Year!

hellenicheart wrote 9 months ago: Happy New Year!!! Today is the sparkling first day of the Kemetic year. With this I begin my Helleni … more →

Tags: Pagan, hellenic, Greek, Hellenic Heart, greek paganism, Greek witchcraft

The 39th Day2 comments

Ryan wrote 9 months ago: for Annabel Lee Within the House of Hades An Orphic Fragment Your soul has departed. You arrive at a … more →

Tags: Pagan Reveries, Annabel Lee, Orphic Tradition, Ancestors

Because the Truth is in His Eyes – “A Canticle of Bacchus” by Witter Bynner6 comments

Ryan wrote 10 months ago: The following poem is a lovely and insightful tribute to Dionysos/Bacchus (and Silenus) by the great … more →

Tags: Sannion, Dionysos, Socrates, silenus, Witter Bynner, Robert Burns

Pagan in Paris: A Pagan Guide to The Louvre Museum29 comments

Ryan wrote 12 months ago: At this moment I am sitting on the balcony of a 12th-century chateau in the south of France, near th … more →

Tags: adonis, Antinous, Aphrodite, APOLLON, Artemis, Athena, charites, Dionysos, France

A Pagan Walking Tour of Paris - Day One: Garden Nymphs, Hero-Poets, and Divine Allegories (oh my!)12 comments

Ryan wrote 1 year ago: We arrived in Paris on Tuesday after many, many hours of travel and very few hours of sleep.  We’re … more →

Tags: Poet-Heroes Series, local focus polytheism, Sequona, voltaire, Nymphs, France, Paris, Victor Hugo, Divine Allegories

Voyage to The Land of the Cathars and The City of Lights5 comments

Ryan wrote 1 year ago: Tomorrow (Monday) my husband and I embark on a voyage to France, where we will be leading a wine tou … more →

Tags: Homeric Hymns, Hermes, France

Hestia, The Queen of Fire - Part Three1 comment

Ryan wrote 1 year ago: “Young men, praise Hestia, the most ancient of goddesses.” [verse preserved in Proclus’ Commentary o … more →

Tags: My Personal Pantheon Series, hestia, Thomas Taylor, Neoplatonism, Proclus, Plato, Pythagoras, Philolaus, plotinus

Sweeping the Temple [What I Am Doing for Kallynteria & Plynteria]

Ryan wrote 1 year ago: Yesterday began with our hands in the dirt, pulling weeds and planting seeds, and ended with our eye … more →

Tags: What I Do Series, euripides, h.d. (hilda doolittle), Kallynteria, Plynteria

The Survival of Paganism - Honoring Our Pagan Precursors3 comments

Ryan wrote 1 year ago: Much of my post yesterday dedicated to Thomas Taylor, “The English Pagan,” was inspired by an anonym … more →

Tags: Poet-Heroes Series, Thomas Taylor, Pagan Reveries, Modern Pagan Precursors, Gemistus Plethon, marsilio ficino, voltaire, David Hume, Hemon de la Fosse

Thomas Taylor - “The English Pagan”6 comments

Ryan wrote 1 year ago: “It is curious that Thomas Taylor, the Platonist, is really a better man of imagination, a bet … more →

Tags: Poet-Heroes Series, Thomas Taylor, Neoplatonism, Plato, Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Everything is Overflowing with Gods" – Proclus2 comments

Ryan wrote 1 year ago: Start here: On the Occasion of the 1,600th Anniversary of the Birth of Proclus (2/08/12) by Edward P … more →

Tags: Poet-Heroes Series, Thomas Taylor, Neoplatonism, Edward P. Butler, Proclus, Plato

Hestia, The Queen of Fire – Part Two4 comments

Ryan wrote 1 year ago: For Part Two of my initial reflections on Hestia (Part One can be found here), I want to first exami … more →

Tags: My Personal Pantheon Series, hestia, local focus polytheism, Eclectic Reconstructionism, Prytaneia


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