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Etsy Store: Devotional Jewellery
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Continue reading →: Etsy Store: Devotional JewelleryI’m beading devotional jewellery again but this time instead of taking commissions, I’m making unique pieces for specific Gods in the Hellenic and Kemetic pantheon which I’m devoted to. These pieces will be made from crystal, silver, shell, wood, glass and brass beads which have been meticulously picked due to…
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Sumerian Gods: February/March
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Continue reading →: Sumerian Gods: February/MarchSince the Sumerian year starts at the Spring Equinox, the period starting from the Winter Solstice could contain from three to four months. The lunar months of the calendars of the cities have to fit within the solar year of equinoxes. The fourth month (intercalary) was usually inserted by a…
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A Prayer to Sekhmet for the Fight Against Cancer
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Continue reading →: A Prayer to Sekhmet for the Fight Against CancerThis post and prayer are dedicated to my coworker and friend who is currently battling cancer after a recent diagnosis, she has now started chemo this week so she has been going through health difficulties associated with that. May Sekhmet aid her in her triumph over this horrible disease. Offerings…
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A Prayer to Sekhmet for the Fight Against Cancer
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Continue reading →: A Prayer to Sekhmet for the Fight Against CancerThis post and prayer are dedicated to my coworker and friend who is currently battling cancer after a recent diagnosis, she has now started chemo this week so she has been going through health difficulties associated with that. May Sekhmet aid her in her triumph over this horrible disease. Offerings…
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Darker Days Radio
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Continue reading →: Darker Days RadioHorror roleplaying writers discuss their favorite RPGs, with a focus on Vampire the Masquerade, Chronicles of Darkness, and Warhammer, and introduce real world spookiness with the Secret Frequency. Source: Darker Days Radio
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Continue reading →: 5 books about Beethoven to read on the 250th anniversary year of his birth
Celebrate Beethoven’s 250th year with Boydell & Brewer’s recommended reading! Discover 5 books on Beethoven only on Proofed. Source: 5 books about Beethoven to read on the 250th anniversary year of his birth
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Continue reading →: Ways to be a writer
Originally posted on Rachel A. M.: In writing, there are always new goals to strive toward. There are also always new ways to feel less than. I’m not a real writer if I’m only writing for work. I’m not a real writer if I’m writing genre fiction, or if I’m…
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Continue reading →: Woke Men, Stop Shitting On Women by Trelawney Grenfell-Muir —
Woke Man is often a Leader of some kind, someone Well Respected for his Work in some sort of Important Progressive Cause. Woke Man may, understandably, think pretty Highly of himself. He’s got quite a Clever Sense of Humor, you see. He’s got Helpful Insights and Wise Advice. He is…
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Continue reading →: Poetry – Communication – a poem to the expansion of minds that takes place when we talk and listen to each other. — Opher’s World
Poetry – Communication – a poem to the expansion of minds that takes place when we talk and listen to each other. There is nothing better than a debate, discussion and argument between friends as we pierce the truth of all we know. For only in the sharing, thinking through…
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Continue reading →: Radio Caprice Dark Ambient – Russia – Listen Live Online Free Radio Station
Source: Radio Caprice Dark Ambient – Russia – Listen Live Online Free Radio Station
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Myths and Legends of Ancient Egypt: Reckoning of the Mounds of the Primeval Time
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Continue reading →: Freya: Modern need, ancient goddess
Originally posted on mainer74: I am Heathen, which honestly is not the same as pagan. I am a hard polytheist who understands the gods and goddesses, however imperfectly we understand them, are discrete knowable entities with a nature that springs not from our need, but from their essence. The gods…
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Continue reading →: How One Woman is Reviving the Lost Art of Letter Writing: An Interview with My Friend AnneMarie
Originally posted on Love is Stronger: Do you have some friends who bring more magic and whimsy into your life? My friend AnneMarie is like that. AnneMarie and I grew up in the same circles, but we didn’t really become friends until we worked as counselors together at a camp…
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Continue reading →: she.
she. “Enemy Spirits, Come to finish my fate Nothing you do Can cause me to dissipate I am forever I am EVER, For and Ever I am Always, Now and Then I am of the gods My gods, your gods and theirs Make mincemeat of your decisions Deal you heartbreak,…
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Continue reading →: The Disconnect
“The source is within, so there is no need for seeking validation indiscriminately or masochistically from the outside, nor for trying to make the environment friendly in order to get support, nor for appeasing others for reward.” – from the chapter ‘Suffering & Standing Separate,’ via the text Descent to…
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Continue reading →: Les Amants des Morte
*disclaimer – naughty words and heavy sexual connotation; also, an original poem from me to an ex lover* Everytime we fuck, I die, Lovers of Death, you and I Make-believers in fate, you and me Troublemakers connected; destiny! Little Death, Oxycontin, Dopamine When together, even the Heavens stop for our…
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Continue reading →: untitled post 1352The 10yr anniversary of her death was this past August…many will only remember her records and music videos, but i’ll always ever remember her as the Dark Goddess personified, dancing to the sounds of the depths of this very earth. Also this is just bitchin, when it comes to reminiscing…
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Continue reading →: Eclipse
There is due to be an eclipse in North America tomorrow and some strange things are being written by people about it. Anyone would think it had never happened before, when it’s a regular astronomical phenomenon. We’ve had a couple in the UK over the last few decades and nothing…
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Continue reading →: From forest witch to hearth pagan: how my practice changed after moving to the city.
It’s been almost 5 years since I moved into the city, right before the 2020 “isolation period”. Both events ended up shaping my spiritual practice quite a bit, so I wanted to share my experience with you. The call of the forest. My love affair with the forest started during…
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Continue reading →: Hyrrokkin
Today I wanted to write about Hyrrokkin, a Jötunn often seen as a psychopomp. During Baldr‘s funeral Hyrrokkin was the one who launched the funerary ship. She’s sometimes associated with Hecate at they are both psychopomps that have snakes as one of their symbols. She has a moon of Saturn…
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Continue reading →: A Feast-Day For Loki
For decades now, my Household has marked April 1 as a feast-day for Loki. We didn’t come up with this idea — it was filtering through the Heathen community (the parts that that rightfully venerated Loki) by 2000. Nor is this His only feast day. It is however, lovely day…
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Continue reading →: Pagan Metal: My Deep Love of Elvenking
Now Playing: Pagan Purity by Elvenking I’m not sure how obvious it is, but I am, in fact, a massive Elvenking fan. Maybe it’s the violin, maybe it’s the fact that they’re pretty Italian elf boys, maybe it’s the folk metal start leading into powerfolk in more recent albums, who…
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Continue reading →: Prayer to Erda
So, today we had a 4.7 earthquake in the Bronx. I was driving in when the earthquake occurred, and I didn’t feel it, until I got out of the car. I wouldn’t walk a straight line. It felt like deep in the earth there was a thrumming, a rhythm, a…
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Continue reading →: From Patria Potestas to Political Influence – The Women of Rome
Introduction[1] The role and status of women in ancient Rome during its heyday (roughly from the late Republic to the early Empire, around the 1st to the 2nd century AD) were complex and varied significantly depending on their social class, wealth, and marital status. Roman society was fundamentally patriarchal, meaning…
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Continue reading →: St Thecla’s Well
It has been a very long time since I last wrote here. Many things have happened, not the least a pandemic. I have often thought of returning to this blog, but things got in the way. Over the last couple of months, however, my fingers have been itching more. So…
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Continue reading →: University Ss. Cyril and Methodius in Skopje: Alexander the Great was Greek
“The classical period of Greece ends with the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC. In addition to war and conquest, in the classical period, the Greeks produced great literature, poetry, philosophy, drama, and art. This was the time when the genre of history was first established. She also…
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Continue reading →: Simone’s Series on How to Read the Talmud: On Jewish Diversity
My attention has been brought to a long series on my treatment of Jewish sources in On the Historicity of Jesus by a certain Simone (actual name unknown). The series is extraordinarily long-winded, almost entirely impertinent, and makes strange errors in vocabulary or reading comprehension. But since it will definitely…
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Continue reading →: Simone’s Series on How to Read the Talmud: Boyarin and the Dying Messiah Concept
This is my second and closing article on Simone’s series On Reading the Talmud. For backstory see my first entry, Simone’s Series on How to Read the Talmud: Regarding Jewish Diversity. There I established Simone’s modus operandi as continually misreading what I said, fabricating things to complain about, and compiling…
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Continue reading →: LOOKING BEYOND THE BLING: A Review of Toby Wilkinson’s Tutankhamun’s Trumpet: Ancient Egypt in 100 Objects from the Boy King’s Tomb
This unique and engaging retelling of ancient Egyptian history is not without flaws. LOOKING BEYOND THE BLING: A Review of Toby Wilkinson’s Tutankhamun’s Trumpet: Ancient Egypt in 100 Objects from the Boy King’s Tomb
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Continue reading →: The Pyramids of Egypt: Ancient Wonders or Alien Constructions?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_HviEj3ssI – Embark on a journey through time as we delve into one of history’s greatest enigmas – the Pyramids of Egypt. These ancient marvels have stood as silent witnesses to the passage of millennia, yet their true origins remain shrouded in mystery. Were these colossal structures the product of…
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