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Derek Jarman’s Sebastiane and polytheism as a metaphor for homosexuality
This is possibly one of my favourite films, and not just as an extension of my weakness for ridiculous films about Christian mythos (if you want ridiculous in your Christianity, The Apple is the best yet). While carrying the airs … Continue reading
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New Boeotian Calendar Update
An idea I’ve been tossing around in my head lately, and most recently to a couple of friends (but mostly to Kayleigh, from KALLISTI), is the idea of making a printed version of the calendar. To put it bluntly, I … Continue reading
I’m still here
Believe me when I say that I realise how long it’s been since I last updated this here. I have no real excuse, and the only explanation I have is the fact that more-or-less since I last updated, I’d had … Continue reading
Begin Again
So, now is the time I’ve come to observe as the Boeotian New Year (just downloaded hella PDF files, both something called The Boeotian Project and The Ancient Boeotians, if I can find anything more about the calendar, this may … Continue reading
New Boeotian festival calendar
link to PDF — right-click –> save as for Windows; double-click — > save as for Mac An eighteen month calendar. I’ll probably come back to this every few months with a new one for the next eighteen months (cos … Continue reading
Eros & Eris
(I originally posted this in response to a thread on the Hellenistai forum. You can go there to comment or, if you’d prefer, comment here.) Eris is a Goddess who is kind of like a Feminine counterpart to Ares and … Continue reading
Sorry about that, folks
I’ve been having a sort of spiritual crisis this last few weeks and have been actively neglecting a lot of things, like the blogs and even the forum just so I could breathe and screw my head back on right. … Continue reading
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On the Nature of Patron Relationships with a Deity
First off, I want to make it quite clear that the more I learn of ancient Boeotian practises, the more I love the way the ancient Boeotians did things. The more I see photos of the modern region, the more … Continue reading
Has it been a month, already?
Almost! I’ve been busy noodling around with the new forum and am noodling around with plans on an expanded site (in addition to other projects I have going on). I’m seriously considering moving this blog (and Urban Hellenistos) over to … Continue reading
Hellenistai Chat
I have just created a chat room so that I and other Hellenists can converse with each-other as a group. I’m not thinking of any regular scheduled chats except for topic chats on the 4th of the lunar month on … Continue reading
