Orphic Hymn #59 — To the Fates (Athanassakis translation) Incense — aromatic herbs Boundless Fates, dear children of dark Night, hear my prayer, O many-named dwellers on the lake of heaven, where the frozen water is broken by the night’s warmth in the shady hollow of a sleek cave; from there you fly to the…

In the past few weeks, we have been inundated with memes, billboards and other images that are all shouting “Jesus is the Reason for the Season”. However, there are a couple of problems with this and those are that nobody knows the actual day of the year of Jesus’ birth and — based on the…

Haloa(26 Poseideon)  Festival in honor of Demeter Haloa and Dionysus named after the halos (threshing floor). Although little is known about the specifics of this festival, we do know that it honored Dionysus and Demeter and appears to have been a fertility rite.  It was celebrated with a feast likely held at Eleusis, with genitalia-shaped…