Executive Pagan

Every year for the past five years or so, our UU church has had a Winter Solstice service and the choir has always sung John Schrag’s “Kore Evohe”, a wonderful piece of pagan choral music (a portion of the score can be seen beginning on page 19 of this PDF).
Until this year, we have been [...]

Mary Lefkowitz, author of Greek Gods, Human Lives and a recent pro-polytheistic Op-Ed piece in the LA Times, has a lecture online at WGBH that appears to be related to her book.

I am a lover of the steady Earth
and her waters.
She say let the light be brilliant
to one who will cherish colour.
- Robin Williamson, “Verses at Powis”
(A longer post is coming this evening, but I wanted to share this while I was thinking about it.)

That’s all. Thank you for reading, and may your Gods bless you and yours today and every day.

Ancestors, I ask you for your guidance. Blessed Mother, come to me with the Gods’ desire for my future. Blessed Father, watch over my wife and my son with a ready sword. Whisper to them that I live only to hold them again. Ancestors, I honour you and will try to live with [...]

I do not like that Trojan man -
I do not like him, Zeus I am.
Shall I hit him with a club?

I just discovered that I’m on the blogroll of a Québécois anime blog, of all things! Welcome to my international readership. 
[NB: edited to add hyperlink. Can't believe I forgot that - je suis désolé!]

A middle-aged man driving to his corporate IT job while listening to MP3 rips of his old New Model Army albums.
And writing about it on his blog.

As I have discussed briefly before, one of the main reasons I was open enough to Hellenismos to hear the call of the Gods is that it’s part of the roots of my own culture - and the Classical influence has remained a vital part of Western culture and civilization ever since. This continuity is [...]

Our lives are shaped and guided by myth. This is true both of those myths that we personally “own”, and those that shape our culture and society. To fully understand the world we live in and the world we are in the process of creating, we need to at least try to understand our mythologies [...]