Executive Pagan

Here’s a very cool video of a Japanese farmer making a new shimenawa (the braided rice-straw rope that marks out the sacred in Shinto tradition) and shide (zigzag paper streamers) at the New Year

Fluffy blogging today!
So, I’ve been having fun assembling a Playmobil shrine with my 7-year-old… it’s still a work in progress. We have eight Hellenic deities represented so far

I’m a picture book junkie, and I don’t throw around these adjectives lightly… the illustrator was obviously heavily influenced by the Pre-Raphaelites, and in particular by Edward Burne-Jones.
Orpheus and Eurydice

Non-Hellenic and general pagan
Ludmila Zeman: Gilgamesh the King, The Revenge of Ishtar and The Last Quest of GilgameshI can’t say enough about these books - they’re just amazing. Ms. Zeman did extensive research into ancient Babylonian art; when she sent a draft of the first volume to the British Museum to have it checked for [...]

These are some of the best pagan-oriented children’s books that we’ve found. There are many, many retellings of individual myths, of course, but some care needs to be taken in choosing just the right volume. When judging a book I haven’t seen before, I usually start at the beginning - far too many mythology story [...]