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Hail to you Alexander the Great! May you never thirst. 26 Aug 2013 | 02:06 am
Accordingly, after refreshing his forces here, Alexander set out and marched for seven days through Carmania in a revelling rout. He himself was conveyed slowly along by eight horses, while he feasted...
Hail to you Jim Morrison! May you never thirst. 26 Aug 2013 | 01:18 am
No gift from heaven’s high gods so great as this Our centuries have lost, since Delphi’s shrine Has silent stood, and kings forbade the gods To speak the future, fearing for their fates. Nor does ...
Hail to you Thyiades and the women of Amphissa! May you never thirst. 26 Aug 2013 | 01:04 am
When the despots in Phocis had seized Delphi, and the Thebans were waging war against them in what has been called the Sacred War, the women devotees of Dionysos, to whom they give the name Thyiades, ...
Liknites 25 Aug 2013 | 07:41 pm
“It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living god.” — Hebrews 10:31 Tagged: dionysos
Overheard on a saltmarsh 24 Aug 2013 | 12:34 pm
Tagged: spirits
Hail mystes of Daskyleion! May you never thirst. 24 Aug 2013 | 08:44 am
… the thiasoi set this up for the sake of remembrance … having a figure of Bromios … It is a corpse we see. Now if a passer-by sees me alone here in the tomb, … how he performs the funerary rites, ...
Hail to you Julianus! May you never thirst. 24 Aug 2013 | 08:24 am
I, who did not experience Kypris and was an enemy of wickedness, was taken as a companion (hetairos) by Bromios together with the Fates. Bromios has me as a fellow-initiate in his own dances. My name ...
Hail to you Herophilos! May you never thirst. 24 Aug 2013 | 07:21 am
To the gods of the underworld. Not yet having tasted youth, I slipped into the realm of Hades, leaving behind tears and groans to my parents for my short time. Nor was I meant to reach the life span o...
I have returned from Etin Moot! 24 Aug 2013 | 01:24 am
Sadly, not like a triumphant Bacchus on the back of … whatever the fuck this is: Others have already provided very thorough and moving accounts (here and here, for instance) so I’m not sure I’ve got ...
Hail to you Aurelius Antonios! May you never thirst. 23 Aug 2013 | 11:31 am
Here I lie, Aurelius Antonios, who was priest of all the gods, first of Bona Dea, then of the Mother of the Gods and Dionysos the Leader. I always performed the mysteries for these deities in a revere...
