She Continues
From “How oral cultures memorise so much information” from phys.org, an article by Duane W. Hamacher about the PhD research of Lynne Kelly: But loci is not only linked to places you can touch or visit. Indigenous people also use the stars as memory spaces. For example, groups of stars can represent features on the […] … Continue reading…Memory, Space, Place
So Heathen Chinese just said, I think, much of what I said yesterday but far more evocatively. Go take a look at “Against Leviathan.” … Continue reading…Heathen Chinese at The Wild Hunt
Column: What Do They Mean?. When something means something else, or when someone means some thing, we are stating that there’s a correspondence between one thing and another thing. In translation, we might ask what amour or Liebe ‘means’ in English, which is to say ‘what word in my language corresponds to that word in […] … Continue reading…Gods, Love, Meaning, and Interconnectedness
Break the Virus: Paganism Needs Magic I believe the continuous drive to remove magic from Wicca and Paganism in general is one of the worst tendencies I have encountered. This is even more confusing when witchcraft is presented as devoid of magic. I have said something similar for 15 years, and will take it a […] … Continue reading…Magic, Paganism, and Commodifcation
Principles of Mythological Hermeneutics (I) Where the myths appear to depict the Gods as flawed, therefore, we must understand that there are ways of interpreting these myths that restore to the Gods Their freedom of action. And this, indeed, is how we must see it, because in making the Gods slaves to petty emotions, 1 […] … Continue reading…Principles of Mythological Hermeneutics (I)
Principles of Mythological Hermeneutics (I) Where the myths appear to depict the Gods as flawed, therefore, we must understand that there are ways of interpreting these myths that restore to the Gods Their freedom of action. And this, indeed, is how we must see it, because in making the Gods slaves to petty emotions, 1 […] … Continue reading…Principles of Mythological Hermeneutics (I)
Whims of the Father. He laughed. “No, Father Time,” he said. “But he might as well be God. Cruelest force there is, that time. Never enough of it when you need it the most, then it drags on endlessly when you desperately need it to pass.” He put out the end of the cigarette. “The […] … Continue reading…Whims of the Father
Whims of the Father. He laughed. “No, Father Time,” he said. “But he might as well be God. Cruelest force there is, that time. Never enough of it when you need it the most, then it drags on endlessly when you desperately need it to pass.” He put out the end of the cigarette. “The […] … Continue reading…Whims of the Father
From “Vignettes on Death, Gods, and Bridges“: The tone had been instantly set for my Work in this new place, and the very first action I took even before signing the least was to make offerings at the bases of both bridges. I thanked the bridges for their presence and their function, I made prayers […] … Continue reading…The Otherworlds and Here
The Birth of Capitalist Time is inextricable from the birth of the factories, and the story of the birth of factories cannot be told without mentioning the Clockmakers. In fact, many of the machines of the factories were made by clockmakers, who had experience with the timing of gears, and E.P. Thompson notes that many […] … Continue reading…Chronomancy & Capitalism