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Caves and Ancient Greece
Another very important recent book I must draw attention to is this: Caves and the Ancient Greek Mind: Descending Underground in the Search for Ultimate Truth by Yulia Ustinova This is critical reading...
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Delphi and Cascadia
I wrote this piece for my forthcoming book – it’s slightly different here than in the printed format, but wanted to share it with you all anyway. As a sort of follow-up to Deepening Reconstructionism...
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Martinmas
Last night, I celebrated my very first Martinmas. I got the idea for this awhile back after reading The Bear: History of a Fallen King by Michel Pastoureau, which showed that this saint’s holiday was...
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West Wycombe
Our final stop of the trip, West Wycombe, was an unusual one, and I’m lucky my mother indulged me to go there. I had discovered something quite remarkable in my planning research – the same crazy rich...
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England Miscellany
This will be my last England post – just a random collection of photos that didn’t fit into any of the previous posts, but I wanted to share: from the Lewis chessmen, British Museum Roman bearded snake...
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Antroneia
Last weekend Sannion and I celebrated the Antroneia, an every-other-year festival we do for Dionysos of the Caves. We drove three hours to the Bend area of Oregon to visit the lava caves, or rather one...
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Consulting Trophonios
[I am updating the Oracles section, and decided to move this article over into a blog post for safe-keeping.] Trophonios is what the Greeks called a heros. Not quite a “hero” in the modern sense of the...
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Lava Lands
This past weekend, I explored two lava caves, walked on lava fields, visited an entire hillside of giant obsidian chunks, and swam in a lake inside a volcanic caldera. All within a few hours drive of...
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