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Music's Magic and Power
I'm having my own private Stevie Wonder festival. When I'm giving clients shamanic treatments (click here for info about them), I might listen to his music. It is so happy that it makes my spirit...
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Winter Crone
Cailleach walks the winter hills: in an old Gaelic song 'Cailleach Beinn a' Bhric' she has 'a great grey grisly paw' and is cold and wet, but cares for her deer. The hunter who sings to her laments her...
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Exciting Homecomings - A Triad
Three things I'm excited about exploring in 2018: Elen of the Ways - I discovered this goddess a little over a year ago, and felt instant belonging and surprise that I hadn't heard of her before, and...
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Music among the Minoans
Like every culture, the Minoans had their music. We can see that in their art and artifacts. The image at the top of this post is of a group of terracotta figurines from Palaikastro. There are three...
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Viewing The World Through Pagan Eyes VI: clearing away the confusions of...
Previous essays in this series I, II , III, IV, V ‘Cultural appropriation’ supposedly constitutes some kind of theft from a person or a culture. The idea has caused enormous trouble in the Pagan...
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Music for Ritual in Modern Minoan Paganism
One aspect of ritual that we don't often think about until we're armpit-deep in actually performing one is music. The ancient Minoans, like other Bronze Age cultures in Europe and the Mediterranean,...
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Novel Gnosis part 5: Bragi
Bragi is the god of music. He is married to Idunna, whose apples keep the gods from aging. Fireverse-Bragi is probably pretty different than the Bragi of this universe, because the Fireverse needed a...
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