Khaire Brett (and others on the list) :) You know, I keep coming back to your question (below) I meant to respond, but you know how life can be sometimes ;) ...
Khairete I just saw the video and I was impressed. Whoever made it, did a good job at it. Concerning the story of creation of mankind, that story does make...
Khaire Gitana Well I'm here to learn more about it. I joined recently because I became fascinated with the stuff I read on the summary of Pythagorean theology....
Khaire Gitana and everybody; I'm glad to be here, I too see myself as a Pythagorean due to my beliefs in transmigration, vegetarianism but as I read more, I ...
Greetings, Gitana, and all, Glad to be here. I was wondering what happened to two other groups, which disappeared. "Pythagoras-L" isn't really my taste. ... ...
Well I'll dig in and try. now I'm thinking of the panels: marriage, sitting on a stool, horror, it sounds more like Eleusis. The Orphic mysteries would have ...
Hi Rory Well, as for how I do rituals, I basically follow the "traditional" form of procession-prayer-sacrifice-libations-hymns of course tailored to the...
Khairete I just sent this list of suggested authors out to the Hellenic Pagan list, but in case someone here isn't on that one, I thought I'd just post it here...
Hi again Rory I think it looks more Eleusinian as well, but I've never really studied it. As for the dancing and frenzy if it were Orphic, actually I don't...
Hi Gitana; Wine-less, now that is a hardship. About 'initiator-priests' that is fascinating, I was wondering if that might not be the case. I really appreciate...
Khaire Gitana Thanx for the reading list. I will surely check it out. Mike ... Pagan list, but in case someone here isn't on that one, I thought I'd just post...
Orphic Gold Tablet Pelinna, 4th cent BC Now you have died and now you have come into being, o thrice happy one, on this same day. Tell Persephone that Bakkhios...
Radcliffe G. Edmonds, III, Myths of the Underworld Journey: Plato, Aristophanes, and the 'Orphic' Gold Tablets. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004....
Thanks for that review Brett. I actually just finished reading this book last week, and I can saw that it was by far one of the best books I've read! I do...
Here is a quote that I'm sure many of you will find interesting. Perhaps we can discuss it on the list. "It seems, then, that Orphism was the product of...
Well, I'm going to try to resuscitate this conversation ;) I was looking a bit more into these images, and now I can see why they are said to be Orphic (or...
Khaire Gitana; oh ho, this is excellent, I'm off to the library tomorrow, I wish to dive into those late neo-pythagoreans Proclus and Iamblichus, but I'm...
Just an FYI-- I've written a review of Gábor Betegh's The Derveni Papyrus: Cosmology, Theology and Interpretation which will be appearing in the next issue of...
Statue of Orpheus unearthed Associated Press in Sofia Friday July 8, 2005 The Guardian A rare statue of the ancient Thracian hero Orpheus has been unearthed in...
I thought this was a very interesting, albeit hypothetical, description of a Dionysian/Orphic initiation. Enjoy! Eirini, Gitana "Imagine, for instance, a...
Well, I had been hot on the trail of getting Alberto Bernabé's book of fragments: Poetarum Epicorum Graecorum (1987). I was finally able to get it through...
Bulgarian Rhodopes Offer Orphic Mysteries Touch Lifestyle: 12 July 2005, Tuesday. Ancient Orphic mysteries are on display in the Rhodopes area for a couple of ...
Orpheus Revisited Destinations: 14 July 2005, Thursday. There, Santa Claus lives in a cave, a throat of a devil spares none that dares approach it, while...
Khaire Sannion. OK, now tell me what you *really* thought of it. LOL! I'm serious! Actually, I'd like to hear everyone's opinions. I've been going back and ...
LOL That was what I thought about it. It's an interesting take on the rite of thronismos - not sure if that's the approach I necessarily would have taken, but...
Some of you may already know I'm a fan of Radcliffe Edmonds (author & prof at Bryn Mawr). Anyway, while nosing around his website I found this announcement...
When I try to go into the group photos, I keep getting an error message. Is it just me, or do the rest of you get it, too? I was going to upload a few pics...
