25 April 2017

Western Mourning Traditions – After the Funeral

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"Love's Melancholy" by Meyer (1866) In secular times such as ours the rites of mourning have become somewhat vague. Ge...
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01 April 2017

Germanic Beliefs Regarding the Afterlife

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"Ingeborg" by Zorn (1907) One thing of which we can be certain is that the pre-Christian Germanic peoples generally believed...
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30 December 2016

Bacchus, the Liberator

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"Bacchus" by Solomko (earliest 20th century) The simplest way to comprehend Bacchus (also known as Dionysus and Liber ) is t...
20 November 2016

A Critique of Atheism

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"In the desert" by Gerome (1872) In a couple of earlier  posts  I have spoken against the role Christianity pl...
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23 September 2016

Head Covering in Roman Polytheism (for Women)

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Vibia Sabina, wife of Hadrian, 2nd century CE. Source: iessi Flickr For someone like me, who only allows my closest friends and ...
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24 June 2016

Epicurean Polytheism

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Fresco from the Villa di Livia. Source: Lo Dolce Lume Oftentimes the philosophy of Epicurus and his followers (most notably the Ro...
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31 May 2016

Faith in Polytheism

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Roman coin depicting Fides, minted 2nd century CE Source: romanmint.com One of my first posts on this blog, nearly five years ago, wa...
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20 May 2016

The Lararium

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Miniture bronze statue of Venus (1st-2nd century CE) such as may have been placed on an ancient Lararium For me, the heart of Roma...
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17 April 2016

Isis in the Roman Tradition

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Bronze statue of Isis-Venus, 1st-2nd century CE When (some) Romans first came to worship Isis in the first century BCE they embrac...
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