August 28, 2008 at 9:20 pm by mahud
Thank you all for your fantastic contributions:
Faith and the Hero’s Journey (Hawk’s Cry: The voice of a witch)
Journeying to Otherworlds: Access Denied (Between Old and New Moons)
Lions at the Door (Quaker Pagan Reflections)
More Than These Words (Aquila ka Hecate)
Journeying to Otherworlds (The Dance of the Elements)
Mythology Synchroblog 4: Children’s Story for Mabo (Pagan Dad)
Underground Ruminations […]
August 28, 2008 at 9:19 pm by mahud
Aquila ka Hecate nominated me for the I Love your Blog award, with these kind words:
…for being far and away the most original of explorers of NeoPaganism and Mythology I have come across on the Net.
Aquila ka Hecate: Blog Honours
Thank you so much, Terri! Considering I’ve only been calling myself Pagan for little over a […]
August 27, 2008 at 6:54 am by mahud
Discovered this quiz over at Yvonne’s The Dance of the Elements: what kind of Pagan?
What kind of Pagan are you?
You scored as a Sumerian, Babylonian, and Mesopotamian Pagans
You either love ancient history -VERY ancient- or else you worship the Sumerian, Mesopotamian or Babylonian Gods. A rare breed of pagan, you know that literature on your […]
August 23, 2008 at 4:54 am by mahud
A small selection of articles on various goddesses I’ve posted over the past couple of years, including Medusa/Athene from Greek mythology, Chinnamasta from Hindu Mythology, The Egyptian myth of Isis and the hidden name of Ra (which includes parallels to the myth of Lilith and The Golden Ass by Apuleius), The myth of Inanna’s underworld […]
August 21, 2008 at 3:54 am by mahud
This post is one of many in the fourth Mythology Synchroblog (View the list of other bloggers below)
Journeying to Otherworlds: Access Denied
Our transition from child to adulthood to old age to death is often marked by some kind of rite of passage within various systems of belief. Each transition, in reality, is a gradual one: […]
August 12, 2008 at 2:30 am by mahud
One night, eight or so years ago, after a period of (what is known within Christian circles as) backsliding, I was reading a recently acquired translation of the Upanishads, when I came upon the opening Upanishad in a translation by Juan Mascaro. You can read the Isa/Isha Upanishad here, but here’s a brief excerpt from […]
August 6, 2008 at 1:38 pm by mahud
I intending to submit my blog to 9 Rules Today. A few days ago I used the Tarot to gain some insight, if I had any chance of succeeding or not, and asked for some advice regarding the whole thing.
I used a basic spread of my own, that I named ‘the sacred mountain spread,’ which […]
August 5, 2008 at 9:36 pm by mahud
It’s been a while since A. Venefica at Symbolic Meanings, organized the last Mythology Synchroblog on the topic of Duality.
The Topic for This month’s Synchroblog is Journeying To Otherworlds.
Basically it’s up to you what you would like to write about. It could be about ancient mythic journeys to the underworld or sky realms, or Enchanted […]
August 1, 2008 at 7:24 pm by mahud
Thank You Grian for responding to my post So who is this Cernunnos dude? (A to Z).
This post was originally a comment in response to Griane’s comment, but as is often the case it evolved into something worthy of posting status. Griane (Lee Hutchings of Panthea: All Things Are Goddess) has also posted her […]
August 1, 2008 at 2:23 am by mahud
It’s been a while but I’ve decided to continue on with the A to Z of Mythological Figures series. Everything you read or comment (yep, you can play along too!), is/must be from memory. It doesn’t matter if a few mistakes are made along the way. Also, if you know anything about Herne, you can […]