About
Rather than see myself as an Eclectic Pagan (not that I have any problem with that whatsoever), I regard my path as Syncretic, combining all I know about divinities who through death and self-sacrifice, re-create the cosmos: a theme found in the Mystery Cults and other mythological traditions.
Myself and My Beloved Shanny
Currently (apart from an ongoing study of mythology) I mainly focus upon learning the Tarot and practice meditation. I also daily attend my altar dedicated to the divinity of cosmic-lunar re-creation. These regenerative powers that Cernunnos points towards via his mythic iconography as depicted on the Gundestrup cauldron. Particularly the serpent, stag, World tree antlers (that flank the ambrosial fruit of life) and represent the seasonal and lunar death and rebirth. He is also a Threshold God that sits between the lunar double door (his antlers gaining access to the solar gateway from which the ambrosial wellspring flows. He is also the bearer of the cosmic circle, which is the beginning and end of all things.
The current incarnation of my altar (Dec 2008)
My principle Deity is the God Cernunnos
- The altar: a representation of the gateway to the divine
- The Fruit and the Branches
- Evolution of my Altar
- Learning How to Navigate Reality
- The Vita Merlini ‘Life of Merlin’ (the Antlered God and the Lord of Animals)
- Why Cernunnos?
- I know his name is Cernunnos: His true name I do not know
My ‘Spiritual’ Path
- A new understanding of my confusion
- Effortless Spirituality?
- My Meditative Journey So Far (Learning Meditation)
- My Wasteland of a Reality
- Religion After Christianity?
Various Mythic and Pagan Posts of Interest
- Authentic Paganism, Pre-Christian Ethics, and Organic Spirituality
- Radiant glimpses of divine reality
- C.S. Lewis’s Concept of “Joy”
My own mythological Tales
- Mother Willow
- Ari and Orfi
- Ker and Sidur (A Myth of the Nehar-Shanar)
- Sun and the three sisters
- The Head of Jib
- Veertepo and Creation (Part One)
- Beyond the Islands
Other Non-Pagan Faiths
- Sacred Space in the Bible
- The Baptism of the Lord
- Hinduism and the senses
- Religious Roles in Hinduism
- Religious Roles in Judaism
- The Middle Way of the Buddha
Good Morning Lake Stafford
Messing around with our digital camera and Windows Movie Maker. Shot all the footage on a Sunday morning during the summer (2008) as the sun was rising over the Lake. The music is the title track from the album Sowiesoso (1976) by the wonderful Cluster.