Acheron: You Will be Eaten by the River of Hell Underneath Your Feet
In Ancient Greece, mountains with subterranean caves served as entrances to a deity and a place called Hades or Tartarus, which would correspond to our modern concepts of hell in Christianity. These unique caverns were considered ancient portals to the underworld,...
The Tragic Duality of Dionysus Producing the Great Health
The double face of the tragic hero known as Dionysus represents the dual nature of his persona of joy and suffering and life and death; a god known symbolically as “the spirit of fire and dew” who was “most terrible and most gentle to mortals” (Bacchae...
The Black Vines of Dionysus
The ancient mythos surrounding the origins of Dionysis is that he had a double birth of fire and water. He was also strongly associated with cultivating vines (fertility) and the development from the juice of the black vine via its decaying grapes which we call wine....
Dionysus Dendrites: The Filamentous God of the World Wide Fungal Web
In ancient Crete and Greece, the God Dionysus was the main deity whose tragic story and rituals reflect the awesome drama we know as birth, life, human duality, death, decay, and the great restoration of all beings. This tragedy in which the human with his lower...
The Devil’s Skirt and Dirty Aztec Priests
Upon discovering the Aztecs (Mexica) in 1519, Hernán Cortés and his army of hardened 553 Spanish conquistadors were both amazed at the beauty and cleanliness of the city. (1) But their amazement soon turned to horror when they witnessed the sight of filthy priests...About the Gnostic Warrior
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