Recently I became inspired by a fellow polytheist's dedication to what he calls "Athletic Cult." I discovered rock climbing about a year and a half ago now, and it has become a central part of my life; I would say it has truly become one of my greatest passions. Up until mid-March 2020, when my …
Bacchus may be compared with other double names such as Zeus-Belos, attested in Herodotus and Philo of Byblos. Since Hadad-Baal and Bacchus-Dionysus are both fertility gods portrayed (frequently) with bull horns, syncretism between Hadad-Baal and Bacchus-Dionysos is by no means unnatural. Indeed, Julius Wellhausen seems to have viewed this syncretism as self-evident, speaking of "Baal-Dionysus" …
Recently, I felt called to study the mythology of ancient Canaan, a Semitic-speaking region and civilization in the Ancient Near East during the late 2nd millennium BC. This originated from a sudden and intense desire that formed seemingly out of nowhere in the past few weeks (but does anything ever really manifest out of nowhere?) to understand, and potentially …
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