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In lecturer form, conducting a talk at Pantheacon 2019 in San Jose, CA. The attendees provided a synergistic feedback loop of passionate reciprocity that empowered me to "find my pocket". Monday at 9am slot, but a packed room nonetheless. I want to extend my deepest gratitude to those for joining a space that carried my voice. I am humbled, emboldened, and deeply grateful for the opportunity. Thank you, Pantheacon. Thank you, my dear new friends. The experience was catalyzing to a key part of myself that is the most sacred and the most fulfilling - the act of teaching. An honor. Thank you so much.
Now... time to celebrate.
P.S.: Some video/audio forthcoming.
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Image 1:
I believe this is a possibly an album cover but I can't find the original artist.
Nonetheless I like it very much.
Image 2:
Horned God
Museum of Witchcraft and Magic Boscastle Cornwall
- Love this
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#antlered anthropomorphic god#theriocephalic
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I’ve just finished Margaret Murray’s GOD OF THE WITCHES, un utterly discredited (but nonetheless enthralling) piece of anthropological fiction that provided what Disney imagineers call the “backstory” for the modern Wicca movement—that the persecuted witches of medieval Europe were in truth holdouts for the pre-Christian religion of the Horned God of fertility, vilified by Christians as Satan. Murray’s theory, in the eyes of her critics, was a stalking horse for a feminist agenda (Christian patriarchy vs. “wise women”). If so, she lost the battle but won the war, sowing the seeds of an anthropologically dodgy, historically dubious narrative whose “alternate history” was just the backstory modern pagans like Gerald Gardner were looking for. Read as anthropology, GOD OF THE WITCHES inspires nonstop harrumphs and eye-rolls; read as occult fiction in the WICKER MAN mode, it’s endlessly fascinating. My Anchor edition features a cover by Leonard Baskin, designed by—wouldn’t you know it?—Edward Gorey, never a believer in the occult in any literal sense but a devotee, unquestionably, of systems of divination (the tarot, mostly) as a Surrealist/Taoist trapdoor on the unconscious.
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