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Incense making13 viewsDean making his first incenses!
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Sacred Fire with offering12 viewsOur sacred fire with a phallic offering for Dionysos.
Give way! Make room
For the God! For it's His will
To stride exuberantly
Erect through the middle
-- Semos in Athenaios XIV 622B (Kerenyi, p. 287)
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Anthesteria Altar2 viewsA closeup of our Anthesteria altar 2007.
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Incense making4 viewsCloseup of incense being made. Hollow Hills Protogrove often makes incense to use in their rituals. In this class, Doreen Taylor gave step by step instructions for making 2 incenses dedicated to the goddess Hekate and the Earth Mother.
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Libation17 viewsVenus gives a libation of wine to the fire
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Samhain 2007 Crow9 viewsThis Kevin Taylor and the crow he made for Samhain 2007 in honour of the Morrighan. The idea to make the crow came to Doreen Taylor in a dream.
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Cimininea after Anadikia ritual0 viewsWe freely give offerings of wine, honey and other substances during our rituals - in libation bowls and directly into the fire. As you can see, we do this with great gusto - our chiminea was covered in wine, olive oil and honey.
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Anadikia altar AFTER the ritual1 viewsAfter the ritual there was barley everywhere, honey and oil on the altar, poppy seeds scattered everywhere, and wine splattered on the statues. Hollow Hills really gets into our rituals!!!
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Sacred Fire with offering12 viewsOur sacred fire with a phallic offering for Dionysos.
Give way! Make room
For the God! For it's His will
To stride exuberantly
Erect through the middle
-- Semos in Athenaios XIV 622B (Kerenyi, p. 287) Mar 30, 2008
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Spring Equinox 2008 Altar12 viewsAltar- on the altar are offerings of honey, figs, barley, wine, mead (for the Waters of Life), more wine, incense, ivy, flowers, statues of Dionysos and Hermes (our gatekeeper) and a large libation bowl. The Honda lawnmower had no part in this particular ritual.
Our ritual was dedicated to Dionysos, god of wine, drama, poetry, vegetation/trees and inspired madness.
Homeric Hymn 26 to Dionysus :
"I begin to sing of Dionysos ivy-crowned (kissokomes) the loud-crying (eribromos), splendid son of Zeus and glorious Semele. The rich-haired Nymphai received him in their bosoms from the lord his father and fostered and nurtured him carefully in the dells of Nysa, where by the will of his father he grew up in a sweet-smelling cave, being reckoned among the immortals. But when the goddesses had brought him up, a god oft hymned, then began he to wander continually through the woody coombes, thickly wreathed with ivy and laurel. And the Nymphai followed in his train with him for their leader; and the boundless forest was filled with their outcry. And so hail to you, Dionysos god of abundant clusters (polystaphylos)! Grant that we may come again rejoicing to this season, and from that season onwards for many a year."
Mar 30, 2008
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Close up of Spring Equinox 2008 altar14 viewsDionysos was our main deity and Hermes was our gatekeeper deity.Mar 30, 2008
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Spring Equinox 200822 viewsTior and Dean admire the phallus we made in honour of Dionysos. Mar 30, 2008
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Bread Phallus21 viewsWe made a bread phallus in honour of Dionysos for Spring Equinox 2008. Born from the thigh of Zeus (Zeus had been tricked into killing his mother with a thunderbolt), Dionysos is the god of vegetable life, especially the grapevine and ivy. As such he is the god of wine, fertility and poetry and the theatre
One of his attributes is the phallus, especially the erect phallus
Mar 30, 2008
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Another wine offering13 viewsTior gives an offering of wine to the fire in honour of Hestia!Mar 30, 2008
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Libation17 viewsVenus gives a libation of wine to the fireMar 30, 2008
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Spear Lughnasadh 20066 viewsSpear decorated by members of Hollow Hills Protogrove in honour of the Irish God Lugh. Photo by Rebecca Alexander. Feb 25, 2008
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