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Hekate for Anadikia17 viewsStatue of Hekate splattered with wine for our Anadikia ritual. We got a bit enthusiastic in making wine offerings!
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Blessing Branches Puanepsia 200619 viewsWe made little blessing branches because it's a tradition in Greece to go from door to door giving out branches in return for beans as "payment". The branches are laurel, sacred to Apollo, and have charms on them. The charms on them are a bunch of grapes, a goblet and a harp - in honour of Apollo.
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Incense making30 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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Summer Solstice Altar 200619 viewsThis is a photo of the Altar we used for Summer Solstice. We honoured the Irish healing Goddess, Airmid, and we blessed smudge sticks that we made in a workshop a couple of weeks earlier. Druid in Charge of this ritual was Doreen Taylor.
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Butser Farm 200652 viewsDoreen Taylor at Butser Farm
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Bread Phallus85 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
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Altar For Fall Equinox 200733 viewsThis is a photo of our altar at our Hellenic Fall Equinox ritual in 2007. Our main Deity of the Occasion was Demeter. The Druid in Charge of this ritual was Venus Clark.
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Wicker Man Butser 200730 views
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Sacred Fire with offering43 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 Altar45 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 altar46 viewsDionysos was our main deity and Hermes was our gatekeeper deity.Mar 30, 2008
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Spring Equinox 2008106 viewsTior and Dean admire the phallus we made in honour of Dionysos. Mar 30, 2008
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Bread Phallus85 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 offering55 viewsTior gives an offering of wine to the fire in honour of Hestia!Mar 30, 2008
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Libation61 viewsVenus gives a libation of wine to the fireMar 30, 2008
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Spear Lughnasadh 200635 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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