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“To Deny Astrology is to Deny the Wisdom of God:” Astrology, Alchemy, and Solomonic Magic in the Byzantine and Orthodox World (opens the original)
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Last Saturday I had the great pleasure of speaking for IAAM on astrology, alchemy and Solomonic magic in the Byzantine and Orthodox worlds. The response was wonderfully warm, and many readers asked whether the recording would be available afterwards. I’m very happy to share it below, together with the slides and a guide to the Thyrathen essays from which the lecture emerged.The recording is also available in the <a href="https://astromagia.org/iaam?ss_source=sscampaigns&ss_campaign_id=6aa26b2e2c
Hunting the Dragon-Eater with the Priest’s Nereids (opens the original)
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Dear Readers, a little housekeeping first. I’m posting an extra instalment this week as I am lecturing at the weekend and will be posting my lecture notes and slides after the event.Please see the poster below. This is a FREE lecture, no need to sign up or subscribe, simply visit the host website here (or scan the QR code in the poster below) for the full description and Zoom link. I will be covering a number of topics that I have written about here on Thyrathen with
How the Queen of Heaven Nearly Became a Demon (opens the original)
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In Part 1 and Part 2 of this series we sought the elusive St. Persephone through Thekla, Agia Dimitra and Agia Kori: sacred female figures whose powers remained active within mountains, springs and fields. All of them reflected multiple parts of what I have been calling the Kore complex: the dynamically interacting features that make similar cultural motifs more than a coincidence. I also wrote of a lament from Koroni, w
Opening the Door to the Ivory Tower in Esoteric and Pagan Studies (opens the original)
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This week a reader sent me back down a rabbit hole I thought I was finished with. She had read my recent piece Who is the Goddess-Saint Born of an Egg from the Moon? The Many Strange Afterlives of the Queen of Hades 2 and was inquiring after one of the wonder tales mentioned there. The search led somewhere far more exciting than I expected. It also gave me exactly the right occasion to announce a new free Thyrathen series, The Gods Are in the Details, which will take readers behind the finished
Who is the Goddess-Saint Born of an Egg from the Moon? (opens the original)
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Part I of this series tracing the Afterlives of Persephone began with the small modern icon of Saint Persephone and followed it through Persis and Thekla to a sacred maiden who entered the earth alive and continued to send healing through the mountain and its waters. Hades was defanged; Persephone’s sovereign chthonic power remained. The Kore complex was visible in early Christianised cults, pilgrimages and landscapes.I ended by promising that we would encounter living worship of Demeter and Kor
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