Ancestors
My Hungarian Ancestors…original photo, and a photoshop interpretation…
Walpurgis Dream
Part of my primary research for this dissertation is the significant and synchronistic details of my own spiritual evolution as they reflect, and are a part of, a larger mythic and magical holism. This is a dream I had at the beginning of my decade-long academic journey. Walpurgis is the eve before the sacred Pagan… Read More
Quote of the Day – Alan T. Campbell
On the arrogance and ignorance of an uninformed academic declaration of what is “superstitious,” anthropological theorist and student of the Amazonian Wayapí tribe says most succinctly and in a direct manner that warms my rebel heart: Who gets to draw the line between what is a ‘coherent set of beliefs giving moral shape to a… Read More
Potential Chapters
Ok I’m at the wrangling stage of this monster and here are my chapters as I have proposed them. It seems that I desire to cover quite a bit of ground. My committee chair Mara Keller has told me that maybe I oughta combine some of these chapters so that I can get through more… Read More
1910 Witches
Truly cool. Early century folks dressed up as witches. Old timey pix. Worth looking at. Of course I love everything witchy. http://sexywitch.wordpress.com/2010/11/01/fourteen-halloween-witches-ca-1910/
More Gunn Allen Greatness Feeding the Ontology Section of my Dissertation
“But the oral tradition has prevented the complete destruction of the web, the ultimate disruption of tribal ways. The oral tradition is vital: it heals itself and the tribal web by adapting to the flow of the present while never relinquishing its connection tot he past. Its adaptability has always been required, as many generations… Read More
Channeled sumthang funny
It’s almost ten and I’m working my little butt off trying to get my dissertation work done and I’ve done really well considering the two half pints yesterday, and working monday today, and I’m feeling all good about myself and as I sit all smuggy while the writing actually is flowing – which is rare… Read More
What if we couldn’t see a freakin supernova?
American Indian writer Vine Deloria, Jr. describes the Western conceptions of a static homogenous understanding of time and a uniform operation of nature as a belief so virulent that explanations of natural events have been forced into this ideological pattern even when the facts were obviously otherwise. In God is Red: A Native View of… Read More
Fallacies or Fantasies
In Indigenous cultures myth is a complementary religious element to ritual. Unlike in a Western worldview, in which myths are considered fallacies or fantasies that are opposed to linear fact, myths are accounts of actual interchanges between ancestors and other relevant persons accessed through ritual. Gunn Allen makes the distinction that the symbolism in tribal… Read More