having an intense spiritual experience or trance session and then getting it down on paper is a way to check and go over what happened with more clarity. it puts the experience in a tangible Place that I can reexamine, check against primary sources or other experiences, etc.

and I suppose a post could act similarly to a journal entry, but then I have to ask myself what benefit it would be to the strangers seeing it. and most of the time there isn't one. when D and I talk, they're speaking to me, not me and my followers

To Dionysos worshippers, what songs do you associate Him with?

I listen to ‘Pirates of the Mediterranean’ by Fraya Faraji.

I associate the song to Dionysos and the Pirates from the 7th Homeric Hymn to Dionysos in which He is captured by Pirates and brought to Sea which holds His captures by ransom in his hidden divine form.

Latin:

Mare, mare, Amāre tē, est mors certa […] Amāre mare’st amor, Mōrōsus, Quod amor marium amārum est […] Quamquam mundus est lutārius

English:

Sea, sea, Loving you is certain death […] Loving the sea is capricious love, For the love of the sea is bitter, […] Storms and tempests, Spoils and plunder.

Greco-Kemetic Resources:

⚪ Ancient Greek Cults: A Guide by Jennifer Larson

⚪ Ancient Greek Religion by Jon D. Mikalson

⚪ Greek Religion by Walter Burkert

⚪ Hellenic Polytheism: Household Worship by Christos Pandion Panopoulos and Vasilios Cheiron Tsantilas:

⚪ Kharis: Hellenic Polytheism Explored by Sarah Kate Istra Winter

⚪ The Orphic & Homeric Hymns

⚪ Greek Magical Papyri (AKA PGM: A Greco-Egyptian spell book)

⚪ Iliad / Odyssey by Homer

⚪ The Works and Days / Theogony by Hesiod

Dionysian Books:

⚪ Eleuthereus: Towards a Theology of Dionysian Liberation by Fabian MacKenzie

⚪ Dionysos: Exciter to Frenzy by Vikki Bramshaw

⚪ Liber Dionysi by Fabian MacKenzie

⚪ The God of ecstasy: Sex-roles and the madness of Dionysos by Arthur Evans

⚪ God Who Comes, Dionysian Mysteries Reclaimed: Ancient Rituals, Cultural Conflicts, and Their Impact on Modern Religious Practices by Rosemarie Taylor-Perry

⚪ Written In Wine: A Devotional Anthology For Dionysos by Bibliotheca Alexandrina

⚪ Dionysos by Richard Seaford

⚪ Dionysos: Archetypal Image of Indestructible Life by Carl Kerényi

⚪ Dionysus: Myth and cult by Walter Otto

⚪ Dionysiaca by Nonnus

⚪ The Bacchae by Euripides

⚪ Theoi .com

Isiac Books:

⚪ Isis Magic: Cultivating a Relationship with the Goddess of 10,000 Names by M. Isidora Forrest

⚪ Isis: The Eternal Goddess of Egypt and Rome by Lesley Jackson

⚪ The Mysteries of Isis: Her Worship and Magick by de Traci Regula

⚪ Isis in the Ancient World by R.E. Witt

⚪ The Golden Ass (Metamorphoses) by Apuleius

⚪ The Burden of Isis (James Teackle Dennis translation, 1910)

⚪ Praising the Goddess by Holger Kokkelmann (2008)

⚪ Isis Pelagia: Images, Names and Cults of a Goddess of the Seas by Laurent Bricault

⚪ Connecting the Isiac Cults: Forming Social Bonds in a Multicultural Empire by Lindsey A. Mazurek

⚪ Calling Out to Isis: The Enduring Presence of Nubian Worshippers at Philae by Solange Ashby

⚪ Isis of Egypt: Goddess of Thrones by a female author. A contemporary feminist retelling exploring Isis's legacy as a symbol of resilience and power.

⚪ Invoke the Goddess: Connecting to the Hindu, Greek & Egyptian Deities by Kala Trobe (2022).

⚪ Offering to Isis: Knowing the Goddess Through Her Sacred Symbols by M. Isidora Forrest.

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