Another World, December 2022
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The Secret of Crossings, a collection of essays from Rhyd Wildermuth, has been released..
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In this month’s Another World
The Pagan Music List 27
A special edition of the Pagan Music List collecting yule and midwinter solstice songs.
Another adaptation of a chapter of Melinda Reidinger’s upcoming book from us, The White Deer.
The first step in practicing sophrosyne; that is, determining how much is enough and refraining from overtaking, means putting things into their correct perspectives. When we acknowledge our relationships to the living beings that provide for us and feel grateful, the blessings tend to spread. We can practice gratitude by taking a moment to truly see and to thank (as opposed to “being thankful for” as though it were given by someone or something else) a flower, a sip of cool water, a perfect falling leaf, a deer sighted at the other end of a clearing, for being there, for being part of you and of your reality in that moment. Then we can work on exercising the restraint that is the necessary second part of the virtue of sophrosyne, and finally, we will be moved to act generously.
The second in the new series on political religion from Rhyd Wildermuth. This time, on Diana and Mary, “Queen of Heaven.”
The older I get, and the more gods and goddesses I meet, the more I’m convinced the accusations of the Protestants were correct. There are many Marys, and at least one of them was someone else. That Mary is indeed Biblical, but she went by another name when the author of the Acts of the Apostles wrote of her.
How’d she get there? I think again the Protestants aren’t so far from the truth of the matter. Idolatry, goddess worship, all those charges speak to an accurate sense that she’s not part of the “pure” doctrine or original intentions of the early church fathers.
She shouldn’t be there, and yet she is, and she cannot easily be gotten rid of.
