{"id":5871,"date":"2013-08-25T14:41:25","date_gmt":"2013-08-25T20:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=5871"},"modified":"2013-08-25T15:00:53","modified_gmt":"2013-08-25T21:00:53","slug":"around-the-pagan-blogosphere-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=5871","title":{"rendered":"Around the Pagan Blogosphere, 25 August 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some bookmarked links are piling up, so let’s clear them away.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00b6 Lee Morgan: What happens when a writing project turns mysteriously magical:<\/a><\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t long before the story, its characters and underlying mythic themes came to life in very tangible ways for me. Not only did I start to dream about the characters who would inform me of what their \u2018future\u2019 should hold, but other friends dreamed about them and sometimes it wasn\u2019t easy to tell if they were the character from the book or being \u2018gloved\u2019 by a spirit or god they were aligned to mythically in the book. The characters have become what is known in the western Occult tradition as “egregores\u2019” or thought-forms.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u00b6 Via Forging the Sampo<\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>a link to a post on “The Survival of Animism in Russia \u2014 and its Destruction in the West<\/a>,” which, given the source, you know will focus on Finnic peoples,<\/p>\n

\u00b6 But never underestimate Russian xenophobia, now aligned with resurgent Orthodoxy, which has led, among other things, to the closing of the only Mari-language primary school t<\/a>hat served this partly-Pagan nation.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00b6 The list of polytheistic devotional books (and some Pagan SF) published by the Biblioteca Alexandrina\u00a0 continues to grow. <\/a>I have one and should get a couple of others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some bookmarked links are piling up, so let’s clear them away. \u00b6 Lee Morgan: What happens when a writing project turns mysteriously magical: It wasn\u2019t long before the story, its characters and underlying mythic themes came to life in very tangible ways for me. Not only did I start to dream about the characters who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[68,5,7,53,12],"class_list":["post-5871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-animism","tag-paganism","tag-publishing","tag-russia","tag-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-1wH","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8917,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=8917","url_meta":{"origin":5871,"position":0},"title":"The Dark Side of Avalon","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"December 13, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Two years ago I mentioned that author Moira Greyland, daughter of enormously influential((Especiallly to Pagans over 35, more or less)) fantasy writer Marion Zimmer Bradley and Walter Breen, was speaking out about sexual abuse she experienced in their household. Now you can read the book:The Last Closet: The Dark Side\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"California\"","block_context":{"text":"California","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=california"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":834,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=834","url_meta":{"origin":5871,"position":1},"title":"Prince Charles, thatch, and the collapse of civilization","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"March 13, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"The Prince of Wales recently was quoted as saying McDonald's restaurants \"should be banned\" (in the United Arab Emirates, if not the UK).What do we call that, \"nutritional mercantilism\"?Although I admire him for his environmental work and his line of organic foods, I laughed pretty hard at Steve Stirling's fictionalized\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"England\"","block_context":{"text":"England","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=england"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1224,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1224","url_meta":{"origin":5871,"position":2},"title":"Harry Potter Fans not all that into Magic, Witchcraft","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"October 14, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Glancing back at Oberon Zell's sporadic blog, I see mention of the \"Azkatraz\" Harry Potter convention in San Francisco last July. (Scroll down to the \"Escape from Azkatraz\" subhead in Aug. 1, 2009 entry.)The Zells took a vendor space for their Mythic Images business of New Age, Pagan, and Goddess-oriented\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"books\"","block_context":{"text":"books","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=books"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=chascli-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1564149560","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":768,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=768","url_meta":{"origin":5871,"position":3},"title":"Steve Stirling’s Wiccans","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"November 24, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"For reading on last week's train trip to Washington, D.C., I brought Steve Stirling\u2019s The Protector\u2019s War; it is the second of a post-apocalyptic trilogy, following Dies the Fire. In the first book, set in the 1990s, some mysterious Change occurs and suddenly electricity does not flow, internal combustion engines\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4444,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=4444","url_meta":{"origin":5871,"position":4},"title":"How I Spent My Afternoon","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"July 9, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"I don't know where the morning went \u2014 this and that, some fire department communications \u2014 but then I started assembling the next issue of The Pomegranate, and immediately encountered the Lithuanian typography issue. As in, some of the special characters, such as e-with-a-dot-over-it, are not in our normal font,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"academia\"","block_context":{"text":"academia","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=academia"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4754,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=4754","url_meta":{"origin":5871,"position":5},"title":"Pentagram Pizza: Buy It by the Slice in the Occult City","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"November 30, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"\u2022 David Metcalfe writes in depth about the \"Mapping the Occult City\" event that I mentioned earlier. \u2022 The one true religion \u2014\u00a0 the Church of Aircraft. It has some bizarre rituals too. \u2022 Dver on polytheism: \"Gods are not characters.\" \u2022 A rare book on witchcraft \u2014 a manual\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"pentagram pizza\"","block_context":{"text":"pentagram pizza","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=pentagram-pizza"},"img":{"alt_text":"pentagram pizza","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/pentagrampizza1-126x150.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5871"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5947,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5871\/revisions\/5947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}