(I wrote this at the request of a friend, and decided to post it here so that others can see it, since it doesn't quite rise to the level of a paper that I might use in a formal setting.)

Julian's hymn needs to be understood within the framework of polycentric polytheism. Julian is attempting to articulate the ways in which the deity to whom he is ( Read more... )

Seems I've been tweeting a lot lately, but not Storifying much. Anyhow, here's a thread from today:

https://storify.com/EPButler/on-plato-phaedrus-229b-230a

Some storified tweets in connection with my essay on Plato's Republic:
https://storify.com/EPButler/on-the-guardians-and-hermeneutics

A few Storified tweets inspired by a blog post: https://storify.com/EPButler/inertia-the-inert-and-joy-in-kemetic-theology

I storified a few tweets-and pretty pictures-concerning the theological and ritual foci for Kemetics around the winter solstice:
https://storify.com/EPButler/moomas-and-other-kemetic-winter-solstice-holidays

Gender and the Generic in Divine Acclamations

Live Tweeting Jason and the Argonauts

Noted an interesting ambiguity in Plato's use of the term hyponoia. On the one hand, there's its use in the Republic (378d) to refer to an "underlying meaning" of the myths. But a passage from the Laws (679c) refers again to myths, at least in part, but here the verb form is used. The Athenian is speaking of the more simple-minded, but also more ( Read more... )

Storified tweets:

https://storify.com/EPButler/on-syncretism-and-theophany-with-daphne-lykeion

https://storify.com/EPButler/issues-in-individuation

I just came across an interesting tidbit from the Third Vatican Mythographer-which is stultifying for the most part, puts the "darkness" in the Dark Ages-but which occasionally preserves some valuable bit of lore that fell through the cracks. This is from 6.26, in the section on Pluto:

Thus the Egyptians, who are experienced in established wisdom ( Read more... )