Happy Easter, everybody! We’ve spoken about Ishtar before: there is an ancient story about Tammuz (also known as Attis, Osiris, Dionysus, Adonis, Orpheus, or Jesus—you get the idea), who was born of a virgin, died, and was reborn. He was the lover of Ishtar. The festival associated with Tammuz began as a day of bloodContinue reading “Per Dominum nostrum Iesum Christum”
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St. Swithun
One day in the latter half of the ninth century, a poor young woman on her way to market dropped her basket of eggs – shattering all of them She knelt beside the broken mess and began to weep. As luck – or divine timing – would have it, the local bishop happened to beContinue reading “St. Swithun”
The Haus of Dcaligari 