Having just returned from some travel, in which I had seriously hoped to write and get posted the next “Queer I Stand” piece, I found things didn’t quite go to plan…However, I got a good bit of material for a post for “Queer I Stand,” and was able to get it written the day after I got back. So, that’s now available, and it’s called “Religion On The Road (Again…),” and you can find it here.
This might be considered another installment toward my overall theme of “religion in exile,” and the kind of eternal pilgrimage or peregrinatio that I (and many others) find myself in, but I didn’t develop that theme too heavily in this particular piece–although I did mention one of the most famous of the peregrini figures of the early middle ages, St. Columbanus, formerly of Bangor and eventually of Bobbio in Italy. I was also able to mention several other figures of note that are favorites here: Antinous (of course!), Hadrian, Herodes Attikos, Appia Annia Regilla, Hermes, Hanuman, and Lugus, as well as bringing up the topic of nymphs, too!
So, have a read if you like, and feel free to comment either here or there if you feel so compelled!
Great article! As I am about to embark on a long voyage myself in two days (and will either be on an airplane or in an airport for both the Noumenia and another festival I had planned to celebrate), I really appreciate your perspective on the subject. I loved your description of the Doctor’s Notes as a portable altar, and your Catholic friend’s fascination with said object. I have my own portable altar of sorts, involving a small jewel box dedicated to Hestia and filled with small items (coins, small stones, etc.) from my household shrine, which I place on my weathered little Loeb of Hesiod & the Homeric Hymns, and arrange with a few other personal items/talismans I always wear or carry (and that usually sit on my shrine at night). Even if I am only in a hotel or staying with relatives for a single night, I always set up this little shrine near the bedside where I am sleeping. At any rate, welcome home! I do hope to meet you eventually when we return in three weeks or so!
By: Ryan on May 19, 2012
at 3:15 am
Indeed, that’s exactly the sort of portable altar/shrine/vade mecum thing I’m describing. I’m surprised more pagans don’t have things like this, to be honest…
I am very much looking forward to meeting you when you get back! Sannion and Dver and I all spoke about you today, and wished that you could have been with us! But, perhaps later this summer…
By: aediculaantinoi on May 19, 2012
at 10:33 pm
I definitely wish Ryan and I could have joined you! But alas, we are so busy this weekend with packing and last minute preparations. Which I really need to return to . . . anyway, based on your subsequent post, it sounds like you all had a glorious day!
By: Ryan on May 20, 2012
at 2:24 pm
Best of luck with the preparations, and safe journey in the company of the gods!
By: aediculaantinoi on May 20, 2012
at 8:19 pm