Now that we’re passed the magic number 900, I can post multiple times a day…even frivolously! But, I think I pretty rarely post frivolously…perhaps that’s a problem in itself, but I shall reserve opinion on the matter until a later time. Meanwhile, if you think that’s the case, please do tell me! 
So, the two things I wanted to announce are as follows:
Go and check out Lupa’s store, The Green Wolf! I’ve known Lupa for many years now, and have been the recipient of her shamanic services, as well as a customer for some of the many items she makes and sells–including things that I use for Antinoan purposes, like a boar tusk necklace!–and it’s all wonderful, high-quality, amazing stuff, made with absolute attention and devotion to the spirits involved quite specifically. So, go and have a look there!
And, an Academia Antinoi-related announcement as well. No one saw fit to take me up on my offer last week of reduced admission for half-term classes now and full-term classes starting in August, and as I said there, we’d never have an offer that low again. However, that doesn’t mean that if you’re not still interested in taking a full-term course starting in August, that if you “buy now” you still can’t save some money! So, if there’s a full-term course offered in August that you’d like to take from Academia Antinoi, you can still sign up for those now for the extremely low price of $125 rather than $200!
To refresh your memory, those courses are:
Antinous and Antinoan Spirituality (101)
The Antinoan Pantheon (201)
The Serpent Path (301)
Understanding Syncretism
Reconstructionism as Methodology
Hero-Cultus: Ancient and Modern
World Religions from a Polytheist Perspective
Polytheist Mysticism and Spiritual Direction
Queer Theology and Spirituality
The Enneagram: The Basic System (101)
The Enneagram: The “Augmented” System (201)
Romano-British Deities
Irish Deities
Welsh Deities
Lycanthropic Spirituality
Gentlidecht: An Introduction
Filidecht: An Introduction
*Queer Youth Spirituality
*Queer Spirituality Concerns for Non-Queer People
*Antinoan Mysteries Preparation
This offer will only be good for the next ten days–as soon as July 1st hits, this offer will be going away, and another one will take its place. The final three courses listed above with an asterisk (“*”) are half-term courses; if you sign up for one of those now (to begin in August–sorry, you missed the starting-date for this half-term already), you can take it for $50!
The term is going pretty well right now–I’m certainly enjoying it, and the students say they are as well, so that’s good news all around!
I hope everyone is enjoying this fine properly summer (or winter, as the case may be!) day at the moment!
Will you be doing the intro to filidecht at some point after I get home from Ireland?
By: Erynn on June 20, 2012
at 11:13 pm
Yes indeed! That course won’t start until the August term, which starts on August 6th. It will be taught again in the November-December term as well.
It will be very intro-type stuff, you’d certainly be familiar with all of the material we cover, so it might not end up being that useful for you.
By: aediculaantinoi on June 21, 2012
at 2:21 am
Ah, okay. I wasn’t certain. I don’t get home until August 16th anyway, so summer is right out. Would love to talk with you about the material you’ll be using for it.
By: Erynn on June 21, 2012
at 2:23 am
Ah, right–I had forgotten you’ll be doing a mini-Grand Tour after your peregrinatio experience in Ireland…Gosh, that’ll be a long time!
Well, certainly, once you’re back, we can discuss it more. When are you around in July? Perhaps I can get a visit in before you head for Éire after you’re back from Eight Winds…
By: aediculaantinoi on June 21, 2012
at 3:27 am
I get home late on July 2nd, so I wouldn’t be available at all until July 3rd. I get on the plane on July 9th. That’s our window if we’re going to get together.
By: Erynn on June 21, 2012
at 2:07 pm
I shall see what can be done!
There’s a possibility that we might be doing the King Tut exhibit sometime the week of the 4th, so perhaps I can be dropped off at yours afterwards and get the bus back the next day, etc. We shall see…
By: aediculaantinoi on June 21, 2012
at 6:38 pm
Keep me informed.
By: Erynn on June 21, 2012
at 6:47 pm
I’m interested in the Understanding Syncretism course, but the description seems a bit short – can you expand a little on what it covers?
By: omorka on June 21, 2012
at 12:16 am
Thanks for your interest!
Syncretism, I think, is one of the most misunderstood concepts in religion that there is; it certainly doesn’t help that two major creedal monotheistic religions consider syncretism to be sinful, and that type of thinking has infected modern polytheism as much as anything else. But, syncretism isn’t just the blending of different religions, religious ideas, cultural practices, or what-have-you; it’s also a theological understanding that is in-built to polytheism in almost every ancient form in which it exists and in which it is recoverable. Rather than thinking of syncretism as “soft polytheism,” which is the party line in many polytheist (and particularly reconstructionism-based) groups these days, there’s a lot of ways to think about it that are more accurate, in my opinion, and more theologically useful for understanding the past as well as dealing with deities in the present.
Without giving a full syllabus for the course, that’s some of the further background and focus of it. Is that helpful? Let me know if you have any further questions, and thanks again for inquiring!
By: aediculaantinoi on June 21, 2012
at 2:25 am
Yes, I think that was helpful. One last question – will this primarily focus on the Greco-Roman style of syncretism, or will it have a broader focus? (I realize that that’s the version of polytheistic syncretism we have the largest extant body of evidence for in the parts of the world now dominated by the Abrahamic religions, so presumably some focus there is inevitable.)
By: omorka on June 22, 2012
at 12:21 am
We’ll certainly be talking about Greek and Roman syncretistic things, but also Egyptian, Thracian, and Celtic (both Continental and Insular), amongst others…perhaps a bit of Shinto, Hinduism, the various monotheistic religions (who were so good at it they forgot how good at it they were!), etc. There will be a week where we do a “brief history of syncretism,” covering as much of history as possible right down to the present day, where a lot of interesting syncretistic things have happened in the 19th-21st centuries (e.g. Carl Jung, totemism, Thelema, etc.).
So, with any luck, something for everyone–and certainly, with the weekly assignments and personal reflections, if there’s something we didn’t cover specifically, it can be explored to your own heart’s content.
By: aediculaantinoi on June 22, 2012
at 9:06 am
Just a happy note to say you won the 2000 Sales contest for my Etsy for your promo in this post! (You know, this contest: http://lupagreenwolf.livejournal.com/2544295.html ) So hey, free stuff from my shop
By: Lupa on June 25, 2012
at 3:09 pm
Awesome! Thanks again so much for running the contest! And thank the gods that made the hand or the paper or whatever-it-was end up in the right place for me! (Now if that would only work for the contests where money is involved…!?!)
As I said, I’ll have a think over the prize for a bit. I think I have all (or nearly all) of your current books…can it be held in reserve for when your next one comes out? If not, no worries, as either a totem card reading or a coyote tooth necklace are all appealing as well!
By: aediculaantinoi on June 25, 2012
at 3:35 pm
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