Bachanalia tomorrow
Sep. 9th, 2016 09:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
frualeydisSo, tomorrow my friend Caroline has her annual (well, this is teh second year) bachanalia. She has three ecumenical pagan/occultist parties every year: The Sol Invictus party between Yule and New Years, the Blåkulla party (Blåkulla is where witches go on either Maundy Thursday or Easter eve according to Swedish folklore) on Maundy Thursday and, since last year, the Bachanalia in late August/early September.
They're not rituals, and not specific for any kind of paganor occultist, but they have a pagan them and we have an opening ceremony where we recite some texts on the theme, share a glass of wine and drum, chant and dance. Then it's a regular potluck party.
But I like excuses to dress according to themes, so I made myself a dress from white crinkled cotton. The style is mostly 1940s I would say, but 1940s, inspired by ancient Greece. I also made a Thyrsos, Caroline has a few, but it's nice if people bring their own.
And this is one that I made for the Blåkulla party, which has Horned Gods as one of its themes.
They're not rituals, and not specific for any kind of paganor occultist, but they have a pagan them and we have an opening ceremony where we recite some texts on the theme, share a glass of wine and drum, chant and dance. Then it's a regular potluck party.
But I like excuses to dress according to themes, so I made myself a dress from white crinkled cotton. The style is mostly 1940s I would say, but 1940s, inspired by ancient Greece. I also made a Thyrsos, Caroline has a few, but it's nice if people bring their own.
And this is one that I made for the Blåkulla party, which has Horned Gods as one of its themes.
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Date: 2016-09-10 08:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-09-11 11:14 am (UTC)Those parties/rituals sound like a lot of fun.