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WHISPERINGS OF THE PROTOGENOS
Six interweaving tales of the soul’s return from exile, reclaiming the numinous inheritance that we lost. Get the book The Silent God: A Pagan boy in remote antiquity awakens to the mysteries of a forsaken god, tearing the veil between … Continue reading
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Adonis
Before, the petty, jealous, and sadistic mountain jinni Yahweh appropriated the title “Adonai” in a bid to lord over our sphere, the handsome, ever-young Boy God Adonis was worshiped by the Phoenicians, and in the unspoken mysteries of the Greek … Continue reading
The Gaze that Bridged Earth and Heaven: Sufism and the “Beloved” in Poetry
Have you ever looked at something breathtakingly beautiful and felt a quiet longing in your soul? A sense that there is something more behind that fleeting spark of awe? For centuries, many Sufis, the mystics of Islam, found that spark … Continue reading
The Boy Who Would Be Immortal: the story of Ganymede
Before the Achaeans launched their tragic war on Troy, there lived a Trojan prince of such breathtaking beauty that he was said to be the most handsome of all mortals. One day, while the radiant youth was tending his father’s … Continue reading
Twilight of the Divine Boy
There was a time when the face of the divine wasn’t a bearded patriarch, a pregnant goddess, an abstract force or a nebulous consciousness. Instead, it was a boy. In the ancient world, the Divine Boy—puer aeternus—could as readily be … Continue reading
