Integrational Polytheism

Over the Summer Solstice 2003, i was in Orkney so on the longest night i hoofed it out to the Ring of Brodgar, which is a stone age circle of standing stones between the two lochs in Stenness, and while there i took a few photos. On the way i took a photo of the Standing Stones of Stenness too, which is another stone age circle of stones that is much smaller (The Stones of Stennes had only 12 stones originally, while the Ring of Brodgar had 60). (more…)

The Cult of Bob

Well, the Cult of Bob is kind of a religion which forced its presence upon me. I used to moderate a couple of discussion board type forums and some of the members on one of them suddenly became vocal members of this unusual cult. They are not in the moonlight cyanide drinkers category however they certainly have their own extreme views.First of all, they are a monotheistic cult, believing that god is, in fact, a woman called Bob. They say that they discriminate against no gender, race or species except people who are not members of the cult. Those people must be converted or destroyed. This does seem a little spurious since they refer on their website to their belief that cows are evil and are trying to take over the world. (more…)

Kwaku Ananse, have you heard of him? He is the spider god from Ghana in West Africa. You may have heard some stories about Ananse as a child. His stories lend themselves to children’s storytelling since there is usually some wisdom to be gained from them. I have included a couple of stories about Ananse underneath this article. (more…)

Discordianism and the Paratheo-Anametamystikhood of Eris Esoteric

Discordianism is a very hard religion to pin down, since it contains so many contradictory snippets of wisdom, information and other stuff. It was allegedly started in 1958 in California by Malaclypse the younger and Lord Omar Ravenhurst, who had an enlightening experience during a discussion in a bowling alley about life and other things.

The discordians seem to worship Eris, the Greek goddess of discord. This throws a spanner into the works however, since worshipping the goddess of discord basically means you can do what you like. It even means you don’t need to actually worship Eris! (as far as i can work out anyway) It seems to me that the main purpose of discordianism is to do weird things, and generally spread discord in an effort to get the world to be more interesting. (more…)