“Pioneer Lady”: Article written on Jane Hollister Wheelwright in Santa Barbara Magazine
Local journalist, Starshine Roshell, has published a story in the current Santa Barbara Magazine on Jane Hollister Wheelwright. She writes, “Known for being curiously fearless and wise, passionate and plainspoken, author, feminist, and stewardess of the land Jane Hollister Wheel
Read MoreMyth 101 – Hekate in battle
This frieze is from the temple of Zeus and Athena at Pergamon, currently housed in the Pergamon Museum in Berlin. The scene of Hekate using a torch in the battle of the Gods and Goddesses with the Serpent-Footed Giants that were born of Gaia is described in Apollodorus (The Library)
Read MoreMyth 101: The Battering Ram and the Spiral Tendency
The Ram’s horns are so often associated with a powerful and vigorous vitality displayed in the image of the Ram, who has become a rich symbol for, among many things, power and/or sexual, creative energy. Similar to Pan, the goat-god, the zodiacal sign of Aries, or Amun-Re, Egypt
Read MoreThe Ancestor’s Speak: James Hillman on the Circus Clown
“We follow the clown into the circus by entering a perspective of rebellion against the dayworld order; rebel without cause or violence. Turning topsy-turvy, we deliteralize every physical law and social convention in the smallest things that we take for granted. Through
Read MoreSeptember ENewsletter: IMLS Grant, Jane Hollister Wheelwright on YouTube, “Finding Joe”
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Myth 101 – Melissai, nymphs of honey
The Melissae or Melissai were the Greek nymphs of honey bees. Priestesses at Aphrodite’s temple in Eryx were called Melissai thus conferring to the goddess the title of Queen Bee. It is said that the Melissai priestesses would enter into visionary trances by eating bee pollen.
Read MoreMyth 101: The Duende
From out of the alchemically green-gold valleys and hillsides of Andalusia, Spain, comes the myth and aesthetic experience of the duende. From “duen de casa” or, Master of the House, the duende is reminiscent of the Trickster, said to bring havoc and interruption when the home is upen
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