Edward P. Butler, PhD
@epbutler.bsky.social
Polytheist, Ph.D. in Philosophy. Justice to all beings, reverence to all Gods.
Born into Brujeria: A Mayan Sorcerer’s Experience in a Transgressive Tradition
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Born into Brujeria: A Mayan Sorcerer’s Experience in a Transgressive Tradition
First-Hand Knowledge of the Hidden World of Guatemalan Folk Magic and Its Evolution from Secrecy to Modern Practice
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November 12, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Born into Brujeria: A Mayan Sorcerer’s Experience in a Transgressive Tradition
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Philosopher-Led Project on AI and Evolving Norms of Inquiry dailynous.com/2025/11/12/p...
Philosopher-Led Project on AI and Evolving Norms of Inquiry - Daily Nous
How is the development and use of artificial intelligence changing the norms of inquiry and knowledge production across different disciplines? That's the question to be taken up by Eamon Duede, assist...
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November 12, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Philosopher-Led Project on AI and Evolving Norms of Inquiry dailynous.com/2025/11/12/p...
Roma Lister, Aradia, and the Speculative Origins of a Witchcraft Revival publicdomainreview.org/essay/roma-l...
Roma Lister, Aradia, and the Speculative Origins of a Witchcraft Revival
In 1899, Charles Godfrey Leland published Aradia, “the gospel of the witches”, containing a goddess-orientated creation and saviour narrative, purported to descend from an ancient, hermetic tradition ...
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November 12, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Roma Lister, Aradia, and the Speculative Origins of a Witchcraft Revival publicdomainreview.org/essay/roma-l...
I’m honored.
Chegou hoje, livro do @epbutler.bsky.social e provável obra do SPT (Seminário Permanente de Teurgia)
November 12, 2025 at 1:57 AM
I’m honored.
Materia Philosophiae: Material Dimensions of Ancient Philosophy (open access) brill.com/display/titl...
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November 10, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Materia Philosophiae: Material Dimensions of Ancient Philosophy (open access) brill.com/display/titl...
Plato and the Ideas: A Very Complicated Story brill.com/display/titl...
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November 10, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Plato and the Ideas: A Very Complicated Story brill.com/display/titl...
Hymn to Isis in Middle Egyptian youtu.be/5pCO0_zmAMU
Hymn to Isis in Middle Egyptian
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November 7, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Hymn to Isis in Middle Egyptian youtu.be/5pCO0_zmAMU
“There are only a few hundred initial roots across the Algonquian languages … In this post, we explore the diverse expressions and underlying concept of the common root sound tk-.” abenakionline.com/f/knowing-ou...
Knowing Our Roots, tk-
There are only a few hundred initial roots across the Algonquian languages. Because of this limited number, each root carries a broad range of thematic meanings. In this post, we explore the diverse e...
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November 7, 2025 at 1:00 PM
“There are only a few hundred initial roots across the Algonquian languages … In this post, we explore the diverse expressions and underlying concept of the common root sound tk-.” abenakionline.com/f/knowing-ou...
My latest, in collaboration with Palinode Productions: Elenchus Against Ontology open.substack.com/pub/palinode...
Elenchus Against Ontology
Jam Sessions on Negation, Part 2
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November 5, 2025 at 9:17 PM
My latest, in collaboration with Palinode Productions: Elenchus Against Ontology open.substack.com/pub/palinode...
"What moves me most is not their grief but their calm response: ‘Let’s change the ritual order and try again.’ Not scientific logic nor denial but acceptance, a willingness to continue creation within uncertainty." Izanami — Creation and Loss open.substack.com/pub/toukyo/p...
Izanami — Creation and Loss
Women of the Divine — A Priestess’s View of the Goddesses in Shinto
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November 4, 2025 at 3:55 PM
"What moves me most is not their grief but their calm response: ‘Let’s change the ritual order and try again.’ Not scientific logic nor denial but acceptance, a willingness to continue creation within uncertainty." Izanami — Creation and Loss open.substack.com/pub/toukyo/p...
“I think of Matsuri as driving a stake into the flow of time. The space—ma (間)—that lies between those stakes is everyday life…” When the Kami Moves: Voices from Matsuri
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When the Kami Moves
Voices from Matsuri
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October 31, 2025 at 8:17 AM
“I think of Matsuri as driving a stake into the flow of time. The space—ma (間)—that lies between those stakes is everyday life…” When the Kami Moves: Voices from Matsuri
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Euripides' The Bakkhai at Goldstein Theater, Flushing NY (Oct 30-Nov 9) kupferbergcenter.org/event/bakkhai/
The Bakkhai - Kupferberg Center for the Arts
The Bakkhai is Euripides most subversive play, telling the story of a man who cannot admit he would rather live in the skin of a woman, and a god who seems to combine all sexualities into a single rui...
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October 28, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Euripides' The Bakkhai at Goldstein Theater, Flushing NY (Oct 30-Nov 9) kupferbergcenter.org/event/bakkhai/
Thought as Music (1): Sappho polymorph.blog/early-greek-...
Thought as Music (1): Sappho – polymorph
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October 25, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Thought as Music (1): Sappho polymorph.blog/early-greek-...
Some Remarks from the African Traditional Religions Working Group
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Some Remarks from the African Traditional Religions Working Group
(Image courtesy of https://www.myuganda.co.ug/buganda-kingdom-in-uganda/)
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October 24, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Some Remarks from the African Traditional Religions Working Group
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Join P. Sufenas Virius Lupus virtually to celebrate Antinoan Foundation Day on October 30th. open.substack.com/pub/psvl/p/t...
The Last Blast: Foundation Day (October 30th), 2025
The End...Hopefully Not, But We Can't Be Too Careful...
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October 19, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Join P. Sufenas Virius Lupus virtually to celebrate Antinoan Foundation Day on October 30th. open.substack.com/pub/psvl/p/t...
A note on parallels between Hera's conception of Hephaestus and Isis' conception of Horus substack.com/profile/5275...
October 16, 2025 at 4:48 PM
A note on parallels between Hera's conception of Hephaestus and Isis' conception of Horus substack.com/profile/5275...
Reposted by Edward P. Butler, PhD
A historic first: a couple married at the Temple of Zeus in Cyprus in a Hellenic polytheist ceremony—the first of its kind legally recognized in Greece—marking a powerful step toward restoring ancestral faith and identity across the Mediterranean.
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#hellenism #pagan
Historic First: Legal Hellenic Polytheist Marriage Ceremony Held in Cyprus — A Milestone for Mediterranean Paganism - Europe, Paganism, Religion, The Wild Hunt, World
Witchcraft & Pagan News - A historic first: a couple married at the Temple of Zeus in Cyprus in a Hellenic polytheist ceremony—the first of its kind legally recognized in Greece—marking a powerful ste...
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October 14, 2025 at 9:31 PM
A historic first: a couple married at the Temple of Zeus in Cyprus in a Hellenic polytheist ceremony—the first of its kind legally recognized in Greece—marking a powerful step toward restoring ancestral faith and identity across the Mediterranean.
wildhunt.org/2025/10/hist...
#hellenism #pagan
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#hellenism #pagan
"Was Plato really hostile to poets? Or did he, rather, insist on the crucial importance of poetry to almost every subject he placed before us?" www.bostonreview.net/articles/pla...
Plato and the Poets - Boston Review
The centuries-old debate should be settled: an intellectual world bereft of poetry is a damaged one.
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October 15, 2025 at 1:07 PM
"Was Plato really hostile to poets? Or did he, rather, insist on the crucial importance of poetry to almost every subject he placed before us?" www.bostonreview.net/articles/pla...
Xi Jinping Calls for Accelerated ‘Sinicization of Religion’ Under Party Leadership chinascope.org/archives/39226
Xi Jinping Calls for Accelerated ‘Sinicization of Religion’ Under Party Leadership – Chinascope
On September 29, the Political Bureau of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) held its 22nd collective study session on advancing the Sinicization of religion in China, chaired by Xi Jinping. Xi emphasiz...
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October 11, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Xi Jinping Calls for Accelerated ‘Sinicization of Religion’ Under Party Leadership chinascope.org/archives/39226
Pagan dawn: Europe’s first pagan state religion in 638 years? by @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social drfrancisyoung.com/2025/10/10/p...
Pagan dawn: Europe’s first pagan state religion in 638 years?
Members of the Dievturi religion at the Latvian Saeima, 9 October 2025 © Dievturi Sadraudze On Thursday the Latvian Saeima (parliament) passed a rather unusual law that, predictably, has escaped no…
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October 10, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Pagan dawn: Europe’s first pagan state religion in 638 years? by @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social drfrancisyoung.com/2025/10/10/p...
"To wait for the kami is to live in rhythm with the unseen world and to let holiness reveal itself when it is ready. Through this act of waiting, matsuri becomes not a ritual of motion but a stillness that holds all things." What is Matsuri? open.substack.com/pub/toukyo/p...
What is Matsuri？
From prayer to politics to stillness
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October 10, 2025 at 1:15 PM
"To wait for the kami is to live in rhythm with the unseen world and to let holiness reveal itself when it is ready. Through this act of waiting, matsuri becomes not a ritual of motion but a stillness that holds all things." What is Matsuri? open.substack.com/pub/toukyo/p...
New Substack post: More on Hephaestus and the Theology of Matter open.substack.com/pub/epbutler...
More on Hephaestus and the Theology of Matter
Contemporary reflections on technophany always seem to involve Prometheus, rarely Hephaestus, though technology is the latter’s explicit timē, and is embedded, moreover, in His mythic ‘birth’, inasmuc...
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October 9, 2025 at 6:13 PM
New Substack post: More on Hephaestus and the Theology of Matter open.substack.com/pub/epbutler...
Bodies that Mattered: Ancient Egyptian Corporealities (Free to read online, though not to download) www.sidestone.com/books/bodies...
Bodies that Mattered @ Sidestone Press
Bodies are immanent element of socio-cultural negotiation. Since the 19th century, Egyptology has produced vast knowledge on the ancient Egyptian bodies (human, divine, animal), however, mainly by foc...
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October 9, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Bodies that Mattered: Ancient Egyptian Corporealities (Free to read online, though not to download) www.sidestone.com/books/bodies...
Reposted by Edward P. Butler, PhD
The Real World of Voodoo, Vodou, and African Traditional Religions with @lilithdorsey.bsky.social begins October 21 www.morbidanatomy.org/classes/p/th...
The Real World of Voodoo, Vodou, and African Traditional Religions, with Author and Priestess Lilith Dorsey MFA, Begins October 21 — Morbid Anatomy
Six Week Class Taught Online Via Zoom Tuesdays, October 21 - November 25, 2025 7 - 8:30 pm ET (NYC Time) $150 Paid Patreon Members / $175 General Admission PLEASE NOTE: Classes will be rec...
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October 8, 2025 at 7:47 PM
The Real World of Voodoo, Vodou, and African Traditional Religions with @lilithdorsey.bsky.social begins October 21 www.morbidanatomy.org/classes/p/th...
The Real World of Voodoo, Vodou, and African Traditional Religions, with Author and Priestess Lilith Dorsey MFA, Begins October 21 — Morbid Anatomy
Six Week Class Taught Online Via Zoom Tuesdays, October 21 - November 25, 2025 7 - 8:30 pm ET (NYC Time) $150 Paid Patreon Members / $175 General Admission PLEASE NOTE: Classes will be rec...
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October 8, 2025 at 2:46 PM
The Real World of Voodoo, Vodou, and African Traditional Religions with @lilithdorsey.bsky.social begins October 21 www.morbidanatomy.org/classes/p/th...