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Deathwalking: An anthology adventure
Over the years I've contributed to quite a few anthologies. I love being part of a community that comes together over a given subject,...
Laura Perry
Apr 17, 20182 min read


Spring Equinox, Minoan harvest, and upside-down calendars
Today is the Spring Equinox where I live in the southeastern US, but it's harvest time in places like Crete, where the ancient Minoans...
Laura Perry
Mar 20, 20181 min read


Mysterious Minoan Floating Objects
The Minoan gold seal rings are fascinating little objects, all the more so because the images on them are full of strange floating...
Laura Perry
Oct 3, 20171 min read


Starry Night: Minoan Astronomy
Like many ancient cultures, the Minoans spent a lot of time looking at the night sky and calculating the movements of the stars and...
Laura Perry
Aug 23, 20171 min read


Dividing the Minoan World
The world is so big, we like to divide it up into manageable segments, sections we can get our heads around and maybe understand. The...
Laura Perry
May 10, 20171 min read


Musings on the Minoan Threefold Goddess
There is no Maiden-Mother-Crone triplicity among the Minoan goddesses, but that doesn't mean we can't find some meaningful threefold...
Laura Perry
Apr 5, 20171 min read


Excuse Astrology: A bit of a rant
I’ve been doing astrology in one form or another for years. I first learned to draw a chart with pencil, paper, a printed ephemeris, and...
Laura Perry
Sep 21, 20162 min read


Talent and Skill: Magic versus hard work
I’ve always done creative stuff like drawing and writing and playing musical instruments, as far back as I can remember. By the time I...
Laura Perry
May 25, 20163 min read


Book Review: The Morrigan: Meeting the Great Queens
Morgan Daimler’s book about the Morrigan, that multifarious and fascinating Irish goddess, may be small but it has done great things for...
Laura Perry
Mar 23, 20163 min read


Pagans who don't believe in magic - but use it anyway
This is going to be a bit of a rant, so hold onto your hats. If you're wondering about the title, I mean exactly what I'm saying here....
Laura Perry
Feb 10, 20163 min read


Book Review: The Heart of Life
I wasn't quite sure what to expect when I started reading this book. I've been a shamanic practitioner for a long time now, and I've read...
Laura Perry
Jan 27, 20162 min read


Are those things really horns?
Sir Arthur Evans christened this ancient Minoan symbol/object the Horns of Consecration. In the century since then, people have discussed...
Laura Perry
Jan 20, 20161 min read


Minoan Peak Sanctuaries: Way Up There
Would you walk all the way up a mountain on foot just to make an offering to your gods? The ancient Minoans did. Find out more about the...
Laura Perry
Nov 18, 20151 min read


Long Spoons of Compassion
About 16 years ago, when I was organizing a 'new millennium' community ritual through the Goddess 2000 Project, I happened upon a story...
Laura Perry
Aug 31, 20153 min read


A few spokes shy of a wheel?
Today on the Minoan Path blog, a few thoughts about the ancient Minoan sacred calendar - what we can know about it from archaeological...
Laura Perry
Aug 19, 20151 min read


Handling Henotheism
You've probably heard of polytheism, but henotheism may be a new one for you. This week on the Minoan Path blog, I'm diving into the...
Laura Perry
Jul 29, 20151 min read


Minos the Moon God?
Today over at the Minoan Path Blog I'm sharing some thoughts about the legendary figure of Minos. Demoted to a mortal king by the later...
Laura Perry
Jul 22, 20151 min read


Either-Or Thinking: A Logical Fallacy
These days, between the political debates and religious arguments online, I’m seeing a lot of either-or thinking. This is nothing new, of...
Laura Perry
Jul 15, 20154 min read


Toilet Snobs and other Modern Problems
OK, that's not a typical title for my blog posts, but it gets to the point. We modern folks have tended to be snobs about our culture and...
Laura Perry
Apr 22, 20151 min read


The Two Worlds of the Minoans
Today's post over at The Minoan Path Blog describes the cosmology of pre-Indo-European people such as the ancient Minoans. It's not the...
Laura Perry
Feb 25, 20151 min read
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