Mark Green's Atheopaganism Blog: Practice

An Atheopagan Life: Celebrating Riverain, and Adapting the Wheel of the Year

Thu, Jan 29, 2015

Mark Green

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Practice, Sabbaths, Atheopagan Life, Atheology

Originally posted at HumanisticPaganism.com The eight holidays of the modern Pagan “wheel of the year” present an annual cycle of Sabbaths tracing seasonal changes, agricultural cycles, and metaphors of the cycle of life. For an Atheopagan, it’s not a bad point to start from, rooted as it is…

The Focus

Wed, Jan 28, 2015

Mark Green

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Practice, Techniques

This piece is excerpted from the Atheopagan Ritual Primer. A Focus is what Atheopagans call an altar. We choose a different word because “altar” implies worship—or even sacrifice—and we want to be clear that that isn’t what we are doing. The Focus is a work of art: a…

The God Mask – A Ritual Technique

Sun, Jan 25, 2015

Mark Green

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Practice, Techniques, Atheology

We had a great conversation at our online video chat in the Facebook Atheopagan group today. Topics ranged, but one that stuck out for me was Glen Gordon’s discussion of his work to create a new lexicon for Pagan and ritual phenomena he feels aren’t well defined…

MULLED WINE–a Poem for the Yule Season

Fri, Dec 05, 2014

Mark Green

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Sabbaths, Liturgy

It begins where the smoke hits your eyes: smouldering peat, Mutton stew on a broad iron hook, Deep snow. How can it ever have been summer? Apples wrinkling and mice in the barley— With so much to fear, thank the gods for company! We’ll tell our…

An Atheopagan Life: Observances for November and December

Wed, Dec 03, 2014

Mark Green

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Practice, Sabbaths, Atheopagan Life

Originally published at Humanistic Paganism. November and December certainly don’t lack for observances and holiday celebrations. In the temperate zone of the planet, pretty much every culture has had some way of celebrating the winter solstice, and the accumulation of many of those traditions lives with us today…

Atheopagan “advent” calendar–a fun project for the holidays

Sun, Nov 23, 2014

Mark Green

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Sabbaths

Instructions for making your own Atheopagan “advent” calendar, complete with resizable clip art images you can use for the tiny pictures behind the windows. Includes education on Atheopagan principles and themes. This is a Word document, so the images could be embedded as resizable objects. Enjoy!…