The Wild Hunt (https://wildhunt.org/tag/dreams)
“The poet wrings a forever from Death, the only lover he will ever have who can really promise him that.” Meg Elison reviews Jean Cocteau’s 1950 classic ORPHEUS as part of our Classics of Pagan Cinema series.
If I’m lucky, they’ll tell stories of the journeys they take across landscapes as alien as anything in Oz. “I ended up in someone’s garden,” they explain. “Only they were a sort of – scarecrow accordion? I apologized, and they let me cut through their house.” “Why did you need to go through their house?” I ask, and they pause, thoughtful. “Because that was the easiest way to get to you.”
Despite all their violently macho bravado, even the gods have empathy.
Guest columnist Stacy Psaros on how interacting with deities in Dungeons and Dragons has influenced her relationships with deities in her Pagan practice.
Luke Babb considers the possibility of living and the nature of mythic time.