Living
Apricity
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“I hit my knees there, too, awed and overwhelmed at the sheer amount of power as I was regarded by the god of the sun,” writes Luke Babb of their relationship with Apollo. “So this is what it’s like to have a god flex at you.”
Arts & Culture
Review: “Hades II” takes players from the depths of Tartarus to the heights of Olympus
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Weekend Editor Eric O. Scott reviews Supergiant Games’s “Hades II,” which brings Witchcraft to the series’s roguelike gameplay and deep immersion into Greek mythology.
Living
Visibility
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These days, it often feels like I have two choices. I can be myself and in danger, or I can be invisible and hope that I am safe – that nobody notices, that I am lucky, that none of the aspects I can’t control (my health, my class, the city I live in) are the one that get me. It’s no kind of choice at all.
Culture
“Silent Witness of Time:” Statue of Hermes with Ram Found in Türkiye
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An extraordinary statue of Hermes has been unearthed in Türkiye.
Kitchen Witcheries
Polysporia – a dish that dedicates every grain to the gods
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“Made up of a mix of all the grains, legumes, and edible seeds grown in any given area,” writes Siobhan Ball, “polysporia belongs to that most fundamental class of agricultural ritual: the kind that gets down to the bare bones of the relationship between man and gods, expressing plainly what we want and what we’re willing to give in exchange.”