Trad is rad

It is incredibly easy to be traditionalist, with the abundant forms of worship available to us as polytheists. A lot of them are things that modern society has conditioned us not to think of as worship, or even necessarily sacred. Theater, athletic and musical contests, getting drunk and having philosophical conversations, flogging, flower arrangement, playing with puppets, baking oddly shaped cakes, wearing face paint and funny costumes as you cavort through the streets with a bunch of your buddies, a neighborhood barbecue, etc. Read a poem, pray, and pour out a libation first if you want to formally consecrate the act to the divinity, then throw yourself fully into it, whatever it is you’re doing for them so that you can give them your best in gratitude for all that they have so generously given us. That’s traditionalism. It shouldn’t be stodgy or rote. (Unless that’s required for the rite.)

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