O Dionysos Phileleos, please accept my veneration though
my words are clumsily spoken, and I cannot always recall
all of the things I am supposed to do at your shrine.
I was born into a society which does not teach its people
proper reverence, and I am lacking in mentors or wise models
to emulate. I do what I can with what I have, and I am
figuring things out as I go along, striving always to improve
the quality of the worship I offer to you and your blessed family,
for my heart swells with love of you, and I wish only to give you the best,
for you have been so gracious and understanding with me,
though I am just one person, alone, fumbling in the dark.
O Dionysos Euphrōn, I pray, increase my knowledge and confidence;
with every rite performed let it become easier to approach you
and conduct worship in the ways which are proper, and pious,
and pleasing to you, the God of the Bacchants, whom I hope one day
to be worthy to be counted among, that I may spend both this and the
life to come in joy and perfect celebration with my own kind. Io evohe!
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The House of Vines 
Lack of mentorship. It’s a blessing and a curse. But good for seekers.
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I think it’s the thing we are most missing in our communities. But with that comes a lack of knowledge — both in how to be good teachers, and good students.
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Organic mentors, I should have said. Life is full of false teachers. My wife and I try to keep an open and transparent house, and make our lives and their collective experience learning lessons for our cohort. I wouldn’t call us mentors, as that carries a vanity I have no wish to display.
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One of the best ways to learn is via observation, so that could be more of a help than you realize.
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I hope so. Communion is all but gone, and by communion I mean a hospitality I define as being near stringless. Come as you are. I find that lacking in most systems I’ve played, Nationalism and Asatru alike. I despise image games.
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