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Start Here: Enter the Bibliothēkē
A living library on Greek folk magic, myth, and folklore
Oct 16, 2024
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Greek Shamanism: A Comedy of Errors
The Making of a Modern Fiction and How a Platypus Explains What the Evidence Really Says
Nov 9
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What We Keep Getting Wrong about Herakles
On the perils of reading ancient myth through modern eyes
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The Many and the One: What We Get Wrong About Greek Religion
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Why “Blue” Never Just Means Blue in Greece
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Solomonic Magic and Astrology in Orthodox Tradition - and Modern Greece
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How to pronounce the Voces magicae in ritual
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Why Pagan Philosophers became Orthodox Icons
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How perception, language, and culture shape what we think we see
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Greek Shamanism: A Comedy of Errors
The Making of a Modern Fiction and How a Platypus Explains What the Evidence Really Says
Nov 9
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Dr. Sasha Chaitow
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What We Keep Getting Wrong about Herakles
On the perils of reading ancient myth through modern eyes
Nov 3
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Dr. Sasha Chaitow
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MODERN GREEK GOETEIA: Syncretism, Integration, Evolution
Dr Sasha Chaitow @ OCCULTURE BERLIN 2025: Source Index and Further Reading
Oct 25
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Dr. Sasha Chaitow
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Dreams Were Never ‘Just Dreams:’ Inside the Byzantine Art of Reading the World as a Book
How Byzantium evolved the ancient language of signs into a science centuries before the Renaissance "rediscovery"
Oct 19
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Dr. Sasha Chaitow
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Greek Magic Primer #4: Goeteia - History, Practice, Living Tradition
Reclaiming the language, lineage, and lived practice beneath modern constructions
Oct 16
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Dr. Sasha Chaitow
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The Darkest Orthodox Rite
Malediction, Sanctioned Curses, and the Origin of the Undead in Greek Folklore
Oct 12
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Greek Magic Primer #3: Necromancy in the Greek Tradition - and what it isn't
Speaking with the Dead in a Living Tradition
Oct 9
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Dr. Sasha Chaitow
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The St Cyprian That Western Magic Forgot
Uncovering the living Byzantine tradition behind Europe’s most famous “Book of Magic”
Oct 5
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Dr. Sasha Chaitow
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Greek Magic Primer #2: Sacred Art: What Does It Do, and Why Does It Matter?
Why Greek art objects were never just “art”: from statues to icons, amulets to shrines
Oct 2
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Dr. Sasha Chaitow
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Thyrathen: The Lost Bibliothēkē
A living library on Greek & Byzantine magic, myth, and folklore.
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The Many and the One: What We Get Wrong About Greek Religion
Sep 7
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Dr. Sasha Chaitow
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Why “Blue” Never Just Means Blue in Greece
Aug 10
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Solomonic Magic and Astrology in Orthodox Tradition - and Modern Greece
Apr 24
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Dr. Sasha Chaitow
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How to pronounce the Voces magicae in ritual
Apr 6
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Dr. Sasha Chaitow
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Why Pagan Philosophers became Orthodox Icons
Sep 28
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Dr. Sasha Chaitow
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Thyrathen Crossroads: Where Greece meets the world
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MODERN GREEK GOETEIA: Syncretism, Integration, Evolution
Dr Sasha Chaitow @ OCCULTURE BERLIN 2025: Source Index and Further Reading
Oct 25
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Whose are you?
How Greek Myths and Kinship Codes Reveal the Making of the Self
Sep 14
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How do you imagine “Greece?”
From Byron to Miller, how the English literary canon loved the ruins and forgot the living
Aug 27
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Forgotten Empresses, Wild Monks, and the Battle for Europe’s Soul 2/2
Imperial Marriages, Romanitas, and the Renaissance Erasure of Byzantium (Thyrathen Crossroads)
Aug 3
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Translation
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How Alchemy Became Music in a Byzantine Manuscript
First translation of a lost manuscript that changes everything we know about Byzantine science and knowledge.
Aug 31
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Dr. Sasha Chaitow
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Astrology at the Byzantine Court
The Lost Astrological Manual of a Byzantine Court Poet and the Open Practice of “Occult” Science in Twelfth-Century Constantinople
Aug 6
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How to Hex Like a Hellene-Part 2
Greek Magic after Byzantium: A Field Guide
Jul 27
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Dr. Sasha Chaitow
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How to Hex Like a Byzantine – Part 1
Popular religion, curses, and binding spells from the Byzantine Empire to the 21st Century
Jul 13
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Dr. Sasha Chaitow
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Wondertales
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The Cannibal Sister (The Gelloudi)
Greek folk horror tales
Feb 6
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Half-Bottom and the Lamia
Greek folk horror tales
Jan 30
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Dr. Sasha Chaitow
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The story of Trisevgeni (The three citruses)
Greek folk horror tales
Jan 8
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Thar be Goblins! Part 1/4
Greek wondertales about Kallikantzaroi - Greek Christmas Goblins
Dec 10, 2024
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Primers
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Greek Magic Primer #4: Goeteia - History, Practice, Living Tradition
Reclaiming the language, lineage, and lived practice beneath modern constructions
Oct 16
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Dr. Sasha Chaitow
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Greek Magic Primer #3: Necromancy in the Greek Tradition - and what it isn't
Speaking with the Dead in a Living Tradition
Oct 9
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Dr. Sasha Chaitow
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Greek Magic Primer #2: Sacred Art: What Does It Do, and Why Does It Matter?
Why Greek art objects were never just “art”: from statues to icons, amulets to shrines
Oct 2
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Dr. Sasha Chaitow
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Greek Magic Primer #1: What is Esotericism and why does it matter in the Greek context?
How Greece rewrites the rules of “hidden knowledge”
Sep 24
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