Thyrathen: Greek Magic, Myth, and Folklore

Thyrathen: Greek Magic, Myth, and Folklore

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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)
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Dr. Sasha Chaitow
Why Byzantine Scripts Look Like Secret Code
Renaissance Wisdom Revealed: What Dürer Really Encoded in Allegory of Philosophy (Thyrathen Fragments)
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Dr. Sasha Chaitow
How to Hex Like a Hellene-Part 2
Greek Magic after Byzantium: A Field Guide
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Dr. Sasha Chaitow
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Byzantium, the West, and Europe’s Divided Cultural Memory 1/2
Before the Renaissance: How Byzantium Shaped—and Haunted—the Western Revival
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Dr. Sasha Chaitow
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Continuity, Adaptation, and the Layered Life of Greek Ritual: Clearing the Air
A response to recurrent misunderstandings
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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
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Dr. Sasha Chaitow
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Why Not Every Ruin Needs a Saviour
The Ghosts in the Stones and the Defilement of Memory (Thyrathen Crossroads)
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Dr. Sasha Chaitow
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Enchanted Matter (2/2)
How Byzantine Image-Rituals Became Modern Greek Magic
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Magic, Orthodoxy, and the Limits of the Esoteric Label
Contribution to the ORTESO Working Group at ESSWE 10 - Vilnius University
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Dr. Sasha Chaitow
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How Pagan Magic Shaped Christian Icons 1/2
Theurgy and Sacred Image Traditions from Late Paganism to Byzantium
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Bacchic Philosopher of the Ineffable: Damaskios Part 2
Damaskios' Dionysian Life and Platonic Initiation
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Dr. Sasha Chaitow
The Forgotten Neoplatonist: Damaskios and Platonic Orthodoxy Part 1
The reality of the last Schools of Alexandria and Athens, and why the pagan-Christian dichotomy is inaccurate
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Dr. Sasha Chaitow
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