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I didn't realize that I was speaking polytheistically until I'd already said it.
“How it is out there?” asked the clerk, as she rang up my bottle of water and bag of ice.
I shook my head. “They say it's going to get worse.”
Conversations of this banality this go on between strangers in the Midwest every day, especially when it's hot and muggy.
(image: Two hands in black and white cupping the bloom of a deep red rose)
I had tentatively started a post on the Roman months of May and June being filled with rose festivals and how the adornment of roses and violets marked both life and death in the Roman world during the months of May through mid-July. I was mentally filling this essay with how we could all stop to honor our Beloved Dead in the summer with roses and all the historical bits I could yank out of my tumbling, sometimes foggy mind.
And then on June 12th, while I drank my coffee, the news filtered in that there had been a mass shooting in Orlando.
Part I. ended with the observation monotheism seems to have an innate proclivity to violence and it has inspired some of the most noble people in history. It asked “Why?”
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Once upon a time, I was a huge fan of DC comics. I read anything and everything pertaining to Batman, Batgirl, Oracle, Robin, Black Canary, Zatanna, and a handful of other characters. Oddly enough, though, I had a very hard time connecting with Wonder Woman. Strange, considering that she is one of DC's few explicitly, openly polytheist characters -- and a Hellenic Pagan, to boot, just like me. I found the occasional one-shot or miniseries that I enjoyed, and the Golden Age comics were awesome, but for the most part, the mainstream Wonder Woman series left me cold.
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