Orphic Bootcamp!

My appearance on the Within Orb Podcast with Jenn Zahrt

My Orphic go-go dancing boots, c. 2014

I recently sat down with

Jenn Zahrt

— writer, astrologer, host of the “Within Orb” podcast, and Director of the CAELI (Celestial Arts Education Library Institute in Olympia, WA) - to engage in what she termed “Orphic Bootcamp.”

We covered everything from the three books I’d take with me on a desert island, to the overlap between Orphic myth and Mystery and contemporary physics, to the amazing LOVE and collectivity that animates the Orphic cosmos, to the secret language of Ancient Egyptian baboons. (Yes, really)

The books I recommended in the podcast are these:

• My favorite Greek/Italian edition of the Orphic Hymns: Ricciardelli, Gabriella. 2000. Inni Orfici. [Roma], Milano: Fondazione Lorenzo Valla

• The Greek dictionary/lexicon I recommend: Liddell, Henry George, and Robert Scott. 1871. A Lexicon. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

• On the representation of astronomical lore in myth: Barber, E. J. W., and Paul Barber. 2011. When They Severed Earth from Sky : How the Human Mind Shapes Myth. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

• On ancient sky observation: Krupp, E. C. 1983. Echoes of the Ancient Skies : The Astronomy of Lost Civilizations. Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications.

Enjoy!

✨ Kristin

An Egyptian stele from the New Kingdom, c. 945-924 BCE, showing (in the upper register) two baboons worshipping the newly born sun.