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PWN Briefs for 051413

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Greetings, listeners! Tuesday the 14th found Zaracon totally coherent, but RevKess was not with it. They elected to do a Brief instead of a full show. A full edition of PWN will air on Wednesday the 15th at the usual time.

Links

Music

  1. Lorelei Greenwood – Gallimaufry 
  2. Didges Christ Super Drum – Witch Doctor – Alien Technology 

We did say it was a Brief. Tune in at 9am Central on Wednesday 15 May 2013, or in archives at anytime after the show, to catch a full edition of Pagan Weekly News.

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PMP: Mother’s Day & Death Rites

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Hello, listeners! Bet you are wondering how Mother’s Day and Death Rites wound up in the same show. Simple: Today is Mother’s  Day and Thursday saw the death of my tradition’s founding high priest. Now, I don’t want you to get all sympathetic or empathetic with me. I appreciate the sentiment. I’m not looking for expressions of regret or condolences on his passing. The time was oddly appropriate, though.

Some of the best recognized Mother Goddesses are also Goddesses of death and destruction and rebirth. Kali, Sekhmet, Tiamat, just to name a few. In this episode we will not only honor some of the Goddesses of Motherhood, we will also honor some of the Goddesses of Death and Rebirth. Along the way I will share some memories of my high priest, Papa Tom and some of the music that makes me think of him.

Links

Music

  1. Kellianna- Maiden, Mother, Crone – Lady Moon
  2. Queen Mother Imakhu (Imakhu Sekehmet) – Sacred Mother (Anuk Mwt – I Am Mother) – Water Woman
  3. Elaine Silver – Grandmother Moon – The Lady of the Lake
  4. Leigh Anne Hussey – She is Grandmother – Homebrew
  5. Annette Cantor – Gaia – Songs to the Goddess
  6. Lis Addison – Mother Gaia – Crown in the Sky
  7. SJ Tucker – In the House of Mama Dragon – Haphazrd 
  8. Sharon Knight 7 T Thorn Coyle – Ancestor Chant – Songs for the Waning Year
  9. Kellianna – Ancestor’s Song – I Walk with the Goddess
  10. Omnia – Cernunnos – Sine Missione
  11. Omnia – Intro (The Wylde Hunt) – Crone of War
  12. Omnia – The Wylde Hunt – Crone of War
  13. Kellianna – Aphrodite and Pan – Lady Moon
  14. Damh the Bard – The Parting Glass – Tales from the Crow Man  In honor of Tex, Jason McDeavitt and now Papa Tom, all Elders of the Pagan community who at one time or another lived in Lincoln, NE.
  15. Isaac Bonewits – The Thuggee Song – Avalon is Rising!
  16. Michael Brant DeMaria – Danu – Gaia
  17. Shawna Carol – Sacred Pleasure – Goddess Chant
  18. Murphey’s Midnight Rounders – As You Depart – I Am the Goddess
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PWN #92

The 92nd edition of Pagan Weekly News started out with a little back slapping from Heather Greene of the Covenant of the Goddess and The Wild Hunt. She wrote an article for PRN and TWH about “What is Pagan media?” Sometime in the very near future Ms Greene will be joining us on either an edition PWN or Pagan-Musings to talk about the Pagan Media and her work with CoG. We would like to have a panel discussion with various members of the Pagan Media, if you are a Pagan media person (journalist, blogger, podcaster, etc) who would like to participate in that conversation you can email us at paganmusings@gmail.com and we can go from there. Or you can contact us on our PWN Facebook page.

Peter Dybing outside the Glitter Dome, home of Kyrja and the Friends of Rupert

Peter Dybing outside the Glitter Dome, home of Kyrja and the Friends of Rupert

Peter Dybing called  in during the first half hour of the show to talk about his work with the Lady Liberty League in regards to Kyrja’s situation in Newport Richie, FL. The work that LLL and others have been doing there sounds extraordinary, but Peter stressed that is what is right about the Pagan community that LLL and others can and will step up to show support and provide certain services to others within the community when the need arises.

We later talked about Big Ag and Big Chemical in regards to the decline in the honeybee population world wide, including steps that some countries are taking to prevent that continued decline or assist in preserving the honeybee. We also talked about how religion is addressed in mainstream media and how religious illiteracy can be damaging to the population as a whole. We concluded with a little talk about some of the books that Zaracon and RevKess have been reading recently.

Links and articles:

Music:

  1. Didges Christ Super Drum – Stardust+Energy=Me – Alien Technology 
  2. Damh the Bard – Under a Beltane Sun – Antlered Crown & Standing Stone 
  3. Celia – Symbol Song 

Our humble thanks to Peter Beckley for playing fact checker for us on the honeybee topic, the further indented links in the above list are due to his diligence and research.

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Lavender Hill 5 May 2013

Close-up of 1st Anniversary CakeLavender Hill is Lincoln, NE’s only (and as far as we know, the first) LGBTQA+ news and talk program. Hosted by Corwin and Phil on KZUM every Sunday at 11am Central, LH brings the listener news, views, and interviews from around the LGBTQA+ community with a focus on Lincoln and Omaha, NE. Only having a thirty minute time slot makes it difficult for Corwin and Phil to cover everything that they want, sometimes they have to gloss over things or just skip them all together. In this posting you will find links to some of the stories that they covered in this week’s edition, as well as one or two that were totally skipped. You can also visit the show’s Facebook page for additional news and opinion pieces, as well as videos and pictures.

The hosts can be reached through email. Feel free to contact them with comments, questions, and suggestions for the show.

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The Mess, Beltaine pt 2

ad bannerToday was the second installment of the Mess’s Beltaine celebration for 2013, it was also the Lincoln Marathon (Lincoln, NE). Below you will find the play list from today’s show. Thank you again to *K8 for typing up the list during the show. I have made some minor corrections to her list. Any errors that remain are my own.

 

  1. Wytches’ Chant ’98 – Inkubus Sukkubus – Away with the Faeries
  2. At the Beginning – Dan Kennedy – Intuition
  3. Greening – Masako – Masako
  4. The Story – Terra Guitarra – Dragonfly
  5. The Princess and the Emperor – Al Conti – The Blue Rose
  6. Magnificent Gaia – Lia Scallon – The Luminous Pearl
  7. Middle of a Moment – Stephen Savage – Future Memory
  8. Into the Heart – Budi Siebert – Namaste
  9. Jamboree – David Arkenstone & Charlee Brooks – Loveren
  10. Handfast Blessing – SJ Tucker – Blessings
  11. Stop & Go – Lisa Hilton – Getaway
  12. Morning – Chorus of Life – Gaia’s Voice
  13. Behold – Abbi Spinner McBride – Fires of Creation
  14. Goddess of the Seeds – Ancient Brotherhood – Nature Goddess
  15. When it’s Springtime in Alaska – Johnny Horton –
  16. Hand me down my Jogging Shoes – Holly Near & Ronnie Gilbert – Singing with You
  17. Seed in the Ground – Heather Bishop – Belly Button
  18. Family Garden – John McCutcheon – Family Garden
  19. Spring Cleaning – John McCutcheon – Four Seasons: Spring Songs
  20. The Reverend Edmund Jones – Anne Lister – Waiting for the Hero
  21. Laptop Unit – Cynthia McQuillin – Bedlam Cats
  22. Lord of the Pounce – Marc Gunn – Irish Drinking Songs for Cat Lovers
  23. Black Velvet Band – Isaac Bonewits –
  24. Evolve – Gaia Consort – Evolve
  25. We Come from Monkeys – Emerald Rose – Archives of Ages to Come
  26. House of Mama Dragon – SJ Tucker – Haphazard

I‘ve had a very long weekend. After I have gotten some rest I will gladly insert links and other information for the tracks that were played. Until then, have a blessed week!

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PMP: Beltaine 2013

podcastbannerad3May the 4th be with you, as our Star Wars friends are blasting all over social media today. Beltane is here. Many celebrate the festival on the weekend closest to the date of May 1st. Many others have already celebrated, either on the 1st or last weekend. Yet others honor the spirit of the festival in their own way, sometimes through the entire month of May. My own Mother Coven has celebrated today. KaliSara is celebrating the birth of her second child, Lady Bug is no longer a baby.

This edition of Pagan-Musings Podcast brings you a variety of music, tales, and information about Beltane. We hope that you enjoy listening to the wonderful and beautiful finds we have for you. Click here to listen to the broadcast.

Music:

  1. Featherscale – Invocation – Gypsy Heart

    May the Passion and Love of the Season guide you on your Journey

    May the Passion and Love of the Season guide you on your Journey

  2. Cernunnos Rising – Blessings of Beltaine – Wild Soul
  3. Omnia – Tine Beltaine (10,000 Lightyears Remix) – cybershaman
  4. Kenny Klein – Queen of Night – Oak and Ash
  5. Kelliannna – Shares Her Love – I Walk With the Goddess
  6. Omnia – Love in the Forest – Wolf Love
  7. Shawna Carol – Sacred Pleasure – Goddess Chant
  8. AO Music – In Loke’Ch – …And Love Rages On
  9. Cernunnos Rising – A Fire Fit for a Queen – Wild Soul
  10. Elvendrums – Walking the Woods – The Dragon
  11. Elvendrums – Stolen Child – The Dragon (inspired by William Butler Yeats)
  12. Jenna Greene – Spring Love – Crossroads
  13. Celia – For the Asking – For the Asking
  14. Celia – Carry Me Home – Carry Me Home
  15. Damh the Bard – Under a Beltane Sun – Antlered Crown & Standing Stone

Links:

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PWN #91: SAPRA and Witch Hunts

Every April Pagans around the world, especially in South Africa, pay extra attention to the tragedy of modern witch hunts in what some in the United States and Europe would call “under developed” or “third world” countries.

Music Played:

  1. Telergy -Scene 1 – Legend of Goody Cole Scene 1 contains dramatized “accusations” against Eunice Cole. Tune into our special edition on Memorial Weekend to hear an interview with Robert McClung, the man behind Telergy and learn more about Goody Cole and all the players and musicians inolved in the creation of this astounding CD.
  2. Telergy – Incarceration – Legend of Goody Cole This track’s music gives the listener a feel for the emotions that Eunice Cole may have been experiencing during her imprisonment. 
  3. Celia – Beltane Song/Dance the Night Away (rough cut) Final version of the song released in time for Beltaine 2013. Visit Celia’s website to purchase/download the final cut of this beautiful and fun song.

Links and Resources:

sapralogoThe South African Pagan Rights Alliance (SAPRA) was founded in 2004 as a grass roots reaction to the outdated anti-witchcraft laws in the SA constitution. For many years native Africans have been accusing their neighbors of “witchcraft”, attacking them, beating, raping, murdering these accused witches. These attacks have nothing to do with what many modern Pagans consider to be witchcraft. They are based on tribal or ancient traditions, predating the introduction of Christianity and other monotheistic religions into these parts of the world. Many of these people who are accused of witchcraft are actually accused of what Damon Leff calls “fabricated” witchcraft. Faith healers, traditional healers, tribal and native spiritual leaders. These people do not consider themselves to be witches, even though Christians lump those works and followers of traditional African religions into the same category as “devil worshippers” and “witches”.

For more information on SAPRA and witch hunts around the globe, please visit their website. Zaracon and RevKess would like to thank Damon Leff for his continued work towards a better global community and a safer environment in South Africa for native religionists and Pagans. They would also like to thank all of their listeners for their continued support with PWN and PMPChannel.

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Devin Hunter & The Modern Witch

podcastbannerad3It has been two Saturdays since our last broadcast on Pagan-Musings Podcast and we wanted to explain why. April 20th found us vending at ConStellation IV in Lincoln, NE. We had intended to put together a recorded show, but it just didn’t happen. And the 27th found RevKess working his bills-paying-job and KaliSara under doctor’s orders to not talk much. 

Devin Hunter

Luckily for us, and for our listeners, Devin Hunter was willing to reschedule for Tuesday the 30th. So, here we are with the show  notes for that episode of PMP.

Listen to the show.

Music Played:

  1. Lis Addison – New World – Crown in the Sky
  2. Wendy Rule – Oh How I Dreamed – Deity
  3. Spiral Dance – The Spirit of Albion/Wooden Box (featuring Damh the Bard) – Through a Sylvan Doorway
  4. Jenna Greene – Mating Dance (Beltane) – Crossroads

Links to material discussed or resources for more information:

  • Modern Witch Online: The online home for just about everything that Devin Hunter is involved in. Here you can learn about Devin and the other contributors to his podcast and the magazine.
  • PantheaCon: Devin attended PantheaCon this year and wrote about it on the blog portion of Modern Witch Online. Read part 1 and part 2. 
  • The Mystic Dream: Devin works as the House Medium and manager of the Mystic Dream, one of the oldest metaphysical stores in the United States. He’s been there for ten years. Listen to the show for the story behind how he landed that position and what it is that he does for the store. 
  • Modern Witch Podcast: Devin’s podcast, finishing up it’s fourth season, can be heard on Pagan Radio Network or in archives through Podbean.

RevKess and Devin had a wonderful chat. Bouncing around from talking about PantheaCon and Modern Witch Online to some of their similar experiencing meeting Pagans that many of us look up to. The conversation was rather smooth and we feel informative. Sometime in the near future, RevKess will be appearing on the Modern Witch to share about himself and answer some of the question that Devin has for him.

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MMM Playlist 04/28/13

Would seem that Phil’s radio blog has gone MIA, or at least his ability to post it, and since the promoters and the musicians have been chomping at the bit to see playlists posted somewhere, he will be posting them to this blog site until he can either rectify the situation or decides on if he wants to recreate that radio blog. 

Nadine Murphy, host of MMM at the boards.

Nadine Murphy, host of MMM at the boards.

*K8 of Murphy’s Magic Mess on KZUM has been so kind as to enter in the playlist as it happens on Facebook. So it has become even easier for the weekly playlist to be made available to everyone. Her formatting is different than mine, though. She does song title, artist, album. Which is fine, it is all there. We all (Murf included) hope that you enjoy and appreciate these playlists. If time allows when I post them to this blog I will also include links to some or all of the musicians’ pages.

Sunday, 28 April 2013 was the first of two Beltaine shows for the gang on MMM. Looking at the music we played should make that obvious, but you never know…. *wink* In this list you will find some “classic” Pagan pieces as well as some brand new pieces that had arrived for either Phil or Murf in recent weeks. As always, the first 30-45 minutes of the program includes new release New Age music that is sent to us either by the radio promoter for the album or the musician themselves. 

  1. Wytches’ Chant ’98 – Inkubus Sukkubus – Away with the Fairies
  2. Love Always Waits – David Arkenstone & Charlee Brooks – Loveren (released March 2013)
  3. Whisper from Whithin – Catherine Marie Charlton – River Flow (released April 2013)
  4. Hokulea – AO Music – Hokulea (Released March 2013)
  5. New World – Lis Addison – Crown in the Sky (released 2013, click here to read Phil’s review)
  6. Leaf on a Stream – Stephen Savage – Future Memory (original release December 2012, arrived for us April 2013)
  7. Stop & Go – Lisa Hilton – Getaway (released April 2013)
  8. I am the Goddess – Spiral Rhythm – Roll of Thunder
  9. Gaia (Introduction) – Monica Richards – Infra Warrior
  10. Bird of Spring – Woodland – Seasons in Elfland
  11. Beltane Lullaby – Clarsa McElhaney – Storyteller
  12. On Mayday Eve – Peggy Monahan – Seasons of the Witch
  13. Song for Beltaine – Victoria Parks – Wild English Rose
  14. Pan – Chorus of Life – Gaia’s Voice
  15. Song of Beltane – Crow Women – Crow Voice
  16. May Queen – Three Weird Sisters – Hair of the Frog
  17. Merry May Folk – Emerald Rose – Bending Tradition
  18. Our Maypole Waits – Francesca DeGrandis – Pick an apple from a tree
  19. The Maypole – T. Thorn Coyle – Songs for the Strengthening Year
  20. Mystic Rituals – Didges Christ Super Drum – Alien Technology (released April 2013)
  21. New Age Pagan Rag – Murphey’s Midnight Rounders – Swede Hollow
  22. Tine Bealtaine – Omnia – Pagan Folk
  23. Jack the Slob and the Goddess of love – Leslie Fish – Avalon is Rising
  24. Penguin Lust – Annwn – Anarchy and Rapture
  25. Black Velvet Band – Isaac Bonewits

An added bonus, a video of Lisa Hilton’s Getaway.

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PWN #90: Kyrja, Boston & Witch Hunts

The 90th edition of the Pagan Weekly News was full of emotional content. Zaracon and RevKess visited with Kyrja, author of the KyrjaRupert’s Tales series for children regarding the hate crime attacks on her and her community. As we discussed in a recent episode of the Pagan-Musings Podcast, Kyrja has been under attack from unknown assailants for several months. The attacks escalated from verbal abuse in December to shots being fired at her home in March and more recently chemical bombs being lobbed at her home on April 15, 2013. Her step daughter was harmed in that attack, chemical inhalation damaging her lungs. You can hear straight from Kyrja what is going on in this edition of PWN. (You can also hear KalisSara and RevKess’s interview with Kyrja earlier this month.)

Leading into Kyrja’s visit your hosts talked briefly about the new CD release by Didges Christ SuperDrum, Alien Technology. A selection from that CD was played during the program. They also talked about ConStellation IV, in which KaliSara and RevKess participated as Pangaia Metaphysical Store.

Right before Kyrja’s call, Zaracon and RevKess spoke up the recent developments with the Boston Marathon Bombing investigation. Both suspects have been apprehended, two brothers by the name of Tsarnaev from Chechnya. One brother was killed in a gun fight with law enforcement officials while the other was later taken into custody after receiving multiple gunshot wounds, he was later officially charged while in hospital.

Later in the show the hosts talked about the fertilizer plant explosion outside Waco, TX last week and information regarding the 30 Days of Advocacy Against With Hunts in South Africa, including part of a letter sent by SAPRA executives to the government regarding the exclusion of recognition of Pagan religions by the government.

Table 4Ending the show on a more positive note, there was talk of the 4th anniversary of Pangaia Metaphysical Store and Raymond Buckland’s recent foray into iPhone/iPad apps with his Romani Tarot application.

See below for a listing of topics and links that were discussed as well as a listing of the music played during this edition of PWN.

Z and Kess would like to thank all the live and archive listeners for tuning in and sharing in the information and news that they have for you each and every week on Pagan Weekly News and encourage you to visit their advertisers and supports. Tune in next week for another edition of the Pagan Weekly News with Zaracon and RevKess.

Stories:

Music:

  1. Lorelei Greenwood – Gallimaufry
  2. DidgesChrist Super Drum – Stardust + Energy = Me – Alien Technology
  3. Celia – Build the Wall
  4. Isaac Bonewits – We Won’t Shave Any Longer

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