“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.” —Oscar Wilde Greetings, true believers! Sometimes, gods contain multitudes. Orunmila is a singular deity of wisdom, divination and foresight. But Shango is (or was) a king, a war-god of thunder, lightning, justice, dance,…

Welcome back, faithful readers! Titans didn’t win, which means today’s blog post is about The World.   Four and a half billion years ago, a ball of molten dust and raw, sun-forged elements coalesced into a planet. This one time, another planet crashed into it, and the resulting molten mass formed into a tiny moon. Other…

“His followers called him Mahasamatman and said he was a god. He preferred to drop the Maha- and the -atman, however, and called himself Sam. He never claimed to be a god, but then he never claimed not to be a god.” – Roger Zelazny, Lord of Light We often sneer as we say the word…