Thank you, Toni!

This platform was one of three significant initiatives in the wake of the Polytheist Leadership Conference, the other two being the independent academic journal Walking the Worlds (walkingtheworlds.com/issues/), and Gods&Radicals press, now Ritona (sulbooks.com/ritona).

At the Polytheist Leadership Conference in 2014, Thrax conceived the idea for Polytheist.com. The quality of the writing on this platform was consistently high, and it could have continued, in fact, but for a certain perfectionism on Thrax's part.

Thrax will also be remembered for the ingenious application to religion of the concept of ‘orientation’, analogous to its use in discourse on sexuality, so as to speak of polytheism as a religious orientation.

Thrax was known for the catchphrase “It’s a damn fine time to be a polytheist,” perfectly capturing the sheer audacity of affirmation which still galvanizes this cultural movement despite everything.

This is why the ancients could criticize Homer in the harshest terms without having any impious intent, and could accept irreverant depictions of the Gods in tragedy or comedy, because literature and drama had far less weight for them than the omnipresent cultus which is largely invisible to us.

Moderns without experience of a living polytheist tradition depend disproportionately on literary sources, and hence think of the Gods as "characters". For the ancients, by contrast, it was the religious experience of the Gods, whether at temples, festivals, or in domestic worship that was dominant.

"The 1990s were a decade of cultural and political change in Guatemala … Mayan ceremonies, based in cosmology, mystical beings, the Popol Wuh book, the 260-day calendar and the burning of natural materials, emerged in public spaces for the first time in hundreds of years."