Mysteria Misc. Maxima is a weekly feature which brings together links on religion and esotericism from around the internet.
- Ghosts are more likely to do their hauntings when its dark. Boo! (Epiphenom)
- The Canadian government opens its Office of Religious Freedom, a foreign policy initiative to help religious minorities, like the ones they kicked out of the chaplaincy program last year. Ahem. (CBC)
- Look at all the old white men who will be choosing the next pope. (NYT)
- Iran says no to Buddha statues. (HuffPo)
- Santeria practitioners are getting mighthy pissed with all the uninitiated people borrowing their Orishas. (Santeria Church via @AbraxasJournal)
- What does the vengeful Jesus of DJesus:Uncrossed have to do with the Book of Revelation? (Religion News Service)
- An interview with Dead Sea Scrolls scholar John J. Collins. (NPR)
- The Rinzai-ji Zen Center sex scandal gets even squickier. (LA Times)
- The problem with gendered representations of divinity. And by gendered I mean masculine. (Feminism and Religion)
- Canada Post releases its collection of zodiac stamps. (Canada Post)
- Io! Io! This inscription from Epidaurus is a hymn to Pan. (Laudator Temporis Acti via Rogue Classicism)
- The problem with Pagan fundamentalism. (Letter From Hardscrabble Creek)
- The SETI Institute wants you to name the moons of Pluto! (Pluto Rocks via @mystic_medusa)
- Chicagoans still looking for something to do this weekend may want to attend this lecture by David Metcalfe on the relationship between colour and sound from Pythagoras to David Lynch. (Homeroom)
- Learn a bit more about Trump Six of the Tarot: The Lovers. (Polyphony)
- Starting out on the magickal path? Here are some reading suggestions. (Ankhafnakhonsu)
- Finally, one Catholic college’s radio station has a list of heavy metal bands names which cannot under any circumstances be read on the air. Bonus: Includes Nickleback. Because even God doesn’t like Nickleback. (Buzzfeed)
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