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| 2-25-2022 The Mauling Man (2022) | 25 févr. 2022 | 01:18:19 | |
My latest album, The Mauling Man (2022), is my attempt at developing a unique werewolf story of my own, and it is dedicated to the gods Anubis and Wepwawet.
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| 11-10-2021 - The Gods Can Handle Our Anger | 10 nov. 2021 | 00:14:30 | |
It's okay to be angry or upset with the gods, and it's okay for us to tell Them so as well.
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| 11-10-2021 - It's Okay To Have Demons | 10 nov. 2021 | 00:09:06 | |
Expecting people to be John Rambo—including Setians—is unrealistic.
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| 11-09-2021 - It's Setian, Not "Satanic" | 09 nov. 2021 | 00:12:41 | |
Christians and Satanists might hate each other's deities, but Setians can honor Set and Osiris at the same time.
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| Episode 70 Our Lady Of Thrones (Part II) | 09 nov. 2021 | 01:00:13 | |
Listen to the second disc of my new album, OUR LADY OF THRONES!
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| Episode 68: Summer's End II (Album) | 04 oct. 2021 | 00:55:01 | |
The sequel to my Halloween-themed record from last year, with references to the Fae from Celtic mythology and folklore.
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| Episode 66: Set Is Now (Album) | 04 oct. 2021 | 00:44:16 | |
My first full-length album with vocals, inspired by my experiences as a Setian teenager in Satanic Panic America.
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| Episode 65: Pazuzu, The Exorcist (1973), And Sorcerer (1977) | 18 mai 2021 | 00:15:28 | |
Pazuzu is most well-known today thanks to a horror movie about demonic possession; yet He is evoked much more faithfully in a completely different film by the same director.
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| Episode 64: Set Doesn't Need A Church (And Neither Do We) | 11 mai 2021 | 00:11:17 | |
I have been asked before: "Why don't you start your own church?" Here are some reasons why this is not only unnecessary for Setians, but probably undesirable as well.
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| Episode 63: Pazuzu Saves | 07 mai 2021 | 00:55:31 | |
Forget what you think you "learned" from The Exorcist (1973) and join this mighty deity as He quests against both human and spiritual cruelty.
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| Episode 62: My Religious Taxonomy | 05 janv. 2021 | 00:11:08 | |
The LV-426 Tradition of Setianism is a fusion of Kemetic polytheist theology with (Setianized) Western occult practices.
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| Episode 61: Trapezoidal Thoughts On Fascist Fuckery | 30 déc. 2020 | 00:17:00 | |
Reclaiming Set's good name from "secret societies" that like to play "Raiders of the Ark" (but as Nazi characters!), and which have contributed to the normalization of fascism today.
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| Episode 60: Midnight Mass | 25 déc. 2020 | 00:29:30 | |
A Setian midnight mass performed and recorded for an imaginary AM radio broadcast.
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| Episode 59: Shedding Skin With The Snake God (And Snake People!) | 23 déc. 2020 | 00:28:08 | |
Thoughts on Nehebukau, the holy Snake God, and the concept of Snake People, with an analysis of their appropriation by modern pop culture and conspiracy theorists.
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| Episode 58: Thoughts on Kemetic Soul Anatomy | 19 déc. 2020 | 00:20:49 | |
One Setian's take on ancient Egyptian concepts of the self—including our bodies, souls, spirits, hearts, shadows, names, and the hope for unification of these features into a multidimensional whole after death.
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| Episode 57: John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness (1987) | 11 déc. 2020 | 00:25:10 | |
Jesus is a dead alien; Satan is a prehistoric sentient ooze; and "God" is the greatest supervillain of all time. This unique fictional theology helped me think outside the box, for sure!
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| Episode 56: It's the End of Days As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) | 02 déc. 2020 | 00:12:55 | |
How a really terrible Arnold Schwarzenegger movie influenced my spirituality and art.
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| Episode 55: Same Shit, Different Millennium | 18 nov. 2020 | 00:16:39 | |
How my favorite TV show—a 1990s police procedural with apocalyptic overtones—influenced my walk with Set.
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| Episode 54: His Nocturnal Majesty | 15 nov. 2020 | 00:58:13 | |
My soundtrack for a Setian apocalypse.
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| Episode 53: An LV-426 Hallowtide Hootenanny! (Part 2) | 29 oct. 2020 | 00:44:55 | |
The continuing discussion on horror movies and spirituality with two of my brethren in the LV-426 Tradition! | |||
| Episode 52: An LV-426 Hallowtide Hootenanny! (Part 1) | 28 oct. 2020 | 00:48:21 | |
A rambling discussion on horror movies and spirituality with two of my brethren in the LV-426 Tradition!
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| Episode 51: Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982) | 17 oct. 2020 | 00:26:49 | |
A preternatural Pied Piper turns people into creepy crawlies with his maleficent merchandise, his android assassins, and his Stonehenge supercomputers.
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| Episode 50: David Gordon Green's Halloween (2018) | 16 oct. 2020 | 00:19:12 | |
Why the 2018 "requel," featuring the return of John Carpenter and Jamie Lee Curtis, is the best direct sequel to the original 1978 classic.
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| Episode 49: Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995) | 14 oct. 2020 | 00:20:15 | |
How one of the goofier Halloween movies taught me to think beyond Hollywood depictions of Paganism, with a brief tribute to Donald Pleasence.
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| Episode 48: Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988) | 13 oct. 2020 | 00:12:53 | |
Why Halloween 4 (1988) is one of my favorite flicks to watch for the Samhain season.
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| Episode 47: John Carpenter's Halloween (1978) | 10 oct. 2020 | 00:12:32 | |
How a simple "slasher movie" deplores the patriarchy and evokes Celtic folklore.
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| Episode 46: The Praying Mantis God of Ancient Egypt | 06 oct. 2020 | 01:19:50 | |
An interview with the Kemetic and Neo-Pharaonic artist Setken regarding his new film, The Praying Mantis God of Ancient Egypt, in which we meet another of Set's theological colleagues: the Netjer Abyt.
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| Episode 45: Summer's End | 01 oct. 2020 | 00:47:42 | |
Shameless self-promotion for my new album, Summer's End (2020), a musical anthology of Halloween happenings.
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| Episode 44: Setianism Predates "The Left-Hand Path" | 30 sept. 2020 | 00:12:08 | |
On the conflation of all Setian spirituality with what Western occultists call "the left-hand path," and why this is problematic.
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| Episode 43: On the So-Called "Demonization" of Evangelicals | 25 sept. 2020 | 00:11:13 | |
My reactions to an especially hypocritical plea for "acceptance" on behalf of a community that utterly refuses to accept diversity.
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| Episode 42: Setian Meditations | 24 sept. 2020 | 00:13:24 | |
Three brief sermons in which I discuss Set's affinity for the color red, why Setianism is substantially different from many other religions, and how the Red Lord saves us all every night.
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| Episode 41: Nephthys, the Dark Midwife | 02 août 2020 | 00:19:13 | |
The sister and ex-wife of Set is a renowned healer of wounded hearts and minds.
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| Episode 40: Gorgo, the Irish Feminist Sea-Dragon | 24 juil. 2020 | 00:14:20 | |
Gorgo (1961) is a British kaiju (giant monster) movie with several interesting subtexts, all of which seem relevant to the goddess Taweret.
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| Episode 39: Dua Sutekh (Free Album) | 23 juil. 2020 | 00:24:40 | |
A free 22-minute album of ambient devotional music dedicated to Set. To download this album for free, visit gbmarian.bandcamp.com!
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| Episode 38: Taweret—Or, When God is a Hippopotamus | 19 juil. 2020 | 00:10:24 | |
A discussion of the Egyptian hippo goddess, Taweret, as well Her connections with Set and the reasons I love Her so much.
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| Episode 37: Understanding the Yezidis | 18 juil. 2020 | 00:12:30 | |
The Yezidi Kurds are often accused of "worshiping the devil," and with catastrophic results. They are also romanticized by Western occultists, which leads to colonialist appropriations of their faith.
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| Episode 36: An LV-426 LBRP | 13 juil. 2020 | 00:10:35 | |
An LV-426 Setian adaptation of the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram.
Featuring an original composition, "Dua Sutekh."
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| Episode 35: Typhonian Melodies | 03 juil. 2020 | 00:16:14 | |
Songs from a Setian soul. Tracks in order: "Season of the Witch," "Sutekh's Shrine," "Execration," and "Red Desert Sabbat." All songs composed by G.B. Marian.
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| Episode 34: Ishtar's Final Conflict With "The Man" | 02 juil. 2020 | 00:24:21 | |
How The Final Conflict (a.k.a. Omen III: The Final Conflict) can be read as an allegory for the goddess Ishtar and Her rivalry with Therion, the spirit of human tyranny.
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| Episode 33: Ishtar, the Lady Morningstar | 02 juil. 2020 | 00:13:48 | |
She rebelled to help humanity before Prometheus. She died and rose from the grave before Jesus. And She invented the "zombie apocalypse" before George Romero.
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| Episode 32: Holy Days of the LV-426 Tradition | 28 juin 2020 | 00:18:39 | |
The times we consider most sacred in our coven.
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| Episode 31: An LV-426 Execration Ceremony | 24 juin 2020 | 00:08:12 | |
An example of an execration ritual, a procedure to cast out and/or ward off negative energy. | |||
| Episode 30: A Setian Exegesis of John Carpenter's The Thing | 23 juin 2020 | 00:21:23 | |
Here I geek out for a bit about my vote for "the scariest monster movie ever made," and I draw some parallels between the themes of this film and my beliefs as a Setian.
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| Episode 29: Calling Professor Quatermass! | 18 juin 2020 | 00:12:23 | |
Martian grasshoppers. Genetically modified super-apes. Invisible forces only certain people can see. Quatermass and the Pit (1967) has it all.
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| Episode 28: Polytheism Is Not "Idolatry" | 17 juin 2020 | 00:13:04 | |
Yes Virginia, some people still believe in many gods today, and it's every bit as legitimate as believing in just one.
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| Episode 27: What Are You Afraid Of? It's Only Rock & Roll | 14 juin 2020 | 00:13:00 | |
Discussing the theme of "backmasked" messages in heavy metal music during the Satanic Panic, as explored in the 1986 comedy horror film, Trick or Treat. | |||
| Episode 26: The Horned Pentagram | 13 juin 2020 | 00:07:13 | |
Pentagrams with two points up aren't "inverted"; as far as I'm concerned at least, they are right-side up. | |||
| Episode 25: A Would-Be Ombite Creation Myth | 13 juin 2020 | 00:13:31 | |
My attempt at writing a Setian Creation myth that someone living in the ancient city of Nubt (Ombos or Naqada) might have believed. This is not intended to be lauded as dogma or some revealed scripture, it is just a creative exercise in expressing my faith. | |||
| Episode 24: Aberamentho—Set, Yahweh, and Jesus Christ | 13 juin 2020 | 00:10:22 | |
So you've heard me talk a lot about Set and "the devil"; now it's time to discuss Set and Yahweh, as well as Set and Jesus. Yes, it's true; Setianism can intersect with Christianity as well as it does with "devil worship." Set does not play by Christian rules, Satanist rules, or Marvel Cinematic Universe rules, and neither do Setians. | |||
| Episode 23: The Amityville Error | 12 juin 2020 | 00:13:28 | |
Discussing the Amityville Horror, the greatest American paranormal hoax of the 1970s, as well as some of the films inspired by this hoax, and its influence on the Satanic Panic of the 1980s. | |||
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