Please note this is an in-person lecture hosted at The Last Tuesday Society and NOT a ZOOM Lecture .
The God of the Old Religion becomes the Devil in the New. With these words, almost a century ago British archaeologist Margaret Alice Murray precipitated the popularisation of one of the most significant modern esoteric figures – the Horned God. To Murray he was the God of the Witches, the preeminent deity of a prehistoric fertility cult that, she theorised, survived alongside Christianity and came to be persecuted as witchcraft.
Since Murray’s seminal work, the Horned God took many names and guises in both magical practice and popular culture. But whatever he is called, he is felt to be a necessary figure for our times.
Dr Anna Milon’s talk reintroduces the Horned God as the 21st-century zeitgeist, delving into the figure’s emerging present and overlooked past.
Dr Anna Milon is a researcher at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, and author of The Horned God in Modern Paganism, Fantasy Fiction, and Live Action Role-Play (Bloomsbury Academic, forthcoming). She lives in Buckinghamshire with her husband, daughter, and two cats.
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The Absinthe Parlour at The Last Tuesday Society is London’s best award-winning alternative cocktail bar hidden within The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities. A drinker’s cabinet of wonder filled curious cocktails & extraordinary elixirs —The Last Tuesday Society’s Absinthe Parlour is truly a hidden treasure of East London. Opened by collectors, drinks historians & absinthe experts — Allison Crawbuck (Brooklyn) & Rhys Everett (London) in 2016, the duo bring with them a shared passion for the mysterious world of spirits & the macabre.
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