Mycenaen Mysteries is the new working title for my own research and
work into Archaic Greek religious workings, as it is far wider in
spectrum and truer in description. I now have plans in expanding this
into an actual work to be one day presented to the pagan community at
large as an option, as thru my research I have found no Neo-pagan
group existant or previous that truly has dealt with the subject
within their own structure, just as there are many sects of Wicca
dealing with Celtic belief. It is a Pantheistic and also a
Polytheism-based project, with the concept that much of what was
handed down thru the centuries since Homer has been distorted and
mistranslated or changed from Homer on.
   My research has found that Homer was not a person at all, but a
group of scribes, storytellers and temple priests, who were ordered by
the Athenian ruler Pisistratus in the 6th century BC to create the
Iliad and the Odyssey (the first from old records the second totally
from the cloth of their imaginations) in order to assist the
establishement of an agreed version to govern reciters at public
festivals, so that they would project a religious belief in line with
the goverment control of the populance of the time via their own
beliefs, establishing "State Religion" that would become eventually
the tales that we have now. There may have been other works at the
same time, but they failed to survive the errosions of time (except
some simple just-so type stories that predate Homer). Thus The project
involves the study of archaelogical reports and writings, historical
stuidies of what was going on in the world at the same time of the
period of Greece that the Mycenaen culture, and comparison readings of
the various myths of classical Greece with the known factors of the
actual culture of the time. Into this I will probably enmesh some of
my own personal philosophy, beliefs and concepts as such cannot be
avoidable by any practitioner of the craft, but I hope that it will
produce a coherant and acceptable whole to base my practice upon (My
main problem with Wiccan groups I have been with was that their
rituals were based on Celtic or EGyptian culture, neither of which
suits me in total). The Mycenaens were influenced by many sources in
their own culture, including Persian and Egyptian, and so reflects a
more intergrated version of Paganisim, one that may be as much a
reflection of their times as Wicca is in ours.
   Any and all input on this subject are welcome, here, thru by BBS
(508-663-6220) or thru Snail-mail : 40 Allen RD., Billeirca, MA
01821. Thanks ahead of time for all of such.

May the Goddesses & Gods smile upon you.