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Ancient Iberia
Part 1: The Old Gods of Europe
And so it begins. I’ve just brewed a strong cup of coffee, and a sleeping kitten purrs away happily in my lap.
Discount on my most popular series
Hello friends.
Just a quick one from me today before we crack on with the new series on Sunday.
When I began writing Before Olympus, I never imagined quite how many people would end up reading it. Since the series started six months ago,...
The Old Gods of Europe: Journeys Through Europe's Pre-Christian Past
The lower half of a woman’s body intertwined with a bison-man and a lion, Chauvet Cave, France, c. 30,000 BCE © Bradshaw Foundation
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Over the past six months, I have been exploring the pre-Olympian roots of the Greek...
Relational loneliness and the grief of an unwitnessed inner life
THE OCHRE PAPERS is a space for readers to go deeper into the themes I explore here. As you read, questions may rise—curiosities, challenges, or echoes of your own experience. This column is where you can bring them. Think of it as a...
To be married to a mystery
The ruins of Ephesus, June 2025
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I’m not sure how I came to write about the gods. In a revealing interview with music journalist and songwriter Paul Zollo, Leonard Cohen was asked about the art of songwriting.
‘If I...
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Writer, poet, mythologist, scholar. Essays exploring how myth, imagination, and spirituality can return to modern life as embodied sources of meaning.
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