Date: Saturday, September 17
Time: 12:00 pm-2:00 pm ET
Admission: $20 (Patreon Members $5/above) / $25 (Regular Admission)

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Lucifer. Satan. The Angel of the Bottomless Pit. The Dragon. The Accuser. Leonard.

For thousands of years and by nearly as many names, the adversary of mankind has been invoked as a symbol of chaos and tyranny, evil and liberation. Except for Leonard, who you might call upon to do your taxes.

In this interactive workshop, Victoria Davis and Jacob Williamson, co-hosts of The Dispatchist podcast, will take you on a 5,000-year journey that starts in Mesopotamia, careens through early Judaism and Christianity to the Renaissance, and idles for a while in the relatively recent past and the present. Along the way, we’ll explore depictions of Old Nick in art, myth, and pop culture.

We are sure you have a lot of questions. For example, you might be asking: Who is the devil? What are his origins? Is he single? Why the tail? Leonard…really? We do to. Let’s have some fun exploring them together.

To prepare for this interactive workshop, please bring a description or visual (ie. a tarot card, image, literary excerpt, etc.) representing your preconceptions about the devil.

Victoria Davis has a BA in Film Production, a PhD in Irish Literature, and has yet to have a job that incorporates much of this expertise. Consequently, she has a lot of hobbies. When she’s not co-hosting a podcast about Hell with Jacob, she sings in a band, keeps bees, and dreams of all the projects she will pursue once she gets her hands on a Time-Turner.

Jacob Williamson is a theological dilettante and religious triviologist from Austin, Texas, with a love of ritual-craft, infernology and demonology, and church history. When he's not researching and podcasting about left-hand path Anglicanism, he bakes cakes.

Images (folder attached):

1. William Blake, The Great Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun, c. 1805

2. Claude Burdel, The Devil, from the Tarot of Marseilles, 1751

3. Pierre et Gilles, Le Diable (Marc Almond), 1989/1993

4. Goethe’s Faust, directed by F.W. Murnau, 1926

5. A Ravenna Mosaic from the 6^th c. said to be the earliest depiction of the Christian idea of the devil

6. Der Teufel versucht Satan. - Heidelberg University Library, Germany