Posted on 12/17/2016 6:27:52 PM PST by TigerClaws
It doesn’t matter how many articles of clothing Phelan Moonsong puts on before walking out the door each day: If he’s not wearing his favorite pair of goat horns, the Pagan priest might as well be naked.
Unless the 56-year-old Millinocket, Maine, man is sleeping or bathing, his beloved horns are rarely far from his scalp.
It’s been that way since he first laid eyes on the horns at a Pagan men’s group gathering in 2009. A friend whose goat had recently died offered the horns to group members. Nobody else wanted the dead goat’s hardware; Moonsong couldn’t believe his luck.
So he took the horns home, drilled small holes in each one and attached them to his forehead using stretchy, 50-pound fishing line that he wrapped around his head like an invisible skull cap.
His life was never the same.
Moonsong is seen at a Pagan festival wearing his horns as well as his "goat legs" and "hooves." (Photo courtesy of Phelan Moonsong) Moonsong at a Pagan festival wearing his horns as well as his “goat legs” and “hoofs.” (Photo courtesy of Phelan Moonsong) “As a practicing Pagan minister and a priest of Pan, I’ve come to feel very attached to the horns, and they’ve become a part of me and part of my spirituality,” Moonsong said, noting that he periodically soaks the horns in patchouli and cedar oil to keep them fresh and leathery. “The horns are part of my religious attire.”
Moonsong feels so attached to his horns that he refuses to take them off for anyone — including the state of Maine. In August, Moonsong said, officials at the Bureau of Motor Vehicles in Bangor told him that he would need to remove the horns to receive a state-issued ID.
When he tried to explain to bureau employees that he is a “Priest of Pan” — one who considers the horns his “spiritual antenna” — they were not moved. They told that the horns would have to be approved by Maine’s secretary of state.
“She told me that I had to send in some documentation or religious text to show why it was required for me to have my horns on,” Moonsong said. “I said, ‘Okay, I’ll go ahead and do that,’ but it seemed like an onerous requirement.”
Moonsong said he sent the state a personal essay explaining the importance of his horns, along with four scholarly works, including one titled “Pagan Religions: A Handbook for Diversity Training.”
He’s Phelan at life.
I can see a horny guy like him not wanting to cave in to the nanny state
LOL
“Sleeping or ‘bathing’”?
You’ve got to be kidding. That guy hasn’t seen a bath in years
How does that expression go here?
“This thread is useless without pics”?
Traffic Cop: “Have you ever been arrested?”
Freak: “No sir.”
Cop: “This isn’t you sir, according to this, you have horns...We’re going downtown to the station.”
“I can see a horny guy like him not wanting to cave in to the nanny state”
Post of the day!
“... at a Pagan festival wearing his horns as well as his “goat legs” and “hooves”.
Hmmm... this hammerhead doesn’t self -identify as a humanoid with toes.
Embrace diversity, you deplorable vermin! HA!
cloven hoof
n.
1. A divided or cleft hoof, as in deer or cattle. Also called cloven foot.
2. Evil or Satan, often depicted as a figure with cleft hooves.
cloven hoof
or
cloven foot
n
1. (Zoology) the divided hoof of a pig, goat, cow, deer, or related animal, which consists of the two middle digits of the foot
2. the mark or symbol of Satan
In Obama’s 8 yrs. he was the great divider. He also had the most transparent (HA!) administration in America’s history!
His puppet masters OWNED BHO, and he did as he was ordered to do.
He gleefully pissed (squatting) On Our Sacred Constitution daily - he embarrassed himself ~ yet, I don’t believe he is capable of embarrassment ~ but he absolutely DID embarrasses the USA and lowered OUR standing in the global community.
Trump/Pence! MAGA
IIRC one of those pastafarians won the right to have his drivers license photo wearing a colander on his head. He got pulled and the cop gave him a ticket for not wearing it.
Alas, Brave New Babylon.
https://westernrifleshooters.wordpress.com/2013/08/26/bracken-alas-brave-new-babylon/
He makes horn-wearing pagan priests look bad.
This stiff goes to the trouble to change his name to ‘Phelan Moonsong’ and laboriously takes the pains to strap goat horns to his head with fishing line like a skull cap, but sit-ups and aerobic exercises are a bridge too far.
Freegards
There isn't a jury in the country that would convict.
[ Nobody else wanted the dead goat’s hardware; Moonsong couldn’t believe his luck. ]
Yeah, that’s just incredible luck. Nobody else wanted to be quite the raving fruitcake strolling through the woods.
That was deeply disturbing.
Well...that’s different.
Let him look like a fool. The ID works as ID - he’d be hard to confuse with anyone else.
I invested about 30 seconds in seeing what I could turn up on him. I didn't find much, but apparently he doesn't drive, and his new ID is very important because he wants to fly to California, where many of the best pagan festivals are to be found.
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