Curwen Ares Rolinson

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Auditing The Government’s Police Numbers Strategy

5 days ago | thedailyblog.co.nz | Curwen Ares Rolinson

An audit of 1022 police recruits that went through training between January 2024 and April 2025 reveals 128 did so despite being unable to pass a “basic literacy assessment”, in addition to dozens of other irregularities (the one that got the headline was the 36 that failed psychometric testing but were waived through anyway). Now, I am a simple man.
On Trump’s ‘Victory Day’ Revisions

1 month ago | thedailyblog.co.nz | Curwen Ares Rolinson

This is … a bold set of claims. And not least because I would have assumed VJ Day in August would have made for a more logical ‘Victory Day for World War II’ than VE Day in May (although I suppose it’s the immediately impending occasion with the Russians’ famous annual Victory Parade in Moscow which has caught the American President’s imagination here).
As His Fans Scream Victory, Trump Backs Down

Feb 4, 2025 | thedailyblog.co.nz | Curwen Ares Rolinson

There’s something … odd going on.
Arya Akasha on the Kumbh Mela in Indian Print Media

Jan 23, 2025 | aryaakasha.com | Curwen Ares Rolinson

This was pretty cool. I’d received invitation to write something upon the present Kumbh Mela observance for a print-media publication in India. I received back the print-preview on Sunday, and it was quite an honour to see names you may have heard of such as Yogi Adityanath, and representatives of organizations like the BJP and RSS, and then somewhere in there … Curwen Ares Rolinson & Arya Akasha.
An archaic foundation of the Kumbh Mela

Jan 18, 2025 | sundayguardianlive.com | Curwen Ares Rolinson

In essence, the templating for the Tanunaptra comprises a particular event wherein the Gods came together to convocate and to share, Each drawing from Their ‘most valued’ ‘strengths’ or ‘capacities’ to make Their ‘best contribution’, with all of these being ‘pooled together’ (‘Mela’, we might suggest) to produce a singular potency far grander than could be conceived of through unlinked individual expressings.
Yeah? Well What’re You Doing About It! - National’s Bemusing Attempted Distraction On CGT Claim

Sep 27, 2024 | thedailyblog.co.nz | Curwen Ares Rolinson

I read in my newspaper yesterday afternoon that Luxon had had a rather … odd comment in reply to ANZ’s CEO saying that a capital gains tax on investment properties was, in principle, fair. What did he say?
On NZ First’s Impending Return To Parliament - Both In The Mirror & Through The Looking-Glass

Oct 12, 2023 | thedailyblog.co.nz | Curwen Ares Rolinson

There’s a quip often (and probably erroneously) attributed to Mark Twain which goes something like “History doesn’t repeat itself – but it often rhymes.”It’s something I’ve occasionally had in my head as concerns NZ political history and various then-current events … but rarely so pointedly than the present situation concerning my old party, New Zealand First.
On Ritual Substitution And Traditional Offerings [Part Two: When In Rome…]

Oct 9, 2023 | aryaakasha.com | Curwen Ares Rolinson

Practicing an Indo-European religion amidst the Modern Age is no easy thing. One seems endlessly caught between the twin considerations of ‘Authenticity’ contrasted with ‘Accessibility’. The former correlates to the quite righteous desire to ‘do things properly’ (and so they actually work) – customarily by seeking to follow reasonably closely within the foot-tracks of one’s oft-archaically distant religious forebears.
Combat Operations : MahaRudra Ascending ᛗᚱᚨ (Mannaz-Raidho-Ansuz)

Aug 25, 2023 | aryaakasha.com | Curwen Ares Rolinson

On Monday – Shiva’s Day – at the height of Shravan Maas (Shiva’s Month), two weeks previous, we carried out something simultaneously both ‘traditional’ and ‘ground-breaking’. An ancient Vedic rite – which, via the availment of both modern technology and innovative application of archaic theology & metaphysics – we were able to conduct on two points, some ten thousand kilometers plus distant across the globe, simultaneously entwined.
On The Sky Father As Dragon Destroyer

Jul 8, 2023 | aryaakasha.com | Curwen Ares Rolinson

Something we have often had cause to make reference to is the fact that this most prominent of Indo-European mythemes, the Smiting of the Demon-Dragon, is NOT exclusive in commissioning to the Striker/Thunderer deific. But is, rather, a case of ‘Like Father – Like Son’. As with, perhaps uncoincidentally, the wielding of Thunder in various senses as the major weapon thereof. We do not intend to delve in depth into each and every of the major expressions of this (parallel) typology herein.