41 Facts About Eddie Buczynski

Edmund Buczynski was an American Wiccan and archaeologist who founded two separate traditions of Wicca: Welsh Traditionalist Witchcraft and The Minoan Brotherhood.

Eddie Buczynski was born on January 28,1947, in Brooklyn, New York to working class parents.

Eddie Buczynski began communicating with her future husband in 1944 as pen pals before meeting him when he returned home on leave.

In 1952, Eddie Buczynski started at the Old School Elementary in Queens, where he made good grades and particularly enjoyed music, reading, drawing, and painting.

Eddie Buczynski began devising and performing his own rituals to the deities of those religions, sparking his lifelong interest in contemporary paganism.

Eddie Buczynski eventually decided that he wanted to become a Roman Catholic priest, following in the footsteps of his uncle, Father Michael.

Eddie Buczynski received Catholic confirmation in early 1961, and in September of that year he began his studies at the Monsignor McClancy Memorial High School in East Elmhurst.

Eddie Buczynski became increasingly rebellious, took up smoking cigarettes and marijuana, and made several suicide attempts.

Eddie Buczynski formed that sect out of the structure of Gardnerian Wicca, with the new sect's book of shadows being largely based upon that which he had obtained through his work with Gwen Thompson, accompanied by sections taken from the recently published Lady Sheba's The Book of Shadows.

Onto that, Eddie Buczynski added influences by the Welsh mythology contained in texts like The Mabinogion and the Arthurian legends, which fascinated him, despite his lack of Welsh heritage.

However, Eddie Buczynski had spuriously claimed that his sect actually dated back to the palaeolithic era, and was transmitted to him by a figure whose anonymity he had to protect.

Later in 1972, Eddie Buczynski created an outer court, through which to teach interested persons who were not yet initiated.

Notably, Eddie Buczynski welcomed LGBT people and non-Caucasians into his sect, at a time when they were denied entry into most other Wiccan covens.

Eddie Buczynski initially attended some of the group's meetings, in order to instruct these students in witchcraft, but soon found his time preoccupied with his own primary coven, leaving the coven under the control of high priestess Kay Smith.

In February of 1973, Eddie Buczynski requested initiation into the Gardnerican craft from the Kneitals, but they refused, being cautious of what uses he would put the Gardnerian liturgy to.

Still friends with Martello, Eddie Buczynski initiated him up to the third degree of his Welsh Traditionalist sect, and in return, he received third-degree initiation in Strega.

Eddie Buczynski decided to do so, founding his own Gardnerian coven with an older German woman named Renate Springer as high priestess that operated in the Brooklyn Heights area.

Eddie Buczynski's continuing disagreements with senior members of the CES led him to resign from the priesthood on August 1,1975.

Eddie Buczynski said that her attitude was homophobic, and he subsequently abandoned both her and Gardnerian Wicca.

Eddie Buczynski had become increasingly dissatisfied with Gardnerian Wicca and other forms of contemporary paganism, which he said treated homosexual and bisexual individuals as inferior to their heterosexual counterparts.

Eddie Buczynski was perturbed that while many covens and other groups did allow gay and bi men and women to join, they were required to work in a ritual framework that was explicitly heterosexual.

Eddie Buczynski argued that this was inconsistent with the fact that a number of pre-Christian societies in Europe and the Middle East had cults containing an exclusively homosexual priesthood.

Eddie Buczynski was particularly interested in such cults that were found in the Minoan civilization of bronze-age Crete, and began to voraciously read books on the subject.

Eddie Buczynski adopted the eight annual Gardnerian sabbat festivals, but associated them with ancient mediterranean religious festivals.

Eddie Buczynski insisted that even though his coven would contain only men, it should still embrace gender polarity.

In 1977, Eddie Buczynski began attending the Sheridan Square Gym, and it was here that he met Gene Muto the following year.

However, when Eddie Buczynski announced that he had fallen in love with Muto, it marked the end of his relationship with Geraci, who decided to move back to New Orleans in February 1979.

Muto thought that Eddie Buczynski was wasting his life on witchcraft, and encouraged him to aim for an academic education; Eddie Buczynski therefore proceeded to attain a graduate equivalency diploma.

Eddie Buczynski did however bring in Tony Fiara in late 1979, who would go on to play a significant role in the Minoan sect, which was then being eclipsed in size by the Radical Faerie movement.

That year, Eddie Buczynski decided to stop using his flat as a covenstead, which he moved to the Earth Star Temple, the back room of The Magickal Childe, Herman Slater's new shop.

Eddie Buczynski devoted himself to his studies, which he greatly enjoyed, and was sufficiently successful to be placed on the Thomas Hunter Honors Program.

Eddie Buczynski's increased interest in academic archaeology came at the expense of his involvement in the occult, and in the Spring of 1981 he stepped down from his leadership of the Knossos Grove coven, handing control over to Tony Fiara.

Eddie Buczynski chose Bryn Mawr College in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, a socially liberal, gay-friendly institution founded on Quaker principles.

Eddie Buczynski's dissertation was on the role of marine objects within Minoan culture.

Eddie Buczynski attempted to start a coven of Minoan practitioners at Bryn Mawr, but the only response he received was from a man named Kevin Moscrip, who he initiated in the spring of 1986.

Eddie Buczynski spent Christmas that year on Crete with Muto, before his studies at Bryn Mawr came to an end in 1988.

Eddie Buczynski became ill with the Toxoplasma gondii parasite, which took advantage of his weakened immune system.

Eddie Buczynski suffered partial paralysis on his right side as well as brain lesions, leaving him irritable and withdrawn, and required hospitalization.

Eddie Buczynski could be fiery, and he had a vicious temper when someone angered him, which admittedly was not easy to accomplish.

Eddie Buczynski would come to be declared one of the "saints of Antinous" by a pagan group based in Hollywood, California, known as the Temple of Antinous.

Eddie Buczynski praised Lloyd's research as "thorough and far-reaching", but was critical of the poor quality of the images.