Parallel Names

• Enderle, Herman Nash, Jr., 1939-2021
• Hermes, 1939-2021

About

Herman Nash Enderle Jr., born November 22, 1939 in Beaumont, Texas, died September 19, 2021. Member of the Rosicrucians and studied Christian magic, Qabala, the Mysteries of ancient Greece as well as southern Vodoun, Wicca, and folk magics. Around 1969, Enderle began working with the Gardnerian Donna Cole. Cole and Enderle joined forces and organized a temple that blended Gardnerian Wicca with Western ceremonial magic, the Golden Dawn, and more. Cole was the High Priestess Morda and Enderle Jr. was the High Priest Hermes. Enderle had a mystical Underworld experience in late 1975 and changed his magical name from Hermes to Arawyn

Cofounded The Chicago Temple of the Pagan Way (ToPW)

Member of the Temple Uranus group around 1975 with like-minded Temple members, with a concentration on Hermetics, the Eleusinian, Orphic, Isian, and Osirian Mysteries, various religions, cults, magicks, and philosophies of the ancient Mediterranean, Celtic, Near Eastern, and Indian worlds. During late 1976 and early 1977, Temple Uranus evolved into the Chicago Earthstar Lodge, affiliated with the Earthstar Temple of NYC. Earthstar Lodge relocated to Uptown in 1979 with Enderle as head of the order. Earthstar Lodge became private in 1985. . Enderle was at the center of the formation of the Midwest Pagan Council (MPC) and Earthstar became one of the original 10 member groups in the MPC.

Biographical Resources

Pagan Community Notes: Week of October 4, 2021. https://wildhunt.org/2021/10/pagan-community-notes-week-of-october-4-2021.html

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