Alkimos Helpol

Lou, he/him, tags: divination, info, hellenic polytheism, kemetism

[alkimoshelpol]

Hymn to Apollon Paean, for mental health.

I sing of you now, you who shoots from afar, who plays his hollow lyre;

Son of queenly Leto, brother to Artemis, she who delights in arrows;

All sing your name, Apollon, the joy of man who bask in your healing touch;

I seek your favor with my song, grant me a healthy and clear mind;

Be kindly in heart and help a wounded heart and broken spirit;

Hail to you, lord of the silver bow, giver of grace and of good things;

And so farewell, son of Leto, I will remember you and another song also.

[alkimoshelpol]

Athena E’rgane

Glorious Goddess,

Golden is your armor,

Gleaming blue eyed maid,

Gracious warrior,

Gentle with curled locks,

Guardian of workers,

Great artisan,

Guide to artists,

Giver of strength,

Grant me skill,

Gift me inspiration,

Glory to you,

Generous goddess.

[to-hypnos-we-dream]

Hypnos Prayer Masterpost

will update over time

Prayer to Hypnos for Good Memory

Sophocles Prayer to Hypnos

Prayer for a Partner to have Good Sleep

Prayer for Good Sleep

Prayer to Hypnos for Headspace Clarity

Sleep Well-prayer to Hypnos

Hypnos Invocation

Prayer to Hypnos for Peaceful Sleep for Palestinians

Prayer for Good Dreams

Ancient Prayers and Hymns to Hypnos

Orphic Hymn to Hypnos

Prayer to Hypnos for Exams

Prayer to Hypnos to Calm Intrusive Thoughts

Prayer to Hypnos for Plural Acceptance

[alkimoshelpol]

Hymn to Hermes for eloquence, good oratory

I sing of Hermes,

Draw near and to my prayer incline,

With heart almighty and a prudent mind,

Silver tongued, patron of oratory,

Bless me with good memory,

Bless me with eloquence,

Bless me with tranquility,

Messager of all the deathless Gods,

O friend of man and prophet of discourse

I ask for your providence, I ask for your mercy.

Inspired by Orphic Hymn 28 to Hermes (trans. Taylor)

[alkimoshelpol]

I sing of Dionysus,

Son of kind Semele and awful Zeus,

Twice born, twice mothered

Countless titles are yours,

Woman-like, fruitful, raging,

Happily married and virginal,

Dual, contrasting god of madness,

Bring blessings upon your supplicant.

[ascendingaeons]

Hymn to Sekhmet

by Joey Rivers (ascendingaeons)

O Sekhmet, Great Eye of Ra, the First and the Last Healer and Destroyer, Mother and Daughter You Who accepted the Command of Ra, Your Father To cleanse the Two Lands of Isfet But Your nature was too mighty, Great of Strength as You Are Wanton and unrestrained, You ravaged Earth as a purifying flame And as Ra looked on and saw His Eye, He was stricken with pause By the Will of the Sun, Your Rage was quieted by a crimson brew And into transformative slumber You fell, Great Goddess And from Your great Rage, Het-Heru rose A new Eye was christened, of eros sublime And you, Great Mother, knew the sadness of regret

You, Great Goddess, know the measure of rage unbound And so You Stand, Great Mother of War, in defense and duty Of the Principles and Consequences of Ma’at Your Children are many, Great Lady of Life Diverse in their multitudes, empowered by their tribulation

Yours is the soldier, Your Mighty Sekhem made flesh and bone Entrenched in a maelstrom of fire and blood Returning home to a nation that does not understand him

Yours is the survivor, a living branch of Your burning Will triumphant Endeavoring to rise above the quagmire of loss and agony Through You their struggle is transmuted into the golden light of ka ascendant

Yours is the mother, she who knows sacrifice and sleepless nights A font unyielding of love and pride, of smiles and laughter perfected They who bear the weight of the world so a child can know childhood

Yours is the healer, an alchemist of the ontological persuasion He who is humbled by the frailty beholden to human experience He who ushers Your Sekhem through the riptide of transformative loss

Yours is the artist, through whose passions course Your Divine Fire Who walks the scales of inspiration and madness, knowing Creation unfiltered An alchemist versed in the milieus of perception

For You, Great Goddess, are the very Force of Change You are that which makes men tremble so Such an unnecessary fear, of wisdom and experience untouched Were I You, I would feel such sadness But how You smile, Great One! How You laugh! How You fight! You are not “she who cowers before Apep!” NO! You are the Great Lioness Who rends Chaos asunder! You fight and rage and bite and tear Passion and emotion alive and unrestrained!

You are Love, Great Goddess You are Fear, Great Goddess You are Devotion, Great Goddess You are Loss, Great Goddess You are Health, Great Goddess You are Sickness, Great Goddess This is why I call You the Mother of Life Your Ka is the very essence of experience! Your Sekhem is the very wind of change!

When I first called upon You, timid and unsure, I beheld Your Gaze, a window of fire open before my face And as quickly as You Saw me, You left And again when I called to You with offering of water and bread Exhausted by grief and devotion, tirelessly sung from a caregiver’s heart You came to me and my eyes were opened to You! As I lay without sleep, You stood at my bedside Stroking my back with strong hands of fire Whispering strength and courage into my ear As a sentinel You walked with me, a Mother Lioness guarding Her cub Such loyalty and tenderness You showed And my eyes were forever opened to Your nature

You are the very Force of Creation, the Monad of Being From which stems those primordial principalities Love and Fear, Physis and Logos, Known and Unknown Order and Disorder, Life and Death, Dynamism and Stasis

I offer henu to You, Great Goddess of Creation The endless potentiality and movement of the living cosmos The Fires Divine that Become living sinews and living earth

I offer henu to Your Husband Ptah, the Cosmic Smith Patron of artisans, of those who tirelessly toil In the pursuit of Bringing Into Being but a shard of the Sacred Unmanifest

I offer henu to Your Son, the Beautiful Nefertem The Ageless Lotus that rose from the Benben Stone The First Splendid Light to Shine in the churning Waters of Nun

It was You Who held my right hand as I accepted the mark of a healer And embraced me as a Mother would Her graduating son I offer You my pain, Great Goddess So that You may transmute it into Strength I offer You my fear, Great Goddess So that You may transmute it into Courage I offer You my uncertainty, Great Goddess So that You may transmute it into Wisdom

Into Your Belly I give of myself to unleash my greatest potential To burst from Your Bosom, shining and emboldened For there is nothing that is beyond Your Reach, Great Mother It is for me, now, to See that nothing is beyond my own

Dua Sekhmet! Dua Sekhmet! Dua Sekhmet!

[piristephes]

The whims of Aphrodite

There is a Goddess Whose name is Aphrodite Full of gold and myrrh Always with a resplendent smile Wise on the ways of love Bringing both ache and mirth

Reclining on the beaches Of Kypros rich in violets The waves trying to reach Her love-filled warm skin With laughter on the lips The Goddess weaves Desire Iridescent God, armed with arrows Following her designs Who help mortals survive Giving both meaning and ruin Nurturing life unending Through her sweet whims

portuguese:

Existe uma Deusa Cujo nome é Afrodite Cheia de ouro e mirra Sempre com um sorriso reluzente Sábia nos caminhos do amor Trazendo tanto alegria como dor

Descansando nas praias De Chipre, rico em violetas As ondas tentando alcançar Sua amorosa pele cálida Com o riso nos lábios A Deusa tece o Desejo

Deus iridescente, armado com flechas Seguindo seus nobres desígnios Que ajudam mortais a sobreviver Dando significado e ruína Alimentando a vida sem fim Através de seus doces caprichos

[ringo-ichigo]

Beautiful One

Stretched out upon the shore, Her locks adrift in white foam, She, the beautiful one, Rose from the ocean. Dripping with water and ichor, The gold and white foam mingled In rivulets upon Her skin. Newly born of spilled blood divine Seeping into salt sea waters, The sea-born beauty Set foot upon the shore of Cyprus. Emerging from the waves, She conquered men and gods alike, Overpowering their hearts With lust and love. Armed in beauty and gold, She brought even Ares, War himself, To His knees before Her. Crowned in roses and myrtle, She left passion in Her wake From the moment She rose. Call Her by Her sea-born name And pray She grants you grace And kindness in all your days. When you do, Plead for mercy and tenderness For me as well From that lovely goddess Aphrodite.

[hesy-bes]

Please could you do a devotional poem for Bast ?

My arms are raised high,

my voice sings it's praise,

Dua Bastet!

O' Lady of the Ointment,

O' Lady of Oracles!

Open my eyes,

so that they might see all,

past and future,

and guide my feet firmly in their steps upon the sand!

Bastet,

in your arms,

I am cradled like a kitten,

embraced in their mother's warm fur.

To you,

Bastet,

I sing aloud,

my praises raising high in the sky,

floating upon good smelling breezes!

Dua Bastet!

[verdant-spirit]

[hesy-bes]

Could you write a poem for Bast if you have some extra time ? ✨️ Dua Bast !

Sistrums rattle,

Hips sway,

A tail curls behind one's form,

O' Bast,

Mistress of Perfumes,

You shake your sistrum,

and the sound of it's beauty

fills my ka with strength.

You uplift my ba,

letting it soar towards the sky,

and flutter over the Two Lands.

[ir-egipto-travel]

HYMN TO THE GODDESS SEKHMET-BASTET

from the Temple of Hathor at Nitentore (cfr. Dendera, XVIII-XXVIII, 123)

"Hail to Thee, Sekhmet-Bastet,

Queen of Heaven,

Queen of the Two Lands,

the Eye of Ra on His head,

the Lady of transformations on the forehead of Him Who begot Her,

the Female and the Lady of Fury,

the Uraeus Who is the Master of Fear,

the Female Falcon Queen of the Horizon,

She Who appears on the head of the Lord of the Horizon in Her manifestation of the Lady of the amulets,

the Beloved Uraues on the head of Him from Whom She came forth in Her form of She of the many faces,

the Guiding Uraeus,

the Daughter of the Great God Ra,

the Brilliant-One,

the Shining-One,

the Powerful-One Who is the Power,

Peace belongs to You, Lady of Life,

She orders the bloodshed, Life and Death are under Her Dominion,

the Lady of Food Who creates nourishment, the human beings live thanks to Thee;

Thou art the stream who opens the Two Caverns,

the North Wind Who opens the Gates of Heaven, the Earth, and the Air, this is Thine own body,

it is Thy sister Who brings about the 'menw'-beverage and the beer,

all the emanations of Thy body come forth to give Life to Gods and mortals.

Thou art Sekhmet Who is at the prow of the Morning Boat of Ra, Outo ('Uadjet') on the head of Him Who begot Her"

[starsandepithets]

Adoration of Bastet

O, Bastet, Mistress of Ointment and Fragrance, 

She who watches over me with eternal patience. 

Praise to you, Clawed Protector, Invisible Paw. 

O, Lady of Truth, who defends Ma'at’s Law.

[03/06/17]

[starsandepithets]

Anyone want a hymn?

Hello lovelies, I’m trying to write a collection of adorations [double rhyming couplets based on epithets] in honour of the gods. Are there any you want to see next? I’ll be favouring Kemetic deities, and will not write any for any deities of closed religions. Syncretisms welcome :)

LIST OF DEITIES

Aker

Akhty

Amun

Amunet

Andjety

Anubis

Anhur

Apedemak

Bastet

Bat

Hathor

Hatmehyt

Heqet

Horus (the elder)

Isis/Aset

Khepri

Khnum

Mut

Mehen

Meretseger

Mafdet

Nut

Nephthys

Osiris/Wesir

Ptah

Ra

Sekhmet

Set

Set-Horus

Shu

Sobek

Thoth/Djehuty

Taweret

Tefnut

Wadjet

Wepwawet

Update 22nd of June 2017 Hi all! I have finished writing all of these on the list and they will be released over the next few days. If anyone wants more hymns feel free to ask! I will allow new deities for the next month. I won’t be taking anymore after the 22nd of July 2017. So get in now!

Already see a hymn to your deity of choice? Don’t like the current adoration? Feel free to drop me a name and chosen epithet for me to base the adoration around. Again closing on the 22nd of July.

☀️☀️☀️ Update! 21 Feb 2018 I finally updated this list to include all the adorations that I’ve done. If any of the links are broken please let me know :) And I’ve decided to leave this Adorations requests semi-open. So if you want a deity that isn’t on the list, let me know. I won’t be doing repeats of any of the deities on the list, and I won’t write Adorations for deities from closed cultures.

[daughterofsekhmet-bast]

Dua Re, lord of creation, father of all,

He who dies and is reborn each day,

The golden sun upon the horizon,

Who’s eye is Sekhmet-Bast;

As winter’s shadows grow longer,

And the shortest day approaches,

The people turn to you, oh Shining One.

Dua Re, be our light in winter’s darkness!

May Sekhmet, your Eye,

Turn her arrows of sickness away from us.

May Bastet, your Eye,

Protect us in the darkness.

May Hut-Hor, your Eye,

Bring us joy and revelry in your absence.

Dua Re! Dua Re! Dua Re!

[thegrapeandthefig]

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About Dionysus

30 day of Dionysus Masterpost

About my oath to Dionysus

About my magpie UPG

About his aspects

About my worship of Dionysus + how it happened

Why pine is sacred to Dionysus

Debunking the 12 days of Dionysus

About the Haloa festival

Tips on how to take your worship to the next level

Tips on researching Dionysus’ chthonic aspects

My understanding of Dionysus-Hades: an orphic perspective

How NOT to act with Dionysus (or any god for the matter)

Dionysus’ less known epithets

Dionysus’ link to swamps

Reading recommendation on Dionysus + tips on further research

The Cult of Dionysus in Roman Britain and Northern Western Europe

Maenadism, Artemis and Dionysus

Gender neutral term for dionysian worshippers

Addressing the Dionysian Phallus

Raw meat meals for Dionysus

On satyrs

Rethinking the Anthesteria

Dionysus, this winter god

Wine posts

Wine basics 1 and 2

Prime wines in Dionysiac worship

About Pan

Cultic information on Pan 1

Cultic information on Pan 2

The Caves of Pan 1

The Caves of Pan 2

About Silenus

He deserves worship and respect: a rant

Worshiping Silenus 1

Worshiping Silenus 2

An updated list of Silenus Epithets

About Priapus

30 days of Priapus Masterpost

Introduction to Priapus

Practical information on the cult of Priapus

More information and historical offering list

I love Priapus (a rambly rant)

Priapus the Sailor + “sacred” birb

An updated list of Priapus Epithets

Hymns for Priapus (which I wrote)

The Covered Priapus

About Aristaeus

About Aristaeus

Offering ideas

Poem request for him written by @winestainedpoetry

Prayer request for him written by @adri-le-chat

About Aphrodite

On Aphrodite Areia (a very rambly post, sorry)

Respect pigeons

Sacred prostitution: an overview on the historical debate

On Aphrodite’s “gravedigger” and “she upon the graves” epithets

Aphrodite of the Sea

About Zeus

Worshipping Zeus 1: Why is he the King of Heavens?

Worshipping Zeus 2: Civic and legal aspects

Worshipping Zeus 3: Zeus as a paternal and domestic god

About Hera

General information on Hera

Why Hera is not “a jealous wife”

Tips on researching her cult

Hera in Samos

Hera and her ship models

Hera Henioche, the charioteer

Hera the Blossoming

About Hephaestus

He deserves respect and worship: a rant

Hephaestus’ return to Olympos and Dionysus

About Athena

Weaving in Ancient Greece

About the owl

About Apollon

Apollo Delphinios in the Ionian city of Miletos

About Asklepios

Introduction to Asklepios

Healing Shrines and Incubation in Asclepian cult

About Prometheus

Prometheus and his cult in Athens

Generalities

Important and useful online resources

Book recommendation for beginners + more books

About the Hellenic Calendar

On the fact that myths are written by mortals

Why divine silence is normal and good

Tips to get over bad representation in myth (example of Poseidon)

Why fearing the gods is counterproductive

Tips for beginners + Can I introduce myself to all the gods at once? + Can I address an offering to multiple gods?

Why consistency in myth is not an issue

About oaths

Delphic maxims and core values of Hellenic Polytheism

About Cerberus

Tree cult and sacred groves in Ancient Greece Part 1

Tree cult and sacred groves in Ancient Greece Part 2

Anacreontic poetry and why it’s underrated

The Auloi

The Mushroom Discourse (a rant)

Werewolves in Greek myth and folklore (Halloween special)

Why Personal Devotion Matters

Spiritual Protection in the Greco-Roman World

The Protective Functions of Ancient Greek Sanctuaries

Children in Ancient (Athenian) Festivals

Actual ancient lapidaries or “the ancient Greeks and Romans probably didn’t use crystals the way you think they did”

“How the Greeks asked for household spiritual protection”

Dissecting ancient Greek wedding customs

Orphism

A few things about Orphism

About the first Orphic Hymn to Hekate

Offerings and devotionals

About food offerings

Examples of daily devotional activities

Another example of devotional activities (more recent)

About private sacrifices

About clay offerings and making your own + additional information about clay offerings

Offering flowers (check notes for additional info)

Some sacred plants

Salt is sacred

Offerings for special events

Why water is not a “lazy” offering

On offerings of fruits and nuts

Offering jewelry

The Golden Phallus I made for Dionysus

Can I offer this drink? A chart

Throwing Barley

Hair offerings: historical context, purpose and uses

Opinions and personal viewpoints

My personal viewpoint on death and the hellenic afterlife

My personal opinion on veiling

Scents I associate to the gods

My personal example of local cultus (can help if you live by the sea, not up to date with my current practice)

Why I don’t worship my “native deities”

Why I don’t trust pagan authors 1

Why I don’t trust pagans authors 2

Why I have trust issues with pagan groups

My opinion on the reconstructibility of Orphism

My opinion on timezones in worship (the case of Pan)

I really like figs

Professional patrons, a fun list

About my views on philosophy and my own

Organizing worship (or “I made a book for myself”)

Why Thasos?

Calendars and local reconstructionism

My method as to how to tackle local reconstruction

Making a festival from scratch (case example: the Priapeia)

Differences between Ancient Greek calendars

The Posideia Festival: a breakdown

Last updated: December 2023 (non exhaustive)

[thegrapeandthefig]

I was rumaging through my old external drive when I came across a note dating back from 2017, titled "city dionysia contest" which contained a poem. 2017 was when the first City Dionysia was organized here on Tumblr, at the time held by pomegranateandivy. The blog on which that poem was initially posted is now long gone, and I do not remember ever sharing it on here, so here it is, for archive's sake.

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Frenzied are they! Those who dare run through the wilderness Those who throw their fears away Those who taste the pleasures of excess

Wild and free from bounds, Untied hair flowing into the wind, Hearts united in a thousand pounds In the chests of the undisciplined

Sirens of the vine, Breaking silence with your cries, Calling out to the divine Under Selene's rise

And so He comes, Forever joining His admirers, In a dance to the mad rhythm of drums Dionysus, eternal keeper of revellers!