Witch Shit

30s she/any. Follower of Dionysos & Hera. Main @dooperoonie. This maenad dismembers fascists.

[apollophanes]

[Zeus] has provided each of us with an individual guardian deity, which stays by our side and is in charge of looking after us - a guardian who never sleeps and is impossible to distract. Is there any guardian to whose care he could have committed us that is better or more vigilant? Whenever you close your doors and turn out your lights, remember, never say to yourself that you are alone; you're not. God is inside, and so is your private deity, and neither of them requires a light to watch you by.

Epictetus — Discourses 1.14

[apoemaday]

Odysseus’ Decision

by Louise Glück

The great man turns his back on the island. Now he will not die in paradise nor hear again the lutes of paradise among the olive trees, by the clear pools under the cypresses. Time begins now, in which he hears again that pulse which is the narrative sea, at dawn when its pull is strongest. What has brought us here will lead us away; our ship sways in the tinted harbor water. Now the spell is ended. Give him back his life, sea that can only move forward.

[dozydawn]

olympian silverware patterns by tiffany

[echo-loves-flowerboy]

[h-y-m-n-o-i]

Radio

How delighted you must have been, radiant Apollo, when we learned to transmute song into light and back again.

[child-of-earth-and-starry-heaven]

Dionysus of Psychedelics, by @diactoros

[lamignonette]

[khaire-traveler]

Hellenic Polytheist version of Christmas where Dionysus' birth is celebrated through singing and dancing by firelight. People drink wine, dance in various animal masks crowned with ivy, and shake their thyrsos to the god. To keep warm, they light a bonfire and throw in symbolic items representing their worries/problems, showing them letting the problems go. After three days (representing the three times Dionysus lives) of different forms of celebration pass, everybody spends an evening resting and telling stories about the year - good and bad.

Dionysus rides in a flying chariot with eight leopards, all crowned with ivy (and sometimes a ninth leopard with glowing eyes at the front, depending on what you believe). He gives wine and delicious food to those who were good throughout the year but leaves strangely ominous objects to those who were bad (one half of a pair of scissors, rotten grapes, a disembodied lion head, etc.).

If only my ideas could be brought into reality; it would be so fun. 😮‍💨😔

[bodhi-devotee]

omg so creative. i love it

[kebriones]

Thyone, the ressurected, goddess of frenzy form of Semele. Design notes: -I am not 100% satisfied with this but I had to get the general idea out of my head. I'll rework her eventually I think. -Her hands have golden scarring from where dionysus grabbed her to pull her out of the underworld. -She has a drum that plays itself just by moving it around, and a thyrsus that alternates from just a stick to having way more foliage than this, depending on her mental state. -She shifts erratically between her original personality and something very agressive and wild. -She spends most of her time with maenad groups, looking after them when her son isn't around. She doesn't try to socialise with other gods, and specifically avoids both Zeus and Hera whenever possible. -Her hair floats in the air in various shapes. - She retained her human height (she was never very tall)

[sartorialadventure]

Costume for Michelle Pfeiffer’s Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1999)

[thejewitches]

They told you that Lilith was banished from the Garden of Eden. But they lied.

Lilith is the most controversial of all Jewish figures — and for good reason.

For six years, Jewitches has held her as a no-go topic due to the death threats and bigotry that resulted upon speaking up…but no longer.

Read the full article here.

[thewindowofthesummerhouse]

Caroline Harrison

[child-of-earth-and-starry-heaven]

This piece is called “Green and Holy Violence,” which is the best possible title.

[wayfind-er]

This idea that you should never do anything that will incur miasma is so odd when you remember that miasma isn't like Christian sin and can literally be washed away.

[wayfind-er]

Specifically referring to the ancient Greek's relationship with death and war, especially in early antiquity.

In pre-Solon Athens, families could literally bury their dead on their property, while in Sparta, the dead were sometimes laid to rest by temples¹. Chthonic Gods, of the dirt and underworld, like Hekate and Zeus Ktesios were worshipped inside the home, or at the threshold. By the 2nd Century, it was not unheard of for ancient Greeks to visit Oracles of the Dead to get guidance from heroes or their ancestors.

Yes, the ancients did believe that calling Hades' name would invite him into their homes so they called him Pluton or Zeus-Chthonios.

To say that one should never worship a god, namely Hades and Ares, because of their "miasmic" properties is confusing when you remember that Athena and Zeus are both war gods too, blood and the killing of animals were involved in most ancient offerings, and there are like a hundred and one different ways to cleanse miasma.

[1] Frank Graves, "The Burial Customs of Ancient Greece,"

[wayfind-er]

Miasma: Pollution and Purification in Ancient Greek Religion

[bodhi-devotee]

taking a moment to stand outside and bask in the Moon. She has seen the rise and fall of hundreds of civilizations. She was there when i was born and will continue to shine long after i’m gone. mother Selene grounds and comforts in this way, soothes with her eldritch nature. the night is warm, the grass is aromatic, the stone is cool against my feet. i am safe. the Moon tends to the nighttime’s nature.

[eyebrowgod-deactivated20181204]

I found a pin of a lady getting ate out by the moon on my moms dresser

[danskjavlarna]

Source details and larger version.

Speaking of double vision, here’s my collection of vintage “seeing double” imagery.

[magnetictapedatastorage]

a lot of women think they’re crazy but really they just forgot the word for anger