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AI has no place in paganism. I cannot imagine worshipping Demeter and destroying everything that represents her. I cannot imagine worshipping Amphitrite and Poseidon and actively poisoning them. I cannot imagine worshipping Hera, Hestia and Zeus and taking people's houses for AI centres.

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agapidraws

🏛️The Twelve Olympians🏛️

13. Dionysus / Διόνυσος

hesperiaaan

tyche eutykhia, lady of the bountiful cornucopia, giver of plenty; bless me with good fortune and good luck; bring me success and prosperity. shining goddess, may you smile at me.

eutykhia: good fortune, an epithet of tyche.

sag-dab-sar

For Hellenic History & Polytheism, ANE History & Polytheism, Shinto, and Miscellaneous.

Collection of posts that have multiple resources within them. I have this on my pinned post but my pinned post is not rebloggable so I thought I'd make this. I add to it as I find or make posts hence the cut.

fleebites

dionysos

mikeybooch

Artemis and Apollo slaying the Niobids.

In Greek Mythology, Niobe was a queen of Thebes and mother to anywhere between 12-14 children (sources vary). She boasted that she was superior in motherhood to the goddess Leto, who only had two children... The Olympians Artemis and Apollo.

The divine twins could not abide by such insult to their mother and struck down the children of Niobe one by one from on high with their arrows.

Niobe is depicted in the Archaic style in the border of the illustration, across from Leto, mourning the loss of her children as they are felled by the arrows of Artemis and Apollo.

fromhersoul

che-ni

The ruins and frescoes of Pompeii, Italy (pt. 1).

theinternetarchive

reproduction of a terracotta girl on a swing, cast originally minoan, agean islands, greece c. 1600-1450 b.c.

kebriones

trying to save and organise my hundreds of open tabs, here's some images I kept open for emotional support. posting them here for safekeeping because I can't save anything on my computer (i dragged and dropped them from their tabs). please keep them safe.

theoxenia

as much as I do geniunely value academic work on ancient religions & think its very valuable for modern polytheism. my pet peeve is when non-pagan academics (or just history nerds tbh) react to smth like a post by a polytheist, defining their own practice or their own theology, with "well that's not how xyz was done!" "that's not how xyz was originally thought of!" and/or treating modern polytheism like a cool experiment and not actual people's genuinely held religious beliefs.

it all comes down to a lack of understanding of what it means to revive these religions? like they are living faiths. polytheists aren't just cosplay or historical reenactors. and its especially wild when we are talking about faiths that had such diversity over thousands of years, over various different communities, over millions of different individuals.

im not talking about correcting misinformation or providing a new historical perspective. its the attitude of "your faith is illegitimate, or less legitimate, to me because its not just a recreation of what this religion looked like (to me) over 2000 years ago in a completely different time and social context!" that gets to me.

and because of how history works, what ends up happening is whatever wealthy land owning literate men in whatever period of time is most well-known practiced becomes the definition of the entire religion. so queer people and women and people of color get condescended to because their faith is more anti-patriarchal and anti-imperialist. again, in faiths KNOWN to be extremely diverse in thought and practice, with SO MANY practitioners who undoubtedly had much different perspectives than the mainstream one that just didn't get recorded.

polytheists aren't practicing our religions to entertain or impress anybody but ourselves and our ancestors and our gods. you need to engage with modern polytheism as a legitimate and LIVING form of spirituality, not just going through the motions of a dead and static religion from a dusty textbook. & I say that as a lover of dusty textbooks!

coolthingoftheday

Trees, like animals, can also experience albinism, though it is extremely rare.

jumpingjacktrash

the reason it’s rare is because without chlorophyll, the plant can’t get energy, and dies shortly after sprouting unless it has some other source of food. so if you see a plant as big as the one in the picture that doesn’t have any green in its leaves, it’s getting its nutrition from the roots of a neighboring plant of the same species, feeding on the sugars created by the other plant’s photosynthesis.

albino plants are basically vampires.

heywetotheotherworld

For a long time, scientists thought they were parasites, and couldn’t figure out why the bigger plants didn’t release chemicals to kill them.

Turns out, the lil’ ghost redwoods benefit their hosts by filtering toxins and acting as a sort of backup immune system.

They’re vampires, and they’re commensal, symbiotic mutualists!

carnivalseb

this is super cool! I had no idea

monticellomarshmallow

This is among the coolest things I’ve ever seen.

weaselle

we’ve already discovered forests where trees share nutrients with young or disadvantaged trees and forests where trees can ask their neighbors for some extra food (they literally send a signal requesting aid, via the web of fungus that connects their roots) and forests where surrounding tees will keep a tree alive even when it has been reduced to a stump through some tragedy…

so, while i love the playfulness of “vampire” and i commend the specificity of “commensal, symbiotic mutualists” i think it’s worth considering, at this point, if “member of the community” might not be at least as apt