hellenic polytheism

Victor - read my pinned post pls!

[breadshrine]

Welcome to my little helpol & witchcraft tumblr! Hestia says I should leave something for y'all here, so have some chill music (youtube link) or a picture of my cat (tumblr link).

My name is Victor, I'm 21, I've been a hellenic polytheist for around 8 years and I'm trying to learn about brujería. I'm always happy to answer questions about my practice or helpol in general!

I have tags for all the deities I regularly worship, and for some I don't. Check the tags of this post for them! I tend to be more revivalist than reconstructionist (but, of course, I still love talking to recons! we all have things to learn from each other!)

Also -

This blog is run by a trans person and I will always respect and support fellow trans folks. I vet every new follower; if you call yourself a terf, tirf, gender-critical, radfem, etc, you can block me right now. Aphrodite is not the cis women's goddess, Aphrodite is not the women's goddess - none of the gods exclude followers of any gender, and if you think or claim that they do, this is not the space for you. Bitter terfs who want to send garbage to my inbox: your angry asks make me stronger. It's like a little mario powerup.

[breadshrine]

I thank the gods for everything they've done for me, directly or indirectly, I praise the gods for everything they've done.

[breadshrine]

devotional poem/prayer/offering to apollon. no i will not explain

[breadshrine]

every time I do a tarot reading for someone else I'm anxious the entire time that I'm getting the situation completely wrong. and then they go "woah that was scary accurate" and im like FOR REAL??

[breadshrine]

I don't know who I need to get it across to that I am ready for love. I've been working on it and now I'm ready! I know where I'm going, I know who I am, and I know how to communicate in a healthy way - so where is the love! I'm ready for it! Give me someone who is ready too!

[breadshrine]

taking a theatre class this semester. for dionysus

[cultdionysus]

i love worshipping dionysus bc being intoxicated and having gay sex are the most religious things you can do

[breadshrine]

"before you do something self-destructive, pray" sounds like such hokey advice but since self harm &c is often a last-ditch effort at having control over one's life & religion is also a method of feeling more in control and/or accepting the lack of control. well.

[lakritzellaz]

December 22

[greekpagan]

To Chione

I call to Chione, bright-shining daughter of Boreas who drives the cold north wind and mountain-roaring Oreithyia, mother of Eumolpos who served great Demeter, who brought to the world her deepest mysteries. Chione, beautiful goddess, fierce-hearted, bold of spirit, child of the frozen earth, yours is the winter, the long, dark nights; yours is the storm and the deep-drifting snow. We know you in the darkening days; we know you in the ice-bound lands. Chione, goddess of the frost and the rime, I honor you.

[dhomochevski]

when albert camus said “the sea; i didnt lose myself in it. i found myself in it” and when sylvia plath said “if i lived by the sea i would never be really sad” and when hozier said “love, when the sea rises to meet us” and when an anonymous writer said “and yet my heart wanders away, my soul roams with the sea” and when homer said “I’d rather die at sea”

[kafk-a]

and when marguerite duras said “there is one thing i am good at, and that’s looking at the sea” and when agnès varda said “it’s important to always be by the sea. the sea is the element of love”

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and when hermann broch said “those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part,” and when keri hulme said “I know about me. I am the moons sister, a tidal child stranded on land. the sea always in my ear, a surf of eternal discontent in my blood,” and iain pears said “being by the sea is like a permanent baptism; the light and air hypnotizes, and your soul is washed by vastness.”

[soracities]

and when julia de burgos said “the sea, the true sea, almost mine now” and when saadi youssef said “but to the sea, to this sea, i return” and derek walcott said “you want to know my history? ask the sea.”

[adazzledim]

and when e e cummings said “for whatever we lose(like a you or a me) it’s always ourselves we find in the sea” and when john masefield said “i must go down to the seas again for the call of the running tide is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied”

[firstfullmoon]

and when albert camus said “I will have always loved the sea. it will have always made everything peaceful inside me” and when chelsea wolfe said “I never was a child I was pulled right out of the sea and the salt, it never left my body” and when virginia woolf said “I live; I die; the sea comes over me; the blue that lasts” and when emily dickinson said “say, sea, take me!”

[meganwhalenturner]

and when Isak Dinesen said “The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears, or the sea.”

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and when shakespeare said “Nothing of him that doth fade but doth suffer a sea change into something rich and strange” and when vija celmins said “the first look at a wave should (maybe) (if only for a moment) be reminiscent of being in love-a feeling of oh-of surprise, of senses waking up”

[guooey]

[winedarkgod]

Διονυσος <3

[swallowtail-ageha]

Bacchae, Euripides

[breadshrine]

my altar is disassembled atm because I'm moving but. I need to thank Apollon and Athena for my college stuff working out :) I got a music scholarship !! and I can't help but think those two had a hand in it

[coloricioso]

Someone left flowers for Apollo at his statue in Municipalidad de Providencia 🌸

[peelingmandarins]

in this house we stan dionysus!

[forgotaboutdrea]

#Hermes: he’s dead Dionysus you don’t actually have to do this #Dionysus [polishing his giant wooden dildo]: I made a PROMISE (x)

[oldsongrenewed]

This is the also the myth of the creation of the dildo. And in some versions of the myth, Prosymnus’ soul was so overjoyed, that he was transferred to Elysium. That’s right, Dionysus rode Prosymnus’ pseudo-dick so good that he was moved to the Blessed AfterlifeTM

[mikkeneko]

dionysus: can’t believe prosymnus died before I could keep my promise to let him bone me the nymphs: you don’t have to, you know dionysus, oiling up the world’s first dildo: no I’m gonna

[ruby-white-rabbit]

Prosymnus’ soul literally ascended

[normal-horoscopes]

Dionysus: What do you desire as payment brave psychopomp? I will give anything in my power as a god. How about a lyre that plays itself? Or a font of endless wine?

Prosymnus, who has been sweating with barely contained horny for the entire boat ride: