Blessed

Danae - Hellenic Pagan/Polytheist - a collection of thoughts and experiences worshipping Apollo (and others). All posts are my own opinions based on working with Apollo, my experiences and research. Presented as is.

[ether--net]

[misscocainecake]

[korakios]

Reflecting another person in my heart

He calls me from within

"All existence you see before you must be wiped out:

Dream, Reality, Memories

And Yourself"

[s-c-r-ee-ch]

Figurines of mice greet the visitors on the steps of the temple of Apollo in Turkey.

The temple was built during the 2nd century B.C., in the Troas region. It is dedicated to Apollo Smintheus (Lord of mice). The friezes of the temple depicted the war, which Homer recounted in his epic Iliad. In the epic itself, Apollo invoked as Smintheus is a terrific plague bringer.

Miniature statues of mice are now being placed to the stairs of 2,000 years old temple. "They are real-size figurines of mice. We have 73 figurines in the first stage, but 100 more will be made", says Professor Coşkun Özgünel, the head of the excavations in the field. "Visitors of the temple are very surprised by the mice. They show great interest in the figurines. They take photos and share them on social media. This interest made us very pleased.”

[rottweilerr]

[delphic-shadow]

My Apollo altar in all its glory ☀️

Two shelves with all the offerings and gifts and statues, and the concrete bust on its own dedicated mini altar. The bust is extremely heavy and I didn't want to risk it falling, thus the weird placement haha.

Most of the art is by @auroradiation , who does some of my fave contemporary Apollo art ☀️ Crow doll was made by me, and most of the rest is thrifted/discovered/gifted from many places and people. My Dionysus and Hermes altars are mixed in, Hermes is on the other walls edge, Dionysus is in the corner (blended in with Apollo).

Feel free to ask about anything on the altar and my process uwu

[delphic-shadow]

Its so beautiful when you realize that the Gods are always There. Not in some omnipresent way necessarily, but in symbolic language that has survived for thousands of years, in references and visual aesthetics and language and in the repeated need humans feel to tell their stories again, to recreate their images and fold them into their life, even if it's not for a religious reason.

They are always here, especially for this with eyes to see it

[auroradiation]

To the God of Eternal Youth.

"Since the day I first laid a lock of my maiden's hair upon your altar, many decades have passed. Now I am old and withered, but you are still beautiful as ever."

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[temperamentalgreen]

Chryselephantine Statues of Artemis and her mother Leto at Delphi

[altcomics]

David Hockney

[korakios]

🌟corvus🌟

[angelicdewdrop]

[delphic-shadow]

I understand why a lot of people new to hellenic paganism are worried that their Gods are angry at them, and I think it partially has to do with the fact that we often equate silence to anger.

The Gods don't give the silent treatment like a shitty parent or friend might, they don't abandon you without a word as some sort of punishment. They will let it be known if you have disrespected them, trust me. The silence is just a pause, a break for you to grow in their absence or absorb the gifts they gave you. Sometimes its so you can learn and pull yourself out of the situation you are in, practical or spiritual.

I went through a phase where I was deeply convinced that Apollo was disappointed in me, unhappy with me, punishing me. But he wasn't any of those things. When I did get through to him through the silence the message was clear, but just wasn't one I wanted to hear. I balked hard against it, I fought it, I cried and thought I had messed everything up.

The truth was really that I just needed to live through that part of my life, to grow and learn and address what was hampering me and overcome it. It was something I had the strength to do, with or without Apollo, and he was just waiting for me to do it. Like he was watching me struggle to break through an egg shell, or a plant just breaking through the surface. He kept the temperature where it needed to be, made sure the soil was perfectly moist, but he couldn't do the work for me or give me any sort of advice beyond "Push through. You know what you need to do."

And around that was silence. It was waiting. It was Apollo busying himself with the rest of the universe while he waited for me to properly overcome this barrier. Its not constant care we need, or constant oversight, its truth and wisdom and the strength to do things for ourselves.

[korakios]

[wovi]

[krispycl0uds]

This one resonated with me

[infectiouspiss]

when god closes a door you reach your little paws under it and go mrrwwaaaooow mmreeaaow

[delphic-shadow]

It's always interesting how I get my biggest and loudest signs from Apollo right before I face my biggest challenges. He always arrives to hold my hand tight and remind me he is there, right before I need to have a terrible day. Even just to show me that I'm not alone in this.