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just find it fascinating that aphrodite seems to be the most popular Goddess in the hellenic community but everyone seems to worship a version of Her that is blonde, white, and conventionally attractive. could it be…perhaps…that you are not worshipping Her but are worshipping the white supremacist ideals of beauty that you’ve been brought up to believe in? the club that a tiny part of you still wants to be a part of? are you worshipping Her, or are you worshipping a glittery “self love” that tells you to spend your extra cash on makeup to slather yourself with instead of putting it into savings for something which will make you or another near you truly happy? are you worshipping Her, or are you worshipping yourself, when you use her name to glamour yourself so that others might find you sexually attractive. so that you might find yourself worthy of existing in the eyes of others.
is this where you see your worth, Aphrodite asks? is this where you see Mine? am I nothing more than seashells and Chanel to you? will My temple be sanctified with the blood of teenage girls crying over their hairy legs, their unibrows? is My form only in the dust at the bottom of your makeup bag, the hum of a vibrator while you watch a woman being brutalized, just for a few moments, so you can get off in the name of ‘self care’? these are the questions She haunts me with.
US things that I only know from the internet/tv and that i won’t believe until i’ve seen them with my own two eyes:
girl scouts selling cookies
garbage disposals
regular school assemblies
PSAs
coupons
can’t believe i forgot
cheerleaders
serious school sports teams
spirit week (still not convinced this isn’t a myth)
I can’t believe, in an industry ripe with falsehoods, you managed to list everything that actually exists
Some o yall are really like
“It’s pure coincidence that nearly all artistic depictions of Aphrodote since She was worshipped thousands of years ago in ancient Greece show her as the ideal sex object for the white, male gaze! People must just all objectively agree that whiteness is that great :^) I do not personally wear a Ku Klux Klan hood, therefore I cannot be racist, and my unracist (white) opinion says there’s no reason at all that neopagan communities are typically 90-100% white! No I will not explain why I get so angry when you ask me to question why my image of a divine form that can literally look like anything She wants is white! What do you mean faith sometimes takes introspection and work??”
Say it with me
Just because marble was used in her statues does not mean she was white. Could she have been? Yeah. But we do not know the race of our gods beyond upg
oh I read a really good article about the whitewashing of ancient statues a while back and the insidiousness of it - how all those statues were painted vibrant colours but white supremacists try and bullshit that fact. there’s more to it and I’m going to link the article anyway but here’s some good quotes from it
Some may have even had their colors purposely erased, such as a 2nd-century Roman copy of a statue by Polykleitos. This marble rendering of the Greek god Hermes—which is currently part of the Met Breuer exhibition “Like Life: Sculpture, Color, and the Body,” on view through July 22nd—had “traces of original paint [that] were likely cleaned off to give the piece the aesthetic purity…demanded by [its] audience,” as stated by its wall text.
[Historian Johann] Winckelmann based his theories of unpainted marble’s aesthetic superiority on what he considered physical proof. As he wrote in 1764, “White is the color that reflects the most rays of light, and thus is most easily perceived.” Because of this, he believed, “a beautiful body will be all the more beautiful the whiter it is.” Though seemingly based in science, this problematic statement is mostly a reflection of how white Europeans generally viewed themselves versus people of color—and an early indication of the ancient white ideal’s inherent racism.
Though Winckelmann and other advocates of unpainted sculpture were generally ignorant of these connotations, they were impossible to ignore after the white marble ideal was embraced by Adolf Hitler, who only allowed Classical-inspired art into Nazi Germany. Contemporary white supremacist groups like Identity Evropa—which uses images of ancient Greek and Roman sculptures in its propaganda—have since taken a nod from Hitler. (The racist resonances that the ancient white marble carries for conservatives were made especially clear last June, when several members of the alt-right viciously harassed a classical history professor after she published an essay on the ancient world’s actual preference for colored sculpture.)
Here’s the article:
Why Do People Still Think That Classical Sculptures Were Meant to Be White?
There’s also this article from The New Yorker which I also recommend:
The Myth of Whiteness in Classical Sculpture
Thank you so much for this addition. I would like to confirm that this isn’t just online SJW bullshit: multiple professors, both of classics and art history, have taught me this. We have literal proof via remnants of paint chips on many of these statues that their skin would have been far darker than pure white.
Plus, the Greeks had a lot of statues made of bronze, not marble, too, which would also have been darker in color. They just didn’t value art that much and were always getting into wars, so they were mostly melted into weapons lol.
Plus, even though it’s likely the Greeks saw their Gods as also Greek (especially given their penchant for using faith for nationalist propaganda, like Athena in Athens, lol)…the nature of any ancient faith is that its deities were probably worshipped FAR before our records indicate they were worshipped. In fact, a lot of theories say the Greeks moved in on an older faith and adopted that for their use…tldr even if the ancient Greeks provide most records of the Theoi, including records of the Theoi as white…these shouldn’t be viewed as like. Unquestionable truth.
Long tangent but yes thank you for the addition.
☇Magical Selenite Powder☇
☆ Mix with paint, water, and oils to magically charge sigils, petitions, ect. (Even the paint on your walls, or your finger nails!)
☆ Add some powder to your bath water for a cleansing bath!
☆ Mix with your mop water to easily cleanse your house!
☆ After anointing your candles with oil, roll them in selenite powder!
☆ Mix with sand for a protection border around your home!
☆ Mix selenite powder with water to cleanse your crystals!
☆ Add the powder to your moon water!
☆ Once fully dissolved, anoint yourself and objects with selenite waters and oils for a quick cleanse!
☆ Add some powder to your cleansing incenses!
As pretty and innovative as this is, I would strongly advise against doing it.
Selenite is the crystalline form of the mineral gypsum (calcium sulfate dihydrate, or CaSO4·2H2O). Gypsum itself is not toxic, but when reduced to a powdered form like this, it is a mucous membrane irritant and can be dangerous if ingested.
If you do want to powder your gypsum/selenite, I urge you to wear a respirator and snug-fitting goggles (not glasses, goggles!) to minimize contact with mucous membranes. Wear disposable gloves so that you don’t have to worry about contact with the dust afterwards. Work outdoors on a day without wind.
Because of gypsum’s crystalline structure, any powder you make from it is actually going to be lots and lots of tiny needles, which you definitely don’t want going in your eyes, nose, or lungs.
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Any other Apollon worshipper suddenly get that urge to learn how to play 1836372882 music instruments at once. I just sat here wanting to learn how to play the flute, harp, lyre, hammered dulcimer, kalimba, & violin. 🗿
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Eros and Apollo
Artist: whipswill.deviantart.com
May Hermes be gentle as he takes their hands and leads them from the living
May Charon guide them swiftly across the river to land safely on the shore
May Minos, Rhadamanthys, and Aeacus’s judgement be wise and true
May Hades watch over them with fairness and may Persephone watch over them with compassion
May they be honored by the living and may they find peace among the dead
A simple prayer and reminder to those we’ve lost
Oh Dionysus, divine incarnation from Olympus on high,
Wine and ivy tendrils surround Thee, blessings pour forth from your bountiful ardor as creation sings the praise of jubilant Bacchus
Everlasting joy and rebirth are yours, to the One who inspires devotion akin to blood-tinged madness, as beauty and passion mingle to evoke the recollection of Your love
Delphic Maxims 1/147: Follow God
Follow their teachings, follow their philosophy, follow in their footsteps
Delphic Maxims 1/147: Follow God
Follow their teachings, follow their philosophy, follow in their footsteps
any kind soul could maybe tell me a bit about greek gods and how people thank/worship them these days?
heyoo, Greek boy and Hellenic polytheist here! The Greek gods are very much still alive to many people, and all over the world there’s tons of people worshiping them, either on their own or within religious groups! Greece specifically has lots of religious groups, YSEE being the biggest one. Worship actually varies upon how much one personally wants to worship, but what me and my Hellenic polytheism family does is we usually pray at our shrines/altars to the gods, and thank them for things within our life, or ask them to provide us with blessings (ie- Asking Hermes for a blessing of safe travel as I drive to university!) Usually there’s quite a few festivals that happen throughout the year, which involve people dressing up in ancient Greek clothing and honouring them upon altars and whatnot!
For those not in religious Greek groups, worship can happen at home, at your own pace, whatever one feels like doing! Thanking them can be as easy as looking up to the sky and speaking your thoughts, or you can go so far as to write little prayers and stuff. There is honestly no totally right/wrong way to go about worship!
Also, if you want to learn about the gods, I recommend Theoi.com! It’s a wonderful website and it’s also historically accurate - and sourced.
Hopefully I helped a bit, and if you have any more questions, feel free to ask! Khaire!
Hermes is golden. He is glory, He is safety. He is the assurance we do not become our parents, the assurance that recovery is working. Pray He helps all of us to journey down our paths as if on winged sandals.
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