There Is No Greater Innocence Than Our Gentle Sin

Ori | They/them | 20 | Hestia devotee | Hearth Witch

[whimsymoonandstars]

[lordofmasks]

Collection | Inspired by Pyrex and vintage dishware

[lordofmasks]

Just made prints of this available! 🥣🖼

[eldritchbauble]

You're just a mammal. Let yourself act like it. Your brain needs enrichment. Your body needs rest. You feel hunger and grow hair. You need to pack bond with other sentient things so you don't become unsocialized and neurotic. You are biologically inclined to seek dopamine and become sick when chronically stressed. "Hedonism" is made up to place moral value on taking pleasure in sensory experiences. I am telling you that if you don't let yourself be a fucking mammal, as you were made, you will suffer and go insane. No grindset no diets no trying to be above your drive for connection. Pursue what makes you feel good and practice radial rejection of the constructs meant to turn you into a machine. You're a mammal.

[eldritchbauble]

I am so serious about the way people are taught to view themselves as separate from and above any other animal being the root cause of a lot of problems. You're not better than a beast.

[pink-lemonade-rose]

[In Kos, Hestia] was known by the epithet Phamia, which strikes us as strange for a goddess who does not have a speaking role in any of the myths told about her, save for the oath she utters in the Homeric Hymn when she takes hold of the head of Zeus and pledges to remain a virgin forever. Yet preserved in Aristotle is the record of a Hestia who spoke in strange and sudden outbursts, with the crackling of the fire, via a process which he explains as being akin to that by which lightning bolts cause thunder. This was the sound of "Hestia laughing," and the inarticulate voice of Hestia at strange and sudden moments around the fire was taken as a warning, as a kledon […].

Craig Dethloff, Corpus of Inscriptions of the Goddess Hestia

[sliversoakley4]

i need to stand ankle deep in a creek about this

[thegrapeandthefig]

Do you know any sources for learning about about worship of Iris and Hestia in Ancient Greece?

Thanks.

For works specialized on Hestia, I'd start with these two works below. One is a master's thesis, the other is an article:

The Study of the Concept of the Sacred Hearth and Greek Goddess of the Hearth and their Association with the Prytaneion, its Origins and its Development by Esra Çayir

Hestia Hearth, Goddess, and Cult by Mika Kajava

You can also take a look at the first section of this other Master's thesis but it is more focused on the comparative analysis of the ancient cult of Hestia and the modern Olympic Flame. And if you haven't already, don't forget to look for smaller sections about her in more general books on ancient cults (eg. Ancient Greek Cults A Guide by Jennifer Larson has a page on Hestia). It might not be very useful if you're looking for specialized studies, but it can help if you've just started researching her.

Iris is a more complex case since, as far as I know, we don't have any actual cultic evidence for her outside of literature and her link to Hera. There is this Master's thesis. However, I can't tell you much about it since I never had access to it in full. The table of content doesn't indicate anything about cult either. I would advise to probably take the angle of researching Hera in the hopes to find mentions of Iris as her messenger and retinue, but I'm also afraid that even then, we'd come back to a lack of material when it comes to actual cult.

[sosuperawesome]

Strawberry Hair Pins // Culdsiaharisquant

[flagellant]

"If you smile too much you'll get laugh lines!!!!!" what a horrible curse, to be afraid of having happiness permanently placed onto your body

[cornbreadlesbian]

Country geese, my beloved 💙

[passionpeachy-deactivated202312]

[passionpeachy-deactivated202312]

forgot to include their friend

[toastbutteregg]

ok why is this so consoling??

[mrslantsov13]

Feels weird to be sharing my own work instead of just reblogging other people but I made these

[lolrel]

I use Instagram lot more now - @laurelpettitt_ but I’ll try and remember to post here more!

[slavicafire]

the sun! oh the sun!

[slavicafire]

the weather is so sweet. there are things to worry about but I'm not worried, the sun is kissing my face and the spring wind plays with my hair, and nothing else matters but the return of warmth and life

[slavicafire]

half past six and there's still some light in the sky, and the slow blue clouds spread across the horizon so very softly. urwis and I sit on the balcony watching sparrows chase each other around on the ground below, and his fur smells like the evening air

[tropics777]

And in these next 50 years you will eat so many delicious meals, laugh so many times with so many people you love, shout and scream and sing and cry and smile so hard your face hurts. And you will see such beautiful sunsets and feel fresh cold air on your face and feel warm and safe wrapped up in your favourite winter coat.

[teaboot]

Oh no.... not my bed and my pillows and my blankies..... sure would suck if I.... got snug as a bug in there.... whatever would I do......

[typhlonectes]

[solarsparks]

What do you mean there are different types