°˖➴ hey, welcome to my blog! this post is a quick "about me" so you know whos the psycho behind this blog :)
°˖➴ I go by the name Matilda, english is my second language so dont mind any spelling or grammar errors while reading any of my posts! sorry in advance.
°˖➴ i am a Hellenic Polytheist, that means i worship and believe in the greek gods, i am an worshipper of Aphrodite (my "main" deity or the one im worshipping more at the moment), Apollo and Hermes:
i plan on expanding this list anytime soon.
°˖➴ This blog wont have any explicit content unless we´re talking about nudity in paintings and other artistic ways like sculptures representing the gods.
°˖➴ my old account was @soursweetcoffee, i deleted it because of side blog/main blog problems so if you know me or used to follow me, hi !!
°˖➴ DNI: homophobes, transphobes, TERFS, basic dni list + people who are just here to spread hate about my religion.
this is everything you guys need to know.. till now.
Super easy and cheap devotional acts for beginners.
A nice cup and some clean, fresh, water on the altar can often be all you need for daily offerings
Grow a plant on your altar, use your weekly watering as a devotional act. Hermes is currently helping my peace lily grow :)
Draw their sigil on your nails and then paint over them with nail polish that matches their color correspondences.
If you can’t acquire alcohol for your deities (wine, vodka etc) because you’re too young, white vinegar also works. The quality we’re looking for is the purification aspect. White vinegar is natural, antibacterial and never goes bad. You can leave it on your altar until it evaporates if you want.
If you work with a deity involved with self love like Aphrodite, investing a little more time into your skin care and scent can be very rewarding. Nothing super boujie, it can be as simple as getting some nice smelling lotion at the dollar store.
Food and water offerings don’t have to be external, especially if you’re in the broom closet and don’t have an altar. Reserve the first bite of your meal for your deity. Savour its taste while you think about them. Pour yourself a crisp glass of cold water and guzzle it as a devotional act.
Use a washable or dry erase marker to draw sigils on your shower wall for bath rituals. It’ll come right off when you’re done.
Tea bags are just bags of dried herbs. You can use these as offerings or draw sigils on them and burn them for witchcraft. No one is ever suspicious about a little tea. Adding a tea bag to your water offerings also gives them an extra kick.
A couple dollars at the thrift store will take you a long way. I love thrifting items because they’re usually well loved. I especially like thrifting spirituality books that past practitioners have written in. Sometimes my deities communicate with me through the books that are available on any given day. If I was just talking to Leviathan about the power of water and I see a book about Hydromancy, I know that he’s sending me a sign. Like, 90% of the books Lucifer has sent me popped up at the thrift store. Most expensive one was $7.99. (and I tag swapped it for 2.99 😊 thanks, Hermes-
and on this note, literally steal. Not from small local thrift stores, but I mean this with my whole chest, steal from Value Village. If you can sneakily swap a tag and get something for cheaper literally do it. Value Village gets all their inventory for free I literally do not care. Corporate thrift stores don’t deserve rights. I steal from Value Village as a devotional act to Hermes 😊 lmao )
If you don’t have money to spend on really nice paintings and posters of your deities for your altar, start buying books about them. It’s a double win. A book about Greek religion will certainly have multiple beautiful sculptures and paintings of Aphrodite that I can cut out and put on my wall. A book about angels might have a cool painting of Lucifer. Books about Goddesses, ancient religions, anthropology, astrology etc. You get the opportunity to learn, and if it’s a book you don’t particularly care too much for, you can take it apart for imagery. People ask me all the time where I got all of my paintings and pictures from. BOOKS.
Does your deity have a kind of complicated sigil that you love but you also kinda hate redrawing every other day? Sorry Cerberus (Naberius) I love you but that sigil is so complicated babe.
Learn how to block print! It’s very simple. You get a block of linoleum (usually pretty cheap, I think mine were like $5) , some ink (~$10), and a carving tool (varies depending), and make a sigil stamp! All you gotta do is draw your sigil and carve it out nicely one time. You can still bless it and imbue it with your energy, and you can easily put it on prayers, talismans etc.
Chalk is your best friend. Use it to draw sigils on the floor or wall that can easily be wiped away. You can imbue special chalk and use it for casting circles if you don’t like the mess of salt.
quit brainrot. unfollow trolls. read essays. go down rabbit holes. have a calendar. maintain a todo list. read old books. watch old movies. turn on dnd. walk with intent. eat without youtube. chew more. train without music. plan for 15 mins. execute. organize your desk. take something seriously. read ancient scripts. act fast. find bread. eat clean. journal. save a life. learn to code. read poetry. create art. stay composed. refine your speech. optimize for efficiency. act sincere. help people. be kind. stop doing things that waste your time. follow God. craft reputation. learn persuasion. systemize your day (or don’t). write. write. write. write more. iterate violently. leave your phone at home. walk to the grocery store. talk to strangers. feed the dogs. visit bookstores. look for 1800s novels. experience art. then love. sit with a homeless man and offer them lunch. don't gossip. embody virtue. sit alone. do something with your life. what do you want to create? turn off your mind. play. play a sport. combat sports. notice fonts in trees. fall in love. notice patterns on a table. visualize it. talk to people with respect. don't hate. be loving. be real. become yourself. cherrypick your qualities. discard the useless. rejections aren't permanent. invite what aligns. accept what does not. read great people. be different. choose different. do great work. let it consume you. lose your mind. value your time. experience life.
Psykhodaiktes (Ψυχοδαϊκτής), “render of the soul.”
Soter (Σωτηρ), “savior.”
Staphylites (Σταφυλίτης), “of the grape.”
Tauropos (Ταυρωπός), “bull-faced.”
Teletarkhes (Τελετάρχής), "Lord of Mystery Rites"
Thelymorphos (Θηλύμορφος), “womanish/effeminate.”
Theoineos (Θεοινος), “god of wine.”
Thyonidas (Θυωνίδας), "son of Thyone/raving."
Thyrsaphoros (Θυρσοφόρος), “thyrsus-bearing”
Trigonos (Τρίγονος), “thrice-born.”
Trieterikos (Τριετηρικός), “of the three-year period.”
Zakholos (Ζάχολος), “very angry”
This is maybe the longest list I've compiled so far! (And it's not even all of them!) Sources include the Theoi page, Otto, The Bacchae, Orphic Hymn 30, and the alphabetical hymn from the Anthologia Palatina.
Roman-Christian vandalism of Greek & Roman statues
in early 4th century AD, with emperor constantine's conversion to christianity, and the edict of milan (which gave freedom of religion to roman citizens, and legalised christianity) christianity had begun to overtake rome. under Constantine’s reign the suppression of paganism began, pagan places of worship lost funding, some were repurposed for christian use and some were destroyed. Constantine and his successors authorised and encouraged the burning of pagan books and the destruction and defacement of pagan temples, statues, sacred sites, art works, and anything else they believed was ‘challenging christianity’. By the late 4th century christianity had overtaken Rome, and polytheistic religion was a thing of the past.
1. defaced statue of unknown goddess, 2nd - 1st century BC, Archaeological Museum of Samos 2. bust of roman general, Germanicus, 14-20 CE, the British Museum 3. head of Aphrodite, 1st century AD, National Archaeological Museum of Athens 4. bust of Emperor Augustus, n.d, the Ephesus Museum
Quick reminder that Zeus is literally the god of all, you don't have to be experienced to worship him: he is a refuge, he's a father, he's literally everything to me.
