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Melanthe. 28 GQ, pansexual Hellenist. Sea hag. Drop me a DM.

[khthonyk]

Γεια σου e ciao! I’m Melanthe. I’m a polytheist. I’ve been pagan since about 2017. I’m still learning, (and slowly working to finish my masters in Lit).

💀my patrons are Dionysus and Hades but I work with many gods and goddesses

💀 I’m nonbinary (they/them)

💀 all about that dark pretty boi aesthetic

💀 I’m Greek/Southern Italian (working on my language skills in both, but my Italian is stronger)

💀 this blog is mostly my writing and my journey as a pagan, as well as things I like

💀 I do like some darker things, I’ll do my best to tag everything appropriately but if I miss something please show me grace

💀 I don’t fuck with no bigots

Let’s fuck it up and be friends

[vesse-moricaleo-lusifero]

"Open" culture doesn't mean you are "welcome"

A lot of cultures are "open". A lot of traditions are "open". But that does not mean you are welcome there. Your actions and how you conduct yourself are what make you "welcome" in a tradition. Acting like you can do whatever you want to someone else's home is not what makes you welcome. That makes you an appropriator. A coloniser.

And this is a mistake that many people who are "pagan" make. They just take and they do not ask.

They walk into someone else's open door without asking "What are the rules? Would you like for me to take off my shoes here? What is sacred so I do not disturb it?"

Your mindfulness to learn from an open door is what makes you welcome. Not what you can just take. It's not an invitation for people to be robbed from. Open traditions are doors for you to learn a people and their beliefs. Not to steal to suit your personal agenda.

[kebriones]

Euripides' last play is the bacchae which is peak. he wrote it and then he was like oh I'm never topping this bye.

[sweatermuppet]

this is going to be difficult -> i am capable of doing difficult things -> i have done everything prior to this moment -> this difficulty will soon be proof of capability

[khthonyk]

Asklepios, himself, couldn’t cure my sickness,

it has been with me so long I no longer know

where it ends and I begin,

or even who I am without it.

[khthonyk]

Behind the noise I hear it,

that deafening roar

Hungry, it gnaws on my ribs,

splintering the bone until it stabs into my flesh

Wounds of gore and adder spit

Chewing

And chewing

And chewing

[cock-holliday]

People love to say things like “Hiding Anne Frank was illegal, turning her in would have been legal” without like fully grasping the modern implications properly. You have tons of folks like “if WW2 happened today id have __” that do not realize what is happening around them.

We have this idolized AND sanitized version of what happened then, and so we do not recognize it when it happens now.

Resistance fighters assassinated nazis and blew up weapons and infrastructure and destroyed records and forged paperwork and raised secret funds and smuggled people in vehicles and yes, hid them in their homes.

“Well it’s sad he got sent to an ICE camp but he faked his permit :/“

Whoever helped him fake his paperwork did what fighters in ww2 did. People who cut through chain link fences do what fighters in ww2 did, people who blow whistles chasing after ice cars do what fighters in ww2 did, people who destroy arms factories and cop city cranes do what fighters in ww2 did, people unmask agents do what fighters in ww2 did.

People are doing it now! They’ve been doing it now! You keep saying “oh if this happened here__” it HAS! It IS!

What are you doing about it?

[wishful-seeker]

I wish it was more normalized to be "ugly". I shaved my head when i was 16 because i was obsessed with my hair looking good and being pretty and i realized i didn't feel comfortable in my own skin unless i was "presentable". So i shaved it all off. I did this to teach myself i don't have to be pretty. I'm allowed to look weird, im allowed to look like a boy, im allowed to not be attractive. Im still just as vaild and should be taken just as seriously whether i look nice or not.

I hate that children go to Sephora now. I hate that every person on the internet is wearing filters or full glam make up or botox or lip filler. I don't hate these things because i think make up or botox is bad, i hate it because it seems like no one feels comfortable in their own skin unless they have all these things. Everyone thinks they need these things to be taken seriously or presentable, because if they don't have these things they WILL be judged. I hate that shit.

Let me be ugly, let me be chopped, let me have acne and scars and cracked lips and eye bags, let me have no hair and a weird shaped head, let me have a lazy eye, let me have my snaggle tooth. let me be a raw uncensored human being with no fucks to give. Let me remain unbothered in my least attractive state. And let us all realize that we don't need to look good 24/7.

[salixsociety]

Reminder that a salmon is just as much a river spirit as a Naiad is. A person is just as much a spirit as a dís is. We are all spirits and everything around us is all spirits, and they should all be treated with the same exact dignity

[khthonyk]

I sometimes feel such longing it tears me apart.

Everything I want to ask so heavy on my tongue, but I cannot speak it for fear I may vomit.

I’ve never been good at curbing the flow; anytime my mouth opens it all pours out.

And I would rather carry the ache in my chest, than let it free and feel the hollow where it sat.

[khthonyk]

I would give you the heart beating in my chest so long as you held me while it was cut out.

[two-dolla-bills]

I watched a shit movie and re-read the Bacchae to cope </3

[knuckleduster]

i love sacrilege and i do enjoy some blasphemy from time to time, it is all very sexy

[dumbusahana]

god i wanna tear them apart with my teeth (pathetically in love)

[mxwillowneptune]

"i can fix him" ok well i can make him scared of me and hard

[khthonyk]

I swear I was born with this salt water in my veins.

The sea might as well be the water of the womb I once inhabited, it feels so much like home.

[khthonyk]

I don’t mean to be annoying or pop up to you suddenly—well I guess I am. But you appeared in a search I did on Dionysus content and you posted about religious fasting. Can you educate me about it in the Hellenic context? I’m interested in it but idk where to start. Thank you!

- @maenad-of-marriage

Hi there! It’s no problem!

In Hellenistic polytheism fasting can be done for many reasons and it can take different forms. Personally, I do it for purification and to help connect myself with the divine. I’ve found I’m more likely to have visions of the divine when fasting. During the time I fast I abstain from all food and any drinks that contain calories (I’ll drink unsweetened coffee or tea, and water).

With fasting for purification, I’ve seen it mostly mentioned as prior to rituals and spell work especially with the rituals in the magical papyri. But much of that fasting is abstaining from certain animal meats.

It can also be used before ceremonies and sacrifices as purification as an act of devotion.

I’ve heard some use it to come to terms negative experiences or as a way to apologize for misdeeds, but I feel that is a slippery slope but that is definitely the #growingupchristian trauma coming out.

As for a place to start, I’d suggest examining your reason for it. What is it you want to accomplish? Why do you want to do so? And then go from there.