Ballad in Goblets

❝A man has a faith. If he says "This is my faith", so far he maintains truth. But by that he cannot proceed to the absolute conclusion: "This alone is Truth, and everything else is false".❞ ~ Majjhima Nikāya 95

[later-heaven]

⁺‧₊˚ ཐི⋆☸⋆ཋྀ ˚₊‧⁺

༺📜༻ Salutations and welcome to mine blog! I promise I shan't bite — by all means, make thyself at home~ :3

There's more information about me below~

༺📜༻ It is very pertinent to put this up front: I am very much left-leaning, and I will not welcome any sort of bigotry or hate speech on my blog. Compassion is a limitless resource which we could shower everybody in. Bigotry of one is often bigotry of all, so none of it is welcome on my blog.

༺📜༻ Names are quite the interesting and fickle thing, wouldn't you say? I certainly would. Originally, this blog started as religious and magickal in nature. Thusly, I used the name Themodoros (Θεμοδοροσ, ❝gift of Themis❞) to identify myself — given my fascination with law and divination, which Lady Themis held dominion over. Much earlier, I used the name Requiem, as veneration for the dead was a much bigger part of my practice. These two names are what most of my followers might know me by.

Secularly, I have many more names. There are far too many for me to list, and my collection only grows as time goes on. I make no demand that someone be familiar with all of my names or keep changing which name they refer to me by as my capricious favour waxes and wanes, however.

| For those curious: I currently go by Verdant Reverie and/or being referred to by Venti's name! ^w^ |

A list of said names, as well as my preferred pronouns and honorifics (if you wish to use one for me) can be found here, on my pronouns.cc page!

༺📜༻ I am also endlessly fascinated by other things unrelated to religion, so I find it wise to list those here for those that would be more interested in the secular side of myself! These interests include:

world-building/conworlds (especially conreligions!)

researching (past religion, my favourite topic is history — anthropology and archeology my beloved — and I'm an occasional inquirer of philosophy and linguistics)

video games (I'm currently focusing on Warhammer 40,000: Darktide the most, though I've been meaning to get back into Minecraft recently!)

music

talking and/or interacting with my friends! DMs, asks, spam-liking, tags and what have you are not only all welcome but actively encouraged! I love ranting to and hearing the rants of friends. :3

༺☸༻ As my magickal name from earlier might imply — I am indeed a worshipper of Lady Themis! She is certainly not the only Theoi which I revere greatly in my life (the ones in my active practice being Lady Hestia, Lady Artemis and Lord Dionysos).

In addition to that, I consider myself a Grecobuddhist and a curious student of Lord Shakyamuni Buddha's Dharma. I've done various practices related to Lady Guanshiyin Pusa (Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva) and Lord Yaoshifo (Medicine Buddha).

My altar also contains images of Lord Vajrasattva and Lady Tara, though they were gifts to me as I am not prepared nor educated enough to include either of Them in my practice (especially Lord Vajrasattva, given how he is almost intrinsically tied to Vajrayana, a specific school of esoteric Buddhism, and I am not at all initiated by a guru).

༺(☦︎)༻ As I have grown up in a Christian environment (Eastern Europe), it has been a large part of my life and it's the lens that I view a lot of things instinctually from. I've originally had great amounts of hatred towards it due to my grievances with the Church, but I am experimenting with Christopaganism as I try to differentiate the beauty of Divinity and the Lord from the failings of His mortal followers. Many labels could be applied to me! Divinity is incomprehensible, so I try to approach it from many angles.

When it comes to my Christian beliefs in more detail: I consider myself [mostly] Eastern Orthodox. I identify as Side A and an universalist, so while I concur that Christians are commanded to not sin, that functions as a ward against the sin itself not as a condemnation of the sinner, for we are all equal under our Heavenly Parent's all-encompassing love and mercy. If Hell exists, it is at most temporal. Consequences are not the same as torture.

What was just previously expressed in five paragraphs can also be put quite simply: I hold no single label for my beliefs. I believe that there can be beauty to be found in every single explanation and interpretation of Divinity, and religious pluralism only helps us better understand such an incomprehensible existence.

༺📜༻ I am a minor (17 years of age, born on 01/12/2008 ~ December 1st, 2008), so I do wish to make it clear for people who do not feel comfortable interacting with me due to that!

༺📜༻ I do not condone the use of generative artificial intelligence; please inform me if I reblog something that is/was made with gen. A.I.!

༺📜༻ Current anonymous persons (in order of appearance):

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༺📜༻ Tags:

A visitor? Come on in! ~ Answering asks!

Interacting with the laity. ~ Non-mutuals!

Interacting with the choir. ~ Mutuals!

Archival entry. ~ (very rudimentary) science communication about anthropology/theology; I may include my own magickal practice here as well!

(☦︎) rejoice; give thanks; and sing! ~ posts related to Christianity.

(☸) Hatred does not cease through hatred. ~ posts related to Buddhism.

(🏛️) First: whenever you come to your house; offer good sacrifices. ~ posts related to Hellenic Polytheism.

⁺‧₊˚ ཐི⋆☦︎⋆ཋྀ ˚₊‧⁺

[physicsgoblin]

to all artists painting the same thing over and over and to all writers writing the same story over and over

[madebymaryssa]

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But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony. It is possible that God says every morning, "Do it again" to the sun.; and every evening, "Do it again" to the moon. It may not be automatic monotony that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never gotten tired of making them. It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we.

G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

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[eternallyseveredties]

I bought dionysus themed incense from an Etsy shop and

Holy hells it smells like how I remember my childhood smelling

I dont know how this makes me feel [positive]

[loveridden1999]

[persianmom-deactivated20260602]

I love having a beautiful interaction with a stranger and being like yeah I may be forever changed bc of this one simple and sweet moment

[nobodysdaydreams]

[sapphicsinthecloset]

i am gay and tired, reblog this if you are also gay and tired

[kissyourcomputertoday]

Am i really a catholic if i dont follow the bible (because it was written by humans) but do follow the principles, teachings, and rituals? And i also am omnitheist who believes in paganism?

[lewis-hem-theficreader]

Artemis looking cool...(I forgot how to caption) I'm so proud of this piece cause I'm an animator not an Illustrator but this looks cool as hell to me (✿◡‿◡)

[bodhi-devotee]

HI SWEETIE HI SHMOOKUMS HI ARTEMIS

[siflshonen]

“I could fix him”; “I could make him worse!” Why??????? Why all this DIY???? I just wanna stand over his shoulder and see what he can possibly fuck up next

[bodhi-devotee]

cackling at this addition! @vesse-moricaleo-lusifero

[waitingforthesunrise]

Just realized that the reason I love making friends on tumblr is because it’s exactly how you make friends on the playground as a six year old. No, I don’t know their name but they love mermaids too and built this awesome sand castle. No, I don’t know their age but their imaginary cheetah is friends with mine. You like this show? You like this character?? You can sing the theme song really loud??? Here is a flower crown. Here is a juice box. You can share my time and I might never see you again but part of you stays in my soul forever. In my mind we’re still on the swing set and the sky is blue and nothing will ever be wrong again.

[ummukasha-deactivated20230515]

[woolandflax]

[wiseoldllamaenby]

[dogpuppy]

[anxietyproblem]

[gentlewordsdaily]

Little signs you are healing (even if it doesn’t feel like it):

You pause before reacting, even if it’s just for a second.

You notice your thoughts instead of immediately believing all of them.

You have moments, small, quiet ones where things feel a little lighter, even if they don’t last long.

You are starting to recognize what hurts you, even if you don’t know how to fix it yet.

You come back to yourself a little faster than you used to.

You let yourself rest sometimes, without as much guilt.

You are more aware of what you need, even if you struggle to give it to yourself.

You are trying. Even on the days where it feels like you are failing, you are still here, still moving through it.

You have days that feel okay, and instead of them feeling impossible, they feel… real, even if unfamiliar.

You are learning that not every thought deserves your attention.

You are still hurting sometimes, but it doesn’t feel exactly the same as before.

Healing doesn’t always look like big changes.

Sometimes it looks like this, small shifts, quiet awareness, softer moments that come and go.

And even if it doesn’t feel like progress, it is.

You are not stuck in the exact same place you were before.

Something in you is changing.

Even if it’s slow. Even if it’s subtle.

It still counts.

[luvlywitch7]

11 year old me read about Lady Athene and that she was associated with owls and dedicated an owl necklace to her ever since. I still have it, and I still think about Her every time I see it :)

(I was a devout Christian at the time, btw. Like the definition of a 'good Christian' kid. But i still gravitated towards Hades and Athena a lot. If you told me then that I would end up worshipping the Gods I loved reading about, i would not believe you. But i love thinking about how they've always been with me, you know?)

[ramblings-of-a-christian-mystic]

BLESSED FEAST DAY OF MARY MAGDALENE!!!!

i'm so lucky to have found a lil community on here and throughout the internet that has taught me about our holy tower and led me to spread her gospel as well. may her memory remind us that none of us are born of sin and free to live as the true humans we are!!