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Storm over Aurora. Arapahoe County, Colorado. Photos by Amber Maitrejean
Moon over the Parthenon temple on the Acropolis of Athens, Greece.
The primordial Night Mother - 2023 Trying to step up my game if ever so slightly lol
I wish more pagans would stop acting like deities are fossils who have remained completely unchanged by time since the day they were first worshiped. If we can acknowledge how much societies and values changed from ancient times up to the present, then we should also acknowledge that the gods can and have changed too. Hell, the gods even changed along with their cultures back in antiquity! Whenever someone talks about an offering, practice or interpretation being "too modern" I just get so annoyed because it's operating on the mindset that the gods can never change, should never change and have never changed, which just isn't true.
Tried to make an actual design for Hera
putting the poly back in polytheism
something that I've noticed in neo-pagan/polytheist spaces is this focus on one or a few deities. while this is a valid approach and seems to be working amazingly for many people, i wanted to write a short defence of a different form of polytheism that, while maybe less visible on social media, is equally viable.
the poly in polytheism necessitates the belief in multiple gods however modern forms of worship take many different forms on top of that. from my years being in pagan spaces on social media I have noticed that to many, being a polytheist means worshipping one or a handful of gods and having very close relationships with them. which deities someone chooses to have this kind of relationship with stems from multiple possible sources, for example, personal interest, the deity's domain being somehow related to a person's life or an inexplicable draw to them.
to me, this seems to be the dominant view on social media of the form that neo-paganism takes, however, after years of exploring my spirituality and practice, I have come to the conclusion that this is not how I want to worship. I am writing this post for more people like me, who are interested in exploring this often less mainstream approach.
I think this describes the approach that I've been generally taking lately, and seeing it laid out like this assuages a lot of guilt I've been feeling about it.
I am a devotee to a particular Goddess, and She gets a lot of my effort and attention. But I still honor many other Gods as I have the opportunity to. I praise Zeus and Hera when I step outside, I praise Helios and Apollo when I feel the Sun, I praise and honor Hestia when I cook, clean, and otherwise tend to my home. I ask for Hermes' protection when I and my loved ones travel. I praise and thank Demeter when I tend to my herbs and use them in any way. I praise Persephone and Demeter for the beauty of the spring. I praise Selene and Artemis when I see the moon.
The Gods are everywhere, and I love that
I don’t know which current pagan needs to hear this but your life doesn’t have to revolve around your religion. Every act of self care doesn’t have to be devotional, every meal you make doesn’t have to lose a portion to sacrifice.
You’re allowed to be casually religious, a “Yule Pagan” if you want to steal “Christmas Christian” from the Jesus club. You’re allowed to dedicate a day or two to worship and just stare at the sky or ground and mutter the rest of the week.
Just because the world sees your religion as invalid doesn’t mean you have to go into overdrive and let it consume every aspect of your life.
Lightning cutting through the clouds l Tim Slane
Statue of Tyche, A.D. 2nd century, Istanbul, Archaeological Museum
In ancient Greek mythology, the deity of the chance, the goddess of good luck and fate. In ancient Roman mythology Fortune.
prometheus: hot take,
the greek gods: no give that back
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Helios is the sun incarnate but Apollo is the rays of light as they peak through clouds and hit the ground, and Selene is the moon itself but it’s Artemis that tells the wilderness its time for bed, you know?
"There is the divine masculine and the divine feminine"
Inanna: No
Nanaya: No
Hermaphroditos: No
Aphroditos: No
Dioynysos: No
nautilus reading lamp by tiffany glass and decorating company, new york city, united states c. 1899-1902.