Lena

🤍She/her🤍 🏛️hellenic polytheist🏛️ Reconstructionist (or trying to be) English and History major 🎓 Lord Apollon ☀️ and queen Hera 🦚 (mostly)

[lenaslittleworld]

Blog introduction 🤍

I think I’ve had this blog long enough, to make an awkward introduction to all of my 2 and a half followers haha.

Χαίρετε, I’m Lena!👋🏻

I’m 22 years old. I’m a uni student (majoring in english and history, although I desperately wanted to go into classics) living somewhere in Europe 😉.

I got into helpol in 2021, but my love for mythology goes waaaay back. My first ever prayer was said to Hera, and to this day, I do consider her my life’s ultimate guide. A few months later, Apollon joined in.

Since I am a history nerd, I like to approach my religion with a little bit of a reconstructionist mindset, although I am open to change and don’t think one or the other is supperior.

I am here to learn and maybe find some pals to share my love for the theoi along the way ❤️.

Praise be to you all, 🙏🏻 and I hope, you enjoy my very amateur posts, that may not always be the best, but are certainly filled with love.

[hermesmoly]

As someone who loves the Artemis was in love with Orion variant I got a little teary eyed with this

[jul-0v0]

Hmmm Wip

Tried to maintain facial structure basic in Apollo sculptures 🤔

[illustratus]

Erechtheion: Portico of the Caryatids by Vasily Polenov

[lenaslittleworld]

Ever-since I’ve seen the Caryatids at the Acropolis Museum in Athens with my own two mortal eyes, I think about them at least once a week.

Their pain is so distinctly female, so raw, and ugly. There is nowhere to hide from it.

Only thing you can do, is helplessly watch.

I imagine my own baby sister, miles away from me, and shiver at that thought.

[lenaslittleworld]

Whenever I take the bus, I give the driver 1€ and he gives me 10 cents back. I have been putting them in a small bowl as an offering for lord Hermes and the rides have been waaay smoother than usual haha. Never been more on time.

The beauty really is in the small things, isn’t it?

[how-to-witchcraft]

It's okay for those who worship Greek deities to want to do it the exactly the same way that it was done back in the day, to want to dedicate their life and their education outside of school to learning about how it was done so they can do it as historically accurately as possible, and to view that as respectful.

It is okay for those who worship or work with Greek deities to want to do it in some reasonable different ways that reflect our modern understandings of things like respect, consent, permission, our understanding of the deities themselves, the sciences, energy, etc., and to acknowledge that even in their own time the deities changed and shifted in their domains with the times and the locations and cultures of their worshippers, so it's reasonable to say that some things could be done differently now, and to view that as respectful.

It is not okay for either side to insist that their way is the only way it should be done, or that the other side is inherently disrespectful for doing things differently.

Religion is not now, nor has it ever been, wholly static and unchanging, especially with syncretization. It's okay to have our differences in practice. It's okay to do things in a way we feel is respectful. It's not okay to demand everything be done our way specifically, outside of our own personal private practice with ourselves.

[owlhuntress-blog]

Me when I see something related to my deities in public

[jul-0v0]

Summer Solstice

(late post :>

[kleioandme]

I’m gonna be honest this whole division between reconstructionism and revivalism never made sense to me since in theory everyone should be to an extent both.

The only reason I feel like we have made such a difference is caused by a lot of neopagans who ripped the gods from their roots and reconstructionism is a reaction to that.

Many people who are proud revivalists and eclectics tend to really just use those labels as excuses to not care about the importance of cultural understanding.

But other than that we as Hellenic Polytheists who genuinely care about the gods’ culture will be both recon and revivalist there is no real difference tbh.

[kleioandme]

On the topic of HelPol (obviously), I think a lot of people especially those with religious tr*uma look for a “pure” religion, one which doesn’t make oneself interrogate morality. But the truth is all religions have this “flaw” since the world itself doesn’t build itself upon human morality. Besides human morality can also drastically change depending on who a story is being told by and when a story is told.

All human societies have nuanced aspects to it. Let’s not pretend like our society is much better than those of the ancient Greeks. This idea will forever distance us from the ancestors.

[antiquatedhag]

I didn’t turn to the gods because life was bad, I turned to religion because life got better. I had a reason to love and look forward to the divine nature of the gods, and of life itself. I turned to religion because I was finally happy.

[muddileaves]

This 💖

I found myself reaching back towards religion when I became stable on medication and had a better life view than I didn't before. Life got brighter, life filled with purpose, a life that I cherish and love.

[pietyandpearls-deactivated20250]

The Gods are my greatest source of inspiration, their influence is my greatest source of comfort.

[confused-theist]

Given how much cats love bathing in sunlight, I'm surprised and disappointed I've never seen art of Apollo with a bunch of very content cats all over him

[mythologer]

Apollo, Pompei, Napoli.

[stratus-and-the-theoi]

You can’t be anti immigrant and worship Zeus

[pagan-prince]

I LOVE HERA