and I sing the Paean

Apollodoro (he/him), 30s Hellenic polytheist, oathbound to Apollon, follower of Eros. Autistic, poet, life enthusiast. 🏳️‍⚧️

[matriarca-inodora]

Matriarca-inodora Masterpost

Delphic recon

Celebrating the 7th of Bysos

The stars at Delphi - Constellations and oracular activity

Apollo

Apollo, patterns and abstractions

Apollo and Music

Ramblings

Art as a devotional activity and why I think everyone should try it

Poetry and Devotional Writing

Poetry Commissions (information about poetry requests! If you can't afford that, do check out @theoiprayers where we offer free requests, and consider supporting my work through KoFi. Any help is much appreciated!)

For Hermes, lord of all paths

A dream (for Apollo Delphinios)

A short poem

Canções de Noumenia

Hymn to Apollo Noumenios

The path

A short lesson on distance

A prayer to Apollon Smintheus for Mental Health

Music and other Devotional Art

Homeric Hymn to Apollo (recording)

Updated: 06/14/2021

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[matriarca-inodora]

one must imagine Gregor Samsa happy

[chthonioi]

Bust of Hypnos by James Pittendrigh Macgillivray, 1900.

[dionysianivy]

D I O N Y S U S

He is sweet upon the mountains. He drops to the earth from the running packs. He wears the holy fawn-skin. He hunts the wild goat and kills it. He delights in the raw flesh. He runs to the mountains of Phrygia, to the mountains of Lydia he runs! He is Bromius who leads us! Evohil

[matriarca-inodora]

Well, I think I had some ancestral inspiration this day of the dead. That I may do as my heart tells me, and follow the line of bravery that has marked the footsteps of my past.

[spitblossoms]

[trylonandperisphere]

Wow. The patience, kindness and calm communication skills. Outstanding.

From raindovemodel

[loveislattes]

This made me cry. I wish all situations could be handled as perfectly as this

[fatsexybitch]

I just want to point out the core of what the diffuser did in this conversation

They recognized that the mother was also expressing a vulnerable truth about herself - that she felt like a bad mother because her child was expressing gender feelings she wasn’t equipped to help with - and met her where she was, a concerned parent with limited information - to point her where she should be heading, research and resources.

Im going to make more of an effort to stop reflexively pushing people away when they express biases and make more of an effort to hear the underlying fears when i can

[redseeker]

“it’s easier to love ourselves when we feel loved as ourselves”

damn that is so  powerful though

[the-haiku-bot]

“it’s easier to

love ourselves when we feel

loved as ourselves”

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[thegrandmarsh]

@radley-writes

Peer review

[randomramblesofaraven]

I passed peer review! Thank you. I think these are important skills for everyone to learn. x

[kafk-a]

[kafk-a]

[matriarca-inodora]

Just came back from my first t shot and all I could think of is Sappho's fragment 38:

New definition of sweet-bitter sting was acquired.

[s-c-r-ee-ch]

APOLLO

Fragment of an Apulian calyx krater from Tarentum (400-390 BCE)

Attributed to Painter of the Birth of Dionysus

Amsterdam, Allard Pierson Museum

This fragment from a red-figure calyx crater shows a statue to the cult of Apollo in a temple. His bow reveals his role in disposing over life and death. To the right outside the temple we can see the god Apollo himself, playing his lyre in another role, as patron of the arts. This is one of the few ancient Greek representations of a building in “perspective” allowing the viewer to look inside.

[matriarca-inodora]

Being a devotee of Eros can be so wild sometimes. My lord be giving me the greatest highs imaginable in a second and just unclogging decades of dysphoria in another.

Though there is bitterness in his bite, the sweetness never ceases to amaze me.

[spirit-signatures-deactivated20]

“I was born of song and story, of spell or speech with power of oracle,”

— Kathleen Raine, from The Collected Poems of K. R.; “The Wilderness,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

[lovelyangryheart]

Maxfield Parrish (American 1870-1966) Ícaro

[apollon-quotes]

O King, Far-shooter, curb the force of thy bow with which thou didst lay low the Giant’s might. Open not thy wolf-slaying quiver, but aim at these young men the arrow of Love, that strong in the friendship of their youthful peers, they may defend their country; for it sets courage afire, and He is ever of all gods the strongest to exalt the hearts of the foremost in the fight. But do thou, whom the Shoenians reverence as their ancestral god, accept the gifts Melistion proffers.

– epigram by Phaedimus, Greek Anthology “Melistion was evidently one of the celebrated "holy regiments” of Thebes. It consisted of lovers and beloved.“

[apollon-quotes]

“Apollo, glorify the cliff of your Parnassos, where the Bacchant woman holding revel has raised her voice in song to you and sleepless Dionysos, and kindled one common Delphian flame for both”

– Nonnus, Dionysiaca

[randomreasonstolive]

Reason to Live #11202

    Those times when the awfulness goes away and everything seems clearer and your creativity comes back. – Guest Submission

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