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@morselmint
Welcome!
Hope fate treats you well.
You can call me Mint or Morsel and I use any pronounce.
My main links: Blog (I'm mostly here now), Website, Carrd
Please note that I'm 20+ y.o. There's always a chance of NSFW. Minors, kindly, DNI.
FYI - My own posts are right now exclusively on my Blog, due to me decentralizing my content from social media. Here will be just reposts of cool stuff
This is a religious blog!
Seeing Zeus post-Titanomachy without a beard feels so wrong, especially when the artist clearly doesn’t know how to draw masculine features to make up for the lack of beard so they make Zeus look like a twink.
The patriarch of gods and men shouldn’t look like that.
May Apollo, bearer of the silver bow, strikes all the generative AI data centers with his arrows.
Hermaphroditos~
God of effeminates, intersexuality, and genderfuckery (official term). Depicted as a winged youth with both male and female features, this is my imagining of him! I really loved working on this piece, and may do more in the future, as I really feel he is underappreciated <3
enough depictions of Queen Hera where she's only ever stone-faced and depressed and angry or [insert whatever model of "tragic neglected cheated on wife who hates her husband and her life" appeals most]!!!!!! show her being joyful. show her being cunning. show her being in love. show her being right where she wants to be. she is a powerful and complex goddess in her own right! accept that Zeus is more complicated than "evil cheater" (wicked ahistorical and vastly overplayed anyways) and you can also see how their holy marriage is far more beautiful and interesting when they are depicted as complex divine beings.
100 Year Garlic
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What is this?
Honey fermented garlic, or "100 year garlic", is an incredible addition to your witchy pantry. It's really quite simple - fresh peeled garlic cloves, fermented for two weeks in unpasteurized honey. Once fermented, this mixture lasts indefinitely if stored properly, and becomes an amazing thing to have on hand for cold and flu season - as well as a delicious addition to your cooking.
Don't forget to burp it daily (sometimes twice daily!) for the first two weeks! This is an important step.
How does it help me?
Garlic and honey are both high in antioxidants to begin with. Fermenting them together naturally creates probiotics that aid in digestion and stomach health.
A spoonful of honey (or a whole clove of garlic, if you're brave) helps coat and soothe a sore throat. A tablespoon of the honey added to hot water, lemon, and a pinch of cayenne can be just the thing when you're feeling all stuffed up with that winter cold.
**Remember - food as medicine is used to supplement and support proper medical care, not replace it!
But is it witchy?
Oh, very.
Honey has long been used in a variety of magical practices and rituals, often as a sweetener, to bind a spell, or even anoint candles. If you do deity work, honey can also be used as an offering!
Garlic has a well documented history as a protective vegetable. It can be used as protection, to repel unwanted spirits and visitors, to bless a new home, and even to boost and enhance your spells.
Given all of this, the combination of garlic and honey to create a living organism (via fermentation) has some incredible magical implications! What would you use this potent combination for in your practice?
Daily reminder that the divine masculine and feminine are made up pieces of bioessentialist, misogynistic/misandristic, transphobic, intersexist, and racist rhetoric!
Don't fall for white nationalist new age woo woo bullshit, y'all. You're just deepthroating literal propaganda with a pink bow on it.
Kneeling down to pray is unusual. The gesture of entreaty is outstretched arms. To invoke the heavenly gods, both hands are raised to the sky with upturned palms; to call on the gods of the sea, the arms are extended out to the sea; the hands are also stretched towards the cult image. A cult image or sanctuary must always be given a friendly greeting – a chaire – even if one is simply passing by without any special reason, or else the gesture of a kiss may be made by raising a hand to one’s lips; a short, simply prayer may always be added. Socrates greets the rising sun also in this way. Simple apostrophes invoking the gods punctuate everyday life; in excitement, fear, amazement, or anger, the ‘gods’ or some fitting divine name are invoked. Often names of local gods trip off the tongue, or else Zeus and Apollo and especially Heracles, the averter of all that is evil; Herakleis – mehercule in Latin – is almost as overworn as the exclamation, ‘Jesus!’. Women have their own special goddesses, Artemis, Pandrosos, and so on. Special measures are required, however, if the dead or the gods of the underworld are to be reached. Poets describe how the suppliant hurls himself on the ground and hammers the earth with his fists.
Greek Religion by Walter Burkert
Something that should be emphasized more is that our relationship with the Theoi works like our relationship with anything else. You cannot give 100% all the time. It ebbs and flows, just like anything else. And even though it's painful at times, that's something we have to accept.
I know helpol can kind of dominate this app but I love you christopagans, I love you Celtic pagans, I love you druids, I love you Norse pagans, I love you eclectic/multi theoi pagans
Devotional drawing for Lady Aphrodite
It came out so well I'm obsessed❤️❤️
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.
𖤓•Apollo•𖤓
Hi everyone! I know I don't post often but I did this bust of my Apollo lastly and I really love it very much ✨🫶🏻
The Huntress
I really love the image of Aphrodite working or at least spending time with Hephaistos at his forge that appears in both the Anacreontea (fr. 28) and the Dionysiaca (Book 29).
„Cythere's husband was making the Loves' weapons of iron in the forge of Lemnos; the Cyprian was dipping the points in her sweet honey and Love was adding gall. One day Ares came in from the battlefiend brandishing his strong spear and began to make fun of Love's weapon. …”
„Often, often he [Ares] looked towards Lemnos; most of all he jealously watched the firebreathing forge, tracking Cypris with swift jealous foot, if perchance he could see her standing as long ago beside Hephaistos's furnace, and feared the smoke might hide Aphrodite's face with black.”
It makes me think of how the connection of Aphrodite and Hephaistos might have its roots in the metal industry of Bronze Age Cyprus.
„With the mining of copper and metal production in the Bronze Age, wealth and prosperity came to Cyprus and fell, naturally enough, under the patronage of the gods. In the 14th century an important bronze-working complex was constructed at Athienou. In the next century, twin temples were erected at Kition in close proximity to one another, resembling Near Eastern prototypes that were dedicated to twin deities, male and female. Near the temples were two sources of wealth, a sacred garden and quantities of copper slag, the latter indicating smelting-workshops in the vicinity. … Roughly contemporary with the second temple building at Kition was a sanctuary at Enkomi in which a bronze statue of a smiting god was found. He stands on a base shaped like an ox-hide ingot, as does a companion piece, a bronze statuette of a female deity, acquired recently in Oxford. … The evidence from Kition and Enkomi suggests that the flourishing metal industry on Cyprus in the 13th and 12th centuries BCE was under the patronage of twin male/female divinities. Could this cult have been a precursor to the later worship of a bisexual Aphrodite? The gardens connected with the temples at Kition recall the later association of Aphrodite with gardens: Strabo reports (14.683-684) that in the Classical period Aphrodite was worshipped on Cyprus in a place called Hierokepis or Hierokepia („sacred garden”). In the Greek world, Aphrodite's connection with metalworking was expressed in myth through her marriage to the smithy-god, Hephaistos. In the Athenian agora, the temple of Hephaistos was close to the place where Aegeus built the shrine of Paphian Aphrodite (Pausanias 1.14.7).” - Bonnie Maclachlan, „The Ungendering of Aphrodite”. In Bolger and Serwint (Eds.) Engendering Aphrodite: Women and Society in Ancient Cyprus
