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Ancient Greek Religion & Hellenic Polytheism: A Reading Guide

I’ve been wanting to make something like this for a long while, and talking to my friend @olympianbutch today gave me the push I needed to do so. When I was starting out as a Hellenic Polytheist years ago, this is the kind of resource I needed. So I hope you all enjoy and find this helpful!

Introductory Reading:

Ancient Greek Religion by Jon D. Mikalson

Athenian Popular Religion by Jon D. Mikalson

Greek Religion by Jan N. Bremmer

On Greek Religion by Robert Parker

Hellenic Polytheism: Household Worship by LABRYS

Comprehensive Guides:

Greek Religion by Walter Burkert

Companion to Greek Religion edited by Daniel Ogden

Understanding Greek Religion by Jennifer Larson

Rethinking Greek Religion by Julia Klindt

The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion edited by Esther Eidinow and Julia Klindt

Polytheism and Society by Robert Parker

The Gods and Theology:

Ancient Greek Cults by Jennifer Larson

Theologies of Ancient Greek Religion edited by Esther Eidinow, Julia Klindt, and Robin Osborne

Underworld Gods in Ancient Greek Religion by Ellie Mackin Roberts

Gods and Heroes of the Ancient World (Routledge Series)

Offerings and Sacrifice:

Personal Experience and Materiality in Greek Religion by K.A. Rask

Singing for the Gods by Barbara Kowalzig

Smoke Signals for the Gods by F.S. Maiden

Sharing with the Gods by Theodora Suk Fong Jim

Primary Sources:

Theogony & Works and Days by Hesiod

The Homeric Hymns

The Orphic Hymns

Sources for the Study of Greek Religion by David Rice and John Stambaugh

Greek Religion: A Sourcebook by Valerie M. Warrior

Ancient Greek Religion: A Sourcebook by Emily Kearns

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Virtually all of these books are available through my Google Drive! Some are only available in physical form, like JDM's Athenian Popular Religion (which I verily recommend you read).

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Research Process (for Witches) - A Masterpost

As a beginner witch, I saw so many guides suggesting you conduct research to develop your practice. However, this presented two issues:

What do I research? How do I conduct research?

It's not entirely the same as academic research, but some principles still apply. Here are some resources I used as a baby witch to enhance my craft. Thank you to everyone who is tagged for their posts on here!

What Do I Research as a Witch?

There are people out there who have created more comprehensive guides on this topic compared to what I can create, so here's are the posts I referenced to start finding topics for research!

What Should Beginners Be Researching? - @hagoftheholler Good Things to Research When You Don't Know What to Research - @will-o-the-witch

How Do I Conduct Research?

North Hennepin Community College has a great guide on the basic steps in the research process. This portion of the guide will give more specific tips on each step listed on the guide, as it is catered to the college's available resources that may not be available to you.

Many of the examples will come from my experience in researching deities, mythology, and history.

Step 1: Identify and develop your topic - The previous part should help you find a general topic, but the best research occurs when you have a manageable amount of information. For instance, research on "Aphrodite" yields an excessive amount of information. You are more likely to find success researching historical records of Aphrodite's cults in Cyprus, mentions of Aphrodite in the Iliad or other epics, and more specific subjects related to a large idea.

Step 2: Do a preliminary search for information - You can use Wikipedia, encyclopedias, textbooks and books to get started. Wikipedia is a good place to start a preliminary search, but that should not be where your research ends. When you find a bit of information you find particularly useful or interesting, click on the little reference number, find the original source, and read more about it from there! Textbooks can be incredibly expensive, but there are resources out there for you! First, you can find resources through your local library. @growing-yet-into-magic has a guide on Library Services for Witchcraft Research, which better summarizes library resources compared to what I can say. You can try finding PDFs of textbooks on Anna's Archive, LibGen, Internet Archive, Project Gutenberg, and other sites. When possible, please support authors and libraries! I am only recommending these sites for textbooks, which can cost hundreds of dollars at times. You can purchase books from bookshop.org to support local bookstores.

Step 3: Locate materials - You can use the Wikipedia tip for anything. Find the source to a piece of information you find interesting and work backwards to find more material. If you're searching for academic articles in a database of any kind, you will need to become familiar with search filters and Boolean operators to narrow down your search. MIT Libraries has a guide on the Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT). This guide also has more information on ways to narrow your search. I find quotation marks to be one of the most useful tools because it allows you to search for keywords together in a phrase ("Aphrodite cults") rather than looking for the keywords separately. Also, don't forget about primary sources! You can find information from the time period through JSTOR Primary Sources (requires library or university login), Here's a list from the National Archive on ways to locate primary sources.

Step 4: Evaluate your sources - It's not enough to simply consume information. You have to think critically about what you found. The article this post is formatted after references their CARS Checklist for Information Quality. This is especially important for primary sources. The University of Florida has a guide on how to read primary sources. Additionally, the University of Nevada, Reno has a list of questions to ask yourself before reading, during reading, and after reading a primary source.

Step 5: Take notes - You can do this in any fashion you deem best. Don't forget to write down the title and author of the source. You can also choose to just write down the whole citation so you know where your information came from.

Posts on Being Critical While Researching Witchcraft

I'll leave you with a list of posts on witchcraft-specific research and red flags that I used as a baby witch. Thank you, again, to all of the people tagged in this post!

"How to" Analyze a Witchcraft Book - @growing-yet-into-magic New Age beliefs that derive from racist pseudoscience - @creature-wizard What is the New Age to Alt Right Pipeline, and how do you stay out of it? - @creature-wizard Eugenicist and bioessentialist beliefs about magic - @creature-wizar Signs that witchy/pagan article is actually bullshit - @will-o-the-witch Your book on Witchcraft is bullshit if - @recreationalwitchcraft & @breelandwalker Sam Wise’s Masterlist of Pagan, Witchcraft, and Occult Authors to Avoid You all need to stop assuming that all pagan and magical spaces online are safe. - @maddiviner Shit to Watch Out For If You’re Interested in Magic - @normal-horoscopes All of the Books About “The Burning Times” Are Full of Shit - @jasper-pagan-witch

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2025 Witches' Calendar

January 13 ● Full Moon in Cancer (Wolf Moon) January 29 ● New Moon in Aquarius February 2 ● Imbolc February 12 ● Full Moon in Leo (Snow Moon) February 27 ● New Moon in Pisces March 14 ● Full Moon in Virgo (Worm Moon) March 15-April 7 ● Mercury Retrograde March 20 ● Ostara March 29 ● New Moon in Aries April 12 ● Full Moon in Libra (Pink Moon) April 27 ● New Moon in Taurus May 1 ● Beltane May 12 ● Full Moon in Scorpio (Flower Moon) May 26 ● New Moon in Gemini June 11 ● Full Moon in Sagittarius (Strawberry Moon) June 20 ● Litha June 25 ● New Moon in Cancer July 10 ● Full Moon in Capricorn (Buck Moon) July 18-August 11 ● Mercury Retrograde July 24 ● New Moon in Leo August 1 ● Lammas August 9 ● Full Moon in Aquarius (Corn Moon) August 23 ● New Moon in Leo September 7 ● Full Moon in Pisces (Harvest Moon) September 21 ● New Moon in Virgo September 22 ● Mabon October 6 ● Full Moon in Aries (Hunter's Moon) October 21 ● New Moon in Libra October 31 ● Samhain November 5 ● Full Moon in Taurus (Beaver Moon) November 9-November 29 ● Mercury in Retrograde November 20 ● New Moon in Scorpio December 4 ● Full Moon in Gemini (Cold Moon) December 19 ● New Moon in Sagittarius December 21 ● Yule

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Leto's twins

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Hypnos & Thanatos by ofensky

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A handy guide for your Jewellers and Gem Cutters.

I accept payment in trillion-cut black diamonds.

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Listen. Abandoning the idea of what a proper pagan is was the most rewarding experience. Your intuition is stronger than you think.

This isn't a science. You don't have to treat it like one. Go with your heart, go with your intuition. It will help you grow more than you've ever dreamed of.

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Summer Solstice (Ruslan Sonnov, 2023)

Im not dead and neither is this page. So much has happened over the past few years, so much has happened in the past 2 months. I sort of, fell out of hellenism, I'll say. Which is not to say that my beliefs changed but rather that I've found other parts of myself (literally) that are not as enamored with hellenismos as i was when i started this page.

Almost 3 years ago now, i discovered that I have dissociative identity disorder. And in that time, my focus was very much on keeping my head above water, about learning about my system and learning how to care for myself as a whole. And its only relatively recently that I've begun to return to the things that fill me with passion and that make me whole. And in looking at this page, I've realized that THIS is one of the things that makes me whole. My knowledge surrounding the gods and hellenismos is still very much lacking but im excited to increase my knowledge and return to my practice and show my love to the gods and the world in its fullest form.

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