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Welcome to a new series I’m calling Midnights Mayhem With Me. I’m going to be using this technological advanced device to help me allow fate to decide exactly what track titles I’m going to be announcing and in what order. In this cage are 13 ping pong balls, labeled 1 through 13 each representing a track on the Midnight album. So let’s leave it up to fate. (ft. Meredith)
I hope this cat didnt kill any of those birds .
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Hi! This is slightly weird but I used to follow you when I was in my teens and just discovered witchcraft and the theoi. I kind of lost my connection to it all at some point, deleted my old blog and everything. Years later I'm now in my mid twenties, trying to get back into it and luckily still have a list of all the blogs I used to follow back in the day so I checked your handle and was really happy to see that you're still around! Most blogs from that time are completely gone or died somewhere around 2020, sadly. So thanks for sticking around and I hope you're doing well!
This is so nice!
Yeah a lot of this community left and went to tiktok and honestly, good riddance. A lot of it was toxic craziness. I've also lost my connection here and there, but it always comes back. I think sometimes its just a choice you gotta make, you know?
Anyway, welcome back and thank you for sending this it was so nice to get!
I asked Aphrodite and she told me you have to stop hating on your tummy.
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feeling the gods in my life is feeling freedom it's feeling joy it's the warmth of the sun it's the laughter on the tip of my tongue it's wanting to live again to live for them and honor them and honor me and just be alive
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Ancient Greek Pottery Part 1: common shapes!
Our host is a painter from the terracotta hydria painted with 'Workshop of a Vase Painter, attributed to the Leningrad Painter, 480-460 BC, Banca Intesa Sanpaolo Collection.Drawings of pottery from my 2024 piece'Ancient Greek Pottery' - find it in full on GreekMythComix.com
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"The Giver of Joy." An epithet for Hermes Kharidóhtis.
"Oh... You love Zeus?... But didn't he-"
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a quick psa to anyone recently getting into greek mythology and is a victim of tumblr and/or tiktok misconceptions:
-there is no shame in being introduced to mytholgy from something like percy jackson, epic the musical or anything like that, but keep in mind that actual myths are going to be VERY different from modern retellings
-the myth of medusa you probably know (her being a victim of poseidon and being cursed by athena) isn't 100% accurate to GREEK mythology (look up ovid)
-there is no version of persephone's abduction in which persephone willingly stays with hades, that's a tumblr invention (look up homeric hymn to demeter)
-as much as i would like it, no, cerberus' name does not mean "spot" (probably a misunderstanding from this wikipedia article)
-zeus isn't the only god who does terrible things to women, your fav male god probably has done the same
-on that note, your fav greek hero has probably done some heinous shit as well
-gods are more complicated than simply being "god of [insert thing]", many titles overlap between gods and some may even change depending on where they were worshipped
-also, apollo and artemis being the gods of the sun and the moon isn't 100% accurate, their main aspects as deities originally were music and the hunt
-titans and gods aren't two wholly different concepts, titan is just the word used to decribe the generation of gods before the olympians
-hector isn't the villain some people make him out to be
-hephaestus WAS married to aphrodite. they divorced. yes, divorce was a thing in ancient greece. hephaestus' wife is aglaia
-ancient greek society didn't have the same concepts of sexuality that we have now, it's incorrect to describe virgin goddesses like artemis and athena as lesbians, BUT it's also not wholly accurate to describe them as aromantic/asexual, it's more complex than that
-you can never fully understand certain myths if you don't understand the societal context in which they were told
-myths have lots and lots of retellings, there isn't one singular "canon", but we can try to distinguish between older and newer versions and bewteen greek and roman versions
-most of what you know about sparta is probably incorrect
-reading/waching retellings is not a substitute to reading the original myths, read the iliad! read the odyssey! i know they may seem intimidating, but they're much more entertaining than you may think
greek mythology is so complex and interesting, don't go into it with preconcieved notions! try to be open to learn!
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Random fact: They did a study on courtship and mating behavior of American alligators at the St. Augustine Alligator Farm in the early 1980's. This study revealed that, among other things, the majority of alligator sex is gay
Male/male 1 is when the larger male gator topped, male/male 2 is when the smaller male topped
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💘 Eros Epithets 💘
Adhara's post introduction: Here it is Lord Eros Epithets!! He's the best guy arooound!! I do feel like some people don't give him a lot of the attention he deserves, especially for how important he is!!
Ærázmios: lovely, beloved;
Ærohtiáoh: to be lovesick;
Agnós: holy, pure;
Efpálamos: skillful;
Diphÿís: of two natures or forms;
Évdromos ormíi: he who strikes quickly;
Idýs: sweet, pleasant;
Kállos: beauty/when one encounters beauty, the soul immediately develops desire for that beauty, this is Kállos;
Toxalkís: mighty with the bow;
Ærohmanǽoh: mad for love;
Ærohmanís: maddened by love;
Ærohtodidáskalos: the instructor in the art of love.
Adhara's random fact about the Theoi: He was typically worshipped in conjunction with the goddess Aphrodite but also had two of his own cult centres: one in the Boiotian town of Thespeia and the other at Parion on the Hellespont. In classical sculpture Eros was depicted as a winged child or infant, usually drawing a bow or in the company of Aphrodite.
i'm completely redoing my altar to represent my family and my gods equally thoughtfully and I am having a blast
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I can't believe that it's 2025 and I have to come on here to clear this up.
Animal sacrifice has always been a part of Hellenic Polytheism. It is not "barbaric" or "backwards".
Animal sacrifice usually involved a quick and painless death for the animal, usually a large cut to the neck that would end their suffering quickly.
The animal was then cooked, and fatty parts of the animal would be offered to the gods, while the rest was consumed by the worshippers.
Animal sacrifice in this manner will always be more humane than the torturous lives and slow painful deaths in the factory farming industry. It's not even a fair comparison.
You cannot be against animal sacrifice unless you're vegan or vegetarian, because it is quite literally the most humane way to slaughter and prepare an animal that exists. It is done with respect and dignity to the life of the animal
Animal sacrifice is not just slaughtering an animal for fun. It is done for food in honor of a god, and only inedible parts were given to the gods.
Not to mention the fact that animal sacrifice is not just related to Hellenic Polytheism. It has been practiced by hundreds of religions for thousands of years.
You cannot be anti animal sacrifice unless you're also anti indigenous spirituality. You cannot be anti animal sacrifice unless you're also against traditional practices of millions of people of color. I can simply only speak for the indigenous community, but animal sacrifice has been a part of thousands of cultures all across time.
Just because you personally find it uncomfortable doesn't mean that it's wrong, backwards, barbaric, etc.
You're allowed to be uncomfortable with the idea of something. You're allowed to refrain from doing anything at all that you don't like. You should not restrict a humane way of meat consumption, because that's what it is.
Language that demonizes practices you don't understand and haven't researched is a gateway into the alt right pipeline. It's a gateway into bigotry. It's a gateway into racism. It's a gateway to anti indigenous sentiments. Please, please think about the words you're saying and the additional meaning behind them.
Google is free. Asking a person of color is also free.
Yes this was targeted to a specific post but I'm not gonna put that person on blast, because they realized their mistakes and apologized. I still felt compelled to talk about this because I see a lot of people saying the same thing. Do not go and harass anybody. We're all humans and we all make mistakes.
And if you've read this and you're still thinking "yeah well I think it's still barbaric" please unfollow me. Because those are MY ancestors you're talking about, not just ancient Greeks. If your instinct upon seeing a cultural practice you don't fully understand is to not research, but go "eew that's barbaric!" You do not belong on my account.
Hey, as a native American person who has previously engaged in rituals involving animal sacrifices because it's also part of my ancestor's culture:
Seeing animal sacrifice as barbaric is just anti-POC, white nationalist, pro colonialist propaganda because plenty of indigenous and POC cultures still practice it in an effort to uphold and honor the practices of our ancestors to resist being religiously and culturally colonized and erased.
It is the number one thing colonizers use to demonize, colonize, and erase us.
The only difference between animal sacrifice vs buying meat is just the prayers and rituals that happen before/during/after the slaughter.
The priests that are permitted to do the rituals are and have always been skilled butchers because it takes very specific butcher skills and without these skills you can ruin the meat completely. A lot of the methods modern day butchers use were passed on from them over time.
Buying an animal and dedicating its meat to your god still counts as an animal sacrifice even if you weren't the one who killed it because most cultures who practice this require the act be performed by a skilled butcher but the person who is dedicating the meat is still acknowledged as also being involved in the sacrifice even if they only brought the animal and received the meat after the priest finishes.
Likewise, in the Hellenic ancient world it was the specialized butcher priests who did the killing, not the one who brought the animal to be sacrificed but it was still understood that the one who brought the animal was also a part of the sacrifice regardless of their literal involvement in the act. If you are engaging in rituals and prayers that dedicate it to a god, it turns the meat from regular non-sacrificed meat to sacrificed meat because the key component that makes it a sacrifice is dedicating the meat to your god regardless of your involvement in the actual act of killing the animal yourself. That is the "sacrifice" aspect of it. You are sacrificing this meat to your god even though it was the butcher who did the killing.
Animal sacrifice is also a part of the ongoing satanic panic that is anti-pagan, so buying into this form of propaganda while being pagan only hurts the pagan community and helps colonialists who are trying to oppress pagan beliefs because its anti-POC, anti-pagan, pro colonial, white nationalist propaganda. Don't fall for this form of fascist BS!
Okay but "fascist bs" is also not that simple because YSEE has really pushed this too. Nuance is needed in this conversation and awareness of fascist propaganda needs to be in both the anti and pro spaces.
