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Pronouns: She/Her Age: 17 Journey Started: 9-28-19 Aphrodite, Ares, Hestia, & Hera PFP depicting Aphrodite & Ares drawn by @mabychan

[poppyco]

💗 ~ Introduction Post ~ 💗

🌸 A Bit About Me 🌸

Hello! My name is Poppy. I’ve been practicing officially since 9/28/19. I identify as an hellenic pagan and omnist. I’m a revivalist but believe it’s important to learn about past religious traditions as well, so I’ll incorporate aspects of that into my personal worship.

Some of my interests include:

Witchcraft

Doll Collecting

Horror Movies

True Crime

Makeup

Gaming

🌸 How I Found Paganism🌸

By complete chance actually! I found someone talking about it while scrolling through tik tok. (I know, I know, don’t come for me) So I started to research! Everyone in this community has been nothing but loving. I’ve always loved the Greek Myths ever since I was little, so learning about them in a whole new light is very exciting!

🌸 Who I Mainly Worship🌸

Aphrodite- (Patroness)

Ares- (Patron)

Hestia

Hera

🌸 DNI 🌸

Terfs

Transphobes

Homophobes

Nazis

Racists

Antisemites

MAPs

Joy of Satan

Anti-theists (all religions are welcome on this blog as long as they’re respectful and do not push their beliefs onto others)

(I’m sure I’ll have to add more to this later)

🌸 Additional Information🌸

I’m also a moderator on a Hellenism discord server! We offer lots more information on the theoi, and are a safe space for all. If you’d like to learn more dm me for the link!

My inbox is open for questions of any kind as long as they’re appropriate! Thank you for visiting my blog. 🥰

Post Created 9/17/20

[of-lightandlyric]

Apóllohn (Ἀπόλλων) Khrysokómis -

(Chrysokomes; Gr. χρυσοκόμης, ΧΡΥΣΟΚΟΜΗΣ) golden-haired. (Orphic Hymn 34.9) X

Bonus Sketch:

((Devotional Artwork for Apollo ☀️ Feel free to like and reblog, but please do not tag as fanart or reuse or repost without permission. Thank you! 💕))

[cranky-clairvoyant]

I have reached peak pagan parenthood

[inc0rrectmyths]

Ok but if I see anyone saying shit like "Athena is superior than Ares in battle" I'm gonna block ya without a second thought.

Ppl like these are the ones who say they know everything but in reality they don't know shit about WAR and it's rules and it's ways.

War is hatred. War is violence. War is destruction. ARES

War is logic. War is wisdom. War is plans. ATHENA

You can't win war without strength and courage.

You can't win war without strategies and wisdom.

You need both.

You need Ares and Athena side by side in war.

Look, if you love Athena. Fine. If you love Ares. Fine!

But don't downgrade the other one!

We see in almost every myth, Ares is shown as an idiot, coward warrior who always loses war and is inferior to Athena.

BUT! Most of these myths were written by the Athenians, obviously! The myths were written by people who glorified Athena, were devoted to the goddess.

So obviously, Ares was the ONLY god in the entire pantheon who could compete with Athena. So what did the Athenians do? Write myths where Ares is nothing compared to Athena. Simple.

Remember the gods in myths ≠ Gods in real life!!!!!!!

Ares and Athena need each other.

They are friends. They get along. They fight for Olympus together. They help each other out.

[lockettopia]

I was super excited to do this one, as I knew it would be full of dark drama. Ares; god of war, courage, and ...civil order? (huh, who knew?) Here we have our raging, wrathful deity unleashing his fury in the bloodlust of battle. His sacred weapons glittering; the golden helmet, spear and shield. Let's dive into the symbolic imagery. I put a boar head icon on the shield to symbolize Ares turning into a boar and gorging the youth Adonis to death, after being jealous of the youth's affair with Aphrodite. The serpents are creatures associated with Ares: the Colchian dragon (which guards the golden fleece in the sacred grove of Ares- from the Jason and the Argonauts myth) and the Ismenian dragon (which guards the sacred spring of Ares near Thebes)   Flying above Ares shoulder is his daughter, the goddess of Victory, Nike. In the upper right are vultures, animals associated with Ares, and his sister Eris; goddess of discord. (the goddess who, unable to enter the banquet of the gods, threw in the golden apple inscribed "for the farest" causing strife for the women and ultimately bringing Paris into judge, as a precursor to Helen and the Trojan war).  Galloping into battle below are three Scythian Amazon warrior women, the leader being Ares daughter; Queen Penthesilea, (who Achilles killed in battle at Troy and fell in love with her as she lay dying.) Hope you all are enjoying this series. Please share this post, it would really help me get exposure. :) and dont forget my etsy store has all the prints available to purchase.

[cyproterone-deactivated20220309]

california is the france of america from what I understand

[forestwater87]

This tag from @mcelbois is making me lose my shit

[headspace-hotel]

the more I dig into Pinterest Hell, the more I realize that conspiracy and pseudoscience and "trad-fem" and weight loss scams and "Energy" and astrology and Crystal Healing and "witchy" stuff is ALL CONNECTED

[headspace-hotel]

People can believe and find meaning as they like, but witchcraft and astrology especially are things that practically everyone seems to view as harmless even though they can connect you to some very deep channels of bonkers conspiracy theory

Astrology, "witchcraft," all this stuff about Divine Healing Energy Vibration Spirit Frequencies, it's...pseudoscience-adjacent. And just like many other things that aren't necessarily bad or pseudoscientific on their own ("natural" foods, veganism, essential oils, etc etc), they are, for some people, the First Step in getting dragged down into the Abyss of Batshit Crazy

[headspace-hotel]

The Goddess memes to Tradwife memes pipeline

[moons-of-firdaws]

Baby, you're talking about new-age spirituality, that isn't witchcraft

[knifefightscene]

“we’re ruining the planet” i’m sorry who is this we i don’t recall myself running a billion dollar oil business

[rustycowboy]

aphrodite 🌸

[hellenicrisis]

Apollo & Ares

These two have been like guardian angels to me, always safe and protective and loving in exactly the way that I needed it, so here's a post to honour them.🕯

[the-evil-clergyman]

Amore e Psiche by Giovanni Maria Benzoni (1845)

[seafoamdesires]

Εἲς Ἀφροδίτην

κυπρογενῆ Κυθέρειαν ἀείσομαι, ἥτε βροτοῖσι

μείλιχα δῶρα δίδωσιν, ἐφ᾽ ἱμερτῷ δὲ προσώπῳ

αἰεὶ μειδιάει καὶ ἐφ᾽ ἱμερτὸν θέει ἄνθος.

χαῖρε, θεά, Σαλαμῖνος ἐυκτιμένης μεδέουσα

εἰναλίης τε Κύπρου: δὸς δ᾽ ἱμερόεσσαν ἀοιδήν.

αὐτὰρ ἐγὼ καὶ σεῖο καὶ ἄλλης μνήσομ᾽ ἀοιδῆς.

To Aphrodite

I sing of the Cyprus born Cytherean, giver

Of luscious gifts to mortals. Her sweet face

Smiles at them always. On her cheeks sex blossoms.

Joy to you, ruler of sturdy Salamis

And Cyprus in the sea. Make my song charming.

First I will sing your hymn, and then another

Homeric Hymns; Translation: Sarah Ruden

[eurasianmagpies]

people love to find progressive ways to say we should all be arranged into separate groups and try our hardest to not relate to one another

[yesterdaysprint]

Mildred Harris, 1923

[hobiminie7]

This and this and this…

[pilgrimattinkercreek1974]

Women with deep voices. reblog

[writethatdown]

just a reminder that: spring is inevitable. good times are inevitable. they are bound to come your way. even though spring is followed by winter eventually, I hope your springs stay and last longer and for winters you have fluffy sweaters and hot chocolate to endure it better.