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@pythiaapollonia
🌼🌼 Big Disclaimer 🌼🌼
I just want to stress how much that priestxhood is not something that is for everyone....it's a lifelong dedication to your deity and is a bit commitment and oath!!!!! if you want something similar without the stress just devote youself!!! Oracles are another story that i will get into that ! I just want to stress how much of a big commitment this is! Please please please do your research Khaire everyone! Pythia Apollonia 🌸
˖ ᡣ𐭩 ⊹ ࣪ ౨ৎ˚₊ My Spirit Team ˖ ᡣ𐭩 ⊹ ࣪ ౨ৎ˚₊
Okay! My spirit team consists of Lord Apollon - my patron and the god i am training under Queen Persephone - an important part of my journey to guide me through transitional phases Lord Hermes - helping me with my readings with connecting to other deities Lady Demeter - mothery energy kitchen and green witchery and also seasonal shifts Lord Ares - godspouse/ dealing with sacred anger Lady Aphrodite - i just worship her Queen Hera - newest guide / mothery energy and inner power - a guide Lady Bastet - my one Egyptian deity - because i adore cats - she wanted to work with me for a short time and my animal guide - who is a butterfly fish
Apollo!
Finally set my drawing tablet back, but damn, my drawing tablet is so shitty, this drawing took much longer than it should because I had to work around which the screen would like, glitch
Anyways here’s a sketch of Apollo!
Post schedule for the month
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I feel Apollon in my veins. I feel his hands guide mine as I pour my soul into the piano. I hear his voice, gentle as the summer sun urging me to keep going. letting me know that I am not too ambitious for choosing to seek knowledge. I feel his rage in my blood when men speak to me as if I know nothing. As I walk to perform or present a project, I know he is there. Watching over me and when I am done, his cheers are always the loudest.
steady and firm, a strict teacher and a gentle healer. Letting me know that I will be okay. Someday, I will wake up, greet the sun and the joy I shall feel will not be a lie.
Why Lord Apollon? 🌻 .•° ✿ °•.
Some of you may be asking why i choose to stick with Lord Apollon for as long as I have! Well we've been working together for most of my practice....i never realized it before.....but now i see it. He's been this figure that's been appearing in my dreams long before i realized my spiritual journey. When i first started i started researching wicca and learned its ways....it didn't feel right for me and i felt the need to keep searching then i wiggled my way through many pantheons before finally finding the greek one. The myths are so familar to us because we learn them in school.
But to back track a bit before my spiritual journey even began. I visited Greece with my highschool back in 2014. We visited Athens, Santorini and Delphi. We went up to the temple at Delphi and I had this most wonderous feeling of awe and a sense of coming back home. And a couple years ago , I thought back to that time after meditating with Lord Apollon. and then i went ah ha. Yes it all makes sense now. He's always been there for me. Even in past lives if those believe in that. I'm a witch and a hellenic polytheist so i do believe in both. I've also noticed we have very similar energy, happy, joyful, sunny, both love sunflowers! So many syncrecities. He's also my patron deity I was a priestess for a different deity for awhile but after a long discussion with my spirit team, I decided to make the switch to Lord Apollon. You can switch in Hellenic Polytheism but its not all that common. But I found out that this was the best path forward for me. I still worship my previous goddess and still work with closely but we decided that my intuition and intense connection to Lord Apollon made the most sense to continue my journey. I don't have much to relearn but since it was a much different energy i have a bit to relearn and we both felt it was right to stay in training for the length of my mentorship with priestess i am under. I hope you all follow me on my journey!
Χἐρνιψ
pronounced: kʰèrnips
Translation: lustral water
Khernips is an important tool in Hellenism, used classically to cleanse worshipers and spaces both, marking the transition between mundane and divine, while also reinforcing the idea of community, by establishing practices which every worshiper was expected to take part in. Surviving theater and literature, as well as iconography, clearly show public sacrifices involving the sprinkling of khernips before the altar and around the sacrifice. We also find plentiful mention in temple inscriptions of khernips playing a role in purification rituals prior to entering sacred space. Hesiod clearly says that mortals should be purified before giving offerings to the Theoi.
Indeed the need to ritually wash extended even outside of temple spaces, with Hesiod and Homer both cautioning readers to wash their hands before crossing a river, since rivers were considered divine. Hesiod describes how one should look upon the river, wash their hands, and pray in order to be cleansed before crossing. Hesiod also writes on how worshipers should wash themselves before approaching their hearth, which, again, was considered to be a sacred thing and connected to the divine. Hesiod even tells us that failure to wash your hands before giving a libation will result in the Theoi 'spitting out' the libations and refusing the offering. He places a clear and heavy importance on ritual purity and ritual washing before any interaction with the divine. The extent to which his opinions were shared by the public are unknown, but additional sources do indicate the religious significance of purity and khernips.
The details of ritual of purification before entering a temple are mostly unknown. Beyond restrictive periods of time where one must let miasma fade before it can be cleansed, and the general statement that a worshiper must be clean in body and mind before entering, little is recorded in the specifics of ritual purification prior to entering a temple space. Wash basins and fountains could be found in front of temples, which provided a way for worshipers to wash themselves prior to entering. It's also known that before an altar a priest or priestess would perform purification ceremonies during ritual. Information on this is more available, and we have descriptions of clergy washing their hands in khernips, sprinkling khernips about the altar and sacrifice, and throwing barley or other grains onto the altar as well.
What we do know about ritual purification with khernips, comes from literature. The most common means of purification by water seems to have been the use of spring water. Springs often featured as sacred sites in temples, and water from the springs would be used for ritual and purification. The ocean also features as a literary khernips, and there is mention of fire involved in the purification of water for use as khernips in a source.
In the Argonautica, Valerius Flaccus describes a scene where Celaeneus, waiting for the crew of the Argo, purifies himself and sets a sacred space.”Here with the purple brine and fresh-spring water he makes his body fresh and shining, and prepares himself for his dread doings. Then chastely he binds his brow with fillets and leaves of suppliant olive, and drawing a sword marks out the shore; low altars he sets up around to gods with names unknown,and sheds a gloom with covering of dark foliage, and when he has filled the place with awe of unseen powers and holy quiet, the bright beam flashes from the burning deep.“ This description lends the idea that khernips could include not only spring water, but also water blended with salt, and possibly the use of ocean water.
From Aristophanes' Eirene we receive a description of a torch being extinguished in water in order to make khernips. Aristophanes write of Trygaeus saying “I take this fire-brand first and plunge it into the water. Now quick, quick, you sprinkle the altar.” The rest of the scene features a basket filed with barley and salt, a chaplet, and a sacred knife. A servant is told to circle the altar with the vase of water, and then Trygaeus plunges the torch into it before sprinkling the altar and the crowd with the lustral water. Considering that the rest of Aristophanes' description of the scene matches up with other descriptions we have of the ritual cleansing of an altar and offering, it's reasonable to assume that his description of plunging fire into the vase of water to be used as khernips also is accurate.
This look at the variety of water used for cleansing presents an idea of what khernips may be. Water which is considered innately sacred, or which has been blessed, seems to be required for khernips. If the water is gathered from a source that is already considered divine, such as a naturally flowing source, then no further preparation is required. Sacred water is by it's very nature ritually pure, as all things divine and sacred in Hellenism are considered to be. If the water used is not from a sacred source, then it presumably must be made sacred. Salt, barley, and fire all are considered to be both sacred and purifying. By purifying water it can be made sacred, and thus fit for use as khernips. Drawing on myth and play for inspiration, as well as known methods of purification within Hellenism, we find methods which are available to us.
Sources:
Corey, Judith L. Light from light: cosmology and the theology of the logos. Fortress Press, 2016.
Flaccus, Valerius. Argonautica, book 3. Translated by J H Mozley, Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Mehl, Véronique. “Au plus près de lautel, la circumambulation au cours des sacrifices.” Revue des Études Anciennes, vol. 104, no. 1, 2002, pp. 25–49.
“Peace by Aristophanes.” The Internet Classics Archive, classics.mit.edu/Aristophanes/peace.html.
Pedley, John Griffiths. Sanctuaries and the sacred in the ancient Greek world. Cambridge University Press, 2009
Praise be to Apollo, Lord of sunlight and song;
With holy laurels in his hair and myrrh scented smoke on his breath.
He who touches the air with sweet music and sacred hymn; the all-seeing and the far-shooter;
Heavenly Prince of the Gods.
Post ideas for the month
🌻 devotional moodboard 🌻 my helpol journey this far 🌻 the gods i worship versus are devoted too 🌻 Why Lord Apollon for me? 🌻 Oracles and The Pythia 🌻 Delphi in general 🌻 Priestess studies updates 🌻 Ko-Fi shop full unveiling
My Ko-Fi shop
while i am preparing everything! My offerings on Ko-Fi will be as follows The Seeker- 1-2 card Tarot and Oracle card Pulls The Wanderer- Bone divination or wax divination The Guardian- 3 card tarot or oracle readings The Oracle- Specialty oracle card readings The Empress- speciality tarot card readings The Pythia- Channeled Deity messages ~~~ Will make an annoucement post when everything is ready and all proceeds will be going towards future shop offerings.
Can we please start wholesome rumors about the gods based on our own experiences? I need "pass it on" posts.
I'll go first:
Ares likes hugs, pass it on!
YES, OMG!!!! Ok, ok, I'll go...
Hermes likes dogs, pass it on!
Apollon likes shiny things on his altar
from the blog writer
So I wanted to ask for these talented with making blog headers and footers? Can i commision someone for some for this blog? pls and ty!
Journal 1- Days 1-3
I have official begun my training! Learning advanced hellenic polytheism history and learning some greek! Going over the delphic maxims and choosing 5 for my journey and starting my priestess journal I adore my Lord Apollon and can't wait to see what this journey becomes of us! I am also a ancient history - greco-roman focused major!!! with a minor in religious studies ^-^
Pythia's Intro
Khaire! You may call me Pythia Apollonia I'm a hieria (priestess) in training to Lord Apollon as well as his devotee ( i'm training under an actual priestess ) 27 years old she/her pronouns I will documenting my training journal and eventual priesthood on this page I mostly deal with his orcular and healing epithets but i do a lot with him as a whole! my user is just a play on basically the high priestess of dephi and a feminine version of apollon's name. Here is my Ko-Fi if you'd like to support me ( Readings and candles coming soon on there) https://ko-fi.com/pythiaapollonia
