Hellenic Pagan

devoted to Aphrodite & Athena

[proserpyn]

aphrodite, artemis and demeter

[crescentnymph]

I love being a pagan. I love worshipping the sun, moon, sky, and earth. I love dancing naked to appease the goddesses. I love giving offerings of sweet wine, and perfumed oils. I love smoking weed and having ecstatic, mystical experiences. Most of all, I love that I don’t have to worship a man, or any male god. I can experience divinity however the fuck I want, and truly nothing is more freeing.

[hierokepia]

𝜗ৎ ・・ Hymn to Aphrodite: Spring is yours!

ৎ୭ Stately Aphrodite, tending to your sacred garden, Spring is yours, fair goddess! Warm winds blush the flower's fragrance across your gentle skin, Spring is yours, fair goddess! Take the golden anemones and rejoice! Spring is finally yours again, fair goddess! ♡ˎˊ˗

𝜗ৎ ・・ Always yours, Euanthe

[m0urning-ang3l]

“i asked chat gpt!” okay well i asked Aphrodite and she said to turn that shit off and go practice glamour magic and self love

[something-to-believe-in]

I’ve been talking to my Aphrodite again for the first time in too long. It’s bringing me back to life in so many ways.

I thank her for all the love and beauty i find everywhere.

Praise Aphrodite Golden Goddess of Love 💕

[starochre]

Love you POC helpols

Love you disabled helpols

Love you helpols who can't get out of bed

Love you open helpols

Love you closeted helpols

Love you witch helpols

Love you non-divination helpols

Love you adult helpols

Love you minor helpols

Love you agere helpols

Love you priestesses and priests and priestxes

Love you gay helpols

Love you trans helpols

Love you therian helpols

Love you furry helpols

Love you helpols who love PJO and EPIC and myth retellings

Love you immigrant helpols

Love you desi helpols

Love you white helpols

Love you helpols who are mentally ill

Love you christopagans

Love you helpols who still recover from religious trauma

Love all of you.

[coppelxia]

Please interact with this post if you are

Aphrodite devotee

Amphitrite devotee

Anthea devotee

Hellenic polytheist

I’d like some pagan moots to follow

[academic-vampire]

- @academic-vampire

[hekateanwitchcraft]

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

[hypnotastic-zephyr]

A prayer to Aphrodite Urania

Written by yours truly

Aphrodite Urania, tender-hearted, golden,

Daughter of the sea, emerged from sea foam.

Revered goddess of the happiest lover and the broken hearted;

O Lady of Love, lover of immense Ares,

Dominant and threatening, poweful pair of strength and love.

With the rose that blooms under the heart of the young, starry-eyed admirer,

Under the heart of the broken-hearted, comforter of the despairing,

Partner to the inconsolable.

O lovely-tressed daughter of a noble father,

O beloved giver of life and intimacy,

Come, beauty of Olympos, daughter of Cyprus,

Come, with your swans over your domains of the sea,

With your sweet laughter you usher joy and delight into our lives.

She who sharpens passion and triumph; kindling the fire of life.

Fairest goddess of the sea and the sky, with domination over the froth of the oceans and the tenderness of new lovers and experienced marriages.

O Aphrodite, within all of love’s actions we see your touch, beloved amongst the worlds,

Come, O beautiful and comely goddess,

I summon you with sacred words and pure soul.

[kytheras-dove]

𝐴𝑝ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑑𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝐴𝑛𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑎

𝐹𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝐹𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑠, 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐵𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑔

[apothecarey]

🐚A prayer to Lady Aphrodite🌟

Beautiful Lady Aphrodite

foam-born, golden goddess

I call to you this moon-lit venus night

I thank you for the beauty you’ve bestowed upon me,

and the love you have brought into my life so abundantly

please aid me to be more self-assured and self-loving

please protect and guide me as I strive to improve my intuition and confidence

glorious, smiling Aphrodite

I honor your beauty with these acts of self-care in your name

Hail Aphrodite 💓

[cloveconifer]

Sometimes appreciating and communing with nature means accepting the limitations of where you live.

I used to feel bad when I read so much about meditating outside, sitting in stillness with your eyes closed. I thought these writers had to be much better pagans and witches than me to accept the consequences of that in order to be close to nature.

Then I was lucky enough to visit the UK a few years ago and I realized there's just not the same kind of bugs there. These people weren't somehow ignoring swarms of mosquitos to meditate. They weren't better pagans than me; they lived in a different place.

Since then, I've tried to adjust advice to fit my home. I do nature walk meditations instead of sitting by water and I accept that I can't be out for hours when the temperatures get into the high 90s in July. Once I started working within the limits of Florida, I felt a lot more at home in it.

Now I understand that loving nature doesn't have to look the same in every place and that's okay. You're not a bad witch or pagan because you have to adjust your practice to your home.

[starlight-sage]

Today is the spring equinox for me…welcome back to the surface lady Persephone!!

[kemetnefret]

| Just a reminder to people : You do not need an altar for deity work. You do not need to spend a lot of money on offerings or rituals. You do not need to hold yourself to the standard of other people's practice. This is your journey and your relationship with the gods. They understand what you have and they understand whats available or any circumstance you are in. I am a strong believer that, if an offering or devotional work is with good intentions and done so from the heart, it's more than good enough and your deities will be more than happy and accepting. Even if it's not a historical offering or even if it's something simple like saying good morning in your mind, they take notice and they love you for you. Having an altar or performing rituals is great, I have an altar myself! However, it's not a necessity, especially if you cannot make one/have one.

[ombrokharis]

I block accounts run by polytheists who make entire portions of their content/personality about despising Christians/"exposing" the "lies of Christianity," btw.

If you spend so much time hating another religion, you probably aren't keeping up with the responsibilities you have to your own, and I stand by that. 🤷

[athenaeum-of-the-herald-deactiv]

There's some sorta parallel about the demoniziation of religion outside of Christianity by Christians, and the demonization of Christianity by those that were raised in it and left it or religious onlookers. But I feel like I don't need to write a dissertation on how obvious that is.

Religious superiority is not cute, and you look silly ♡

[chemicalforgery]

I'm not an active worshipper of Lady Aphrodite but she was my inspiration today