This is how I see Gods when i going back to my home from church, bcs my parents (especially my father) are forcing me go to church:
Vent...:
I feel so much guilty and i feel like Gods are angry at me for going to church :c i wish i could tell my parents that im helpol, but my dad would kill me (/srs? /hj? /nsrs?) for not being a christian. :c
I love lord Dionysus, dear Hermaphroditos, Lady Athena, Lady Ariadne but i feel like they are angry at me when I'm back from church
Nearly 5,000 firefighters assisted by 33 aircraft deployed in Greece as flames stoked by winds and hot, dry conditions.
Greece is facing its hardest days yet of this year’s wildfire season, a senior firefighting official said, after dozens of new blazes erupted in a single day and extreme weather hampers extinguishing efforts.
Strong winds, prolonged dryness and intense heat have worsened conditions across much of the mainland and on the islands, forcing evacuations and dramatic rescue operations in recent days.
Kostas Tsingas, head of the fire brigade officers’ association, told broadcaster ERT News on Wednesday that 82 new fires were recorded across the country the previous day, a number he called “exceptionally high”.
The situation is particularly dangerous near the western city of Patras, on the hard-hit Peloponnese peninsula, where two large fires are burning.
Major blazes are also raging in the region of Preveza in the northwest, as well as on the islands of Zakynthos and Chios.
On Chios, the coastguard picked up dozens of people at the small harbour of Limnia because the smoke was so intense.
Some 13 firefighters have been treated for burns and other injuries, fire brigade spokesman Vassilis Vathrakogiannis told a televised briefing on Wednesday.
Nearly 5,000 firefighters assisted by 33 aircraft were deployed since dawn to contain the flames stoked by winds and hot, dry conditions near Patras, on the tourist islands of Chios and Zakynthos and in at least three inland spots.
“Today, it will be another very difficult day, as the wildfire risk for most of the country’s regions will be very high,” Vathrakogiannis said. Temperatures were forecast to reach 34 degrees Celsius (93.2 Fahrenheit) in some places.
Greece has requested help from fellow European Union members and applied for four firefighting aircraft through the EU Civil Protection Mechanism.
Pray for Greece, and for all of Southern Europe, and for the Earth.
As Devotional act for Lord Dionysus I decided to draw something that related to ecstasy, bcs well he's a God of ecstasy too.
Lil vent here:
And also I try fight with my "disgust" to s3x bcs of my trauma... so I'm drawing those stuff in more artistic way... and i hope he will like my art I drew for him :3
The annual Panathenaia in Athens was Athena’s biggest civic festival, in which Athena Polias, Athena Nike, and Athena Hugeia were honored. The main purpose of the Panathenaia was to deliver a new saffron-colored robe (peplos) to the olivewood statue of Athena Polias in the Erechtheum. Woven into this peplos was a depiction of Athena’s victory alongside and in support of Zeus in the Gigantomachy. A second myth that was of great importance here was Athena’s birth from Zeus’ head, her birthday being celebrated on 28 Hekatombaion. The festival may have originally only been celebrated on this day, but later grew into an 8 day long occasion from 23 - 30 Hekatombaion. Competitions took place on most of the days, with an all-night celebration (pannykhis) on 27 Hekatombaion preceding a dawn procession up to Athena’s Great Altar on the Akropolis for a grand sacrifice of a hekatomb and the presentation of the peplos.
Like many festivals, it was a chance for the population to celebrate their communal identity, but as it developed and grew and was influenced by national events, the festival also became a chance for Athens to display its growing power and wealth. Athena’s adopted son in myth, King Erikhthonios, was credited with establishing the festival and also with erecting the statue of Athena Polias. Through him, the Athenian citizens were in a sense descendants of Athena, adding to the importance of this festival. In 566BC, it was supposedly Peisistratos who instituted the “Greater Panathenaia” which would happen every four years, a grander version in which even non-Athenians could compete in the events. Following Kleisthenes’ democratic reforms, Athenian-only tribal events were included. After the victory at Salamis during the Persian Wars, a trireme on wheels was added to the procession. After the headquarters of the Delian League moved to Athens, increasing its power and domain, Athens’ “allies” were required to participate in the festival and also to provide a panoply and sacrificial cow for the festival.
The Peplos… and the Peplos
As mentioned, the annual peplos for the statue depicted the Gigantomachy and was saffron-colored. It was started nine months prior when the loom was set up during the artisan festival of Khalkeia. The arrhēphoroi, four high-born girls aged between 7 and 10, and the ergastinai (female workers) who were also high-born women, were involved in the making of this peplos.
A second ‘peplos’ later came into play. This was the massive sail of the trireme that was added to the procession after the Persian Wars. It also depicted the Gigantomachy, now with increased importance as a metaphorical and mythological link to Athens’ battle and victory against the Persians. This sail was made by male professional weavers and was only presented at the Greater Panathenaia.
It is important to note that originally these two were conflated in scholarship, until John Mansfield’s dissertation in 1985, The Robe of Athena and the Panathanaic Peplos. Walter Burkert’s Greek Religion, a common resource for Hellenic Polytheists, predates this, being published first in 1977.
The Pannykhis and The Procession
The Pannykhis was a celebration on the Akropolis that lasted all night on 27 Hekatombaion. Not a lot seems to be known about it, but choruses of young men and women were featured, as was the sunrise torch race. This team relay race started outside the Akademos at the altar of Eros, where a sacrifice may have been made to both Athena and Eros. It went into the city, through the agora and up to the Akropolis to light the flame at the Great Altar of Athena for the sacrifice.
At sunrise, the procession would gather at the Dipylon Gate (main gate to the city walls) in the Kerameikos (potters’ quarters). Male and female, citizen and metic (resident foreigner) and even former slaves took part in this. It was led by members of Athena’s cult which would include her priestess, the kanēphoroi (basket-bearers) who wore white makeup and carried baskets containing ritual implements for the sacrifice, and the arrhēphoroi and ergastinai (female workers) who had worked on the peplos. After them came the other religious and government officials.
Metics would wear purple robes and carried silver trays of cakes and honeycombs, and their daughters carried water pitchers. Former slaves carried oak branches. Handsome elder aristocratic men (thallophoroi), would carry olive branches. Accompanying the procession would be musicians playing music, and the sacrificial animals.
Events
Based on inscriptions listing prizes for winners, a possible program has been reconstructed as follows:
Day 1 - Musical and Rhapsodic Contests
Day 2 - Athletic Contests for Boys and Youths
Day 3 - Athletic Contests for Men
Day 4 - Equestrian Contests
Day 5 - Tribal Contests
Day 6 - Torch Race and Sacrifice
Day 7 - Boat Race
Day 8 - Awarding of Prizes, Feasting and Celebrations
Musical contests included competitions for solo aulos (“flute”) and kithara (“lyre”) players, singing and playing the kithara, and singing with aulos accompaniment. Along with these there were competitions for the recitation of epic poetry.
Athletic contests included footraces (200, 400 and 4800 meters), boxing, wrestling, hoplite race, pentathlon (running, wrestling, long jump, discus and javelin throwing), pankration (Combination of boxing, wrestling and kicking). Many of the contests had two or three age divisions.
Equestrian contests included a horse race, chariot races with both two and four horses, a javelin throw from horseback, and a mule-cart race. In the horse and chariot races, it was the owner of the horses who was awarded the prize, and thus it was possible for women to be ‘winners’ of these events.
Tribal contests were for Athenians only who would represent their tribe. It included a pyrrhic dance (armed dance using movements reflecting battle), euandria (male beauty or fitness contest), the torch race and a boat race in the harbour. The apobates race was also one of the tribal contests associated with this festival (but not unique to Athens), in which warriors jumped from speeding chariots. It’s unclear if they finished the race on foot, or if they hopped on and off the moving chariot. Traditionally, Erikhthonios was considered the inventor of charioteering in battle attire.
Prizes for musical contests were gold crowns and money. For athletic and equestrian contests, they were special Panathenaic amphorae filled with sacred olive oil. These had an image of the event on one side and of an armed Athena on the other, and symbolized the many aspects of Athena celebrated at the festival. Prizes were also given for second place.
Offerings & Communal Meal
The biggest offering during the festival was the hekatomb for Athena Polias at the end of the procession - a sacrifice of a hundred or more animals, primarily cows but also sheep. This may have come after preliminary offerings, and either the thigh pieces or the bones and fat would be given as burnt offerings, with musical accompaniment. It wasn’t just Athena Polias who would receive offerings, however; during the procession to the great Altar there would be individual sacrifices given to Athena Nike and Athena Hugeia at their temples. There would also be special cakes offerings. After the sacrifices, the meat would be roasted and distributed as communal meals for residents of the city, but tribal banquets subsidized by wealthy citizens may also have contributed to these meals.
Sources:
Burkert, Walter - Greek Religion (1977, trans. 1985)
Mansfield, John - The Robe of Athena and the Panathanaic Peplos (1985)
Neils, Jenifer - Goddess and Polis: The Panathenaic Festival in Ancient Athens (1994)
Deacy, Susan & Villing, Alexandra - Athena in the Classical World (2001)
Ogden, Daniel - A Companion to Greek Religion (2007)
Larson, Jennifer - Ancient Greek Cults (2007)
Deacy, Susan - Athena (2008)
Mikalson, Jon D. - Ancient Greek Religion (2nd ed. 2010)
Larson, Jennifer - Understanding Greek Religion (2016)
Ideas for Modern Celebration
Length: Could be celebrated for 8 days, just on 28 Hekatombaion, or that day plus the night before if you want to include inspiration from the pannychis
Torch race: If celebrating with friends or family, you could stage a relay race. If solitary, you could include “torches” in a procession by using a lit candle
Procession: A procession could be made (at dawn if possible) from your front door, front gate, or other location that could stand in as a “gate”. A candle, offerings, and olive or oak branches could be carried, and music played.
Contests: In the days leading up to 28 Hekatombaion, or on the day, you could engage in competitions with friends or family
Music: Play a devotional playlist or other music, play an instrument if you know how
Reading hymns and prayers
Communal meal: You could cook and share with family and friends
Honor Athena Nike, Athena Hugeia and Athena Polias with offerings, you could light candles for each of them with the candles from your procession
Offerings:
Make honey cakes, cheesecake, cow/sheep shaped cookies or other baked goods
Offer beef or lamb, which could be incorporated in the communal meal
So I worship Dionysus. If there are any helpols(or pagans worshipping deities in general) that also struggle with $h, kdk if it works for others but ai put my bl4des on His altar for Him and slowly stopped using them bc I felt bad for grabbing them off the alrar !!! He basically guilt tripped me into stopping using them (love Him for that 😭😭) so if that helps anyone pls use that to ur advantage!!
P.S, He did ask in advance for the container that had my bl4d3s in it to be on His altar.
Dearest Athena, yellow-eyed like a sweet little owl, greetings and be well lady!
please give us a day of peace, free from anger and stress, dear lady!
I adore you!
Lady Athena, the most wise!
Notes:
- I already sorry for my bad handwriting and handwriting in greek...
-I wrote one of her epithets in greek - (euresitechnus, in gr. εὑρεσίτεχνος,) "inventor of the arts"... I really hope it's everything correctly 🙏
-As y'all see i drew some yarn, thread and a spindle whorl! (A tool that was used in spinning to make yarn from plant or animal fibers) as symbol for weavers and women who were making fabrics and dresses :D
-Books and feather I drew as a symbol for poets and writers! :3
[VIDEO TAKEN: SEPTEMBER 15TH, 2023 | Video ID: A video of a black, yellow, white, and red lubber grasshopper on a piece of paper, wriggling its abdomen and opening and closing the dorsal and ventral valves of its ovipositor in a way that makes it look as if the back half of the animal is its own snapping creature /End IDs.]
Encountered this grasshopper and scooped it up with a letter! Which is about when I noticed it exhibiting this fascinating behavior! It's freaky but very interesting!
Someone else may have already said this but she’s trying to dig to lay eggs. The orange thing that you see in her pussy is an egg and opening and closing her ovipositor is how she digs. The eggs stay in the ground incubating over the winter and hatch in March.
Also they’re completely harmless to pick up without anything as long as you’re okay with the texture of bug feet on you. You can pick them up by the thorax also if you aren’t.
All this time and I never noticed the egg! I was aware of the purpose of the structure but not that, that's what she was trying to do in the moment! That explains things given the fact this is the only time I've witnessed this behavior despite seeing and handling adult female lubber grasshoppers every year almost every day from mid-spring through summer
"Oh its thunderstorm today, so Lord Zeus is angry today!" "Oh! Zeus and Hera and arguing now" Ppl say this things always when its thunderstorm... but im ofc different than ppl,
I always see storms as something happy, i feel like Lord Zeus in this time is very happy and laughs in joy :3
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