#ancient hellas

[fantasyfairytale049]

[eagle-of-zeus]

My heart goes out to our fellow Hellenists in Greece who were attacked at the Haloa festival... Things like that shouldn't happen, but we won't back down and give into their hate... We will stand together, all of us Hellenists all over the world. We are strong and will always worship the Greek Gods! ❤

I pray that those hurt in the attack heal swiftly and the police catch those responsible for such a horrible act of violence... No one in Greece should have to worry about worshipping the native Greek Gods in public... That land is where the ancient Greeks first connected with the Gods, all of the ancient temples and statues there are for the Theoi! And the attackers had the nerve to tell the people celebrating the festival to leave the country and that Greece is a Christian Orthodox country now... No, Hellas belongs to the Hellenic Gods! It's fine to be Christian in Greece if that is what you choose, but don't attack and hate on others for worshipping the native Gods of Greece! There should always be religious freedom!

Sorry for the rant, but seeing that article upset me to my core and made me break down in tears... They even broke the altar and smashed the statues and offerings... A man tried to defend the altar and ended up being attacked himself... 😞 He was very brave to do that and I'm sure Lord Ares took notice of his courage.

They are not alone though, there are Hellenists all over the world, we are one people, despite being divided by land and ocean... We are all continuing the ancient Greek religion and are the legacy of the ancient Greek people. The ancient Greeks still live on within us, no matter what country or ethnic background we come from in this life... We all honor the great Theoi! ❤ So stay strong my fellow religious siblings in Greece, you are not alone.

[triste-guillotine]

True !

[historyandmythology]

      Ancient Hellas Polyphemus, head of Hellenistic statue (marble), 2nd century BC, (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston). This head comes from a group, probably of the blinding of Polyphemos, similar to that constructed from fragments found in the grotto at Sperlonga, along the Italian coast southwest of Rome. Polyphemos is based, in details of hair and beard, on a Pergamene centaur. The sculptor was wise in rejecting the... older tradition, one seen in Hellenistic terracottas, of showing the monstrous giant as a kind of fat-faced baboon, with large ears and his eye set like a beacon light in the middle of his forehead. Here the rugged, animal power of the creature has been stressed. Broken off through the neck and the lower whiskers, the head is in relatively excellent condition, save for the damage to the beard below the mouth. The marble has a yellow-buff tone. This is the head of the one-eyed, man-eating Cyclops whom Odysseus finally outwitted and blinded. Here the monster is in a peaceful mood, either waiting to receive the cup of wine offered him by Odysseus, or, more likely, gazing love-struck at the indifferent sea nymph Galatea. The head comes from a sculptural group that might have adorned a public fountain or a luxurious seaside villa. The type originated in the second century B.C., yet the lively and direct style of this piece makes difficult to judge whether it is a contemporary variant or a Roman copy. (uploaded by Ancient Hellas on facebook)

[triste-guillotine]

VARATHRON “The lament of Gods”, EP 1999 (Majestic odes to Ancient Hellenic pride)

“Do You Feel It Coming Can You Hear The Call Let The Ancient Voices Within Flood You Feel The Presence of A Past Long Gone See Our Future Through These Eyes of Old Rebuild This World Now Turn And View The World Through Ancient Eyes”

https://paganrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-lament-of-gods

[remorsefuloncemore]

Beyond all hope, I prayed those timeless days we spent might be made twice as long. I prayed one word: I want. Someone, I tell you, will remember us, even in another time.

Six Fragments for Athis, Sappho of Lesbos

[hermangard]

Prayer and Curse

Of the light of discoveries in natural philosophy, now we have several evidences of the fact that this universe began from the one. Then it means also that everything was once in the one, so we must think there is, and was nothing beyond that preliminary one. Although one can insist beyond that circumscription there would be possibility of other thing's existence, that is just meaningless assertion before they find the enumerated evidence for persuading others. However, for us, the light is the limitation of our cognition thus we still safe from the agreement for admitting evidence of the thing beyond universe. That is, even if that sort of thing is being in outside from our universe's verge, the universe, which we can perceive, is always well defined by the light's velocity, so those sort of questions will be inevitably remained permanently. Though one can still insist the possibility of being faster than light, in that case still that things are not our concerns because, even if those are really being, we can only know that things by the traces, which they left since we do not have any sensual organs, which are able to detect the things faster than light. And even when we use the quite handy tools for inquiry, the final observers of phenomena would be always us thus there is no doubt we can never detect the thing faster than light. Otherwise we should concede that we can know the things even that is not happened because only by the limitation of light's velocity the so-called time is defined. Anyway, so that is definitely probable our universe is defined by the stringent limitation. Then we also should admit everything is just rendered thing, which is already being in the preliminary one, by sequence and void. However void is just mere a result by the moving of impenetrable thing, which we call objects, since if something is impenetrable, then it must leave the trace by its impenetrability in the trek once it was moving through. So when we say our universe is becoming bigger, then that meaning is simply everything is in motion because only the void can be multiplied, if everything was beginning from the one thing, since there is no other source which the things can come from. Then the other thing also becomes clear, that is, whole of our wishes and prayers are also the curse and bane at the same time, even though our intension could have been pure. Because our universe is wholly defined by its own limitation even from beginning, wherefore our properties are also restricted within that very limitation so if we wish something, then we just must fetch it from others. So even from antiquity, the prayer can be called 'ara', which has ambivalent meaning of curse and prayer, priest can also be called as 'aretor'. However as well as our senses are also restricted, our intension can also be remained as unfulfilled, hence our act's result always is up to more higher principle. Thus for the ancient Hellas, there were no guilts for cursing others. Since prayer and curse can be laid same area. So even if someone prays for others, that can be curse for another person. Likewise when Creon should have killed his own son Menoeceus for saving the Thebe in the Phoenician women, that probably could have been boon for the city, but at the same time that would have been appalling curse for Creon. But at this point we find some interesting feature, that is, by the limitation our scenery is rather becoming more abound than when we find solutions from outside.

[baringtheaegis]

What would you say was key to the fall of ancient Hellas and its rich culture?

Oh good Gods… it wasn’t one thing, that is for sure. As an over-all reply, though, I would say that dynasty’s end. In this case, the Roman empire taking over the Hellenic territories was a major influence, but eventually, it would have crumbled, regardless. It’s what happens, especially to large empires. Trade treaties, changing ethnicities within the population, changes within the political and religious landscapes, etc., all have a major impact on the sustainability of an empire.

In the modern age, everyone sort of plays along when it comes to the country borders as they stand, but this was simply not the case back in the time of ancient Hellas. Hellas was conquered, and so it ended. The Roman empire eventually stretched too thin as well, and fell apart.