Soteria & Eirene and why everyone should include them in their worship
@sstar-bunny saw my comment and since they asked I will answer lol.
I made a post about them before about working with them when it comes to finding your own justice and peace and you can check that out here.
You can really ask any god to help keep you safe. in fact I do believe most have the epithet of Soter. (there's many resources to learn the epithets. like even persephone has one with her ) so, this will really just be about soteria and eirene and who they are but just know most of the gods do have an Epithet of her lol
So who are they?
Soteria is a largely forgotten goddess. she is the goddess of safety, deliverance and salvation from harm.
Eirene is the goddess of peace. Most commonly the period of peace that comes after a war.
Here's their theoi pages if you guys want to learn more about them::
1. Eirene
2. Soteria
the reason why I think it's more important now to include them in your worship with all that ias going on is because their task is literally to help keep people safe.
How can I worship them?
since there's not much on the practice of working with them anymore, from my own workings with them, they genuinely enjoy these things
Protesting the rights for others.
being a safe space for yourself, and for others.
FLOWERS! they love flowers lol
finding peace within yourself.
really anything that helps you relax, and anything that gives people... well peace.
they really like the pastel colors as well lol. I honestly think they even enjoy spring holidays like easter lmao and the spring equinox. and I say this because that was often seen as the time where war would end. it gave people a lot of hope back then that as the flowers bloom and spring arrives, a new era of peace would dawn.
Even working with another god with this epithet I feel like invites them in.
...there's really not much to say about them because they are relatively left out. and even in my practice they are quite straight forward. but we need them now more than ever.
pray to your gods to cease the war, but then also pray to these two ladies so that hope and peace can come to those who need it.
does that make sense? lol
if you have any other questions regarding them feel free to let me know c=
