#hellenic revivalist

[pixxl-sunsets]

☀︎ To anyone who needs to hear it:

Yes, it’s okay if you accidentally set your phone down on your altar for 5 seconds. No, it does not mean you accidentally offered it.

You don’t need to give food offerings if you can’t/it stresses you out. You don’t need to give offerings every day if you can’t/it stresses you out.

It’s not expected of you to do more than you’re capable of. The gods care about you and want what’s best for you. If your practice is burning you out, you’re extending yourself past your bandwidth, or you’re doing things that cause you stress, take a step back and reevaluate why you’re doing it.

Your practice is meant to add to your life, and that means doing things the way they work for you.

[venusflyeater]

I’ve always kinda hated the terms reconstructionist and revivalist in the context of helpol.

It feels like it creates an unnecessary divide in the community, not to mention if you call yourself a revivalist near a reconstructionist, they’ll automatically assume you believe neopagan TikTok bs

And I partially get it. Basically everyone I see claim to be a revivalist doesn’t seem to want or care about genuinely reviving the religion, they just want to follow a bastardized version of helpol (despite the religion being orthopraxic…)

And to any revivalist, recons are hardasses (though I find that’s mostly from one group who might just need to take a break from the internet and discord🥹)

[highropoios]

How do I explain that while—yes—Greeks do exist, the vast majority (and of course I’m including the diaspora) either (a) don’t care about, or (b) even know modern Hellenic polytheism is practiced today.

I agree with the base sentiment that “when engaging with Greek culture (ancient or modern), it is good to be aware of + respectful towards Greek people.” That’s awesome! 👍🏻 It's so awesome that I encourage applying this same sentiment to all other cultures you’re able / invited to engage with! :)

That same base sentiment can be and has been twisted into a pretzel and salted with straight-up ethnonationalism, though.

Be aware of + respectful towards Greeks when engaging with Greek culture. But also be aware of the fact that there are ethnonationalists running in Hellenic polytheist spaces.

They will twist seemingly innocuous ideas in order to declare indigeneity and primacy over Greek culture. They will deny Greeks their ethnicity because—according to them—“true Greeks can’t be Christian/Muslim/Jewish/mixed/etc.” And they will deny non-Greeks the opportunity to engage with the culture, especially if it’s in a way that even slightly diverges from their very sad idea of ““““true”””” Hellenism.

Being aware and informed goes hand-in-hand with being respectful.

[morselmint]

Leto - Divine Mother of Twins

Dark-veiled Leto, revered goddess,

mother of twins,

great-souled daughter of Koios,

queen to whom many pray,

to your lot fell the birth pains

for Zeus’ fair children,

you bore Phoibos

and arrow-pouring Artemis,

her on Ortygia,

him on rocky Delos.

Hear, lady goddess,

come with favor in your heart

to bring a sweet end

to this all-holy rite.

Orphic Hymn - To Leto

[a-creature-as-bright-as-the-sun]

Hi all. I suppose this question might be more on the recon side of things, but I wanna to hear from anyone with relevant experiences 😊🙏🏻 I've have been thinking about trying to reach out to Athena again, even though I never heard from her in past attempts to reach out, since I'm am picking up jewelry making again. And thinking I might continue to honor her even if I don't get a response. Because piety, etc. So my question is, what are your thoughts or experiences with this sort of practice? Did/do you keep it up long term? Was it too disappointing to never hear back and you eventually stopped? This also kinda applies more to people who do have godphone/can sense gods/entities around them, but I am also interested in hearing the experiences of those for whom not "hearing back" is a regular occurrence! Also this goes for any Hellenic god, not just Athena, I'm am asking about the experience of the practice, not a deity-specific request.

[camthewitchyyoutuber]

athiest witch to hellenic polythiest

it’s been a while since i posted to this blog, but i’m happy to inform the lot of you that i’m still very into paganism + witchcraft after all these years & found a faith  i’m comfortable residing in!!

so far i’m really connected to aphrodite & made an altar for her, but really want to make altars for dionysus, persephone, & hecate soon!! here’s my altar for those interested!! also, if you’re an aphrodite/dionysus devotee (bonus points if also filipino/SEA/EA) & i’d love to connect with more of you <33

[violetscatsandwitchcraft]

Daily devotionals and prayers

I’ve started to use my numerous hand washes to try and offer prayers and devotionals to Apollo and  Asclepius. I have so far been speaking from the heart, but think I will write a hymn that I can sing so that it’s more than just heartfelt but kind of chaotic thanks. 

I suspect this is going to lead to another shrine in my house, because 6 isn’t enough, but I know this one and one another that need to be made. May get on that soon as well.

[atinypagan]

Baby Hellenic Polytheist goes to the thrift store:

Athena, Hermes & Aphrodite edition.