#opalborn

[themodernsouthernpolytheist]

Do you know of any Southern local cultus for Athena?

Hi! You caught me right as I checked my inbox this mornign! It took me a minute to find it, but I knew the wonderful winebrightruby would have something! Also taggin her cause if anyone would know stuff other than what I’m gonna link (which is hers), it would be her. 

But she made these 2 photosets a few weeks ago: Athena of New Orleans and Athena of the Tigers.  She also has a list of modern Southern epithets for Athena as well as her overall local cultus tag, which has a lot of great stuff from a variety of people. 

If you can’t tell, I fangirl over her just a little, haha.  Not to mention, she’s just a generally nice person (but she sure don’t take no shit from people, either.)  You can also glance through my Local Cultus or Southern Polytheists tags, but the latter is admittedly a random smattering of things from, by, and about, obviously, Southern polytheists, lol.  

[jesatria]

opalborn replied to your post:To my Kushiel followers

Exactly what you said. And also what other fandoms use that term? I’m curious and like knowing things.

Apparently there's some old sitcom called Night Court? I think there's a book called Night Court too, though I can't remember the author's name.

[hyacinth-halcyon-blog]

opalborn replied to your post:"#don't be a dick" is maybe the best tag I've ever...

it’s good advice regardless ^

It certainly does the trick!

[hyacinth-halcyon-blog]

"#don't be a dick" is maybe the best tag I've ever seen

Unfortunately, I can’t claim to be original there, but i makes it easy to lump all the various issues within the pagan/polytheist and occult/witchy/tarot communities altogether. ^^”

[moonlit-maiden]

{Devotional Aesthetic} The Three Kharites; Aglaïa, Thalia and Euphrosyne

"And Eurynome (Broad Pasture), the daughter of Okeanos (Oceanus), beautiful in form, bare him [Zeus] three fair-cheeked Kharites (Charites, Graces), Aglaia (Aglaea, Glory, Beauty), and Euphrosyne (Merriment), and lovely Thaleia (Thalia, Festivity), from whose eyes as they glanced flowed love that unnerves the limbs: and beautiful is their glance beneath their brows."

- Hesiod, Theogony 907

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[moonlit-maiden]

{Devotional Aesthetic} Meletê, Mousai Titanide of Thought, Meditation, Pondering, Practice and Thought

"Again the first set of Musae are four, the daughters of the second Jupiter [i.e. Ouranos], Thelixonoe, Aode, Arche and Melete. The second set are the offspring of the third Jupiter [i.e. Zeus] and Mnemosyne, nine in number."

- Cicero, De Natura Deorum 3. 21

[Requested by @opalborn]

[themaskuponthevines]

opalborn answered your question “So I’m in just over a week I will be starting my long epic journey to...”

I vote for Athena.

Can you give an explanation as to why, please?

[themodernsouthernpolytheist]

opalborn reblogged your photo and added: “opalborn: local cultus aesthetics: Poseidon of the Delta, god of the...”

LOVE POSEIDON LIKE I DO windandwild YOU TOO

Hahaha!  Honestly, of all the Hellenic deities, he has always been the one I’ve been most drawn to.  Even back when I was a little Southern Baptist boy, I read everything I could get my pre-teen hands on, haha!  

And your local cultus “moodboards,” as tchy calls eirs, have inspired me to try my hand at Gaelic ones set in the South here soon!