Solitude

Call me E Queer, 18+ Hellenic Polytheist She/her, they/them

[broomsick]

Witchcraft websites: “Ostara is a great time to plant seeds and prepare the garden!”

My home at this time of year:

[1five1two]

[ladybluebottle]

You are doing your best and that is enough.💙

[diana-thyme]

Greek Gods 101: Hera

Hera is a goddess of marriage, women, queens, the sky, and the stars of heaven. Excluding the universal offerings, some common offerings include:

Lace

Jewelry

Birth Control Packs/Pills

Depictions of Peacocks

Flowers

Depictions of Cows

Jewels and Crystals

Milk

Perfume

Peacock Feathers

Ethically Sourced or Faux Furs

For devotional acts, some activities that can be done for her include:

Learning How to Sew

Babysitting

Testing Perfumes (And Collecting the Sample Cards)

Keeping Your Space Clean

Creating Or Going Through Photo Albums/Scrapbooks

Going Clothes Shopping

People Watching

Veiling

She is celebrated in 3 Athenian holidays:

Theogamia

Hera Telkhinia

Anthesteria, maybe

[beatingdrumspouringwine]

sometimes the name of your God is a complete prayer in and of itself

[trailingpothos]

Hellenic Polytheist Hymns!!!!!

Queenie on Spotify has some AMAZING Orphic hymn adaptations. All are sung using a very lyrical translation of many of the hymns

Here are my favorites!

[trailingpothos]

Oh cold-born lady

Do you spread your arms

To the fronts of white storms?

Do you lie in the blankets

Of white on the earth?

Do you listen

To the silence

That only snow can bring?

Original Poem to Lady Khione, on the eve of a snowstorm

[overthinkingpolytheist]

Monthly Cycle of praise

Each day, depending on the number of the month, you may praise a god, goddess, or minor theoi associated with the number. This cycle allows for the learning of Greek myths daily and a deep connection with all of the pantheon. The cycle is based on Hesiod's works.

Notes:

Days which are associated with Horkos may be difficult

Hekate is praised at the end of the month. In short months, simply praise her on a new moon

Praising the gods listed in this list is not necessary, but as these days are sacred, it builds bonds. It's great to praise every God in this religion. It is polytheism, after all!

The cycle

Noumenia, Apollon

Dæmon, Zeus

Athena

Hermes, Aphrodite, Eros

Horkos

Artemis

Apollon

Poseidon, Asklepios, Hephaistos, Hygeia

Dionysus, Misa, Semele

Gaia, Pan, the Nymphs, Horae

Uranus, Aether, Phusis, Nephelae

Demeter, Antaea, Meter Theon

Athena

Kronos, Rhea, Titans

Horkos

Artemis

Dionysus Bassaraeus, Dionysus Licnitus, Dionysus Pericionius

Hera, Zeus of Thunder, Hephaestus

Heracles, Ares, Curetes

Apollon

Zabazius, Ippa, Lysius Lenaeus

Curetes, Corybas

Athena

Trietericus, Amphietus Bacchus, Silenus, Satyr, Bacchae

Horkos

Leucothea, Palaemon

Thalassa, Nereus, Nereids, Proteus

Mnemosyne, Themis

Boreas, Zephyrus, Notus

Hekate and the dead

With this, Orphic hymns are used. However, any hymns, personal prayers, or offerings can also be used.

[faithfultothetheoi-deactivated2]

May Lady Athene Eryma bless the Palestinians, the Sudanese, the Congolese, and all those suffering at the hands of injustice.

[hagoftheholler]

There are people in the witchcraft and pagan communities that really need to come to terms with the fact that pagan isn't the universal term for everything that isn't Christian (or Jewish, or Islamic). Hinduism isn't pagan. Buddhism isn't pagan. Hoodoo isn't pagan. African traditional religions aren't pagan. Many regional folk practices aren't truly pagan. The list goes on. It's more of an insult than an identity for some of these groups.

[elminx]

fuck, can we go a step further than this?

Witchcraft isn't paganism. Unless it is.

[hagoftheholler]

Witchcraft can be pagan. But individually, it is its own thing.

[hagoftheholler]

To explain better: witchcraft individually isn't pagan. If a person decides to incorporate their pagan religion into their witchcraft practice, then sure, it can be pagan. You don't have to be pagan to practice witchcraft.

[bloodiedflora]

I was just doodling stuff for a comm sheet but I ended up rendering this so!! Athene!!

[thetelesterion]

Man, I crave a physical community for hellenic polytheists like me. I want so badly for some kind of group to spring up here in the states so that I can have that kind of tangible community experience again, it's one of the things I actually miss the most from my time in Eastern Orthodoxy. I hope that someday we can have temples, perform rites and just.. thrive. I want that so badly.

[trailingpothos]

I’m seeing the HelPol community turn out in massive numbers on certain posts. Like up to 2000 of yall be on here.

WHY HAVE WE NOT CONGREGATED.

I know there’s disagreements within among us and a lot of discord servers. But like. We always talk about wanting community more. More gathered ritual, more of that community feeling.

So what are we doing?

I feel like I don’t genuinely know anyone who is a Hellenic polytheist, and I want to. We all should want to.

[artbyanca]

Rhea, the mother of the gods.

[trailingpothos]

I’m convinced that food tastes better after being given as an offering and/or left on the altar for a bit. Like the gods themselves added their own flavors.

[larkle00]

anyways since im up paganposting

fuck gerald gardner

[trailingpothos]

Pagan =/= Witch 2024

[trailingpothos]

This means that witches can stop tagging spells, astrology stuff, and witchcraft things with pagan tags. The two overlap but some of us just. Aren’t interested.