Torch-Bearing in Dark Caves

Mostly Dionysus Currently researching the historical religious practices of the island of Crete This is a side blog

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🔸 Reconstructionist Discord Server 🔸

🔸 G o r g o n e i a 🔸created by @unphallicmenace​ and I 🔸

Welcome to Gorgoneia, a hellenic polytheism server seeking to provide a healthy space for reconstructists. We don’t just have Athenian recon however — we provide resources for reconstructing many other regions (Delphi, Crete, etc) and lesser known topics — even ones that one may consider taboo, such as Ancient Greek necromancy. We have:

🐍 Entire libraries of resources at hand

🐍 Experienced and well-read members ready to help at any given chance

🐍 Spaces for witchcraft & magic. We recognise that magic is completely compatible and even necessary sometimes with religion.

🐍 A special place for Hestia

🐍 Nymph and potamoi worship, along with resources for aspiring Nympholats

🐍 Areas for hero worship & cult of the dead

🐍 And more! Come check us out if you’re interested!

🔸 https://discord.gg/8GkkSW5Am7 🔸

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- Moonlight -

[verdantlyviolet]

are there any books you recommend that i can buy to read to help when starting hellenism?💕

I can do one better nonny - check out The Library that @micromeria very kindly put together.

To start with I’d recommend having a browse through Ancient Greek Cults and Understanding Greek Religion by Jennifer Larson (any book you see in there by Jennifer Larson is good), Greek Popular Religion by Martin P. Nilsson, and Theogony and Works and Days by Hesiod. Those are a great beginner books. I personally also recommend Greek Religion by Walter Burkert but it is 1) an older book and a little outdated, and 2) longer and harder to read than the others I’ve suggested.

But start with those few and then browse anything else in the Library and see what interests you!

[swan-bones]

Wild Flower Eater

Gouache on paper, 2021

by Kelly Louise Judd

[lovecorekiss]

“Eros once failed to notice a bee that was sleeping among the roses, and he was wounded: he was struck in the finger, and he howled. He ran and flew to beautiful Kythere [Aphrodite] and said, ‘I have been killed, mother, killed. I am dying. I was struck by the small winged snake that farmers call the bee.’ She replied, ‘If the bee-sting is painful, what pain, Eros, do you suppose all your victims suffer.’”

— The Anacreontea, Fragment 35 (via adri-le-chat)

[bean-na-farraige-agus-foraoise]

Not to be a history major on main or anything BUT

If we can acknowledge that there are actual Christians today who take the Bible literally at face value why is it so hard to believe that the ancients accepted their myths as truth and as history?

[lovecorekiss]

you don’t need to change a myth or make up shit to find a new perspective. Sometimes pop culture forgets a key detail or something that shifts the narrative. Other times you just have to take a step back and think about it. Search for cultural details or context that is not found.  Achilles and Patroclus had long hair in the Iliad. This means they were not adults. Suddenly, one can see how fucking tragic the poem is. They were just boys.

Perseus was a child too. So was Medeia. Danaë existed. Klytiemnestra was in the right. Demeter is extremely feminist. Etc. There’s also the small or very important details in things such as the Titanomancy.

There’s also myths nobody talks about, such as Adonis/Dionysus. Or the wlw Amazons. Or the amazonomancy. Or Hyakinthos’ apotheosis. There are so many more — dig deeper and you will find things so much better than made up “””true stories””” you find on tumblr.

[piristephes]

O great Swift-footed one

Hail the staff-bearer thief

Praise the smile-bringing messenger

[jethroq]

[of-faunsandyellowflowers]

Dear beginner witches:

Do not, I repeat, do not let other people tell you that you shouldnt take medication you need to function properly due to 'issues with spiritual alignment' or some bullshit like that.

Not only is this quite frankly DANGEROUS, but it should be encouraged to always make sure mental illness isnt at play when it comes to spirit work, and all the things that come to being a witch.

YOUR MEDICATIONS DO NOT INTERACT WITH ONES ABILITY TO DO SPIRIT WORK, MAGIC, DEITY WORK, SHADOW WORK, SO FORTH.

YOUR MENTAL AND PHYSICAL HEALTH ALWAYS COMES FIRST AND FOREMOST. anyone who tells you to stop taking your meds to be more 'open' is an idiot and clearly doesnt understand the impact that can have on the body in a negative way.

Of course there are spells and things to do with spirits that can negatively impact ones life or make it better, but it isn't a fix it all to mental illness.

TAKE YOUR MEDS.

Ps. If they tell you to use crystals in replacement to medicine and therapy, also a red flag.

[aresstan]

Hot take but you can’t learn about paganism without also learning about white supremacy and how it uses pagan religions to push hate group agendas all over the world today. If you don’t learn about the connections between the two and how it operates, your ignorance enables white supremacists to keep on doing it and using it to recruit others. People in our community who do nothing and stay silent are literally a part of the problem, there is no opting out whatsoever. Divorcing the two makes the issue repeat itself over and over and over again.

It’s not hard to include this in your research and stay aware. It’s the bare minimum.

[unphallicmenace]

protestants give the trinity mad head but Only the trinity, if you mention any other divinity beyond that a la saints and angels being on even remotely a comparable level they start frothing at the mouth. they’re also insecure about all of it in a way that they try to cover up but only makes it worse

I’m not gonna lie. From the perspective of an ex Catholic and current polytheist, Protestants have exactly 0 chill on most theological conversations.

[mohtz]

Women in Greek Tragedy

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[lovecorekiss]

WOODLANDS DIONYSUS AESTHETIC

I cry to loud-roaring Dionysus, who roams the woods, Ivy-crowned, god of deer, flesh-eating, mountain-roaming, of the trees, basket-carrying, saviour, horned, who carries his thyrsus tipped with pinecone, evoe!

[nova-stims]

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