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She/they II Hellenic Polytheist II Sideblog II TERFs DNI

[wovenmoonlight]

Just a reminder that Artemis’ love extends to everyone, transwomen, transmen, cismen, ciswomen, nonbinary people. Everyone

[moplopbool]

Helios as requested☺️☺️ I think that he’d enjoy being a listener & observer, so I drew Circe beside him!

[thegodwhocums]

Henry Siddons Mowbray - Muses of Electricity, Agriculture, and Painting

In 1892 Collis and Arabella Huntington commissioned Harry Siddons Mowbray to create nine lunette paintings as part of a large decorative scheme for their New York mansion, whose construction began in 1890. Mowbray intended the nine muses to be seen from below and thus placed them near the ceiling of the grand entrance hall. With bright tertiary colors and a matte surface, these painted canvases emulate the look and classical subject matter of Renaissance frescoes. Six of the muses are allegorical figures shown with their traditional attributes. Mowbray invented three new muses: the muse of Painting, with a palette and paintbrush; the muse of Agriculture, with a sickle; and the muse of Science and Electricity, with a light bulb.

[evilios]

Reconstruction of bronze Riace Warrior A. Made from bronze cast, copper, stones, silver, gold, and asphalt, it was created by Vinzenz Brinkmann and Ulrike Koch-Brinkmann.

Photo source: 🏺 More on the statue: 🏺

[the-puffinry]

i bring you a dashboard siren to draw visitors to your blog!

ok really just an excuse to post this siren whose background i painstakingly removed for no reason in particular, no magical powers included. I just really enjoy this painting on a bowl and isolating it was relaxing to do. I also only really saw just how odd her feet were while i was trying to get the fuzzy select tool to pick up on the shape of her claws.

source: Bowl with winged siren, Apulia, 330-310 BC, H 5751 - Martin von Wagner Museum - Würzburg, Germany

[embroidered-vines]

e-offering for Lady Artemis and Lord Apollo 🌙🌞🏛️🌿

Blessed be the Divine Twins ✨🌱🏛️

[artemis-potnia-theron]

Pick an epithet of Artemis 🌙

Koruphaia: Inhabits the Summit of the Mountain 🏔

Agrotera: Of the Hunt/Huntress 🦌

Hemerasia: She who Soothes 💜

Apanchomenê: Strangled Goddess/Lady 🩸

Hekatebolos: Far-Shooting/Hundred-Shots 🏹

Lygodesma: Willow-Bound 🌳

Limnaea: Of the Lake 🏞

Soteira: Savior 🪽

Lycaea: Of the Wolves 🐺

Potnia Theron: Queen of Beasts/Mistress of Animals 🦌

Voting ended onAug 14, 2023

[wovenmoonlight]

hello, just a heads up that i found your blog in the following list of a terf/bigot (divining-skeptic) while looking to block other terfs and figured you may want to know shes following you

Hello! Thanks for letting me know.

That's very strange, I blocked her when she first tried to follow me. I just checked and she still shows up as a blocked blog for me. I don't know if Tumblr doesn't register the unfollow or what. I'll unblock and block her again and see if that does anything.

Have a lovely day!

[artemis-potnia-theron]

Got the chance to see our lady in Vienna 🏹

[wovenmoonlight]

I look up at a bright blue sky full of clouds and I see the gods. I see Helios in His chariot, I see Apollo's golden smile. I see Zeus's gentle gaze. I see the winds dancing and laughing. I see something bigger than I have ever been and ever will be. And I revel in it

[fireandfennel]

Lord Hephaestus teaches us that to be disabled is to be divine

[honorthegods]

July Fragment of a mosaic with the months of the year. First half third century CE. Discovered in the city of Thysdrus, Roman province of Byzacena, (modern El Djem, Tunisia).  Collection of the Archaeological Museum of Sousse.  Photo: ©Ad Meskens, 2012 via Wikimedia Commons (X). License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported 

July is represented by a seasonal agricultural or market scene of a man carrying a basket on his shoulder or back.

[thegrapeandthefig]

Do you also feel that "faith" (as per the xtian definition) might be an alien concept to hellenic polytheism on some cases, amiga?

In many ways, the question comes back to the discourse around the orthopraxy of hellenic polytheism in contrast with orthodoxy.

It is alien in the sense that, unlike Christianity, there never was a formal profession of faith in ancient Greek religion and the fragmented nature of modern reconstructions don't allow for one anyway.

This will sound farfetched but I think that, when approaching this question, we need to consider the purpose of the Nicene Creed for Christians. The concept of faith (and of statement of faith) in Christianity is one that served to solve a theological conflict (cf. Arianism). The purpose was unification under a single belief: an orthodoxy.

Whereas the Greeks recognized their religion through practice. The dissonances in theology didn't matter that much. Which can very easily be seen through the many versions of myth or the different parentages gods can have from a place to another. The Greeks seem to have been very accepting of theological diversity. Pausanias is a great example of that, he will sometimes express surprise at local beliefs that he encountered but he won't consider them to be outside of the realm of "greek religion" because the rites are ones he recognizes.

I feel that maybe, we, as moderns, have simplified the term "faith" in such a way that the theological question is set aside. I think this is mostly a protestant thing, where the statement of faith is "we believe in God" (regardless of denomiation) and, unconsciously, for greek pagans: "we believe in the Theoi". Under this definition, then yes, surely there is an element of faith, in that there is a common red thread, or a trial at a sense of togetherness in an otherwise very fragmented and diverse community.

But this also begs the question of how orthopraxic is modern greek paganism, really? I don't know if I recognize my practice in the practice of someone who is, for example, a wiccan witch who worships Aphrodite. We just haven't defined anything, both in practice and in faith.

I hope this makes sense, because admitedly this is a very complex topic with many possible angles of interpretation.

[flowerinaflame]

National Geographic, 1906 (ph. George Shiras III) 

[hymntoapollo]

So I’ve been in Rome the last few days …

My beloved

[arkhaos]

Not planned at all but, here is Demeter🌾 I hope you like my version of her 😊🌼.

She’s in a good mood now, you know why 🌸.

I was sketching in between drawings and this came out! I guess she wanted to say hi ✨ . . #Demeter #GreekMythology #GreekGods #Mythology #godsof_olympus #MitologiaGriega #Heroes #Persephone #Zeus #DiosesGriegos #heroesofolympus #illustration #digitalart #digitaldrawing #art #drawing #spring #flowers #mitologiagriega #digitalillustration #ilustracion #dibujo #draw #dessin #fantasyart #comics #storytelling #artedigital #ilustração https://www.instagram.com/p/CeHeajqqCPA/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[medusaspeach]

Rough sketches of Selene (with teeny Artemis) and Eos. ✨