pomegranateandivy:

aggressivedevotions:

THERE IS A FUCKING SNAKE GOD IN YOUR FUCKING HOUSE

I MEAN FUCK

WHY DOES IT ALWAYS HAVE TO BE SNAKES

OKAY INDY I’LL TELL YOU FUCKING WHY

BACK IN THE OLDEN TIMES

PEOPLE DID NOT HAVE RAID AND EXTERMINATORS AND BUG BOMBS AND MOUSETRAPS AND SHIT

AND THEY DIDN’T HAVE ANY REFRIGERATORS OR FREEZERS OR ZIPLOCS OR TUPPERWARE

THEY KEPT THEIR NON-FUCKING-PERISHABLES IN A STOREROOM IN CLAY JARS

SO I MEAN

SHIT, MAN, ALL SORTS OF PESTS BE UP IN THAT

MICE

RATS

ROACHES

FUCKIN’ WEEVILS MAN

IT’S NOT GOOD OKAY

SO

THEY KEPT SNAKES IN THEIR STOREROOMS TO TAKE CARE OF THOSE FUCKERS

AND IT WORKED

SO THEY WORSHIPPED THE SNAKE AS A GOD BECAUSE IT PROTECTED THEIR STUFF

AND THAT’S WHAT THE AGATHOS DAIMON DOES

HE PROTECTS YOUR SHIT

AND HELPS YOUR FAMILY HAVE HAPPINESS AND PROSPERITY AND ALL THAT FORTUNE COOKIE CRAP

ALSO HE MIGHT BE ZEUS KTESIOS

OR ZEUS MEILIKHIOS

OR MAYBE SOME OTHER GOD

WHO FUCKING KNOWS

NOT THE ARCHAEOLOGISTS THAT’S WHO

BUT ANYWAY SNAKE GODS HELP KEEP YOUR STUFF SAFE

SO OFFER THINGS LIKE MILK AND HONEY

UNMIXED WINE

WHO THE FUCK MIXES WINE ANYWAY?

THE ANCIENT GREEKS, FOOL

BECAUSE YOU’RE A BARBARIC FUCKING LUSH IF YOU DON’T MIX WINE

I MAY OR MAY NOT BE A BARBARIC FUCKING LUSH

BUT THAT’S A TANGENT

THE AGATHOS DAIMON LIKES SMALL AMOUNTS OF UNMIXED WINE

ESPECIALLY AT PARTIES

BECAUSE IF YOU’RE RICH ENOUGH TO THROW A FUCKING PARTY WITH FUCKING WINE BEING SERVED LIKE HOW MARSYAS GOT SERVED BY APOLLO

YOU’RE RICH ENOUGH TO HONOR THE AGATHOS DAIMON

SINCE HE’S THE ONE HELPING YOU STAY THAT RICH

MAYBE JUST FUCKING SAY HI OCCASIONALLY

AND BE NICE TO NON-POISONOUS SNAKES THAT SHOW UP ON YOUR PROPERTY

BECAUSE THAT’S THE A.D. SAYING HI

ALSO BECAUSE THEY’RE PART OF YOUR FUCKING ECOSYSTEM AND PROBABLY EAT STUFF YOU DON’T WANT AROUND

DUMBASS

– accusativeofexclamation

I loved this from start to finish

New favorite blog

kitienen:

temples-wreathed-in-laurel:

thatpaganfeminist:

temples-wreathed-in-laurel:

Can I be a priest of Haides through Hellenion’s clergy program?

You have to be 18 to take the course 😦

Yeah, I know that, but I’m not sure they would do something like a priest of Hades since it wasn’t … Traditional I guess?

I don’t believe you become a priest of any god in particular through Hellenion’s course. You become a priest legally, but there is no distinction in program becoming a priest of, say, Athene or of Zeus. 

Just looking at their list of roles that their ordained clergy fulfill, specific duties having to do with one deity in particular are not listed. Some demoi are geared towards the worship of specific gods, but that would be upon the actual demos itself.

Summary of the Role of Theoroi (Ordained Clergy) in Hellenion

Hellenion clergy are required to:

• lead worship and other rites with and on behalf of the community
• be able to instruct fellow Hellenes about basic religious practice
• be prepared to answer questions about our religion when asked by a member of the public
• clear any prospective interfaith efforts with their Demos and National
• teach families the traditional life cycle rituals as needed
• refer those needing therapeutic counseling to appropriate professionals
• present themselves as honorable and responsible members of society
• uphold Hellenic virtues to the best of their ability

They are permitted to:

• teach publicly about our religion
• teach approved adult and children’s religious education curricula
• officiate at life cycle rituals
• provide counseling on matters of ritual practice
• perform divination for individuals
• perform simple omen readings as part of group ritual as needed

source, p3

kitienen:

Greek Hellenic Polytheists who live in Greece will obviously see it differently, but seeing as I am an American Hellenic Polytheist worshiping the gods within an American context, it is important for me to portray them as if they could be any person I plucked off the street. 

Because when the gods come to visit, they rarely come in a beam of light or a shower of gold. Oftentimes they are the person you will least expect, disguised as the common person who you might just look over as unimportant. That means for me, since I live in a country of many peoples and many races, they are just as likely to visit me with the faces of people of many races. It would be weird for me, for where I live and what people surround me, to experience them showing themselves as just one race and one only.

It’s all about putting these things into a context that makes sense for you. But it’s also important to remember we’re making these pictures for the people that see them too. The worshipers of these gods deserve to see their gods with their own faces too.

kitienen:

kitienen:

doe-eyed-harpy:

hypatos:

I’ve seen lots of Black face claims for the Gods, and while I love Black faces I feel like the Gods would be more diverse. Like an East-Asian Aphrodite or maybe a Hawaiian Hephaestus, there is much more poc than black. And I feel like there are so much possibilities, if people were more open to it. I mean maybe there have been and I haven’t seen it, but most face claims I’ve seen have been black or white and that’s it. 

Although I use a lot of black face claims, I also do my best to use east and south Asian face claims at well! My ‘aesthetic’ tag has all of my aesthetics in one place if you ever want to peruse.

Here, have fun: http://kitienen.tumblr.com/tagged/modern-deities

Sometimes the pictures unfortunately just get cropped in a way that the most obvious racial signifiers get cut out because of the composition of the image but I do specifically search for pictures of many different groups.

Maybe when I have more free time soon I’ll open up requests again and get even more obvious examples in, but you’ll find quite a bit in that tag already if you scroll through.

you know what? here are some specific links:

• the letoides – artemis and apollon

• the hyperborean twins – artemis and apollon 
• apollon argyrotoxos, 

  apollon agyieus 

• artemis and her hunting dogs, artemis khryselakatos
• leto the unseen, leto of xanthos

• hestia

• demeter agladoros

• hermes kharidotes
• ares gynaikothoinas 
• (granted, these are the worshipers rather than ares himself)
• the erinyes
• selene
• eos

• boreas 

• thanatos

• ourania
• astraea
• pandeia

*slams fist on table* BLESS THIS POST. For the longest time one of the faces I’ve seen Hermes with is this puckish asian boy and I thought I’d be judged so hard for that

temples-wreathed-in-laurel:

somefunnywords:

1- You build a very small shrine probably with a candle and some stuff to offer, maybe not even a statue  of any god yet.

2- You get yourself a statue of the god you worship the most or are devoted to and then you add deco.

3- You do that with another god or gods you really get along with and now you’ve just given up an entire shelf.

4- You decide you worship too much so you always need bowls at hand so you put bowls all over and then the khernips vessel and some other liquid things like wine or olive oil, now you have no damn dresser of your own anymore.

5- So you bought too many owl stuff for Athena or maybe too many seashells for Aphrodite so you decide to put a little individual shrine for each god, so pretty much all of your stuff can be found on the floor or lying in some drawer.

6- You sleep in the couch because you need to give up on your bed in order to have room for more stuff.

You’re not wrong

witchbeyondwords:

Since Zeus is the god of thunder and lightning but Poseidon is the god of storms, what does that make thunderstorms? Brotherly roughhousing…?

temples-wreathed-in-laurel:

http://www.theoi.com/Galleries.html

http://carlos.emory.edu/collections/greek-roman

http://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-museum/museum-departments/curatorial-departments/greek-and-roman-art

http://museum.olemiss.edu/collections/robinson/

http://art.thewalters.org/browse/category/ancient-greece/

http://ancient-greece.org/museum.html

https://art.famsf.org/wa-mansell-co/object-british-museum-greek-20047175

http://www.mfa.org/node/9454

http://www.worcesterart.org/collection/ancient.html

In case you were having a bad day.