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Thanks Apollo for the inspo but it’s 3:50 so quick sketch before passing out on bed

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if i could give my life for yours, or die with you

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Hi 💙 Can I ask for Apollo and Hyacinthus pls ? I love how you draw them 👀🫶

OF COURSE YOU CAN 🫶🫶🫶 I love them so much 😭🫶

(And since I love them so much 🫵 I decide to change a bit the story and tell myself that Hyacinth, like Persephone, go to see Apollo every spring / summer. And so Im sure he is a good friend of Persephone)

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The golden boy ☀️ the pride of Olympus ,would commit such crime? Yes to avenge for his son.

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A pair of Greek gold theater mask pendants, Hellenistic period, circa 3rd-1st century B.C

Courtesy Alain Truong

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I love hellenic polytheism. I love worshipping my gods. That's all, send tweet.

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@hellenic-reconstructionism I deeply apologize for the late response but I would be glad to answer your question about the others epithets! :D

But first a bit of backstory. When I first began my journey as a Hellenic pagan, I checked out @screeching-0wl 's Hellenic cheat sheets (still sometimes do) and that's where I got the epithets.

I wrote down the epithets they had for lady Selene on their cheat sheet and saved it to my drafts and wrote them down in my Hellenic journal. I remembered them a few days ago and I decided to post them since it was Monday.

But I did do my own research on the epithets!Keep in mind that these are all of the things that I have managed to find about the epithets and I have primarily used Theoi.com (great website btw! I highly recommend it) to find all of the information there is on lady Selene's epithets. So if any other worshipper of Selene or someone who has studied her has more information please let me know!

But with that, let's get on to the epithets!

So, for the epithet "Eilethyia" (greek spelling Ειλειθυια), Selene was worshipped as a childbirth goddess in late antiquity. But I also think it came from her being identified with Artemis, who is also a goddess of childbirth.

These are the only sources I found that can back that up.

Scholiast on Homer's Iliad (trans. Campbell, Vol. Greek Lyric I Alcaeus Fragment 390) (Greek scholia B.C.) :

"Chrysippus in his Old Physics [C3rd B.C.], shows that Artemis is Selene (the Moon) and credits it with an influence on childbirth, says that at the full moon not only do women have the easiest labour but all animals have an easy birth."

Cicero, De Natura Deorum 2. 27 (trans. Rackham) (Roman rhetorician C1st B.C.) :

"The name Apollo is Greek; they say that he is the Sun, and Diana [Artemis] they identify with the Moon . . . the name Luna is derived from lucere 'to shine'; for it is the same word as Lucina [Eileithyia], and therefore in our country Juno Lucina is invoked in childbirth, as is Diana in her manifestation as Lucifera (the Light-Bringer) among the Greeks. She is also called Diana Omnivaga (wide-wandering), not from her hunting, but because she is counted as one of the seven planets or ‘wanderers’ (vagary). She was called Diana because she made a sort of Day (Dia) in the night-time. She is invoked to assist at the birth of children, because the period of gestation is either occasionally seven, or more usually nine, lunar revolutions, and these are called menses (months), because they cover measured (mensa) spaces."

Tanysipteros (τανυσίπτερος) is found in the Homeric Hymn 32 to Selene, and that's the only source that I found where that epithet is used.

Now boōpis (Greek spelling βοοπις) was a bit more tricky to find, but I did manage to find a source.

Anonymous (perhaps Pamprepius of Panopolis), Two Poems Fragments (trans. Page, Vol. Select Papyri III, No. 140) (Greek poetry C4th A.D.) :

"The dog-star [Seirios (Sirius)] is extinguished by the watery snowstorms. For even the stars go pale before their streams, no longer do we see the Moon (mênê) [Selene], the dark-eyed lady (potnia kyanôpis) that treads upon the heel of the sun, who is frozen among the clouds ((lacuna)) . . no longer did the redness of the dawn embrace the circle of the night . . . The glow of the ox-eyed moon (boôpis selênê)."

I also think it comes from her association with bulls and oxen. Ampelos compares himself to her when he's riding a wild bull because he's also horned and riding a bull like Selene, the orphic hymn 9 to Selene also refers to her as bull-horned.

Unfortunately I couldn't find the sources for doloéis, lampētes and ennychios. But like I said in the beginning of this post, if anyone has more information on those three epithets and knows where they're from please let me know!

🌙Epithets of Lady Selene🌙

Selene Dolóeis- Subtle One

Selene Boōpis- Cow-eyed

Selene Lampetēs- Lustrous One

Selene Ennychios- Nighty

Selene Pasiphae- All-Shining

Selene Eilethyia- Aiding In Childbirth

Selene Aiglè- Gleam

Selene Tanysipteros- Long-Winged

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for Selene

It's Monday today for me so Selene offering

For great selene

Goddess of the moon

You shine the moonlight it's always bright

I feel so peaceful looking at the moon

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Lady Selene

Goddess of the moon

Requested by @lunardewdrops

I am taking requests for digital offerings.

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Children of Hyperion

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Selene and Endymion by Nicolas Poussin (1630)

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“Where your own intelligence fails, a god will inspire you.”

— The Odyssey, Book 3 (via conflicted-king)

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Apollo and Hyacinthus commission :D

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"White and Black" Magic & Esoteric Racism

it completely fucking BAFFLES me how even in the year 2024 people in "witchy" or "pagan" circles still. use outdated terms like "black" or "white" magic like do y'all really not do ANY research whatsoever? Like yeah, sure, people don't think critically enough these days but is it not BLATANTLY OBVIOUS?

hello??

Y'all need to PUT DOWN YOUR PHONES and actually pick up a book, I'm begging, research doesn't end at a google search or tumblr tags!!

You have to research EVERY TERM, every word, every author, creator, every SOURCE. Because half the shit ya'll "spiritual/progressive" people use comes from blatant racism and even literal nazism.

The Akashic records? Blavatsky, a rich European woman, who not only promoted esoteric race science with the belief in "root races" believing the Aryans to be the world's saviors and appropriating Hinduism, but inspired the Germans to use the swastika. (x)

The term "magick?" with the ICK? Comes from Aleister Crowley who created his own "religion" of Thelema to differentiate his "higher magic" from practices he deemed inferior. His works promoted similar to Blavatsky on the esoteric racism, but believeing every race had a "calculated destiny" and of course he believed his was superior even publishing a work titled "The Great White Brotherhood"

(read more here if you can stomach it.)

As far as the terms "black" and "white" magic, this article here explains why it's harmful pretty well.

Y'all need to stop with the excuses and do the work.

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QUIT HOLDING MYTH TO THE SAME STANDARD AS MODERN TIMES

QUIT HOLDING MYTH TO THE SAME STANDARD AS MODERN TIMES

QUIT HOLDING MYTH TO THE SAME STANDARD AS MODERN TIMES

QUIT HOLDING MYTH TO THE SAME STANDARD AS MODERN TIMES

QUIT HOLDING MYTH TO THE SAME STANDARD AS MODERN TIMES

QUIT HOLDING MYTH TO THE SAME STANDARD AS MODERN TIMES

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Bronze head of Hypnos, god of sleep. Circa 1st-2nd century AD. At the British Museum. Via wikimedia (first 2) and the British Museum.

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Thinking about how Apollo is a god of tiny creatures again. Mice, rats, locusts, grasshoppers, cicadas, crows, moths, nightingales, songbirds, crickets, flies. He’s so big, but he holds these fragile, delicate and often unwanted animals in his gentle hands.