#hellenic mythology

[flaroh]

Persephone 👸🍂💀🦇

[susiephone]

this can't be just me

[livieluna]

Did some doodling 🪽

I can’t remember the last time I draw on paper, I mostly do digital art now days lol

[dhampiravidi]

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ahhh such a pretty Apollo

[dvudushnydiaries]

There’s something so peculiar about the way a lot of neopagans (at least on the interwebs) make the choice to defang and declaw certain gods versus the ones they make the choice to demonize. It’s this wild combination of mythic literalism, lack of study, and lack of unpacking personal issues and thought processes about religion. There are so many examples of the defanging; Baba Jaga, Apollon, Ares, Aphrodite and then the villainization of Zeus, Hera, Aphrodite (yes She’s on here twice because so few people can be normal about Her), and the rest.

Idk. I have a lot of opinions on how and why this happens and how it can be amended, because it certainly needs to be amended.

[virgils-muse]

Thinking about how Athena and Pallas were raised together. And how Athena accidentally killed Pallas. And then Pallas became an epithet for her and in the entire Iliad she’s always referred to as “Pallas Athena”. And how Odysseus, her favorite devotee, is referred to as Pallas Odysseus because of that. Totally not sobbing. Definitely.

[ofthesunlight]

I prayed to Athena for a good time in class today. I used my prayer beads in the hall and everything!!! I felt her presence in the hallway, and I am super grateful that she heard me 💙🦉

Hoping that class does indeed go well today, and if not, hoping that I'll at least have some peace back at my dorm :)

[tarobombb22]

Hey! I’m very interested in Hellenistic Polytheism (haven’t converted yet but I will be once I leave my household!) and I made a small altar for Aphrodite and I was wondering if this is okay?

(Also, are there any tips on how to make the altar more discreet? Because I know my family would be against Hellenistic Polytheism since they all are Baha’i — they’re kinda inclusive🧍‍♀️)

[incorrectsmashbrosquotes]

You know what? I’m just gonna fuckin’ say it. We need to romanticize the relationship between Ares and Aphrodite more.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know we all like to characterize them as the mean jock and dumb bitchy prep cheerleader who cheats on her wonderful and kind if conventionally unattractive husband because he’s not jacked or whatever, but how about we move past that Middle School level interpretation of things and look at it from another perspective.

Let’s look at it this way. Hephaestus shows up one day, kidnaps the queen of the Gods, his mother, and demands Aphrodite as his wife for the shitty life he’s had thus far. He doesn’t love Aphrodite. Not really. She’s a consolation prize. A pretty little bauble he can have around his workshop and occasionally have sex with.

Aphrodite isn’t some shallow and vapid bitch who cheats on her loving husband. She’s a powerful woman, a fucking child of Ouranos himself, and she’s the Goddess of LOVE, forced into a loveless marriage with someone who only sees her as a possession. She cheats on him with Ares because Ares isn’t the strong and charming yet deeply flawed man who really does love her.

Hephaestus has the gall to demand Aphrodite be loyal to him? MY man, you essentially press-ganged the Goddess of Love into a loveless marriage. HOW DID YOU THINK IT WAS GOING TO GO?!

I feel for Hephaestus, I really do. He got dealt a shit hand and he’s absolutely a sympathetic character, but I think it’s time we stopped hating on the Goddess of Love for being with the person she loves, rather than the man who forced her into a truly miserable and doomed union.

[hecatesdelights]

Medusa, one of three sisters known as the Gorgons, a chthonic monster in tales from Classical Antiquity, whose gaze turned men to stone.

[astro-witchery]

Beautiful Fish Crow

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Yesterday I had this experience with a crow that I’ve never had before! I was eating my lunch by the water, and this fish crow came right up to me! It was cawing so loud and I’ve never had a wild bird, let alone a crow, this close to me before! It was a very beautiful bird.

I think it was Lady Hekate trying to contact me. I had been thinking about and considering heavily all morning the beginning of worshiping her and making a shrine for her. I had definitely been feeling her call as a cosmic/lunar witch and with the full moon last night. So I thought it was very interesting that this crow appeared, right by the ocean where I was sitting. The crow stayed for a while too. The crow definitely wanted my sandwich, but maybe it was hekate who wanted it lol. The crow was very adamant and demanding, which felt very symbolic as well. Needless to say I took the leap and made her the shrine & prayed to her at it, and I also gave an offering to her along with Lord Ares at the Chthonic altar last night.

Even if the crows presence wasn’t related to her at all, it was still really cool and I wanted to share this beautiful bird with you all ~

[flaroh]

Mother 💃🏻🐍👁️‍🗨️🌿

May’s illustration is simply called ‘Mother’ as the figure depicted is not one specific goddess, but a personification of the primordial maternal deity all Ancient Mediterranean mother goddesses seem to have sprung from🪴

During my trip through Sicily I became fascinated with the origins of the gorgon and what she represented to the ancient people of Sicily and Magna Graeca. I learnt in some cases the gorgon would be depicted in the pose of the Potnia Theron, Mistress of Animals, who much later had associations with many of the female Olympians. This took me down a rabbit hole, reading up on the Scythian snake-legged goddess who sometimes had the form of the gorgonic potnia theron, the Minoan snake goddesses brandishing snakes, and then the chthonic poppy goddesses of the Cyclades who inhabit the border of the living and the dead. There’s even connection to the goddess Cybele or Bona Dea, who similarly encompass that space of overall Mother of the Gods.

From reading about all these divine mothers from all over the Greek world, I wanted to encompass them all together in their origin. I feel a bit conflicted because it is heavily my own interpretation and I don’t want anyone to feel mislead, but I just wanted to capture the vibe of a powerful, intimidating, ancient goddess who has heavy ties to the balance between life and death✨

[livieluna]

I worship Hermes, of course I find getting 15k steps a day light work

I worship Hermes, of course I quit my job and sold all my possessions to travel

I worship Hermes, of course I talk my partner to sleep when they are stressed

I worship Hermes, of course I drink energy drink in his name/as a devotional act

I worship Hermes, of course I have 10+ different hobbies and keep getting more

I worship Hermes, of course 444 makes me think of him

I worship Hermes, of course I pray to him when I miss place my things

I worship Hermes, of course I have a hard time staying still and feel like I always need to move

I worship Hermes, of course I always carry/wear citrine

I worship Hermes, of course I see feathers everywhere

I worship Hermes, of course I have amazing luck while thrifting

I worship Hermes, of course hawks and rabbits make me think of him

[dhampiravidi]

Apollo wearing black lipstick is a whole life I have never lived. But I’d live it—

[dvudushnydiaries]

Altar box designs! (we're ignoring how Achilles' is technically unfinished on the lid) I've started selling commissions of these on my ko-fi

[virgils-muse]

Different Types Of People As Hellenic Deities and Other Creatures! Part One. Next In Line: Water Nymphs

⋆˚࿔ Sirens 𝜗𝜚˚⋆

Where A Siren Feels Most At Home?

Standing on the rocks right against the sea, staring at the sky as water laps onto their feet.

What Is A Siren’s Greatest Longing?

To grow wings and soar, to make their home in a secluded grotto, and to lure sailors to their doom.

What Is A Siren’s Biggest Insecurity?

They think they will never be charming enough.

What is A Siren’s Biggest Fear?

That one day, they’ll be the ones caught under someone else’s spell.

How To Identify A Modern-Day Siren?

If they embody both sky and sea, are able to enamor people with their voice (that doesn’t always mean that have a “pretty” voice, a siren could have a voice that sounds like nails on a chalkboard, yet you’d still be enraptured by every word they say), have something signature about them (a signature perfume, a signature lip color, a signature eye makeup, etc), and of course siren eyes. If you encounter a person with at least half of these traits, you might be dealing with a siren.