#household worship

[muddileaves]

A personal UPG that I am beginning to associate with Lady Hestia is her affiliation with cats. Cats find comfort in a cozy blanket. Feeling at home and relaxed. Like snuggling up in a good book and a cup of tea or coffee (or cocoa if you have preference).

Could be a weird take honestly,, any opinions?

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[thequeer07puss]

Moving to university has somehow brought me closer to Lady Hestia. The feeling of not belonging, the longing for a home after moving to the other side of the world, brought me even closer to household gods.

Thank you Hestia, Bes, Sutekh, Aset, Zeus, Hermes and Taweret for helping settle in and find a sense of belonging in this new place despite the adversity and the uncertainty of my circumstances.

[shewithbloodofdevotion]

A gift from my book loving father that I just got in the mail! I've wanted this for so long, I'm thinking of posting my studying on here as well if anyone's interested.

[david-tennant-in-chairs]

Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned... and plan to sin again, and again, and again

[hyakinthou-naos]

It’s finally here! After wanting this book for over a year I was finally able to purchase it. I was also able to buy a new devotional necklace - one that I could specifically dedicate to my patron, Lord Apollo.

I know this book is a wealth of knowledge and I am *ecstatic* to finally have a physical book I can use for reference. I love being able to find so much information online, but at my heart I’m a bit old school and prefer print media.

- Aön

[tyrianluda]

i've been listening to TOOL since i was 13. this is my ride or die. if it loses to fucking californication, so help me god i will sequence your fibonacci

[coachbeards]

everything about beard can be explained when you think to yourself "oh right...he was raised catholic"

[muddileaves]

Finding information on Lady Hestia seems to be a bit difficult. It's all the same information, and it's not much in volume, if I may add.

I'd just like to have a good starting point to set grounds with her worship. I like to have a small but decent altar set up for the gods in worship.

[sgkjd]

giving in to your desires is actually very holy. consciously choosing which desires you want to give into requires more discipline than any religious practice.

[shewithbloodofdevotion]

Welcoming Hestia

12/25/23

All today, since 4am, I have been thinking about my path in Hellenic Polytheism. I have been feeling I'm in between chapters of where I am in it. I've always appreciated Hestia from afar and worshipped her almost quietly and in smaller pieces until lately she's been on my mind constantly. Today I have decided from much pondering and tarot cards that I'm ready to stick my hands into the metaphorical waterfall and take the plunge into starting to work with her more officially. I probably feel more determined and or specific about her than I ever have. I don't know why I feel shy or scared of it, I'm not scared of her. I find her very comforting. But something makes me hesitate with doing what I guess would be called devotion instead of my typical working with to any deity. I haven't felt this serious of an interest in a while if at all.

there's several things I would like to start doing in devotion to her or feelings that I have that she's pulling me towards. The New Year is coming and I feel welcomed by Hestia and I welcome her into my household. For now I will be switching a lot of my research to Hestia and Household worship along with doing the 15 Days Of Deity Devotion with her. Hello Hestia

[hyakinthou-naos]

I will be posting more in depth about “Hellenic Polytheism: Household Worship” once I am further into the book but one line in the preface stood out to me. I wanted to share it with those in the community who (like me) haven’t read this book yet:

“Despite the beauty of the polymorphous polytheistic landscape, there is a lurking problem that many people tend to disregard. Hellenic religion is still the religion of indigenous Greek people and any attachment from its culture and environment will probably lead to new directions that their little resemblance to what the name implies. However, as the history from the Hellenistic. Onward has illustrated, Helen ism is neither an exclusive religion, nor are our gods exclusive to the people who worship them. As such, we believe that a bridge should be built between how our religion evolves in modern Greece and how it is perceived and expressed abroad. This bridge will not only offer valuable insight, but may possibly lead to each party gaining what they might currently be lacking simultaneously offering roots to Greece and the means to freedom of expression.”

- Hellenic Polytheism: Household Worship (LABRYS, 2014)

More to come later - but I feel like everyone in the community needs to read this passage 🕯️

- Aön

[marsixm]

all this reminds me of eddie izzard pretty downright explicitly stating in her autobiography that she wanted to pursue acting because her mother dying when she was 6 and being sent to british boarding school traumatized her and made her desperate to feel loved. she referred to the praise one gets for performing as a "surrogate affection machine" and thats why before she did acting she did comedy and before she did comedy she did street performing. literally anything to climb the ladder

[clochanamarch]

there's something unnatural about river's voice. the smooth tone, the way it flows much like her name, calm and confident enough to make any message, no matter how foreboding, comforting. even now, in the dark, humid labyrinth that they find themselves in, every sound a suggestion of new and unknown threats, the sound of her instruction is one that takes a little of the rigidity from her muscles. it soothes the jagged pulse of adrenaline that heightens every nerve until the sound of a bee roars like a pack of lions in her head.

would you just stand there for a second? don't move.

there it is again. firm but soft, comforting, soothing the words that, in any other mouth, could be enough to surge the adrenaline and cortisol into an untameable beast that sparks stupid actions. instead, aisling feels a quiet trust in her. faith that @carbondated will save them. she stays perfectly still, without moving a muscle, a small relief easing her into a statuesque position that, if glanced at, might suggest she's little more than a wax figure from a remarkably talented art studio.

" what is it? " she hears herself say, and if not for their surroundings, you'd swear they were just strolling through the park, and river had happened to spot a particularly curious flower amidst the grass. if only they were so lucky. so ordinary.

[divadollcreations]

When you literally want to just change a character's last name before saving and quitting but you get an

INFINITE!!!!

LOADING!!!!

SCREEN!!!!

AND YOU HAVEN'T SAVED IN HOURS!!!

[deevotee]

i wont lie sometimes its a little crazy to see people shove bardroy aside to assign sebastian the role of Dad™ cuz as much as i like dadbastian (with seb being just terrible and weird in the role lmao) i think its strange to put bardroy into the 'weird uncle' role

on top of it being a very nuclear family set up (with ppl assigning mei rin the role of mom/aunt and snake being someones child along with bards role for some reason??) its just kind of forgetting that like,,, he's the only one aside from tanaka who ACTUALLY has experience raising children and was actually a father