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So today I was "statue spotting". Cuz I realised how common are statues of greek/roman gods on historic buildings ot fountains. So I walked past Neptune's fountain and then I realized there statues on the top of the theater building that I never noticed before. So I found out that those are statues of Apollo, Erato, Terpsichore, Fortuna, Melpomene, Thálie, and Flora. And I also saw 2 other statues on top of the old post Office but I sadly did not found out who that is.

By doing this I allways remind my self that gods are really everywhere even in my home town.

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E-offering for Lord Hermes☤

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E-offering for Queen Hera 🪷

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E-offering for Lady Artemis 🦌

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E-offering for Lord Apollon ☀️

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HAPPY OLYMPEIA!!

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E-offering for Lady Aphrodite🕊🩷

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Zeus Teleus💍

(of marriage)

E-offering for King Zeus🦅

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I feel like the most so lucky omg. So basicaly I went to bookstore that sels second hand books. There I found a lot of books about ancient greece or ancient greek literature and for really good price ( 1 book costed me like 60kč which is like 2.73$ or 2.40€). So I bought like 4 books and I am so happy. The thing is I would not start reading books about ancient greece/ancient greek literature if it wasn't for the gods and I am really happy that I discovered it.

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E-offering for Lady Artemis🏹

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Happy Mounykhia!!

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So a fundamental misunderstanding that a lot of modern mythicists have is that each god was singular, when in fact all of the theoi were thought of as multiformed. Aphrodite and Venus both had epithets that literally meant “twin” even. So one Aphrodite might be foam born and another might be daughter of Zeus, and one might be self born, etc. Just like how there are a bunch of Zeuses there would be many Venuses and Aphrodites and they were also syncretized with Inanna, some forms of Isis, Ishtar, and even potentially Freyja.

I know people worshiped gods differnetly based on location, traditions ect.., but I did not thought about it this way, this is so cool!

Anyway it was just a thing I was thinking about past few days and thank you for answering!

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So I have been thinking about the myth of how was Aphrodite born and what is it was mixed up with roman mythology? Cuz in Homer's Iliad Aphrodite was born to Zeus and Dione and in other sources she is foam born just like Venus. So what if people in ancient greece worshiped her as a daughter of Zeus and not foam born? I know she has an epithet of being foam born but what if that came over time? Cuz there are lot of examples in greek mythology when it was mixed up with the roman. For example the story of Medusa or how people call Heracles 'Hercules'. So what if she was originaly (in greek mythology) daughter of Zeus (she also has epithet for it) and after time she was mixed up with Venus?

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Apollo and Daphne🌿

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E-offering for Lord Apollo☀️

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Hermaphrodite

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Child of Lady Aphrodite🕊 and Lord Hermes🐏

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Athena Polymetis🏺

(cunning in many ways/crafty)

E-offering for Lady Athena🦉

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You can't be a hellenic polytheist and be homophobic.

You can't be a hellenic polytheist and be transphobic.

You can't be a hellenic polytheist and be racist.

You can't be a hellenic polytheist and be anti-imaginate.

You can't be a hellenic polytheist and be a nazi.

You can't be a hellenic polytheist and mock ANY of the gods.

You can't be a hellenic polytheist and hate ANY of the gods.

Pick a side. The gods or hatefulness.

You. Can't. Choose. Both.

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Hey, to all the people who are sad we as Hellenic Polytheists don't have a temple to worship in:

We never had temples to worship in, that was never a thing.

I keep seeing posts of people lamenting that we no longer have places to worship the gods in, in the same way people use churches and other places of worship today, but as someone with a degree in this, that was never officially a thing. This is what I mean when I say people need to deconstruct from their previous religion because the religions are different and what you might miss from one, you'll bring to the other, like missing a place of worship.

The temples were solely places to either hold things given to the gods, like thank you offerings, etc. or in some cases, where you got your prophecy told (Delphi), or some people slept in temples for Asclepius in order to dream of cures they believed the god would give them.

The ancient Greeks worshipped the gods in nature and had little altars in their homes.

This is why there were so many sacrificial altars outside in nature or outside the temples.

I understand it can be frustrating not having a place to worship because religious places of worship are great places to find like-minded people and find community, but the ancient Greeks didn't have to do that because the religion was a government mandated religion. Their literal governments would do things with the whole city-state outside of the temples. The closest thing we got to that were mystery cults but those were usually for the elite and still did things outside just in more secluded areas: (LINK)

Most of the time people weren't allowed to go into the temples, just priests, and the very few people that were allowed (to either drop off a gift, dream of a cure or get their fortune told) had very strict rules on making sure they were super clean because the priests would have to clean after them and they really didn't want to do that.

My point is that if you are worshipping the gods in nature (especially outdoor areas that inspire you because they believed a god resided in those areas) or in front of your altar at home, you're already doing what the ancient Greeks did.

Places of worship later got popularized with the rise of mystery cults in Rome and Roman Christians needing a secret place to worship, usually in someone's house which would later get converted as official places because of the persecutions.

I understand it can be frustrating to not have what more modern religions around you have but I need Hellenic Polytheists to understand that official places of worship were never a thing in the ancient Greek world.

They are worshipped in nature because the gods ARE nature itself.

So understand that your place of worship is all around you, and the gods will always be with you whenever you need them, as soon as you need them, and I think that's beautiful.