#87 — To Death incense — powdered frankincense Hear me, you who steer the path of all mortals and give sacred time to all from whom you are distant. Your sleep tears the soul free from the body’s hold, whenever you undo nature’s powerful bonds, bringing the long slumber, the endless one, to the living.…
When you are both poor and live in an apartment it is often difficult to formally engage ir rituals for the holidays of my Polytheistic tradition — especially since the Hellenic Polytheistic festival calendar doesn’t correspond to the Wheel of the Year which many other Pagans follow. When you live in an apartment, finding a…
This is a post that is difficult for me… I understand that some people feel for faith-based reasons that abortion is a form of murder…. I don’t agree, but I cannot force people to change those beliefs simply because I KNOW from personal experience the true cost to women of safe, legal abortion is not…
Gods know that I haven’t been on this blog often in the past year. Covid-19 and college classes taken online have contributed to a lot of stress which I didn’t wish to have interfere with this blog’s focus on the Theoi and various thoughts on Hellenic Polytheism. However, I have come to realize that I…
Homeric Hymn XXX to Gaea (trans. Evelyn-White) (Greek epic C7th – 4th B.C.) :“To Gaia (Gaea, Earth) the Mother of All. I will sing of well-founded Gaia (Earth), mother of all, eldest of all beings. She feeds all the creatures that are in the worlds, all that go upon the goodly land, and all that…
These words are the final words of the Pledge of Allegiance in the United States — and are aspirational instead of a statement of something that exists in the real world. Within the last decade, we have had our nation’s first black President, our first television “reality” show president, a pandemic that hit the world…
Although Nomos (the God of Law) is concerned with societal norms, he is NOT against people having to face consequences when their oppressive acts or attitudes start being brought forward by people who are no longer allowing themselves to be silenced. It is no accident that Nomos is the father of Dike (the Goddess of…
Hestia Prutania guide our elected representatives, Athenae Politia protect our elected representatives, Zeus Politios give strength to those who physically defend the Prutanis of the United States during this period Nomos and Themis guard the rule of Law in our Ethnos. Hestia Bouleia spread your mantle of peace over our land
I’m doing something through here that I’ve resisted doing up until now. I will be offering Divination by Tarot Cards through here as well as offering to create prayers to the Hellenic Theoi for you to use. This is not a decision that I am making lightly and I’ve actually been mulling around it since…
I’m a college student, and consider that in some ways a devotional exercise. Interestingly enough, this semester (which is online due to Covid-19 concerns), I signed up for World Mythology and Comparative Religions. In both of these classes I have run across definitions for the words “myth” and “religion” that I actually really like. The…
When I initially read about a group of witches on TikTok “hexing the Moon” and wanting to hex the Sun and the Fae, I was initially in a state of disbelief because “who would do something that silly/stupid?” and it was so silly that it boggles the mind that someone would do this — even…
In this time of dealing with the novel coronavirus (Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)) also known as Covid-19) it is also a time of wondering how the devotions to Hermes and Hestia are needed more than ever. Yes, plague is in the domain of Apollon and Artemis, but that is not my focus today.…
On Tuesday June 2, 2020 officials in the United States capitol began to push back on aggressive response to protests https://www.startribune.com/barr-law-enforcement-must-dominate-streets-amid-protests/570945192/ which was called in a monumental act of hubris “Operation Themis”. To name this operation after the Titan Goddess of Divine Law, when it is being done deliberately to quell what are considered to…
It has been said by those who work “Magic(k)” that there are four forms of it — Invocation, Evocation, Meditation, and Prayer. And, in some ways, I can agree in my role as Dedicant Priestess of the Daughters of Khronos because they sound very much like forms of religious praxis. Both days, Saturday and Sunday,…
I have been quiet with much of my writing because of having to deal with the implications of living with the Covid-19 coronavirus, my college classes going from in-person to online, and my daughter’s school also going online. In the process, I still maintained my daily devotions to the Theoi. However, when the United States…
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