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General reminder to the pagans out there:
Making a supreme goddess figure part of your spirituality? Great! Worshiping a mother goddess? Wonderful! If that brings joy and meaning into your life, excellent!
"Once upon a time long ago, people all worshiped a great goddess until THE PATRIARCHY conspired to overthrow her and replace her with a CRUEL PATRIARCHAL GOD" - that's pseudohistory and conspiracism; there's literally no evidence for it whatsoever, and it can and does drag people down the new age to alt right pipeline.
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The winners of this year's City Dionysia are now revealed! Thank you everyone for your hard work and dedication!
✒ For the Poetry category:
Savage & Free by @khaire-traveler
✒ For the Art category:
Untitled by @vdoes
✒ For the Retellings category:
Sparagmos (or Euripides, Eat Your Heart Out) by @delirpa
✒ and, finally, for the Original Myth category:
"Apothnesko and the Psychopomp" by @hillbillyoracle
Congratulations to our winners!
Continue writing and sharing your work with the world and the gods. Thank you again for your participation, and we look forward to seeing next time!
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I was trying to find out if Kermit was eligible to be pope and I found a blog that says he's the perfect example of a catholic priest
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What I was taught growing up: Wild edible plants and animals were just so naturally abundant that the indigenous people of my area, namely western Washington state, didn't have to develop agriculture and could just easily forage/hunt for all their needs.
The first pebble in what would become a landslide: Native peoples practiced intentional fire, which kept the trees from growing over the camas praire.
The next: PNW native peoples intentionally planted and cultivated forest gardens, and we can still see the increase in biodiversity where these gardens were today.
The next: We have an oak prairie savanna ecosystem that was intentionally maintained via intentional fire (which they were banned from doing for like, 100 years and we're just now starting to do again), and this ecosystem is disappearing as Douglas firs spread, invasive species take over, and land is turned into European-style agricultural systems.
The Land Slide: Actually, the native peoples had a complex agricultural and food processing system that allowed them to meet all their needs throughout the year, including storing food for the long, wet, dark winter. They collected a wide variety of plant foods (along with the salmon, deer, and other animals they hunted), from seaweeds to roots to berries, and they also managed these food systems via not only burning, but pruning, weeding, planting, digging/tilling, selectively harvesting root crops so that smaller ones were left behind to grow and the biggest were left to reseed, and careful harvesting at particular times for each species that both ensured their perennial (!) crops would continue thriving and that harvest occurred at the best time for the best quality food. American settlers were willfully ignorant of the complex agricultural system, because being thus allowed them to claim the land wasn't being used. Native peoples were actively managing the ecosystem to produce their food, in a sustainable manner that increased biodiversity, thus benefiting not only themselves but other species as well.
So that's cool. If you want to read more, I suggest "Ancient Pathways, Ancestral Knowledge: Ethnobotany and Ecological Wisdom of Indigenous Peoples of Northwestern North America" by Nancy J. Turner
#im not an expert but#tbh I kinda think at this point the concept of wild being something untouched is a fake colonialism thing#it was the initial concept behind national parks actually#to just leave land to fend for itself when before people inhabited it and helped maintain its ecosystems#and thats 1 not a good relationship to have with land and 2 not helpful#a lot of people don’t realize that outside urban areas humans like. used to be and still are a keystone species.#land is a part of all of us#we need it as much as it needs us#we have to learn to become good stewards though. build reciprocity. maybe thats cheesy#but idk its what I thinks.
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Hey other trans men (+ other trans people), FTM international and FTM newsletter publications are available online .
This is stuff I urge people to read because people know nothing of trans man/FtM history, struggles, and activism.
Many things discussed in these are still things argued about today - because people refused to listen to trans men then and they are refusing to now.
#inch resting#although it does make me kinda sad theres nothing from my area which I guess should be expected I gotta keep looking there probably
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gotta check every now and then to make sure the brand is still strong
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The humans in Greek Mythology are the mega rich and powerful:
In my college classes people are often shocked when I tell them my favorite part of Greek mythology is the gods themselves and I'm not a big fan of the humans.
99% of my classmates prefer the humans in mythos, especially the ones that stick it to the gods like Sisyphus and feel bad for humans like Kassandra and Helen who have been wronged by the gods because "they're just like us." My classmates and teachers hate the gods and don't understand why anyone in modern times would want to worship such violent and selfish beings whenever I point out there are still people who worship them. They hold onto the idea that people in mythology embody the human experience of being oppressed by terrible gods and fate and we should feel bad for them because "they're human just like us" but they forget that the people in Greek Mythology are NOT just like us. They are more relatable to medieval royalty, colonizers and ultra rich politicians who make laws and decisions on wars and the fates of others, especially the poor and the very vulnerable.
Every hero or important human in Greek Mythology is either some form of royalty or mega rich politician/priest-priestess (of course this is with the exception of people who are explicitly stated to be poor like the old married couple in the myth where Zeus and Hermes pretend to be panhandlers). All of them have an ancient Greek lifestyle more relatable to Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump, and especially to British royalty during the British empire, than the average person.
All of them.
Odysseus, Patroclus, Theseus, Helen of Troy, Kassandra, Diomedes, Agamemnon, Perseus, Hercules, Aeneas, Paris, Any human who has a divine parent or is related to one, etc. Although sometimes the story omits it, it is heavily implied that these are people who own hundreds or even thousands of slaves, very poor farmers and the tiny barely there working class as royal subjects.
They are the ones who make laws and whose decisions massively affect the fates of so many people. So no, they can't just be forgiven for some little whim, because that little whim affects the literal lives of everyone under their rule. By being spoiled they've just risked the lives of thousands of people and possibly even gotten them killed like when Odysseus' audacity got every single slave and soldier in his ships killed or when Patroclus as a kid got upset and killed another kid for beating him at a game. (A normal person wouldn't kill another person just for winning a game but royalty and those who think they're above the law do it all the time, plus the class status of the child wasn't mentioned but the way he didn't think he'd get in trouble implies the kid was of lower class, possibly the child of a slave or a foreign merchant.)
The gods get a bad reputation for punishing the humans in mythology but, if not them, who else is going to keep them accountable when they are the law?
And whose to say the humans beneath them weren't praying to the gods in order to keep their masters in check?
Apollo is the god of slavery, Zeus is the god of refugees, immigrants and homeless people, Ares is the protector of women, Artemis protects children, Aphrodite is the goddess of the LGBT community, Hephaestus takes care of the disabled, etc. It wouldn't be surprising if the gods are punishing the ultra rich and powerful in these myths because the humans under their rulership prayed and sent them as they did historically.
Every time someone asks me if I feel bad for a human character in a myth, I think about the many lives affected by the decision that one human character made and if I'm being completely honest, I too would pray to the gods and ask them to please punish them so they can make more careful decisions in the future because:
They are not just like us.
We are the farmers, a lot of our ancestors were slaves, we are the vulnerable being eaten by capitalism and destroyed by the violence colonialism created. We are the poor subjects that can only pray and hope the gods will come and correct whatever selfish behavior the royal house and mega rich politicians are doing above us.
And that's why I pray to the gods, because in modern times I'm dealing with modern Agamemnons who would kill whatever family members they have to in order to reach their end goal, I'm dealing with everyday modern Achilles who would rather see their own side die because they couldn't keep their favorite toy and would gladly watch their subjects die if it means they eventually get their way. The ones that let capitalism eat their country and it's citizens alive so long as it makes them more money. These are our modern "demigods," politicians who swear they are so close to God that they know what he wants and so they pass laws that benefit only them and claim these laws are ordained by God due to their close connection just like how Achilles can speak to the gods because of his demigod status via his mother.
Look at the news, these are humans that would be mythical characters getting punished by Greek gods which is why anything Greco-Roman is jealousy guarded by the rich and powerful and is inaccessible to modern worshippers because Ivy League schools like Harvard and Cambridge make sure to keep it that way. That's what we're dealing with. These are the humans these mythical beings would be because:
In our modern times the humans in mythos would be the politicians and mega rich that are currently ruining our society and trying to turn it into a world where only the rich can manipulate wars and laws, just like they do in mythology.
Fuck them.
I literally have so much more to add about my disdain for them and I didn't even touch on the obvious ancient Greek propaganda.
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Dionysos worshippers, how did you start?
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La Danse Triomphale de Pallas Athénée
Statue of Athena in Paris. She is also supposed to be holding a spear in her hands
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You do not need a sign.
For the love of the gods, just pray. You do not need to be called. You do not need to be contacted. Just pray.
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Prayers to the Gods for the Palestinian people.
Keep sharing, keeping protesting, keep b0ycotting, but your prayers also have power, not just for yourself, but for others too. The Gods weep as we do at this injustice. They are just as angry as we are. The Gods will always care about injustice. Remember Xenia.
Also ! Anyone can use these, feel free to change the prayers to fit any other gods!
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To Apollo and Artemis to protect the young in Palestine
To lovely Artemis and Apollo, protectors of children, please give your grace to the children of Palestine.
Please let them have as many joyful moments as possible— even if it's their last.
Watch over them and protect them all the way into to their final seconds
Avert evil and harm from them as much as possible
Grant them the peace of seeing their siblings and caretakers, even if it's the last time
Let them know the joys of being a child, even if it's fleeting Let them play, sing, dance
Grant them joy and grant them peace and then extend that joy, comfort, and beauty into their afterlives/ next lives, so that they won't know this fear and sorrow again.
Love and protect the children of Palestine as they are as precious as any other
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To Ares, most unbreakable
To Ares, most unbreakable, whose courage and strength are as unlimited as he is
Please extend that same fortitude and strength to the Palestinians
Οβριμος (strong, mighty) make it so that their strength and courage never runs out
Αδάμαστος (unconquerable, indestructible) make it so they wont die without a fight, that as much as the oppressors think they have complete power of them, they never will
Τειχεσιπλητης (stormer of cities, walls) make it so they break out of the hell they've been forced it
Λαοσσοος (he who rallies people), make it so the people unconditionally come to their support
Beloved Ares, you are as kind as you are destructive Save your grace for the Palestinians, for you weep as much as we do for them.
But unleash your wrath on the oppressors and murderers
Make it so they never have another day of peace
That the blood on their hands stains everything they touch, polluting their lives, and so it may never wash off
Δεινος (terrible, fearsome), show them no mercy.
Ares, saviour and protector of people, protect and love the Palestinians as you do.
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To Athena defender and savior of people
To Athene, defender of cities
She with the most wisdom, hold them with you under your unbreakable shield
Σωτειρα (savior) please save them from the unyielding bombs and rubble that many are buried in
Αλαλκομενηις (protector) protect them always, for they are as precious as any other. Protect them while alive and after they're gone, protect their legacy, their story
Παιωνια (healer), help them use their limited medical supplies to save as many as they can. Protect the doctors and any healthcare workers, so that they may help as many as they can
Protector, Saviour, defender, please save the Palestinian people, their home, and their legacy.
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To Zeus, savior and most merciful
To Zeus, most high, extend your endless kindness and grace to the Palestinian people.
Σωτηρ (savior) please save the Palestinian people, for their lives are as precious as any other.
For they have a culture, story and history as rich as any other.
Λαοιτης (of the people) make it so they are never forgotten and while some deem them unworthy of living, make that known to the people that that is untrue
Ελευθεριος (of freedom) make it so they will know freedom and will not be under siege any longer
Τροπαιος (turns to flight, defeats), instill in them the fighting spirit they need, and the spirit to live, so they can expel the oppressors from their land.
Παλαμναιος (punisher of murderers), make it so the oppressors can’t get away with their crime, that they never can escape from their own actions
Επιδωτης (giver of good), make it so they can find as many moments of peace and slight escape as they can, no matter how fleeting it is. Whether it be sitting with a loved one or getting a sip of fresh water, give it to them.
Θεος Αγαθος, (the good god) you as much as the other Gods teach us Xenia (hospitality, friendliness basically), to hold it close to our hearts, to hold people close to our hearts. We know you are as just as angry as we are, and we know you mourn with us. And just like you, we will let no injustice pass
No one should stay silent about this or any other injustices. Speak up, protest, share, and pray
(Also please excuse any spelling, grammar, and other errors,, I did read over it but yknow)
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A little ecstatic humor.
(Snek is a traditional Mediterranean vector of possession. Dionysos has some rituals that involve ecstatic possession. She hands Dionysos his snek back and he hands her the wine she will need to heal from the same snek that he sent her. He is both the cause and the cure. Thanks a lot, bud.)
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Phoebus ☀️🌿🏹
Here’s Apollo of this year! I’m working on and off for this painting since Jan and decided to just let it go now, below cut are just my little process/commentaries
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