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Lois Laina
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If it is not safe for you to pray out lead because of many reasons, then that is OK as the gods can hear you if you pray in your head. As Odysseus does it in The Odyssey (5 440-444).
I must say you don’t have to pray everyday so never feel pressured to do so I personally pray to Aristeaus every Monday, Athena every Tuesday, and Hermes every Wednesday. I tried to pray to all three once a day but it just wasn’t working.
A special thanks to Aliakai’s great video on prayer that I got the information about Odysseus (as I haven’t read The Odyssey yet but plan to once I read The Iliad)
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You do not have to be Greek to be a Hellenist. Are all Christians Jews? No, Jesus was a Jew and spread his religious thoughts out the world. So I believe you don’t have to be the ethnicity of somewhere to worship certain gods, you don’t have to be Egyptian to worship the Egyptian gods and the same for everywhere else. The theoi are welcoming and don’t care where you come from. I am English and I am a Hellenist and I haven’t disrespected the gods.
In ancient times Trojans worshiped the Greek gods which is where modern-day Turkey is so borders back then were not a big thing and countries changed what they are called.
So all in all you can be from anywhere to worship any god, they don’t mind where you are from. Many people may say ‘You have to be Greek to be a Hellenist’ or ‘I am Greek and I find Hellenism disrespectful’ but these people either want to start an argument or don’t know that Hellenism is a universal religion as all religions are. So it is best to ignore people like that or just say ‘I know many Americans who are Hellenists’ or ‘I know many Greeks who are Hellenists’ which will shut them up. As anyone can worship the Greek theoi.
There are some closed religions i.e The Amish. My main focus was how all pagan religions are open for everyone and I was comparing them being open to one of the main religions of the world Christianity.
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Offerings to Pallas Athene:
-Honey
-Olive oil
-Olives
-Figures of owls
-Wine (if you are of legal age in your country to buy it)
-Water
-Candle
-Incense
-Books
-Statue of her
-Coffee/tea (this can be the drink itself or the steam coming up from it when making it)
Devotional actions:
-Learn martial arts
-Read
-Workout
-Go on walks
-Grow an olive tree
-Learn a new hobby
-Write poetry or hymns for her
-Play strategy games
-Learn about past wars
-Learn anything
-Write a clever book
-Charity (either donating or volunteering or both)
-Learn a new skill
(There are many more offerings and devotional actions but I came up with all the ones I could think of, I hope you have enjoyed and found this helpful. May the gods be with you)
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Shoutout to all the pagans that can't celebrate holidays in a 'traditional' or 'typical' way or can't do 'traditional' or 'typical' devotional acts due to chronic illness, neurodivergence, executive dysfunction, disabilities, anything
You all are still perfectly valid and your deities understand and still love you.
You can't tidy their alters or pray before their alters because you can't get out of bed? They understand
You can't walk barefoot in the grass or pick flowers for Betlane? That's perfectly okay
You can't easily create things for your deities? They understand
You can't clean something for Ostara? That's perfectly okay
Your deities understand. You are still valid. You are still loved.
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Isn’t it great to wake up and know that our deities see us, love us and care about us, just the way we are?
Isn’t it great that they help us become better people? and i’m sure majority of the time we don’t even notice it
Isn’t it great how out of all the people alive in this space rock we call earth, our deities chose us?
Isn’t it great to have a parental/friendly/warm/partner-in-chaotic-crime figure that will always understand you?
Isn’t it great how these ancient deities that have been existed for yonks, are pleased with trinkets and items that remind us of them?
There is nothing greater than the love between a deity and their devotees and i think that’s fucking gorgeous.
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My warm-up sketch got out of hand… you know how it is when you’re gay.
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have you seen this one by chance? saw it reposted to pinterest and thought of my favorite public transit blog
Finally a way to market trains to the cruel capitalist
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someone on the dash mentioned butch asari and i had to draw her
terfs fuck off
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this video has been going around for a while but the English subtitles didn't match the energy of the spoken French at all. i had to fix it.
reblog to spread this version
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The person I reblogged this from deserves happiness and love
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Thinkin about gender and spirituality
Preface: I don't have a real point to this. I just remembered you can basically post anything to tumblr.
My ex-mother in law said something to me the first time we met.
"I've never understood queer relationships. You need the masculine and the feminine to balance eachother out... But I suppose that's why gays tend to have one masculine partner and one feminine partner."
This woman was a huge name in the druidic community of the UK. She is polyamorous. She told me that she remembered past lives and regularly saw the dead, animal and human. But she couldn't wrap her head around the idea of something outside of heteronormativity.
And she wasn't the only one in my life like that. I was basically raised a little heathen but I still grew up white in the US. Christian overtones policed my thinking and the thinking of those who influenced me. Most of my non-male partners have been feminine in their gender expression, and in turn I acted more and more masculine. I tried to fit a role based on expectations rather then what I (or even my partners) wanted.
Now I'm with someone I expect will be for life. They are 'masc' in that they are Butch. Not divorced from their womanhood even if they do not embrace that part of themselves the way someone who really enjoyed more 'typical' femininity would. Meanwhile I just bought two skirts for the first time since middleschool and I'm becoming even more comfortable with the term 'agender'.
I'm still a spiritual person, more now then when I knew and had access to people with connections in the 'neo pagan' movements. And yet every fucking time I see people talking about spirituality I still see people stumble over the ideas of the 'masculine' and the 'feminine' in nature.
My ex-MIL also said once that I should be careful not to anthropomorphize things. That my experience with a specific tree feeling safe when I was a child in need was probably just me projecting.
On this one thing, I actually agree with her. We project a lot of bullshit onto the natural world. And onto ourselves. Especially in the spiritual community. What is masculine about the sun? What is feminine about the moon? Nothing. They are objects in space with mass and gravity. Why would that make them any less magical? They still have a huge impact on our lives. The sun's impact is generally more overt. The moon's is more subtle. We can talk about these things in how they relate to us, I don't think that's unreasonable. You can't experience the world except from your own perceptions. The sun is hot and brings life but also can cause damage and death. The moon and night is cold but gives us the tides which effects us just as much but usually in ways we either live far from or don't directly think about/see.
The problem really comes in, I think, from how we don't just say 'the sun is masculine and the moon is feminine' it's how that inevitably leads us to imposing that duality onto people. People pose anthropomorphized ideas onto things that are not human and in turn try to use it as a mirror or a measuring stick to hold up against themselves or other humans. And not all cultures even believed these things or have lines drawn this strongly, I know. But I can only talk from the experience I've lived. The presence of strict ideals that specifically Christian-fascism (current and historic) have given us are so pervasive in people like me that they go completely unquestioned. Every book I read, including my ex-MIL's did nothing to question it, and in many cases actively reinforced it.
It's really no wonder that there is a fast and ugly pipeline of 'witch' to 'right-wing' if the people who position themselves as outside the mainstream culture are still just recreating it in the spaces they make.
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we could have had it all (butch lesbian jack nought mass effect)
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