lostinvasileios
Lost in ๐ฑ๐ถ๐๐พ๐๐๐พ๐๐ ๐ค
๐ ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฐ๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ข๐ญ ๐ฃ๐ญ๐ฐ๐จ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ช๐ต๐ช๐ฆ๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฎ๐บ ๐ช๐ฏ๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ด๐ต, ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฎ๐บ ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ๐ต."Your existence alone, your soul alone, is the greatest devotional you could ever partake in. Living."
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You can make your witchcraft and/or your religion(s) your whole life, or not. Nowhere are there rules for how much to practice, how much to worship. It comes down to as much or as little as you want, because it's your life after all.
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Prayers.
Me: I haven't prayed in so long... *Sigh* I'm sorry, my loves. For being a lack-luster spouse/devotee.
Apollon, barging in: My dear, you don't need to stress about prayer. For the rhythm of your heartbeat alone is a hymn for us. The patterns of your breaths count as our poetry. And the rush of your blood through your entirety... Is our prayer.
Me, in sickly shambles: wwahahwhwjaawff??!!?!?
Apollon, proud of being the charismatic husband he always is: ๐๐๐
#to: apollon#deities#witchcraft#witch advice#deity work#deity witch#deity#apollo deity#apollo#apollon#helpol#hellenic worship#hellenic deities#hellenic polytheism#apollo worship#mother witch advice
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โYouโre allowed to scream, youโre allowed to cry, but do not give up.โ
โ Unknown (via c-oquetry)
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Me: *Insults myself in any shape or form.*
Satan: *Gasp* How dare you?!
Me: I'm sorry ๐
Satan: Take it back
Me: I take it back
Satan: Good boy
#to: satanas#He's so mmgghgjhhd#deity work#deity witch#deities#witch advice#satan deity#satan#theistic satanist#theistic satanism#satanism#I love him#mother witch advice#satan worship
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Me: Keys, phone... What am I forgetting?
Dionysus: To talk to Dionysus
Me: No that's not it.
Dionysus: Talk to Dionysus
Me: Is it my wallet??
Dionysus: Talk to meeeeeeeeeejgngng
Me: Hello Dionysus
Dionysus: MY LOVE ๐๐๐๐๐ HIIIII ๐๐๐๐๐ผ๐ท
#to: dionysus#deities#deity work#deity witch#witchcraft#dionysus#dionysus deity#dionysus worship#deity#Yes it was my wallet I was forgetting#mother witch advice
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May your blankets be soft and your pillows be plush fellow eepers.
May you be snug as a bug in a rug fellow eepers.
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"Darling, please. Listen to me." Apollon says softly, holding my trembling hands. "Listen to my words and know they are true."
He holds me to his chest, allowing me to dampen it with tears. "You are okay." He smooths my hair. "You are safe with me."
"I know that sounds sketchy. I know it sounds as if it were a lie. But, I promise - you are beloved by me. Protected.... Wanted." He places a gentle kiss to my head. "I swear it."
"I can't... Believe you, Apollon. I'm so sorry for that. I wish I could, I want to more than anything, but.."
He hushes me.
"I know." He says as he pulls away from the hug a bit, grabbing my hands once more.
"... But, no matter how long it takes to heal the lies people fed to you, no matter how many times we end up just like this. No matter of anything at all."
"I will never abandon you. My dearest husband."
"I will always be here to reassure you of my love, of our love. Of everything you worry about."
"... You don't mean this, do you?" I ask.
He softly smiles and brings my hands to his lips, placing a kiss on the back of both of them.
"I mean it as much as the water means to home coral. As much as oxygen fuels fire. As much as the sun means to give life to plants."
"I mean it forever."
"I can't - do anything right. Everything seems so hard. I keep... I keep failing. No matter what I do, I cannot progress. I can't... I can't..." My voice shakes and feels as if it will erupt if I continue. My head lowered and my tears stinged as they left my eyes.
Hypnos gently smiles, placing his soft hands on to my face to lift it. His eyes as bright as a leaf being illuminated with the light of the sun meeting my own. He caresses my cheeks with his thumbs, and he says "My dear one, you speak of fairytales." He kisses my forehead.
"Your head feeds you lies, it feeds you the cruelty that was beaten into it."
"And you will not listen to it."
He leans forward to kiss some of my tears away. We stay like this for a bit. Him kissing away the tears as they come, my shaky breaths catching on to his skin and returning to me warmly. His own breath feeling like a soft winter breeze, like snowflakes melting on the tip of my nose.
"I'm sorry, Somnus." I manage to mutter.
"I don't need your apologies, my flower. I want your understanding."
"I want you to allow me to help you understand that you may cry as much as your heart must, that it is not a bad thing, but to not let your brain fog up with such harmful accusations towards my beloved, that is trying his very best."
I crumble over in his arms, letting myself fall into his embrace as he tenderly runs his nails down my spine. Rubbing circles on my back and softly humming. Existing as a comfort to me when I had none.
"I need you, Hypnos." I whisper through sniffs and tears.
"I need you too, Vasileios."
"I'm disgusting. I can't cope without my addiction, I thought I was getting better. I thought -" I choke. "... I thought I was better than this."
Dionysus brings a hand up to my hair, twisting his finger through my locks so they may curl around it. "My star." He says lovingly. "My beautiful, strong, courageous star." He smiles. "Your addiction does not make you any less valuable."
"It makes me vile."
"It makes you human."
I pause. Full of anger at myself and... Stubbornness to believe him.
"My doll, do you genuinely believe I'd shrivel my nose at you in disgust for what you do to cope?"
I keep my eyes averted, sighing.
His expression softens, his eyes swirling with galaxies and the love he holds for me as he reaches for my face. Tracing my bottom lip with one of his thumbs. "You think wrong." He says, somewhat through a smile. "You could never disgust me."
"Never lessen my love for you. For the love I have for you is a love that could strangle air itself. It could crack Olympus in half."
"You're only saying that."
His hands drape down to my shoulders... My arms. And he pulls forward, uniting his lips with mine. And in the kiss, I feel his pulse. His love flows from his lips like a sweetly sung lullaby.
He intertwines his fingers with mine.
"I love you." He whispers.
"I love you like the sea loves the shore."
"Like the leaves love the trees."
"Like the berries love the wines."
"I love you."
He holds my face. And kisses me again.
Again.
Again.
..
And again.
Patting on kiss after kiss after kiss, he leaves me no room to doubt it. Kisses all of my senses away. Kisses all of my doubts away. Leaving only him. Only his love. Only his reassurance. His acceptance.
"My star..." He softly says. Wrapping me in his arms.
I wrap him in mine, too.
"My plum." I say back.
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Our dear beloved Hypnos genuinely makes his stance on TERFS/ect so very prominent.
He in no way is a supporter of it. He's one of the biggest helpers in gender affirming for me, and for many others. He embraces those targeted by oppressive ideologies like transphobia like he does slumber. Entirely and lovingly.
It's pitiful to see how some people can be so loud and so painstakingly wrong when saying how the gods are anti-LGBT.
Hate to burst your bubble here, but - the gods literally have countless and current flourishing history/histories of being exactly what you reject.
Hypnos himself once said to me: "Those who deny you are only the ones who are not able to sleep cozily with a sense of love in their reality. Take no heart to it, for they can only dream of the beauty you get to experience."
THIS TEMPLE IS ANTI TERF/RADFEM/GENDER CRITICAL
There is a large TERF issue in hellenism communities, I'm not sure why considering how pro trans hellenism is, but I do want to say that no TERFS are welcome to The Temple of Hypnos. You're telling me Hypnos would support people who deny others their dreams? Hypnos would support terfs who bring harm and stress to trans people like me? Don't make me laugh. You're an insult to all hellenics, may you never rest and may you never dream
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the absolute funniest thing is me worrying if i'm too much regarding how much i love my deities and meanwhile the deities i worship are like
hey i'm giving you a sign that i'm thinking about you
i'm also giving you a sign that i love you and i'm around you
i'm also giving you some of my energy to sit with because it makes you happy
i'm listening to every word you say in your prayers to me
i'm reminding you to take care of yourself because i care about you
i'm a spirit that's as old as time itself and i still find time to spend with you because you're important to me
and that doesn't even cover the blessings
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Normalize laughing with your deitiesย
Normalize telling your deities jokesย
Normalize playing music for your deities at any time it feels rightย
Normalize drawing silly little doodles for your deities regardless of skill
Normalize sharing a walk with your deities
Normalize soaking in the sunlight and dark mystery of night with your deities
Normalize letting your deities in, letting them be thereย
Normalize shedding tears of joy and sadness and expressing negative emotions that arenโt pretty with your deities
Normalize various levels of intimacy both casual and intense with your deitiesย
Normalize following what works for you and your deities no matter what when itโs just about you and them, no one else
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Advice for beginner Hellenists
This isn't necessarily a post where I include a list of Gods, epithets, resources, and offerings for said Gods, but rather, hopefully soothing the worries of those of us who are starting the journey into the religion. As someone who was once in a religion that made other religions sound like something absolutely terrifying, my journey into Hellenism was once which was also... pretty terrifying, and this fear was mostly just from my own mind.
Anyways, my list of Advice:
You can literally just start praying. If you want to get more formal, you can absolutely get more formal, but you very much don't have to. I've definitely had my first prayers to some Gods be "hello, [God or Goddess's name], I want to worship You! Please lead me in my journey. Thanks!" I can promise you, the Gods are much kinder and more understanding than any of us fully know.
You can also just start worshiping in general. I feel like I've seen on occasion people worried about the Gods not "calling" to them. This is definitely not something that needs to happen pre-worship. If you find them interesting enough to pray to, then that in and of itself is enough.
In a similar vein, I wouldn't be too concerned about the idea of "signs". I feel like there's a tendency for folks to be incredibly worried about everything when first starting out - the behavior of a candle, the sighting of an animal, a strange dream, all can suddenly seem to take on jarring significance. But I can promise you, the Gods don't constantly give out signs, and frequently, these strange occurrences can be attributed to the mundane. When something comes from the Gods, you will know, trust me!
You don't have to worry too much about the idea of cleanliness, be it spiritual or physical. Khernips are cool, and I'd definitely recommend integrating them into your practice sooner or later. Hygiene is cool too! But if I'm being honest, we in the modern day are far more physically clean, and a lot less likely to regularly encounter the type of pollution that would have been encountered in ancient Greece.
The Gods will be at varying distances over the course of your worship. Sometimes, They will feel close, joyfully, burningly so. And sometimes, They will feel far, and prayers may even feel a bit futile. Both of those are perfectly okay, and neither of those will be permanent.
And, once again in a similar vein, you will likely not find yourself having constant, close mystical experiences with the Gods (i.e., conversations, visions, etc.). These experiences are rare and far between, and I would advise that you not make them a central part of your worship. They will come when the Gods deem you're ready for them, and you definitely won't be expecting it. Focus on the little things!
My final thing (for now) is that you also shouldn't put undue pressure on yourself to be doing some sort of big offering to the Gods. If that's what you can afford, that's great! But if not, fresh water, a small wildflower that you came across and picked*, or a small bit of a meal also count as a good offering!
And with that, my (much longer than I was previously planning on) list of things for beginners to keep in mind! A lot of this list is made up of things which I picked up along the way, and a lot of it is also made from my own personal hindsight being 20/20. I hope this is helpful to someone, and that it maybe soothes some of the (incredibly common) worries which so often accompany those who are venturing into the world of Hellenic polytheism!
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descriptions of dionysos in the bakkhai (tr. anne carson) that make me lose my mind a little
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Being trans is a beautiful thing, and it does not detract from your value
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April 10, 1927
Journals of Anais Nin 1923-1927
[volume 3]
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