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My favorite memory of Dashcon was seeing one of the admins children and wife driven insane by the Bacchanal of Dionysus and tear him limb from limb like a stag.

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“Dionysos finds his Maenads among women who can’t stand any longer being locked into the domestic enclosure. They become wild women who break their chains in order to follow Dionysos the Liberator.”

— Ginette Paris, Pagan Grace: Dionysus, Hermes, and Goddess Memory In Daily Life (via twistedingenue)

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Head of Dionysus

Roman Imperial, Hadrianic, 1st half of 2nd century AD, after an early 4th century BC, Late Classical Greek Archetype.

The fine-grained marble head depicts Dionysus, the ancient Greek god of wine. The modeling is sensual and nuanced, with contrasting rhythms of serpentine hair and smooth, godly flesh.

-Cotton Auctions and Appraisals, Canada.

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Does anybody know a good prayer to Dionysus for seasonal depression? Because that shit is whooping my ass recently.

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Come sisters let us descend upon the hobby lobby in all our number and remark loudly upon what a helpful resource they are for the practice of witchcraft and the construction of accessible idols to worship as an alternative to their God who we have finally successfully destroyed through homosexuality and scrapbooking

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Right wingers not only promoting pseudoscientific ideas around porn addiction, semen retention and other no-fap community nonsense but actively legislating against pornography being legal means that I think we can officially call it: great news everyone, jacking off is now woke! This also means posting pole and hole is woke, going horny on main is woke, and most importantly gooning on the clock is woke. boss makes a dollar I make a dime that's why I nut on company time. The Gooner Rights Agenda is the future of the radical left - Coomers of the world Unite! You have nothing to lose but your pants

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Furious Maenad, carrying a thyrsus and a leopard, with a snake rolled up over her head. Tondo of an Ancient Greek Attic white-ground kylix 490–480 BC from Vulci. Staatliche Antikensammlungen, Munich, Germany.

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[gripping the sink] perfectionism does not help me avoid embarrassment or shame. perfectionism is in itself a form of shame. when i struggle with perfectionism i struggle with shame. when i struggle with perfectionism i struggle with shame. when i struggle with perfectionism i struggle with shame

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Lucky: my collection of vintage talismans and magic charms.

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I will perhaps have people mad at me for this, but it’s my passionate opinion that we, as Hellenists, or really any ‘pagan’ worshippers, should not demonize Christianity, & should not hold ourselves above other religions.

Not being Christian is now not the default, & in many ways, non-Christians are mistreated, however this was not always the case. There was a time when worshippers of gods familiar to us were the colonizers, & the oppressors, who martyred Christians.

On top of this, when you see yourself as inherently better than Christians, you are likely to fall into the fallacy of being unable to see your own Christian influences. Many of you speak of divinity in a way reflective of Christianity, many of you hold onto the idea of humans as inherently dirty. Sometimes, you’re influenced by other traditions & you don’t even notice- for instance, I’ve seen Wiccan practice touted as if it’s something ancient or inherent to Hellenism.

Sometimes I see people lamenting the fact that there are churches instead of temples, saying outright that it would be better if everyone was a Hellenist. I feel people forget what it was once like when there was only temples- it was not free, it was not safe for women, for foreigners, for the lower class. Believers in the Theoi did not become more moral then Christians solely though their faith in the Gods.

We have just as much potential to be harmful, bigoted & cruel as Christians. If you do not deconstruct, & if you hold anger against others for their faith, you are not breaking a cycle, you are continuing it.

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the two fundamental truths of historical and contemporary mankind:

we were just as smart then as we are now

we are just as stupid now as we were then

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This is the best artistic rendition of Mother Hera I've ever come across. She's so beautiful I can barely move my eyes. So gentle and loving. Btw this is not my creation. The creator has their name in the corner and they're in devianart so all credits to them and a load of gratitude cuz this is very very accurate to how I see my Mother in my mind. I found this pic on Pinterest so yep. BUT MOTHER DO I LOVE YOU?!!!!! I could cry just by looking at this.

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asterion, meaning, “starry”, or “starry one”