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Shoutout to that era in the 90s when Dionysus temporality possessed home renovators and grape themed kitchens were a thing.

My future kitchen tbh I had one like this as a kid living on a vineyard.

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Wilderness from my new book Faraway Dreaming. 🌱🌲 Available on Kickstarter until 24 June, 2025!

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I pray to you, Lord Apollo, and I praise your light

I ask of you to watch over me as I start a new medication and to help the side effects be manageable

Apollo Acesius - I ask for your favor and for you to remember the offerings I have given you

Thank you for hearing me as I call to you, thank you for the warmth and hope you give me when I’m feeling overly down or anxious

Thank you for being the light in the darkness and the healer I need very regularly

May you continue to watch over us, We praise you Lord Apollo

Sharp-shooting protector, keep us from what may bring us harm

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Artemis and Orion. Apollo comes next i assume

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Artemis as Potnia Theron. Handle of Grächwil hydria. c. 570 BCE. Potnia Theron holding hares and flanked by two seated lions. Bern, Bern. Hist. Mus. 11620. LIMC Artemis 47.

Information from: A GRIPPING TAIL: Re-interpreting the Archaic Potnia Theron Schema By Emily Simon, and Moore, Daniel Walker. “The Etruscan Roots of the Reinheim Armring.” Germania, 2021, https://doi.org/10.11588/ger.2021.92210.

Photo on the left by Saiko on Wikipedia.

Drawing on the right from: Reinach, Salomon. Répertoire de la statuaire grecque et romaine: Sept mille statues antiques. 2. éd. 1908. France, E. Leroux, 1908. 

I've written more about Artemis as Mistress of Animals / Potnia Theron here.

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In this post I will help beginners understand the basics of Hellenism, which is the oikos! Hope this help and I’ll explain all well! Enjoy your reading💛 (Sorry for my English if I’ve mistaken something, its not my frist language)

The sacred Household in Hellenism🏡

“The gods are not far away — they live among us, beginning at the hearth.”

When people first come to Hellenism, many expect temples, elaborate rituals, and festivals with incense drifting into the sky. And yes, those things exist, and they’re beautiful.

But in traditional Hellenic religion, the true center of worship has always been the household — the oikos. This is where devotion begins.

The oikos is more than just your physical living space. In ancient Greece, it referred to the entire household unit: the family, the home, the land, the goods, and the sacred forces that protected and sustained them.

For Hellenists, our home is a temple in miniature. It’s where you interact with the gods every day, where you make offerings, pray, purify, and maintain order. You don’t need an expensive altar, what you need is intention, reverence, and consistency.

Hestia: The heart of the Home🔥

At the center of the sacred household is Hestia, goddess of the hearth flame.

She is the first-born of the Olympians, and the first (and last) to receive offerings in every ritual.

Hestia represents warmth, safety, peace, continuity. In ancient homes, the hearth fire was never allowed to go out, and when a new household was formed, the flame was lit from the family hearth.

(I will do more about the Gods in specific in other posts)

In a modern practice, you can honor Hestia simply:

Light a candle or lamp in her name.

Offer a drop of oil, water, or wine.

Speak a short prayer:

“Hestia, keeper of the hearth, may your flame burn bright in my home.”

It doesn’t need to be elaborate!

But ancient Greeks honored her a bit differently!

As I said earlier, the hearth (estia) was a literal fire in the center of the home. It was always kept burning as a sacred flame: extinguishing it was considered bad luck or impious unless ritually necessary.

Every meal and domestic ritual began with a libation or offering to Hestia! In fact, no matter which god was being honored, Hestia received the first and last libation in any sacrificial ritual.

She didn’t have many temples, her domain was every home and public places! At city level, a sacred fire to Hestia burned in the prytaneion (town hall or public hearth), symbolizing civic unity.

And then as another ritual, when a couple got married or a new household was formed, a flame from the bride’s family hearth was carried to the new home to light the new hearth, symbolizing continuity and divine blessing!

The Household Gods are more than one!🏛️

The sacred household includes more than Hestia. Such as: Zeus Ktesios, Hermes Propylaios / Hermes Agoraios, ancestors and Household Spirits (like Agathos Daimon).

Of course, there are more Gods that protects Household but these are the most commonly honored ones!

Zeus Ktesios: Protector of the household, provider of goods and food. Many Hellenists keep a ktesios jar, a simple container filled with water, oil, and other symbolic items like bay leaves or coins. It’s kept in a clean corner of the pantry or home.

Hermes Propylaios / Hermes Agoraios: Hermes protects the boundaries of the home and the spaces beyond. He is honored at the threshold, by the door, as guardian of comings and goings. A small stone or figure by your door can be his marker. He’s the god who makes movement and communication possible.

Ancestors and Household Spirits: The dead are never far from the living in Hellenism. Ancestors (both literal and spiritual) are remembered with respect and offerings.

But what can we do as a devotion in our homes?

There are many ways! But I’ll offer a little simple routine:

Washing your hands (khernips) to purify

Lighting a candle for Hestia

Pouring a libation (water, milk, wine)

Speaking a short prayer

Leaving a small offering: bread, olive oil, fruit, or incense.

Remember that none of this is a RULE and necessary, but it builds Kharis and in more simple words it tells the Gods “this is your home too and may you protect it”, we make space for the Gods and its a simple yet efficent devotional act!

It reminds us that the divine is not far away! In Hellenism, this is where devotion starts!

I hope you enjoyed. I tried to explain this well enough and at the same time as short as I could!

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"Soft-eyed Hypnos came, embracing all his limbs, as a mother on seeing her dear son after a long absence folds him with her wings to her loving breast."

— Greek Lyric V Anonymous, Fragment 929g (Rainer papyrus) (trans. Campbell)

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I did not feel beautiful today,

so instead I went down to the river.

I gathered stones from the water,

and felt the sun on my back,

and pretended I was older than the world.

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"are you guys seeing this"

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Aphrodite pandemos<3

Goddess of the people

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My personal favorite epithet's of Lady Bastet from the Lexikon der Ägyptischer Götter und Götterbezeichnungen

nbt pt tA – The lady of heaven and earth

mHt aH m Awt ib – Who fills the palace with joy

nfrt Hr – She with perfect face

nDmt sTy – She with pleasant scent

irt Sat m XAkw ib – Who inflicts a massacre against the crooked-hearted

nbt hy – The Mistress of Jubilation

Haa nTrw rmT n mAA.s – The gods and people rejoice at the sight of her

Spst wsrt – The Magnificent and Mighty One

nbwt – The Golden One

wsrt ib – She with the powerful heart

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dionysus and two satyrs

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Apollo & Hyacinthus 🌞🦢💏

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!! Artistic , Non-sexual Nudity !!

⸙gift for Lady Artemis ⸙

A devotional drawing for Lady Artemis , referencing a painting titled " Diana " by Jules Joseph Lefebvre .

Finally managed to draw something I'm actually really happy with for my Lady Artemis. I wasn't really happy with the old one I posted on here quite a while ago anymore , I really do hope she likes it too . I felt so content working on this and I loved drawing her , I really hope I managed to get the feeling of freedom I feel whenever I think of her across <33

The beautiful painting I was referencing for the posing and overall composition was definitely a good choice as the simple background didn't intimidate me for once and actually encouraged me to add more to it , like the cypress trees , the grass and the deer fur the goddess is leaning on .

I hope you guys like it too of course !!

( divider made by me <3 )