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Oh God of the Dead, where spirits reside,

Oh God of Wealth, of all under the skies.

Oh Bride of Death, dutiful and Loyal,

Oh Lady of Spring, caught in death's coil.

Praise, to you, Hades, Lord of the Underworld,

Praise to you Persephone, Queen of the underworld.

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My Persephone statue came AND thr Hades beads came. (The beads are from etsy.com/ENSORCLES; The statues are Veronese!)

I'm so happy they made it.

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Personifications of the stars and constellations in the tomb of Seti I

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Hellenic polytheism - free (and reliable!) resources

Updated 28 August 2020

The Homeric Hymns: http://www.theoi.com/Text/HomericHymns1.html              

The premier translations of The Homeric Hymns by Apostolos N. Athanassakis are also available to read online for free:  https://archive.org/details/homerichymns00home and https://archive.org/details/homerichymns00atha

The Orphic Hymns: http://www.theoi.com/Text/OrphicHymns1.html

The Delphic Maxims: https://www.scribd.com/document/186693295/Delphic-Maxims

Many other primary sources from ancient Greece can be found in English translations at theoi.com, which is a fantastic resource for information about the Theoi.

Modern prayers to the Theoi:

Hearthstone: https://greekpagan.com & https://greekpagan.tumblr.com/ Note: downloads of Hearthstone’s two books of Hellenic prayers can be purchased at https://www.etsy.com/shop/HearthfireHandworks

winebrightruby: https://winebrightruby.tumblr.com/devotional

Some of the best and most essential sources to start with - and for continuous reference, in my opinion:

Adam, John. The Religious Teachers of Greece. Clifton, New Jersey: Reference Book Publishers, Inc, 1965.  https://www.giffordlectures.org/lectures/religious-teachers-greece

Adkins, Lesley and Adkins, Roy A. Handbook To Life In Ancient Greece https://archive.org/details/handbooktolifein00adki

Betegh, Gabor. Greek Philosophy and Religion. https://www.academia.edu/4990433/Greek_Philosophy_and_Religion

Burkert, Walter. Greek Religion  https://archive.org/details/greekreligionarchaicandclassical

Dillon Matthew. “Household, Families and Women” in Kindt, J. Eidinow, E. (eds) The Oxford Handbook of Religion in the Ancient World, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2015. https://www.academia.edu/7974646/HOME_AND_HEARTH._THE_CLASSICAL_GREEK_EXPERIENCE_OF_DOMESTIC_RELIGION_in_Kindt_J._Eidinow_E._eds_The_Oxford_Handbook_of_Religion_in_the_Ancient_World_Oxford_University_Press_Oxford_2015

Furley, WIlliam D. and  Jan Maarten Bremer. Greek Hymns: Selected Cult Songs from the Archaic to the Hellenistic period. Part One: The texts in translation.Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2001.   http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:P6t4r1tHe4YJ:129.206.119.53/~q67/Info/HymnsIntro.pdf+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

Garrett, Jan. Did Socrates ‘Teach New Deities’? Or: Homer’s Gods, Plato’s Gods  http://people.wku.edu/jan.garrett/pgods.htm

Hesiod. Theoany  https://www.theoi.com/Text/HesiodTheogony.html

Hesoid. Works and Days https://www.theoi.com/Text/HesiodWorksDays.html

Kindt, Julia. “Personal Religion: A Productive Category for the Study of Ancient Greek Religion?” The Journal of Hellenic Studies, vol. 135, 2015, pp. 35–50., www.jstor.org/stable/44157346

Koutoupas, A. “The Meaning of Reciprocity in Ancient Greek Religion.”  https://www.academia.edu/12126893/The_Meaning_of_Reciprocity_in_Ancient_Greek_Religion

Meyer, Marvin.The Ancient Mysteries: A Sourcebook: Sacred Texts of the Mystery Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean World   https://archive.org/details/ancientmysteries0000unse_p7i2

Morford, Mark, P.O., Lenardon, Robert J. and Sham, Michael. “The student companion to Classical Mythology, Tenth Edition”: https://global.oup.com/us/companion.websites/9780199997329/

Otto, Walter. The Homeric Gods  https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.4448/page/n5/mode/2up

Petrovic, Andrej, and Petrovic, Ivana. “Introduction” in Inner Purity and Pollution in Ancient Greek Religion Vol I.  https://www.academia.edu/30262742/Introduction_in_Inner_Purity_and_Pollution_in_Ancient_Greek_Religion_Vol_I

Rask, K.A. “Devotionalism, Material Culture, and the Personal in Greek Religion.”  https://journals.openedition.org/kernos/23

William Smith, D.C.L., LL.D. A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities John Murray, London, 1875. Articles on Greek and Roman religion, including divination, festivals, funerals, magic, priestly officers, and rituals:  https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/secondary/SMIGRA/Religion/home.html

Whitmore, Emily. Personal Religion in ancient Greece.  https://www.academia.edu/8729313/Personal_religion_in_ancient_Greece

Woodward, Roger D. The Cambridge Companion to Greek Mythology https://archive.org/details/TheCambridgeCompanionToGreekMythology/page/n1/mode/2up

Also, please feel free to ask me questions or contact me about books/articles on specific topics related to Hellenic polytheism!

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Haides Introduction + Resources

Haides (Also known as Pluton and Aidoneus)

God of & Divine Functions:

King of the underworld

The Dead

Funerary rites & mourning

Necromancy (Divination via the dead)

Ghostly visitations

Curses & Master of the Erinyes

Master of dreams (particularly from the dead)

Mining & precious metals

Earth’s fertility 

Other aspects found in epithets & worship:

Of good counsel (Haides Eubouleus)

Glorious/Renowned (Haides Euclius)

He who receives many (Haides Polydegmon)

Host of many (Haides Polydegmon)

Conducts (Haides Agetes or Hegetes)

To flourish (Haides Altor)

Sovereign of Tartarus (Haides Larthy Tytiral)

To rest (Haides Quietalis)

To impel (Haides Urgus)

Receiver of the dead (Haides Necrodegmon)

Saviour of the dead (Haides Necron Soter)

The god who binds all equally (Haides Isodetes)

Obviously, Haides is chthonic.

Haides had very few representations in classical art. When he is shown, Haides is usually depicted with a dark beard, with a sceptre, or a cornucopia. 

Haides is sometimes misunderstood, especially due to some modern media comparing him to the devil. He’s really not, come on guys. 

He was feared in antiquity, due to him ruling over the underworld. People feared his name, and preferred to use epithets to refer to him, such as Pluton. 

Most interestingly enough, Haides also had oracles in antiquity in Thesprotia and Cumae. These oracles were capable of necromancy, aka divination via the dead.

Symbols/Attributes:

Royal Sceptre 

Cornucopia 

A key 

Snakes

Kerberos 

Sacred Animals:

Screech Owl

Rooster

Sacred Plants:

Mint

Asphodel

White poplar 

Shrine Ideas:

Things associated with death

Riches: gold, silver, bronze, etc.

Screech Owls

Snakes

Keys

Offering ideas:

General Offerings: Water, Unmixed Wine, Milk, etc.

Riches & jewels

Plants, flowers, especially the white poplar 

Feathers 

Devotional Activities:

Caring for graveyards 

Saving money

Studying the earth

Studying funerary rites 

Honouring the dead

Necromancy 

Donating to charities and such

Cult Locations:

Attica

Corinth

Argolis

Laconia

Elis

Phocis

Thesprotia

Caria

Cumae

Historical Hymns:

Orphic Hymn 18: To Haides

Other:

He had oracles in antiquity

Haides is a prominent figure in Orphic thought

Thanks anon for the request! I hope it’s good. I had this one halfway done, but then I started to procrastinate.

Resources + Sources:

https://www.theoi.com/Khthonios/Haides.html

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hades

https://www.theoi.com/Cult/HaidesCult.html#Titles

Aesthetic Image from: https://aly-naith.tumblr.com

- Adrian Dionysoniketes, Adri_Le_Chat

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Incantation of the Four Weapons

“สักกัสสะ วะชิราวุธัง เวสสุวัณนัสสะ คะธาวุธัง อาฬะวะกัสสะ ทะสาวุธัง ยะมะนัสสะ นะยะนาวุธัง สัพเพเทวา ปีสาเจวะ อาฬะวะกาทะโย ปิจะขัคคัง ตาละปัตตัง ทิสสะวา สัพเพยักขา ปะลายันติฯ”

Can be chanted to drive away malignant entities (ghosts, human or otherwise), to consecrate water to cleanse the house or to bless rice to be strewed in the corners of the home, among other uses in consecration and exorcism. The most common use is using it to bless a มีดหมอ which literally translates to doctor’s blade, a blade a witch-doctor uses, and to dip the blade into water to exorcise any unwanted spirits.

According to the monk หลวงพ่อปาน from the temple of วัดบางนมโค

The first phrase สักกัสสะ วะชิราวุธัง refers to the วชิราวุธ which is the weapon belonging to Phra In (Indra)

The second phrase เวสสุวัณณัสสะ คะทาวุธัง refers to the club belonging to Tao Wessuwan, the ogre/yak who is known to be a protector of holy sites

The third phrase อาฬะวะกัสสะ ทุสาวุธัง refers to the บ่วงบาศ which is a lasso belonging to ท้าวอาฬวกยักษ์ (a yak/ogre who received a blessing from Tao Wessuwan which allowed him to eat whoever rested within the shade of the tree he lives in. He later encounters Buddha- long story).

The forth phrase ยะมะนัสสะ นะยะนาวุธัง refers to the นัยน์ตา which is the weapon belonging to Phraya Yom, the ruler of the underworld.

The incantation invokes the power of these legendary weapons. The are various varations on the incantation, some calling upon an additional weapon belonging to Phra Narai, an incarnation of Visnu.

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Cobra goddess of Northern Egypt- Protector of children and kings and an Eye of Ra. Here she’s depicted in the marshes of the Nile.

A $50 8.5 x 5.5 commission from Etsy.

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The Mysteries of Osiris

The Mysteries of Osiris was the most important religious event of the year in ancient Egypt. It was celebrated in all major cities, including Thonis-Heracleion and Canopus, where even the Greeks who lived in those cities took part.

It reenacted the murder and revival of Osiris, Egyptian god of the underworld. Osiris was one of the most important and popular gods in ancient Egypt. All pharaohs were believed to descend from him, as living incarnations of Osiris’ son, Horus. Osiris presided over the tribunal of the underworld, offering the promise of life after death for the deceased who were ‘justified’ in the eyes of the gods. He was also associated with fertility and the annual regeneration of nature.

Osiris, his sister-wife Isis, and their son Horus formed a sacred family, worshipped across Egypt and beyond. They became increasingly popular during the first millennium BC. Annually, in every temple-city in Egypt, the god was celebrated in this most important religious festival.

The Mysteries of Osiris took place between the 12th and 30th of the month of Khoiak (mid-October to mid-November), when the Nile retreated, depositing fertile soil ready to be sown. Every year, two figures of Osiris were prepared by priests in the secrecy of the temple. One was made of soil and barley grains, and the other was made of expensive ingredients including ground semi-precious stones. These sacred figures were carried in procession to their final resting place at the end of the ritual celebrations.

For a long time, the Mysteries were known only from depictions in temples and ancient texts. However, recent astonishing underwater finds allow us to see ritual equipment and offerings associated with the Mysteries for the first time.

Discovered behind the shrine of Amun-Gereb in his temple at Thonis-Heracleion, this vat was used during the Mysteries of Osiris. On the first day of the Mysteries, the mummy-shaped figure of Osiris – made with a gold mould of two halves using soil, barley grains and water from the Nile – was deposited in a garden tank where it was carefully watered for eight days in a row, until it germinated.

This image shows a priest watering the germinating Osiris figure, in a depiction from the Temple of Philae. 

Find out more about the Mysteries of Osiris in the BP exhibition Sunken cities: Egypt’s lost worlds (until 27 Nov 2016).

Experience the Festival of Osiris in our free late event on Friday 28 October. Enjoy themed food and drink, workshops and performances!

A statuette of Osiris and a model of a processional barge for the god, shown in their place of excavation at Thonis-Heracleion. Photo: Christoph Gerigk. © Franck Goddio/Hilti Foundation.

Standing statue of Osiris. Medinet Habu (modern Luxor), 664–610 BC. On loan from Egyptian Museum, Cairo. Photo: Christoph Gerigk. © Franck Goddio/Hilti Foundation.

Pink granite garden vat. Thonis-Heracleion, Egypt, Ptolemaic Period, 4th–2nd century BC. Maritime Museum of Alexandria. Photo: Christoph Gerigk. © Franck Goddio/Hilti Foundation.

Reproduced from George Bénédicte’s Temple de Philae, 1893.

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Ma’at - list of pdfs

Translations of Ancient Egyptian Wisdom Texts

☀️ Instructions of Ptahhotep

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-static/digitalegypt/literature/ptahhotep.html

☀️ Instructions of Kegemni

http://www.reshafim.org.il/ad/egypt/texts/kagemni.htm

☀️Instructions of Amenemhat

http://wsrp.usc.edu/information/REL499_2011/Instruction%20of%20King%20Amenemhet.pdf

☀️Loyalist Instructions

http://www.reshafim.org.il/ad/egypt/texts/sehetepibre_stela.htm

Modern Scholarship

☀️ The Ancient Egyptian Concept of Ma’at: Reflections on Social Justice and Natural Order by R.J. Ferguson.

http://epublications.bond.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1012&context=cewces_papers

☀️The Concept of Law and Justice in Ancient Egypt with specific reference to the Tale of the Elequent Peasant by N.J. van Blerk

http://uir.unisa.ac.za/bitstream/handle/10500/2447/dissertation.pdf

☀️The Representations of Law and Justice in Ancient Egypt by J.G. Manning

http://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1378&context=yjlh

☀️Law and Order in Ancient Egypt: the development of criminal justice from the Pharoanic New Kingdom to the Roman dominate by A.J. van Loon

https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/bitstream/handle/1887/30196/Law%20and%20Order%20in%20Ancient%20Egypt.pdf?sequence=1

☀️Innocent Suffering in Ancient Egypt by D.P. Bricker

http://www.tyndalehouse.com/tynbul/library/TynBull_2001_52_1_04_Bricker_SufferingEgypt.pdf

Depictions in Art and Architecture

☀️The presentation of Ma’at: Rituals and Legitimacy in Ancient Egypt by E. Teeter

https://oi.uchicago.edu/sites/oi.uchicago.edu/files/uploads/shared/docs/saoc57.pdf

☀️ Ma’at as a Theme in Ancient Egyptian Tomb Art by T.M. Schroeder

https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1049&context=ojur

☀️ Keeping Ma’at: an astronomical approach the orientation of temples in Egypt by J.A. Belmonte and M. Shaltout

http://www.uranos.fr/PDF/ETUDES_19_D02_TEN.pdf

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What do you mean by "Keeper of Persephone and Hades" and "Keeper of Sif"?

I am a Devotee of Persephone and Hades, and Sif, but the word Devotee felt too little, I guess? Caretaker is a good word, but I don’t handle them they handle me. My shrines are technically publica and anyone can request me to bring their struggles to those gods.

Small Edit: Essentially, my shrines contain what I guess are called “Living Icons”, in which I care for them daily, and they are “living” a part of them inside the statue.

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My artwork of the Netjer. I did a lot over the last couple weeks.

Aset, Banebdjedet, Nebt-Het, and Heqet!

The Nebt-Het piece was done after a dream I had about her! :) --- Please ask before using my artwork.

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Two ladies: Wadjet and Nekhbet!