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hi that is me! i mostly post about hellenic paganism 😅

We need more occult blogs to follow

Interact with this post if you post about:

PC paganism

Tarot/runes/any kind of divination honestly

Kemetic paganism

Spirit work (esp with plant/animal spirits and ancestors)

Chaos magic

Honestly any sort of occultism/witchcraft/paganism

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omg is that a glass pen? that’s cool as fuck i have a glass pen too! i should start using it in my spellwork!!

Inks can add intention to spells. I use dove’s blood for things like love and sweetening, dragon’s blood for adding strength and protection, and bat’s blood for hexing and cursing. I also have my own mixture of ink made of fake blood and dragon’s blood resin for personal spells. What do you use your inks for?

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hi adding onto this! you can also write your deities’ names or draw some of their symbols on yourself with a marker, too. if a name is too much and you cant really draw, their initial is good too! and it doesn’t have to be in a super visible place, either. :)

of course, even if you dont want to do or cant do physical acts of worship, they will still appreciate that you are thinking about them 🩷🩷

Just wanted to let you know, if you don’t have certain pendants or jewelry for your deity, that’s ok! You could always wear a crystal in their honor and it doesn’t even have to be one accociated with them if you don’t have one. They always appreciate you.

Currently I am wearing rose quartz for Aphrodite and citrine for Apollo, gifts for them. It makes me feel whole to have a peice of them with me.

Even if you can’t get jewelry, do something else, make a poem, color a picture, do something and that still counts as an offering.

They will always be greatful. I hate when people say that gods and goddesses don’t care about us because they do. We are their prized creation. They love us in a way a mother and a father would, but that’s for another time. They appreciate all you do. Even just showering or doing your hair in their honor would please them.

Keep all of this in mind.

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🩷o’ goddess of love, desire, sexuality, lust and beauty, lady Aphrodite, thank you for everything. Please take this e-offering xx 🩷

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🩷 O’ lady Aphrodite, goddess of love lust passion and desire please take this e-offering 🩷

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interesting Lady Aphrodite facts!

- she is also the goddess of ports, and port towns!

- many ancient artworks of her, depicted her with traditionally male features, like beards, along with traditionally female features. she has long been associated with gender ambiguity and sexual fluidity.

- she was revered during times of politics.

- seashells are not only offered to Lady Aphrodite due to her associations with the ocean, but also due to seashells’ likeness to the biological female genitals.

- a statue of Lady Aphrodite was the first ever fully sized, fully naked, female form stone sculpture to be created. this image is a recreation of said statue, made from marble, during the roman era.

- traditionally, Lady Aphrodite was depicted wearing clothes. it wasn’t really until the roman era that this changed, and most artworks began depicting her naked.

- julius ceasar was very fond of the roman version of Aphrodite (Venus), and a lot of roman artworks depicted her wearing armour, or armed with weapons.

- opiates were once associated with Lady Aphrodite. Many people offered her Opiates, or did Opiates in her honor. opium-burners were often found at her shrines in ancient times.

- she is also associated with lotus flowers!

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“Stop trying to sanitize the gods, they’re flawed and human.”

Excuse me? You’re trying to tell me that my deities are somehow close to our level? That they are flawed and therefore lesser? My gods had the ancients inventing new ways of thinking, and forced us to consider our place in the universe under their tutelage. They survived thousands of years of intentional erasure. They could not be forced to bow to a new “supreme” god. They survived into the 21st century where we worship currency and technology. They moved through the winds and whispers of our ancestors that were under threat. But the gods kept us in their graces after their temples were disgraced and built over with churches. The held our bloodline in their hands from the cradle to the grave, over and over, from ancestor to descendent, all the way to us. They endure in a way we could never. And they give us the gift of their presence and indescribable vastness. They are not human. They are not of this world. We’ve been told that means all goodness and all perfection, and that standard is untouchable just as God is unreachable. These gods touch us, they have walked amongst us.

We have told their stories from the viewpoint of western, Christian, modern society and it has done them a disservice. Even so, even though we take their stories of divinity and water them down, they do not retaliate, they do not abandon us. They are the farthest thing from human. And if this lesson is that imperfection is beyond humanity, it makes the ideal of perfection we hold foolish and inhumane.

The gods have no need for our blessings, but I bless their names nonetheless.

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hi i got it all from temu actually because im broke 😭😭😭

i looked up “gold vintage box” or something for the box and “[item] charms” for the little charms :)

new apollo altar (it is tiny but i need to hide it from my parents lol)

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kind to men and to the deathless gods (campo and his family, in the beginning)

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new apollo altar (it is tiny but i need to hide it from my parents lol)

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oh wow the python vertebrae are so creative! I love that!!

I made a devotional bracelet for Apollon!! Since the days are getting warmer now I've really been feeling him showing up again, and it's like a sigh of relief. This is python vertebrae, carnelian, a golden eye bead, and a glass sun bead. It's my first piece of devotional jewelry and definitely won't be my last.

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Apollo Smintheus

rats and mice are sometimes associated with Apollo, likely because ancient farmers would pray to him protect their crops from them - but I also like to think that Apollo has them as little friends <3

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"Of Kythereia, born in Kypros, I will sing. She gives kindly gifts to men: smiles are ever on her lovely face, and lovely is the brightness that plays over it. Hail, goddess, queen of well-built Salamis and sea-girt Kypros; grant me a cheerful song. And now I will remember you and another song also."

-Homeric Hymn 10 to Aphrodite

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idk who needs to hear this but if someone is religious, it is their business. you aren't funny or edgy for expressing your hatred for all religions on earth (which i doubt anyway, because i dont think you know all roughly 4000 religions on earth). if you have your own gripes with it, that's fine. whatever. but also don't generalize, and don't make it anyone else's problem. i do not care what religion it is. just keep your lovely mouth shut.

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Deity Aesthetic: Aphrodite Anaduomenê (Born from the sea)

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fr imma go do that now actually

The sheer amount of art made by hellenic polytheists is so pleasant. I am so happy we can honour the Gods artistically.