#greek magic

[ome-magical-ramblings]

A simple method to contact Ophiel with pen and paper.

illustration courtesy of my hubby, @desdemonasarchives. One of my friends wanted to work with Arbatel's spirits without calling on God or Jesus which is somewhat ironic considering it is a...Christian grimoire but nonetheless who am I to hide the light under the bushel(Matthew 5:15) right? I will have to put emphasis that this is only and specifically for Ophiel. His Spirits are 100000 Legions: he easily giveth Familiar Spirits: he teacheth all Arts: and he that is dignified with his Character, he maketh him to be able in a moment to convert Quicksilver into the Philosophers stone.

I will first say the words as told to me by Ophiel.

sincerity of heart, Pureness of mind, Calmness of body, Write me a letter as much as you can and I will draw near to you and get closer to you. Shred to pieces in the wind, burn it, bury it, in running water, any of these works and the more you write letters to me the more I will draw near to you, inspire you, and talk to you.

note: running water as in a stream or a river if possible. That's basically it. Write them a letter, you can start it with "Dear Ophiel[his seal]...." followed by a sincere request from you to contact them, and just keep approaching them respectfully and cordially :)

Surprisingly simple method to do it :) hope it works well for you.

[noctivague]

Ancient Greek & Roman Knot Magic - Part. 4

Some quotes from “Magic, Witchcraft, and Ghosts in the Greek and Roman Worlds : a sourcebook” by Daniel Ogden

Decided to break down this post into multiple ones because the quotes are too damn long. See the end of the post for links to the other ones.

The point of this is just to do some research on folklore and look for inspiration.

An old woman activates a twisted-thread anti-impotence amulet

"I strolled about a bit and had sat down in the same place as the day before, but CHrysis soon came along, dragging a little old woman after her. After saying hello she asked, "Well, my proud man, have you begun to feel better?" The old woman produced a cord from the folds of her dress, twisted together from threads of different color, and she tied it around my neck. Then she mixed some dust with spit, took it up on her middle finger, and drew a sign on my forehead, despite my objections . . . . When she had completed the spell she bade me spit three times over and drop some pebbles down my robe three times over. She had kept these stones, which she had charmed, wrapped in purple. She applied her hands and began to test the vigor of my loins. Sooner than you could say it, the muscles jumped on command, and the old woman's hand were filled with great upheavel. She was overjoyed and said, "Do you see, my Chrysis, what a hare this thing is that I have started for others to chase?" Petronius, Satyricon, 66 AD, greek

Hera and Aphrodite's embroidered band

"Lady Hera adressed Aphrodite with cunning in her mind: "Now give me love and desire, with which you subdue all the immortals and mortal men too. For I am goinng to go to see the boundaries of the bountiful earth and Oceanus, the sire of the gods, and mother Tethys, who reared and nurtured men in their house, after they had taken me over from Rheia, when far-shooting Zeus forced Cronus beneath the land and the unputes. Forn they have been avoiding sex and love with each other for a long time now, since anger fell upon their hearts. If I could talk the couple's dear hearts round, and bring them to go to bed and unite with each other in love, they would evermore call me dear and revere me."

Laughter loving Aphrodite replied to her: "It is neither possible nor seemly to deny your request, for you sleep in the arms of the greatest God, Zeus."

So she spoke, and she took her variegated embroidered band [kestos himas] from her breast, in which she had wrought all charms. In it there was love, in it there was desire, in it there was sweet intimacy, which steals the wits of even the sensible. She put it in Hera's hands and spoke to her, addressing her by name: "Take this variegated band now, in which all things have been wrought, and tie it accross your bossom. I can tell you that you will not come back without effecting the thing you desire in you heart."

Homer, Iliad

Links:

Part 1 - tongue binding

Part 2 - to bring back a lover

Part 3 - love + dedication to Aphrodite

[arcane-offerings]

Radcliffe G. Edmonds III. Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019. Hardcover edition. 474 pages. 

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[saffronveiled-dreams]

Leave something for your spirits.

Remind them of the beauty of living.

For they remember why it deserves protecting.

[that-cunning-witch]

"Aphrodite loves terfs" do you really think a goddess of love formed from a literal penis and the mother of Hermaphroditus, an intersex god who was associated with androgyny and feminine men, fucks around with transphobia?

she is a literal trans icon and to deny that will get you smited by all the gods

[dapper-lil-arts]

Oh No

I bet discord put that there.

[themodernwitchsguide]

altars for greek gods

this post includes hades, persephone, artemis, apollo, aphrodite, hermes, and hekate. for part 2 including zeus, hera, poseidon, hestia, hephaestus, dionysus, ares, demeter, and athena click here.

keep in mind that typical offerings to any god includes meat, wine, grain (specifically barley), honey, and incense (myrrh and frankincense would be period appropriate), but i'm listing some specific offerings that can be given if you'd like

colors can be used for candles, banners, decor, whatever you want

HADES

Colors: black, red, and white for association with death. purple and metallics for association with riches/wealth

Offerings: mint, asphodel, white poplar, pomegranate, coffee, cinnamon, elm, money, chocolate

Crystals: gemstones, black crystals (obsidian, black tourmaline, smokey quartz, etc.), pyrite, hematite, labradorite

Animals: black ram, owl, serpent, Cerberus

PERSEPHONE

Colors: purple, pink, yellow, green for association with springtime. black and metallics for association with Hades. white for purity.

Offerings: pomegranate, flowers, grains, asphodel, lavender, rosemary

Crystals: amethyst, gemstones, moss/tree agate, milk quartz, jade, lepidolite

Animals: deer, ram, bat, talking birds (including parrots)

APHRODITE

Colors: red and pink for love/sexuality. white and blue for association with the ocean. gold for association with, well, gold.

Offerings: roses, chocolate, shells, myrrh, gold

Crystals: rose quartz, pearl, emerald, opal, aquamarine, rhodonite, rhodochrosite, ocean jasper, morganite

Animals: swan, dove, hare

ARTEMIS

Colors: white, blue, black, and grey for association with the heavens. brown and green for association with nature/the hunt.

Offerings: moon shaped foods, frankincense, cypress, mugwort, amaranth

Crystals: morganite, moonstone, aventurine, selenite, celestite, moss/tree agate, amethyst, quartz (specific dendritic), labradorite

Animals: deer, wolf, wild boar

APOLLO

Colors: yellow, white, and blue for association with the heavens. red, orange, and pink for healing. purple and green for the Oracle

Offerings: sun shaped foods, bay leaves, laurel, cypress, playing music, poetry

Crystals: sunstone, amber, calcite (specifically honey and yellow), quartz (specifically rutilated or clear), rose quartz

Animals: cow, snake, hawk, crow/raven, cicada, swan

HERMES

Colors: green and gold for money/luck. white and brown for travels.

Offerings: money, crocus/saffron, strawberries

Crystals: jade, malachite, fluorite, pyrite, lapis lazuli, citrine, alexandrite

Animals: tortoise, ram

HEKATE

Colors: purple, blue, and green for magic. red and black for association with underworld

Offerings: garlic, saffron, crossroad dirt, black salt, ashes, sage, cedar, yew

Crystals: labradorite, obsidian, hematite, black tourmaline, amethyst, bloodstone, serpentine, lepidolite

Animals: wolf, boar, serpent, lion, horse, cow

[hacatestruth]

[aj-artjunkyard]

Apollo’s at his best when his speech patterns are “21yo college frat boy meets ye olde theatrical actor”. He responds with things like “But hark! Behold!” and “you should’ve been there, man. It totally rocked” in the same breath and kicks the fight or flight reflexes of every demigod in a mile radius into survival mode

[ome-magical-ramblings]

Home Sweetening/Stability Spell

I Got permission from Hagith to share this spell, and I thought people might appreciate trying this spell. You need the following items:

250-500 grams of dried flowers

12 tealight candles

Hagith seal drawn on a paper Afterward you would lay the paper with hagith seal in the middle, cross it with the dried flowers making 3 lines horizontally and 3 lines horizontally. Put a tealight in the candle at the start and end of each line. You would light the tealight candles and let them stay lit in the house you want to sweeten/cause stability between family members in it. The energy would radiate in the house and cause "transformation" You can be specific with lighting the candle and light top -> right -> down -> left , but there wasn't any instruction I got about that. When you line up the dried flowers, you can set it up one piece by one piece so you don't waste a lot! You can find the dried flowers from herbalist and spice shops, they sell them in huge bags or containers often like these:

[noctivague]

Ancient Greek & Roman Knot Magic - Part. 3

Some quotes from "Magic, Witchcraft, and Ghosts in the Greek and Roman Worlds : a sourcebook" by Daniel Ogden

Decided to break down this post into multiple ones because the quotes are too damn long. See the end of the post for links to the other ones.

More love magic:

"This wryneck [inux] of Nico, which knows how to draw a man from accross the sea and girls from their browers, decorated with gold, inset with transluscent amethyst, is dedicated as a dear gift to you, Cyprian, tied through its middle with a gentle thread of purple wool, a gift of guest-friendship from Larissean witch [pharmakis]."

Hellenistic epigrams

Dedication to Aphrodite. "This poem identifies the inux with a (birdless) spinning wheel."

"They pull out love potions from everywhere. That famous antipathes is sought, as are little wheels, wrynecks [iunges], ribbons, root tendrils, herbs, shoots, enticing double tailed lizards, the sweet charms of whinnying creatures." Laevius Morel Apuleius, Apology

Part 1 - Tongue binding

Part 2 - bringing back a lover

Part 4 - amulets

[arcane-offerings]

Radcliffe G. Edmonds III. Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019. Hardcover edition. 474 pages.

Shop link in bio.

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by Arcane Offerings (@arcaneofferings)

[reno-matago]

Homosexual love spells in Graeco-roman antiquity

[tranquiltears]

The Birth of Venus— Souter (1890)

[venusmage]

I was just an only child of the universe And then I found you

My wife and I are going to be playing a Theros game and I just had to draw our PCs!

[themodernwitchsguide]

altars for greek gods (pt.2)

this post includes zeus, hera, poseidon, hestia, hephaestus, dionysus, ares, demeter, and athena. for part 1 including hades, persephone, artemis, apollo, aphrodite, hermes, and hekate click here.

keep in mind that typical offerings to any god includes meat, wine, grain (usually barley), honey, and incense (myrrh and frankincense would be period appropriate), but i'm listing some specific offerings that can be given if you'd like

colors can be used for candles, banners, decor, whatever you want

ZEUS

Colors: white, blue, and grey for association with the heavens, yellow and black for association with storms. gold because he's the King of the Gods

Offerings: rain water, oak, olives/olive branches/olive leaves, vervain, cinnamon, laurel. images of himself or lightning bolts are particularly recommended for Zeus

Crystals: diamonds, gold (i think pyrite, aka fool's gold, would be offensive), turquoise, lapis lazuli, celestite, iron/steel, any quartz

Animals: eagle, bull

POSEIDON

Colors: blue and white for association with the seas, gray for association with storms, brown for association with the earth/earthquakes

Offerings: coffee, mint, ocean water, salt, seashells

Crystals: coral, petoskey stone, abalone, opal (especially water opal), blue calcite, aquamarine

Animals: horse, bull, dolphin, hippocampus

HERA

Colors: red, pink and white for association with love and marriage. gold because she's the Queen of the Gods.

Offerings: iris, rose, patchouli, coconut, cypress, maple, peacock feathers, pomegranate

Crystals: pearls, garnet, citrine, diamonds, lapis lazuli, topaz, opal, moonstone, rose quartz

Animals: peacock, cuckoo, cow

HESTIA

Colors: red, orange, and yellow for association with fire, brown or white for the hearth/home.

Offerings: tea/coffee (especially if you drink it with her), pine, bread, cider, apples, anything on fire, cinnamon

Crystals: amber, jade, garnet, ruby, carnelian, sunstone, amethyst, honey calcite

Animals: donkey, pig, crane

HEPHAESTUS

Colors: red, orange, and yellow for association with fire, metallics for association with metalworking.

Offerings: spicy things, hot beverages, handmade things, dragon's blood incense, seashells, anything on fire

Crystals: metals, fire opal, honey calcite, obsidian, hematite, carnelian

Animals: donkey, dog, crane

DIONYSUS

Colors: purple and green for association with grapes/wine, leopard/tiger print for his holy animals

Offerings: grapes (or any derivative), alcohol, cinnamon, ivy, pinecones. there's a particular emphasis on non-physical offerings with dionysus, like playing music, partying or sex/masturbation

Crystals: grape agate, leopard jasper, crazy lace agate, tiger's eye, garnet, rose or rutilated quartz, amethyst, jade

Animals: panther/leopard, tiger, bull, serpent, dolphin

ARES

Colors: red and purple for association with war

Offerings: spicy things, yarrow, chocolate, basil, cinnamon

Crystals: bloodstone, garnet, red jasper, smokey quartz, black tourmaline, hematite, metals, obsidian, carnelian

Animals: eagle owl, barn owl, poisonous snakes, boar, vulture

DEMETER

Colors: green, brown, and yellow for association with the earth/harvest. black for her ruthlessness

Offerings: oats and grain, anything baked, flowers, spices (like cinnamon or cloves, allspice is good too), leaves that have begun to change colors for fall, mint, poppy

Crystals: jade, tree/moss agate, carnelian, amber, aventurine, rutilated quartz

Animals: serpent, farm animals (especially pig), gecko, turtle-dove

ATHENA

Colors: white and grey/silver for association with wisdom. red for association with war

Offerings: anything handmade, olives/olive oil/olive branches/olive leaves, snake shed, cedar, cypress, cinnamon

Crystals: metals, celestite, fluorite, lapis lazuli, bloodstone, obsidian, iolite

Animals: snakes and owls