#sacrifice to priapus

[romanticism-art-history]

The Sacrifice to Priapus by Francisco Goya (1746 - 1828)

[cryptotheism]

hi question if we potentially had a candle modeled on a friend's dick and they wanted us to do a spell to give them a boner every time we lit it do u have any advice about how to make it work. thank you

Honestly if the candle already looks like their dick, just lighting the thing is a valid spell structure. Maybe pray to something boner-related? Sacrifice some juice to priapus?

Youd think I'd have more to work with here but tbh the boner candle joke spell writes itself. You've done 90% of the work already here

[francisco-goya-paintings]

-The Sacrifice to Priapus-

[classicalcanvas]

Title: The Sacrifice to Priapus

Artist: Francisco Goya

Date: 1771

Style: Romanticism

Genre: Mythological Painting

[mamamiriamxo]

Ok I know no one gives a shit about any of this but I'm rewriting an old fic!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/28998657

Idk how I should proceed with it tho? Should I edit over the old one? Make a new work straight up?

Nejse, there's not enough love about Hestia in this world so I'm here to remedy that.

Aroace legend, hello??? She and her fellow sacred virgins Artemis and Athena were literally defended by ZEUS of all people if anyone tried to touch them.

Not even Sky Daddy ™ tried to bone them because literally everyone would be on his ass in a minute.

She's one of the richest goddesses because many greeks used fire to give their offerings to other gods, and since she was literally the goddess of fire and the hearth (private and ritual) she would always receive a portion of those sacrifices.

So like. A bank.

Her laughter sounded like the cackle of fire which is hella cute.

One time, Rhea hosted a party where she invited a shit ton of people and everyone got wasted and Hestia passed out.

So Priapus (look him up I dare you) tried to SA her but even a nearby donkey was like "EYO THAT'S A SACRED VIRGIN BACK OFF" and yelled right in Hestia's ear so she'd wake up. The rest of the night was spent by the entire pantheon chasing after Priapus to punish him.

Which is why it's tradition for the bride to ride a donkey to the chapel.

Jk jk I don't know the actual reason but it makes sense right????

There's very few myths ab her, which sucks ass, and she's constantly being forgotten in modern literature.

PASS MY GIRL HESTIA THE SPOTLIGHT FOR ONCE!

[nashaalya]

i have to microdose early slavic history bc reading abt it makes me very, very mad. it makes me so mad i become stupid. i read about the systematic destruction of our places of dwelling and worship, and the forced resettlement of my people eastward to make space for our butchers and rapists (berlin is a slavic name, too). i think about the fact half the languages of europe derive their word for slave from my ethnonym, and i want to scream.

have you ever thought about the connection between czech-hunter describing the monetary coercement of young czech boys into sex as 'hunting' as if they were wild game, and the thousands of young bohemian boys that were shipped off to venice and cordoba to serve as the sex slaves of venetian petrizi and andalusian emirs? i have. and it makes me indulge in this stupid fantasy, right, of taking the producers of czech-hunter and every fratboy that has ever talked about how hot and complacent slavic chicks are compared to those fat western broads, and tearing off their limbs and gorging on their blood like the polabians worshipping pripelaga-radegast:

The most fanatical of them say, whenever they wish to divert themselves at feasts, "our Pripegala—they yell ferociously—wants heads, therefore must we perform sacrifices". Pripegala, as they call him, is a lewd Priapus and Belphegor. Thus, after slaughtering the Christians before the alters of their idolatry, they fill the basins with human blood and, howling with terrifying shrieks, say: "Let us make this a day of joy, Christ has been vanquished, the victorious Pripegala has triumphed!".

ofc there's a reasonable part of me that wants to internalise the historic lessons of pan-slavism and the ease with which slavs turned against each other once our historic destiny stopped being the reinstitution of sovereignty over our lands and became demarcating the exact borders between the ten thousand mutually indistinguishable slavic nations. i want to preach the ministry of the angel of empathy, reduce millennia of suffering to frivolities of prehistory and leave only decontextualised ancestry where Blood once stood. but i also want war, and carnage, and revenge. and my love is weaker than my love of hatred. and so i think about a slavic nationalist pagan revivalist programme that advocates the polish annexation of rujan ('rügen'), the reinstitution of maya sovereignty over yucatan and an african-american nation state in the deep south, and advocates the moral righteousness of human sacrifice and ritual haematophagy. it can be done. i can do it. but i shouldn't. but i want to. but i must.

[thegrapeandthefig]

What brought you to focus on Thasos?

It really took this question to realize I never addressed this, even though I thought I did. In short, it all came down to one inscription found on the island.

The inscription itself has long been considered “unpublished”, which in this case meant it had been translated once, in French, in the 1960s, by the archaeologists and historians who were working on excavating Thasos at the time. In the 90s, Swiss historian Anne-Francoise Jaccottet wrote a thesis on Dionysiac associations in the Greco-Roman world, and that’s where I found it first. Getting my hands on the thesis alone was a strike of luck, since when I began looking for it (because I saw it often cited in papers I’d read) it was only available on command from the university for a price in the 100s of euros. Until, in 2020, the author herself put the whole thing on academia.edu for free. Happenstance and all that.

Anyway, the reason why this particular inscription caught my attention out of the whole corpus of documents in the thesis was that it described vividly something linked to a UPG I had months prior. At the time I took note of the inscription as something to come back to later because I wasn’t sure what to do with the info. Confirmation was nice, but truly had no idea what to do with it.

A year or so later, I noticed that the same author had written and - again - put online for free, an article from 2018 on that specific inscription in collaboration with Stephanie Wyler (whose line of work tends to revolve around Dionysus in the roman context) and on the same element that resonated with my UPG. That is, the idea of a canopy of greenery/vines as an important ephemeral setup for worship, which is something that we can also catch glimpses of in literature:

“The flame, dividing, dimly outlines a cave for Dionysus more charming than any in Assyria and Lydia; for sprays of ivy grow luxuriantly about it and clusters of ivy berries and now grape-vines and stalks of thyrsus which spring up from the willing earth, so that some grow in the very fire.” - Philostratus the Elder, Imagines 1.13 (or 1.14 on theoi.com), 3rd century AD

The Thasian inscription, however, dates back from the 1st century AD and is a private dedication of a sanctuary to Dionysus from a man named Timokleides. He is described as being a doctor from Thasos and as being at the head of the dionysiac association (thiasos) that would be using this sanctuary. I could do a whole post about this alone, but the point is that it’s from there that I got the hutch to look at where the inscription came from in the first place.

That research led me to the realization that it was a very documented island, in big part because it has been excavated for decades but also because the ancient city/island used to be renowned for its wine, its marble and its gold, thanks to nearby mines on the Thracian coast. It led me to see that the calendar was in a workable state, that we had a decent list of attested festival and a very fair number of smaller sacrifial rules and miscellaneous inscriptions.

Another, more personal, reason why Thasos was a good fit was the geographical proximity with Lampsakos, Thrace and Moesia Inferior where I have (limited) elements concerning the presence of Priapus. Thasos is also known for having important examples of thysia, that is sacrifices for heroes in which the sacrifices were eaten by the worshippers, which goes against what is typically described as the norm in ancient Greek religion on a larger scale, but which also line up more closely with my personal experience.

All of these factors combined made Thasos a particularly good match for me. It felt a lot like finally putting together mismatched pieces of information into something that made sense.

[captorsicallfriends]

INSANE ANON BACK ty for your kind messages ily mwa mwa hello Diya's mutuals on your dash I love you guys too mwa <3 ANOTHER STORY- I remember one time a while ago me & my friend got like SUUUPER into Greek mythology, as all cool and mentally unstable gay kids do. But anyway- we were both really into it and our favourite god was none other than the madlad himself Dionysus. And y'know, we're both stupid and dumb so we decide to bring back ancient Greek traditions and start our own cult of Dionysus because fuck it. We somehow managed to recruit a large majority of our friend group into this cult, and a handful of other random kids too. Which meant yes, if you knew me during this time you most likely would've been faced by a short kid carrying a copy of Mythos by Stephen Fry walking up to you and asking if you'd like to be involved in a cult dedicated to the ancient Greek deity of alcohol. Oh, the folly of youth. So anyway, my friend and I went ALL OUT on this cult business. We made a discord server and everything it was wild (we also may or may not have created a spin-off cult for Priapus whom is an.... interesting being to look at, I'll say that much). And let me tell you we were DEDICATED to this business like I remember for alot of lunch breaks my friend and I would make a circle out of sticks on the ground and leave some of our food there as a sacrifice to him which must have been. So humiliating on his behalf. Imagine being an ancient immortal god who's been worshipped for thousands of years and getting summoned to a random ass high school only to see 2 sleep deprived adolescents bowing to a circle of sticks on the ground with three grapes inside of it. Couldn't be me. And no one in the cult even drank or had sex or anything cuz we're all minors so it's pretty much just a handful of children overdosing on grapes and reading Greek myths on Wikipedia. Wild. Anyway not much of a "crazy story" if we're going by my standards but I figured you would like this one. Byyyeeee love U make sure all your salami is safely packed away at the back of your fridge cuz if not I'm coming and I haven't eaten in three weeks <3333

sometimes i think your stories are complete lies then i realise no one can make up shit this insane

[amaliesofiavl]

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Gallo-Roman bronze statuette showing Priapus, dated to the 1st century CE, makes it about 2000 years old. The objects were found in Picardy, northern France. It consist of two parts, where one of the layers presents a great phallus.

In ancient Rome, Priapus was initially the guardian of orchards and vineyards, and later also of fertility and fertility. In the gardens, statues or herms depicting Priap were often placed with a prominent member in the state of erection, at which sacrifices were made from the first crops.

[cruelcifixion]

Francisco Goya, The Sacrifice to Priapus, 1771

[unwelcome-ozian]

Here's a list of highdays. The dates are from various belief systems.  Not everyone who celebrates these days is abusive/evil/.

January 5: Feast of Fools/Shivaratri(night of Shiva creator/destroyer) January 6: Epiphany/Twelfth Night(Kore gives birth/manifestation of divinity) January 7: St Winebald Day (sacrifice) January 17: St Sulpice DayFeast of Fools (Old Twelfth Night) January 17: Satanic & Demon Revels January 18: Old Epiphany/Dream Festival(Pleiades) 3 days January 20: Midwinter

February 1: Mysteries of Persephone/Imbolc (Druid Earth Mother) February 2: Candlemass February14: St. Valentine's Day (the shedding of blood and sacrifice) February15: Lupercalia (she-wolf mother of Romulus & Remus honouring of Pan) February 21–22: Feralia/Terminalia(Roman All Souls/boundary day candles & rocks)

Shrovetide - Three days before Ash Wednesday date varies> Shrove Sunday, Shrove Monday, & Shrove Tuesday, preceding Ash Wednesday Good Friday Day of Passion (death of Christ)

March 1 : St. Eichatadt/Blood communion March 9 : Festival of Ishtar(Astarte, Aphrodite, Venus) love, fertility March 15 : Ides of March/Rites of Cybele & Attis(begins 12 day death & resurrection ritual) March 18 : Sheila-na-gig (Sheelah's Day Creatress)/Jacques De Molay Day March 20–22: Spring Equinox/Pelusia, Invocation of Isis Hindi Holi/Tubulustrum Roman purification/ Shab-i-barat Night of Forgiveness Islam March 24: Feast of the Beast (mock wedding, "Bride of Satan"Easter/Feast of Priapus/Festival of Isis)

April 1: Pagan New Year April 2-26: Preparation for Sacrifice in some Satanic sects April 8 : Day of the Masters April 19: Day of Sacrifice to Baal/ Moloch April 24 : St Mark's Eve April 26-May 1: Corpus de Baal April 30: Beltane. Satanic High Feast of WalpurgisWalpurgisnacht/ (8 days)

May 1: May Day Satanic New Years Day May 8 : St. Michael's Day: Lucifer leaves Heaven May 9,11,13: Lumeria (3 days Roman All Souls)

June 21: Summer Solstice high point of the Sun cycle.

Jul 1: Demons Revel (blood) Jul 20-26:  Ceremonial preparation for Grand Climax Jul 25: St. James Day Jul 27:  Grand Climax

August 1: Lammas (harvest) August 3: Satanic & Demon Revels August 8th: the Feast of Nepthys August 12th: Sirius Rising August 13: Feast Day to Hecate (The Nemoralia) August 24: Mania (opening of NetherWorld Gate Osiris Birthday) August 24 - Fundus Mundi (Rome) - Day of the Underworld August 28: Feast of Nephthys (wife of Set, Goddess of Death) August 31: Day of Sacrifice to Hecate

September 6- Marriage to the Beast September 7: Feast of the Beast September 21,22: Fall Equinox

September 23-October 2: Mysteries of Eleusis ( 28th entering of Gate of Mysteries )

October 2: Durga Puja (Devotion of Kali) October 5: Opening of Mundus Cereris October 10: Dashara (Kali's victory over Mahishasura) October 26: Mars end of year Celtic October 31: All Hallows Eve/Preparation for The Isia(ring of 6, resurrection of Osiris, Isis, Hathor,Nepthys, Horus, Thoth, Anubis)

November 1–5: All Souls Day/The Isia Samhain/Hallowmas/Isia6 days ritual drama search for pieces of Osiris/feast of the nether world, parting of the astral veil/ resurrection of Osiris November 6: Lord Lyons Special Court November 7 : Hilaria/Mania (Opening of Mundus Cereris)rebirth of Osiris

December 21–22: Winter Solstice December 24: Satanic & Demon Revels

Notes: A member's birthday can be considered a highday. Friday the 13th is celebrated in some groups. (May 13) Holy week (Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday). Some groups are thought to sacrifice, cook and eat a human baby on Easter Sunday.

April 30 - Black Moon & Partial Solar Eclipse (10:42pm EST) May 16 - Total Lunar Eclipse (12:11am EST, coinciding with zenith) June 14 - Supermoon July 13 - Supermoon October 25 - Partial Solar Eclipse (11:01am EST) November 8 - Total Lunar Eclipse (5:59am EST, coinciding with zenith)

Some groups celebrate the Feast of the Beast in March, while others in the month of September.

[moonkissedmeli]

Aphrodite [Olympian, Greek]

A page from my grimoire.

Goddess of: love, beauty, pleasure, passion, procreation

Zodiac sign: Taurus [ruled by Venus]

Planet: Venus

Primary Cult Centres: Cyprus, Kythera, Corinth, Cnidus, Eryx [likely more]

Lineage: Born from the sea-foam, she was birthed when Ouranus' penis was thrown into the sea by his son Cronus. In fact, aphros means "foam."

She was the patron goddess of all sex workers in ancient Greece. She was also the patron deity of the Lagid Queens & Queen Arsinoe II of Ptolemy Egypt (and many other prominent women).

She rewards those who honour her but her punishments can be swift and brutal.

She was by the accompanied winged godling Eros, the God of lust and sexual desire. Her main attendants are Charites, Zeus' daughters, and goddesses of charm, beauty, nature, human creativity, goodwill, and fertility. Agae, Euphroyne, and Thalia; meaning, Shining, Joy, and Blooming. Her other attendants were the Themis, daughters of Zeus. The Themis are named Eunomia, Dike, Eriene; Good Order, Justice, and Peace. She is sometimes accompanied by Harmonia, her daughter, and Hebe, the daughter of Zeus and Hera.

Aphrodite makes Pandora the first woman. She pours grace over her head and equips her with painful desire and weakening anguish. They adored her with gold jewelry and made her very beautiful & sexually attractive.

The God of fertility, Priapus, is said to be her son by Dionysus; Hera was jealous and poisoned her, so he was born hideous, and she left the infant in the wilderness.

She is married to Hephaestus but had an affair with Ares.

She plays a prominent role in the Iliad. She granted Paris the most beautiful woman for declaring her the most beautiful goddess (out of Hera and Athena). This woman was Helen of Sparta and thus the Trojan war began. She inspired Helen to sleep with Paris & saved Paris from the battlefield when fighting Helen’s husband, Menelaus.

Aphrodite can help you accept and love all aspects as yourself. She can help you love the skin your in and learn to see yourself as beautiful and desirable. She can help you treat yourself with love, tenderness, and compassion. If you have difficulties with self love, passion, and intimacy, Aphrodite would be a good goddess to work with to overcome these. Aphrodite can also teach you to honour and respect yourself. Also, to love yourself enough to create boundaries, advocate for yourself, and not let others get away with treating you poorly.

Festivals & Worship

Aphrodisia - was celebrated on the fourth day of the month of Hekatombaion [July/August] in honor of Aphrodite's role in the unification of Attica, also important in Cyrus but celebrated in many places

Kinyrades - Held in Hekatombaiōn [July/August] and was an initiation like festivals for those becoming priests of Aphrodite. Divided into three celebrations. First four days there was an exchange of coins for salt by priest and worshipper. This practice is said to celebrate the birth of the goddess from the sea. The celebration also included athletic competitions, sea-bathing, and bloodless sacrifices. These activities followed an all-nighter in her temple, followed by lamenting Adonis & celebrating his resurrection. 

 Symbols

the sea, mirrors, mountains, conch shells

Animals: doves, sea birds, sparrows, swans, bees, goats

Plants/Herbs/Food: roses, myrtles, apples, pomegranate, artichokes, laurel, ash and poplar trees

Scent: stephanotis, musk, verbena, vanilla, incense, vervain, roses, sandalwood

Colors: pink, silver, violet, aqua, seafoam, light blue

  Offerings

Apples, pomegranates, lettuce, myrtle, myrrh, anemone, roses, poppies, pearls, shellfish, honey, incense, garlands of flowers, intimate acts, poetry, art, wine, honey cakes, fire, salt, jewelry, bread, olive oil

  Crystals 

pearls, gold, purple amethyst, aquamarine, rose quartz, rubellite, jade, sapphire, silver, copper, moonstone

 How to Worship

 Self love: self care, bath rituals, reading romantic literature, creating romantic art, poetry carrying or wearing rose quartz, make up, music, tea, sweets & candy, wearing silver jewelry

Loving others: random acts of kindness, supporting all love, telling someone you love them, planning something romantic, intimacy, giving silvery jewelry, giving flowers

Loving the world: feeding fish & birds, bee & butterfly feeder, planting any plants and flowers associated with her 

Magic: love spells & sigils, self love spells, sigils, rituals etc, fertility magic, beauty spells, glamouring and/or blessing your make up, shoes, clothing

Epithets

 Ourania - Heavenly

Aphrodite Areia -  In Sparta, the Warlike

Anadyo’Mene - Goddess rising out of the sea

Antheia - the blooming, or friend of flowers

Despoena - ruling mistress [title shared w/ other goddesses]

Game’lii - presiding over marriage [shared w/ other goddesses]

Genetyllis - protectress of births

Morpho - fairly shaped

*There are many more epithets for Aphrodite, especially surnames given by her cult centres

Sources

“The Myth of the Goddess An Evolution of an Image” Anne Baring & Jules Cashford

“Iliad” Homer

“Encyclopedia of Greek and Roman Mythology”  Luke Roman

“Aphrodite” Briticanna

“Aphrodite” theoi

“Aphrodite” wikipedia

“Aphrodite” gods-and-goddesses

[romegreeceart]

Religion & mythology (tags)

Tag list of ancient deities, heroes, heroines, mythical beasts etc. Mostly from Greek, Roman and Etruscan world although a few gods from Egypt, Gallia and Germania are also included. Mostly pics. 

https://romegreeceart.tumblr.com/tagged/

A

Abudantia

Achilles

Agamemnon

Aequitas

Aeneas 

Aeneid 

Aion 

Aita (Etruscan god of underworld)

Altar

Amazons

Amphitrite

Andromache  

Andromeda

Anna Perenna

Antiope

Aphrodite 

Apis

Apollo

Ares

Argonauts

Ariadne

Aristaeus

Arval Brethren

Artemis

Asclepius

Athena

Athis

Atlas

Attis 

Augur  

B

Bacchus

Bal

Bast

Bastet

Baubo 

Bellerophon

Bellona 

Bona Dea 

Bonus Eventus

Briseis

C

Centaur

Cerberus

Ceres

Charon

Chimaera

Circe

Clytemnestra

Concordia

Cornucopia

Cumaean Sibyl

Cupid

Cupid and Psyche

Curse

Cybele

Cyclops

D

Daemons

Danae

Daphne

Deities

Demeter

Demigod

Diana

Dido of Carthage

Dionysus (1)

Dionysos (2)

Dioscuri

Dirce

Dragon

E

Early Christian art (1)

Early Christian art (2)

Eileithyia

Electra 

Eleusinian mysteries

Eos

Erinyes

Eros

Erotes

Euphrates (river god)

Europa

F

Faun

Festival 

Festival of Spes

Flamen

Flora

Fortuna

Fortuna Muliebris

G

Gaia

Galatea

Ganymedes

Garden of Hesperides

Genius

Gigantomachy

Glycon

God

Goddess

Gorgon

Greek religion

Griffin

H

Hades 

Hecate

Hector and Andromache  

Hector 1

Hector 2

Helen

Helios

Hera

Herakles

Hercules

Hermanubis 

Hermes

Herse

Hermaphroditus

Heroes of Trojan war 

Hilaritas

Honos

Horai

House of Atreus

Hydra

Hygieia

Hylas

Hymen

I

Icarus

Incense burner

Iphigenia

Isis

J

Janus

Jason

Juno

Jupiter 1 

Jupiter 2

K

Kassandra (Princess of Troy)

L

Lararium

Lares

Lasa

Leda

Leucothea

Libertas

Luna

M

Maenad

Magic

Magna Mater

Mars

Marsyas

Mater Matuta

Matrons (Germanic Mother goddesses)

Medea

Medusa

Melqart

Menvra

Mercurius

Metamorphosis

Metamorphoses

Minerva

Minor deity

Minotaur

Mithras 1

Mithras 2

Mnemosyne

Moirai

Muses

Mystery cult

Mysticism

Mythology

N

Narcissus

Nemean lion

Nemesis

Nemoralia

Neptunus

Nereid

Nike

Niobe

Nymphs

Nyx

O

Odysseus

Offering

Omphale

Ops

Oracle of Delphi

Oracle of Delphi 2

Orestes

Orion

Orpheus

Orphic

P

Pan

Paris

Pegasus

Persephone

Perseus

Phersipnei

Pluto

Polyphemus

Pontifex

Pontifex Maximus

Poseidon

Priapus

Priest

Priestess

Prometheus 

Pyramus and Thisbe

Pythian games

Q

Quirinus

R

Religion

Rite

Ritual

River God

Roma

Roman religion

S

Sacrifice

Salacia

Salus

Sanctuary

Saturnalia

Saturnus

Satyrs

Scylla

Sea centaur

Securitas

Selene

Sema Sancus

Shrine

Silen

Silenus

Sirens

Sol Invictus

Sons of Antiope

Sphinx

Summanus

Sylvanus

Syrian Gods 

T

Temple

Tethys

The Three Fates

Theseus

Thetis

Three Graces

Tinia

Titans

Tragic House of Cadmus

Treveris (city goddess of Trier) 

Triptolemus (Eleusinian mysteries)

Triton

Turan

Tyche

Typhon

U

Underworld

Uni 

V

Venus 

Venus de Milo

Venus Cloacina (Forum Romanum)

Vesta

Victoria 1

Victoria 2

Virtus

Votive offering 1

Votive offering 2

Vulcanus

W

Witchcraft

Z

Zephyrys

Zeus

[city-witch-magix]

Greek Deities

These are basic notes to look at as a beginning, there are only 15 deities from the website I used and I want to make sure my sources are good, so any feedback with corrections or additions you think I should add to it are greatly appreciated :)

Aphrodite, Goddess of Love

Goddess of love and romance 

According to legend, was born fully formed from white sea foam 

Came to shore and was married off by Zeus to Hephaistos 

While being the goddess of love and romance, she has a vengeful side 

Items for Honoring/Symbols: sea, shells, dolphins, swans, apple, pomegranates, and roses

Ares, God of War

Son of Zeus and Hera

Was known for his battle skills and getting involved in other people’s disputes

Often served as an agent of justice

Goes into war with frenzy and chaos

Items for Honoring/Symbols: 

Artemis, the Huntress

Greek Goddess of hunting and childbirth, she will protect women in childbirth but will also bring death and sickness

Twin sister of Apollo and because he was associated with the sun, she became associated with the moon 

Items for Honoring/Symbols: statue of her on your lunar altar, you can offer meat (hunted yourself is appreciated), and honey cakes, in some cultures you can offer a lock of your hair, you can also “adopt” and clean a patch of woods or take care of wild animals, dedicate time to help women succeed in athletics

Athena, the Warrior Goddess

Has shown up to help many Greek heroes

Athena helps warriors make wise choices in battle that will help lead to victory 

Child of Zeus and his first wife Metis, a goddess of wisdom

Often portrayed with Nike, the goddess of victory 

Items for Honoring/Symbols: 

Demeter, Dark Mother of the Harvest

Goddess of grain and harvest 

Mother to Persephone

Items for Honoring/Symbols: 

Eros, God of Passion and Lust

Described as a son of Aphrodite and Ares 

Evolved into Cupid in the classical Roman period

Items for Honoring/Symbols: offerings like fruits (apples and grapes) or flowers that represent love are appropriate, if you honor him for fertility add some fertility symbols

Gaia, the Earth Mother

Known as the life force that all other beings came from, including the Earth, sea, and mountains

Gave birth to the first races of divine beings, including three Cyclops (Bronte, Arges, and Steropes), three Hekatoncheires (each have 100 hands), and 12 Titans lead by Cronos, these 12 became the elder gods of Greek mythology

Items for Honoring/Symbols: organize a cleanup of a local neglected area, plant trees or a garden, set up a recycling program, adopt a stream or highway to take care of, help educate people on how to conserve water, energy, and fuel

Hades, Ruler of the Underworld

Son of Cronos, brother of Poseidon and Zeus

When the three brother escaped from Cronos they divided up the world they inherited and Hades became the Ruler of the Underworld and the inevitability of death caused his kingdom to be vast and he eventually became the god of proper burial 

Items for Honoring/Symbols: 

Hecate, Goddess of Magic and Sorcery 

Watched over maidens going through puberty and their first menstruation because she was a goddess of childbirth 

Evolved into the goddess of magic and sorcery and elevated into her position of being a goddess of ghosts and the spirit world

Items for Honoring/Symbols: adopt a dog/ volunteer at a shelter (dogs are sacred to Hecate), take care of a deserted/neglected place that has been abandoned by everyone else, walk along a dark road at night offering prayer and hymns to her

Hera, Goddess of Marriage

Wife of Zeus 

Guardian of marriage and sanctity of the home

Known to fly into a jealous rage and use her husbands bastards to hurt their mothers 

Played a crucial role in the Trojan War 

Items for Honoring/Symbols: represented by cows, peacocks, and lions, offer fertility fruits such as apples

Hestia, Guardian of Hearth and Home

Watched over the home fires and offered sanctuary and protection to strangers

Honored with the first offering at any sacrifice made in the house

On a public level, her flame was never allowed to burn out and the local town hall served as a shrine to her and at a new settlement her flame was carried from the person’s old settlement 

Items for Honoring/Symbols: try keeping a candle burning in her honor on your mantle or in your kitchen, offer wine, olive oil, and fresh fruit, when working on domestic or home-focused projects honor Hestia through song, hymn, or prayer

Nemesis, Goddess of Retribution

She was invoked against those whose hubris and arrogance got the better of them and was a divine force of reckoning 

Originally she just gave out what people had coming to them, good or bad

Items for Honoring/Symbols: represented by scales or the sword of divine vengeance

Pan, the Goat-Legged Fertility God 

Looks over shepherds and woods, is a musician, and invented the panpipes

Leads the nymphs in dances and stirs up panic 

Items for Honoring/Symbols: 

Priapus, God of Lust and Fertility 

Considered a god of protection in rural areas

According to legend, Hera cursed Priapus with impotence as payback to Aphrodite for her involvement with the Helen of Troy fiasco

Tossed down to Earth when other gods refused to live with him because he was doomed to live his life ugly and unloved

Statues of Priapus often had warnings threatening trespassers, male and female, with acts of sexual violence as punishment

His link on the website is glitched and goes to Freyja

Items for Honoring/Symbols: 

Zeus, Ruler of Olympus

Ruler of all gods and is the distributer of justice and law 

Honored every 4 years at Mt. Olympus 

Is married to Hera but is not loyal to her and has many bastard children

He controls the weather, especially rain and lightning

Items for Honoring/Symbols: 

Source: https://www.learnreligions.com/gods-of-the-ancient-greeks-4590177  and any other links used for individual gods

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Basics of Hestia

Her parents are the Titan King and Queen. Cronus and Rhea. She was the first born child of the couple, and the last regurgitated before the titanomachy. 

She is the Goddess of the Hearth, and Home. More specifically she is the  Goddess of ...

houses

home

family

domestic life

hearths

domestic fires

heating and warmth

kitchens

cooking

meals and banquets

politics like parliament and council 

altars, sacrifices, libations and prayers

architecture (it is said she invented the art of building houses)

protecting refugees (the hearth was seen as a safe place for visitors and travellers to request something from the host if anything at all

Her symbol is the Kettle Her sacred animal(s) are the pig, and (UPG) the Donkey as it saved her from being r*ped by Priapus (a minor fertility God). 

Her plant could be said to be the Chaste-Tree Hestia is a virgin goddess, she swore by Zeus that she would forever remain one after being courted by Apollo and Poseidon. 

Sources:  (quoted) “HESTIA.” HESTIA - Greek Goddess of Hearth & Home (Roman Vesta), www.theoi.com/Ouranios/Hestia.html. (referenced)Cross, Nicholas D. “The Hearth as a Place of Refuge in Ancient Greece.” Pallas (2020): 107–123.  (referenced) Cross, Nicolas. “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner: Hestia, Hospitality, and Interstate Relations in Classical Athens .”

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