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Your HelPol practice is valid if you:

Are a Reconstructionist

Are a revivalist

Study ancient language

Don't study ancient language, only looking into it when it's needed

Have read the myths

Are still working on the myths

Are disabled

Give physical offerings

Give digital offerings

Give acts of service as offerings

Pray every day

Don't always remember to pray

Practice witchcraft

Practice sorcery

Don't practice witchcraft or sorcery

Use tarot/pendulum/divination to talk to the gods

Use clair senses to talk to the gods

Don't use divination or clair senses at all

Have a degree in classics

Don't have any degree at all

Have been to Greece

Have never been to Greece

Have an altar

Don't have an altar

Have a shrine

Don't have a shrine

Call them gods

Call them deities

Call them Theoi

Are a man

Are a woman

Are neither

Are trans

Choose to godspouse (it's nobodies business but yours anyway, idk why people care so much)

Believe in egregores

Never "work with" a deity and only ever worship

Have made mistakes in the past

Have trouble finding resources

Believe in pop culture paganism/magic

Worship other gods too

The gods love you, and they won't smite you or hate you for your mistakes or your differences. They love you. And anyone who says otherwise is sabotaging you.

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Digitial offering to Artemis/Wallpaper

Dedicate this one to Artemis cause I'm feeling some appreciation for hunting rn :).

I've always wanted to use a bow and hunt, but I'm too lazy to let my dad teach me and it's not deer season so💀. It is turkey hunting season in my state tho! I don't like the taste of turkey...>:(

Happy hunting to every ethical hunter tho!

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The Cult of the Daimones: Hebe

In astrology, Hebe has an asteroid that reflects her nature as the Daimon relating to youthfulness or the youthful prime. One might consider her as a promethean figure in that her cup of Ambrosia might be shared with mortals to promote longevity and youthfulness. So there we might find sabbatical associations.

She is considered to be the child of Zeus and Hera, mentioned as bathing her brother Ares which might then associate her with children or, as Hebe's asteroid notes, service and maternal affections.

Since she garbs Ares in delicate clothing, she can represent the end of wartime, a protector of those who fought in wars and bringing them back into the fold of society, though there's no other major connection between Hebe and War outside of her brother.

Despite Aquarius being associated with Ganymede, we might also associate the Water Bearer with Hebe, which may tie into her qualities as being the Daimon of youth in that Aquarius provides healing and reformation in Stellar magick, associated with the Star Card.

She is also associated with Aphrodite, the Charites, Hera and Harmonia in relation to weddings, showing her placement as a minor state deity when it came to the affairs of marriage.

Interestingly, one of her names associated Philasians is Ganymeda, a feminine form of Ganymede.

Her other name, Basilea, places her as a princess in Olympus. One can regard her as similar to Artemis in patronage of young women and hens, though she's more likely to be associated with young brides, especially with her marital role and hers being the wife of Herakles.

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Offering to Lord Hypnos

I might actually get to bed before 3:30 today and I've been thinking about worshipping him a bit more.

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Persephone Melitodes

— Persephone, The Honeyed-One 🍯🌷

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chugs a can of monster this one’s for you Lord Hermes

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Reminder that even if a religion is open, it can still be appropriated and bastardised.

You can't just cherry pick and choose titles, practices, deities from different practices/religions you think sound cool to use however you like without any understanding or respect towards the cultural/historical/religious context.

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Cicadas are so Dionysus coded because wdym they're reborn AND live to fuck

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You can't be a hellenic polytheist and be homophobic.

You can't be a hellenic polytheist and be transphobic.

You can't be a hellenic polytheist and be racist.

You can't be a hellenic polytheist and be anti-imagrant.

You can't be a hellenic polytheist and be a nazi.

You can't be a hellenic polytheist and mock ANY of the gods.

You can't be a hellenic polytheist and hate ANY of the gods.

Pick a side. The gods or hatefulness.

You. Can't. Choose. Both.

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me, praying: “let your deadly arrows strike the evildoers and tormenters in this world, as you have done so valiantly before. vanquisher of evil, shine light on us mortals, and free us from oppressive forces, remind us how you got your epithets!”

Apollon: “… you’ve gotta stop asking me to kill politicians”

me: “please just one arrow you know exactly where to aim it”

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prometheus: hot take,

the greek gods: no give that back

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for mother gaia, happy earth day 🌎

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ft. pictures all taken by me :)

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mother gaia, thank you for the beauties and wonders that the Earth has to offer. i am truly grateful for all the gifts and blessings you give us and though i am far from perfect, i will do my best to help this planet. <3

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i forgot to post this yesterday lol </3

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Lord Hypnos,

Child of the night-dwelling Nyx and twin brother of peaceful Thanatos,

The gentlest of all gods,

Please bring peace to those struggling,

Soothe those uncertain,

And veil our troubled minds with a blessing of sleep

Tonight.

May these words reach you.

Good night, Lord Hypnos.

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Wall painting with Dionysian scenes from a luxurious Roman villa excavated to the south of the cathedral, Romisch-Germanisches Museum, Cologne

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being a worshipper of Lord Hypnos involves always, without fail, letting out a huge yawn just as you’re about to start your prayer to Him for the night