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Happy Friday!!! 🐈💖💘

I have been getting a lot of signs from Freyja & Aphrodite. Like, oddly, I have seen a lot more hawks than normal. A lot more.

I hope she's approving of the guy im talking to🙏🙏

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Happy Friday!! 💘💖💌

I recently got a mini Venus de Milo statue and she's so beautiful on my shelf!! Honestly, I was getting a lot of signs from Aphrodite... Like ladybugs and others symbolism... Let's hope it's her approving of the guy I'm talking to. 🙏🫶

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You can’t be anti immigrant and worship Zeus

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In my art history class, we are finally focusing on Greek art. There's a whole section in our book about the temple for Apollo in Delphi. I love it. It's so much fun learning about them in class.

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Happy Valentine's Day 💌

Happy Valentine's Day! Happy Friday! Happy Venus day! I decided to make a cute little Valentine's themed collage for Aphrodite & Freyja! I've been waiting for Valentine's Day solely to celebrate Aphrodite and Freyja.

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Digital Offering to Apollo(n)

Made this as I would greatly appreciate Apollo's assistance in helping my dog heal as she is very sick right now.

Also, recently I got a bunch of sun earrings, rings, and other things as little devotional objects to lord Apollo 🙏🏻

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Happy Freyja Day 🐈🩷

For my birthday, I got a necklace with the tree of Yggdrasil as a way for the Norse gods I worship to be with me symbolically, especially Freyja & Loki!! I love it.

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Happy Aphrodite Day 💖

Decided to make this while doing some art history work. I cannot wait till I get my painting of Aphrodite and ares!! The amount of excitement I have over this painting is insane.

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Omggg so tomorrow is my birthday!!!! And I'm getting a print of this painting for my room, I even picked out a very pretty frame for it! I'm very excited!!!!

I'm going to do some tarot tonight and pray to the gods as well as do some celebratory stuff! Then this weekend, I'm going to a nearby museum to some replica Greek statues!!

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Happy Apollo Day!!! 🌻🌞

I recently was able to paint whatever I wanted, so obviously I painted for Apollo and I made a painting of the sun with a wreath on it... To show resemblance to Lord Apollo, it's similar to the one in the center image of the collage.

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infodump on apollo

happy sunday! heres an infodump on father phoebus

warning; nerdy

parents: zeus and leto siblings (notable): artemis (twin/older sister), many other half-siblings symbols: the sun, the lyre, the bow, laurel wreath domains: the sun, light, music, art, divine inspiration, truth, oracles, the plague, medicine, etc. children (notable): asclepius, orpheus, hector of troy, troilus of troy, aristaeus

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origin:

apollo's name is likely not greek, the origins are hard to find because the earliest evidence of apollo we have is in the iliad, which is written after the greek dark ages. however, his name might have come from the luwian word Apaliunas, meaning hunter, this ties him to artemis!

this also means he came from another region, like his myth, where he joined olympus from somewhere else

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appearance:

according to orpheus, he has golden hair.

often shown with dark skin, as shown by this image from pompeii, 1st century AD

always shown as a youthful man, either holding a lyre, a bow, or a laurel wreath.

sometimes shown,,, nude. which signified beauty and/or purity.

sometimes shown with a red or blue robe

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mythology (list):

birth, where all the goddesses came when he was born, and praised him. delos was covered with flowers and gold.

slaying of python

fate of niobe, where artemis and apollo killed niobe's children for her act of hubris.

building the walls of troy with poseidon.

trojan war, read the iliad.

(notable) lovers:

something to note before i say more, apollo does not have a 'sad love life', he is unmarried on his own choice. carry on.

the muses, who are calliope (goddess of epic poetry), clio (goddess of history), polyhymnia (hymns), euterpe (goddess of song), terpsichore (goddess of dance), erato (goddess of lyrical poetry), melpomene (goddess of tragic literature), thalia (goddess of comedy), and urania (goddess of astronomy)

cyrene, who he built a city for, and fathered aristaeus, and idmon

aphrodite

hecuba of troy, who he fathered many sons with, such as troilus.

hyacinthus of sparta, you know this myth.

adonis, who was also in a poly relationship with him and aphrodite

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again, happy sunday! have my playlist for him :)

blessed be <3

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Happy Friday! 🩷

Happy Freyja & Aphrodite Day! I recently started building some digital temples/altars on Minecraft, so I made a beautiful temple for Aphrodite and I am planning on building something similar for Freyja(however keeping it respective to Viking culture). I may post photos, but I am still working on them as of right now🙏

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Nazis will never be welcome in paganism. They have no space in our communities, we will have a zero tolerance policy when it comes to nazis. You have no right to the cultures, gods and religions you hijack to spread your disgusting ideologies. You will find no refuge or comraderie amongst pagans.

Reblog to let nazis know they’re not welcome here.

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since it’s a scary time to be trans: refuge restrooms is an app which maps gender-neutral/single-stall restrooms. it’s community-mapped, so it’s possible you might be the first person to log the restroom locations, but hopefully it’ll help some people.

please reblog this post if you’ve got trans followers. stay safe.

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well 🧍‍♀️ as a reminder this blog is NOT a safe space for trump supporters but it IS a safe place for women, queers, trans ppl, people of color, undocumented people, and any marginalized group.

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Happy Apollo Day!!

Yesterday, I had sunscreen in my eye and it hurt SOOO BADLY. When I got into the car with my family, I started to silently pray and ask Apollo to help me because nothing would fix it. Literally, a few minutes later I felt great and my eye felt so much better. 🙏 Thank you Lord Apollo☀️