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My Father: My child is an upstanding Christian that I raised very well!

Me: *calls the God of Wine, revelry, insanity, parties, ect. Dad*

*Smiles at Karens knowing the literal God of War is hovering behind me waiting for an opportunity*

*Has girl talk with Aphrodite and put a baby pic of myself on her altar to remind me to love that little gremlin*

*Jokingly calls Apollo an ass for waking me up an hour before my alarm with a sunbeam to the face*

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That moment when you have to go to a religious meeting with your abusive family after being able to avoid them for over a year, have a mental breakdown outside the church, screaming at God for ignoring your prayers as a child and letting you suffer, only to be interrupted by an unearthly scream. You realize it's a gray fox, and your shock makes it take longer to sink in that foxes are one of Dionysus' animals. Then you have this moment of spiritual awakening where you realize that the first deity to reach out to you after leaving Christianity just sent you a sign that He was there for you. Even if the one you cried yourself praying to as a child never answered.

And you realize that maybe things are gonna be ok.

Im still reeling, my dudes. I just need others to know that Dionysus is indeed there for you, and He is NOT shy about letting you know.

When you are manic, Dionysos is with you

When you are depressed, Dionysos is with you

When you are delusional, Dionysos is with you

When you are euphoric, Dionysos is with you

When you are splitting, Dionysos is with you

When you are in a rage, Dionysos is with you

When you are struggling with your mental health in any way, Dionysos is right there with you. He will never be angry about your mental illness.

**I know all the gods are with you but as the god of madness, Dionysos feels most fitting.**

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I find Ares in places you'd most expect him, in acts of courage, in standing up for myself, in arguments for things I truly believe in.

But I also find Him when I sit down and do nothing but breathe for a few minutes.

I think sometimes, the best devotional act you can offer, is one of taking care of yourself.

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Hell yeah, Pride Month babyyyyyyyyy! 🎊✨🥳🎉🥳✨🎊✨🎊🎊🥳🥳🎊😔🥳

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH EVERYONE ‼️💥💥💥

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My favorite epithets of Dionysus

Aigobolos - the goat killer

Antheus - the blooming

Dendritês - the god of the tree

Eleuthereus - the deliverer of man from care and sorrow, the liberator 

Enualios - the warlike (this is an epithet often given to Ares as well) 

Eubouleus - god of good counsel

Isodaitês - god who distributes his gifts equally to all

Lamptêr - the torchbearer, and in some translations, the shining

Luaios - god who frees men from cares and anxiety 

Lusios - the deliverer 

Meilichios - the gracious 

Melanaigis - armored (clad with a black aegis) 

Mêthumnaios - rich in vines 

Ômadios - the flesh eater 

Phleôn - the giver of plenty

Sôtêr - the savior

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Hell yeah, I have wifi again!!! So I can finally post stuff!!

Behold 🫱🫱

✨my father✨

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Also, if you're like me and can't drink because of medication or a condition, He is fr so proud of you for taking care of yourself.

Lord Dionysus when His little goobers take care of themselves ☝️

Too many people who are interested in Dionysus worry that he'll reject them if they aren't some flavour of alcoholic, so I say this gently:

PLEASE RESEARCH HIM

Dionysus is so much more than a drunkard wine god who requires your inebriation (he isn't and he doesn't). He's a god of the oppressed, of insanity, of liberation, of death and rebirth, of fertility, and yes, of wine

Dionysus is violence, love, the calm before the storm and the rage within one, the breath before you scream and your roar of victory, communion, ecstasy, dance, utter stillness, anger, joy...

And he will love you no matter what

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Same here, I'm an involuntary regressor. It's been interesting to see how my deities have adjusted.

Lord Dionysus is my first and primary deity. He reached out to me pretty soon after I left Christianity, and He's been absolutely amazing. A few months ago I was having a really rough time and asked Him if I could call Him Dad, and He went ballistic (in a good way). He's like the fun Dad who sneaks you ice cream after your other parent said no lol. I've begun to feel much safer regressing, even by myself, because I can feel his presence so strongly when I do.

Lord Apollo recently reached out to me, and He's been a quieter but still loving presence. I'm still navigating worshipping Him, but He's been so very patient with me. I feel his presence when I feel particularly stressed, and he helps distract me with things that make me happy.

Lord Ares is an interesting one. I actually reached out to Him; I struggle with my trauma a lot, and lately it's manifested in anger. I wanted His help accepting and learning to live with that anger without hurting myself or others. He responded quickly, and at first things were a little rocky. He has a strong presence, a bit overwhelming sometimes much like my anger. I feel His (very protective) presence especially when I encounter someone being mean to me(I work in customer service, so this is normal lol), and it's helped me feel much more confident to know that the literal Lord Ares is hovering behind me glaring daggers at the Karen's lol.

Another interesting thing about Ares is that after I began working with Him I began to feel a more feminine presence. I couldn't figure out for the life of me who it was, but I started leaving out offerings that fit the general vibes I was feeling just in case I had someone reaching out. It took me literally until today to realize who it was. I'm moving into an apartment, and I'm setting up my altars rn. I have more room, so I can dedicate a whole shelf to each deity. As I was figuring out what to put on Lord Ares' shelf, it suddenly hit me like a ton of bricks: it was Lady fucking Aphrodite. How did I not figure it out?!? She had me putting heart shaped objects and shells and a fancy mirror next to Lord Ares' candle and everything???? I never claimed to be intelligent lol.

It kinda makes sense for Her to show up. Not only is She deeply connected to Lord Ares, but I've been struggling with self love a lot lately. I guess She decided that She and Lord Ares are a package deal lmao. Anyways sorry for keeping you waiting Queen, welcome to the chaos. I'm interested to see how the pair interact with me and my regression, updates to come!

I haven't posted here in a bit, but I've been incorporating age regression a lot into my practice as of late, especially since I may be a Permaregressor. My deities have adjusted to this by acting sweeter to me (not that they weren't sweet already but still) and always treat me like I'm small, which I appreciate. It's nice being treated like I'm small by them.

Lord Hermes (along with Lord Apollo, Lord Ares, Lady Aphrodite, and more) has been the one usually helping out though—like talking to me, comforting me, doing child-like things with me, etc. It's nice—I just kinda can't help but wonder why that is. Like I kinda wonder if that has anything to do with his domains or something.

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Caution, Religious Vent Ahead!

Hello, this is just some word vomit I need to get out. I feel like a lot of people who decide to leave any form of Christianity are discouraged and afraid to talk about their negative experiences (at least I am), so I thought I'd talk about my religion and why I left.

For context, I was one of Jehovah's witnesses. My Dad started taking me to the meetings when I was around eight or nine, because my stepmom was a witness. I feel like witnesses in particular are heavily discouraged from talking about these things, as it's seen as: "tarnishing God's reputation". First of all, people have their ideas about God no matter what, and he doesn't need humans to defend him.

This is a big problem among witnesses though, brushing things under the rug so as not to cause problems. We were even encouraged to refrain from taking fellow witnesses to court for anything for the same reason. Tell me, if we're the ONLY religion that has the truth, why do we have to walk on eggshells all the time? We shouldn't have anything to worry about, right?

That's another thing. Witnesses believe that every other religion on the face of the earth is utter bullshit, even though most if not all existed before Abrahamic religion! Why the hell do Christians think they can boss other religions around when they're just the ipad kid at the family gathering?

You're not allowed to question anything, you can't criticize anyone in power or you lose your status in the congregation (this happened to my father, it was a shit show), and when someone is booted out of the congregation you're not even allowed to talk to them. They can attend meetings after being "disfellowshipped", but they can't have any social interaction with anyone. Your child got kicked out? Hope you didn't want a close relationship with them, or you're out too! Anyone who says anything remotely negative about the witnesses after leaving is considered an Apostate, which is like the worst thing you could call someone.

There are thousands of people who live on site in these fancy ass facilities and do translation work and print literature and stuff, all while every living expense is taken care of by the donations of people in the congregations. They don't have jobs, they're housed, fed, taken care of entirely, while most people are struggling to get by right now. And yet the organization has the nerve to be like: "Oh, you just need to simplify your life to be able to give more to God!"

I'm not trying to say it's all horrible, they do a lot for disaster relief and stuff, but the way they treat the people in their "flock" can be truly abysmal. I spent my entire childhood being abused, pleading for help to anyone who would listen, praying until I fell asleep crying more times than I can count, and yet nothing happened. The "God of all comfort" didn't lift a damn finger. I did all I was supposed to. I went in the ministry, went to meetings, made all the right friends, studied, did everything they told me to, and yet when I asked for help no one was there. No one asked how I was doing, I was removed from group chats, my trust was betrayed by so many I was supposed to trust and consider my "brothers and sisters". That's not even going into the sexual abuse that was swept under the rug, but that seems to be a rite of passage in Christianity unfortunately.

That's why I left. I was getting nothing but anxiety and abuse from it, and I decided that it wasn't for me. Sorry I don't want to continue being a part of a religion I don't trust as far as I can throw it. They can take their "holier than thou" shit and stick it.

This blog is a safe space for everyone in this kind of situation, and I'm sharing my story because I know how alone you can feel. I want you to know that there are others who understand, and if you need a place to vent, I'm all ears.

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Dionysus: Never back down, never what?

Me, after 16 days of work in a row: never give up...

Dionysus, hyping me up: NEVER BACK DOWN, NEVER WHAT?

Me, completely burnt out: Never give up!

Dionysus, grabbing me by the scruff: That's right, now let's get it!

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GO APOLLO GO

SIC 'EM

EVERYONE LEND HIM YOUR STRENGTH!

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Healing from religious trauma and working with Dionysus be hitting different lately. Going into it, I did a crapton of research and of course knew that he is associated with duality. There's a chaotic and jovial side to him, like the fun Dad that paints his nails funky colors and goes mall shopping with his kids. On the other hand, there's the darker, more primal side. A side driven by madness and often rage. He is a God of insanity, and he's not afraid to let everyone know it. I've definitely seen that duality in my life.

While I feel the soft and gentle support, the push to relax and enjoy life, I've also felt the whispers that it's ok to be mad. It's ok to be angry at those who hurt me. I confronted my Dad about all the baggage I've carried since ten years old, got my anger out and let him know how he failed me as a child. Although he refused to take responsibility, I've found that I don't care. It's taken me a long time, but I'm finally learning to let myself be angry. To finally wrangle that tightly wound yarn ball of anger that I've been shoving down to keep up a facade of perfect 'godliness'. Because if I don't deal with it, it'll just get bigger and bigger until I can't hold it in anymore. I need to work through it to heal, and Dionysus has given me the courage to do so.

"It's ok," he says,"it's ok to be angry. You don't need to pretend anymore. Let it go. Be angry, feel the rage, but know that once it's out of your system it'll feel so much better."

He embraces both my timidness and my rage, holding both in his arms and accepting that this is what makes me who I am. He doesn't tell me to hide how I feel. He lets me know that it's ok to feel angry, something that I as one raised in a Christian faith am unaccustomed to. I was told to bury any "bad" or "evil" inclinations, but that's not healthy. Dionysus knows this.

I am angry.

I am angry at all the Christian "friends" I had that took me out of the group chats and forgot I existed.

I am angry at my parents for all the pain they've caused me

I am angry at my siblings for their abusive behavior towards me

I am angry at the teachers I had that either treated me like a disease or a problem to be solved, and all the damage they inflicted

Most of all though, I'm angry at the Christian God who was supposed to be my "best friend", the one who wouldn't abandon me, who instead threw me to the wolves in sheepskin that I called my family. He left me. He deserted me, ignored my prayers and tears.

I'm angry at him mostly because he lied. He pretends to be perfect in judgement and without flaw. I hate being lied to.

I am a worshipper of Dionysus. Others may come, some may go, but that is who I am. I am damaged but healing. Enraged, but gentle to those who deserve my gentility. He collected the broken pieces of my soul and helped me put them back together. He is there when no one else is, and I am eternally grateful to him.

Thank you so much, Lord Dionysus.

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some ancient greek holidays

these holidays follow the lunar/athenian calendar, so I will either be providing the moon phase or Athenian date and the corresponding Gregorian months. also this is pretty obvious but these are just very general descriptions of these holidays, to give you an idea of which you think you'd like to practice. no one is forcing you to do every single one of these, nor is it expected. do whatever works for you.

if there's anything you think I should add, let me know

HEKATE'S DEIPNON

when: during the new moon phase purpose: honor Hekate and the souls of the restless dead, cleanse self and home activities: a meal set out at Hekate's altar (often including garlic, raw eggs, cake, leeks/onions, or fish), a sacrifice (usually of an animal, but it can be your choice), and burning of incense and/or cleaning house as purification deities honored: Hekate, the dead

NOUMENIA

when: the first day a sliver of the moon can be seen purpose: a day of rest and feasting activities: offer frankincense, flower garlands, wine, and barley cakes on the altars that had been cleaned the day before deities honored: household gods like Hestia, Hermes, Hekate and Zeus, celestial deities like Apollo and Artemis, or personal protective deities (like Athena was for Athens)

AGATHOS DAIMON

when: the day after Noumenia purpose: it's personal to each family but is often a ritual to honor the intermediary(ies) between mortals and gods, and to ask for things like good luck or protection activities: wine/other libations, offerings placed on an altar personal to the Agathos Daimon which can include incense, food, and things related to snakes deities honored: deities commonly associated with snakes, like Dionysus and Hermes, as well as the goddess of luck, Tyche, and Zeus, who is often called Agathos Daimon

RURAL DIONYSIA

when: during the month of Poseideon (december/january), but the festivals often happened on different days depending on the place purpose: honoring Dionysus and cultivation activities: a procession of men carrying phalluses, girls carrying baskets of bread, people with water, bread, cakes, and wine). dancing and singing contests, possibly even dramatic performances, and choruses of dithryambs. deities honored: Dionysus

CITY DIONYSIA

when: 10th-17th of Elaphebolion (March/April) purpose: honoring Dionysus activities: a reenactment of Dionysus being rebuffed from Athens, one or several dramas/plays, dramatic competitions, singing and dancing, feasting and offerings (especially of bread or phalluses)/libations (often of wine) deities honored: Dionysus

PANATHANEA

when: 23rd-30th of Hekatombaion (July/August) purpose: celebrating the birth of Athens activities: a huge procession showing off a large tapestry woven by only women, a torch race, a meal of meat for everyone in the city, athletic games deities honored: Athena

THARGELIA

when: 6th (for Artemis) and 7th (for Apollo) of Thargelion (May/June) purpose: celebrating the birthdays of Apollo and Artemis activities: the beating and banishment of an ugly man and woman (as purification, but you could just do the usual cleaning and incense burning) on the 6th. offerings of the first harvests were given to Apollo (but you could just cook a dish and offer part of it), a procession of children carrying a wreath with fruit, honey, wine, oil, and bread along with singing on the 7th. deities honored: Artemis and Apollo

THESMOPHORIA

when: 11th-13th Pyanepsion (October/November) purpose: honoring Demeter's loss of Persephone to the Underworld activities: a procession of women up to a space where men were banned, sexual activity was abstained from, they lived primitively (fasted and sat on a floor of branches), and sacrificed of piglets in the first days. then had feasts and prayed (often for things Demeter could provide, like good harvests or fertility) on the last day deities honored: Demeter and Persephone

DIASIA

when: 23rd of Anthesterion (February/March) purpose: honor Zeus Chthonius activities: solemn but joyful night rites of sacrifices, sheep/pig shaped pastry offerings, feasting, dancing, and hymn chanting deities honored: Zeus

KRONIA

when: 12th of Hekatombaion (July/August) purpose: honor Kronos (and to some extent Rhea) activities: feasting in large groups, where slaves can join their masters at the dinner table. like an early version of Labor Day deities honored: Kronos

THEOGAMIA

when: 27th of Gamelion (January/February) purpose: to celebrate the anniversary of Hera and Zeus' marriage activities: feasting, offerings/libations, and possibly also hosting a person's own marriage deities honored: Hera and Zeus

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Coming back after being almost a week without electricity, phone, and internet connection. Huge storms with lightning and rain, and winds. We have never have winds like that here and the roof of so many houses were ripped off, stuff flying, etc. All this bc global warming, and the deforestation and mining in our lands. At this rate, in 5 years we will have tornadoes, a thing we have never ever have here. Nor our lands, infrastructures, states, and culture are prepared for this. Areas of the country are devastated, ppl have died, many are without electricity nor Internet connection so they are isolated. The houses are flooding with water, and the ones that not, are leaking from the ceiling. Too many neighbours and compatriots don't have roofs and the streets are full of fallen trees and pieces of roof material, no electricity, no signal, food rotting, but suffering at the same time for the cold of this terrible winter, and trying to do something, patching even when its gonna go to hell when the storm comes again this next days. More than 33,200 people affected and 41,500 isolated due to 5 days of rain and windstorms. In just a couple of days there were 170,000 homes left without power due to wind and rainstorms and even more as time went by.

If u want to help me to fix the roof, walls, to buy food and being warm this winter please check my Ko-fi. If u can't donate, please reblog bc thats the only way to make this being seen by ppl thus receiving help. I'm really not being able to keep living like this, i can no longer cope, so please share.

Here are in my PayPal or MACH . I took the kofi link bc they were charging me a fee.

Please, educate about global warming and the effects on Global South, specially for working class, chronically ill, autistic, disable, and long covid survivor ppl like myself.

Edit: I added links and pics

Edit: the weather is getting better, but I still need to fix were I live/sleep bc the walls are broken and one of the walls is not a wall, but like 1cm wide stuff and all was bad build so even the door is twisted and dont work correctly, there is black mold, the paint is falling, the lamp has fallen, everything is broken and ugly, etc. I still need to buy food and everything so please, please, share or donate if you could. I don't want to survive like this and here, no one mask even when they were the ones giving me covid bc of it and they have making me also catch flue the other day bc they cogh over everything and don't care if they kill me, they are abusive and really violent people and are working to put me and everyone in danger. I dont even want to be in my country bc we will have a dictatorship soon, but I have nowhere else to go nor money to migrate (i need like $10.537 dollars or € 9.760,95 euros to pay all the documents, the bank money I have to show to prove I am a human being deserver of rights, the tickets, rent money and stuff to migrate).

I currently have $100 dollars donated (coz i spent 40 in food and meds this past month)

I know i will die here, but at least help me to survive in a less dehumanising way.

Edit: tumblr has blocked me from recive or send messages from the chat and comment of posts, so if you are trying to reach throughout there I can't see it, sorry, I'm cut from any communication (cant even see past messages from chat or asks), except send asks. I'm waiting that tumblr do something, but still hasn't even answered the help file I sent to them.

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Hi, how are you doing? I was wondering if you could reblog my pinned post? I'm trying to fundraising bc I'm really in a bad spot (extreme poverty, food insecurity, is winter here, im disable, autistic and covid survivor living in a storage room of sorts, etc), I can't barely cope with this anymore, and I really have no one else to ask bc I don't have friends here nor irl. Sorry to bother, probably you have a lot of bots and all that in your messages, but I really didn't know what else to do. Thanks beforehand in any case

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Call me out, why don't you? Seriously though, I needed this.

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Only you know your relationship with your god. Don’t second guess it.

It saddens me to see posts on here and on other sites about how having a causal relationship with your god is disrespectful and you shouldn’t give them nicknames. That just makes me so upset every time I see it.

Because one of the things I know for a fact is if a god felt disrespected by your behavior towards them, you’d know.

If xyz didn’t want you to treat them like a sibling, best friend, mentor, parent, (or even a lover. Not my place to judge.), you’d know. Just because you have that type of relationship with them doesn’t mean you don’t respect them or don’t work with and/or worship them.

They’re gods, yes. But they also love you and want to help you. You felt how they appeared to you, I bet you knew very quickly what type of relationship you’d have with them. What type of role in your life they would fill. Or maybe you didn’t and it happened a lot more slowly. All of that is okay. What’s also okay is if you have a very strict relationship with them, that’s also fine.

But my goodness don’t try to police or judge how gods are with other people.

99.9% of the time it’s the gods setting that type of dynamic in the first place so please be respectful to other dynamics.

You’re not better than other worshipers because you don’t joke around or call a god your bestie.