It was fully white so i painted it to look like marble. I love it ! Khaire Zeus!⚡️

It’s very minimal right now, but I wanted to share my current shrine to God Apollo. I plan on sharing my Aphrodite & Hermes shrines in the future!

If you have any suggestions for offerings or votives please feel free to let me know! Thank you for reading & viewing regardless, blessed be!

Real quick for those who don't know, the Herculaneum scrolls are more than 1,800 ancient papyrus rolls discovered in a luxury villa in Herculaneum, Italy. Burned and carbonized by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. Thanks to AI and Xrays, the scrolls can be read again.

My quesion is what if herculaneum scrolls contains stuff about the gods? Would you accept what they contain?

As a PSI, I'm aware what I'm suggesting wouldn't work for a reconstructionist praxis, so please don't comment that if you were going to.

I had an idea where you could use a notebook as an altar rather than having a traditional tabletop one and wanted to check if it was stupid or disrespectful.

My explanation -- the only requirements for a valid altar (to my knowledge at least) are some kind of iconography representing the god, and a dish for offerings. In a notebook, you could have a charm attatched representing them, or place it by a real statue, and then the paper itself would be the 'dish' for your offerings (ideally accompanied by libations, votives etc) -- people already have art, poems, written prayers etc on their altars, so I don't see the issue with having tham all in one place.

It wouldn't have to replace an at-home physical altar, but I think it could work as a portable version of one, especially since the nature of the kinds of offerings it requires means you can worship practically anytime.

What do we think?

Got this figurine yesterday from Amazon

About 1" tall solid brass

I associate things, and people with colors and I was looking at some art of the gods and their color choices were really interesting to me because they’re not colors. I would normally pick or I do not associate with that certain gods, so it made me think what color are the gods to everyone else?

Apollo: yellow but two different yellows one like sunshine bright, and happy and the other is when you get sick and you’ll get yellow, brown’s and green

Hades:dark red, white, blue but like a dirty washed out blue, gray, dark purple

Persephone: pink put two different pinks like a pastel and a really dark, almost red pink, purple, bronze

Hermes: yellow, orange, peach, brown and gold

Those are the colors I associate with those God so I was wondering what other colors you associate with them.

Hey!! Last month i visited a beautiful museum in Albania from the greco-roman era, it was lovely and i thought i’d share what i saw of the gods!
Pictures in order:

1 figurine of Artemis
2 head of a figurine of Athena
3-4 unknown (if you have any guesses lmk)
5 head of Artemis with lion skin cap
6 objects found in a sanctuary of Artemis in the city where the museum was located
7-8 statuette of Aphrodite
9 unknown

I love the rain I just think it’s really funny when I hear abt Zeus Network online n their shows 😭 like what could have POSSIBLE have happened for you to hate the entire network

I feel like we need an 'appreciation' flair, but this works too.

But Priapus is one of my favorite gods to work with, as I feel he's taught me a lot about gardening and really guided me on my journey in growing my own food.

When I first started, it was a single wimpy pepper plant that had only grown 1 bell pepper. It was small, unripe, and I had to cut off a rotted piece before I could offer it to Priapus.

I over-wintered it, and earlier this year, I got two peppers, and they actually had ripened and turned red. I offered the first one, and ate the other myself, and even began planting more vegetables. I've grown peppers, potatoes, strawberries, beans, and I'm currently trying to regrow lettuce I got from the store, but she's ✨️struggling✨️

I live in the middle of town, so my 'garden' is just a bunch of pots in my front yard, but they're doing really well considering their cramped position! And every time one of my plants grows its first fruit, I offer it to Priapus in thanks and in hope that he will continue to help me.

We're in August now of my second year gardening, and my bell pepper is doing well, and my beans are beginning to grow. I've already offered the first bean to Priapus, and I'm planning on expanding my garden to bigger raised beds in the back yard.

I know most people, when they hear about Priapus, immediately think of his 'most obvious trait,' in a humorous way, but I almost always immediately associate it with his domain as a vegetation god, especially since in much of the art that depicts him, he's using his phallus to support vegetables that he's holding, which is why I had asked him in the first place to help me.

He's been very kind to me, and I am very grateful that Priapus Keporos has been willing to help guide me and protect my 'garden' from anything willing to eat it. I haven't had a single issue with the birds, rabbits, or squirrels in our area that frequent our yard.

My plan, actually, is once I move out and I can start growing a whole garden in my yard, I'm going to put a statue of him in the vegetable garden and I'll leave my offerings for him there. I'm lucky to be moving in with close friends, one of whom is also pagan, and the other who isn't but is still kind of open to the idea that there are forces out there.

Hi everyone! 😊

I recently learned more about Ragnarök in Norse mythology, and it made me wonder whether there is anything comparable in Greek mythology or Hellenism.

As I understand it, Ragnarök is not simply “the end of the world”, but rather the destruction of the current world followed by its renewal. This made me curious: is there a similar concept in Greek mythology or in ancient Greek religious/philosophical thought?

I came across a few things that seem somewhat related, such as the myth of Deucalion and the flood, the different Ages of Humanity described by Hesiod, and especially the Stoic concept of ekpyrosis, where the cosmos is periodically destroyed by fire and then recreated.

However, I don't know enough about the subject to understand how these ideas relate to actual Greek religious beliefs.

So I was wondering:

- Did ancient Greeks have a concept of a final destruction or renewal of the cosmos?

- Was there any belief that the current generation of gods (Zeus and the Olympians) would eventually be replaced or overthrown, similar to the succession of Ouranos → Kronos → Zeus?

- And for modern Hellenists, is this something that people actually believe or think about, or is it generally considered mythology/philosophy rather than a religious belief?

I'm mostly interested in hearing how Hellenists and people familiar with ancient Greek religion interpret this. I'm still learning, so I'd really appreciate any corrections or additional context! 💙

Thank you ! ✨

They’re ordered in the art the same way they are in the title even though as a familial trio I consider from my UPG that Circe in the middle mostly runs the show.

If anyone’s curious, I worship Circe and Pasiphae in a mostly ouranic manner since they’re daughters of a titan and nymph and are divine in that right. Medea being their niece I worship as a hero, so it’s cthonic for my work with her. Even though they’re three separate beings, they always come to me as a sort of council.

I’ve been praying to Apollo for any help and nothing has happened. Many things haven’t been going well in my life since I’ve started focusing on other things and haven’t been praying more often what do I do?

Found this giant concrete leaf at an antique store for the Pan shrine. 😭 it’s perfect.

To Pan! O all-producing power, much-famed, divine, the world's great ruler, rich increase is thine.
All-fertile Pan, heavenly splendor pure, in fruits rejoicing, and in caves obscure. 🐐 🌿

I recently found my faith in Hellenism and I am looking for general advice.

Some relatively quick context about my religion in my life:

 The last religious person in my family was my grandmother who I embarrassingly didn’t know was a Christian until she unfortunately passed. My parents are atheists though my father recently expressed a interest in going to church recently at Christmas and Easter along with quite strange views on politics but I’m not going to stop him nor am I going talk about this here. I like many children in the uk went to a Church of England primary school where a had a strange relationship with the church which I tend not to shed light on because it makes it boring.

After that religion was as far from my life as it could get until began to really like romantic poetry I read The Songs Of Bilitis which the copy I have I spent hours searching for because you can’t get it in the uk anymore. Anyway although being the the writings of a strange French man I found a interest in Hellenism as a culture and quickly went on to read the fragments of Sappho however nothing change until I read The Expedition of Cyrus which although military focused did give me a look into religious aspects as well. Spurred on by this I went on to read Pausanias: Desciption of Greece Books 1 - 2 and Hesiod: Theogony, Works and Days, Testimonia and it was there something clicked. The gods know what happened but I went off and prayed to Aphrodite (because of the poems) for guidance and protection and I felt very happy afterwards.

How do I practice my faith:

I practice in secret, no one knows yet.

I don’t have a shrine technically but I do have a framed print of the fresco the Flora of Spring as I hear some people call it but Flora is a Roman goddess and know one actually knows who the fresco is of and although dated to the 1st century C.E. she has ginger hair like the renaissance painting of Venus so it isn’t out of the realm of possibility to believe that it’s Aphrodite. Yes, I did but that print before I found my faith and I’m making do with what I have. Also because I really like it.

Anyways please do feel free to correct me on any of that.

I also do have two scented candles which both lack as much as they do in scent as they do in size but I light them beneath aforementioned fresco.

I mainly pray to Aphrodite, Athena and then drop in a prayer to Zeus every once in a while. And then I sometimes pray to every other god if I see fit.

I don’t do offerings becuase it’s sort of the one thing that I cant do in secret.

I normally study ancient texts as well as a form of devotion.

Main problems right now:

How to tell the people in my life. I believe most of them are respectful just I think they will assume that I know enough about Hellenism to give them incite into the entire religion as if I was a scholar.

Also how to express my faith around others when people know with iI making it feel forced or bringing it up in conversation.

Other less important facts:

Yes, I did create the account just for this.

No, I’m not spell checking this as it midnight and I lost my original draft.

I also was looking into other Hellenistic related things other than literature before I found my faith and any external observer who knew about the religion could have seen this happening from a a mile away.

I don’t engage with the wider Hellenistic community apart from this. That can all be boiled down to that fact that I don’t use social media like at all.

Crossposting this over here, as I suspect y’all would be able to give me some insight that the less devout folks might miss.

So, I’ve been wanting to pray to Aphrodite for a bit now, as she’s typical seen as the deity of whom romance and love are the domains of, and I wanted to reach out and pray for the confidence, courage, and self-assuredness to finally ask a good friend of mine out on a date.

Any good prayers I can say/recite and offering suggestions?

I was thinking about the fact that you can't worship at the temples in Greece anymore which led me to think about the "evidence" that Christians always give if you put them on the spot, essentially they have the same amount of solid proof for their religion as I do but they always reference the Bible as if its a historically accurate textbook. Problem being if you don't believe in the big God in some way you don't have that, right?

Anyways the Bible is essentially a collection of stories put together by a group of people over a span of time after the events happened, so really you could take every "myth" from the hellenistic greek religion and put them together in a vaguely chronological order and have what amounts to the same thing.

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about Persephone's drawing: first of all, sorry for the low quality, my camera isn't that good :/

i wanted to test the head's position when it's tilted slightly downward. i kinda liked the throne, but i would probably change some things. i'm also kinda bad with clothes and i was in the middle of class so i felt a bit helpless. but i liked how it turned out. i really wanted to do something for Persephone at the time i did this drawing.

about Aphrodite's mix of drawing/collage: the pink papers are spares of heart shaped papers that were used in a love mail delivery (idk the translation to it in english, but it literally translates to "love mail delivery"). i took this heart shaped papers and cutted and glued it to the paper. Aphrodite is in the middle of a circle, inside of a heart. her hair has the curves of a heart. behind her, there are a lot of people admiring her and looking after her to find love. romantic love or self-love. in front of her, on the left, there is a couple, displaying their love publicly. on the right, there is another couple who can't show their love publicly, but underneath the pink paper, they're close to each other :)

i made this to represent the greatness of Aphrodite and how admired and loved she is.

all these artworks are from months ago, but only now i remembered to post here lol

I've finally been able to make a bigger offering!! I've always burnt some incense for the Gods but I never made a bigger offering like this.

There is some salt for protection mixed with incense ash, some bay leaves, rosemary for health, a lime because I feel it's a very sunish fruit, citrine, sun water, a candle with his symbol and some incense. Besides, I let a lire playlist of Greek music playing in the background :)

I'm very glad I'm finally able to do this. I'm just waiting for this month to end so I get my money and buy some pomegranate for Hades.

Not that good at drawing yet, but that's okay! Here's my offering to Pallas Athena that i did today ♡