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theoi moodboard →  Ἑστία / Hestia

Hestia, in the high dwellings of all, both deathless gods and men who walk on earth, you have gained an everlasting abode and highest honor: glorious is your portion and your right! For without you, mortals hold no banquet–where one does not duly pour sweet wine in offering to Hestia both first and last.

#hestia

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Forget Me Not // Margarita Ponomareva

#persephone

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instagram | petalbackfarm

#persephone

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it's a little early in the day for this take but

a culture's religion as an open practice does not always mean pick and choose and divorce all original or intended meaning from individual elements

open does not mean free to steal. it means the community is sharing it together. and in practices where there are existing cultures (ex. Celtic nations), that means learning about those nations and cultures as they are

open does not mean you have to be a recon, does not mean you have to follow the Original Everything perfectly.

it does mean that you need to acknowledge and respect context and existing culture

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Persephone's Abduction

"Persephone went willingly! Just check the oldest myth." - one too many a person on tiktok this morning.

Alright, I will. I'll use the Homeric Hymn to Demeter (7th century BCE) for you.

"[..] but broad-pathed Earth gaped wide

On the Nysion plain where the lord, the Receiver of many, rushed forth

With his deathless horses, Kronos' son who has many a name.

He seized her against her will, and aboard his golden car

Carried her off, lamenting; she uttered a piercing scream"

(line 16-20)

"When the maiden shrieked in appeal to her father"

(line 27)

"While the goddess [Persephone] viewed earth and starry sky, and the strong-flowing sea

Teeming with fish, and the rays of the Sun, she still hoped to behold

Her dear mother again, and the tribes of gods eternal in race;

So long did hope soothe her mighty mind despite her grief."

(line 33-36)

"Sun, [Helios], as a god for a goddess [Demeter] show your regard for me,

If ever by word or deed your heart and spirit I pleased.

The daughter whom I bore, my sweet offshoot of glorious form,

I heard through the murmuring air giving vent to an anguished cry

As though overpowered by force, yet caught no glimpse with my eyes.

[...]

Who took her without my consent against her will by force

And vanished -"

(line 64-72)

"And the lord in his [Hades'] halls he [Hermes] discovered seated upon a couch,

And he had his revered spouse by him, though much against her will,

Since she longed for Demeter, her mother -"

(line 43-45)

"She [Persephone] quickly leaped up in delight, but secretly, glancing round,

He [Hades] gave her to eat a pomegranate's honey-sweet seed, so that there

By revered Demeter the dark-robed she would not for ever stay."

(line 73-75)

"I [Persephone] at once leaped up in delight, but Hades secretly put

A food as sweet as honey, a pomegranate's seed, in my hand

And using violence forced me to taste it against my will"

(line 412-412)

Photo credit here.

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oh sweet muses, i offer you this jar full of my tears for just a bit of inspiration during this NaNo

#shitpost #nanowrimo #nanowrimo 2022 #national novel writing month #devotion #muses #this shit isnt starting well

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Kala Eleusinia!

Last night began the Greater Eleusinian Mysteries - Eleusinia ta Megala - which are sadly lost to us now. But to many Hellenists, myself included, this is still one of the most sacred festivals and we celebrate the best we can.

As Demeter mourned the loss of Her beloved daughter, She came to Eleusis in the guise of an old woman and asked King Celeus for shelter. He brought Her into his palace and placed his sons in Her care. To reward him for this kindness, She began the process of making one of his sons immortal, only to be stopped by his wife, Metanira, who panicked when she saw an old woman putting her baby into an open flame.

Demeter instead taught the other son, Triptolemus, the secrets of agriculture and commended Celeus to build Her a temple. It was here that She waited, withholdings Her gifts from the earth, until Persephone was returned to Her at last.

Eleusis became a major cult center for the Goddesses, and hosted the Mysteries: the Lesser Mysteries once a year, and the Greater Mysteries every four years. Among that which was revealed in the Mysteries was agricultural knowledge and the secret to a blessed afterlife under Persephone.

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it's religious even if you don't feel it. Let yourself be religious regardless of if it feels religious.

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#aphrodite

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Rose.  

#aphrodite

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little Dionysus at his mom's grave :')

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instagram | birgittetheresa

#persephone

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Annual reminder to Witchblr: "the whole world used to be all Pagan before Christianity showed up" is an incredibly colonialist way of thinking.

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#persephone

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My roots, my roots run deep into the hollow

Sandro Botticelli, Primavera // René-Antoine Houasse, Apollo Pursuing Daphne // Czesław Miłosz // Annihilation (2018) // Yasutaka Tsutsui, Standing Woman // Ana Mendieta, Siluetas Series // Spiritbox, Rule of Nines // In This Moment, Roots

#gaia

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Normalize laughing with your deities 

Normalize telling your deities jokes 

Normalize playing music for your deities at any time it feels right 

Normalize drawing silly little doodles for your deities regardless of skill

Normalize sharing a walk with your deities

Normalize soaking in the sunlight and dark mystery of night with your deities

Normalize letting your deities in, letting them be there 

Normalize shedding tears of joy and sadness and expressing negative emotions that aren’t pretty with your deities

Normalize various levels of intimacy both casual and intense with your deities 

Normalize following what works for you and your deities no matter what when it’s just about you and them, no one else

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NNK Nida

#aphrodite