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My Athena & Aphrodite alters

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I bought a Demeter statue today!!

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aphrodite altar, soon to be redone!

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I made some collages for some of the deities i worship :D

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Modern Offerings for Demeter

These ideas aren’t just limited to physical things for offering, but experiences too; personally, I feel that the gods appreicate those just as much as the physical. Everyone’s relationship with their gods is different! Please, feel free to add more in the comments.

A trip to a local park or botanical garden

Gardening!

Supporting your farmer’s market

Composting

Fresh bread

Goat’s cheese

Barley or grain

A homecoming kiss

Cleaning litter from nature

Fresh herbs

Herbal tea

The smoke of a shared meal

Meat with bones, eaten with hands

The crunch of ice

The husk of a pomegranate

Honeyed, watered down wine

Three figs

Kykeon

Surprised laughter

The balm of revenge

A warm, wet rag

Work down with your hands

Baked goods

Mint ice cream

Several of these are inspired by historical texts I read, as well as epithets that Demeter held, alongside my own experiences.

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Persephone appreciation post!

Here’s a bundle of pictures with Dead flowers that I find really pretty!

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My corn dolly in her Beltane/May Eve/Walpurgis Night costume.

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The anger of Apollo

Trojan priest Chryses invokes Apollo to punish the Greeks.

Illustration by Clement Gontier (1876-1918)

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I was inspired by @asklepiad-apollon's post about Greek alphabet divination and decided to make myself some runes. The originals were usually written on ostraka so I went for a pottery-inspired design.

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Apollo served by the Nymphs, by Girardon and Regnaudin, 1666, Versailles 🌞

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4.29.19

Getting ready for May Eve/Beltane/Walpurgis Night. My Jarilo corn husk doll will join Morena tomorrow when I get him finished.

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She's the warrior of my mind

#art #Athena

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It’s really, really important to me that Hestia, the goddess of domesticity and the right ordering of families and homes, never married or had a “conventional” family life, even for the time in which the myths about her were written.

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Hello internet witches!! I’m not exactly in the closet per se, but I am fairly private about my practice. I also work with multiple deities closely and wanted to way to wear something for all of them at once. Anyway my solution to this problem was to make beaded devotional braclets with colors I associated with my deities. You could get more elaborate than I did even.

In order top to bottom we have Aphrodite, Artemis & Hestia

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The Death of Hyacinthos.

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New in the Etsy shop: concrete incense burners with extra incense storage! We also still have plenty of concrete candle holders, beeswax tea lights, and beeswax tapers in two different lengths!

Ren's Curio Shop on Etsy

Every purchase supports a household of disabled trans artists! <3