Hypnos of the sleepless,

Hypnos of those tossing and turning in bed,

Hypnos of 3am cigarettes.

Hypnos of the sleepy,

Hypnos of the constantly tired,

Hypnos of those who try to escape their reality in their sleep.

Hypnos of the sleeping pills,

Hypnos of the meds that cause insomnia as a side effect,

Hypnos of those for whom the bed feels like a battlefield.

Fuck spiritual/pagan shame.

Go hug that tree and tell it about your problems.

Wear that devotional jewellery and yap about how much you love your gods.

Make your pretty altar and hang up those figures and paintings.

Cast that spell and manifest your goals.

Hex a bitch.

Paganism/pagan religions are literally the OG and yet somehow we have been made to feel like we are the crazy ones.

You aren’t crazy.

You are the blueprint and your beliefs matter as much as anyone else’s and are valid.

Αφροδιτη Ευστεφανος

aphrodite eustephanus (richly crowned)

⚠️ hellenic polytheists and espically zeus devotees, please beware of this organization and site. they used to go by "joy of satan", and they are a neo-nazi, racist, fascist, antisemitic group who now "worship zeus", which they believe to be another name of satan.

please don't rely on any information you get from them and refrain from using their sites or forums.

I call for Agathê Tykhê, great and kind bringer of Good Fortune, in this trying exam season. My knowledge and time isn't enough — good luck is what i ask for. I praise the Goddess of Fortune for it, and for it i will honor Her again and again, forevermore.

"forgandó szerencsének őrzője

vesd rám fürkésző szemeid csak

most, O Tükhé, O Kiismerhetetlen

szavaimat ajánlom, ígéreteimet teszem

Téged megbecsülni innentől, jobban

s örökre"

(my poem)

Happy birthday, Zagreus! 🫀

i wanted 2 die three days ago and now i’m fine that shit is sooo weird

Aphrodite worship suggestions

Associations

Offerings

Sacred animals

Sacred colors

Action devotion

Zeus worship suggestions

Associations

Offerings

Sacred animals

Sacred colors

Action devotion

һᥱs𝗍іᥲ / ᥎ᥱs𝗍ᥲ

mood board I made ♥︎

terfs dni

It disheartens me seeing Hellenic Polytheists question if a deity is mad or upset at them. Deities are divine beings but that should not evoke fear. Fear should not be tagged alongside showing respect. It is very difficult to genuinely offend a god. They are not affected by trivial, small mistakes. Not affected by the fact you’re sick, disabled, or depressed. Not affected if circumstances in your life make it impossible to make time for physical offerings. It is very very very unlikely for a deity hate you.

What to do when you lose touch with your faith?

So, recently I've found that my interest and devotion to my faith plummeted. There was a few reasons for this that I can name.

One is that I'm autistic and hyperfixations and the end of them are how I exist. I tend to get really hyperfixated on something, it lasts a month (almost always exactly) and then it stops being super super interesting to me. I don't loose the interest, just the intensity and urgency of it changes. I got super hyper fixated on Lord Morpheus, my religion, learning about Greek mythology and hellenism at the end of October and its life cycle just ended.

Also I lost my bracelet that I wore to represent Morpheus. Its hard not to ask if there's meaning in something like that happening.

So, now what?

Last couple days, I realised that my interest had shifted and I had gotten really busy and that I wanted to try to rebalance the scales. Now it's not about how to do my religion, it's about how to make it sustainable.

I feel like people can get so hung up about the guilt of not actively practicing all the time or when the gods feel distant. The way I see it, this is normal. Yes, it can feel alarming and disheartening, but religion is a life long path. Its something your planning on doing for the rest of your life, of course it will come and go in waves. That is how everything else in my life acts. My interests, my passions, my relationships, my health. It comes and goes and why would I expect my religious practices and spirituality be any different?

I feel like it can be easy to forget that being pagan can be so lonely sometimes. Back in the good old days, everyone in town would collectively go to a building together on a day they all had off work and would go do religion. It was hard to miss! And we don't have that! A lot of Christians don't even have that these days!

My point is, try not to be hard on yourself when it goes. If it is something that's important to you, it will come back. It has always come back to me, even when I didnt call for it.

Try to find ways to make it sustainable. Find practices that take little to no resistance. Keep jewellery on all the time. Have a weekly offering. Dedicate something your already doing to your god.

This is mainly written for myself and I hope you can find some help in it to <3

ৎ Candles (pink or white ones mostly but really you can use any colour you want)

ৎ Pink quartz

ৎ Seashells

ৎ Perfume, makeup, skincare (and ofc you can still use them)

ৎ Pearls

ৎ Flowers (fresh or dried)

ৎ Dove related items: plushes, painting, jewellery, charms...

ৎ Mirrors

ৎ Jewellery (that you can wear as devotional jewellery too)

ৎ Apples

ৎ Love letters: for the people you love, your crush.es or partner.s, for Lady Aphrodite herself but also for yourself as a form of self-love

ৎ Incense

ৎ Rose petals

ৎ Devotional crafts: genuinely anything homade that you can crafted yourself and that reminds you of her or even that you crafted for her (jewellery, candle,

ৎ Chocolate

ৎ Rosewater

ৎ Anything heart shaped or love related

ৎ Something pink

ৎ Strawberries

ৎ Anything that smells like roses or a scent that reminds you of her: candles, incense, perfume...

ৎ Honey

ৎ Pictures of people you love

ৎ Cinnamon

ৎ Anything you find pretty: even if it's just a small rock you found on the floor, as long as you find it pretty and it reminds you of her and/or you think she will like it

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This list will probably be updated

Also remember that you do not need an altar to worship and deity so if you don't have the space, the money or even if it's not safe you should absolutely not feel pressured to make one and if you really want to have one there's still plenty of way for you to do it discreetly (such as digital altars or tabloid ones). The gods understand don't worry <3

Oil lamp in the form of Hekate holding a torch

it makes me sick to my stomach watching rich white supremacists use ancient greek culture and art to promote their racism and bigotry. may the gods condemn them and bring misfortune and pain into their lives. i pray their money and fortune is spirited away by hermes and distributed to those in need. i pray that the people rise and destroy the cycle that continues to oppress us.

"I am Isis, the mistress of every land, and I was taught by Hermes, and with Hermes I devised letters, both the sacred [hieroglyphs] and the demotic, that all things might not be written with the same [letters].

I gave and ordained laws for men, which no one is able to change.

I am the eldest daughter of Kronos.

I am the wife and sister of King Osiris.

I am she who findeth fruit for men.

I am mother of King Horus.

I am she that riseth in the Dog Star.

I am she that is called goddess by women.

For me was the city of Bubastis built.

I divided the earth from the heaven.

I showed the paths of the stars.

I ordered the course of the sun and the moon.

I devised business in the sea.

I made strong the right.

I brought together woman and man.

I appointed to women to bring their infants to birth in the tenth month.

I ordained that parents should be loved by children.

I laid punishment upon those disposed without natural affection towards their parents.

I made with my brother Osiris an end to the eating of men.

I revealed mysteries unto men.

I taught [men] to honor images of the gods.

I consecrated the precincts of the gods.

I broke down the governments of tyrants.

I made an end to murders.

I compelled women to be loved by men.

I made the right to be stronger than gold and silver.

I ordained that the true should be thought good.

I devised marriage contracts.

I assigned to Greeks and barbarians their languages.

I made the beautiful and the shameful to be distinguished by nature.

I ordained that nothing should be more feared than an oath. I have delivered the plotter of evil against other men into the hands of the one he plotted against.

I established penalties for those who practice injustice.

I decreed mercy to suppliants.

I protect [or honor] righteous guards.

With me the right prevails.

I am the Queen of rivers and winds and sea.

No one is held in honor without my knowing it.

I am the Queen of war.

I am the Queen of the thunderbolt.

I stir up the sea and I calm it.

I am in the rays of the sun.

I inspect the courses of the sun.

Whatever I please, this too shall come to an end.

With me everything is reasonable.

I set free those in bonds.

I am the Queen of seamanship.

I make the navigable unnavigable when it pleases me.

I created walls of cities.

I am called the Lawgiver [Thesmophoros, a classical epithet of Demeter]

I brought up islands out of the depths into the light.

I am Lord [note masculine form] of rainstorms.

I overcome Fate.

Fate harkens to me.

Hail, O Egypt, that nourished me!"

--A second century version of an Egyptian writing. Found in the book Hellenistic Religions: the Age of Syncretism edited by Frederick C. Grant