Basically just what the title says. (Don’t look at the song I’m listening to😖) ((I love hadestown even if it isn’t accurate at all))

Hi everyone! I'm sorry if this sounds a bit strange but I'm writing a graphic novel and can't find this information anywhere. I've searched a lot but everything I've read only mentions the classical age, while I need to know if human sacrifice was permissible in the Archaic period or in Minoan/Micenean societies. I also need to know where bodies where usually laid to rest and how the sacrifices were done. The main character of my novel should be killed by fire but I don't know if it was a common method for human sacrifices, or if they were done at all.

Thanks in advance to anyone who might want to answer!

i feel like Aphrodite is calling to me, I’ve felt an overwhelming crave for love recently, I’ve been more attracted to anyone than i ever have, and I’ve been thinking about her a lot. is it a sign? im interested in working with her but i don’t know how to ask her and I’ve never worked with a deity before. tips?

Hesiod’s Theogony, Homer’s Iliad and The Odyssey…. What else is there to remember and read?

i’ve been wanting to practice for a while but felt overwhelmed with all i had to learn

basically i’m asking for the beginner’s tips, who to start working with, what to do and NOT do, what signs to look for etc

i think i consider myself an atheist but when asked what religion i’d find more “probable” i’d always think the Greek Pantheon so here i am…

ps: i read that Hestia is the best to start with but i’d also like to work with Aphrodite because i need help with self love and love itself ☺️

(I'm a week late for this one but who's even keeping track anymore)

(as a devotional act to Lord Apollon 🫶)

hi!! how are you doing? tell me about your day and what's going on in your life, I'd love to know! you can always talk to me if needed!!

for me.. well. I've been pretty alright. i think i would use the word 'surviving' to describe it rn. started doing daily (at least once every two days) research on my religion and the gods i follow and it's definitely helping me feel more connected.

ALSO - how have the gods been present in your life recently?

for me, i finally finally prayed again and asked Apollon to send me feathers, and asked Hypnos for a good night's sleep cause i was exhausted. when i tell you i woke up the next morning, fully refreshed and energized, and i opened my door to a feather in front of my doorstep omd.

anyway.. I'll stop rambling. Apollon would like me to remind you to take care of yourself!! and Hypnos would like me to remind you to keep your sleep schedule in check! it's important! 🤍

Recently my partner had a dream about Hades asking to work with me. I accepted his offer and this morning my Amethyst bracelet devoted to Dionysus I always wear went missing. We searched everywhere for it but couldn't find it. I've never lost that bracelet. I'm wondering what happened. I work with Loki also but he's never stolen anything. Could it have been Hades? Any advice would be helpful.

So background first. I am im school, and there are these three imbeciles who have been terrorizing me for the last year.

I have been trying to report them to the administration to no luck.

Well I was praying to the greek pantheon for help. And it was answered🥹. Though not really in the best of ways, the three idiots gave second degree burns to a substitute teacher with a acetylene torch 😅(think of it as a flame thrower for cutting metal). Now they’re definitely going to be expelled, and probably arrested. I am so happy to not have to deal with them next year, I do feel bad for the sub however. Though they did say shes healing fast and should make a full recovery. 😄

So the other day I was meditating to talk with the deities I work with. During the meditation I had a new deity come walking up. I have zero idea of who it could be. I searched soooooo much and for the life of me cannot find anything. So I’m here to see if any of y’all could help point me in the right direction.

This deity was definitely a woman, long blonde hair, she wore a dark hooded coat/cape thing so I couldn’t see her face, wore a dark dress with a slit on one side, whole lot of energy but very very nice. She didn’t say a whole lot but told me everything would work out & be okay. She basically sat beside me and listened to me talk. She had more of a comforting energy. Side note: She walked up when I was talking with Poseidon. He just shrugged his shoulders when I looked towards him as she was walking up😂 Any help would be appreciated❤️

hello! I've recently decided that I want to start practising Hellenism and have been struggling deciding which God I should begin worshipping. but recently for the past week I have seen moths an uncanny amount, in my house and in my room wayyyy more than usual (usual being I only really saw them a few times a month). at first I thought it was just a coincidence, I mean who doesn't have moths in their house? but then I started seeing them in the most random places persistently. yesterday while in English there was even a moth from the outside tapping against the glass window exactly where I was sitting. later that day I saw one dead moth in my cooking class and one laying on the pavement. I'm not even in the season were they are most active rn. I guess I just wanted to ask if this could potentially be a sign from any Greek Deity?? or if any one has experienced anything similar?? any help would be gladly appreciated bc not a lot comes up when I try looking it up. thanks :)

I was in a garden, sprawling & dense with racks of planters, trees & plant pots as far as the eye could see. there were others there, but I was always drawn to this woman with wheat coloured hair & dungarees. I think someone else was showing me around, but eventually we were able to talk, I think about my plants

ik it's not a typical look for Demeter, but I swear it was her

Hi folks,

Let me start off by saying that I am quite new to all of this! Though I have taken a huge interest in magic, stories and the ancient world, including the Greek gods.

I believe that the other night I was visited by Nyx. I remember sitting alone and feeling a dark mothering presence, I began crying and crying so much sadness and grief out and I heard a voice, not my own, inside me speak gently to me. And I could see a darkness in my mind's eye. I felt enveloped in a warm and caring darkness.

I can't remember how it came to be, but I understood this presence to be a primordial dark mother, and the name Nyx came into my mind and I was so sure that is who it was.

I've had people come at me and see that primordial deity's don't choose people. I don't know that, as I'm new. Maybe I've been drawing her presence to me without meaning to? I am very much a night time, and darkness adjacent person. I love the sunshine because it can't exist without night, and I love the joys of life because I know they can't exist without strife and darkness. The tension makes life sweet. Plus I wear black a lot.

Can anyone help me understand my experience? Now when I look at the sky I cry, and when I think about Nyx I feel braver, more in my power and confident. Something has changed within me. I am planning on building an altar to help me stay in connection. Is that a good idea?

Have you been through anything similar?

Thanks for your time Xx

So yesterday I was bone throwin with pencils, and it wasn’t any of my deities talking. It took me 2 hours of throwing until Hermes revealed himself. So I was like “Ohhh,” and gave him an offering of Pocky. Very unconventional, but the thought counts ig. So today I go to where I left his food and it falls. Alr, not magical just mundane. So I throw the pencils, Hermes isn’t here. Amphitrite is?? So I ask her if Hermes is here. Nope. He left, so she tells me I disrespected him by talking to him way too casually/rudely(?) But he isn’t too mad at me according to Amphitrite, but she told me to give him an offering as an apology. Am I just bad at bone(pencil) throwing or can Hermes actually get upset because of this? I don’t doubt it, but I feel like I tried to do my best and I’m just confused as fuuuuck.

So, for a long time I had this gorgouse set of dried flowers, and today I noticed it was missing, no one took it out, the window was closed so there was no wind, so I think she accepted them. However, I have been keeping those flowers from the spring equinox, so I think it’s a little weird that she only accepted it like 3 months later. Thoughts? (P.s I was like, DEVASTED when I saw it was missing those flowers were so well preserved -one reason why I thought she loved them- and were just beutful 🫠🥹)

My question is exactly what I mean. I’d love to worship the gods/goddesses but I’m not sure if I can, if I don’t believe in them. Help?

i'm thinking of making a new oil for Lady Athena , what can I use?

So this is prolly gonna sound crazy but here we go anyway. About 2 years when i was exploring my spirituality I smoked weed with my friends dad and might have been laced because I experienced my own version of hell. I felt my energy burn me I had auditory and visual hallucinations and it lasted hours. In the last 2 years I've been trying to recover because my self was split after this and numerous pieces were discovered and brought back. The thing is, I also have had random little reminders of Persephone who I didn't even know much about ever. I've finally accepted this kinda in the last few months but I'm still terrified of going near alters and worship at this point. However I can't deny the signs and I've been trying to understand her and the messages in my journey she's been trying to send. I've started trying to re embark on my journey because I feel I have most of myself back it's just new and familiar. I don't know what I'm doing and I am afraid as of now. I'm also now trying to research Aphrodite alongside the research for Persephone if anyone wants to help any of this. Idk maybe this was confusing but if anyone knows anything that could help me learn more about them from here I'd appreciate. Or little connections or something.

This is super tmi I’m so sorry in advance x

For context I’ve been considering praying to goddess Aphrodite 1) she’s patron of sex workers which I am 2) I really need some pleasure joy and creativity (romance would be even better) in my life. For context I used to have a high sez drive but I haven’t dated anyone or even erm “dated” myself in 6 months and nothing interests me physically which is so out of character for me

After spending the day researching her I woke up VERY EXCITED if you catch me drift from the best smex dream I’ve ever had in my life 😅 part of my was like this is a sign but part of me was like is that a little “beneath” a literal god to reach out that way?

Curious to hear other experiences

So I have some inquiries since the people here seem to be very helpful! I’ve recently been wanting to begin worshipping Apollon, but have also been called by Hypnos which was unexpected to say the least. I want to start and build a relationship with them but I’m unsure of how to do that. I know some people, for example, say good morning and talk to their respective deities. My concern there is, how do I do that without coming across as disrespectful? I don’t want to suddenly come in and act like we’re best buds when I’m still very new on my journey, but I hear about people doing small things like gossiping and talking to their patrons. Do I have to build up to that point?

Additionally, how often should I leave offerings? How often should I pray? I was never very religious, even growing up, so I have no frame of reference for this kind of thing.

And last question, what do people do for their deities respectives days (Example: Sunday for Apollon)? Do you just do a few extra devotional activities or something more? Is it more of a person to person thing?

Anything helps! Thank you!

Decided I was going to write and make pages about ALL of the Greek Gods/Goddesses/titans/titanesses....

Yeah so so far I have written 169 of the names. So go on, give me your least known names and I'll see if they're on there :)

I was raised catholic with a family that at large is quite religious, I never really felt any connection with Jesus or god in the Christian sense I tried paying and it just felt like I was being dumb and talking to myself, I hated the feeling and still hate being forced to pray to this imaginary thing Christians believe in. So for the longest time, I thought it was because I was an atheist, I’ve been calling myself an atheist since I knew what the word meant! But more than once I’ve caught myself saying “If there were a religion for me to follow it would be the Greek gods/Hellenistic pantheon” always thought it was just because I'm a history geek.

Well, recently I discovered (via tumblr lol) that modern Hellenism is a thing! at first, I approached it just as someone interested in history and mythology. But then I started researching and looking into it and it’s like a train hit me in the face, I’m relating to so many things I’ve seen people say and retell as instances where gods were guiding them. And it feels like I’m going insane! Cause I swore by everything that I was an atheist for the last 7 years of my life to only now find a faith that I connect to, it feels off. I don’t know what to believe in, I’m a very scientific person I can’t see myself throwing all of that out the door, but today I prayed to Apollo (more like talked) and after I overcame my awkwardness it felt amazing, and I've been seeing him in everything!

I know there isn’t a cookie-cutter shape for how to worship the gods and what to believe in but any type of guidance would be appreciated because I feel like a complete mess rn. Like how do I do offerings? when do I do them? how exactly do I pray? do I believe in the creation myth? are the Iliad and Odyssey seen as historical accounts? can I feel connected to more than one god? (in my case I feel particularly close to Artemis, Apollo, and Hermes) Guess my main issue is I don't know if I'm truly coming into this as a believer or as someone who adores the study of classical mythology.

one thing I know for certain is I don’t personally go into the whole “magic” side of things, it will sound bad but the “traditional” worship and beliefs sound much more appealing to me than witchcraft, at least how a lot of witches on tiktok describe it (personally don't subscribe to those beliefs at all) sorcery, like Circe’s, and godly magic are completely different stories!

Anyway I know this is long and a little bit of a rant but I really do feel lost! Any guidance is good thank you!

So, im new here, but I've been a pagan worshiping helenist deities for a while now and I love music, so here's some playlists I've made

Aphrodite playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2bhe67H8sfUkYoNzJ7gIR8?si=ABYOW4DzQ069Y1_UDZbJNg

Hygeia playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3ilBe9JIwqQBPC0nDxZZ27?si=bNrX2sqdQXiaFeOoDuNMaw&pi=u-oTOsDzV6S_mi

Ares playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3Mq9UwmdW7UAqhkHWUMXUg?si=eAHFq7hzQgqOJXDeXhU2gg&pi=u-ZTL4MwvLR0mW

Hades playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3K1n9YxiaEi92eC2ITXY4g?si=IaAh37lyScGvWCB7BcQ_yA&pi=u-WsiEnuEcQ-iR

Poseidon playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5sXKQuoI8RVvg878vEB6vM?si=AobWbZxYRAm3JwHndouubg&pi=u-tomnFEq1SzWE

Some songs in these playlists aren't in english because it isn't my first language so i put some songs from my country!!

This is for Hestia, at the moment I have a candle, some jewelry that belonged to family members that was passed down to me, and some buttons I thought she’d like. The painting in the back is a work in progress still.

Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks

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The one thing I can say, believing in Hellenismos, about Percy Jackson that I think Riordan gets right about the theoi, is the way he interprets their aspects. Forgive me if you don’t agree, I don’t incorporate the books into my praxis, but I did grow up reading them, and I think they pointed me in the right direction, or… really, just, helped me along in believing in the gods eventually. Back to point; Percy’s first interaction with Aphrodite vs. Piper’s first interaction with Aphrodite are completely different, while Percy sees her as a model, someone untouchable and perfect, Piper sees her as a woman who’s beautiful, but is as beautiful within as she is to the eye. It’s noted that of Poseidon’s children, Percy has the gentlest nature, because he was conceived of Poseidon’s gentlest side, kind of like the sea at a peace, or a calm day you would enjoy on the beach. Hestia isn’t so much a sidelined goddess as she is the last defender of Olympus, it’s guardian, and protector; she plays an active role in the background as a wise confidant rather than needing a direct voice.

I feel like, beneath the embelishments for the audience, he understands something crucial about the gods most people outside the general Hellenic belief system don’t. I also feel like, he tries to capture that while also telling a story to entertain kids, and disregarding the disrespectful ways he sometimes does, for those of us who do believe, like his portrayal of Hera, Hebe, and Dionysus, that the way he incorporates them into the modern era should be evaluated and replicated ((properly by us) as we recreate this ancient religion)). We can’t ignore the modern world, and just like there were gods and daemons who governed everyday things then, there are now. Short of blasphemy, creating new gods, we should discover where they fit now (yes I realize I’m talking about upg)