Let's suppose this person with a strong recon bent wants to worship at least most, or all, these Deities, traditionally associated with these religious traditions:

• Priapos: Northwest Anatolian(?) and Greek; or Priapus: Roman;
• Freyr: mainly Eastern Scandinavia;
• Dionysos: Greek;
• Pan: Greek;
• Cernunnos: Gaulish and Gallo-Roman (and maybe also pre-Gaulish)?
• Min: Egyptian; and/or Pan [Enodos, among other Pan epithet(s)?]: Greek-speaking people by eastern Egypt(?);
• Hermes: Greek;
• Heracles: Greek;
• Heracles Ogmios: (Gallo-)Greek(?);
• Hecate: Carian and Greek; or Trivia: Roman;
• Atargatis: Syrian;
• Astarte: Phoenician and Ugaritic;
• Asherah: Hebrew and/or Judean(?), and Ugaritic;
• Lugos: Gaulish;
• Belenos: Gaulish;
• Sirona: Gaulish and Gallo-Roman;
• Wadd: (South) Arabic;
• Baal{[-Hadad(?)] and/or [-Samaim(?)]}: generally Western Semitic and Ugaritic;
• Hathor: Egyptian:
• Thoueris: Egyptian;
• Bes: Egyptian;
• Isis(-Thermoutis): Egyptian;
• Tefnut: Egyptian;
• Atum: Egyptian;
• Svantevid: Western Slavic (Lechitic);
• Triglav: Slavic;
• Veles: Slavic;
• Odin: Scandinavian;
• Pekko: generally Baltic Finnic but maybe mainly Estonian, Karelian and Seto;
• Demeter: Greek.

Let's suppose that, inspired by Imperial (Roman) period lararia and their religious diversity (mainly in provinces like Augusta Raurica), said person wants to worship these Deities on the same (domestic) shrine (in his/her bedroom).

Do you think said person should learn and observe the details of every single one religious tradition primarily associated with every single Deity (like talking to said Deity in one of said religious tradition's language, using traditionally prescribed clothes or clothes made of traditionally prescribed materials, observing all the known purity requirements of all religious traditions, sacrificing the traditional way and only traditional goods, etc.)?

Purity requirements are widely known among reconstructionists because ritual purity is a very important feature of several religious traditions associated with Europe and Western Asia.

It's common for said religious traditions to consider several actions and situations to be sources of ritual pollution like:

• sex; genital discharges; menstrual blood;
• human blood in general;
• funerals; touching dead human bodies;
• diseases;
• letting a murderer in one's home; etc..

Different kinds of pollution could demand different cleansing methods. It's thought that entering a temple usually required greater purity than, said, approaching a household shrine to make a non-bloody sacrifice.

In contemporary societies it can be very difficult to avoid certain sources of pollution or even being sure one didn't get ritually impure just by touching an ritually impure person while walking outside.

Do you know any religion that doesn't require purity?

In your experience Which Deities care less about ritual purity?

I'm interested in a lot of the theory/methodology/philosophy that goes into the idea of Reconstructionist thought. I'm hoping to find a group not unlike this subreddit that is dedicated to discussing the ideas of Reconstructionism in a non-culturally specific setting. So not just Celtic recon, Norse recon etc... and with a degree of academic rigour/editing. The perfect thing would be an open access journal, I know there are journals out there, such as The Pomegranate or The Rune book. But the former is a bit broad and the latter very specific, is there anything in the middle?

Does anyone have tips or tricks for keeping up with a daily habit when one's schedule is different than normal?

I am trying to keep up the habit of a small, quick daily libation, but noticed that on weekends or on days I do not work, I tend to slip. I think that I've quickly integrated the libation into my morning routine on work days, but I don't really have a "morning routine" on non-work days, so it's more difficult to remember then.

Hit me the other day that I may not. In a post on another sub I didn't ultimately respond to I was trying to think of how I might explain how my conception of what the gods are like differs from say the Christian idea of divinity, and whether I could do so without a five minute ramble.

Blogger Kaye Boesme does a divination reading for the entire western polytheist community every year, which I think is a great idea. I piggybacked on her last year, and will be doing so again. Here's her single-card draw for what's coming next in 2021.

I'm encouraging everyone to do readings of their own and share them. Post them to your blogs, to social media, and post them here, too!

Today's discussion topic is:

Holidays

Some questions you might consider answering:

Which holidays do you observe in your tradition(s)?

Are there any holidays which are particularly meaningful to you?

How do you observe your holidays?

Today's discussion topic is:

Media

Some questions you might consider answering:

What does popular media consistently get wrong about polytheism?

Is there anything media tends to get right?

What is your favorite portrayal of polytheism in popular media?

What is your least favorite portrayal?