Chthonic Devotionals
Styx 🌑🌲⚖️🛡
- Participating in a cause or protest
- Cleaning up a body of water (river, stream, creek, etc.)
- Smoking and enjoying darkness at night, especially in the wee hours
- Reading about current political and legal changes
- Spending time with pine trees
- Working on craft/jewelry/witchy projects that involve iron
- Crafting my Underworld powders
- Warding and protecting my house and property
- Helping spirits cross and giving the dead respect and peace
- Swimming
- Reading Tarot
- Taking a super cold shower
- Caring for/being kind to spiders, moths, beetles
Hades 💀💰⚰️🐾
- Working on my finances and shop business plan
- Reading articles and watching videos regarding burial rights and care of the dead
- Watching horror movies
- Visiting and cleaning graveyards
- Maintaining relationships and communication with local spirits and ghosts
- Spending time with dogs
- Working on my ability to respectfully debate important issue
- Eating pickles or preserved foods or red meat
- Helping someone with a death plan/will/Power of attorney
- Collecting/displaying coins and stones
Persephone 🥀🕊🛀🌺🍯
- Enjoying local flowers and plants
- Listening to birdsong
- Growing flowers
- Displaying cut flowers in their full cycle, even after they’ve wilted/died
- Enjoying a well made meal or snack
- Eating pomegranates
- Taking a long and pampered bath
- Practicing a daily beauty or self-care routine
- Using pomegranate-based products (oil, body wash, deodorant, etc.)
- Visiting graveyards with offerings for the dead (flowers, honey, seeds, nuts, small cakes, paper cards, music played, books read, etc.)
- Setting up a bird feeder
- Combining floral and death aesthetics in craft, artwork, and photo creations
All 👻🌑🍂⚱️🖤
- Visiting a graveyard and walking around and reading headstones, remembering
- Vulture culture
- Reading and researching stories involving death and the dead
- Erecting a death or ancestor shrine/altar to remember and light candles for those who’ve passed
- Collecting and using graveyard dirt
- Lying on the ground with bare hands and feet and feeling the earth
- Volunteering at a hospice or nursing home
- Watching crime and forensic based shows and movies
- Acknowledging your own darker side and working with it, accepting it
- Working on mental health plans and care
- Shadow work
Tag: HP 101
Hellenism Resources
This is by no means a complete list, it’s just a collection of some sites, articles, and books I’ve found online that are interesting or useful.
- Ancient Greek Cults:A Guide by Jennifer Larson
- Aristotle on Religion by Mor Segev
- Collection of Greek Ritual Norms
- Dionysus and His Cult and Worship; a Gender Study by
Leah Hatch
- Divine Appetites and Animal Sacrifice by Mat Carbon
Greek Philosophy and Religion by Gábor Betegh
- Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies- Classical Inquires page
- Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies-Library
- Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies- Research Bulletin
- Households, Families, and Religion by Matthew Dillon
- Human Transgression–Divine Retribution by
Aslak Rostad
- Imagining the Afterlife by Radcliffe Edmonds
- Introduction to Inner Purity and Pollution in Ancient Greek Religion by Andrej Pertovic
- Meaning of Reciprocity in Ancient Greek Religion, The by A. Koutoupas
- Mortal and Divine In Early Greek Etymology by Shaul Tor
- Oracular Functioning and Architecture of Five Ancient Apollo Temples Through Archaeoastronomy: Novel Approach and Interpretation by Belen Martin Castro, Ioannis Liritzis, and Anne Nyquist
Personal Religion in Ancient Greece by Emily Whitmore
Pythagoreans, Orphism and Greek Religion by Gábor Betegh
Recovering the Past: The Origins of Greek Heroes and Hero Cult by Jorge Bravo
- Rethinking Aphrodite as a Goddess at Work by Gabriella Pironti
- Sacred and the Profane, The by Mircea Eliade
- Theoi.com
- Theoi.com- Library
Theophoric Names and the History of Greek Religion by Robert Parker
- Unraveling the Eleusinian Mysteries by Mary E. Naples, M.A .
Delphic Maxims Masterpost
Took a little bit but here is a post full of links to my interpretations of the Delphic Maxims
First Attempts:
Full List:
7: Perceive What You Have Heard
12: If You Are A Stranger, Act Like One
24: Speak Well of the Beautiful Good
29: Watch Out For Your Enemies
30: Exercise Nobility of Character
34: Shun What Belongs to Others
42: Have Respect for Suppliants
43: Be Accommodating in Everything
55: Give Back What You Have Received
73: Be Happy With What You Have
78: Observe What You Have Heard
83: Keep Yourself from Insolence
92: Finish the Race Without Shrinking Back
101: Regret Falling Short of the Mark
108: Keep Deeply the Top Secret
110: Pursue What is Profitable
115: Exercise (Religious) Silence
120: Venture Into Danger Prudently
122: Do Not Stop to Be Thrifty
125: Do Not Oppose Someone Absent
130: Do Not Begin to Be Insolent
133: Do Not Be Discontented by Life
134: Do Not Make Fun of the Dead
135: Share the Load of the Unfortunate
142: Do Not Trust Fortune
143: As A Child, Be Well-Behaved
144: As A Youth, Be Self-Disciplined
145: As of Middle Age, Be Just
146: As An Old Man, Be Sensible
147: On Reaching the End, Be Without Sorrow
Additional Maxims:
(add) 14: Testify What is Right
(add) 27: Train Your Relatives
(add) 56: Receive for the Pleasure
(add) 57: Prostrate Before the Divine
(add) 60: Do Not Boast in Might
(add) 62: Use the One Who Has the Same Interests As You
(add) 64: Be Embarrassed to Lie
(add) 66: If You Believe in Something, Do Not Be Scared to Act for It
Water is a good offering. Olive oil is a good offering. Flowers are a good offering. Written poetry is a good offering. Singing is a good offering. Milk is a good offering. Drawing is a good offering. Wine is a good offering. Candles are a good offering. Incense is a good offering.
The ancient Greeks used what they had around them as offerings, use what you have around you. Yes, the luxurious offerings are great to give, but many of you have asked us what you can do for offerings when you’re short on money. Use what you have around you. Be creative, or just offer some water. You have options and no limits to give an offering.
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