Hero Worship

Khairete! My name is Androphonos. I am a Hellenic polytheist, and this is my blog specifically for hero worship!

My main helpol blog is @androphonos-theoi. This blog will solely discuss heroes (including deified heroes such as Herakles and Ariadne).

Heroes I Worship: Queen Penelope - my heroine patron (and the namesake for this blog, as the Queen of Ithaca!) Orpheus - my hero patron King Odysseus Prince Paris Achilles Patroclus Queen Ariadne Herakles Prince Hektor King Oedipus Iphigeneia Orestes Pylades Prince Peisistratus Princess Elektra Prince Telemachus Antigone Princess Cassandra Autolycus Agamemnon Telegonus Queen Helen Perseus Judge Minos Priest Helenus Polyxena Icarus Daedalus Prince Haemon

I know there’s so much involved, luck, timing, chance, etc…

But I choose to believe this is a sign.

Queen Penelope, let me stand tall.

I ask you, give me your patience, your resistance, your strength from twenty years of waiting.

any advice with worshipping her? anything to say? How do you yourself worship her?

sorry haha

Hello!!! Nice to meet you!! It's always great to get an altar set up! ^-^

No need to apologize at all, questions are part of the reason I created this blog!

A lot of this will be based on my own personal experience.

So, my main bit of advice to approach Queen Penelope as herself - not just as the wife of King Odysseus, the daughter of Icarius, the mother of Telemachus, the cousin of Helen, or even Queen of Ithaca. Penelope of Sparta as she is. She is a hero in her own right, though she has connections to all of her relatives, of course. Talking to her directly, approaching her as herself, nobody else, is what got me started on having her as my patron.

My experience with her has been...somewhat rocky, to be honest. It started out very well, but due to certain life circumstances, broke down a bit. But in the past year I've been rebuilding my relationship with her, getting to know her again, asking and praying for her help in my own life. She never left and we never broke apart, but I wasn't as close to her in the past twelve months as I would've liked.

My advice is also to let her say what she wants. She is not a gentle woman; she will tell you like it is. This does not mean she's direct - after all, this is the woman who wove and unwove a shroud for three years to trick one hundred eight men! Sometimes she will make you find the answer yourself. But she's never quite gentle about it. I find that quite helpful, she's not holding your hand, she's a teacher guiding you to the answer.

ἀμύμων (amymon) - Blameless. This represents her loyalty to King Odysseus, and was often used to contrast her with her cousin, Queen Clytemnestra.

πινυτή (pinyte) - Prudent. "Acting with or showing thought and care for the future." Daniel Mendelsohn translates this as "clear-thinking". This is used to show that Queen Penelope uses her wits to figure out her problems, like her trick with the unweaving of the loom.

περίφρων (periphron) - Wise/sage.