#devotional playlist

after much blood sweat and tears i have finally completed my devotional playlist for Apollo!!!! *cries*

collage designed by me, cd burned also by me despite my computers repeated attempts to thwart my plans

here’s the link to the playlist on spotify in case anyone is interested :)

When it comes to music, unfortunately the Norse pagans have us beat. There's like six or seven Norse pagan bands, and plenty of vaguely Norse and/or Celtic-themed fantasy music. The only Hellenic pagan band I know of is Daemonia Nymphe. Beyond that, we've got music reconstructionists like Petros Tabouris and Michael Levy. I've also got a lot of video game soundtrack (Hades, Assassin's Creed: Odyssey, Apotheon) on my personal playlists. I mostly fill my deity-specific playlists with any songs that remind me of them, so they're pretty eclectic, though I try to keep some degree of aesthetic cohesion.

Here are all the playlists I've created so far. I'm pretty proud of these! I put a lot of hard work into them:

Olympian vibes (general ritual playlist)

Zeus

Poseidon

Demeter

Ares

Hephaestus

Athena

Apollo

Artemis

Aphrodite/Eros

Hermes

Persephone/Hades/Thanatos

Hekate

Dionysus (and a more ritual-focused variant)

The Mousai (mainly Ourania)

A syncretic Pan/Cernunnos/folkloric-Devil (for the trad-witch side of my practice)

I also love listening to new music, but that's just a bonus <3

Athena: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7w6S5w2GQEty93YyDEfYXd?si=rH9DPy39QrOukXKHy8kbQg

Ares: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6QexiQoYQ7wvsISMJrXOf1?si=zX5rBONoTISczgTZBOBrEQ

Aphrodite: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0x2CIukWagmZW8V1drJcDN?si=HximHEQtTKSNQS1HoO3fKg&pi=e-NJBdnl56RSmK

Melinoë: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/73RgpD7MoplA864rdGqOdr?si=9pkkPsdqSz6QSJ5RKPMqvQ&pi=e-rBhOaKftS0Wk

Helen: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1B0nx8em55Yaz1vtIIImOz?si=C1w0z61VT3-DfwqFzex9jg

Odysseus: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5D6S5ICBqOGk6mMCgxPLOw?si=rxFqYHxXQK-vtk57xePq8g

Penelope: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5wDTt78IfIDSD6D2aXYGM2?si=2gS-I5T8Qx6ti27ERzXFgA&pi=e-Nq8KBG5pTCWj

I’ve noticed that Lucifer seems to really like music. Here are some songs that make me think of him:

I did this for Inanna, figured it's probably time to do it for Lady Ereshkigal too!

If you didn't see my post about Inanna, a little warning is that my music taste is incredibly eclectic, and so are the songs on these devotional playlists. Another note is that some of these songs are Christian based Appalachian folk songs, and while I am not Christian, they are songs my ancestors sang and loved. Lady Ereshkigal urges me to listen to them not as Christian hymns I used to sing in church, but as songs my ancestors loved, to honor them.

Cup Runneth Over by Kiki Rockwell - 10/10

Írónta by Chasing Abbey - 1000/10, if you haven't heard it, it's a song by an Irish band about the colonization of Ireland. I'm distantly Irish, I've been trying to get more into the different parts that make up myself through ancestor work, which Lady Ereshkigal helps me with.

Down in the River to Pray by specifically Alison Krauss, but any version is good - 10/10 as I stated previously, it's a song my grandmother adored, along with my grandfather.

Ice Queen by Margø - 10/10, dark confidence

The Horror and The Wild by The Amazing Devil - 100/10

Warning by Jesse Detor - 10/10

Appalachian Hills by Driftwood Fire - 100/10, my family has been in the Appalachian mountains for generations, I can feel it in my bones

Téir Abhaile Riú by Celtic Woman - 10/10, a fun song in English and Irish Gaelic about a woman urged to return home and ignore the call to a port city

Run Devil Run by Haunted Like Human - 10/10, dark feminine energy and anger

Hy-Brasil by Allison Russell - 10/10 gorgeous Irish folk story told with a beautiful, powerful voice

I Hold Your Anger by The Last Dinner Party - 10/10, the pain and sorrow and anger of being a woman

The Rebel Girl by Hazel Dickens - 100/10, a call to action during the formation of the unions in the coal mines and factories.

Roadkill by Meanstreak - 10/10, one of the first and only female hair/thrash metal bands from the 80s. The song is about death, and how time flies.

Delta Dawn by Loretta Lynn (and Tanya Tucker, and Helen Reddy) - 10/10, a song about a woman who was manipulated by a man and ruined.

Marie Laveau by Bobby Bare - 9/10, a song about an old witch who lived in the swamp and killed men who sought to take advantage of her.

Don't Cry For Your Daughters Eve by Lydia The Bard - 1000/10

Bottom of the River by Delta Rae - 10/10, it sounds like an old southern worship song, I love it