#hellenic devotee

Apollo 🎻 goth playlist

Summoning of the Muse Dead Can Dance

Angel Light This Ascension

Blood Citadel Bedless Bones

Apollo Soror Dolorosa

Cassandra Theatre of Tragedy

Sister of Charity The 69 Eyes

Prophecy The Shroud

Temporal Love SRSQ

Sunlight Vandal Moon

Musette and Drums Cocteau Twins

As Bright as a Thousand Suns Arcana

Remedy Mors Syphilitica

Daphne Lycia

The Fortune Teller Echoberyl

Are You the One? Miranda Sex Garden

The only reason I found it hard being buddhist is because people wouldn’t take me seriously and mock my faith, and as time went on, I found myself wanting more than just a teacher.

the thing is, I’ve always wanted more. I wanted a deity or more to believe in, to make me feel whole. Without worship, I felt incomplete, and when I looked further into hellenic polytheism, I found that missing piece of the puzzle.

the daffodils are next

Welcome to the Caverns of the Lampades, an Underworld themed server focused on Hellenic Polytheism. Toss an introduction to the Ferryman to be granted entrance.

Beyond the gates, you will find our growing library of resources, a divination chat, and our own Agora. Our Grove & Craft space is devoted to some branches of metaphysical practices including witchcraft, shadow work, and folk practices. In our Asphodel space, you can find inspiration for your altars, a thread to request prayers, and a meditation space. Dip into Mnemosyne's Spring for all of our reconstructionism resources, or offer up your own to expand our map!

We want to create a space that can be utilized for community events, or create a communal calendar for holidays or festivals that can now be celebrated around a community.

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Often, we as Hellenic Polytheists tend to view each of the gods as having certain traits and ruling over specific things. While this is true and the gods are often depicted in myths in specific ways and they are confined to certain areas of rule, there seems to be a common and prevalent issue amongst Hellenic Polytheists of restricting the gods within their dominion based on how we view them.

The biggest example of this is when describing the sexuality and gender of the gods. We like to choose labels for them that we feel fit, and while the labels we choose are often representations of how we ourselves feel and are representations of ourselves within the gods we worship, it is ultimately impossible to label any of the gods as being a specific sexuality and/or gender, because they are otherworldly. Sexuality and gender are completely different concepts in the realm of the gods, so it is impossible to describe them with our own terms, no matter how hard we try. But, that doesn't mean you need to stop trying to label the gods' sexualities and gender. It's something that I have widely seen to help people come to terms with, accept, and discover their own labels, and is a completely valid way to sort through your own feelings.

The gods are also often stuffed into a box of "good" or "evil," and while this is less common within the Hellenic Polytheist community and more common outside of it, it is still important to be open and mindful to the concept of morals and how the gods are presented by the standards of earthly morals. Just as sexuality and gender are different to the gods than they are to us, so too are morals different. Not a single god is either "good" nor "evil" nor both nor neither. It is simply impossible to describe them as morality is an entirely different concept in terms of the gods.

The smallest thing, however, that I see when it comes to describing the gods, is actually the most important thing. I have seen so many instances of people picking and choosing which aspects of a god to worship, which is perfectly acceptable and valid; however, the moment you start forgetting that those other aspects exist is the moment you start erasing part of a god's entire identity.

See, the gods are often centered in duality. Artemis is both Goddess of Wild Animals and Goddess of the Hunt, protecting and killing wild animals. Apollon is both God of Disease and God of Healing, creating diseases and getting rid of them. There is so much duality in the aspects of each and every god, but so often I see people choosing to only worship the portion they view as being "good" and completely erasing and forgetting about the rest of them. While you can choose to only actively worship certain portions of each god, it is important to remember that that doesn't mean you can ignore the rest of it, as it all ties together to create the god. Their duality is an integral part of what makes them a god.