#psyche deity

The Father Of Psyche Consulting The Oracle Of Apollo, by Francois Gerard.

On some high mountain’s craggy summit place

The virgin, decked for deadly nuptial rites,

Nor hope a son-in-law of mortal birth

But a dire mischief, viperous and fierce,

Who flies through aether and with fire and sword

Tires and debilitates all things that are.

Terrific to the powers that reign on high.

Great Jupiter himself fears this winged pest

It saddens me to see posts on here and on other sites about how having a causal relationship with your god is disrespectful and you shouldn’t give them nicknames. That just makes me so upset every time I see it.

Because one of the things I know for a fact is if a god felt disrespected by your behavior towards them, you’d know.

If xyz didn’t want you to treat them like a sibling, best friend, mentor, parent, (or even a lover. Not my place to judge.), you’d know. Just because you have that type of relationship with them doesn’t mean you don’t respect them or don’t work with and/or worship them.

They’re gods, yes. But they also love you and want to help you. You felt how they appeared to you, I bet you knew very quickly what type of relationship you’d have with them. What type of role in your life they would fill. Or maybe you didn’t and it happened a lot more slowly. All of that is okay. What’s also okay is if you have a very strict relationship with them, that’s also fine.

But my goodness don’t try to police or judge how gods are with other people.

99.9% of the time it’s the gods setting that type of dynamic in the first place so please be respectful to other dynamics.

My room is at last, done (aside from a few things I want to add to my wall. But furniture wise its done). I finally put ALL the helpol stuff on one wall and have a dedicated shelf for altars. The top shelf is kind of a mishmash of "I found this altar peice for this deity so I'll put it on a shared shelf" (Artemis, Aphrodite and Dionysus are all there atm) and the one underneath is for Hypnos and Thanatos. Because Thanatos just kinda,,, moved in. It was just Hypnos for years, and then his beloved twin just kinda started leaking into the area. So I just accepted it and they're together now. I put them underneath so they have more shade, the darkness dwellers deserve it.

On the same wall I also have Eros and Psyche and Achilles and Patroclus.

Both I found at antique shops, all together it was only $30! I think adding a little floating shelf for a candle under them would be a nice addition. Anything I find a decently priced helpol related thing in an antique shop or something, I get it. The goal is for that whole wall to be FULL of the gods and heroes. Basically one giant altar.

Finished my eros and psyche art 🥺 turned out so cute. I’m going to work on animating the sparkles and her little butterflies in her hair

“Why do you rack you sad old age with protracted weeping? Or why do you weary your life's breath, which is dearer to me than to yourselves, with repeated lamentations? Why do you disfigure those features, which I adore, with ineffectual tears? Why do you grieve my eyes by torturing your own?”

This curiosity leads her to uncover Truth, and it helps her survive the trials she went through and pull through every obstacle she faces all the way to completion.

Psyche cries and feels suicidal through every impossible task she is assigned, but she never gives up. She could have enjoyed godly levels of wealth and material comforts for the rest of her mortal days, not fully knowing Love (like you see some women choose under patriarchy). At any point in her journey she could have turned around, went home, and lived a normal life disillusioned with and untouched further by the Divine; but she doesn’t do this. She would rather risk death than suffer that fate.