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From Book V of Homer's Iliad. Upon being grievously wounded by the Achaean warrior Diomedes, the hero Aeneas is saved through divine intervention from his mother, the goddess Aphrodite. 

An offering of quail eggs and a rose-scentled candle. I present this to you tonight and you give me the universe. Artemis, I love you so much my body and soul ache with it.

🪞🐐 Laughter-Loving Aphrodite 🦪🕊

"Of Cytherea, born in Cyprus, I will sing. She gives kindly gifts to men: smiles are ever on her lovely face, and lovely is the brightness that plays over it. Hail, goddess, queen of well-built Salamis and sea-girt Cyprus; grant me a cheerful song. And now I will remember you and another song also." -Homeric Hymn 10 to Aphrodite

"Heavenly, smiling Aphrodite, praised in many hymns, sea-born, revered goddess of generation, you like the nightlong revel and you couple lovers at night, O scheming mother of Necessity. Everything comes from you; you have yoked the world, and you control all three realms. You give birth to all, to everything in heaven, upon the fruitful earth and in the depths of the sea, O venerable companion of Bacchos. You delight in festivities, O bridelike mother of the Erotes, O Persuasion whose joy is in the bed of love, secretive, giver of grace, visible and invisible, lovely-tressed daughter of a noble father, bridal feast companion of the gods, sceptered she-wolf, beloved and man-loving giver of birth and of life, with your maddening love-charms you yoke mortals and the many races of beasts to unbridled passion. Come, O goddess born in Cyprus, whether you are on Olympos, O queen, exulting in the beauty of your face, or you wander in Syria, country of fine frankincense, or, yet, driving your golden chariot in the plain,you lord it over Egypt’s fertile river bed. Come, whether you ride your swan-drawn chariot over the sea’s billows, joying in the creatures of the deep as they dance in circles, or you delight in the company of the dark-faced nymphs on land,(as, light-footed, they frisk over the sandy beaches). Come, lady, even if you are in Cyprus that cherishes you, where fair maidens and chaste nymphs throughout the year sing of you, O blessed one, and of immortal, pure Adonis. Come, O beautiful and comely goddess; I summon you with holy words and pious soul." - Orphic Hymn to Aphrodite 

Bronze Hand of Sabazios

Roman, 2nd-3rd century A.D.

Heavy bronze hand with a serpent and a ball, which was used in the Sabazios cult. The serpent with a finely engraved skin winds around the wrist and rests its head on the thumb. It is closely associated with Sabazios, who is considered as the representative of the circle of nature, which every year blossoms and withered and re-blossoms. The serpent is the symbol for the constant renewal of life and nature. The finger position with the bent small, and ring finger, as well as the stretched out middle, and index finger, as well as thumb correspond to the “Benedictio Latina”, the blessing gesture, which is typical for Sabazios hands. It holds the globe, representing the cosmic omnipotence, which was associated with Sabazios. The gesture's role within the cult was blessing, healing, providing divine help and protection.

Roman anatomical votive of a left leg. The inscription reads: Tyche [dedicated this] to Asklepios and Hygieia as a thank offering

ca. 100 - 200 CE

This epithet of Zeus is definitely interesting as it isn’t one you would typically expect be an epithet of a rain god. Some translations of Konios that I’ve seen include “of the dust”, “who makes dust”, “who excites dust”, “dusty”, etc. So yes, we now have Dusty Zeus as a counterpart to Murky Zeus.

As always, here is the Theoi.com quote:

CO′NIUS (Konios), the god who excites or makes dust, a surname of Zeus, who had an uncovered temple under this name in the arx of Megara. (Paus. i. 40. § 5.)

You see, this temple was a temple without a roof! Since it didn’t have a roof, that allowed dust to be stirred up by the wind and the rain, so as such it was seen that Zeus was the one doing the stirring since he controls weather as a whole.

The homeromanteion, or the homeric oracle, is a form of dice divination using fragments of homeric verses to get oracular answers by lot. According to the oxyrhynchus papyrus, it could be also called ‘the scimitar’.

To perform the homeromanteion, first, you need to check that the days and hours (see below) are favourable for divination.

Once the timing is favourable, you then recite a set prayer to Apollo (see below) while thinking of the question you want answered. The prayer is made of five lines from homeric verses. The first three are consecutive lines from the Iliad (Il. XVI 514-516), then two seperate lines from the Odyssey (Od. I 147; Od. XVIII 173).

Then, a dice has to be rolled thrice (or three die once); the three digit number obtained will correspond to a homeric verse, which will be the oracular answer. Below is a list of the possible results and their corresponding fragment. (Excuse the text size, for a list the clearer, see: this pdf – you have to scroll a lot though soz.)

For an online homeromanteion, see: here.

Sources:

PGM VII 1-148

P. Oxy. LVI 3831

Hermaphroditos~

God of effeminates, intersexuality, and genderfuckery (official term). Depicted as a winged youth with both male and female features, this is my imagining of him! I really loved working on this piece, and may do more in the future, as I really feel he is underappreciated <3