I don’t usually get upset when PJO fan blogs reblog my devotional writing, because they’re still allowed to like my writing, I don’t know if they’re also Hellenists, and I do still appreciate the exposure for my writing. But someone reblogged one of my devotionals to the Theoi, with added commentary about how it didn’t line up with the characterizations and events from the book series, and it was pretty disrespectful. I’m actually angry. Like, really angry.
My deities are not characters in your fantasy novel. You don’t get to look at my faith–myreligion–and complain that the figures of my worship are not the same figures as in your book series. My very real, very alive religion is not aprop for your fandom.
You’re allowed to like your books. You’re allowed to build a fandom around them. You’re allowed to create and share material for that fandom.
You are not allowed to critique a spiritual practice in the context of your fandom.
You are not allowed to disrespect an entire religion, it’s deities, and the people who follow that religion, because it doesn’t match up with your limited and incorrect perception of those deities.
You are not allowed to complain that actual religious practices don’t fit into your narrative.
My gods are not perfect. They don’t need to be. My gods are not mortals, they are not humans, and therefore it is IMPOSSIBLE to compare them to humans, or to put them to human standards. My gods are not perfect, they have made mistakes in their lives, they’ve made mistakes in my life, too. But they are gods. They were there for me when I needed them. They supported me when I couldn’t support myself. My gods loved me, even when no one else did.
Don’t you dare ever misrepresent, disrespect, or demean them in any way. Just because you might not see them my way, does not mean that I don’t love them with all my capability, that they are not my protectors and guides, that they are not my family, or my loved one.
These are my gods, this is my religion. Do not mute me.
i keep thinking about an event or something for polytheists focused on writingmyth retellings.
if its something specific itd be like a “MythReWriMo” (along the lines of a “Myth-Retelling Writing Month” or anything with less of a silly name fkdkdkd)
and maybe even something more non-specific? like not a month-long thing, but a more general event for coming up with retellings.
or better yet !! modern myths!!narratives or poetry
(with monthly or weekly prompts perhaps, maybe focusing on different deities depending on the time?)
i just feel like itd be so cool to have a little community interacting with our own versions of the known stories, and also with modern mythos, new stories, with the gods interacting with new domains that are a part of modern worship and cultus….
The most powerful symbol of Hestia is the hearth itself, but she did have some common attributes as well as animals which may have been sacred to her (based on various plays and myths). The image below is a popular modern symbol of the hearth.
My first exposure to Hestia would’ve been in my childhood Greek mythology books. Unfortunately, Hestia doesn’t appear often in myths, so the books often only mentioned her in passing or skipped her completely, and many books replaced her with Dionysos as the twelfth Olympian.
All of this is to say that the first time I properly took notice of Hestia is in fifth grade when I read the Last Olympian by Rick Riordan. This isn’t to say Riordan’s portrayal of the gods is entirely accurate (he is very obviously opposed to the idea of worshipping them because he takes the myths very literally). However, Riordan’s portrayal of Hestia stuck with me for a very long time. Even though she only appears in one or two scenes, or perhaps because of this, I think her portrayal is one of the most beautiful and respectful–even though it hinges on the fake abdication myth.
I’m not going to explain the portrayal here, but if you’re the type of Hellenic Polytheist who can enjoy more problematic portrayals of the gods, I highly recommend reading it if only for Lady Hestia. To be completely honest, this portrayal is what drew me to Her in the first place, and I often imagine her in a very similar way to her description in the book.
government (as Hestia Boulaia and Hestia Prytaneia)
As goddess of the hearth and home, Hestia is central to household worship. She is the patron of cooking and received a portion of each meal as well as the first and last offering in all household rituals.
The public hearth was also an extremely important domain of Hestia. Just as in the home, it is likely that Hestia received the first and last sacrifice in public rituals and festivals. Hestia’s two epithets (Boulaia and Prytaneia) are both connected to government because her role as goddess of the public hearth was central to state affairs.
Hestia’s hearth is said to be at the center of the cosmos, representative of her central position in hellenic worship. Her hearth is what connects us to the gods and to each other.
For a more in depth introduction to Hestia, see this post.
Why people hating on Zeus equals to hating on a whole ancient society and… it’s kinda dumb
If you have been in the part of social media that discusses ancient religions or ancient mythology you might know Zeus is hated badly. If you worship Zeus like I do I’m pretty sure you are aware of how many people actually waste times of their live doing bad jokes of how every woman on ancient Greece was pregnant with Zeus’s kid or another type of bullshit, and I’m tired of that. There are already like 100 posts on other Zeus worshippers giving their take on this topic but you know what? I want to be the 101 so here I am. I’f you hate Zeus I ask you nicely to grab your coffee, water, tea, whatever, sit and read this post.
this post is written with a target audience of people who do not have much knowledge aside from the myths and what social media say, I’ll be including the very basic theological and cultural aspects of Ancient Greece in this post so let’s consider this a baby course into epithets and the human kind changing their ethic code through time.
Before we officially start I’m sure some Zeus haters already have arguments to throw at me as soon as they finish reading this post so let me tell you, as a MUN delegate who’s obsessed with debate, some argument starters I won’t even read if you start a sentence with them:
“I believe or I think” I’m sorry but I don’t care about your personal biases I want facts.
“X media thing portrays” x media or x author is not a reliable source of information, unless it’s a historian with good background resources or reliable sources I won’t even take it in mind
“In other religions…” this is hellenism not other religions
“But in x myth” myths are not literal
“But x deity” all deities are different
Anyways, let’s start with what’s a myth, the merriam webster dictionary says a myth is “a usually traditional story of ostensibly historical events that serves to unfold part of the world view of a people or explain a practice, belief, or natural”. My religion teacher back on catholic school also added to this definition a “moral code or cultural reflection religions implied into their followers”, and it’s accurate.
In baby words, myths explain things our society can’t explain while also reflecting our culture and behaviours.
Clear? Clear.
History has shown us that many religions don’t take their myths completely literally, most times they take them as metaphors or teachings to follow or simply they use them as propaganda to increase certains individual power, and this includes Ancient Greeks. If a king wanted to increase his power to scare people that may want to rebel he could easily say he was the child of Zeus, which is an explanation to why so many kings and heroes were kids of the all-mighty deity. Ancient Greeks also had to find a way to explain different phenomenons, and as many cultures before and after them, myths were a perfect way of doing so. To finish with myths and their uses, as many religions did and still do, the ancient Greeks needed a way to spread lessons to their people without the need of sitting them down and literally teaching them. Instead of doing this they preferred giving examples of things not to do. What makes Hellenism so different to actual modern religions is that the practice was and is more important that the actually texts, that can be a base but at the end of the day they are not the structure of the religion.
Now, a huge mistake many people commit is thinking the myths we nowadays read are the original myths. That’s a mistake. Ingrid Holmberg says in her essay titled as The Creation of the Ancient Greek Epic Cycle “Their research (addressing Milman Parry and Albert Lord.) and the research of their followers has revealed that the Greek epic oral tradition formed a huge, interconnected, and variegated web of legendary and mythical narratives that comprised the corpus of the epic cycle(…).” Harvard university also addresses this topic by saying “Basically, the “question” came down to this: were the Homeric poems composed with or without the aid of writing? Parry’s project, the comparing of Homeric poetry with the living oral traditions of South Slavic heroic poetry, led him to conclude that the Homeric texts were indeed the products of oral composition.”
So tell me, years of investigation affirms that the myths were told from mouth to mouth, the poets did not write their original work down but after many years later someone did… the version written is a version passed generation from generation by someone who heard them from their parents who heard them from their grandparents that might have edited and changed the original version for hundreds of years. Knowing all this areyou’re still going to judge a culture and a religion through myths? Really? Because that’s plainly dumb.
Let me give you an example, I write you a message and then pass it through google translator 20 times, and send it. And actually did! The message I’ll translate 20 times is “Hello dear readers of the internet, this is an experiment with google translator to explain how dumb is to literally judge a myth that has been changed hundreds of times. Not only that, a myth that reflected a society with different a ethic code, in some hundreds of years if society still exists they are going to judge some things we do… so em don’t waste your time on that”. After passing that message through 20 different languages in google translator this is how it ended up: Hello, dear internet reader, you will be judged not only by this, but also by some of the hundreds of years that we have done with the growth of social networks … so don’t waste time. Don’t waste.
I’m not trying to say that historians and their translations are as bad as google translator, I know this people have studied years to do what they do, I’m just saying that the original stories were told so many times that we have hundreds of adaptations and changes. Here’s an example, if you read a copy of the iliad written by x guy and then grab another copy written by another guy… you’ll find many differences in the translation.
Now that we got the translation clear thing you’ll probably still say “yeah anyways still myths say Zeus is a pr3d4tor who cheated on his wife muuultiple times”. And to that I’ll laugh ten minutes because yeah but no. Look at my beautiful hazel and eyes and tell me, do you think Ancient Greek men cared about women? And how they were treated? and how they were portrayed in the moment of explaining things?
If you say yes I beg you to go study some history.
If you say no, bingo.
A year a go I went down the rabbit whole of homosexuality in the ancient world, wrote an essay on it, and I found out men repeled women and they saw them as baby machines (i mean, some still do) so some societies had this idea that the closest relationship to love you could have with someone was with another man. So, understand that the ancient world didn’t give a damn about women. Most myths shows them as trophies, that’s no surprise for anyone at this point. So of course, they saw women as baby machines and as myths are reflections of society, do you really expect the Ancient Greeks to portray them as something else aside baby creators? Nooo!!!! Ofc they were not going to do that, they needed mothers to give an explanation to the hundreds of kings saying they were Zeus’s kids, and they found them.
Okay now, some of you may ask why did he “cheat” on Hera… more cultural aspects being reflected. Here’s what Jennifer Larson the writer of Ancient Greek cults has to say:
Now that we closed the marriage ethic issue The Zeus has many child joke or insult is even dumber because kids were so important for the social status in that era that they stablished the social status. During all Human’s story, money establishes your place in the social status: the more you have the higher you are. This also applied in the Ancient Greece. By having more kids it meant you had more to offer and to sustain your family, basically more kids = more money = more power = higher rank.
Studying children and childhood is of great importance because it provides insight into social norms and social life in ancient Greece. Children were important for the parents, the home, and city. Not having children led to inability to pass on the property and wealth of the father.
If Zeus, the KING of the gods and mortals, father of humanity, doesn't have a lot of children then what do you think it would do to how Ancient Greeks perceived him huh. If they measured by kids ofc their higher deity had to have a lot because that gave him power, please, it’s pure logic. The fact that he has multiple kids is a perfect reflection of how the Ancient Greece society acted, do you really want to sit down and complain about it? Why don’t you instead start thinking of a way of changing that capitalist mindset that still rules our society instead of bullying an old civilization and their cults.
—End of the cultural rant—
Okay cultural part has finished, let’s dive into my favorite topic ever: epithets. And I actually did like 3 polls on this, both on my twitter and my instagram, asking if my followers knew what an epithet was. I always had this thought that one of the reasons many people hate on deities is because they only see one side of their multiple-side self… and ofc the answer was no, they did not:
And epithets are soooo important to understand a deity, So assuming some people might not know what epithets are here is a brief summary extracted from a previous post of mine addressing epithets and their importance: Literal definition of epithet: an adjective or phrase expressing a quality or attribute regarded as characteristic of the person or thing mentioned.Let me give you an example: A friend of yours loves reading, they love it so freaking much, so one of your teachers is like “oh pepito the reader”, it’s obvious that pepito is a reader.Now examples with deities. Demeter Chthonia (of the Earth). WHAT DO WE ASSUME KIDS?! That Demeter is an Earth deity. Duh. And like that with all the deities.
Epithets basically tell us how deities were perceived when worshipped, and many of the people who love judging Zeus have ignoring epithets as their favorite hobby so here I am, giving you a list of my favorite ones to take in mind:
AGO′NIUS (Agônios), a surname or epithet of several gods. Aeschylus (Agam. 513) and Sophocles (Trach. 26) use it of Apollo and Zeus, and apparently in the sense of helpers in struggles and contests.
AGORAEUS and AGORAEA (Agoraia and Agoraios), are epithets given to several divinities who were considered as the protectors of the assemblies of the people in the agora, such as Zeus
ALASTOR (Alastôr). an epithet of Zeus, describing him as the avenger of evil deeds.
EVA′NEMUS (Euanemos), the giver of favourable wind
HETAEREIUS (Hetaireios), the protector of companies or associations of friends
HY′PATUS (Hupatos), the most high
LECHEA′TES (Lecheatês) i.e. the protector of childbed
NOMOS (Nomos), a personification of law, described as the ruler of gods and men.
PANHELLE′NIUS (Panellênios), i.e. the god common to, or worshipped by all the Hellenes or Greeks
PHY′XIUS (Phuzios), i. e., the god who protects fugitives
POLIEUS (Polieus), “the protector of the city;”
SOTER (Sôtêr), i. e. “the Saviour”
Theos Agathos - The Good God
MEILIKHIOS (Milichius) Gracious, Merciful
After reading all this epithets I want to ask one last time, do you still think Zeus is a jerk? When he has the literal epithet of being a Good God? A merciful one? A protector? THE PERSONIFICATION OF LAW?
A fact aspect I want to mention is how people love to completely erase the good sides of Zeus portrayed in many myths. In the Iliad Zeus loves one of his most loved sons, he wants to go and revenge him because he’s an amazing dad but he knows that if he does that he would be impartial and injustice to the other deities who have lost children but haven’t been able to do anything about it. Instead he mourns in silence just to refrain from making other deities feel less privileged, this happens in the freaking Iliad and I’m sorry but I think that is a perfect example of how good Zeus is even if myths are not literal.
IZeus is more than the character modern media converted him into, he’s way more than that. He’s a deity, with multiple aspects and multiple stories that have adapted to fit into into ancient societies idea of what was a higher deity. All the arguments people have against him show that they do not understand how myths work and they do not understand that ancient times came with ancient ideals.
So please, research and form your own criteria before hating on something you don’t actually know about. Give yourself the opportunity to listen all sides of the story and then after that you can say whatever you want. Most importantly, give yourself the opportunity to learn.
Hopefully this is my last post regarding this matter, if I quite changed your mind in any type of way then that’s great, if I didn’t that’s on you. That’s all I have to say and thank you for reading the post complete!
honestly even if you are a “stereotypical” worshipper of a god, you’re still doing great. You’re a Dionysian that likes to get drunk? Good, just be safe! You’re a chaotic bisexual Apollonian? That’s okay! You’re an Ace or lesbian Artemisian who wants to chill in the woods? That’s okay! You’re doing great! You’re an Aphrodite worshipper who’s really into pink, self love, and sea aesthetics? You’re doing lovely!
Your worship isn’t lesser even if it’s what people expect. Your relationship can still be deep and interpersonal. You’re doing amazing — don’t doubt yourself.
this is a list of small devotional acts to honour and bond with athena, greek goddess of wisdom, war, battle strategy, and the arts
» read
» take up sewing, weaving, or knitting
» research something! this is actually a hobby of mine, i’ll randomly research something of interest to me. you can do podcasts (i love the killing of marilyn monroe), youtube videos, books, online articles, through anything.
» stick up for yourself and those you care about
» voice your beliefs
» …learn proper grammar if you haven’t already lmao
» study, if you’re in school, or even if you’re not, learning is a lifelong journey
» exercise! not necessarily for appearance reasons but for your overall physical and mental health
» take a self defense class (especially if you’re female)
» can’t take a self defense class? utilize the internet and research pressure points and other overall safety tips (again, especially if you’re female)
» wake up early
» do chores, even just making your bed can make a huge difference (…i say white writing this from an unmade bed)
» pay attention in class
» pay attention to the arts, too. athena is a matron of the arts too
» write or read poetry
» use olive oil products
» incorporate cinnamon, geranium, cedar wood, and patchouli into your life
» offer her coffee, she really likes it
» journal
» study up on history (even if it’s just listening to hamilton, i get the feeling she really likes it)
» spend time in bookstores and libraries, even if you’re not reading
» work on your self confidence
» take care of your mental health (i.e. taking pills, resting when needed, etc)
» to add on to the previous point, focus on self care! try to focus on the inside more than the outside, but let’s face it: who doesn’t love a good face mask and bubble bath
» volunteer for leadership positions (if you’re in school, student council, MUN, etc and if you’re at work, offer to supervise or organise an event)
» use crystals like amazonite, sodalite, tourmaline, tiger’s eye, and blue howlite
» play strategy games
» watch movies/tv with her! (i associate les mis, sherlock, brooklyn 99, and law and order as things she may like)
What I’ve been noticing a lot in pagan spaces but especially online is that people seem to only acknowledge duality of the Theoi when its explicit - take Persephone for example, everyone acknowledges her duality as both the Queen of the underworld and the goddess of spring. But for gods that people don’t wish to hold in such a positive light, suddenly the nuance and complexity of all the Theoi becomes 2D.
Zeus is both Labrandeus (the furious, the raging) and Meilikhios (the merciful, the entreatable). He is both Zeus Pater (Father) and Zeus Areios (of war). He is both Zeus Katharsios (the purifyer) and Zeus Konios (the one who excites/makes dust)
Hera is both Hera Autorote (the maiden) and Hera Zugia/Gamelia (of marriage). She is both Hera Pais (the girl) and Hera Khera (the widow).
The gods are always more than what you think they are. Do not reduce the all-encompassing complexity of a god down to just their myths, or just what you think of them. Understand that as duality and conflict can exist in humans, so too can it exist in the gods.
Today, from an idea given by the amazing @adri-le-chat, we’ll be talking about the temple duties of a priest. While ancient Greek priesthood spans many topics and duties, those explicitly relating to the temple in which the priest served can sometimes be left to the wayside by studies of in favor of sacrifices and the like.
In ancient Greece, temples and priests went hand in hand. When a city wanted to install a new temple to honor a certain god or a new epithet of the same god, they also “installed” priests to serve in those temples. So, let’s look more into that relationship!
In addition to performing regular sacrifices/offerings in the temple on behalf of the city in which they served, priests would also be tasked with looking after the temple and its contents. Priestesses in particular were kleidouchos or key-holders, bearing the (mostly decorative) key to their temple. If you want to know more about that, here is the post in which I talked about it more in detail.
Priests would also perform administrative duties in the beginning, although later on that moved into the domain of a magistrate:
As “sacristans for the gods”, the priests in the beginning also administered temple property. In later legislation the administration of larger sanctuaries was entrusted to state functionaries" (pg. 37 of Priesthood)
Additionally, priests would appeal to the leader of their city for funding for their temple or other sacred expenses (mentioned often as sacred revenues, belonging to the god which they served).
The role of a priest also had overlap with that of a custodian in some ways, as priests were expected to clean and care for their temple as well, including the statue of its god:
[Part of a priest’s original functions were] taking good care of the statue which represented the god and in which [the god] was thought to reside. It had to be washed, clothed, and protected. (pg. 37 of Priesthood)
Not only did priests care for the statue within their temple, they also worked on the temple in which they resided, caring for the altar, the space of the temple itself, and the ritual items and objects within.
Overall, along with their regular sacrificial duties. Priests cared for not only the statue of their temple, but the temple itself, advocating for their budgeting, guarding the temple and keeping the temple key, and taking care of the ritual elements within.
If you wish to learn about a specific aspect of priesthood, feel free to send in an ask!
Sources:Priesthood by Leopold Sabourin, On Greek Religion by Robert Parker, and Understanding Greek Religion by Jennifer Larson.
Well, here goes nothing. I’m going to start the 15 days of deity devotion post series for Zeus. I don’t think I’ll post every single day for this series, but I’ll try to make it at least regular.
Day 1 - Basic Introduction
Name:Zeus.
Domain: Weather, justice, family, household, cities, law and order, the heavens, fatherhood, leadership, purification, fate, xenia, protection, etc.
Symbols: Eagle, bull, swan, thunderbolt, oak tree, crown, throne, stormcloud, mountains, etc.
Epithets: I’m not going to list all of them, but here are a few of my favorites! - Zeus Apemios (Averter of Ills) - Zeus Hykesios (of Suppliants) - Zeus Hypatos (Nost High) - Zeus Kataibates (Who Comes Down) - Zeus Kathersios (of Ritual Purification) - Zeus Ktesios (of the Household and Property) - Zeus Meilikhios (the Merciful) - Zeus Palamnios (Punisher of Murderers) - Zeus Phyxios (of Refuge) - Zeus Polieus (of the City) - Zeus Soter (of Safety, Preservation, and Deliverance from Harm) - Zeus Teleios (of Marriage Rites) - Zeus Xenios (of Hospitality)
If you’re curious about any of these epithets and want to learn more, I have posts for a few of them on my page!
Devotional Acts: I actually made a previous post on devotional acts for him, which I’ll put here.
Offerings: Representations of any of his sacred animals, trees, or symbols, water, tea, coffee (in my experience he prefers coffee with milk but no sugar /upg), frankincense, myrrh, rain-scented, or storax incense, (if old enough to buy alcohol) whiskey, gin, vodka (any hard liquor will do), cakes, breads (if offering to Zeus Hypatos, only cake, and if offering to Zeus Meilikhios, cakes baked in the shapes of animals like pigs or goats), meat, etc.
It has been quite some time since I’ve posted here.
School has kept me very busy and it’s even kept me from having the energy to really do anything related to my religion. I feel bad about it, but I know the Gods are forgiving about it.
But, I did take a huge step forward in my shadow work and healing. I’ve had a ring on my left ring finger for six years and it has some traumatic memories and feelings attached to it. I tried to cleanse it and mentally separate it from the association. I tried for many years but I couldn’t.
Thursday, I was encouraged by friends to finally let go of it. I’ve been wanting to replace it for a few months and finally, finally had the courage to get rid of it. I was at the beach, a place that used to be my healing and comfort place until after what happened, and I stepped into the water on the opposite coast of where I came into possession of the ring.
I took a deep breath, said my goodbye, and threw it as far as I could into the ocean. Immediately, a weight lifted from my chest and shoulders and I could’ve cried. My friends said that I looked lighter. Carefree.
I have a replacement coming. A little Raven with a garnet. A friend to replace the one I lost. I’ll miss my turtle ring, but it was only holding me down and keeping me stuck in the past. It was time to let it go.
In other news, I got a beautiful Lovers tapestry for my apartment and hung up some of my art around my altar that used to sit on it. A cypress and moss candle for Hades that he adores. I have a new necklace as well from a friend for my birthday back in January and it’s of Cerberus. I wear it often. And Kai, my Raven companion, has finally stopped audibly harassing me in class. He was testing my possible Clairaudience and I told him to knock it off. The little trickster.
Holding Apollo’s hand is really nice. Very warm. I feel so safe whenever he’s around. He likes giving me head pats and backrubs to help me sleep and I am very grateful for it. He probably wants me to sleep like, right now though.
Also,, naps in the afternoon with the sun shining in through the cracks in the blinds is top tier. I love sun dad.
Did I mention head pats? Also cuddling. Sun dad warm, very warm. I love Apollo so much. He gives fantastic cuddles and hugs.
Hermes and Dionysus like to join in too, but mainly Hermes. Not like I’m complaining though, I will gladly take any and all forms of affection they dish out. Also it’s very warm when they’re all around. Gotta stan a cuddle pile.
I finally did my first proper libation for Apollo and my heart is racing I’m so soft–
I did it before but I wasn’t that happy with it, but now I actually got the chance to pour milk in a pretty wine glass and got to put it on his altar. I am actually so proud of myself I’m sobbing
I lit his candle up so I could tell him about it and I was just so happy, and when I saw the flame in his candle was forming a heart shape I just could not and still cannot physically handle it I feel like my chest is gonna explode.
He seems so happy, like the flame was like dancing around in the candle. I could feel his energy and it felt so light and idk happy?? It felt like he was looking down at me and was like “I’m very proud of you” with a smile on his face snsnfbdbdnfbdj
Hi! Welcome to my blog. This is where I’ll be recording some things for my grimoire as well as where I’ll be posting my experiences as a witch!
Please call me Lady Giovanni! Or Lady for short. You can also call me Vanni. I’m 17 and bisexual genderfluid (I mostly shift between femme and enby though)
I am a broom closeted eclectic chaos witch who dabbles in divination and energy work. I use tarot cards and my pendulum as well as do a bit of astrology work as my main divination methods. I don’t do a lot of spellwork unless it’s the necessities like protective charms or warding. I also most notably have a crystal addiction; not something to be happy about but hey, shiny.
I also do deitywork! I work with a pretty large number of deities, but nowadays I’ve been focusing my worship on Apollo (I asked my other deities and guides for their consent on the matter and they said it was okay since I like, desperately need to heal from some traumatic shit)
The deities and guides I work with are:
Apollo
Loki
Dionysus
Eros
Hermes
Ares
Hypnos
Zeus
Freyja
Psyche
Aphrodite
Lucifer
Asmodeus
Lifa (my spirit animal/ animal guide)
I know, I work with a lot of guides. Not like I mind much though.
I’ve been a hellenic polytheist since 10th grade and Asatrui since about 8th grade but has dabbled in demonolatry a bit earlier on (Lucifer can vouch for that with my numerous attempts at summoning him at like, age 10)
So like, yeah. Follow me if you want to hear about the countless shenanigans that is my spiritual journey.
