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As of last sunday, I have been a hellenic polytheist for two years now. That makes me happy. ^_^
There has been some good conversation on E-mail lists i'm subscribed to recently. Enjoyable reading!
I don't spend much time in the wider 'community' anymore because I can do without petty fighting. Now I avoid eclectic-y pagan circles simply because we don't have much in common and i'm thus uninspired to join in, and the militant 'omg evry1 iz doin it wrooong exzept meee' recons.
Instead I've just been lurking a whole lot in recon circles (ones that are full of regular recons that are normal people, not the above types haha). I may actually start taking part eventually, but...meh.
In addition, I'm considering becoming a member of Hellenion; for the resources if nothing else. But I'm not sure whether to become a member now, or wait until march!
Offered a rose scented candle, lavenadar incense, green tea and a hymn.
Now, I'm planning a festival that will happen in about a weeks time. It will honour her descent to the underworld, along with Hermes, Hekate and Hades.
Currently I have about 4 different versions of the Hades/Persephone myth in front of me to work with, and plan to read them all before designing a ritual. But I'm not complaining, because it is my favourite myth. ^_^
This is part of my project to fine tune a ritual calendar, and follow the cycles of particular gods I honour (if applicable of course).
Reccomendations, anyone? Anything hellenic pagany, or anything scholarly about paganism/ indo european religions/ ancient greece.
So far, I wish to get 'kissing the limitless' by T. Thorn Coyle. OK, this book fits none of the catagories above, but Thorn is a pretty awesome woman!
Today, I saw 'The Oxford Dictionary of Classical Myth and Religion' for just £3 at the garden centre. It pains me to say I was about 30p short!! It would have been an impulse buy, but I think it would have been worth it? Does anybody have this?
I'll get it soon!
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On a different note, I have about £6 worth of loose change that has been offered to Hermes. Now that I have changed the money box that I use for him to a little clay vase; i'm looking to get rid of this.
It's the poppy appeal time of year, so I'm thinking about just finding the nearest poppy money box and putting it all in there. xD
The only problem is that our house is very small, we don't even have 10 chairs for the table!! However we do get to eat lamb, mmmm.
In other news, I am getting back on track with worship again, and trying very hard not to go back to being so crap. I'm also thinking of doing a Hestia shrine revamp. I really don't like it as it is currently, and I never ever burn the candle on there. What I'm thinking of doing, is maybe purchasing one of those candles that are shaped like a little glass lampshade? I can burn that more often, and for longer periods of time without worrying about it being used up fast or an open flame being near where people walk!
It appears t3h intawebz has exploded while I've been gone, I'm so confused! I would make a comment but I have massive CBA. Seriously, the best thing that ever happened to my religious practice was not concerning myself with everything that went on in the Hellenic Polytheist community. I don't need it at all really, is that selfish?
Instead, I'll stick to the people I know and like, and Livejournal. ;) Instead of feeling disheartened because people are bickering instead of talking about practice. I'll just talk about practice anyway. xD
I will be back on the 12th. I shall miss you all!
Wish me luck on the plane as I hate flying xD I'm going to bug Poseidon and Hermes about it later (Hermes as god of travel, Poseidon for safe passage over the sea) :D
I am taking Hesiod's 'works and days' with me, plus Jennifer Larsn's 'greek Nymphs', Robert Graves' work of fiction, 'I, claudius' and Watchmen (Even though I aleready did a reread of this in arpril!).
I've had a really great couple of days ^_^
On friday I got a really huge card signed by lots of my friends. That was really sweet. I love them for it.^_^
Today, I got from various people:
-Watchmen graphic novel, w00t!
-Kharis:hellenic polytheism explored
-Some plays by Euripides (Bacchae and others)
-Hesiod's theogony
-Greek nymphs -jennifer larson
-A huge print of my favourite Alphonse Mucha picture to go on my wall ^_^
- Itunes vouchers, HMV vouchers and some money! Yay!
I also saw watchmen with Callam, Eve, Tom, Ross, Dave, Laura, Lydia and Chris. I had a great time but the film itself was a little disappointing?
I mean, it was a great film, but not -watchmen- great. The story is so complex that it didn't translate all that well onto the big screen. I've read the freakin' novel and I was STILL confused by the film.
That said, RORSCACH FTW!!! They portrayed him brilliantly I thought. He's always been my favourite and the film really did him justice.
The fight scenes were pretty good too, I loved the prison scene. ^_^ It was all shot so well.
Callam thinks I am very sadistic because I kept laughing at the gory bits. But only when they were riculous (y'know...hands being chopped of and shit xD) in my defense.
As for the sound track? At times it was edgy and awesome, at other times it just didn't fit! They put Jimmy Hendrix over the scenes in the antarctic...but not in 'nam? Seriously?
In addition to this I saw the new X-men trailer. ZOMG YES! This film looks AMAZING. IT HAS GAMBIT IN IT!!!!!!!!! <333
Star trek looks decent but I don't know if I can take Zachary Quinto seriously as spock? I'm such a huge star trek geek ( I seriously down play my fangirlyness) I just know I'll either love the film forever or just pick it apart.
*ahem* All in all, a really excellent day spent in really good company. :) I had alot of fun!
I touched a dead thing today and immediately went 'eww miasma!' Much to the confusion of the family.
I had spent two days on my biology coursework and had just finished. By some ironic twist of fate THE VERY LAST SAVE ended in disaster. Suddenly, this error box popped up saying there was an error and data was lost. Then word shut down.
When I looked on the memory stick that the work was saved on...it was GONE. TWO DAYS WORTH OF WORK GONE!!! I reacted in the only way I could, I squealed a little and then cried. I tried everything to get it back, and looked everywhere. When my dad got home we ran one of those recovery programs and it found the file but said we had to pay a stupid amount of money to actually get it back. It looked bleak.
Then suddenly...the computer crashed. The whole reason I saved to work on the stick in the first place was because the computer is so unstable (yet how ironic is it that the work was lost off the stick instead?). When we loaded everything back up...there was the file on the stick!! It had been renamed, but it was there.
So, two hours, lots of prayers to Hephaestos and a wasted phone call to my uncle later; my work was back in one piece.
It was ironic because it was the very last save, it was ironic because I saved it to the memory stick to prevent this from happening, it was ironic because all it took was for the computer to crash!
Thank you Hephaestos, and fuck you microsoft! I'm going to buy a mac just to piss you off!
( Interesting dream )In other news, I ish dolling again!
And Nuri!! There was an Amish lady on TV last night and I swear it was your twin! xD
I offered some lavender incense, jasmine tea and some posh chocolates. Everything was very aromatic and luxurious, quite fitting for Aphrodite I think.
I'm going to honor her more often.
It also gave me an idea for a festival! A festival honoring the female gods amongst the twelve Olympians, fun right? Artemis, Athene and Hestia in the morning, Aphrodite and Hera at midday, and Demeter and Hera (again) in the evening! This can be my little project for the next few weeks.
In addition to this, I've been creating god play lists on my I-pod. Aphrodite and Nirvana go great together I swear...Heart shaped box!!
It was planned better, I had the experience of last year to go on, and generally I was in a better mindset.
( My celebrations )
I hope everyone who celebrated had a great time!
From the feeling I had to be sure,
that you've felt this before.
It's a long load, long lonely road.
It's a long road, long journey home.
Trying to see poetry within the shifting imagery of meaning
Well if you're feeling hollow man
Just throw the stone and shatter your reflection...with questions.
Well if you're trying as hard as you can
To see where you fit in this plan
IT's a long road, long lonely road.
It's a long road, long lonely road.
It takes time to find the place you love
It takes time to find the place you love
Well if you've got to be sure in that feeling you've got to take time.
It takes time to find the place you love,
Oh it's a long road...long journey home.
Let's Compare Your Results to the Average
Your Results Again:    | Average of All Quiz-Takers:    |
So I'm more or less average overall! I shall make a regular thing of doing this meme to see how I change with different situations.
As I said however, very US biased so the cultural bit may not entirely reflect my view.
I can feel that an amazon order is immanent. I've tried my best to suppress to urge to buy new books for quite a while, after all I am in the middle of several and still have 2 from my last order I have yet to read, but it's so hard!
I was bored today and so decided to take a look at some book previews on google. Usually the previews have pages removed at completely random intervals so they aren't much use.
But today I was taking a look at books recommended to me, and I looked at Jennifer Larson's book on Nymphs. It had the first 38 pages in the preview and I read them all.
Now I want to read the rest!
I also want a few books by Ronald Hutton, and the second edition of Kharis (which I always want but never seem to order, mostly because I can only get it from amazon.com and I order from amazon.co.uk).
In other news, my plans for theogamia have been postponed until I feel better. :(
I just inhaled some pomegranite juice. >.< Now I keep coughing it up and it's in my lungs and all acidic and hurty. :(
Chris bought me a 2009 planner for christmas. I'm using it to write out a festival calendar for the year. It's going to take a while.
Whilst writing up something about Lenaia I realised just how much I love dionysian festivals. It's the only time I properly honour dionysos, and I honestly love it.
I bought some yummy earl grey tea, and had some hot cherry wine (I live for this stuff, I swear) and some mead too!
We got talking about children, and I mentioned about raising children in a particular faith. I said that it's a shame but I have to put so much thought into how I will approach this with my children in future. I have such odd beliefs and I don't want it to cause them trouble.
My dad informed me I was waffling and that it was the alcohol talking.
I was waffling, but it wasn't the drink. I wasn't drunk, tipsy or even red faced.
I bought a pretty cloth for my altar whilst there too! It has leaves on, and matches my offering bowl! Pictures later.
I'm going to gut my room, throw out all the shit; clear the walls and generally start creating a more coherent space. From here I can build new shrines and start making my ideas take shape.
I'm happy to send them out to the vast majority of you, so post!
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