tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2855237173359268938.comments2014-03-04T04:55:19.572-06:00Everyday HellenicsAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17270642198672901054noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2855237173359268938.post-28708889683754439992014-03-04T04:55:19.572-06:002014-03-04T04:55:19.572-06:00This is a very interesting blog. Keep on going alo...This is a very interesting blog. Keep on going along the Via.<br />Vale in Pace Deorum<br />Carmelo<br /><br />www.lases.blogspot.itCarmelo Cannarellahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03880676822722522314noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2855237173359268938.post-72682819831570503002011-08-26T16:35:44.025-05:002011-08-26T16:35:44.025-05:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2855237173359268938.post-9806391669519215972011-08-26T15:38:16.222-05:002011-08-26T15:38:16.222-05:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2855237173359268938.post-34861518612134050952010-06-01T07:05:18.774-05:002010-06-01T07:05:18.774-05:00Wonderful. A very valuable 2x4!
I identify as rec...Wonderful. A very valuable 2x4!<br /><br />I identify as recon but as time goes on, I move farther away from the hard and fast rules and rely on what my own gods teach me- things like this post, which you can't get from any book, but come to as a result of experience and a sincere relationship with your gods.<br /><br />So yeah, awesome. :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2855237173359268938.post-48009798596933385032010-05-28T13:29:15.093-05:002010-05-28T13:29:15.093-05:00I whole-heartedly agree -- and I call myself a rec...I whole-heartedly agree -- and I call myself a recon-revivalist. I do feel that many people do not really understand the ancients very well. Now, I was a history major and have studied religion, theology and philosophy. There were probably as many different ideas about the gods as we have today. Any attempt to create a so-called universal hellenic cultural view will go down in flames because there never was such a thing -- and it changed over the centuries. I am more at home in the archaic era, others in the neo-platonic, etc. The only thing that holds us all together is gathering around Hestia's flames in order to worship the gods.Julia Erganehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04613625453621934834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2855237173359268938.post-63153790103872613732010-05-28T11:14:31.155-05:002010-05-28T11:14:31.155-05:00You are absolutely right--a place of worship and r...You are absolutely right--a place of worship and reverence for Theoi in the home is much more in line with "shrine" than it is with "altar"--but in the sort of mass-Pagan context I was asked to answer the question, I didn't want to get too deep into that. My main concern was getting this particular lady to a place where the word "altar" no longer conjured up horror movie images in her mind--and, once we got to that point, maybe getting a little more specific. :)<br /><br />Thank you for sharing your thoughts--I especially love the deference to uninterrupted traditions. They can and do teach us so much.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17270642198672901054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2855237173359268938.post-19965190689478960632010-05-19T07:20:25.223-05:002010-05-19T07:20:25.223-05:00Personally, I believe that the term "househol...Personally, I believe that the term "household shrine" is more accurate. An altar is technically the place where sacrifice is made, which would be the stone slab/pit in ancient Hellenic Polytheism. The offering bowl and incense stands of today are more like miniature altars within the temenos of the shrine's surface. :D Household worship spaces are also called shrines in Shinto (where it's called a kamidana) and in Hinduism. I tend to defer to non-interrupted traditions when it comes to sacred terminology.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2855237173359268938.post-29985148244634743412010-05-06T02:37:01.681-05:002010-05-06T02:37:01.681-05:00You are absolutely right, the latest scholarship d...You are absolutely right, the latest scholarship does suggest quite different spins on the myths than those commonly accepted--and, no matter what time period in which we live and what versions of the myths we choose to accept, "latest scholarship" will ALWAYS posit new interpretations--because that is "latest scholarship's" job.<br /><br />Ultimately, the only way that could impact your spiritual center would be if you were a myth literalist, as, unfortunately, some Hellenic Polytheists are. On the other hand, if you understand the myths as intended not as history, but as a method by which to impart the character of our Theoi, then whatever spin a myth takes, whatever the latest scholarship suggests, your center, like Hestia's flame, will burn on eternally, undisturbed yet perhaps a little brighter for the added insight.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17270642198672901054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2855237173359268938.post-81000003660275065162010-05-02T03:21:12.382-05:002010-05-02T03:21:12.382-05:00Ah, but if you really do your research and pay att...Ah, but if you really do your research and pay attention to the latest conclusions in scholarship, you get a very different view of the myths than what is popularly accepted. In "Narcissus and the Pomegranate", the author makes a very good case for Persephone being complicit in, if not her abduction, then in the settlement where she spends half her time in Hades and half above with Demeter.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2855237173359268938.post-38043077395924606942010-04-23T18:40:02.909-05:002010-04-23T18:40:02.909-05:00It's funny how Pagans in the Hellenic Polythei...It's funny how Pagans in the Hellenic Polytheist traditions, and Pagans of other Traditions, who are perfectly willing to accept the few popularly known Greek myths as A) The only stories about the Theoi, and B) Literal stories about the Theoi, isn't it?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2855237173359268938.post-7356150565760127962010-04-20T17:42:42.352-05:002010-04-20T17:42:42.352-05:00Fascinating and very well written. (Honeyman)Fascinating and very well written. (Honeyman)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com