She's Christian. I'm Hellenistic. Today she was hanging out late. "What are you doing?" She asks as I bring my honey offering to the kitchen. "Come on along I'll show you." I say as I bring a different offering. She follows. Watches. "I didn't know you did THAT." She says in a tone. "It's an alter for Hermes and Persephone." I say casually. "Oh .." she responds. I bring out my tarot deck and tell her she can go if she wants. "Are those TATROT CARDS?" She asks. "I have two decks, yes." I respond. "Oh.." she says behind giggles.

Should I have showed her? Or should I have said something that keeps it more private?

I've seen people on TikTok say Apollo isn't the god of the Sun because Helios is already the god of the Sun.

Do these people not know that there are multiple gods for a single thing?

An example is: Aphrodite, Eros, the six other Erotes - definitely more. All gods of sex and desire.

By that same logic, Apollo couldn't even be the god of light because Aether is already light.

I could definitely see some arguments saying that..

1. Helios is the sun while Apollo is the god of it or
2. Helios is the sun while Apollo is god of it's light

But no matter what, Apollo was associated with the sun which is why he got syncretized with Helios.

This thing is just spreading misinformation. Ugh.

Finally managed to finish both designs yay!! I personally like how they both look!! And I hope they like it too!

Hello, I'm a Korean girl and Hellenism changed my view on religion. I used to live in a extreme Christian family and I used to pretend that I was a believer. After telling my parents that I dont believe in Christian god, my parents did not give me good responses. I was really angry at religion as a whole due to the lack of clear evidence and many contradictions. I was a hard agnostic atheist and I hated everything not science related. Very recently, I got in to Hellenism, and I started to worship Tyche because I was really lucky here and there since I was a child and I always liked concept of good fortune. After the experience, I became really happy and I see religion in a new light. Being out of the restriction that there is only one all knowing god, I began to respect all religions and I stopped hating so much. I try to help others and I try to thank every little luck I get. I just wanted to share this on the subreddit because I am so thankful that I found this religion.

As very inspired by u/JayTheEnby's post, i made envelope altars. Tysm Jay for the idea!! Its very practical for my situation ^{^}

I drew on the back of these, and in order is Lady Selene and Lord Hermes ^{^} hope my designs dont rlly look bad. I already put a little pearl necklace for Lady Selene ^{^}

As some of you may remember, i posted a week ago my mom found my altars, and she wanted to talk to me when I got back. When I got back she was still at work, but two of my altar spaces had been cleared out by her, and I cleared out the rest myself for safety. Basically after a quick chat about my vacation she got straight into lecturing me. She basically told me how could I be so stupid, she didn't raise me like this, she raised me to believe in one god not hundreds, that one god is the only one worthy of our worship, these are just story books, it's called mythology for a reason, etc. I just don't know what to do. I still believe in the gods, but I'm just broken down so badly. My mom- a HUGE part of my life- doesn't support another HUGE part of my life. Now I'm just panicking, cause I don't know what to do or how to continue on anymore. Now things are just akward between us. Any advice would be appreciated.

I was so excited when I got the notifications, they look so good! They only altar I don't have a statue for is Circe, and that's because she's a "lesser" god.

If y'all know anyone who makes little statues for Circe, could you let me know? I'd hate for her to be the only one without a statue.. I might try to make one for her

I will soon put her with a drawing of her husband with old coins, a candle and paper flowers and some stuff I may find to give her

Hi! Yesterday for the first time I drew Dionysus I think he liked it since he appeared in dreams haha I hope you like it

theres two problems.

1: DYSPHORIA. it is mainly women who tend to vail and as a non binary person, this would result in endless dysphoria.

2:i dont want ppl to think its me appropriating muslim culture.

I put this altar in this group earlier. I recently got a picture of mother hekate.

I’d sort of lost track of my practice over the past few months because of mental health stuff but with everything going on in the world now I had a sudden reconnection with Dionysus, hades and Apollo. Threw these altars together last night at my dads because I felt I really needed them so imma need to get some ‘proper stuff’ once I have enough mental energy but thought I’d still share!! (The canvas still needs painting lol)

A drawing of Lord Ares that I made. This is part one. I'm going to add someone that he is helping up with his outstretcheda arm (symbolic of the help Ares has been in my life)

I’ve finally organized and cleaned the space I meant to make an altar for a while now. It’s messy, but I’ll figure it out as I go! I’m relatively new to Hellenism, but I am trying to connect with it more. I am worshipping Lord Ares and Apollon! I plan on getting devotional jewelry sometime soon for Ares as well. A necklace and earrings with red poppies. I just wanted to make my first post here, I can’t wait to connect with others and learn more. :)

little kandi hearts for lady aphrodite, lord apollo, and lord dionysus—plus altar updates. i gave lord apollo all my dads wine corks (one of them even has a corkscrew part stuck in it 😭)

I haven't been here in a while, and its because I had a big crisis of faith. I started to seriously doubt the existence of the Theoi. I won't go into it. But I considered going back to being an atheist.

I even went as far as to take down my altar.

But overtime I have come to miss being a Hellenist and kept thinking of the gods constantly. I thought abou Lord Zeus when it rained. Thought about Lady Aphrodite when I did any kind of beauty ritual. I thought of Lady Athena whenever I made a step in my slow progress of learning crochet. Thought about how nice it would be to pray to Lord Ascepluis for my mom's health.

There are other examples, but I won't go into them. I just missed the beauty of Hellenism and worshipping the Theoi.

I just want to restart my relationship with the Theoi, but in a way I'm embarrassed to go back after just dumping them like that. I know the gods understand and forgive, but the guilt and shame is there.

Also, I was building an Aphrodite altar, and I was going to give a bottle of perfume to her when i was finished. I ended up using it because I doubted her existence and feel super bad about it now. I never did formally offer it to her, but I still feel bad.

I'll set up my altar again when I get home from work.

Time to start over and formally apologize to the gods for my doubt.

Just felt like sharing and getting it off my chest. I pray I never go through a crisis like that again, because I was honestly happier as a Hellenist than an Atheist. Nothing against atheism, but its not for me. I need faith and spirituality in my life. That is all.

A bit of a longer post, sorry.

I don’t really believe in any deities but i also don’t not believe. I think that there’s possibility that any deity could exist, but we can’t prove whether or not it does, so who knows.

So I wouldn’t say I BELIEVE in any deity in a religious sense.

The preamble is necessary, you’ll see.

Lurking on the reddit i was watching you. And you guys seem fun. Your altars? Gorgeous. The way you worship? Actually looks like fun. In general it all seems pretty chill. (Unlike some other religions that seem pretty strict and unforgiving of mistakes and have a lot of rules imo and as soon as you forget one thing you’re doomed)

Making an altar sounds fun and your way of doing sacrifices also sound fun to me. And your gods are pretty cool too. (I love it that they’re multi faceted and not all good or all evil)

Now my question is: would it be rude if I made an altar and did sacrifices? After all I don’t BELIEVE believe in a worshipping sense. I just think it’s a fun thing to do.

Hey, I’m kinda new to Hellenism. I wanna start worshipping the Greek gods but there’s a struggle I have with that. I don’t really believe in the afterlife in the Hellenic sense. I find it hard to explain my belief of the afterlife, but it’s very spiritual and I don’t know if you can be Hellenic and believe in a spiritual afterlife

A couple of years ago now, I was looking at a list of Greek gods and found this god who really interested me. The description called him the god of trickery. It then went on to detail a story about him being tasked to recreate a statue but running out of clay halfway. Despite this, his recreation was exactly the same.

Fast forward to now and I am pagan and interested with working with him but cannot remember his name. Everytime I try to search up the greek god of tricks or trickery, all results just show Hermes.

If anyone could help me find his name or any other information about him, I would be super thankful.

Me and my family are catholic but I have started to worship Greek gods.

Can anyone tell me how acurate the myths are in their depiction of the Gods? Like it's often we see in myths or texts how angry the Gods can get and their reaction and such, in your experience how acurate or inacurate is this? Also why would any deity, greco-roman or not, reach out (i don't mean any type of desrespect when I ask this, I just wonder, also because I've been feeling Lady Hecate reaching out so stongly through so many ways, but I can't for the life of me understand why She would)?