Does anyone here have any experience with the greco-roman gods?Decided to pray to Hephaestus for help about finding a job, asked for a sign, and I got called on my phone about an IT assistance job that same morning.In short can any of you redpill me on how to properly honor the old gods?
>>41676619Burnt offerings and libations are always good. Do a deep dive researching his cults and specific ways they honored him, should give you some ideas. Don't think everything has to be a 1 to 1 recreation of how the ancients did things, but let them inspire you and go with your gut when improvising. Sincerity and respect are the actual important things. A space in your home dedicated to him would be good, as well, a little table or shelf, could even be a box with the instruments you use to honor him if you're real hard up for space.Also what the fuck is this captcha
>>41676911Thanks, I am attracted to him mainly because my field is tech and he notoriously crafted automatons, I made an origami, do you think it will be a good offering?Also they changed the captcha, probably because a thread got flooded with weird ass messages from bugged bots, we might see a temporary decline in nobody threads.
>>41676952If you made the origami with the specific intention to use it as an offering, then yeah, it's worth a shot to see if it's to his taste. If you made it without that intention, I personally wouldn't, I'd make another one. But this is about your relationship with the gods, and what works for one person might not for someone else. Good luck and I hope you get that job if you want it.
>>41676619https://youtu.be/GimBMhVFl7M
>>41676619You can use planetaryhours.net to track whose hour it is, try to pray to them on their day during their hour.Just treat it like a relationship, whether that be friendship, business, acquaintance etc. Be respectful, not all of them may be as open to chumminess so feel your way through everything. That goes for ways you pray and things you offer as well. When I offer them something, I usually just state that it's a token of appreciation I'd like to share, tell them if I made it or whatever. I try to talk/pray and show gratitude for them regularly. Read as much as you can about them, look up what stories he takes part in, who he associates with etc. In short, take a genuine interest in them like you would anyone else.Remember that what you spend your time on is what you worship, and that goes for everything in life.
>>41676619Mythras and Constantine. Flavian and the gospels. The Romans made themselves God and trampled on the demiurge of Israel who likes it. Flavians wrote the gospels cause Jews kept breaking statues. Titus even wrote of his victory and referred to himself as "the son of man">The same guy who fulfilled the "prophecy" of destroying the temple.
>>41676619Aphrodite likes votive offerings. She's a girly girl. They prefer not to get real animal sacrifices.
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>>41676619Interesting thread. Lots of Hecate's domains speak to me in terms of general posture, life choices and symbolism but I don't really have problems or goals I need help with so I haven't attempted anything (it feels disrespectful otherwise, for some reason), but I've been thinking about doing the whole prayer+altar thing for years now. At the end of the day, feeling like one needs an external reason points toward a lack of will/faith, so it's probably smarter to not do anything.
Read Homer. Over and over until you understand. There is guidance on prayers too.
>>41676619>In short can any of you redpill me on how to properly honor the old gods?read this pichttps://files.catbox.moe/7kjr99.jpg
>>41682460very cool pic, saved. however things like murmuring and always burning offering to underworld gods being universal to all euro pagan traditions is something i doubt but happy to be proven wrong
>>41682604>murmuring and always burning offering to underworld gods being universal to all euro pagan traditions is something i doubt but happy to be proven wrongThat's the thing about the Pagan community; we're always learning because we're reconstructing the past, and that past was practiced by many people with different customs. That image was made using Greco-Roman sources, so the forms used by the Celts or Germans might be different.As a general rule, you should always try to use sources specific to that Pagan tradition. If you can't find something, then you have to use something from another Pagan tradition closer to it. If there are obstacles within your own Pagan tradition, then you have to be creative and look for alternatives (for example: there's a herb used in a ritual, but that herb doesn't grow in North America, and importing it is expensive, so you have to use a similar herb, or one that's magickally similar, to perform the ritual).The way I see the Pagan gods is the Neoplatonic one (which I like because it makes the cosmos entirely divine and objective since this cosmos is not random) which is in this link that was passed here a while ago, there are Pagans who follow this paradigm but there are others who see it differently.https://files.catbox.moe/6fht6n.jpg
>>41682900cool pic, cool dubs, wise manproblem is im interested in old slavic religion, which was not uniform among all the slavs (some gods in the rus were not known in polabia and vice versa) and has difficulty corresponding to more modernly known faiths like the norse, even though some pretend is the same, perun is thor, aye once you get a wee bit deeper is all hard to mkae sense of it being all sameaye, we are always learning. problem with us we were majorly cucked by emissaries of the vatican and the empire. no original writing of slavic religious knowledge was saved, as they wrote on mad material that is wood (and proven only in temples)our culture is fucked! what christian emissaries did not burn the germans did. we have to create our heritage from ground up again and i am desperate to make it as true to the way of our forefathers as possible, is why im asking. we know little, but we know we can not just correspond volos to hades even though they both rule the underground. volos was god of magic and more kundalini serpent that fought against nature upwards to be more than any norse correspondence they sayas for neoplatonism, i can not say as i do not know, but i heard many newer metaphysical theories were based on pagan neoplatonism so it has to make some sense and i aim to read their worksif you know some interesting sources about slavic paganism or indoeuro-syncretic-making-sense-of-all-this sourses please send
