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HP 101: Where to start

Hellenic Polytheism can be a bit daunting to start off - and it’s hard to know where to find the right information or what to research! Hopefully this post will help to give you a starting point - but please don’t base all your information off of one person! NOTE: I may link posts with conflicting information/methods. I leave it to you to decide what feels right and fits for you!

Websites, book lists and PDFs:

Theoi.com

Library Genesis

Hellenism resources

PDFs of myths

HP online accurate resources

Classics, mythology and modern worship

HP book list

Accurate resources

Book recommendations and online resources

Bibliography of Black-Centered Resources for Ancient Mediterranean Studies

The types of HP:

Recon vs. Revivalism

Reconstructionism vs Revivalism

The basics of practicing HP:

Making libations

Introduction to epithets

Veiling basics + a veiling primer + basic hair binding and veiling + hellenic hairstyles in religious rites

How to write a prayer

Daily prayer journal

How to pray, praise and worship the Theoi

Homeric hymns - helpful for writing devotionals, hymns, etc. (external site)

The Delphic Maxims

Basic Hellenic supplies

Oaths

Sacred places

Offerings (and whether or not to eat them)

Hellenic khthonic ritual

How to honor Ouranic and Chthonic gods

Hellenic Calendars and when to worship deities:

The days of the month

Devotions for the last day of the month

A Hellenismos calendar 

Hellenion.org calendar (external site)

Hellenic festival year (external site)

About the Hellenic calendar of festivals

Pronunciation and terminology:

Hellenic pronunciation for the Theoi + Hellenic pronunciation pt. 2 + article

Khernips + Khernips pt. 2 + pt. 3

Miasma, khernips and katharmosis

On Lyma

Hellenic terminology (external site)

Finding / Information on deities:

Sacred animals of the gods 

Theoi.com (my go-to)

Household gods

The Nymphai

Odds and ends:

On household worship

Other resources:

List of devotees on tumblr

Practical practicing of HP

This wonderful resource masterpost!

Masterpost of Hellenic polytheism and Roman polytheism resources

Shops for Hellenic polytheists

Introduction to Ancient Greek History - open Yale course

Note: Some areas are certainly lacking in the information department, please add resources if you have them! I’ve included all I could find as of mid 2020.

Links updated June, 2020. Please inform me of broken links via askbox!

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Can't sleep because I'm thinking about how our man Denton paid for lunch, paid all the legal fees for the newsies, and was just generally an awesome dude... And he did all of that just to get replaced by a sub-par lady reporter who happens to be related to the enemy.

For Regulus

for no one

Fun fact, the reason he’s wearing a red bandanna is reference to how the term redneck came to be, which was a way to define striking minors, which is one of the first labor unions. It’s a play on words and history reference give it back. 

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WHO MADE THE DECISION TO TAKE MY SONS COWBOY HAT AND BANDANA AWAY FROM HIM

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When I was a kid one of my moms would call her period "moon time" or "her monthlies" or shit like that and my other mom straight up stealthed it, but when I'm a dad I think I'm gonna go straight down the middle and call it Werewolf Week. Like sorry kids, dad can't roughouse right now, it's Werewolf Week

It’s cannon that half of one of gorgug’s shirts is like a toga on Riz, so imagine how big the full one is.

Now I’m picturing the bad kids using one of Gorgug’s shirts like a straight jacket on Riz when he over works himself

thinking about the Bad Kids sharing clothes. like

- gorgug’s hoodie is basically a communal hoodie at this point (everyone is seen wearing it at some point) (it’s like. a dress on riz)

- adaine has a scarf that everyone likes to steal because it’s so soft (fig showed ayda a picture of boggy wrapped in it and ayda cried. real tears)

- the girls + riz love to steal fabian’s muscle tees (they don’t fit gorgug) (fabian buys one that’s way too big for him so that gorgug can steal it) (he pretends not to realize that it’s way bigger than his other tees) (cause he’s embarrassed that he did something nice) (the others clock it immediately but pretend they don’t for fabian’s sake)

- kristen has the ugliest socks (the kind that go around each toe like gloves) but they’re so comfortable (everyone’s ashamed to be seen wearing them) (but they’re so soft and warm and they might be enchanted??? no one knows) (if someone is seen wearing them they just exchange grim white-boy-tight-lipped-awkward-look-away nods and don’t say anything about it)

- riz has a scarily large assortment of hats that no one’s ever seen him in (no one knows why, or how, he got them) (they’re in every hat style imaginable) (usually one of the Kids will just borrow a beanie, but kristen has tried a cowboy hat on occasion) (it was slapped off of her head immediately)

- fig has tried to make her leather jacket a communal jacket like gorgug’s, but it “doesn’t fit anyone else’s aesthetic” so instead she always has a pair of (not fingerless) gloves with her in case anyone gets cold

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