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Posts about religion, skepticism, and how it fits into the scientific world.
Full Moon Ritual
These photos were taken during a very special full moon in the Amazon jungle. I was volunteering to do medicinal plant research guided by a Shaman who had the most beautiful, gentle, inspiring and captivating soul. He was one of those mesmerizing people you just wanted to be around and listen to even though there was a language barrier; fortunately, a translator was provided.
By Lauren Eimicke7 years ago in Futurism
Greek Entities Story
I'm Athena. I've had to provide the wisdom for the gods and the Greek mortals. Ares isn't wise on his own. He goes in, checks ablaze, and makes a mess of the enemy while I'm left having to clean it up. Nike shows up for about a second to declare Ares's side victorious again, then I come in and console the families of the dead on both sides. Ares does his victory walk without a care in the world because his only goal was to win yet another victory. He usually feels the need to do so right after Zeus has lauded Herakles to him, after he gained yet another victory. They both relied on their strength from being divine and semi-divine.
By Alexandra F7 years ago in Futurism
Ways of Worship: Athena
Athena is the Goddess of wisdom/knowledge, handicraft (crafts), and war/battle strategy. She is the daughter of Zeus and has no mother. The myth says Zeus had a severe migraine so he split open his head and out came Athena. Another variation is that she was banging her spear which caused the migraine or that she split his head open with the spear. No matter the lore Athena is one of the maiden or virgin Goddesses. This is largely contributed to the fact that Zeus didn't have sex to create Athena, instead having been created by thoughts or knowledge. Since she is a maiden Goddess. She has no children birthed from her, however, she does have an adoptive son Erichthonius of Athens. Her Roman form is Minerva. Athena resides on Mount Olympus and is one of the 12 Olympians.
By Lilli Behom7 years ago in Futurism
Ways of Worship: Demeter
Demeter is the Goddess of agriculture, harvest, the cycle of life and death, fertility, and sacred law. Her Roman name is Ceres. She is one of the 12 Olympians and sister to Hestia, Hera, Hades, Poseidon, Zeus, and Chiron. Her parents are Cronus and Rhea, but her age isn't known. Her children are Persephone, Despoina, Arion, Plutus, Philomelus, Eubuleus, Chrysothemis, and Amphitheus. She has ad consorts with Iasion, Zeus, Oceanus, Karmanor, Poseidon, and Triptolemus.
By Lilli Behom7 years ago in Futurism
Ways of Worship: Hera
Hera is the Goddess of marriage, women, childbirth, and family. Hera is also the patroness and protectress of married women, presiding over weddings and blessing marital unions. She is the Queen of the Gods and one of the 12 Olympians. Hera is one of the Goddesses born of Kronos and Rhea. Her siblings are Zeus, Poseidon, Hades, Hestia, and Demeter. She married her brother Zeus, whom she reigns over Mount Olympus with. Her children are Angelos, Ares, Eileithyia, Enyo, Eris, Hebe, and Hephaestus. Her Roman form is Juno. Hera is known for her jealous rages as much as Zeus is known for his sleeping around. She always takes this rage out on Zeus's lovers, children, and mortals who crossed her. Usually, when there's conflict on Olympus, it's because Zeus and Hera are fighting over the latest "sex scandal turned murder."
By Lilli Behom7 years ago in Futurism
Ways of Worship: Hestia
Hestia is the Greek Goddess of the hearth, home, architecture, the state, and family. She’s also one of the virgin/maiden Goddesses who is seen as a protector deity. Her Roman form is Vesta. She is the daughter of Rhea and Kronus (Cronus). Her siblings are Zeus, Poseidon, Hera, Hades, and Demeter. She is the first born child of Rhea and Kronus but after Zeus freed her and the rest of her siblings from having been eaten by their father she was the last to be spit out. This makes people regard her as both the oldest and youngest of the siblings. She has no husband or children, being a maiden Goddess. However, Hestia was such a crucial part of worship that she was pictured and honored in every temple of every God or Goddess.
By Lilli Behom7 years ago in Futurism
Ways of Worship: Apollo
Apollo is the God of music, poetry, arts, oracles, prophecy, truth, knowledge, archery, herds/flocks, diseases (specifically the plague), healing, medicine, light, sun, knowledge, and protection of young. His Roman name is Apollo and he is sometimes known as Apollon. Apollo traditionally doesn't care about the gender of the person he was with. His myths are filled with him taking mortal and immortal lovers of all genders. Despite this, he has no significant other. He does have a twin Artemis and together they are traditionally known as the twin archers since both use a bow and arrow. Apollo is also one of the Twelve Olympians.
By Lilli Behom7 years ago in Futurism
Ways of Worship: Hecate
Hecate, also known as “The Distant One,” is the Greek Goddess of the crossroads and witchcraft. She is also Queen of the Night, and is highly connected to All Hallow's Eve. She is commonly depicted as a three-headed Goddess, or the Greek version of The Triple Goddess, being the Maiden, Mother, and Crone depending on the season. Hecate is also seen to rule/have power over magic, the night, ghosts, necromancy, pathways, heaven, Earth, and the sea. She is one of the Gods who lives in the Underworld. Her Roman form is Hekate, although she is often confused for the Roman Goddess Trivia who is the Goddess of the crossroads and guardian of roads.
By Lilli Behom7 years ago in Futurism
Ways of Worship: Aphrodite
Aphrodite is the Goddess of beauty, love, desire, procreation, pleasure, and sexuality. Her Roman form is Venus. She was created from the Titian Uranus' severed genitals when they were thrown in the sea and mixed with sea foam. The image above depicts Aphrodite rising from the sea on a giant clam as her birth. Despite being married to Hephestus she was continuously unfaithful and her most well-known consort was Ares. However, she also slept with Poseidon, Hermes, Dionysus, Adonis, and Anchises. Gotta give the girl credit she didn't discriminate between immortal or mortal men.
By Lilli Behom7 years ago in Futurism
Ways of Worship: Artemis
Artemis is an amazing female icon and a very strong Goddess, as one of the 12 Olympians. She is the daughter of Zeus and Leto and twin to Apollo. In the lore of their birth, Leto was on the island of Delos alone when she gave birth to the twins, and Artemis, being the firstborn, helped Leto to deliver Apollo seconds after she was born. Artemis and her brother are otherwise known as the Twin Archers, as they are both depicted as wielding a bow and arrow.
By Lilli Behom7 years ago in Futurism
Father of the Gods: Zeus
Even before the defeat of the Titans, Zeus was busy creating his own army of children. His first wife was always known to be Metis, the daughter of Titans Oceanus and Tethys. It was Metis that gave Zeus the idea of giving Kronos a drink that would cause him to puke up his other children Hades, Poseidon, Hestia, Demeter, and Hera, so they could help him defeat their father. Metis, the Titan of wisdom, was important to Zeus. Some would say she was the brains behind his whole operation, but Zeus's grandmother, Gaia, always the troublemaker, warned that her children would be smarter than their own father and overthrow him one day. Zeus could not allow this to happen and borrowed a play from his father's playbook. He swallowed Metis to keep her safely in his own belly where she could never have any children, including the daughter she was already carrying.
By Daisy Rowley7 years ago in Futurism
Ways of Worship: Hermes
Hermes is the messenger to the Gods and very widely seen as the trickster God. But he also rules over animal husbandry, roads/travel, hospitality, diplomacy, trade, coins, thievery, language, writing, luck, athletic contests, astronomy/astrology, boundaries, trade, heraldry, merchants, commerce, gambling, magic, and a guide to the dead. His Roman form is Mercury. He is the son of Zeus and Maia. Maia was one of the Pleiads, daughters of the titan Atlas who traveled with Artemis. Hermes was one of 12 Olympians and the second youngest of the group. Though he has no wife, he has many possible consorts Merope, Aphrodite, Dryope, Peitho, and even Hecate. With this, it is said he has had many children, though their actual lineage is disputed in the lore. These children are Pan, Hermaphroditus, Tyche, Abderus, Autolycus, Eudorus, Angelia, and Myrtilus.
By Lilli Behom7 years ago in Futurism
