There is a lot of information coming from a whooooole lot of sources on the internet.
I know that you really want to get into doing everything just right, and you want to do it all right now.
You've taken on a dizzying job. This forum says not to worship Hades and Demeter on the same altar. That forum says you should focus your worship mostly on deities that relate to your profession.
It seems so many of the people you see either align themselves to 'myth literalism' or they disregard the myths, altogether.
To you, everyone looks like they only deal in extremes. Maybe you feel like a new student in a classroom where you can clearly see that the established clique divisions are very, very important.
Take a deep breath and slow down. You haven't already messed up before you've even begun.
The reason you see these dichotomies everywhere you look is, at least in part, because of the way you're looking for your information.
Many people, when starting, will ask the Great Google Void™️ questions like, "Can I have only one patron deity?" "Does my altar have to be big?" "Does X deity hate Y deity?" These questions are targeted, and they have a tendency to draw answers from people with very strong opinions. (A fact that isn't wholly bad, but is fucking scary when you're new) You will also find opinions from people who have practiced a long time and will give you good, well written advice. Still, you can't quite find it in yourself to overlook the contributer who says something like, "I wouldn't dare disrespect Demeter by putting her on an altar with Hades." The wording seems so final and ominous. Disrespect. The idea of risking it makes you want to take down the altar, because... What if she's already mad at you for even thinking of it?
You're holding yourself to an impossible standard, newbie. We all started somewhere, and many of us arrived at different conclusions.
Stop punishing yourself for things you don't know. Network with other poytheists. Ask for resources. Google resources. Read as many of the myth sources as you can, but make sure you double check and research who translated them first. That's right, the translations. Different translations of the very same texts have led to discrepancies in beliefs in the community. Decide for yourself where myth belongs in your practice. Decide for yourself if you are reconstructing ancient practice or modifying it. Decide for yourself who will be on your altar, if you can/ want to have one. Allow yourself to enjoy the research. Do it in digestible bites.
Research how other people do it, but stop asking the question, especially to the internet, "Which way is the correct way?"
You will get so hung up on the extreme answers that you will burn out.
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The Jötnar need a union 😅
a bit of advice for my fellow polytheists out there:
use the first of the month as a day to check in with your deities or other spirits you work with!! let them tell you whatever it is that they need to tell you and use that guidance to help you throughout the rest of the month!
here is my ghoulsona in their full glory (bit dramatic i know) the headcanons and stuff i have for them are here ⬇️
i was too tired to colour in copia but i will probably do that later on.
i tried with the colouring since im new to digital art so theres a lot of different technices in there wich can make it look a bit meh. i also definitly just realozed i forgot to colour in the eyebrows
went on a biking roadtrip with friends and ofcourse i had to bring my son along
Thor, thunderer, protector. Help me stay strong in these hard times. Protect our trans siblings. Help us to defend our rights and the rights of others. All hail.
I wonder what conversations they had in that cave.
I wonder if when Sigyn's arms shook and burned, when stinging sweat dripped into her eyes, if Loki sung her stories and spun her winding jokes to make her laugh.
I wonder if she sang back to him as she had to remove the bowl to empty it, if she reminded him of fields of flowers and the sun on their skin, of days without pain, and soothed him through the worst of his trembling.
I wonder if they cried together, if Loki couldn't help wrapping his fingers around his bindings, getting as close to his child as he could. I wonder if they spent hours, silent, sitting together in their grief.
I wonder if they laughed together, if they reminisced in the past and planned for the future, if they knew that this would not be forever.
I wonder if they processed anger together, if they softened together, so they knew that one day in the far future, they would be able to forgive if not forget.
idk i just wonder about them a lot
purple and yellow flowers
🪻🌻🪻
you gifted me these purple and yellow flowers
your hands bleeding from picking them
yet smiling at me telling me i was yellow and you were purple
how my heart fluttered at the thoughtful gift, holding them
now dead are these purple and yellow flowers
forever stuck in time, sitting in a gin and tonic bottle on my desk
i wonder if you ever think back at the yellow flowers
how that night when you gifted me the flowers you told me
"its nothing romantic"
but then again, why else would you caress me like that
why else would you hold me against you as you press a kiss to my jaw, cheek and then lips
now its been three months and i stare at these purple and yellow flowers
wondering how much of your words had been true
you had said so many things to me, not sure which were lies and which were the truth
now each time i see purple and yellow flowers i wonder about you
-F
i just caught my father listening to mary on a cross and i was just like 😮
and he has it on repeat. i dont know what to think about this.
he is back at it again but now listening to square hammer. and as im typing this i started hearing kaisarion blaring from his speakers.
holy fuck
i just caught my father listening to mary on a cross and i was just like 😮
and he has it on repeat. i dont know what to think about this.
The Amazing Devil truly knocked it out of the park with Fair in terms of love songs i mean its got everything. Domesticity, deep adoration, confessions of love when youre sure no one else can hear, a that's what she said joke, yogurt, genuinely dont think there's a more romantic song on the face of the earth