She came forth from the depths
Her golden hair wet and tangled
The sand of the beach clinging to her delicate feet
A beauteous woman, young and alluring
Nature itself sighing in relief as she took her first breath

She was golden and pure, a delight to behold
And to her ran spirits of time and season
To comb the tangles from her hair
And dress her in robes of gossamer
Placing sandals on her feet

The sea sounded saddened by her absence
The beach grew flowers and she walked
The sky grew brighter as Hyperion looked on
A new joyous feeling flooding the world
As she walked forward into the world

To her the Horae sang a song
Of love and everlasting pleasure
For to the world was born a goddess
That would send even the gods into a frenzy
Aphrodite of the beauteous breasts that all would envy

#paganism #pagan #hellenismos #religion #prayer #Aphrodite

1- As a youth I picked simple bouquets mostly of the 2 earliest #wildflowers for Mom's birthday + #MothersDay When I moved back and grew spring flowers, the bouquets grew more elaborate; after Mom's passing, they became #spring celebrations of #Life #rebirth the start of the ancient #Latvian season #TimeOfFlowers + the #Baltic #PreIndoEuropean #GreatMother #Goddess It all blends seamlessly, at least in my mind...lol
vids to follow
#pagan #animist #nature #BloomScrolling #Florespondence #Alberta

Morning walk was full of little delights today. Loved this tower of fungi. And I think this is a tawny owl feather which is very cool.
Really felt quiet blessed this morning.
#pagan

#OTD, 15 May, it's the #Mercuralia, a Roman festival in honour of Mercurius in his function as the god of commerce. Merchants would sprinkle their heads, their ships and merchandise, and their businesses with water taken from the well at Porta Capena in Rome. The water was said to bring good fortune for trade. King Numa met at the same spring with his goddess girlfriend who gave him all his great ideas for early Rome, isn't that right, @phistorians?

@antiquidons @pagan #ReligioRomana #pagan

A grammar lesson for Pagans:

-"Pagan" is a proper noun, and should therefore always be capitalized when used as a noun.
-A noun can be described as "pagan," (i.e. a pagan festival, a pagan priestess) which makes it an adjective, so it doesn't need to be capitalized.

If you don't know when to capitalize, then just replace the word "pagan" with "christian" and your autocorrect will suddenly know exactly what to do with it.

(FYI: Pagans don't actually care if you capitalize it or not, but we *do* like to annoy the puritans )

Thunder, lightning and pounding rain just hit us here in Northern Tasmania.

I guess Bridget Archer has summoned the weather Gods to punish those who didn't vote for her on this Samhain evening

To all those in the Southern Hemisphere who celebrate, it's Samhain today, the beginning of winter. So hopefully the darkness passes quickly :)

#beltaine and #mayday blessings to all who celebrate! Big energy! Good trouble!
#pagan

The US Supreme Court is weighing whether religious schools can receive public charter funding—potentially reshaping education laws and church-state boundaries nationwide.

https://wildhunt.org/2025/04/us-supreme-court-decision-could-expand-publicly-funded-religious-schools-nationwide.html

Grass between my toes, fire in my bones.

Blessed #beltane to all. To me, this day is about the fertility of all love and the beauty of lust in all its consensual forms, in all who gaze up at the stars.

Green Queer Erotic Love Magic is the sometimes poetic and sometimes discursive imagination of a green queer erotic love-based anarchy. It discusses the meanings of green, queer, erotic and love and argues for the imagination to create "anarchy".

https://archive.org/details/gqelm-c

Of the two divisions of deities in Norse mythology and religion, the Æsir are – largely thanks to Jack Kirby and Stan Lee – the better known in today’s popular culture. The Vanir, however, are just as complex and worthy of veneration as their Æsir counterparts.

https://wildhunt.org/2025/04/to-honor-the-vanir.html

The hyacinths are thrusting up through the soil, the gayest flower of the early spring season. They're named after Greek hero and Spartan prince, Hyacinthus. Renown for his beauty, he was a lover of the West and North Winds, and later Apollo.

He tragically died while playing discus, when he chased after Apollo's throw and it bounced back and hit him in the head. An accident, or the influence of the jealous West Wind, Zephyrus?

Where his blood fell to the ground, Apollo raised flowers to honor him. He was defied and buried at the feet of Apollo's temple, and his cult was widespread. There is some evidence he was actually a pre-Hellenic cthonic deity of vegetation and sorrow, who was later merged with the cult of Apollo.

Though our modern day hyacinths are not the same as the ancient Greek's, which were closer to irises, every year I still appreciate these cthonic, phallic flowers when they arrive to signal spring.

New research from Ukraine reveals Ice Age hearths showing advanced fire use, suggesting seasonal adaptation and skilled fuel management by early European hunter-gatherers during a time of scarce evidence.

https://wildhunt.org/2025/04/the-sacred-hearth-new-research-reveals-our-ancestors-mastery-of-fire.html

Gracious Lord
God of the roads
Where travelers walk
Merchants carry their wares to market
And thieves search for their marks

Gracious son of Zeus
Angelic lord of the range
Of the pastures for grazing
The goats on the hills above
And the farmers keeping them

Gracious Hermes
Son of Maia
Thief of the sacred cattle
Creator of the lyre
A gift to the radiant Apollo

Gracious Psychopompos
Leader of the somber parade
Of the shades of those now gone
Down into the Earth
Where Hades and Persephone await
#paganism #pagan #hellenismos #religion #prayer #hermes