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The following is excerpted from Patricia Telesco’s “365 Goddess: a Daily Guide to the Magic and Inspiration of the Goddess”. Some of these days are ancient, but some are more moderation, such as Thanksgiving or the Rights of the Child Day from United Nations. But each day she assigned a Goddess Who she felt suited…
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Okay, this made me laugh. I just had to share it. If this post increases the numbers of Poseidon’s lovers, so be it. “Aloeus married Triops’ daughter Iphimedeia, who, however, was in love with Poseidon. She would go down to the sea, gather the waves in her hands, and pour the water on her vagina.…
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Poseidon is chiefly the God of the Sea. He is also, however, the Lord of all Rivers and Lakes, all incarnations of water, especially salt water. He is also the God of Horses. At Eleusis, He was worshiped as a plant God as well, for it is water that nurtures the plant so that it…
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Usually I write an acrostic poem and an alliteration poem, but this time I mixed it up by combining in the two. Powerful protector, parent [of] pegasus Ouranus’ olympic offspring, overlord [of] oceans Stormy savior [of] ships, [the] surrounding sea Exuberant earth-shaker evoking emotional epiphany Immortal image [of] inundation invading islands Dangerous divinity dwelling [in]…
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To Poseidon The Earth-Shaker inhales And the tides come in The Holder of Earth exhales And the tides go out O Poseidon, you are the mightiest of the Olympians! Your realm extends to cover three-fourths of the world The only part of our planet still mysterious to man Unknown, Unpenetrated, Is the dark world beneath…
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To challenge myself, I decided to write this poem with 5 words per line instead of 3. Just that small change made this poem much, much harder. Not only does it get harder to think of words that all start with that same letter that fit the theme, but it gets hard to evoke the…
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“Together come and follow to the Phrygian home of Cybele, to the Phrygian forests of the goddess, where the clash of cymbals ring, where tambourines resound, where the Phrygian flute-player blows deeply on his curved reed, where ivy-crowned maenads toss their heads wildly.” — Catullus, poem 63 Kybele (pronounced Ku-bel-EE) is a Goddess of the…
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As promised at the beginning of September, here is the review of Bibliotheca Alexandria’s Potnia, the Devotional for Demeter! I really enjoyed this devotional. It was bigger than I expected, they clearly got a LOT of submissions. I surprised, but delighted, at how many fictional submissions were included. There was a play and a musical,…
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ancient agricultural abundance bountiful bighearted blessed eternal everlasting eleusinian furious ferocious fierce guardian germinates grain mad mother maudlin noble nurse [of] nations questing questioning queen perfect plants poppy seeds sown silently troubled tribes thank, [and] worship wandering woman
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(a few parts of this post come from Journey to Olympos’ Demeter chapter . More of my meditations and thoughts from this month may similarly work their way into the book. Demeter is the Goddess of crops and grains, agriculture and horticulture. She was responsible for the fertility of the world. It is She…
Temple of Athena the Savior 