for more than 20 years I’m a polytheist who worships the Hellenic Gods. My devotion is high, even though I don’t practice every day, I do give cultus to the Theoi because for me They are worthy of it. Plouton and Hekate were there at a time in my life where i needed them. They…
at Theoi Project I was browsing the page of Haides and came across an interesting part: “Plato, Gorgias 523a ff (trans. Lamb) (Greek philosopher C4th B.C.) : “Sokrates (Socrates) : Give ear then, as they say, to a right fine story, which you will regard as a fable, I fancy, but I as an…
Recently I got the diagnosis of being on the autism spectrum. Its moderately present. A psychologist already suspected it back in 2017 because I had a hard time reading emotions and expressing them. Its not just that. It overlaps for me with social anxiety disorder and HSP (High Sensitive Person) For me, its easier when…
The 8th of March is the day to celebrate womanhood, but it is also a day to stand up for the rights for women. Especially now during COVID pandemic, women’s rights are under more pressure than before. The first women’s day was held in America towards the end of February. It wasn’t until the 1920’s…
TO DEATH [THANATOS] Fumigation from Manna Hear me, O Death [Thanatos], whose empire unconfin’d, extends to mortal tribes of ev’ry kind. On thee, the portion of our time depends, whose absence lengthens life, whose presence ends. Thy sleep perpetual bursts the vivid folds, by which the soul, attracting body holds: Common to all of ev’ry…
175 year ago Karl Marx released his Communist manifesto. This book has become notorious for many reasons, one that brought forth a political party called Communist party. What Marx did with his manifesto and his Capital books was to show to the world how capitalism works, how it came to replace feudalism and changed…
Freedom of speech. It gives you the right to say what’s on your mind, but it also gives the right to the other party to criticise what you said. What most don’t seem to realise is that freedom of speech does not mean that it gives you the right to say stuff that will hurt…
Verily at the first Khaos came to be, but next wide-bosomed Earth, the ever-sure foundations of all the deathless ones who hold the peaks of snowy Olympus, and dim Tartarus in the depth of the wide-pathed Earth, and Eros (Love), fairest among the deathless gods, who unnerves the limbs and overcomes the mind and wise counsels…