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I'm currently sick, so my plans to celebrate the Equinox a few days early tomorrow might need to be pushed back to the actual Equinox on Tuesday. I have shortened my rite to the Diwós Sunū ( the proto-Indo-European Dioskuroi ) so I can perform it after work. If I'm recovered by the full moon on the 29th I might perform my longer, complete rite with some adjusted language (not the Equinox, just an early autumn rite to the Divine Twins). #Heathenry #Druidry #Paganism #Polytheism

I have made a cringe whoopsie. I found this really pretty statue of Aphrodite on Thingiverse forever ago and I loved that she had long very curly hair like my fiance does. So I printed it and included it in a few altar locations in the house. My buddy has been trying to get back in a relationship for a while now and I thought "Oh, hell I have these cool statues of Aphrodite set to print on demand. I should make him one as a charm to bring about love" So I did and I gave it to him and he goes "Why does she have 6 fingers?" 🙃 So, after I told my nurse of a fiance about them being AI generated, they took one and looks it over and gave me a fun anatomy lesson and I learned a whole bunch of new things that AI can't get right on a 3D model of a person. So if anyone has recommendations for Aphrodite statues or a good source for other gods that I can 3D print. Please let me know! It doesn't need to be historic art it just needs to not be AI I currently browse a lot of Geoffrey Marchal's work as he does 3D scans of statues, but they often kinda suck to print. https://www.thingiverse.com/GeoffreyMarchal/designs I also like mediu3D on Cults for their busts. I have Hypatia and Plato busts on standby to hand out to people who want to join Plato club https://cults3d.com/en/users/mediu3D/3d-models #pagan #3dprinting #gods #polytheism

Hail Freya, it's Friday! Today's #FridayPaganPoll: Most pagans believe in some kind of reincarnation, but there are many variations of it. The classic kind that most people know is "whole soul" reincarnation, where the soul is reincarnated one-to-one, and may or may not have memories of the previous incarnation. There is also what I'll call "partial soul," where only some pieces move on and there is no retention of whole memories. Which one most closely matches your beliefs on reincarnation? (This is obviously an extremely nuanced topic, so detailed comments are welcome and appreciated!) #pagan #polytheism #witch

I have finished my year-long project of making a faire-isle altar cloth for all of the classic neopagan holidays. Each one is dedicated to one of the gods that I worship who I feel most strongly that season. More details of each deity and their associated symbols in the alt text. #Knitting #FiberArt #Pagan #polytheism #Witch

Comparative mythology has simultaniosly saved and completely ruined polytheism. Like, it's cool that people can reach cross time and history to see all of the similarities in the human experience. This builds a great foundation for what life and ritual mean, and brings us all closer, even though we're not worshipping the same gods. But also, trying to squish the gods into neat boxes and only focusing on the similarities between them makes one lose all of the unique and diverse traits among them. Sure, us humans might fall into large groups of stereotypes, but we are each so much more than a general classification. If we regard ourselves as completely unique individuals, then the gods deserve the same courtesy. It's tempting to think that there's some super ancient 'one mythos to rule them all,' but let's be real, that's just the monotheism talking. Humans are messy and diverse creatures, and we always have been. #polytheism