This is the open list for information about Dadoukhoi, the Torch Bearers, a modern Hellenic polytheistic religious organization.

For more information about us, feel free to join this list, or visit us at http://www.dadoukhoi.org. Our resource center is here at the Dadoukhoi Agora: http://dadoukhoi.proboards107.com

We seek to establish and cultivate a community based on devotion to the gods, spirits, and heroes of ancient Hellenic and Hellenistic tradition. We embrace and seek to express a living hellenocentric tradition, based on ancient and established faith and practices of ancient Hellas reaching forward in rational ways into modern life.

We do not seek to set ourselves against other religious traditions or to condemn personal faith and practice among our members where such faith and practice does not result in clear contradiction of our vision and purpose as a community of faith in the Deathless Ones.

We value scholarship, reason, and depth of personal religious experience. We see much worth saving in ancient practice and belief, and carry forward the torch of ancient tradition as we seek the sacred in the now and the yet to come. And we trust in both divinity and the sacred community to separate the grain from the chaff in religious ways not known to have been written into ancient tradition. As religion evolved in the past, so it continues to transform through the work and devotion of new generations of faith.