I just noticed that there's another member here, so I figured that I'd finally make a post. :-) Rules are simple: Keep things relatively on-topic and use...
Joined because I fall under that general camp of modern pan- polytheistic nature religion, and I've got a particular affection (you'll pardon the expression)...
... Well, welcome aboard! :-D -- Ruadhan -- "I believe in the unsaid, what you can't write about, which music and painting can express." -- Gavin Friday ...
I know this is a pretty small list at this point, but I wanted to invite the members here to read my Eros worship blog: http://ofthespiae.wordpress.com/ ...
Originally from my own book of poetry and ritual, then posted to: http://ofthespiae.wordpress.com/2008/11/11/poetry-to-eros/ First-born Theos, son of maiden...
http://ofthespiae.wordpress.com/2008/11/14/eros-in-my-daily-ritual/ The following is from my Eros blog (entry linked above); you can read the full post there: ...
There is a discussion on another list about Zeus as a / "the" Creator God, and honestly, through both mythology and gnosis, I've always felt that to be a...
I think if by "Creator," you intend to conjure up a more traditional image of a patrician, Father figure-like deity, then Zeus would be it. But if you intend...
Just spreading the word for an Eros/Aphrodite chat on Tuesday: http://ofthespiae.wordpress.com/2009/03/29/hellenistai-chat/ If you choose not to click the...
http://forum.hellenistai.com/ I created this forum over the weekend, and it passes my rigid standards (of not going teh b0rken). Feel free to sign up and start...
There is, strangely, a myth of Zeus devouring Phanes/Protogenos/Elder Eros. Following that, you could logically say that he became the 'Creator' god: and that...
Thank you! (: I remember reading the Zeus-Phanes myth and being slightly alarmed... but I've since realised it's sort of beautiful. And it redeems the...
How did this actually begin? I cant find any myths on Eros having a gay love affair of any kind which would suggest his involvement in that portfolio....
... As best as I can tell, this probably started with His worship in Boeotian gymnasia and, if I recall correctly, at the tomb of Hylas around Thebes (in...
Thank you so much for the insight. I, recently, read in one mythology book that Eros possibly was in a relationship with his father Ares, which might have ...
