Hello Hello! Ive Officially Started Worshiping A New Deity,,, One Of The Most Popular Deities To Worship

Hello hello! I’ve officially started worshiping a new deity,,, one of the most popular deities to worship… Apollo,,, I honestly should’ve saw this coming 😭

Anyway, this post is about how I see Apollo :) I see him in a very typical way. I see him with long blond hair and looking very youthful,,, I see him with more tan skin and with brown eyes. Ofc with pictures via picrew :)

I keep seeing posts about people "needing" to cleanse before approaching the Greek gods and while those posts mean well I just want to remind everyone that:

Hygiene is VERY hard to keep up with when you're very depressed or having a very hard mental health day but that's when you need your gods the most!

And I know it's because a lot of ancient priests insisted people needed to cleanse themselves before visiting the temples and communing with the gods (they even banned people on their periods, or those who were about to have a baby or those who just had a baby or were just dealing with a dead body, or had blood on them, etc.) but, as the keepers of the temples, that's because the priests themselves would have to clean up after temple visitors so it makes sense they'd want to ban the ones they thought could potentially make a mess and make extra work for them.

The Iliad shows us the gods were in the battlefield! They fought right next to soldiers being slaughtered and killed. They were next to bodies that have involuntarily released feces and urine! They've been around soldiers who hadn't properly bathed in months, possibly even years!

You're allowed to seek the gods when you're not clean.

You're allowed to seek the gods when you haven't gotten out of bed in weeks.

You're allowed to see the gods when you don't remember the last time you showered or brushed your teeth.

You're allowed to see the gods when you really need help.

You're allowed to see the gods when you need them.

Athena and Ares are in the battlefield surrounded by dying soldiers.

Artemis hunts

Aphrodite also has a war aspect.

Hermes picks up souls from literal dead bodies.

Apollo has an aspect that prepares dead bodies for funerary rights.

The gods are surrounded by the unclean all the time!

Please don't let the rules of disgruntled priests stop you from seeking help when you need it the most!

The gods won't be offended if you haven't bathed in weeks because of your terrible mental state! That's ableism! They just want to help you through it!

Please reach out to them regardless of your condition!

My art, which I have submitted to be in an exhibition 💞🤍

some of ya'll are beyond needing jesus we need to go back to ancient greece to find a specific niche god to help you with your shit

“aphrodite is spiteful, she’s mean and evil!!”

let me tell you about aphrodite.

aphrodite is the reason i eat everyday. aphrodite checks to make sure i ate if she hasn’t heard me say my mealtime prayer to her. aphrodite is the reason i’m being gentler with myself and why i keep choosing recovery. she’s the voice in everyone’s head that says “no, maybe i didn’t deserve that.” she is the courage that makes women stand up to arrogant men and say “you’re wrong and i’m going to tell you why.” she is love. in all of its forms. she’s the fire that makes mothers go to war for their children, the connectedness of a friend group, and the sparkle in a lovers eye that makes you fall in love all over again. aphrodite is a wife, lover, friend, mother, sibling and protector. she is in all of us. she is with us, and we are with her.

and i’m so sorry that you fell for the violent misogyny, but guess what? it affects her too. you don’t think she’s been misrepresented and slandered? you don’t think people lie about her, drag her name through the mud?

people treat aphrodite the way they treat modern day women.

conform with everyone else’s bigotry if you want, but i for one (1), will love aphrodite as long as my heart will let me, and sing her praises until my lungs give out.

khaire golden aphrodite ✨💗🕊

Americans, vote like your life depends on it because if this bill passes it literally will. They’re straight up trying to make it legal to arrest people for existing as LGBT.