I think it is important to recognize the various conversations on the Internet regarding Hellenismos and Hellenic Polytheism. Therefore, I am gong to make an effort to create a a monthly digest cataloging various blogs that I found interesting. There is no specific statement for or against any blog listed, but I simply feel the essays and articles are interesting and in need of special attention.
Exams, Gods, and Spontaneous Essays on Fun Things
30 Apr 2008 by annyihra
The show’s writers, in their decision not to develop the plot-neutral, have overlooked one element crucial to Hellenic polytheism: the Ancient Greeks did not believe in their myths, but the Ancient Greeks believed in their myths.8 They …
The Seventh Garden – http://annyihra.livejournal.com/
Statement of Faith
22 Apr 2008
Hellenic polytheism has 12 or 13 major deities, as well as many lesser deities and demigods, nature entities, and familial and domestic spirits. With Roman polytheism it is much the same, although there is even more minor deities and …
wiccanweb.ca – http://www.wiccanweb.ca/
Ancient Greek Deities
11 Apr 2008 by hilda
Due to the Hellenic polytheist beliefs in ancient times, deities formed relationships with each other on a more human scale. Compared to one-deity approaches in many modern religions, Greek deities had a surprising number of human …
hilda – http://hildasikri.blog.com/
Neopaganism- Introduction
9 Apr 2008 by DRSC
A ceremony at the annual Prometheia festival of the Greek polytheistic group Supreme Council of Ethnikoi Hellenes, June 2006. Terminology and definition. The word “pagan” comes from the Latin paganus, originally meaning “rustic” or …
religionencyclopedia.Info – http://religionencyclopedia.info
Changes
7 Apr 2008 by Hrafnkell
I’ve also added a link to the homepage of the Dodecatheon site, Agis Marinis’ official site of the traditional polytheistic Greek (Hellenic) religion of the Dodecatheon. Then I went a step further and joined a webring, …
A Heathen’s Day – http://alheithinn.blogspot.com/
anikha
on May 1st, 2008
@ 6:30 pm:
I’m slightly shocked to see the Seventh Garden up there.
Timothy Alexander
on May 1st, 2008
@ 6:51 pm:
Why? …cause of the use of Battlestar Galactica to talk about Hellenic Polytheism?
anikha
on May 1st, 2008
@ 6:57 pm:
No, it’s the first time I’ve noticed anyone linking to my LJ.
Timothy Alexander
on May 1st, 2008
@ 7:03 pm:
Is that a bad thing?
anikha
on May 1st, 2008
@ 7:07 pm:
Nah, but I had a most amusing double-take moment.
Timothy Alexander
on May 1st, 2008
@ 7:09 pm:
I didn’t even realize anikha was annyihra.
anikha
on May 1st, 2008
@ 8:45 pm:
Well, hr > kh. The nny > n was just a mistake caused by thinking too much about finally getting the opportunity to get the “kh” spelling right. It was a giant moment of Fail.