tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2382184804747180588.post5496570339917170697..comments2024-03-27T09:04:12.454-07:00Comments on Baring the Aegis: Unverified Personal GnosisElani Temperancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05611003885755154591noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2382184804747180588.post-89820912304180703142016-08-20T12:13:50.462-07:002016-08-20T12:13:50.462-07:00I hope you don't give up on updating the tradi...I hope you don't give up on updating the tradition. Then you are living someone else's spirituality! Reconstruction as orthodoxy makes religion a museum piece. There are *so many* stories, so many rituals and regionally specific understandings of deity. If the gods are to live, they need to *move*. Who is the Athena of Nashville? Who is the Dionysos of Napa Valley? There is room for us to create our own understandings within the framework of Hellenismos. I continue to say that the important thing is to *preserve what we have*, but also to *add new things*, rituals, prayers, songs. You have a right to your own spiritual understanding!<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04674828437636172285noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2382184804747180588.post-66536240083265862272014-05-29T02:54:02.286-07:002014-05-29T02:54:02.286-07:00Hephaestus divorced Aphrodite long ago. By the tim...Hephaestus divorced Aphrodite long ago. By the time of the Trojan War, he had remarried one of the Kharites and was happy with her. In the Iliad, she is called just "Kharis". An Orphic source identifies her as Aglaia, and names 4 daughters of the couple. Aphrodite, meanwhile, married to Ares after all, they also had more children together and presumably lived happily ever after.<br />Persephone is also happy with her husband. Despite the agreement to stay with her mother 6 or 8 months, whenever a hero descends to the Underworld, she hangs there.Maya Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10877457709995369246noreply@blogger.com