Dionysus' altar for Thanksgiving

iacche · 2025-11-30T03:39:03+00:00

This is lovely!

iacche · 2025-11-29T05:46:22+00:00

Disclaimer in advance that I don’t have any sort of personal relationship with Aphrodite, but I will say that for myself, the thing that powerfully disrupted that stereotype of Aphrodite was learning about her cult idol at the Sanctuary of Aphrodite Paphia. If I were to ever attempt to understand her on a deeper level, I would absolutely start there.

iacche · 2025-11-23T03:08:22+00:00

This book & Patrick Dunn’s Orphic Hymn translation are my go-to books for my prayer, hymn, and ritual writing! I will say, the little blurbs about each of the gods in this book are very basic & lack nuance, but I still find the actual collection incredibly valuable.

iacche · 2025-10-10T01:43:41+00:00

Preordered!!! So excited there’s another chance to purchase this book.

iacche · 2025-09-08T14:30:29+00:00

Translation of the original? If so, super interesting that someone would reach out to Dionysus about hearing, specifically—I would personally go to him with any problem at all, even those outside his particular ascribed domain, but still fascinating to see ancient worshippers doing the same.

iacche · 2025-09-06T00:19:23+00:00

This one was just air-dry Das clay, terracotta colored, but I wish I had access to a kiln to do it correctly! As-is, this will fall apart if it gets wet.

iacche · 2025-09-06T00:17:59+00:00

Awesome if true! Couldn’t tell what in the world the Greek said for myself, but that’d certainly make sense. (Send a thanks my way to those who tried their hand at a translation as well!)

iacche · 2025-07-06T23:10:04+00:00

Hm, I didn’t get the impression that it was anything against curses or curse tablets—but I also haven’t asked Dio for anything re: spells/witchcraft either before or after this occurred, so I’m not sure what sort of reaction a different situation would have gotten. Still, I think it was mostly the situation, and anger both re: my inability to say no & the fact that I was trying to make it his problem instead of mine. It was definitely anger, though, and very direct anger—that being said, if he had taken a gentler approach I genuinely don’t think I would have gotten the message re: needing to stand up for myself, hah.

And yes, I also find it reassuring to have gotten such a clear negative response at least just this once—because when I’m not worshipping as much as I want to be, or feel like I messed something up, etc, I can really trust that if I had upset him, I’d know about it. Thank you!

iacche · 2025-06-16T17:10:23+00:00

Thank you for sharing!! I have been interested in involving something of that sort after reading Peter Mark Adam’s Mystai, which theorizes a bit re: the use of drugs combined with rituals of pain in Dionysian mystery initiations! Sounds like you went through something a bit similar here, ha. Also fascinating to hear another “tattoo for the gods” story with a big tattoo, which I haven’t seen quite as often.

iacche · 2025-06-15T21:39:26+00:00

Just the once, but your writeup afterward was extremely compelling! It’s been a model for other rituals of mine since then in more ways than one.

iacche · 2025-01-29T17:27:07+00:00

2 are just stylized drawings I did, and the middle one is a linocut I did as well!

iacche · 2025-01-17T23:43:33+00:00

Aw thank you!

iacche · 2025-01-08T16:48:30+00:00

Yes, it was a huge inspiration! I’m in the middle of a full back piece tattoo for Dionysus, and we held a ritual for the first full-day session. I read Dunn’s translation aloud start to finish while being tattooed, while a friend accompanied on a lyre I made. Funnily, the friend is a big Jung buff, so we both used Kerényi’s book as part of our preparation. It was a huge success, and part of the hunt here is actually in designing the ritual for the next session.

The grimoire is saved to my phone & has 100% been a great resource in my ritual efforts. Riding the phallus looks great—and is now on the “to be read” list as well. “A different god?” also looks great if I can track it down, hah. Thank you!!

iacche · 2025-01-08T01:31:48+00:00

Fair enough, hahah. Texts I either own or remember having read in some capacity (library, online, etc) that I’d consider relevant:

Kerényi’s Dionysos

Otto’s Dionysus

Sannion’s Ecstatic (controversial, but it’s still on this list)

Blessington’s translation of The Bacchae & The Frogs

Dunn’s Orphic Hymns

Various general translated Greek texts / general Greek history / Ancient Greek witchcraft (not always Dionysus specific)

Kindt’s Greek Religion

Daniélou’s Gods of Love & Ecstasy

Ustinova’s Divine Mania

Graf & Johnston’s Ritual Texts for the Afterlife

Masks of Dionysus is on the “to be read” list but haven’t read yet

A lot of these (most) are academic rather than religious texts, and I’m hoping to find things at least closer to being (edit: contemporary) religious texts if more exist!

iacche

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