softbutchmonet:A Prayer and Offering to the Hellenic Pantheon in Response to the Election ResultsThe
softbutchmonet:A Prayer and Offering to the Hellenic Pantheon in Response to the Election ResultsTheoi of Utmost Might, and Theai of Eternal Grace,Deities Ouranos and Kthonios alike!Your children come to you in piety and in awe of your power.We beseech you to deliver us through the events of this US Election!I come bearing hematite, the stone of organization and banishment of negativity, and purifying incense and khernips, which I prepared and washes myself before I stand before you. I offer you these, mighty deities, to please listen to my prayers!All mighty Zeus Agetor, King of Olympos, please rain justice upon we mortals, and give us the strength to move forward and serve you.Fair Hera Hypercheiria, Queen of Olympos, please protect the LGBT+ couples who fear for the safety of their marriages and families under threats.Powerful Poseidon Petraios, who tears up the seas and earth itself, please be a solid anchor for those drowning in the results and whose world is crumbling beneath them.Fruitful and loving Demeter Karpopharos, who bestows love and bounty, please bless your impoverished children who fear for the security of their welfare and food stamps. Let them not go hungry physically nor spiritually.Vengeful Ares Andreïphontes, he who rallies men and spills worthy blood, please provide courage and protection to those who riot against fascism, racism, classism, ableism, homophobia, and transphobia.Wise and just Athene Promachos, please aid us in our pleas for justice in a system that is wrought with disadvantages and blockages for minorities.Shining Apollon Epikourios, who heals and assists mortals, please keep the mentally and physically ill under your caring wing, and assist us in averting the evil of Donald Trump. Protect those who fear loss of their insurance, and bring healing to those you can.Strong Artemis Keladeine, who leads the hunt and welcomes women, please protect your daughters– trans, nonbinary, and cis alike. Give them the courage to rally for their rights and the wisdom to stand together to support their sisters.Beautiful Aphrodite Symmachia, who stirs the passion of both love and war, please protect the LGBQ+ youth who fear for their lives. May they never be “converted” for being blessed with your love.Mighty Dionysos Androgynos, who was raised female and represents the male and female and both and neither; please protect the transgender, genderqueer, gender variant, and gender nonconforming youth. Please bless them with your happiness and good spirit.Quick footed Hermes Logos, friend of mortals and tricksters, please assist the protestors with honey tongue speeches, and those fleeing the riots with swift movements to deliver them from danger.Powerful Hephaistos Amphigyeis, disabled but mighty one, please provide the strength to the chronically ill and disabled to face the ableism and violence that is particularly rampant in this time, and provide them relief.Somber and all encompassing Haides Aidoneus, deliver of mortal souls, please provide refuge to those we have lost and will alas continue to lose to the violence, and pull those, who believe your realm is the only way out from these painful events, away from the ledge.Powerful but loving Persephone Praxidice, who reigns in the Underworld with an iron fist, I call in your name to exact justice upon those who choose to harm your children, whether they do physically or even on asocietal level. Provide those who are terrified with your iron courage, for you have delved gone into the depths of the darkness and emerged victorious.Loving and gentle Hestia Polýolvos, who blesses us all with warmth and home, please protect your children who secretly defied their conservative parents and voted for what they thought was right, the closeted children who must endure racist and homophobic lectures within private walls, and the children cast from their homes for who they are and who they love.In your names, I thank you, mighty and blessing gods!(any faith or there lack of is welcome to read and reblog) -- source link