About Hellenism

[YamiB]

I'm going to do a presentation comparing the ancient Greek religion with the Modern practice. I figured it would be good to get some opinions from actual followers. So to those who currently practice Hellenism, how do you think your practice of the religion differs from how it was practiced in ancient Greece.  

[maenad nuri]

YamiB

I'm going to do a presentation comparing the ancient Greek religion with the Modern practice. I figured it would be good to get some opinions from actual followers. So to those who currently practice Hellenism, how do you think your practice of the religion differs from how it was practiced in ancient Greece.

Very Different.

I don't have the same mindset, the same culture or context, the community. The best we can hope for is a well-researched view into that world and update it and bring it into the modern context.

But at the same time, we are sort of similar. Hellenic religion was never unified, never the same. Even the "Olympians" changed from city-state to city-state. The incredible wealth of different beliefs and ideas that we have now is, I think, the best way that we are still the same.  

[YamiB]

If I'm understanding correctly you are saying that you are basicaly another sect within the overall religion similar to the different sects that existed for each city-state. Or am I not gettin the right idea?

Would you say that there is less variance in the practice that exists today?  

[maenad nuri]

YamiB

If I'm understanding correctly you are saying that you are basicaly another sect within the overall religion similar to the different sects that existed for each city-state. Or am I not gettin the right idea?

Sort of. Except the variance is on a more individual/small group level.

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Would you say that there is less variance in the practice that exists today?

Only in that there are less people.  

[TeaDidikai]

Nuri

Sort of. Except the variance is on a more individual/small group level.

Within Hellenic Recon, how much would you say this is a boon to the theology, and how much a bane in so much that I would guess some of this comes from a lack of education on the different religions themselves?  

[maenad nuri]

TeaDidikai

Nuri

Sort of. Except the variance is on a more individual/small group level.

Within Hellenic Recon, how much would you say this is a boon to the theology, and how much a bane in so much that I would guess some of this comes from a lack of education on the different religions themselves?

I don't consider myself recon anymore, nor do I think Recon is anything more than a methodology, first off.

We have....our conflicts, particuarly within people who think what appeals to them most (as one person put it today: Ritual, Mystic, and Theological)

I personally think it is the best thing, especially if people are articulate and thoughtful.

Ignorance is always a bane, no matter what.

Uh, I'm not sure if this actually answered your question.  

[YamiB]

This is probably a dumb question, but what exactly is recon?

Would it stand for reconstruction?  

[Deoridhe]

YamiB

This is probably a dumb question, but what exactly is recon?

Would it stand for reconstruction?

Yup! It differentiations religions that are cleaving to a single or a group of related cultures rather than drawing from a wider range of sources. There's oftne a heavy emphasis on scholarship and, at least in the recon communities i'm used to, a good deal of intellectual rangling back and forth between members.  

[TeaDidikai]

Deoridhe

a good deal of intellectual rangling back and forth between members.

If you tempt me to move back out East- it will make it difficult to have everyone move to Oly.  

[maenad nuri]

You should split the difference and move to the midwest.  

[TeaDidikai]

Nuri

You should split the difference and move to the midwest.

Pish. All Hellenics should live in Olympia at one point in their life.  

[Deoridhe]

TeaDidikai

Deoridhe

a good deal of intellectual rangling back and forth between members.

If you tempt me to move back out East- it will make it difficult to have everyone move to Oly.

These are largely online ranglings, actually, so they follow wherever I go.

The Internet, it's lik the Spirit Realm, in a way.  

[TeaDidikai]

Deoridhe

TeaDidikai

Deoridhe

a good deal of intellectual rangling back and forth between members.

If you tempt me to move back out East- it will make it difficult to have everyone move to Oly.

These are largely online ranglings, actually, so they follow wherever I go.

The Internet, it's lik the Spirit Realm, in a way.

Ah good. So when you go to UW, it will all work into my sinister plot out.  

[PurpleDragonsGems]

Sence I'm doing my best to research this path when I can, I was hopeing someone would do a topic for it in the pathways subforum. At the moment all I can get my hands on are Greek and Roman myths. I'm looking for a copy of Greek Religion by an author's who's name I have just forgotten confused I don't think my library carries it crying  

[TeaDidikai]

Dragon_Witch_Woman

Sence I'm doing my best to research this path when I can, I was hopeing someone would do a topic for it in the pathways subforum.

I've been hoping that for some time myself.

Hellenic Theology is my weakpoint really.