Daily/Weekly Routines as a Hellene or Hellenic Pagan

[TheGreenWizard]

As of late, I've been doing more and more research into hellenic polytheism, and recently finished Hellenic Polytheism: Household Worship by LABRYS. This pushed me to look on the new and old boards of TC for what others do in terms of daily and weekly routines. I have seen the article for the complete morning and evening prayers for Hellenic pagans, as well as the short version. While I'd love to do these... I can already tell that I wouldn't be able to do so due to my schedule as a teacher (up at 5, Gym at 5:30, go to work at 6:45, and then work from 7:45 to 4 PM... bed by 9 PM).

I'm curious: as a Hellenic pagan, what do you daily with the Olympian Deities? What do you do weekly with them?

[arete]

I'm curious: as a Hellenic pagan, what do you daily with the Olympian Deities? What do you do weekly with them?

My favorite ritual is saying a prayer before meals. Weekly, I go to a christian temple and light a candle secretly to the pagan Gods. unfortunately where I live there aren't any pagan temples.

[TheGreenWizard]

My favorite ritual is saying a prayer before meals. Weekly, I go to a christian temple and light a candle secretly to the pagan Gods. unfortunately where I live there aren't any pagan temples.

That's understandable - however, you could make a simple area for the Gods by having a spot where you light a candle that you've blessed for Them, and a small dish filled with water. I think they would look favorably on that.

[drekfletch]

I'm curious: as a Hellenic pagan, what do you daily with the Olympian Deities? What do you do weekly with them?

My daily "routine" is to offer water to at an altar stone (multicolor shooter marble) that sits on a sponge in a bowl, with a little 1/2oz cup before it.  Before bed, I fill the cup and take a sip to share the drink, and in the morning I pour the water over the altar stone.  Bare minimum, but I know that it will get done every day.  In an ideal world I'd light a candle and sit there in contemplation while some incense smolders, but it hasn't happened yet.

And then any time I leave home, I offer water to Hekate, Hermes, and Zeus Herkios, who have an altar table outside.

And that's the extent of my practice other than an annual pilgrimage-pomp around the Lake when it's fully thawed in the spring.

[TheGreenWizard]

I'm curious: as a Hellenic pagan, what do you daily with the Olympian Deities? What do you do weekly with them?

An update on my practices...As of late, I have been doing weekly Tarot Card pulls. I tried doing daily, but it just didn't work for me. Weekly allows me to sit and reflect on it throughout the week before I get the urge to do the card pull again. I'm also finding that with the pandemic, I have a lot more time to simply read, and get the research I've been putting off done. I'm hoping that I can read 10 pages a day (I need to pace myself) so that I can effectively analyze and reflect on the book's meaning.

[Helix109]

As of late, I've been doing more and more research into hellenic polytheism, and recently finished Hellenic Polytheism: Household Worship by LABRYS. This pushed me to look on the new and old boards of TC for what others do in terms of daily and weekly routines. I have seen the article for the complete morning and evening prayers for Hellenic pagans, as well as the short version. While I'd love to do these... I can already tell that I wouldn't be able to do so due to my schedule as a teacher (up at 5, Gym at 5:30, go to work at 6:45, and then work from 7:45 to 4 PM... bed by 9 PM).

I'm curious: as a Hellenic pagan, what do you daily with the Olympian Deities? What do you do weekly with them?

What I do is write hymns in my journal and then sing them. I find doing this before burning herbs with a chant peaceful. I will also, on some occasions, use the Orphic Hymns to do this.

[therapeutes]

I'm curious: as a Hellenic pagan, what do you daily with the Olympian Deities? What do you do weekly with them?

I'm just now getting back into daily rituals myself, but my usual daily ritual can be as short as 5 minutes. I light incense or candles and say a short prayer to the gods I worship (Olympian and otherwise) that I wrote and that's it.

[Rodney_Dawn]

As of late, I've been doing more and more research into hellenic polytheism, and recently finished Hellenic Polytheism: Household Worship by LABRYS. This pushed me to look on the new and old boards of TC for what others do in terms of daily and weekly routines. I have seen the article for the complete morning and evening prayers for Hellenic pagans, as well as the short version. While I'd love to do these... I can already tell that I wouldn't be able to do so due to my schedule as a teacher (up at 5, Gym at 5:30, go to work at 6:45, and then work from 7:45 to 4 PM... bed by 9 PM).

I'm curious: as a Hellenic pagan, what do you daily with the Olympian Deities? What do you do weekly with them?

me and my wife are pretty heavily devoted.   admittedly though finding appropriate statuary was problematic at first.  Eventually we found appropriate representations of each deity which the Theoi deemed acceptable though.
weekly practice involves making hyms, prayer, and offerings to all the Divines, hours of meditative contemplation, and divination to be clear on things the Theoi ask of us.

Daily practice is generally offering to Hestia, Zeus, and Hephaestus (we use fire a lot)  and offerings to Hermes before traveling anywhere (to/from work) and often healing prayers to Apollo, Artemis, and Panacea, as part of work (I'm a veterinarian and my wife is a vet tech).  evening prayers to Hekate, and prayer and offering to Hestia (and sometimes Aphrodite too) before bed.   There is a bowl of Khernips in the center of the kitchen table for giving thanks before meals, as well as the main one kept beside the altar, and we always burn appropriate incense

[Louisvillian]

I'm curious: as a Hellenic pagan, what do you daily with the Olympian Deities? What do you do weekly with them?

I try to make a daily prayer and offering. If I'm running late in the morning, I'll utter a quick prayer to Hermes to bring me swiftly and safely to work, and vow to do the proper offering when I get home.

Whether I make my ritual in the morning or at night, it's more or less the same structure and wording I've developed: I invoke Janus and Vesta as gods of the hearth and boundaries and ask them to bear my prayers and offerings to the other gods; I then address the gods I want to address in my daily offering, typically first the patrons of my profession (Hermes, Apollo, Asclepius, Hekate) and my partner's profession (Juno, Hera, Aphrodite), then the more intimate gods of my mystic practices (Pan, Dionysos, Selene), then gods who I might address for a specific boon (Zeus-Jupiter for justice in a legal endeavor, Artemis to protect my pets at the vet, etc.), then I make an offering of incense or wine and say "I give that you might give, I give because you are mighty and powerful, but most of all I give because you are worthy of love, honor, respect, and worship", followed by an offering of salt by saying "if any part of this rite was not done well, accept this salt of the earth as a piaculum, so that my prayers may be heard and answered, and my offerings accepted", and closed out by saying "As you will it, so it shall be".

Some of this is more Roman influenced, as that's my main hearth cult. And frankly the wording is mostly a regularizing of what I made up on the fly and just kinda stuck. But I like it, it keeps me regular, and it's easy to remember once it becomes habit.