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  • What kind of music you hear to connect with the Goddess?

    By Constantinos Nt... on February 27, 2018
    Ancient Hellenic
    100% (2 votes)
    Medieval/Byzantine
    0% (0 votes)
    General Ethnic
    0% (0 votes)
    Classical
    0% (0 votes)
    Pop
    0% (0 votes)
    Rock
    0% (0 votes)
    Demotic/Folk
    0% (0 votes)
    Other
    0% (0 votes)
    Total votes: 2

  • What tradition do you follow?

    By Constantinos Nt... on February 27, 2018
    Ancient Hellenic Religion
    50% (1 vote)
    Ancient Egyptian Religion
    0% (0 votes)
    Sumerian/Babylonian
    0% (0 votes)
    Hereditary
    0% (0 votes)
    Kabbalah
    0% (0 votes)
    Solomonic
    0% (0 votes)
    Grimoire
    0% (0 votes)
    Golden Dawn
    50% (1 vote)
    Wicca
    0% (0 votes)
    Druidry
    0% (0 votes)
    Norse/Asatru/Seidr
    0% (0 votes)
    Thelema/O.T.O/A.A.
    0% (0 votes)
    Other
    0% (0 votes)
    Total votes: 2

  • Oxford

    By Constantinos Nt... on February 27, 2018

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  • Weiser

    By Constantinos Nt... on February 27, 2018

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  • Hale

    By Constantinos Nt... on February 27, 2018

    Robert Hale was bought by Crowood Press

    Text from their website:

    "The Crowood Press was founded in 1982 by John Dennis, who remains the company's owner and Chairman. John not only commissioned the first title, Long Distance Casting, but also edited and designed it. When it was published he, along with his wife Tina, spent hours packing and despatching copies to customers.

  • Aeon

    By Constantinos Nt... on February 27, 2018

    Some great books from Aeon Books:

    • Paths of Wisdom
    • Circles of Power
    • The Magical Tarot of the Golden Dawn
    • Foundations of Practical Magic
    • Ceremonial Magic

  • Skylight

    By Constantinos Nt... on February 27, 2018

    Text from their website:

    "We are a small independent British publisher based in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire (south west England) specialising in occultism and the Western Mystery Tradition, along with literary fiction and poetry, history and horticulture. Our niche sits somewhere just below the parapet of mainstream publishing, where we are nicely placed to issue gems of quality writing which may have slipped below the radar of bigger publishers.

  • Thoth

    By Constantinos Nt... on February 27, 2018

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  • Mandrake

    By Constantinos Nt... on February 27, 2018

    Text from Wikipedia:
    "Mandrake of Oxford is a specialist independent publisher based in Oxford, England primarily known for the publication of "hands-on" books for occult practitioners. The company was started in 1986 under the name Golden Dawn Publications, but changed its name to Mandrake upon the publication of Sexual Magick by Katon Shual (a pen-name of founder Mogg Morgan) in 1988. Mandrake publishes texts on magick, occulture, tantra and Thelema.

  • Kerubim

    By Constantinos Nt... on February 27, 2018

    Text from their website:

    "Kerubim Press is an independent publisher of occult books, based in Dublin, Ireland. We publish books on a variety of esoteric topics, from ceremonial magic to paganism, with a focus on high quality content. Our authors deliver thoroughly researched topics presented in an accessible, yet scholarly format and/or easy to follow guidelines for practical magical work.

  • Avalonia

    By Constantinos Nt... on February 27, 2018

    Text from avalonia.co.uk website:

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  • Hekate Liminal Rites

    By Constantinos Nt... on February 26, 2018
    Category: 
    Hekate

    This book is full of ancient small-sized texts about the Goddess Hekate. Many of them could be easily found. The conclusions and the comments are very helpful too. The texts came from ancient Hellenes writers, Roman writers, Byzantine writers, PGM and Chaldean Oracles. The book has small chapters concerning many things about Hekate, like Elefsinean Mysteries, statues, ancient coins, ancient temples, curse tablets, voces magicae, herbs, metals, hymns, animals, necromancy, angels, the medieval connection with solomon's magick etc.

  • Protection & Reversal Magick

    By Constantinos Nt... on February 26, 2018
    Category: 
    Hekate

    Jason Miller is a very rare person in our days. This book is full of protection techniques with many kinds of magick inside. The practitioner of the craft would find a daily practicing routine, house protection spells, symbols and sigils for protecting againsts evil spirits, a technique to invoke a spirit in the house, aura cleansing rituals, invisibility rituals etc. all based in the ancient way of thinking. The techniques are effective, solid and require seriousness and prudence.

  • HEKATE: Keys to the Crossroads

    By Constantinos Nt... on February 26, 2018
    Category: 
    Ancient Magick
    Hekate

    One of the first attempts presenting and exploring the Goddess of the Three-ways, the Goddess who hold the keys to the whole world. A leading book for 2006! Hekate is now very famous in the Witchcraft community. This books consists of 3 parts. Part one is (pg. 19-38) is a small presentation to the history of the Goddess. The writer's points derive from ancient texts. There is a small table of correspondences, some clarifications about misconseptions that we still read on the web.

  • Witchcraft Today - 60 Years on

    By Constantinos Nt... on February 26, 2018
    Category: 
    Wicca

    This book is written for the romantic practitioners of Wicca. Some well respected witches write about some wicca traditions and other wicca-relates traditions. Let me mention them:Gardnerian, Alexandrian, Seax, Dianic, Hedge, Solitary, Nature, Hekatean, Egyptian, Male, Eclectic. Most of the texts/essays are very good, nicely written with good structure. In part two, you will find some personal stories answering how the writers got they hands on witchcraft. In part one, there are some personal insights too.

  • Eleusis and the Eleusinian Mysteries

    By Constantinos Nt... on February 26, 2018
    Category: 
    Ancient Magick

    I saw this old book in the archaelogical museum of Eleusis. The author was a dedicated man who searched the mysteries of Eleusis. He was a well respected professor of archaeology in Washington University. In the first chapters there are many archaeological information about excavations and their meanings in Eleusis. A well written historical perspective follows. Then we have a written description about the place of the mysteries and how it was during the centuries until the roman influence.

  • The New Golden Dawn Ritual Tarot

    By Constantinos Nt... on February 26, 2018
    Category: 
    Golden Dawn

    The Golden Dawn Ritual Tarot book comes with the deck. This set is a treasure for every Witch who practices cartomancy in a serious way and looks to find the truth behind the common images of the cards. The Ciceros have taken the classical instructions, symbols and meaning of the Book T, which is also included and they have created a deck closer to the original one of the H.O.G.D. When Sandra began this project, Israel Regardie was alive and he has approved her work in 1985.

  • Greek and Roman Necromancy

    By Constantinos Nt... on February 26, 2018
    Category: 
    Golden Dawn

    The ultimate book for ancient hellenic necromancy describing necromantic practices and techniques from ancient texts. The book is well organized and many things are repeated, so the reader will learn the basics from a single reading.

  • Sorciers Grecs

    By Constantinos Nt... on February 26, 2018
    Category: 
    Ancient Magick

    I have read this book from the hellenic translation. The translation isn't good at all. The text is full of typos. Moreover, the writer is falling in the trap that he says in the introduction that other academics have fallen. He knows nothing about Witchcraft, though he expresses his personal view all over the book, saying that magick is something ultimately baneful, a habbit for idiots and poor, and maybe for women only.

  • Exhortation to Philosophy

    By Constantinos Nt... on February 26, 2018
    Category: 
    Ancient Magick
    Ancient Philosophy

    This book of neoplatonic philosopher Iamblichos is a great synopsis of many teachings of ancient hellenic philosophy. I found pythagorian, platonic, aristotelic, neoplatonic teachings as well as pre-socratic, orphic... with the platonic current lead all the way to the end. Inside there are basic teachings from all schools written in a clear way, with a great flow of thinking and many of the teachings are repeated, so the reader consolidates them.

  • The Inner Mysteries

    By Constantinos Nt... on February 26, 2018
    Category: 
    Wicca

    In the backcover prof. Ronald Hutton writes about Janter that she is one of the most prominent writers of history and nature of modern Witchcraft. He continues that the collaboration with Gavin Bone is dynamic and interesting. The Witche's Voice characterizes the book as a refreshing honest look into the Witchcraft of both past and future. For me the book provides a progressive view in Wicca regarding both initiatory and self-initiatory. The writers teach in the whole book using logic, experience and wisdom.

  • Clay Plaque

    By Constantinos Nt... on February 26, 2018

    In this tutorial I am going to present my way to construct a plaque for Hekate with a representation to Her.

  • Hekate's Candle

    By Constantinos Nt... on February 25, 2018

    Let's put Hekate in a candle!

    I always considered a good idea to have a special candle for Hekate with Her decorating the candle. The candle looks better and more official. In my first attempt, I used acrylics to paint a glass candle holder. This project was fine but it was not Hekate in the candle. Let's start

  • Constantina Katsepa

    Constantina was born in Athens and raised in Corinth for the most part. Her main interests include playing and writing music, poetry and watching tv shows. She was always very in touch with nature since she was a kid and she would walk barefoot all the time. She still does, actually.

    She came across Wicca when she was 16 and she instantly felt a connection with what it stands for. She used to have prophetic dreams as a child so that resonated with something inside her.

  • Ankh

    By Constantinos Nt... on February 25, 2018

    Make an ankh by wood. This is a symbol of life. It looks like a key. It is good to have a symbol in your working space that will raise all vibrations and it will bring divine light.

  • Wooden Plaque

    By Constantinos Nt... on February 25, 2018

    In this project I am going to show you how you can construct a wooden plaque for Hekate.

  • Eirini Tsotsou

    Eirini (Irene) was born in Athens. She studied Oceanography at the University of the Aegean and she has an intense interest in both Marine Archaeology and Classical Archaeology. When she was young she started sports; swimming, gymnastics and training in martial arts which she still practices until today while she also teaches others the beauty of the budo. 

  • Tarot Box & Wand

    By Constantinos Nt... on February 25, 2018

    It is Tuesday. I just received the Golden Dawn Temple Tarot from Wendrich Art House. I was expecting the cards to arrive and start work with them. But there is a problem. According to the Golden Dawn Hermetic Tradition, a ritual should be done before opening the cards and for this, some tools are essential like the tarot wand and a tarot box or pouch. We will make the wand and the box ourselves.

  • Fire Wand

    By Constantinos Nt... on February 25, 2018

    In this article I am going to show you my way of constructing an amazing Golden Dawn Fire Wand with common tools. I will try to be as analytical as possible using images, especially when the steps become a little difficult. If you constuct your wand using those instructions keep in mind that safety is first, know your tools, have your wood tightened all the time and let's do great magick.

  • Candle Holder

    By Constantinos Nt... on February 25, 2018

    In this project we are going to make a candle holder from wood. We need a piece of wood from a tree, especially from a big branch and a drill. The candle holders should be put on the altar. They bring a natural earth energy to your magickal place.

  • Talisman with Bindrunes

    By Constantinos Nt... on February 25, 2018

    Bindrunes is a magickal technique that combines more than two runes to produce a new rune with all the powers in it. The new rune is beautiful and harmonious. The bindrune has many runes in it due to the shape of the runes. So, it is normal to create a bindrune with 5 runes and see that 2 runes has appeared when you have drawn the first 3 runes. The bindrune should be nice to look, so there is a permission to adjust some of the runes to add them in the main runes. You can do mirroring, reduce some section of each rune etc.

  • Iynx

    By Constantinos Nt... on February 25, 2018

  • The Air Dagger

    By Constantinos Nt... on February 25, 2018

  • Wicca Pentacle

    By Constantinos Nt... on February 25, 2018

    The pentacle is a traditional symbol of Witchcraft and the main symbol of Wicca. It represents many things, health, the human body, the elements of nature, the proccess of making things using a divine energy etc. In the altar the pentacle is a tool, which represents the element of the earth. It is one of the simplest tools to make. A stone or a wooden plaque is taken and you just draw a pentacle. Let's see something different.

  • Golden Dawn Nemyss

    By Constantinos Nt... on February 25, 2018

    Nemyss is a ritual tool for the magician of the Golden Dawn tradition. It has strong symbolism and a very old historical connection with the magick of ancient Egypt.

  • Magick

    For ancient man, Witchcraft or magic is a way of communication with the Gods and Goddesses and various invisible forces. It is the art and science that causes changes in conformity of will using occult methods that produce phenomena that do not occur in a normal everyday way. Magick is the most ancient science and the Witch is a very wise person, at least in his field.

  • Philosophy

    The thing that affects our thinking more than any other occupation is the ancient Hellenic philosophy. We learn to live in harmony with the mind, acknowledge the presence of the divine providence, leaning towards our divine self ...to our soul. There is nothing better than being a student of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Diogenes, Xenophanes, Zenon, Kleanthes, Plutarch, Poseidonios, Epictetos, Plotinos, Cicero, Isidoros, Proclos.

  • History

    Around 450 b.C. Euripides wrote: "Very happy is the one who knows history." 20 years later, Thucydides wrote something more advanced: "History is philosophy through examples." In the Roman Era, Cicero characterized history as a teacher of life. It is true that knowledge of the past helps us predict the future and avoid repeating mistakes that others did before. It is not only that, in ancient Hellas, preconditions existed of developing logos, philosophy, mysteries, magick that never existed again.

  • Artemis-Hekate and followers

    Pentelic Marble, 4th cen. B.C. Artemis-Hekate with torches and six followers. There is an altar at the left.

  • The Sanctuary of Hekate - Athens

    This sanctuary was presented in the community of the Goddess by devotees Danae Soria and Galene Poulos

  • Stele with the Goddess Hekate

    Stele with Hekate from Aigina, 330-320 B.C. National Archaeological Museum of Athens

  • Cybele, Dionysos, Pan, Hekate

    Votive relief found at Livadia, Boeotia, 350-325 B.C. National Archaeological Museum of Athens Cybele is depicted at the left seated on a throne with a deity (maybe Persephone) in front of her, holding a key. The figure next to her with its head covered is the initiate. The initiate is followed by Dionysos holding a kantharos and a thyrsos, Pan playing the pipes and Hekate holding two torches. In the center of the relief Trophonios flanked by snakes and holding a horn.

  • Hekate - National Archaeological Museum of Athens

    Hekate - National Archaeological Museum of Athens Votive relief. 400-410 B.C. Pentelic marble. Found in New Phaleron, Attica. According to the inscription in the poros base the relief was dedicated by Ksenokrateia to the river-god Kephisos. It depicts 13 figures in all. At the left Apollo sits on a Delphic tripod and before him Ksenokrateia, the dedicant, presents a child, Kseniades to Kephisos. At the right, Acheloos is shown as a humanized bull and behind him stands Hekate with polos on her head.

  • Hekate on the Parthenon of Acropolis

    Hekate sculpture on the east pediment of Acropolis Parthenon. Helios with chariot - Dionysos - Persephone & Demeter - Hekate The Parthenon sculptures consist of the decorative parts of the temple in the 5th century BC on the Acropolis in Athens. Three main groups of sculpture have survived: the pediment sculptures, the metopes and the frieze. Of the surviving Parthenon sculptures the British Museum has approximately half while the rest are either in Athens or in other institutions.

  • Hekate on the temple of Athena Nike

    The frieze ran along all four sides of the temple of Athena Nike and it is 25.94 meters long. The east frieze which is presented here show the Gods and the other three sides of the frieze depict historic battle scenes.

  • Hekateion in Kerameikos

    Walk with us in a guided tour to the Temple of Hekate in necropolis of Kerameikos. Necropolis means city of the dead. Hekateion is built on ancient graves in the roman era. It is quite a big temple with no signs, to tablets. The same thing stands for the triangual hiero of kerameikos and of the ancient agora. The temple has been discovered in 1892 by Kyriakos Mylonas. The omphalos-well was recently discovered by dr. Jutta Stroszeck of the German Archaeological Institute of Athens.

  • The Triangular Shrine

    Here we see the Triangular Shrine of Goddess Hekate in Athens, under Acropolis that dates the 7th century BC. It is located on a crossroad that unites the roads from Acropolis, Pnyx and Agora. This was a very central place of the ancient world. A large part of the east wall survives, the west wall is missing its upper section and the south wall is also missing, yet it is clear that there is triangle there. The walls join forming an angle of 60°.

  • Triangular Hieron in Kerameikos

    Triangular Hieron in Kerameikos of Athens dated in 5th century b.C. It was dedicated to an unknown Goddess, maybe Hekate. You can see why and you can mentally walk with us through this video.

  • Hekate and Cybele in Korinthos

    Archaeological Museum of Ancient Corinth, Hellas Cybele and Hekate Cybele is seated and her feet rest on a lion. On the right side of the seat there is one archaistic triple Hekate in relief. On the left side of the seat there is a branch of pine tree and from it hangs a syrinx.

  • Hekataion Canellopoulos

    A roman copy from an original hekataion of 4th century b.C. I haven't found anywhere this hekataion published, so it is an honor to present it for the first time to the community of the devotees of Hekate. The statues has a lot of details, it is made of marble, the figures are close to each other, probably influenced by the style of Alcamenes. You can see it in Canellopoulos Museum at Monasteraki (ancient agora) in Athens. Its style is close to the style that Alcamenes invented with three bodies close to each other surround a pillar.

  • Hekataion Benaki

    The Hekataion waits you to see it at the Benaki Museum of Athens. The depiction of Hekate with three forms is something that started from Alcamenes. Concerning the crossroads, sacred and symbolic places to the Goddess Hekate (and Hermes), a statue with three heads (and four some times) or with three bodies was placed to guide and protect the traveler. Hekate was a very famous Goddess in the household worship and one of the most loved, feared-respected and well known Goddesses of the ancient Hellenic (and not only) world.

  • Hekate Brauronia

    Archaeological Museum of Brauron in Attica, Hellas Marble statuette of the Goddess Hekate (Trimorphi)

  • Hekate Trimorfis

    The marble statue of the Triple Goddess Hekate dates from 1st to 2nd cent. A.C. and is located in the Museum of the Ancient Agora which is housed in the reconstructed Stoa of Attalos in Athens, Hellas.

  • Hekate Prothyraia

    The cloth on Her head shows a natural movement. Hekate is young and beautiful. She was placed over the main entrance to protect the house, as a chthonic Goddess. A hand from another statue touched Her in the head. It was dated from 390 to 380 b.C. It is made from marble. The height of the statue is 15.8 cm. You can see Her in the Museum of Cycladic art at the second floor.

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    Askei Kataskei

    Electronic Magazine about the Goddess Hekate Check all the issues

    From 2018 Askei Kataskei is a printed magazine. The publisher is a devotee of Hekate, Vikki Bramshaw

  • Blogs

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    Askei Kataskei Electronic Magazine about the Goddess Hekate  Check all the issues

    Askei Kataskei is a printed magazine fro 2018 published by Vikki Bramshaw.

  • Hekate Propolos

    The status of Hekate Propolos at the archaeological museum of Eleusis. Hekate guides Persephone from hades to her mother, Demeter.

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    By Constantinos Nt... on February 24, 2018

    Authenticated user is the one who has registered in our website and logs in every time. As we know him/her by a username, he has some priviledges. Some of them are:

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  • Constantinos Nterziotis

    Constantinos is a Tae a Kwon Do, Chap Koon Do and Judo athlete and trainer, Komyo Reiki Do® practitioner and teacher, Johrei member and practitioner of Witchcraft. He has studied agricultural science and computer engineering.

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  • Kaktos

    By Constantinos Nt... on February 24, 2018

    Kaktos Publishing House is an hellenic business founded in 1975 by mr. Odusseus Chatzopoulos. From 1975-1991 2800 books were published on the subjects of science fiction, journal documentaries, scientific biographues and people of public life. Kaktos also published books of greek and foreign literature, history books and essays. It is the publishing house which published in modern hellenic the series of Constantinos Paparregopoulos History of Hellenic Nation.

  • Elemental Tablets

    By Constantinos Nt... on February 24, 2018

    In this project we are going to construct four wooden elemental tablets for our sacred space or for the magical circle.

  • Mythology

    Greek mythology consists of a rich collection of works referring allegorically to the origin of the world; they describe scientific physical and metaphysical phenomena hidden symbolically in the adventures of a wide variety of gods, heroes, heroines, and other creatures. These stories were originally formed through an oral poetic tradition before they were documented and spread through the works of Hellenic literature.

  • slideshow 1

    By Constantinos Nt... on February 24, 2018

Theurgy and Philosophy are two different methods which lead to the union with God.

 

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