Tag: Hellenismos

  • The Pillars of Hellenismos

    Hellenic scholar Timothy Jay Alexander describes seven philosophical and religious pillars of Hellenismos for Hellenes to aspire to and use as a guide. His pillars are as follows: Elani Temperance of Baring The Aegis instead identifies four pillars, but covering very similar principles: I embrace the same concepts, but describe them through my own set…

  • Defixiones

    Defixiones

    One English translation of defixio (plural: defixiones) is ‘curse tablet,’ though they are not necessarily used only for harmful magic. This common name comes to us by way of French from the Latin ‘defixionis,’ but the practice itself originates in Ancient Greece, where the term is katadesmos (κατάδεσμος). Both words describe a ‘binding.’ At core,…