Pythia

TO APOLLO.

The FUMIGATION from MANNA.

BLEST Pæan, come, propitious to my pray'r,

Illustrious pow'r, whom Memphian tribes revere,

Slayer of Tityus, and the God of health,

Lycorian Phœbus, fruitful source of wealth .

Spermatic, golden-lyr'd, the field from thee 5

Receives it's constant, rich fertility.

Titanic, Grunian, Smynthian, thee I sing,  7

Python-destroying, hallow'd, Delphian king:

Rural, light-bearer, and the Muse's head,

Noble and lovely, arm'd with arrows dread: 10

Far-darting, Bacchian, two-fold, and divine,  11

Pow'r far diffused, and course oblique is thine.

O, Delian king, whose light-producing eye

Views all within, and all beneath the sky:

Whose locks are gold, whose oracles are sure, 15

Who, omens good reveal'st, and precepts pure:

Hear me entreating for the human kind,

Hear, and be present with benignant mind;

For thou survey'st this boundless æther all,

And ev'ry part of this terrestrial ball 20

Abundant, blessed; and thy piercing sight,

Extends beneath the gloomy, silent night;

Beyond the darkness, starry-ey'd, profound,

The stable roots, deep fix'd by thee are found.

The world's wide bounds, all-flourishing are thine, 25

Thyself all the source and end divine:

'Tis thine all Nature's music to inspire,

With various-sounding, harmonising lyre;

Now the last string thou tun'ft to sweet accord,  29

Divinely warbling now the highest chord; 30

Th' immortal golden lyre, now touch'd by thee,

Responsive yields a Dorian melody.

All Nature's tribes to thee their diff'rence owe,

And changing seasons from thy music flow

Hence, mix'd by thee in equal parts, advance 35

Summer and Winter in alternate dance;

This claims the highest, that the lowest string,

The Dorian measure tunes the lovely spring .

Hence by mankind, Pan-royal, two-horn'd nam'd,  39

Emitting whistling winds thro' Syrinx fam'd; 40  40

Since to thy care, the figur'd seal's consign'd,  41

Which stamps the world with forms of ev'ry kind.

Hear me, blest pow'r, and in these rites rejoice,

And save thy mystics with a suppliant voice.

I am in my fourth year serving the Lord Apollon in the position of Pythia.  This has not been an easy process of service.  I have been called a liar, a fraud, impious and even more unkind things than this.  The community of Hellenic reconstructionists seems to enjoy posting pretty pictures of the Gods, but if you start to assert that they are alive...that they are here and now...that they are not limited to Greece...that they speak! You are then labeled and ostracized as crazy. 

I have a vision of a reconstructed temple of Apollo. This includes the position of Pythia, which some seem to believe that Pythia, along with the Gods of ancient Greece, are dead. No, my friends, I am here today to tell you that Pythia is very much alive. How many have even cared to TRY to reconstruct the ritual of the oracle? Test if the will of Zeus is able to be conveyed in this age? I fast, I purify with spring water, I chew the laurel leaves, I sit on a brass tripod and I produce hexameter verses on the lunar sevenths.  It's not easy. Not many care to even keep the lunar calendar. I see people tied to Saturn's Day, Moon Day, SUN-Day ect. but Hellenes are lazy, and most do not even keep the lunar calendar. 

I have not at any time stated that I am the only Pythia there is. In fact, I have tried to train and even share the hood with those I thought worthy. Afterall, it's not a position for only one. This has not always worked out. Kyrene, some of you may know, was offered the position, took it, and then ran like her ass was on fire for the hills, screaming that I'm a witch.  

In response to her accusation, I cackled. 

There are those that call themselves the leadership of this community who wouldn't know the gods if they slapped them in the face. Sannion, in his lame blog, as attempted defamation, but he doesn't realize that my support comes from other powerful mystai, not brainwashed zombies who take what I say as the rule of law. There are ways around everything. 

It's easy to be jealous of those with real power. 

Sure, there are those with more legitimate complaints in regards to my ritual position. I am not a Greek. I do not speak Greek. I do not live in Greece. My dreams, however, say that this does not matter. Apollo chose me as he chooses every priest and he speaks to me regardless of the tribe I hail and regardless of the language I speak. I have seen the oracles come true and I have seen Apollo several times in my dreams. There is nothing I am doing that he does not allow. There is nothing that I COULD do that he did not allow. 

IE PAEAN

Acta Deos Numquam Mortalia Falluntc/Mortal Actions Never Deceive the Gods

2. 'We sacrifice unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, .... sleepless, and ever awake;

'Who takes out of distress the man who has not lied unto him, who takes him out of death.

23. 'Take us out of distress, take us out of distresses, O Mithra! as we have not lied unto thee. Thou bringest down terror upon the bodies of the men who lie unto Mithra; thou takest away the strength from their arms, being angry and all-powerful; thou takest the swiftness from their feet, the eye-sight from their eyes, the hearing from their ears.

24. 'Not the wound27 of the well-sharpened spear or of the flying arrow reaches that man who comes to Mithra for help with all the strength of his soul, he, of the ten thousand spies, the powerful, all-seeing, undeceivable Mithra! (Mihr Yasht, Hymn to Mithra)

There are those in this community that would enjoy nothing less than to watch me fall from the grace and support of the divine, regardless of the title you were to give it.  For this reason,  I am happy to have devoted myself to the Invincible Sun; the Cult of Sol Invictus.  

My service to the Sun has taught me many things. First of all, it has taught me that nothing is easy and anything that is worth anything, you have to fight for it. You have to be prepared to take a hit, you have to be prepared to stand alone, and it is necessary to have a solid foundation of internal fortitude and drive to push you above and beyond the imposed limits of the sheeple, and the programmed limitations on your heart and mind. 

There is no hiding from the Sun, for "How could one hide from what never sets?".(Heraclitus)

When you walk the path of the Sun, there is only what is truth and that takes discovering what is truth within yourself.  You may or may not be aware that we lie to ourselves more than anyone.  You cannot lie to the Sun. The Sun will expose every lie in your life all the way down to your own self-deceiving. The Sun has no patience or tolerance for deceptive tendencies or the brainwashing techniques of self proclaimed cult leaders.  

37. 'He can bring and does bring down upon them distress and fear; he throws down the heads of those who lie to Mithra, he takes off the heads of those who lie unto Mithra.

(Mihir Yasht/Hymn to Mithras)

I am self initiated into the path of the Invincible Sun, or perhaps it would be more accurate to say I am initiated by only the Sun.  I have gone through several tests and trials to prove my worthiness and earn higher and higher levels of the mystery initiation.  Very few modern people have had the drive or desire to climb as high or go as far as I in the cult of the sun and achieving understanding and unification with the Invincible. There is invincibility in truth. There is invincibility in keeping your oath. There is invincibility in pushing yourself beyond the limitations of your perceived comfort zones. Invincibility does not come easy. You have to want it. You have to be committed to being unbreakable. There is a necessary internal commitment between you and the all seeing Sun. 

Nothing can break me. 

SOL INVICTI COMMITO