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Newsletter - Back Issues HE EPISTOLE (a "message" or "letter") is published four times a year. We offer articles, hymns, prayers, poetry, reviews, information, community notices, fiction, recipes, and anything else of interest to the Hellenic pagan community. We welcome feedback and submissions from guest writers. You will need Adobe's PDF Reader to view these; if you don't have it already, you can download it here #15 Winter 2007/08 Consulting Trophonios God of War Athene (poem) Crown of Winter (poem) Arakhneiad (poem) Ares' Mountain (photography) Numinous Photography #14 Autumn 2007 On Persephone Library of the Ancients: Nonnos Getting to Know Dionysos Through Study and Reflection Invocation (poem) Orphic Hymn to Demeter (translation) Dancing for the Gods Ashes for Hekate (poem) Encountering the Gods Numinous Photography #13 Summer 2007 Fair Aphrodite (poem) The Many Faces of Athena: Warrior, Artisan, and Guardian Behind the Mask of Paian What We Give: A New Look at Sacrifice Hymn to Honeyed Aphrodite (poem) Library of the Ancients: Archilochos A Brief overview of Greco-Egyptian Syncreticism Why Hellenic Polytheism? The Story of Narkissos (short fiction) Spring Remembers Dryads Book Review: Portrait of a Priestess Things They Never Told You About Forming a Hellenic Ritual Group To Haides (poem) Numinous Photography Filicide (short fiction) On Images #12 Spring 2007 Dionysus (poem) Hymn to Hermes Enodios (poem) Hera: The Power Behind Change The Library of the Ancients Ares and Hestia: Partners in Social Activism Aphrodite (poem) My Life with Artemis Old Texts, New Contexts: On the Use of Ancient Texts in Modern Reconstructionist Religious Practice Kyklos Apollon Ritual Anthesteria (poem) A Theoxenia for the Nymphs Exegete Announcement #11 Winter 2006/07 Not a People of the Book Zeus (poem) Panaia (poem) Hestia - the Overlooked Olympian "I begin to sing of Poseidon" Hymn to Dionysos Dionysos: how he came into my life My Gods (poem) Song for Zagreus/Dionysos Incense Offerings Book review - Graeco-Egyptian Magick Eranoi profiles Hellenic Deities and Christian Saints #10 Summer 2006 Syncretism and Eclecticism in Hellenismos The Inspiration of Conflict (poem) To Apollon (poem) Cold Service (short fiction) Hêsykhia: Divine Silence Of Oracles and Seers Khthonic vs. Olympian Worship Lenaia (poem) Mantis Profile #9 Spring 2006 Creating Effective Ritual Bringing it Home: The Gifts of Hestia Faith and Doubt A Religion of Experts The Virgin Goddess To Hestia Orphic Hymn #52 A Rose for Aphrodite (poem) When (poem) Hellenic Polytheist Networking Mantikoi and Exegetai Profiles #8 Autumn 2005 Devotions to Zeus Aidoneus A Retelling of an Orphic Cosmogony Dionysos and His Rebirth Hymn to Artemis Antigone (poem) Hymn to Hephaistos Proto-dactyl (poem) Demos Profile Autumn Festivals #7 Summer 2005 One from Many: Thoughts on the Future of the Hellenic Polytheist Community Divination: A Hellenic Perspective On Persephone's Grief Public Shrine Profile Summer Festivals On Being a Neokoros Zeus and His Names (hymn) Book Review: The Derveni Papyrus Hekate painting #6 Spring 2005 Temporary Festival Shrines You Give Love a Bad Name Song to Apollon The Muses Callimachus' Hymn to Artemis Demos Profile Ritual for Kyklos Apollon Spring Festivals Thoughts on Sallustius' "On the Gods and the World" Poseidon (poem) #5 Winter 2004/05 A Personalized Festival Calendar Thank Offering Ritual to Aphrodite Pinakes: Ancient Votive Tablets Why Hellenic Polytheism Should be Back as a Religion Offering to Hypnos Upcoming Festivals Bacchae fragment translation Book Review: Oxford Readings in Greek Religion #4 Autumn 2004 The Ancestors and Heroes Poems for Apollo and Persephone Food's Central Role in our Religion Whom do I Serve? Autumn Festivals Book Review: Pure Pagan #3 Summer 2004 Household Gods Poems to Artemis and Hekate Reconstructionist Ritual for Non-Hellenes New Year's Kronia Festival Summer Festivals Book Review: Prayer in Greek Religion   #2 Spring 2004 Winding the Festival Cycle Nymph Worship Dionysos as God of Sacrifice The Sacred and the Profane in Hellenismos Poems to Aphrodite, Hermes and Potnia Athenaia Amphiphontes Recipe Communication Matters! Spring Festivals #1 Winter 2003/04 Who Are the Neokoroi? What the Hymn to Demeter Means to Me The Agathos Daimon This is Why I Like My Gods The Mysteries and Dionysos A Newbie's First Year Honoring the Passing of a Non-Hellenic Person Poems to Athene and Poseidon Winter Festivals Book Reviews The Second Month of Poseideon © 2003-2008 All submissions published by arrangement with the author(s). All rights reserved. All materials published are protected by international copyright law, and any unauthorized reproduction is prohibited.