Every person will hear the Gods slightly differently, but it is rarely something that is as clear as spoken words.     That is part of the reason that we have divination and oracles (not necessarily the same thing as the oracle may or may not be the diviner as well). In my experience, I…

Great Ouranos, whose mighty frame no respite knows, father of all, from whom the world arose: Hear, bounteous parent, source and end of all, forever whirling round this earthly ball; Abode of Gods, whose guardian pow’r surrounds th’ eternal World with ever during bounds; Whose ample bosom and encircling folds the dire necessity of nature…

Night [Nyx], parent goddess, source of sweet repose, from whom at first both Gods and men arose, Hear, blessed Kypris, deck’d with starry light, in sleep’s deep silence dwelling Ebon night! Dreams and soft case attend thy dusky train, pleas’d with the length’ned gloom and feaftful strain. Dissolving anxious care, the friend of Mirth, with…

TO MUSÆUS Attend Musæus to my sacred song, and learn what rites to sacrifice belong. Jove [Zeus] I invoke, the Earth [Gaia], and Solar Light [Helios], the Moon’s [Mene] pure splendor, and the Stars of night; Thee Neptune [Poseidon], ruler of the sea profound, dark-hair’d, whose waves begirt the solid ground; Ceres [Demeter] abundant, and…

I’ve finally finished all 147 of the Delphic Maxims in the series I started back in May of 2012. It’s been a long journey and still feels unfinished. I’m thankful to all of the people who have been encouraging me along the way with comments. I’m thankful to the people who say they would even…

It is ironic that this is the final Maxim in the Delphic Maxims. As one of ‘The Stages of Life’ it reminds us that all things must eventually come to an end. This journey through the Maxims began for me as a challenge to blog through them as there was not a blogging series on…

As we age this is a Maxim that we should not need to be reminded of, but often do not follow. Part of being sensible is to know when we have reached our limits. Many times this is not something we want to admit even to ourselves. But if we are to follow the Maxim…

This is the third of the Maxims that I like to call ‘The Stages of Life’. After we teach our children to be well-behaved and our youths (young adults) to be self-disciplined hopefully they will grow into just adults. And this is where as adults we must begin to teach other generations the wisdom that…

This Maxim is the second of the ones that I like to think of as ‘The Stages of Life’. And it is the one which is most often overlooked in our society as we do not often think of our young people as needing to be as self-disciplined as adults. However, that is a mistake…

This Maxim is one that is aimed at the PARENTS of the youngest members of our community. But despite that it is one of the set of Maxims that I think of as ‘The stages of Life’. This is one where the responsibility of others dictates whether our children can follow it. We are the…