I wasn't planning on doing a blog post until tomorrow but I decided that I was going to do this post. One of the great things about this religion is that we have sources that have, by some strange miracle, managed to survive the the present day. The hymns that were used in the past, where hymns to the gods which included the titles that were used. The hymns were apart of ritual and apart of letting the gods know that the offering was for them.
In today's world we have a broken line of ritual and honoring of the gods. While most Hellenist will use the ancient hymns, which are great, some prefer to create their own and use them. Just as much as they like using modern prayers for the gods. The reason that I'm mentioning this is that one of the people that I'm following has stated that she has read modern hymns, and while some of them are wonderful, she won't use them in her practice. Now that's okay, and I'm fine with that. But I believe that modern hymns and prayers are a connection to the gods in the hear and now.
Just as the ancient ones were for the ancients.
I'm not against those that don't want to use the modern hymns to the gods. But what I don't like is people telling me that I can't, as though they have the right to tell me what to do. When you start telling people what to do, it becomes dogma. And dogma has no place in our religion. So, no matter if you use modern or ancient hymns, they are valid, just apart of two different times. Modern prayers are good too and I used them as well.
Note; This is a correction of the same post that didn't really explain my point.
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