My Personal Pantheon

(Note: This page is incomplete, under construction, and still being organized/arranged!)

My Primary Hellenic Goddesses and Gods:

(The following 18 deities were the primary Greek goddesses and gods that inspired my childhood love of mythology.  They have been the major focus of my devotional work and personal practice for the last 15 years . . . 30 years if you count my reverence for the gods and myths that were such an important part of my childhood from about the age of two or three, when my Greek grandmother first read me the myths and told me stories about the old country.)

• Zeus
• Hera
• Poseidon
• Demeter
• Hades
• Hestia
• Hephaestus
• Athena
• Hermes
• Aphrodite
• Ares
• Artemis
• Apollon
• Dionysos
• Persephone
• Hekate
• Pan
• Gaia

The Ancestors of All:

(This is a more recent group, my way of honoring the primordial/cosmogonic/Orphic powers at the dawn of creation – Gaia naturally appears on both lists.)

• Gaia
• Nyx
• Ouranos
• Aether
• Ananke-Eurynome
• Chronos-Ophion
• Chaos
• Phanes-Eros-Metis
• to Agathon (The Good)

Local Powers:

(As a Pacific Northwest Polytheist, these are some of the gods/spirits/forces/totems I’ve encountered and honored since we moved to a little island in Washington state last year.)

• She-Who-Watches (Tsagaglalal)
• The Old Man of the Mountain
• The Oreads of the Island
• The Wounded Sentinel (aka Mt. Baker)
• The Nooksack River
• The Salish Sea
• The Changer/ The Changing One
• Raven
• Coyote
• Bluejay
• Eagle
• The Basket Ogress
• The Island Spirits

Personal Gods, Daimons/Spirits & Heroes/Heroines:

(These are a diverse range of figures that are part of my personal practice in different significant ways, from childhood encounters to local powers from some of the places I’ve previously lived.  I honor many Heroes and Heroines – including a long list of Poet-Heroes and LGBTQ Ancestors.  I’ve only included some of the most important names on this list, as there are many more. )

• Antinous
• The Torch-Bearers
• My Agathos Daimon
• Our Household Lares
• Our Ancestors
• Eos
• Helios
• Selene
• The Stars
• Asklepios
• Hygeia
• The Dioskouroi (Kastor & Polydeukes)
• Harmodius & Aristogeiton
• Mnemosyme
• The Muses (Kalliope, Kleio, Ourania, Melpomene, Thalia, Erato, Euterpe, Terpsikhore, Polhymnia)
• The Cat, The Owl, and The Eagle (my childhood guardians)
• Sequona (The River Seine)
• The Goddess of the Glade
• The Oread of the River Valley
• Orpheus
• Homer
• Hesiod
• Sappho
• Socrates
• Plato
• Proclus
• William Shakespeare
• H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)
• Edward Carpenter
• Walt Whitman
• Emily Dickinson
• Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas
• Robert Duncan (the poet) and Jess (the collage artist)
• Thomas Taylor the Platonist
• Emperor Julian
• Lao Tzu
• Siddhārtha Gautama Buddha
• Rumi
• Hosteen Klah
• The Poet-Heroes (many more are listed below and on The Global Literary Canon page)
• The LGBTQ Ancestors (The Men Who Loved Men, The Women Who Loved Women, and The Gender Nonconformists of All Eras)

The Tetrad:

• Panpsyche
• Panhyle
• Paneros
• Pankrates

Additional  Hellenic Gods:

(I honor the entire Hellenic pantheon – and these are some of the many deities and mythological figures that are not necessarily part of my daily practice, but whom I frequently honor in various ways, including various festivals, recitation of the Homeric and Orphic Hymns, my personal divination methods, and my own devotional poetry and creative writing.)

• Herakles
• The Titans (in general)
• Rhea
• Kronos
• Themis
• Prometheus
• Phoebe
• Asteria
• Leto
• Oceanus
• Tethys
• The Rivers
• The Oceanides
• Hyperion
• Theia
• The Children of Nyx
• Eris
• Thanatos
• Hypnos
• Morpheus
• The Moirai – Klotho, Lakhesis, Atropos
• The Eumenides – Tisiphone, Alekto, Megaira
• Leukothea
• Palaemon
• Melinoe
• Despoina
• Astraios
• Dione
• Thetis
• The Nereides
• Proteus
• Nereus
• Eileithyia
• Hebe
• Pandora
• Ate
• The Litae
• Kairos
• Ploutos
• Aletheia
• Arete
• Harmonia
• Eirene
• Metis
• Tyche
• Nike
• Iris
• Thaumas
• Physis
• Aion
• Adonis
• Arkhe
• Peras
• Eniautos
• The Horai
• The Kharites
• The Anemoi (The Winds)
• The Nephelai (The Clouds)
• The Kyklopes
• The Hekatonkheires
• The Kourotrophoi (The Nurses)
• The Pleiades
• Semele
• Kheiron
• Priapos
• Triton
• The Maenads
• The Satyrs
• The Kentaurs
• The Kaberoi
• The Korybantes
• The Kouretes
• The Hesperides
• The Sirens
• The Sphinxes
• The Harpies
• Medusa and The Gorgons
• The Graiae
• The Hyades
• The Oneiroi
• The Erotes
• Agathos Daimon
• Kakodaimon
• The Mountains
• The Islands
• The Nymphs: The Dryads, The Oreads, The Leimenides, The Naiads, and others
• Ganymede
• The Cup-Bearers
• The Flower-Boys: Hyacinthus, Kyparissus, Krokos, Narkissos, and others
• The Torch-Bearers
• The Charioteers

Gods and Goddesses from Outside the Hellenic Pantheon:

(The focus of my spiritual life has always been, and will always be, the Hellenic pantheon.  However, as a polytheist with a wide range of interests in many cultures and traditions, I actively acknowledge and honor deities from all pantheons.  The following names – right now they are in absolutely no particular order whatsoever – are figures who, while not necessarily part of my daily practice, are still important to me in various ways.)

• Brigid
• Ganesha
• Thoth
• Amitābha
• Krishna
• Grandmother Spider
• Inanna
• Isis
• Cu Chulainn
• Freyr
• Mitra-Varuna
• *Aeusos/*Haeus(os)/Ushas/Ostara/Eostre/Eos/Ausra/Aurora (Proto-Indo-European deity)
• Oya
• Jestak
• Melek Taus / The Peacock God
• The Star Goddess
• The Green Man
• Kernunnos
• Sedna
• Tangaroa
• Pele and her sisters
• Perkunas
• Ereshkigal
• Skanda
• Bastet
• Ammon-Ra
• Horus
• Osiris
• Mithras
• Lugh
• Odin
• Freya
• Tyr
• Lilith
• Kali
• Shiva
• Vishnu
• Kuan Yin
• Avalokitesvara
• Tara
• The Jade Emperor
• The Queen Mother of the West
• Quetzalcoatl
• Tonantzin
• Jasy Jatere
• Changing Woman
• Manitou
• Ogun
• Yemaya
• K’daai
• Cagn
• Herne
• Rhiannon

The Heroes and Heroines and Ancestors:

(As I said above, I honor many Heroes and Heroines and Ancestors – the following are some of the general types of deceased historical individuals whom I’ve personally accorded ancestor status and/or honor via hero-cultus.  I plan to write further about this subject.)

• The Men Who Loved Men
• The Women Who Loved Women
• The Gender Nonconformists
• The Sages
• The Founders
• The Leaders
• The Teachers
• The Martyrs
• The Liberators
• The Mystics
• The Prophets
• The Visionaries
• The Poets
• The Artists
• The Scribes
• The Ancestors (spiritual and blood-kin)
• The Ghosts

Additional List of Poet-Heroes:
(I am attempting to revive the ancient Greek cult of the Poet-Hero.  My favorite book on the subject (okay, make that the *only* book I know on the subject) is Archilochos Heros: The Cult of Poets in the Greek Polis by Diskin Clay.  It’s a fascinating study of the many poets/philosophers/writers honored with hero-cults by the ancient Greeks.  Below are some of my favorite Poet-Heroes, and yes, my definition of “poet” is particularly broad and encompassing of many writers or thinkers or scholars in general.   Many, many more are listed on The Global Literary Canon page, though that page also includes many great writers who are thankfully still alive and still writing.)

• Orpheus
• Homer
• Hesiod
• Archilochos
• Sappho
• Herodotus
• Aesop
• Pindar
• Aeschylus
• Sophocles
• Euripides
• Aristophanes
• Socrates
• Plato
• Aristotle
• Theocritus
• Kallimachus
• Apollodorus
• Ovid
• Vergil
• Catullus
• Horace
• Cicero
• Seneca
• Petronius
• Apuleius
• Plutarch
• Diogenes
• Heraclitus
• Parmenides
• Pythagoras
• Pausanias
• Plotinus
• Porphyry
• Iamblichus
• Sallust
• Proclus
• William Shakespeare
• Walt Whitman
• Edward Carpenter
• Robert Duncan
• John Keats
• Hart Crane
• Ezra Pound
• Percy Bysshe Shelley
• Algernon Charles Swinburne
• William Butler Yeats
• Richard H. Horne
• Charles Dickens
• Harold Norse
• William S. Burroughs
• Guy Davenport
• Oscar Wilde
• John Addington Symonds
• Henry David Thoreau
• H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)
• Emily Dickinson
• Gertrude Stein
• Virginia Woolf
• Mary Renault
• Mina Loy
• Amy Lowell
• Iris Murdoch
• George Eliot
• Mary Butts
• Emily Bronte
• Radclyffe Hall
• Marguerite Young
• Willa Cather
• Adrienne Rich
• Sylvia Plath
• Kathleen Raine
• Lady Augusta Gregory
• Zora Neale Hurston
• Gloria E. Anzaldua
• Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
• Audre Lorde
• Enheduanna
• Mirabai
• Qurratulain Hyder
• Li Qingzhao
• Wu Tsao
• Lady Murasaki
• June Jordan
• Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz
• Phillis Wheatley
• Gabriela Mistral
• Zitkala-Sa
• Scheherazade
• Joyce Mansour
• Maria Sabina
• James Baldwin
• Yukio Mishima
• Rumi
• Vyasa
• Hosteen Klah
• Black Elk
• Chief Seattle
• Valmiki
• Kalidasa
• Langston Hughes
• Leopold Sedar Senghor
• Aime Cesaire
• Octavio Paz
• Li Po [Li Bai]
• Tu Fu [Du Fu]
• Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
• Jorge Luis Borges
• Cao Xueqin
• Thomas Taylor
• Joseph Campbell
• Karl Kerenyi
• Jane Ellen Harrison
• Walter F. Otto
• C.G. Jung
• Mircea Eliade
• Walter Pater
• James G. Frazer
• Pierre Hadot
• Eknath Easwaran
• Madame Blavatsky
• William James
• Friedrich Nietzsche
• G.R.S. Mead
• Diskin Clay

All Members of All Pantheons:

(I am a polytheist and a pluralist.  There are countless deities and forces in this universe, and I therefore make a point to use certain language in some of my hymns and prayers to acknowledge my reverence of all.)

• All Heroes and Heroines
• All Daimones
• All Nymphs
• All Spirits
• All Totems
• All Faeries
• All Genii
• All Orishas
• All Elementals
• All Animal Guides
• All Sacred Plants
• All Precious Minerals
• All Divine Matter
• All Divine Beings
• All Divine Messengers
• All Angels, Archangels, Archons
• All Powers, Forces, Forms, Ideas, Archetypes
• All Life-Affirming Beliefs
• All Numbers
• All Goddesses and All Gods