The back two wine racks are decorated with lights shaped like bunches of grapes. Built out of three wine racks on top of a light-colored wood chest. Caught in the veil are bits of seaweed and driftwood vines.Īltar to Dionysos. Scattered across the top of the chest are seashells. It comes out of a local recreation of the Eleusinian Mysteries, called the Spring Mysteries Festival, based around the progress to the sea and propitiatory sacrifices to Poseidon.)Ī small round table on a dark wood chest, draped and veiled in cheesecloth (for Reasons), set with a tarnished silver bowl filled with salt water and beach rocks, surrounded by bits of driftwood.
(There's a reason for it, but I'm not sure how much of it I can tell. Some of them are open underneath, but I still use it for storage space.Īltar to Okeanos and Tethys, which I also use for my lustral rites.
But you can figure out what you're looking at.Ī lot of my altars, I build on top of boxes or trunks, to give me space to store things or to protect sacred items. Not that the rest of these pictures are actually good, mind you. I absolutely could not get a decent picture of Hekate's altar, which I am taking as a hint. Some of them are not boring and utilitarian. Some of them are not mine, so I won't photograph them (a friend can't keep hers at home, because of a small child who does not understand about not touching other people's things). These are not all of the altars in the ritual room. I finally did take pictures of some of my altars to share on Polywob. The areas for the gods are certainly shrines, but since I use most tables or what-have-you to make offerings at, those are generally altars, thereby confusing the matter. The words seem to be translated as "shrine" or "inner chamber," though, so that's not much help, unless I can find original texts and then determine which words it is. I don't really know what the right term would be for my ritual room, a space kept in the home with shrines to multiple gods, but I know there's precedent in Hellenic and Roman cultures, an inner room of the house, as far from the public areas as possible, where shrines to various gods might be kept. An altar is a table, cabinet, block, or similar piece of furniture or small structure, generally raised (the word means "high place"), at which sacrifices, offerings, or religious or magical work is performed. It can be a building, a shack or shed, or a niche or small part of a temple or church. Generally speaking, a shrine is an area or small free-standing structure dedicated to the worship of a single deity, hero or spirit. I couldn't quite decide what to call mine, so I did some research. Over at Polytheism Without Borders (or, as I tend to think of it, Polywob), there's been some discussion of the difference between altars and shrines, as people show off the ones they keep in their homes.
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