Hellenic Religion

Copyright © 2011 by Themistoklis Thanasas.

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Contents

INTRODUCTION TO

THE GREEK RELIGION OF DODECATHEON

BASIC PRINCIPLES OF

THE GREEK (HELLENIC) RELIGION OF DODECATHEON

THE CONCEPT OF COSMOS

THE MYSTERIES

PSYCHOGONY

THE GOLDEN AGE

HESIOD ON WORKS & DAYS

HUMERIC HYMNS

GREEK (HELLENIC) RELIGION

THE ORPHIC HYMNS

Fig. 8.4 Marble statue of Artemis,

a copy of a 4th-century-BC original.

Τα Δελφικά παραγγέλματα—

64) ΦΙΛΟΣΟΦΟΣ ΓΙΝΟΥ

65) ΣΑΥΤΟΝ ΙΣΘΙ

66) ΠΑΙΔΕΙΑΣ ΑΝΤΕΧΟΥ

67) ΗΘΟΣ ΔΟΚΙΜΑΖΕ

68) ΤΕΧΝΗ ΧΡΩ

69) ΕΥΕΡΓΕΣΙΑΣ ΤΙΜΑ

70) ΑΓΑΘΟΥΣ ΤΙΜΑ

71) ΕΠΑΙΝΕΙ ΑΡΕΤΗΝ

72) ΤΥΧΗΝ ΝΟΜΙΖΕ

73) ΤΥΧΗ ΜΗ ΠΙΣΤΕΥΕ

74) ΤΥΧΗΝ ΣΤΕΡΓΕ

75) ΕΓΓΥΗΝ ΦΕΥΓΕ

76) ΧΑΡΙΝ ΕΚΤΕΛΕΙ

77) ΕΥΤΥΧΙΑΝ ΕΥΧΟΥ

78) ΟΝΕΙΔΟΣ ΕΧΘΑΙΡΕ

79) ΥΒΡΙΝ ΑΜΥΝΟΥ

80) ΛΕΓΕ ΠΡΑΤΤΕ ΔΙΚΑΙΑ

81) ΚΡΙΝΕ ΔΙΚΑΙΑ

82) ΑΔΙΚΕΙΝ ΜΙΣΕΙ

83) ΚΡΙΤΗΝ ΓΝΩΘΙ

84) ΑΔΩΡΟΔΟΚΗΤΟΣ ΔΙΚΑΖΕ

85) ΑΙΤΙΩ ΠΑΡΟΝΤΑ

86) ΥΙΟΙΣ ΜΗ ΚΑΤΑΘΑΡΡΕΙ

87) ΚΟΙΝΟΣ ΓΙΝΟΥ

88) ΑΠΟΚΡΙΝΟΥ ΕΝ ΚΑΙΡΩ

89) ΠΡΑΤΤΕ ΑΜΕΤΑΝΟΗΤΩΣ

90) ΕΛΠΙΔΑ ΑΙΝΕΙ

91) ΤΩ ΒΙΩ ΜΑΧΟΥ

92) ΑΤΥΧΟΥΝΤΙ ΣΥΝΑΧΘΟΥ

93) ΧΡΟΝΟΥ ΦΕΙΔΟΥ

94) ΠΕΡΑΣ ΕΠΙΤΕΛΕΙ ΜΗ ΑΠΟΔΕΙΛΙΩΝ

95) ΕΠΙΤΕΛΕΙ ΣΥΝΤΟΜΩΣ

96) ΚΑΙΡΟΝ ΠΡΟΣΔΕΧΟΥ

97) ΓΗΡΑΣ ΠΡΟΣΔΕΧΟΥ

98) ΑΜΑΡΤΑΝΩΝ ΜΕΤΑΝΟΕΙ

99) ΕΡΙΝ ΜΙΣΕΙ

100) ΟΜΟΝΟΙΑΝ ΔΙΩΚΕ

101) ΒΙΑΣ ΜΗ ΕΧΟΥ

102) ΒΙΑΝ ΜΗΔΕΝ ΠΡΑΤΤΕΙΝ

103) ΝΟΜΩ ΠΕΙΘΟΥ

104) ΤΟ ΚΡΑΤΟΥΝ ΦΟΒΟΥ

105) ΘΝΗΣΚΕ ΥΠΕΡ ΠΑΤΡΙΔΟΣ

106) ΕΧΘΡΟΥΣ ΑΜΥΝΟΥ

107) ΕΠΙ ΡΩΜΗ ΜΗ ΚΑΥΧΩ

108) ΜΗ ΑΡΧΕ ΥΒΡΙΖΕΙΝ

109) ΛΑΒΩΝ ΑΠΟΔΟΣ

110) ΕΥΓΝΩΜΩΝ ΓΙΝΟΥ

111) ΠΡΟΝΟΙΑΝ ΤΙΜΑ

112) ΥΦΟΡΩ ΜΗΔΕΝΑ

113) ΑΛΛΟΤΡΙΩΝ ΑΠΕΧΟΥ

114) ΨΕΓΕ ΜΗΔΕΝΑ

115) ΔΙΑΒΟΛΗΝ ΜΙΣΕΙ

116) ΦΘΟΝΕΙ ΜΗΔΕΝΙ

117) ΑΠΕΧΘΕΙΑΝ ΦΕΥΓΕ

118) ΕΧΘΡΑΣ ΔΙΑΛΥΕ

119) ΚΑΚΙΑΝ ΜΙΣΕΙ

120) ΚΑΚΙΑΣ ΑΠΕΧΟΥ

121) ΔΟΛΟΝ ΦΟΒΟΥ

122) ΑΠΟΝΤΙ ΜΗ ΜΑΧΟΥ

123) ΠΛΟΥΤΕΙ ΔΙΚΑΙΩΣ

124) ΔΙΚΑΙΩΣ ΚΤΩ

125) ΠΟΝΕΙ ΜΕΤ΄ ΕΥΚΛΕΙΑΣ

126) ΠΛΟΥΤΩ ΑΠΟΣΤΕΙ

127) ΧΡΩ ΧΡΗΜΑΣΙ

128) ΔΑΠΑΝΩΝ ΑΡΧΟΥ

129) ΕΧΩΝ ΧΑΡΙΖΟΥ

130) ΧΑΡΙΖΟΥ ΕΥΛΑΒΩΣ

131) ΚΤΩΜΕΝΟΣ ΗΔΟΥ

132) ΕΡΓΑΖΟΥ ΚΤΗΤΑ

133) ΜΕΤΡΟΝ ΑΡΙΣΤΟΝ

134) ΕΥΣΕΒΕΙΑΝ ΦΥΛΑΤΤΕ

135) ΑΙΣΧΥΝΗΝ ΣΕΒΟΥ

136) ΚΙΝΔΥΝΕΥΕ ΦΡΟΝΥΜΩΣ

137) ΜΗ ΕΠΙ ΠΑΝΤΙ ΛΥΠΟΥ

138) ΑΛΥΠΩΣ ΒΙΟΥ

139) ΤΕΛΕΥΤΩΝ ΑΛΥΠΟΣ

140) ΙΔΙΑ ΦΥΛΑΤΤΕ

141) ΤΟ ΣΥΜΦΕΡΟΝ ΘΗΡΩ

142) ΣΕΑΥΤΟΝ ΕΥ ΠΟΙΕΙ

143) ΠΡΟΓΟΝΟΥΣ ΣΤΕΦΑΝΟΥ

144) ΕΠΙ ΝΕΚΡΩ ΜΗ ΓΕΛΑ

145) ΕΠΑΓΓΕΛΟΥ ΜΗΔΕΝΙ

146) ΠΑΙΣ ΩΝ ΚΟΣΜΙΟΣ ΙΣΘΙ, ΗΒΩΝ ΕΓΚΡΑΤΗΣ, ΜΕΣΟΣ ΔΙΚΑΙΟΣ, ΠΡΕΣΒΥΤΕΡΟΣ ΣΟΦΟΣ

Τα Δελφικά παραγγέλματα—

Όνειδος έχθαιρε. Να εχθρεύεσαι τον χλευασμό.

Γλώσσαν ίσχε. Να συγκρατείς τη γλώσσα σου.

Ύβριν αμύνου. Να προφυλάσσεσαι αττό την ύβρη.

Κρίνε δίκαια. Να κρίνεις δίκαια.

Λέγε ειδώς. Να λες γνωρίζοντας.

Βίας μη έχου. Να μην έχεις βία.

Ομίλει πράως. Να ομιλείς με πραότητα.

Φιλοφρόνει πάσιν. Να είσαι φιλικός με όλους.

Γλώττης άρχε. Να κυριαρχείς τη γλώσσα σου.

Σεαυτόν ευ ποίει. Να ευεργετείς τον εαυτό σου.

Ευπροσήγορος γίνου. Να είσαι ευπροσήγορος.

Αποκρίνου εν καιρώ. Να αποκρίνεσαι στον κατάλληλο καιρό.

Πόνει μετά δικαίου. Να κοπιάζεις δίκαια.

Πράττε αμετανοήτως. Να πράττεις με σιγουριά.

Αμαρτάνων μετανόει. Όταν σφάλλεις, να μετανοείς.

Οφθαλμού κράτει. Να κυριαρχείς των οφθαλμών σου.

Βουλεύου χρήσιμα. Να σκέπτεσαι τα χρήσιμα.

Φιλίαν φύλασσε. Να φυλάττεις τη φιλία.

Ευγνώμων γίνου. Να είσαι ευγνώμων.

Ομόνοιαν δίωκε. Να επιδιώκεις την ομόνοια.

Άρρητα μη λέγε. Να μην λες τα άρρητα.

Έχθρας διάλυε. Να διαλύεις τις έχθρες.

Γήρας προσδέχου. Να αποδέχεσαι το γήρας.

Επί ρώμη μη καυχώ. Να μην καυχιέσαι για τη δύναμή σου.

Ευφημίαν άσκει. Να επιδιώκεις καλή φήμη.

Απέχθειαν φεύγε. Να αποφεύγεις την απέχθεια.

Πλούτει δικαίως. Να πλουτίζεις δίκαια.

Κακίαν μίσει. Να μισείς την κακία.

Μανθάνων μη κάμνε. Να μην κουράζεσαι να μαθαίνεις.

Ους τρέφεις αγάπα. Να αγαπάς αυτούς που τρέφεις.

Απόντι μη μάχου. Να μην μάχεσαι αυτόν που είναι απών.

Πρεσβύτερον αιδού. Να σέβεσαι τους μεγαλύτερους.

Νεώτερον δίδασκε. Να διδάσκεις τους νεότερους.

Πλούτω απόστει. Να αποστασιοποιείσαι από τον πλούτο.

Σεαυτόν αιδού. Να σέβεσαι τον εαυτό σου.

Μη άρχε υβρίζων. Να μην κυριαρχείς με αλαζονεία.

Προγόνους στεφάνου. Να στεφανώνεις τους προγόνους σου.

Θνήσκε υπέρ πατρίδος. Να πεθάνεις για την πατρίδα σου.

ΕΠί νεκρώ μη γέλα. Να μην περιγελάς τους νεκρούς.

Ατυχούντι συνάχθου. Να συμπάσχεις με το δυστυχή.

Τύχη μη πίστευε. Να μην πιστεύεις την τύχη.

Τελεύτα άλυπος. Να πεθαίνεις χωρίς λύπη.

A bride is led to ber future busband who stands by the door of his

house. Scene on a red-figure vase.

ΕΛΛΕΥΣΗΣ ΕΛΛΗΝΩΝ

Epanellinisis Now Zeus Theo’s Patroos

Hellenic Religion by Themistoklis Thanasas

In the name of the Gods of our fathers and mothers from the prehistoric era to the present time, the Hellenic Religion is the Religion of our ancestors and is the Religion of Ancient Greece and classical civilization. It is the Religion that gave birth to the great miracle of the classical golden age; Greek philosophy, Greek art, and Olympic Games. Today the Hellenic Religion is alive. Although it never dies, it had to survive underground during the Middle Ages and the Ottoman Occupation. It has remained outlawed for 17 centuries from the time of the Justinian and Theodosius 392 AD which formally prohibited all forms even of private practices right down to the present day passed into a Theocracy and ruling Monarch this system grew up as Orthodox Christian and is the same today in Greece. It is ridiculous for a Religion to be prohibited today. We want immediately recognition from the Greek Judeo-Christian Orthodox government that there is abuse of Religious freedom and discrimination caused on Religion of our affiliation belief and practice. We face discrimination and religious oppression some they spread with propaganda. Some writers and orientalists, they speak for ancient Greek Religion and Greek language as a dead language and religion.

For Greek language is a dead language and religion Bicoze they wanted dead. Some authors, they cgnor most the worlds in popular use the present day are identical with those at the Homeric Age and even Pro Homeric. They speak for the Greek people.

As all been Orthodox Christians (Most of Orthodox Christians are Greek anyway) We are all not Christian, we are Autochtntonous of Hellas. Our race; our religion; our culture; our traditions; our customs; our names; our values are ancient Hellenic. We are direct heritage from the Classical Fore Fathers.

Hellenic Religion differs from the chief now existing religion of the world in its origin and development. It was a free Autochthonous growth evolved from the various Hellenic people. Great teachers indeed arose like Orpheus, Hesiod, Plato, Pythagoras, and Neo-Platonist.

An advocating special doctrines and imposing upon followers. Special rules of life great centers of religious influence were developed such as Delphi dodonoi.

But no single preacher or priesthood succeeded in dominating over the free conscience of the people. Nothing was imposed by authority in belief and in worship each man was a law unto himself. Again in this popular religion when it has emerged from its earliest form and has reached the definitely anthropomorphic stage in which we know it. We can discern no trace of any tendency towards monotheism.

The idea of a single supreme god comes from the Jewish thinkers and Jewdeo Christian and Jewdeo-Muslim religion. They are from a common origin.

The Greek Hellenic Religion that religion pervage the whole life of the people whose hearts were its native soil and pervage the continuity of the Hellenic race and pervage also the literature in which their thoughts and doing are recorded. For religion with them was not a single and separate department of their civilization.

Local deities and common deities in Greece the nature daimones from the most numerous group. They are found everywhere. Nymphs live among the mountains, trees, springs, rivers, and seas.

The selini are fountain daimon and both they and the satyrs are daimones of fertility. The panes are the same nature and own their peculiar character to the face that they arose among a pastoral people. The centaurs also belong to this category. Although they appear principally in mythology. Nature is full of these daimones they are in numerous. For every spring every tree, every nature object has or at least may have its daimon. Hence crowds of nature daimones of various kinds arise. Within each homogeneous group the individual disappears in the aggpregate.

The daimon residing in a particular natural object has and extremely limited circle of worshippers. Most have no cult but exist only in belief and imagination. In other daimons also similar collective groups of spirits or gods appear, such as the gentle gods: (Theoi Milihiol) the goddess of child birth, The ilithyia.

The panhellenic festivals of the Olympic Games in other words, served not only to emphasize what the Greeks has in common culturally but also to point up their unrecognizable political differences.

The Greek household has its shrines to Hestia or to Zeus Ktesios either of whom could give special protection to hearth and home, and the head of the house normally took his duties at the shrine seriously. At a meal the libation or drink-offering to the gods was automatic customs and it would have been very odd to eat and drink without offering the gods a small share of what was being consumed. The great landmarks of human life-birth coming of age, marriage and death were all marked of rituals with religious significance. Occupation were under the protection of particular gods whose favor has to maintained. Example: Castor and Pullux for sailors

Hephaestus for smiths, Prometheus for potters, etc. The literary arts and sport too were linked to the gods favor. The gymnasium has its shrine to Hermes and some god or mus lay behind every sign of poetic inspiration. Both found their highest expression in competition of great religion. Gatherings like the festival of Zeus at Olympia or the great Dionysian above the level of the individual family each deme phratry and tribe had it own cult and each city, state its divine guardian. Athens has Athena, Corinth Poseidon and so on.

The maintenance of these city—cults was essential for success and no great enterprise was undertaken without proper prayers and offerings. The year was marked by a series of religious festivals and the countryside itself was alive with divine presences. Springs, rivers and mountains were all liable to have a dwelling god or nymph or hero.

The good daimon became a protecting spirit and expression of the conviction that man is under higher protection and among the stoics it was identified with the divine spark in man. The description of Epictetus is well known Agathos Daimon and Agathi Tyche.

Everything happens to men in accordance with Tyche and the daimon says Diagoras. Agathe, Tyche and Agathos Daimon are placed side by side in inscriptions and reliefs. Both to same extent and received a cult and the protecting goddess of a city for instant the Tyche of Antioch. Homer express by the words Aisa and moira.

Greek religion spread all over the world and the various European nations whose native gods were identified to appear extent with those of Greece and Rome and conseguenty with Greek deities also. There were many local varieties in the manner of approaching these gods and many local names remained unchanged. The language of most these cults were Greek which was the language French of the Mediterranean and the vehicle of the new Christian teaching I pointed out that the two earliest communications to the young church of Rome the Apostle of St. Paul and St. Ignatius occur in that the tongue and not in Latin.

Theodosius (A.D. 392) which formally prohibited all forms even of private cult down to present day passed into a theocracy and ruling monarch. Theocratic Didactorchip and church militant Christ’s solders this system grew up as Orthodox Christian and marked by most fantastic elements. Greek religion is not Greek Mythology as many people think which is concerning with traditional tales though the two are closely related to each other. The Greeks are very religious minded has no word for religion itself the nearest terms were Euseveia (piety) and Threskeia (cult).

INTRODUCTION TO

THE GREEK RELIGION OF DODECATHEON

1. Who are we?

We are all who believe in our patrimonial Greek religion, the illustrious religion of the Classical Era: the Hellenic Religion of the Dodecatheon (=12 Gods). Many of us received this faith as a valuable heritage from their families, because ancient greek religion managed to survive, despite the cruel and ruthless persecutions by the Byzantine and Ottoman regimes, to transfer itself through generations, despite theharsh conditions prevailing due to christian despotism, thus succeeding, with the help of our Gods, to keep our sacred oral tradition intact up to the present day.

Today, after the dawn of religious tolerance, signified by the UN General Assembly, and validated by the Hellenic law 2442/1997, we decided that we finally had to emerge out in the open to show all the spiritual searchers what the TRUTH is. Indeed, in our epoch, one of anguished search due to the fact that the failure of the known and fossilized ideologies is very much apparent, only the living Hellenic ideology can lighten up Man’s spirit. In a world where calculation, hypocrisy, oppression and cynical atheism, disguised as religiousness, prevail, our Hellenic Religion comes as:

«A voice of awakening in the Age of Night»

With these thoughts in mind, we made our existence known to the appropriate government authorities and also recorded our Basic Principles and our Main Formals. Thus, we started appearing in public as a «known religion» (= legal term of the greek jurisdiction).

2. What is religion? Why are we religious? How many religions exist?

Many might consider it strange to be religious; thus they’ll ponder: Why are you dealing with religion in our times? Why are you religious? Doesn’t religion fit more all those that still live in medieval times, in regression, in the world of chador and people’s demonstrations (of Greek Orthodox Church)?

No my friend, religion is to put fundamental questions forth and then answer them. What is the Cosmos? What is Man? Which values should be life-values for us?

All people have an, usually unconscious, point of view regarding these questions throughout their lives, and with every actionthey take and every decision they make, give answers, which arise most of the times from erroneous viewpoints acquired from school or from their social environment. However, the purpose of the conscious, cultured human is to be able to be master of his own decisions, as the Greeks of the Classical Era were. The prejudice against being religious is caused by the following fact: There are two kinds of religions in total: First, the ancient traditional religions that carry all the wisdom of the Golden Era, about which the classic writers talk, and have answers for the meaning of life and the Cosmos, thus, fulfilling the human search for the holy. These answers in the measure in which every traditional religion maintained the Golden Era ideas are valid, given by the Gods, and at the same time scientific, founded on the higher science of the antediluvian civilization. This knowledge is retained in its fullness and authenticity in the Hellenic Religion of the Twelve Gods. Second, there exist the cosmopolitan monotheistic religions of the Late Antiquity. These were developed in the cosmopolitan environment of the Roman Empire and they are not, in reality, ways to approach the Holy and Sacred, but authoritarian systems, which mobilize police forces and state violence to keep people captive. Committing humans to superficial formalities they exert their power by creating fear and guilt feelings through doctrines counter to nature, unheard of prohibitions and imaginary original sins. This is why these elements strike us as medieval: chador. devils, kneelings. fasts, adorations, miracles and exceedingly simpleminded doctrines. These religions are the ones known to most of the people, thus being religious has come to mean regression and illiteracy!

3. How did we get here!

Our Hellenic religion, being a genuine descendant of the Golden Era has produced masterpieces, creating the miracle of the Graecoroman Classical Civilization, but at the moment when this civilization reached its consolidation and was about to be stabilized, the cosmopolitan religion of Christianity managed to gain the favor of emperor Constantine, although the proselytized masses of the big cities (mainly immigrants from Middle East and a few Jews) amounted only to around 5% of the population total. This seizing of the state’s machinery was followed by a storm of laws and prosecutions which not only violently annihilated Hellenic Religion, but the libraries were closed and put to fire, the Philosophical Schools were rescinded, together with the Theaters, the Public Baths, the Olympic Games, the autonomous states, and even the national celebrations of the victory against the Persians. In general. every element of the Hellenic Civilization was destroyed.

Through the use of the battle cry believe or die, the christian monks and soldiers tried to destroy the ancient world! So some Hellenes believed, many were put to death and Hellas was reduced to an uncared-for section of the multinational Byzantine nation.

A big number of Hellenes managed to retain their religion within this horrible situation. Many of them established secluded villages in inaccessible places, while the major part was organized in the cities.

The last days of Byzantium were reached thus, when while the orthodox part of the state had already decided for the Ottoman kerchief, the Hellenes appeared in public to save Greece from the Ottoman flood. National reformation and return to the ancient polytheistic religion was put forward, through Georgios Plithon-Gemistos and by publication of his Laws. The results are known, unluckily the ruling class was won over by the pro-Turks thus the Hellenes by religion were forced to organize their survival within the Ottoman state.

After the establishment of the New Hellenic nation (1826) and the slackening of the absolute orthodox censorship, lots of texts appeared, which expound on Hellenic Religion, thus preparing the way for us to reach the historic moment of our official appearance.

4. What do we believe in?

Let it be noted that our religion is an organized, complete philosophical system. The Basic Principles of this system are summarized in a fundamental text that has been made known to the state Authorities. This has been analyzed in the book «Greek Worldvision», and is reproduced here so let it only be noted here that:

Our religion is genuinely traditional and hence it believes that there exists nothing else except the natural system that we call Cosmos. Cosmos is everything that surrounds us, we ourselves, our Earth, the Galaxies, the Universes, but also things and entities we do not perceive, like the higher electromagnetic radiations and the Higher Worlds of the Gods, higher in spirit and energy.

Cosmos is ever eternal, meaning that it existed, exists and will exist and there was never a time in which it did not exist. Notehere: Within Cosmos and through its creative powers everything is being born and then evolves. In this Cosmos the Psyches are born and start on a long journey towards evolution, which, after a great number of reincarnations, renders them perfect and evolved in such a way as to achieve immortality in the Higher Worlds of the Gods.

Many people ask:

What are the Greek Gods?

The answer is simple. The Hellenic Gods are personalities and individuals, like we are, but perfect in knowledge and ethics, and also havingachicved immortality. Hence our religion is genuinely polytheistic. These Divine Entities care for the perfect operation of the natural Laws and, since they are full of interest and compassion for us and all the entities of the evolutionary chain, they take care of us with all their powers, they help us, they guide us towards good (up to where we want and up to the point we allow them, of course) and labor for our spiritual evolution. For this reason, and from time immemorial, holy institutions were established, the Oracles, the Asclepiaea, the Mysteries, all these to enlighten us, to help us, to give us golden hopes for the completion of our existence, whose evolution swiftness is in our hands.

Indeed, Gods help us with reason and justice and there is really justice in the Cosmos, for when we complete the circle of rebirths and will be guided to the real Immortal life, since we are destined for that through Cosmos’ rhythm, we will have also complete equality of memories because we all will have passed through all life conditions.

Let us give good notice to this: Only the rhythm of Cosmos and the authority of impersonal Law exists for us. There is no out-of-this-world god, who directs Cosmos in an arbitrary way of «Predestination» thus saving some and condemning others. No, only the logical and unchanging natural Law exists, whose real and not arbitrary justice the Gods serve, and this same justice we owe to serve too, being in accordance to the Cosmos’ rhythm, which always guides us towards our perfection according to the divine law of Evolution. In contrast, when we are in accordance with erroneous ideas which are contrary to Nature, then we fall behind evolutionally and this is entirely due to our own will and thought, because there are, of course, no Evil powers within the Cosmos, like evil spirits and devils and all these creations of the sick imagination of the monotheistic religions, created to sink humans in an imaginary world of danger and guilt, to make them delirious and put them out of reality!

In contrast to monotheism, our religion believes that the Cosmos is really what exists and thus we evolve getting involved with it and not with imaginary entities out of it. This is why it is a Religious Command to develop Science, Art, Justice, Care for the city’s welfare, Ecology, Attempt to improve the environment, fine Architecture. City Planning, and care for the human being itself, its culture, scientific and spiritual and physical. This is why Search, Reason, and the Olympic Games are born.

5. Its fruits judge every tree!

Not only every tree, however, but also every ideological system and every religion is judged thus, Behold, then, the fruits of the Hellenic Religion:

By its command to search for the Truth, and its postulate that Truth exists in the Cosmos only, sciences were developed, Mathematics, Physics, Logic and scientific Methodology, also Theater, as a representation of Cosmos’ rhythm, and Sculpture.

By its declaration that Man evolves by perfection of knowledge and ethos, Classical Man was created, setting as target not only Science development, but also language development, having sculptured the magnificent Attic language, and the culture of Literature, that saw immortal masterpieces created in each one of its branches, from the immortal works of the tragic poets and the superb exaltation of the lyric poets to the unsurpassed historiography of Thucidides. It also set creative thinking development as its target, which brought forth the immortal ancient philosophers, who, based on the great truths of Greek worldvision, analyzed them both scientifically and practically [don’t forget that today’s Logic and scientific Methodology are not neutral ideologically but are based on the Hellenic worldvision as contrasted to the