It’s easy to practice authentic Hellenic polytheism, the chief challenge is compiling and organizing the bounty of ancient religious material. Hellenic polytheism would probably become a world religion If the amount of surviving Hellenic religious material could be widely distributed.

Zeus

“O King of Kings, among the blest ⁠

Thou highest and thou happiest,

Listen and grant my prayer (request here)”

-Aeschylus, Suppliants

“Oh zeus whatever he be if that name please him well by that on him I call weighing all other names I fail to guess aught else but Zeus if I would cast aside clearly in every deed from off my soul this idle weight of care (request here)”

-Aeschylus

“Fulfill my prayer, O Olympian Zeus, and grant me good hap instead of

ill. May I die if I find no surcease of evil cares in the giving of

pain for pain. For this wise is my due; yet no vengeance appeareth

unto me upon the men that took my possessions by force and have them

still, while I am the dog that crossed the water but lost all in the

torrent stream.85 Whose red blood be it mine to drink, and may a good

Spirit arise86 to accomplish this as I would have it done.”

-Theognis

“May Zeus that dwelleth in the sky ever keep his right arm over this

city for her safety’s sake, and with him the other Blessed Immortals;

may Apollo set straight both our tonque and our wits; and may harp and

pipe sound holy music; and let us conciliate the Gods with a libation,

and drink in pleasant converse one with another, fearing no whit the

war of the Medes. ‘Twere better thus, ’twere better to spend our days

in jolly revelry, of one accord and cares apart, and to keep far away

those evil Spirits, baleful Eld and the end that is Death.”

-Theognis

Poseidon

“And though who curb’st the steed

Great king of ocean’ waves,

Poseidon, with thy trident fish spear armed

Give me respite from my problems.”

-Aeschylus

Apollo

“O Lord Thou Son of Leto, Offspring of Zeus, neither beginning will I

forget Thee ever nor ending, but sing Thee alway both first and last

and in between; and Thou give ear unto me and grant me good”

-Theognis

“Great Phoebus, when Our Lady Leto with her slender arms about the

palm-tree brought Thee forth beside the Round Water to be fairest of

the Immortals, round Delos was all filled with odour ambrosial, the

huge Earth laughed, and the deep waters of the hoary brine rejoiced.”

-Theognis

“Lord Apollo, Thou Thyself didst fence this city’s heights, to please

Alcathous181 son of Pelops; Thou Thyself protect this city from the

wanton outrage of the host of the Medes, so that in glad revelry at

the coming-in of Spring the people should give Thee splendid

hecatombs, rejoicing with lute and pleasant feast, with dance and cry

of Paeans about Thy altar. For verily I fear me when I see the

heedlessness and people-destroying discord of the Greeks. But do Thou,

O Phoebus, be gracious and guard this our city.”

-Theognis

Zeus and Apollo

“May I have due measure of youth, and Phoebus Apollo son of Leto love

me, and Zeus the king of the Immortals, so that I may live aright

beyond all misfortunes, warming my heart with youth and riches.”

-Theognis

Artemis

“Artemis, Slayer of Wild Beasts, Daughter of Zeus, whose image was set

up3 of Agamemnon when he sailed on swift shipboard for Troy, give Thou

ear unto my prayer, and ward off the Spirits of Ill, a thing small, O

Goddess, for Thee, but great for me”

-Theognis

Aphrodite

“Cyprus-born Cytherea, weaver of wiles, Zeus hath given Thee this gift

because He honoureth Thee exceeding much344 —Thou overwhelmest the

shrewd wits of men, nor lives the man so strong and wise that he may

escape Thee.”

-Theognis

Dike

“Thou, O maid Dike, that dost report guilty deeds to Zeus, who lookest down upon earth with unerring eyes (request here)”

-Argonautica

Dionysus

“O Bacchus, humbly now I approach Your altar.

Grant tranquil seas for me, Father, and a fair wind in my sails.

You are able to tame even the rages of Venus; Your wine a cure for our sorrows.

By You are lovers bound to one another; by You are their bonds dissolved.

O Bacchus, cleanse my soul of fault.

Truly also You cannot attest to be ignorant of my sorrow

when it was your lynxes that carried Ariadne off to the stars,

like You there is an old flame still burning in my bones.

Only wine or death may rid us of our ills.

Truly an empty night alone and sober spent always torments lovers;

where hopes and fears churn in the mind of one or the other.

But if, Bacchus, Your gift could soothe my fevered mind and bring

sleep to my wearied bones, then I?ll plant vines and fasten them in

orderly rows upon my hills, and myself stand guard less wild beasts

should pluck them.

When my vats fill foaming purple with must, and new wine presses have

stained my feet with grapes, then it will be enough for me to live

with Your vines and in Your horned presence, O Bacchus, I, Your poet,

shall sing.”

-sextus propertius

Ares

“O glorious Ares, beneath whose godhead and paternity all wars begin and end, on thee I call (request here)”

-Virgil

Fates

“Listen, Moirai hear our prayers (request here)”

-Stobaeus, Anthology

Hera

“O Hera, you who rule the island of Samos

And have received Imbrasos too as your lot

(request here)”

-Anthologia Palatina

Hestia

“Daughter of Rhea, guardian of parliaments, Hestia, sister of all-highest Zeus, and of Hera who shares his throne (request here)”

-Pindar

Chthonic Hermes

“O mighest herald of the gods on high

And those below O Hermes of the dark (request here)”

-Elektra

Muses

“Muses and Graces, Daughters of Zeus, who came of yore to the wedding

of Cadmus and sang so fair a song, ‘What is fair is dear, and not dear

what is not fair,’ —such was the song that passed your immortal lip”

-Theognis

Phasis

“O Phasis, offspring of fecund Zeus, born in the snowy region of the Arcadian Nympha, do thou b”ut accept with tranquil stream the bark of Pallas [u,e, the ship Argo], neither gifts nor shrines shall be lacking to thee in my land; an effigy awaits thee, O Phasis, that whoso beholds may reverence, as mighty as great Enipeus or father Inachus outstretched in golden cave.’”

-Argonautica

Primeval Chronos

These are prayers to the primeval god of time who shouldn’t be confused with the titan cronos: the father of Zeus.

“O Time, you spirit who watch over all

Affairs of every sort for mortal men (request here)”

-Anthologia Palatina

“May mighty Khronos (Chronos, Time), as it draweth on, never weary of a settled course for me.”

-Pindar