Asklepios

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AESCULAPIUS

Festa del dio Aesculapius (Esculapio), protettore della salute.

La rappresentazione più rilevante della figura di Aesculapius è quella venerata al tempio di Epidauro: il simulacro è in posizione da seduto su di un trono, con bastone in una mano e il serpente nell’altra. A piedi vi sta un cane. Tale statua ha una dimensione pari alla metà di quella di Zeus Olimpio di Atene.

È comunemente rappresentato con la barba, ma si attestano anche rappresentazioni imberbi, come per esempio quella che ritrae il Dio nelle sembianze di Antonius Musa, il medico che salvò la vita ad Augusto Ottaviano, al quale il Princeps dedicò la statua ritratta nell’immagine.

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The Temple of Aesculapius located in the gardens of the Villa Borghese, in Rome, was built in the ionic style between 1785 and 1792 by Antonio Asprucci and his son Mario Asprucci, with help from Cristoforo Unterperger. The temple was perhaps built in memory of the destroyed ancient temple to the god of Medicine on the Tiber Island.⁣

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A priest of Asklepios and a patient
calling up the sacred,
non-poisonous snakes

A particular type of non-venomous snake was often used in healing rituals, and these snakes – the Aesculapian snakes – crawled around freely on the floor in dormitories where the sick and injured slept.

These snakes were introduced at the founding of each new temple of Asclepius throughout the classical world.

From about 300 B.C. onwards, the cult of Asclepius grew very popular and pilgrims flocked to his healing temples (Asclepieia) to be cured of their ills.

Ritual purification would be followed by offerings or sacrifices to the god (according to means), and the supplicant would then spend the night in the holiest part of the sanctuary – the abaton (or adyton).

Any dreams or visions would be reported to a priest who would prescribe the appropriate therapy by a process of interpretation.

Some healing temples also used sacred dogs to lick the wounds of sick.

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Apollo, Chiron and Asklepios, 1st century AD fresco from Pompeii

From left to right: Apollo (of the Apollo Lykeios type), Chiron, and Asclepius. Naples National Archaeological Museum. Photographer Marie-Lan Nguyen. Public domain via wiki commons

Medicine box with sliding top, converted to a reliquary, depicting Asclepius and Hygeia, from north Italy, late 5th century CE.

In Hellenic Polytheism Asclepius (Greek: Ἀσκληπιός Asklēpiós; Latin: Aesculapius) is the God of medicine, healing, rejuvenation and physicians.
Asclepius represents the healing aspect of the medical arts; his daughters are Hygieia ("Hygiene", the goddess/personification of health, cleanliness, and sanitation), Iaso (the goddess of recuperation from illness), Aceso (the goddess of the healing process), Aglæa/Ægle (the goddess of the glow of good health), and Panacea (the goddess of universal remedy). He is associated with the Roman/Etruscan god Vediovis and the Egyptian Imhotep. He is one of Apollo's sons, sharing with Apollo the epithet Paean ("the Healer"). The rod of Asclepius, a snake-entwined staff, remains a symbol of medicine today.

In Hellenic Polytheism Hygieia (also Hygiea or Hygeia; Ancient Greek: Ὑγιεία or Ὑγεία, Latin: Hygēa or Hygīa), is one of the Aeclepiadae; the sons and daughters of the god of medicine, Asclepius, and the goddess of healing, Epione. She is the goddess/personification of health (Greek: ὑγίεια - hugieia), cleanliness and hygiene. Hygieia's primary temples were in Epidaurus, Corinth, Cos and Pergamon. Pausanias remarked that, at the Asclepieion of Titane in Sicyon (founded by Alexanor, Asclepius' grandson), statues of Hygieia were covered by women's hair and pieces of Babylonian clothes. According to inscriptions, the same sacrifices were offered at Paros.

An Orphic Gold Tablet from Thessaly, circa 350-300 BCE; currently in the Getty Villa, Malibu

The inscription reads:

ΔΙΨΑΙΑΥΟΣΕΓΟΚΑΠΟΛΛΜΑΙ
ΑΛΛΑΠΙΕΜΟΥΚΡΑΝΑΣΑΙΕΙΡΟΩ
ΕΜΙΔΕΞΙΑΛΕΥΚΗΚΥΠΑΡΙΣΣΟΣ
ΤΙΣΔΕΣΙΠΩΔΕΣΙΓΑΣΥΙΟΣΕΙΜΙ
ΚΑΙΟΥΡΑΝΟΥΑΣΤΕΡΟΕΝΤΟΣ
ΑΥΤΑΡΕΜΟΙΓΕΝΟΣΟΥΡΑΝΙΟΝ

Translated:
I am parched with thirst and I perish.
But give me to drink from the everflowing spring.
On the right is a white cypress.
“Who are you? From where are you?” I am the son of Earth
and starry Heaven.
But my race is heavenly.

Photography by Remi Mathis

A Roman marble throne dedicated to Apollo. 1st century.

In Hellenic Polytheism Hygieia (also Hygiea or Hygeia; Ancient Greek: Ὑγιεία or Ὑγεία, Latin: Hygēa or Hygīa), is the daughter of the god of medicine, Asclepius, and Epione. She is the goddess/personification of health (Greek: ὑγίεια - hugieia), cleanliness and hygiene. Hygieia and her five sisters each performed a facet of Apollo's art: Hygieia ("Hygiene" the goddess/personification of health, cleanliness, and sanitation), Panacea (the goddess of Universal remedy), Iaso (the goddess of recuperation from illness), Aceso (the goddess of the healing process), and Aglæa/Ægle (the goddess of beauty, splendor, glory, magnificence, and adornment). Hygieia also plays an important part in her father's worship. While her father is more directly associated with healing, she is associated with the prevention of sickness and the continuation of good health. Her name is the source of the word "hygiene". She was imported by the Romans as the goddess Valetudo, the goddess of personal health, but in time she started to be increasingly identified with the ancient Italian goddess of social welfare, Salus.

In Hellenic Polytheism Asclepius (Greek: Ἀσκληπιός, Asklēpiós) is the God of medicine, healing, rejuvenation and physicians. Asclepius represents the healing aspect of the medical arts; his daughters are Hygieia ("Hygiene", the goddess/personification of health, cleanliness, and sanitation), Iaso (the goddess of recuperation from illness), Aceso (the goddess of the healing process), Aglæa/Ægle (the goddess of beauty, splendor, glory, magnificence, and adornment), and Panacea (the goddess of universal remedy). He is associated with the Roman/Etruscan god Vediovis. He is one of Apollo's sons, sharing with Apollo the epithet Paean ("the Healer"). The rod of Asclepius, a snake-entwined staff, remains a symbol of medicine today. Those physicians and attendants who serve this god are known as the Therapeutae of Asclepius.

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The concept of sleep being restorative has long been part of our consciousness. This is a votive relief of Asklepios (Ἀσκληπιός) and his daughter Hygeia (Ὑγιεία ) found at the Asklepeion ( Ἀσκληπιεῖον) of Piraeus, Greece (dated to around 350 BC). Those seeking healing would go to his sanctuary, hoping for the god’s healing blessings while they slumbered and dreamed.

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Roma. Statua di Esculapio nel tempio a lui dedicato in villa Borghese. Nella sua mano destra il bastone terapeutico sul quale ascende un colubro di Esculapio, serpente reputato portare salute. In effetti il colubro è un ottimo cacciatore di topi e di altri piccoli animali portatori di malattie pestilenziali, pertanto era allevato nei templi ospedalieri per garantirne una costante derattizzazione.

Roma. Tempio di Asclepio, Dio della medicina.
Questo tempio venne eretto dalla famiglia dei principi Borghese, i quali diedero alla chiesa anche dei papi.
Esso si trova in quella che era la tenuta fuori porta della famiglia Borghese.
Nel secolo scorso la villa intera venne ceduta allo stato italiano, il quale la donò al comune di Roma.
Nel timpano è rappresentata la storia dell'arrivo di Esculapio a Roma. Nel pieno di una pestilenza, notabili romani vennero inviati dal Senato ad Epidauro, dove si trovava un importante tempio di Asclepio. Qui i sacerdoti diedero ai romani un serpente del tempio, esattamente un colubro di Esculapio, considerato una manifestazione del Dio, affinché tornasse con loro in città a sconfiggere l'epidemia.
Sbarcati nell'Urbe, il serpente scese dalla nave ed andò ad annidarsi sull'isola Tiberina: lì fu deciso di costruire il tempio alla divinità terapeutica, per epifania del Dio stesso alla presenza di tutti i Romani.
La pestilenza fu sconfitta e da allora, presso quel tempio, si sviluppò uno dei più importanti ospedali sacri del mondo antico.

"This is a prayer and ritual to Asklepios and Hygeia. Some of my personal prayers and the Orphic Hymns. Here is to a healthy new year!"

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A Prayer For Health In 2021 Going into 2021, we still need the Gods and Goddesses of health in our daily lives. This is my prayer for the new year. This is a prayer and ritual to Asklep...

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Statue Of Ancient Greek God Asclepius And Bust Of Zeus-Serapis Found In Turkey - Greek City Times A statue of the Ancient Greek god of health Asclepius and a bust of the god Zeus-Serapis were found during an excavations in the ancient city of Cibyra

"On December 6, Christian "Greece" celebrates the holy day of St. Nikolaos. A man who, according to orthodox Christianity, destroyed several temples and altars of our ancestral gods. The scenes you see below are from a Christian comic for children. They depict Nikolaos destroying Hellenic sanctuaries by the power of his prayers.
The first picture shows two young men in front of the now destroyed temple of Apollon. The one who is standing says: "Bishop Nikolaos has prayed 'God, you are great!', and this great temple of Apollon bursted into pieces!" The one kneeling behind him says: "Come here to touch and see this. The marble statue of Apollon turned into soil."
In the left picture in the middle, the gods, depicted as pink devils, are fleeing from St. Nikolaos. They are crying: "You wronged us, Nikolaos! You have caused immense suffering to us!" In the picture on the right side we see Nikolaos saying: "My children, now the time has come for the greatest temple of the demons to be razed by the power of the son of god. Let us go and vanish the altar of Artemis."
In the end, it was no god that destroyed the altar of Artemis, but the hands of impious men.
This comic is just one of many examples of anti-Hellenism in Greece.
It's an ongoing thing.
They fanaticise children, and teach them to fear and hate the indigenous culture of Greece.
We all learned to fear and hate our ancestral gods. They took our culture away from us, and (de)formed us to enemies of our ancestors. They did this by brainwashing us.
In the same time, however, they teached us to be proud of our "glorious past." This ideological schizophrenia is the result of the modern "Greek" nation-building that answers to the names of Spyridon Zampelios and Konstantinos Paparrigopoulos. The latter invented the nationalist monstrosity of "Hellenochristianity," that still haunts the modern Romaic or "Greek" imagination.
Ethnic Hellenes have made great efforts to overcome the Christian and nationalist brainwashing. As we started down this path we learned that a heart can break many times until it breaks free. We have put our identity, everything we learned from our parents, schools, teachers, the state, to the test. Our whole world crumbled when we discovered that the people and institutions that should have protected us were actually the ones who deceived us and turned us against ourselves. You cannot overcome the propaganda and mind-games by just leaving the church. It is impossible. You have to bleed them out. And this is a very painful and also devastating experience. Our scars were the "tolls" we had to pay to even get to the narrow path towards freedom, the land with no maps and signs.
In the end, you are not the man you used to be. Your understanding and perspective on the world has changed drastically.
Looking back years later, you realize that the world that crumbled were your handcuffs shattered into pieces.
The Hellenic Re-Indigenization is the fulfilled promise of a ruined world.
We are the nemesis of the ancestral spirits.
On December 6, we mourn the ethnocide of our people, while others celebrate one of the persons who carried it out." -