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This website is dedicated to Hellēnismôs, Greece’s indigenous culture. Our aim is to explain Hellēnismôs as a living tradition from a Hellenic point of view and to defend our culture against appropriation, alienation and expropriation, in order to make a contribution to the great task of re-Hellenization, as we call the Hellenic effort for re-indigenization. As such, we welcome and support the content of the “Declaration of War Against Exploiters of Lakota Spirituality” because we firmly believe that no ethnic or indigenous tradition, religion and culture should be exploited and destroyed. Given the history and crimes of humankind, this should be a matter of course today. 

Hellēnismôs or Hellēnikôn is the designation for the indigenous Hellenic culture, including Hellenic value system, religion, language, customs and ethos. Furthermore, it is the ethnic identity of the ancient, medieval and contemporary Hellenes. The term “Hellēnismôs” means “of the Greeks, Hellenism […]. II. use of a pure Greek style and idiom” (Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott: A Greek-English Lexicon, p. 536, 9th edition, Oxford University Press, New York 1996). Simply put, Hellēnismôs is the “greek way of life” (Richard A. Horsley, Paul and Empire, p. 206, Harrisburg 1997). However, in order to avoid misunderstandings, we must specify that by Hellēnismôs we do not mean Romiosyni or Byzantium but only indigenous Hellenic culture, also known as ethnikos Hellēnismôs (in order to distinguish carefully between Hellenic culture and “christian Hellenism” → Romiosyni). Hellenic tradition, Hellēnismôs, Hellēnikôn etc. are different names for the same culture and should therefore not confuse people, especially since the Hellenes perceive their religion, identity, worldview, language and way of life as a unity.

The Hellenes are an ethnos. The word “ethnos” derives from ancient Greek éthos which means “character, idiom, behavior.” An “ethnos” is a group of people who share a common ethos. A Hellene is someone of Hellenic ancestry who participates in Hellenic ethos: language, religion, way of life (“kinship of all Greeks in blood and speech, and the shrines of gods and the sacrifices that we have in common, and the likeness of our way of life,” Herodotos, 8.144). The Hellene is a member of a Hellenic ethnic group or tribe who participates in Hellenic ethos: language, religion, way of life (“kinship of all Greeks in blood and speech, and the shrines of gods and the sacrifices that we have in common, and the likeness of our way of life,” Herodotos, 8.144). The Hellenes are bearers of a distinctive ethnic identity based on a specific ethos, language and religion. Thus, Hellēnismôs refers automatically to Hellenic religion, which is Minoan-Mycenaean in origin (E.O. James, The Cult Of The Mother Goddess, London 1959) and defined as the: “Religious beliefs and practices of the ancient Hellenes” (Encycl. Britannica: Greek Religion). As a religion, Hellēnismôs is orthopraxic and dominated by the respective local and tribal moment, which explains its natural diversity. It is a cosmotheistic, animistic and ethnic religion, encompassing the religious views, rites and festivals of all Greek tribes, ages and states. 

Greek language, the regeneration of Hellenic culture and loyalty towards common Hellēnismôs are basic characteristics that all ethnic Hellenes have in common, regardless of whether they are Platonists, Stoics or members of a different school of philosophy, and irrespective of which tribe they belong to.

The principal aim of Hellenic organizations is the full rehabilitation and revitalization of the Hellenic ethnos and its identity. The most important Hellenic organization is the Supreme Council of ethnic Hellenes (YSEE) which could be referred to as a nativistic movement. A nativistic movement is defined as: “Any conscious, organized attempt on the part of a society’s members to revive or perpetuate selected aspects of its culture” (Ralph Linton: Nativistic Movements, in: American Anthropologist, Vol. 45, no. 2, 1943, p. 230). People’s economic situation, philosophical affiliations, political standpoints or sexual orientations do not concern Hellēnismôs. Ideologies, political parties and artificial modern opposites (such as nationalism ≠ internationalism, capitalism ≠ leninism, state ≠ market, universalism ≠ folkism, left ≠ right etc.), most of which are of Western origin anyway, are irrelevant to Hellēnismôs, since these things have no place in ethnic religions in general and in particular in Hellēnismôs. “By Ethnic Religion, we mean religion, spirituality, and cosmology that is firmly grounded in a particular people’s traditions. In our view, this does not include modern occult or ariosophic theories/ideologies, nor syncretic neo-religions” (European Congress of Ethnic Religions, ECER: About ECER).

The regeneration of Hellēnismôs is by no means a return to an undefined “antiquity” or ancient socioeconomic conditions, as one–who associates the Hellenes exclusively with antiquity–may suspect at first glance. In general, the Hellenic re-indigenization is not a step back in time, rather it is the return of some people to their homeland’s indigenous culture, value system, religion and identity, to the state of being that the Hellenic way offers. It is in this context where the recovery of the Hellenic tradition as a living present takes place. Whether we are looking at the past, present, or future, Hellēnismôs is of timeless importance to the Greeks, because it represents their original culture and religion, their language and customs. In addition to that, it is in the very nature of Hellēnismôs to shape free societies and upright human beings, and freedom has always been very important to the Hellenes.

Hellēnismôs addresses the whole human being, since it is culture, language, literature, music, art, cookery, aesthetics, religion, philosophy and value system, and at the same time an authentic alternative to the Occident, Orient and Romiosini. It offers a way of human being that is specifically Hellenic and yet all-human, that guides through life and prepares man for death, that educates the human being, embedded in the cosmos, towards reason and fulfills its entire existence. From the cradle to the grave.

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Further down on this page follow English texts from different sources. Some were written by the owner of this website, while others were written by single authors and Hellenic collectives. The latter were re-published on this website with permission. For more specific information, read the relevant note at the top of each text.

1. English articles
2. English links
3. Privacy Policy, Disclaimer & Impressum

1. English articles

About Hellenic culture, religion and history

Anti-Hellenism

Hymns

Labrys

Supreme Council of Ethnic Hellenes (YSEE)

Vlassis G. Rassias

Video

The Hierophants of Hellenic religion

2. English links

  1. YSEE – Supreme Council of ethnic Hellenes
  2. YSEE of America
  3. Labrys: Religious Community
  4. Thyrsos – Hellenes Ethnikoi
  5. Hellenic Hierophants
  6. European Congress of Ethnic Religions (former WCER)
  7. Common Hellenism
  8. Hellenismostv (Hellenic YouTube Channel)
  9. Vlassis G. Rassias: Personal website
  10. Hearth of Hellenism | Angelo Nasios
  11. Evaggelos Vallianatos: Articles of the Hellenic historian and environmental strategist
  12. Epicurean philosophy in Greece
  13. Personal blog of American Hellenist Timothy Jay Alexander (2007-2009)
  14. Theoi
  15. Perseus Collection: Greek and Roman Materials
  16. The Internet Classics Archive
  17. Bibliotheca Graeca
  18. Internet History Sourcebooks Project (Fordham University)
  19. HMEPA (Attic Calendar)
  20. Scribd (PDF-Datas and more)
  21. Archive (old books and more)
  22. The Archaeologist
  23. The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
  24. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
  25. Greek language (Encyclopædia Britannica)
  26. Portal for the Greek language (Greek language)
  27. Liddell-Scott Greek-English Lexicon Online
  28. Suda Lexicon
  29. Encyclopedia Mythica
  30. Survival International
  31. Society for Threatened Peoples
  32. The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies
  33. PHAROS: Responding to appropriations of Hellenic and Roman culture
  34. Everyday Orientalism: The legacies of colonialism in papyrology and classics
  35. J. Chapoutot, Greeks, Romans, Germans. How the Nazis Usurped Europe’s Classical Past (Book review)
  36. Greek Helsinki Monitor
  37. Universal Declaration of Human Rights
  38. United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
  39. Greek and other calendars: Episteme Academy
  40. Pontos World
  41. Pontic Greek: Austrian Academy of Sciences: Vanishing Languages and Cultural Heritage
  42. The Cambridge Language Collective: Tongue Tied III – Pondering Pontic Greek
  43. Sait Çetinoglu: The Pontus Independence Movement and the Greek Genocide (Pontos World)
  44. Nikolaos Hlamides: Pontic Greeks and the Greek Genocide (Pontos World)
  45. The Asia Minor and Pontos Hellenic Research Center (AMPHRC)
  46. Greek Genocide Resource Center
  47. The nazi occupation of Greece, 1941-44: An endless list of crimes, atrocities and bloodbaths
  48. Starvation Without Reparations: The Nazi Occupation of Greece (HistoryHit)
  49. Axis occupation of Greece during World War II (Hellenica World)
  50. Konstantinos Doxiadis: Greece’s sacrifices during World War II (Stanford.edu)

Publishers

  1. Oxford Classical Texts, Oxford University Press
  2. Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press
  3. Yale University Press, Classics
  4. Routledge Publishers, Classical Studies
  5. Harvard University Press, Classics & Ancient World
  6. University of California Press, Books
  7. University of Michigan Press, Classical Studies
  8. Cambridge University Press, Classical Studies
  9. Penguin Classics
  10. Macmillan Publishers, Academics

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