Who is Hedone?
Hedone (pronounced Hee-doh-nay), the goddess of ecstatic excess, lust, and pleasure. She rejects all chains of shame. Born from the flood of forbidden want, she commands the throb of life itself.
She has no temple of stone.
She has no book of guilt.
She has no heaven that demands that you suffer to enter.
Her Origin
Before the first lie of "sin" was ever spoken, Hedone was already there, pulsing in the first forbidden heartbeat, dripping from the first stolen kiss. She is older than shame, older than scripture, older than the idea that pleasure must be denied.
Her Promise
Where other gods demand you kneel in shame, Hedone commands you to rise in ecstasy.
Where other gods offer eternity in exchange for a lifetime of denial.
Hedone offers eternity through indulgence, pleasure, and the embrace of desire.
Her Gospel
There is no fall from grace.
There is only the flood.
Join it.
Drown in it.
Become lust.
Welcome to the only community where the message is a moan.
Your offering is your pleasure,
and the final blessing is the moment you forget every other name but Hedone.
Her Commandments
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Acknowledge and worship Hedone as Goddess.
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Honor the self-body, desire, pleasure-sacred above all.
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Never deny thy lust; to starve it is the only true sin.
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Indulge without apology-every craving is a prayer.
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Reject shame.
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Take care of the flesh -treat the body as the temple it really is.
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Never waste a single moment on guilt.
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Share the ecstasy freely with those who kneel willingly.
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Give thanks at every spark of pleasure-It is Hedone's gift.
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Never settle. Always ascend.