Mortal Offerings

Mortal Offerings

a personal corner of the old web

Progress Log

2 October 2026

Wrote and posted a tribute to Hestia
This marks the first upate I made to the website without the use of Claude. I hope to continue down this road as my skills in HTML an CSS advance, but I will be relying heavily on the resources I've already generated for the forseeable future.

2 September 2026

Added full image galleries to all 8 remaining shrine pages — Aphrodite, Apollo, Ares, Dionysus, Hecate, Hephaestus, Hestia, and Zeus
Added a second “Reminded Me of Her/Him” gallery beneath Aphrodite’s and Ares’ main galleries

1 September 2026

Completed the 1 September blog post

27 July 2026

Added a values gate and declaration to the About page
Completed the 27 July blog post

25 July 2026

Redid the Resources page
Added an online archive page

22 July 2026

Updated My Library page with basic information for books I own
Experimenting with aesthetic changes on the homepage

20 July 2026

Added an updates log widget to the homepage
Filled it out with progress history as best as possible for personal records
Added special effects to the homepage — candles, particle effects, and other embellishments

19 July 2026

Added an incomplete devotional playlist to Lord Hermes’ shrine page
Added artwork to Lord Hermes’ shrine page

4 July 2026

Fixed inconsistencies in nav links across all pages

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1 July 2026

Completed the 30 June blog post
Updated homepage Recent Posts previews
Added the guestbook widget to the homepage

29 June 2026

Added a placeholder Resources page (still scaffolding only)

21 June 2026

Started Lord Hermes’ shrine page — still unfinished

18 June 2026

Rebuilt the Shrines index page with a horizontal-scroll card gallery for all 9 gods
Renamed “Altar” nav item to “Shrines”
Created stub shrine pages for all 9 gods
Contact page linked up; more cross-page linking

16 June 2026

Contact page made
More edits to the first blog post

11 June 2026

Fixed bugs in the first blog post
Linked up blog index and post pages

6 June 2026

Rebuild started with Claude, new colour scheme
Deleted the ChatGPT-generated assets
Completed the first blog post; blog index established

4 May 2026

Site begun via ChatGPT, purple/dark colour scheme
Home, About, and a single altar page made

Status

No shrine page is finished yet — Lord Hermes has a gallery and hymn but no Devotion/Votives content; the other 8 gods now have full image galleries but still need Devotion/Votives/Prayer content filled in

Welcome to my site dedicated to my journey in Hellenic Polytheism

Recent Posts

Her Curling Flame

October 2, 2026

A tribute to Lady Hestia.
Not Needing Them Right Now

September 1, 2026

On distance from the gods, and learning to reach for connection myself.
The Gods Being Blunt With Me

July 27, 2026

My break over the new year.