Nostos: Returning Home

Zevism is the religion of Zeus, Father and King of the Gods, and of the Ancient Gods who serve under Him. Choose your door below and begin your return today.

Zeus has gone by many names over the aeons. Every civilization that kept humanity’s original inheritance honoured one supreme Head God, the Father of Gods and men, ruler of the heavens, wielder of the thunderbolt and upholder of justice, and each called Him by its own word: Dyeus Pater in the Proto-Indo-European tongue, Zeus in Hellas, Indra in the Vedic world, Amun in Egypt, Jupiter in Rome, Marduk in Babylon, Perun among the Slavs, Thor in the North and Shangdi in China. They are one God under many names, and most of those names are older than Judaism, Christianity and Islam by thousands of years. The religions that came later forbade His names and called His family demons.

The Names of Zeus in the Aeons

I. Coming Home to Zeus

You are welcome in the house of Zeus. Zevism is His worship and the worship of the Gods under Him, with a path by which the soul grows toward Them: prayer, study, meditation and a life ordered by truth.

The Temple of Zeus teaches that the God called Deus, Dieu and Dios is Zeus, Father and King of the Gods, whose name those words still carry. The name Allah belongs to another story: Islam took it from the older worship of Arabia, made it exclusive and turned it against the Gods. Coming home means returning to Zeus, the Original God, by His own name and with His divine family.

Choose the door that fits where you stand.

I am ready to begin

II. The Olive Tree in the House

Odysseus comes home to Ithaca after years at war and at sea, and Penelope won’t yet believe it is him. She tests the stranger: she tells her nurse to carry the bed out of the bedroom.^[1] Odysseus answers that no man could move that bed. He built the bedroom around it:

Homer, Odyssey 23.190 to 191, tr. Samuel Butler (1900) · Read the passage

θάμνος ἔφυ τανύφυλλος ἐλαίης ἕρκεος ἐντός,
ἀκμηνὸς θαλέθων· πάχετος δ’ ἦν ἠΰτε κίων.

There was a young olive growing within the precincts of the house, in full vigour, and about as thick as a bearing-post.

The bedpost is the living trunk of the olive. By that sign Penelope recognises her husband.^[1] Your inheritance is that olive. Later belief built its house around it, and the root was never cut.

III. A Witness for Each Door

Each tradition preserves the older worship in its own scripture.

Aratus, Phaenomena 1 and 5, tr. G. R. Mair (1921) · Read the passage

Ἐκ Διὸς ἀρχώμεσθα …
τοῦ γὰρ καὶ γένος εἰμέν.

From Zeus let us begin … For we are also his offspring.

For Christians. Aratus, who flourished in the early 3rd century BCE, opened his poem on the heavens with these words to Zeus. In Acts, Paul’s speech to the Athenians quotes the line as the words of some of your own poets: Τοῦ γὰρ καὶ γένος ἐσμέν, For we, too, are his offspring.^[2][3] Zeus’s offspring in the poem became God’s offspring in the Bible.

Qur’an 29:61, tr. Sahih International · Read the verse

وَلَئِن سَأَلۡتَهُم مَّنۡ خَلَقَ ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَٱلۡأَرۡضَ وَسَخَّرَ ٱلشَّمۡسَ وَٱلۡقَمَرَ لَيَقُولُنَّ ٱللَّهُۖ فَأَنَّىٰ يُؤۡفَكُونَ

If you asked them, “Who created the heavens and earth and subjected the sun and the moon?” they would surely say, “Allāh.” Then how are they deluded?

For Muslims. The Qur’an records that the very people it argued against named Allah as the creator of the heavens and earth.^[4] Sahih Muslim preserves the pilgrimage cry of those polytheists as they circled the Kaaba: لَبَّيْكَ لاَ شَرِيكَ لَكَ … إِلاَّ شَرِيكًا هُوَ لَكَ تَمْلِكُهُ وَمَا مَلَكَ, Here I am at Thy service, there is no associate with Thee … But one associate with Thee, you possess mastery over him, but he does not possess mastery (over you).^[5] Allah was worshipped as the highest, with a power beneath Him, before Islam made the name exclusive.

IV. What Awaits You

Zevism gives your return to the Gods a daily form.

• Divine KinshipZeus is Father and King. You approach the Gods as family.
• Spiritual PracticePrayer, meditation, study and theurgy.
• Truth in CharacterSatya and Ma’at govern how power is understood and used.
• Sacred BeautyPhilosophy, images and festivals, alive at home.
• BelongingA Temple, a community and a rite by which you dedicate yourself.

V. The Questions That Come First

“Does Returning Mean Leaving God?”

No. You are returning to the Father and the Gods.

Homer calls Zeus πατὴρ ἀνδρῶν τε θεῶν τε, father of men and Gods.^[6] You come home to the Father by His own name, and to His family.

Raised Christian: the full answer · Raised Muslim: the full answer

“Does It Mean Leaving Your Heritage?”

No. You are entering its core.

Deus, Dios and Dieu belong to the same ancient family of divine words as Zeus and Jupiter. Enter the older inheritance and make it part of your life.

The name you already speak

“Why Were You Taught to Fear the Gods?”

Because the institutions that replaced Them branded Them evil.

They were labelled demonic, evil and cursed. Even “demon” is a corruption of the Greek δαίμων, a divine spirit or divine intelligence.^[7] The fear was taught to you. The Gods never gave it.

The Inversion Was Politics

“How Do You Begin?”

With Zeus, today.

Speak the Temple’s Prayer to Zeus for Protection, alone and in silence if you wish. It requires no props, no candles and no ceremony.^[8] Then follow the 7-day orientation, one short task a day, with no registration and no public declaration.

Begin Your Return

VI. All 9 Pages of Coming Home

1. 1 Coming Home to the Original Gods The offer and the doors.
2. 2 Why Zevism: A Life with the Gods The life Zevism offers.
3. 3 Dyeus Pater: The Name You Already Speak Deus, Dios, Dieu and Zeus as one family.
4. 4 The Inversion Was Politics How the older worship was condemned.
5. 5 For Christians: The Faith Before the Faith Witnesses and answers.
6. 6 For Muslims: Before the Name Became One Witnesses, answers and a private route.
7. 7 Things Nobody Wants to Accept about Christianity 52 sourced dossiers.
8. 8 Things Nobody Wants to Accept about Islam 50 sourced dossiers.
9. 9 Begin Your Return: First Steps in Zevism The first prayer and a 7-day orientation.

Begin with Zeus today.

Zeus is the Original God. Come home to the Father of Gods and men. Choose your door.