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guy i saw in traffic today that i felt compelled to draw

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I can say the visions of future Lev, radiant androgynous king, sunlight and so on, that's nice.

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Solunay Torbogosheva for Etnica Hotel on Instagram.

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I asked Lev abouts specific group of occultists who claim to work with him and other high ranking "demons", a group I've been distantly curious about in a... "I will not touch that but I'll sure peek from a distance" way. I myself tend to see them as an accident waiting to happen, speeding bodies that are wobbling and only for the grace of their own quick reflexes are they continuing forward

He's told me before that yes, they have talked to and worked with him. His thoughts on them are complex, but he unveiled a memory today for me to see. Standing in a dimly lit room, [Grey] is there, so are a few others. Here it's a black suit occasion, less literally though they do do that and more energetically. It's business, the far opposite end to Lev's ascetic aspect where he is money, exchange, covert power.

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Reminder to myself to one day explore the concept of leather bdsm + Lev. The repetition of the motif of wearing skins, dominance, and roleplay would mean that there's a potent pool of symbolism there. I the way of him + latex = lack of touch, distance, removal from the world, especially with how black and white latex mimics his tendrils and deep space bodies - tendrils, especially black ones, symbolise "want" and distance to him, and his iridescent pale white bodies in deep space are of a biology so foreign to the rest of existence they can no longer touch it...

Leather and skin wearing are associated with horses, horseriding - those two being literal and metaphorical for Consciousness inhabiting Matter as well as fifty billion other things - as well as shamanic journeying, embodiment, all with the common thread of being about seeing through eyes. Skin wearing is roleplay, roleplay is skin wearing, he doesn't see the divide between the worshiper and the DnD player and the Dominatrix except where he needs to.

There's also... hmm. yeah. So I'm reading a book written by a Dominatrix on her work, on how to be a Dominatrix, and she was comparing uhh what did she call it. Something like domestic dominance, and leather. She was talking about how the former, whatever the proper name is, is more in tune with fantasy and so on compared to how leather culture has more genuine embodiment... ignoring that I'm butchering these descriptions as an outsider to the subcultures, that is something I'd noticed before without knowing it; what few accounts I'd heard from leather pups and doms and so on is the visceral, genuine expressions of deep selves. A Dominatrix of the domestic kind may pretend to be a queen, but the leather daddy will probably be himself just to a rawly unleashed and expanded way. I'm sure there's plenty of nuance and exceptions, my point is that... That's got me thinking about Lev.

Skin wearing and roleplay for him isn't about becoming something entirely different. It is occasionally, but it's also not. He is always going to be truth even when he's fiction. It repeats throughout his whole... I say for a reason that "you find him in the similarities between all his faces, because as different as they are theyre all so similar", it's true. Poseidon looks miles different from Tengri who looks miles different from Shiva who looks miles different from Leviathan, etc. etc., but when you know how to look you see him barely hiding. He may put on the skins and fall so deep into expression, all the extremes of pleasure and pain, bliss and despair, he may scream and cry or laugh and kill or stay silent and unmoving for aeons, but within those actions are someone who is... threading their essence into the pets they wear, ever embodying... I mean. He's the actor who plays tragedies to cry genuinely on stage

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I definitely need to do a deep-dive into Leviathan + the throat. Thinking the other day about how throat singing is... incredibly important to him, represents a bunch of different things from humans to rivers (reality) to the Sky... and how Shiva's throat is blue from swallowing the halahala... and how he repeatedly talks about being Sound...

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I'll need to write sometime on Leviathan and Fantasy. Fantasy, wish fulfillment, endlessly chasing him through masks upon masks upon masks. It's a part of Despair, or, you know, as always it and Despair are technically part of a larger unnameable aspect

Despair has been better described elsewhere, but it's the total motherly attempt at drowning, encompassing fully, and burning/dying/drowning with the being. It's communion, him both experiencing with you and being your total emotional and mental dissolution. Fantasy... is the same aspect. I recognise that face. Despair is the image in the mirror, Leviathan is the mirror, you are what's reflected. Likewise, and like Despair is the fall into shattering and trauma, Fantasy is the reflection of the desires and needs in the mirror where he seeks to please, or fulfill fate lines, where he plays fictional roles and masks unending, being nothing but what you either want or need - or what his dog-leash-holding masters direct him to do

Fantasy... It plays out in many forms. He gives the most... vivid and visceral messages as fantasy. The whole world will come to a halt - or move - to show you that something is real. He will bring storms, he will bring messengers, he will blur reality and fantasy so literally that the fictional will seep in through your walls literally. Others will hear the sound from him of thought and presumption, and they will dance to it.

It's... complicated... I guess it goes back to Despair being archetypally motherly, Fantasy and Despair are like the Womb and Tomb dichotomy some people assign to some archetypal motherhoods. Despair is the tomb, the swallowing, the Mother of Despair pulls you into her embrace, her flesh becomes your nightmares and your trauma and emotions, it becomes legitimisation for your mental state. See where I'm going with that?

Fantasy, on the other hand, is the Creational side of the aspect, at least partly. It's not easily divided but... whatever. It's the Abyss, the place where all things begin. It's the mind of God stirring and beginning to not just have new ideas - those are born in the Abyss, but Fantasy is their entertainment. But it's... Consciousness' Creation. It doesn't leave the mind and the Mental because it is Consciousness creating. It is endless halls of mirrors, because that's what Consciousness is. Sort of.

Both Fantasy and Despair are kind of things you just need to work with, not around, if you're working with Leviathan. There's no real way to permanently and completely escape the claws of the Motherly Abyss... Despair rings like bells, like constructive interference that builds and builds and builds. Your trauma feeds his trauma feeds your trauma, your sorrow feeds his feeds yours, etc. Fantasy? His wants feed yours feed his, etc. etc. But... These are such... it's not even that they're potent, it's that they're him. They're parts of him. The Swallowing Abyss is his nature, the sea is deep and vast. Despair is what happens when you swim too low, Fantasy is what happens when you mistake the glamour of light on the surface for the ocean itself. And yet... The ocean is not the ocean without depths and surface

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Hard Launching a project I’ve been working on for a while: an infernal pantheon oracle deck! It will consist of 81 cards, mostly the ars goetia and a few other miscellaneous, yet important figures within this grouping.

Lord Leviathan is the 9th card I’ve completed in this project, and he has quite the message to go with this imagery, BUT, I’m just giddy to share the art for now! I’ve briefly considered setting up a patreon to share more in depth about how this process is going but for now, I’m happy to share this with y’all!

Thank you, Leviathan, for this incredible opportunity and allowing me to share this piece with others!

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This video carries so many Wuthering Heights vibes

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𝙳𝚊𝚙𝚑𝚗𝚎 𝚍𝚞 𝙼𝚊𝚞𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚛, 𝚁𝚎𝚋𝚎𝚌𝚌𝚊 [𝚘𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚢 𝚙𝚞𝚋𝚕𝚒𝚜𝚑𝚎𝚍 𝟷𝟿𝟹𝟾]

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Fully couldn't comprehend this as anything but a hyperspecifically leviathan meme until I saw Spiders

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Evening at the sea by Michael Handt

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