#Holiday Ceremonies

[godallaswriter]

Holiday Spirit: Honoring Veterans

[besidebloomingirises]

[maeviuslynn]

Happy Greater Feast to Aleister Crowley!

A "greater feast" is Thelema refers to the celebration of one's death. A "lesser feast" refers to one's birth. To quote the Book of the Law, "…a feast for life and a greater feast for death!" AL II:41.

This modern holiday is not one of the official ones called for in the Book of the Law, but people still like to celebrate it with food and reading some of Crowley's poetry.

Aleister Crowley asked for his friends in England to get together a year after he died and celebrate with a curry dinner. And they did that. Gerald York, Frieda Lady Harris, and others got together at Gerald York's place and had a curry feast. Many Thelemites in the modern day choose to carry on this tradition. I know my household will be having curry tonight!

[feniksido]

Zenith the Silver AKA The Dark Urge AKA the Chosen of Bhaal AKA the Prophet of the End AKA The Armageddon-Watcher and like a million other things he calls himself throughout the game cus he cant pick one

[smosssh22]

Just say congratulations 👏👏🎉🎉🎉🎉.

House warming going lit🔥🔥🥂

Just say congratulations 🎉👏👏👏👏. Tumblr family.

House warming going well so far

[bambiraptorx]

Okay so since yokai education system won in this poll as the topic of my lore dump, have a ramble.

The yokai education system is fairly complicated in nature: even though it's largely publicly funded via taxes, it doesn't necessarily resemble what people think of as a public school. (This is because I'm drawing a lot on my experiences from being homeschooled/ homeschool co-ops/in the US school system, so there's kind of a hodge-podge.) Also, as a rather important sidenote, I'm working with the headcanon that different yokai species have different rates of development/aging, so the whole process of education isn't nearly as standardized as it would be in a US public school anyway.

Yokai schools have a lot of variety in size and purpose, but are usually designed to provide classes for any level of education. This might be done through having multiple wings or floors in the building for different levels of education (kids are usually separated from adults, gen eds from higher level classes, etc) or having the school itself spread out over multiple buildings. Schools tend to be pretty large, and one person might spend their entire educational career (from what we'd consider pre-k all the way to a PhD) at one building or campus.

It's also fairly common for schools to be organized by subject: a wing (or floor or building) for science, for arts, for history, etc. If this is the case, there's usually a separate area specifically for the lower education levels (think elementary/middle school-ish) so that the youngest kids don't have to run all over the place or between buildings to get to classes.

Speaking of classes: they tend to be relatively small, no more than 20 students tops, but usually around 10-15, even going as small as 4-5 people on occasion. Students are more likely to take 3-4 days of classes than 5 days in a row, but it depends on what the parent is willing/able to teach them at home. Also, the selection of teachers is less "you went to school to learn how to educate" and more "hey we heard you're a physical therapist, would you like to teach anatomy and physiology classes this semester". There's a bit of a social expectation that people who have spent a long time in a given field will eventually teach a class about it, or at least come in and do guest lectures.

Also: P.E. is generally considered to be an extracurricular activity and/or a parental responsibility. Yokai are too varied in body types and exercise needs for any form of standardized physical education to be particularly effective (like how can you have bird person and a centaur and sentient slime do the same exercises? not easily, and it's way easier to teach a class where everyone's doing the same exercises than it is to teach one where everyone has to do different things.)

Schools will usually have sports teams though, and it's fairly common to offer some kind of fighting/weapons class. They often have plenty of clubs and extracurriculars, from chess and art clubs to theater productions. However, there's only one or two schools in the Hidden City that currently offer a robotics club.

Feel free to ask questions! This is barely a fraction of the lore I have, and, as you may have guessed, I like infodumping lol

[arthistoryanimalia]

For #WorldLizardDay 🦎:

Ceremonial cloth (pua) with monitor lizards slumbering on watchtowers (bundau bepadung) Iban peoples, Borneo, 19th c. Homespun cotton, 87 1/2 × 40 1/4 in. (2 m 22.25 cm × 102.24 cm) Dallas Museum of Art 1983.130

[chappellrroan]

did you really attend school if there wasn't that one teacher that every other student was thirsting over

[sga-owns-my-soul]

For the character ask game: Teyla!

questions 3, 12, and 20 please ☺️

character ask game

ooh teyla my beloved!!!

3. Least favorite canon thing about this character?

honestly hate that they made teyla a mom. like don't get me wrong i love torren and the whole team protectiveness of him but idk i just. teyla does not feel like a Mom Character and i get why they did it but idk i just. idk it felt forced to me and i never loved that story arc (we were also ROBBED of learning more about her culture but that's a rant for another time)

12. What's a headcanon you have for this character?

this ties in heavily with my last point lmao but i think teyla didn't want to be a mother, and had no plans to, but because she literally just lost her people when she finds out she's pregnant, i really genuinely believe she made the decision to keep the baby simply out of a duty to her people. her child could very well have been the last athosian, and teyla has too much of a responsibility to her people- she puts their best interests above her own so often and i fully believe that's why she chose to keep the baby

20. Which other character is the ideal best friend for this character, the amount of screentime they share doesn't matter?

i'm fucking obsessed with her and rodney being absolute gossip queens, they know EVERYTHING that is going on in the city at all times and they drive ronon and john crazy on long jumper trips because they spend the entire time gossiping. they're so bitchy and judgemental together and i'm forever obsessed with them

[aveartz]

Christmas on the church grounds 🎄

[raffaellopalandri]

A Buddhist Priest's Perspective on Holidays

Daily writing promptHow do you celebrate holidays?View all responses As a Buddhist priest, holidays hold a dual significance for me. On the one hand, I participate in traditional Buddhist celebrations with my Sangha, leading and guiding, and participating in ceremonies, rites, and rituals. These occasions provide a communal space for spiritual reflection, meditation, and connection. Photo by…

[roaminginmyownbirthcanal]

They don’t gotta do the whole coronation thing, literally just put “king” in his wiki

[besidebloomingirises]

[famewolf]

doing pagan ceremonies with my sweet pagan husband <3

[graviconscientia]

I will be thinking about that dress for ages. But could you imagine one with pretty amber coloured birds and orange roses and blue ribbons and blooms in teal and violet and indigo and fuchsia... I would never want to take it off. The dress is so stunning as it is, though. I don't think I'd have the heart to change it.

[chewytongue]

The handsome newlyweds ❤️‍🔥