#Inanna-h

[whilereadingandwalking]

Inanna by Emily H. Wilson is a new mythological retelling that draws not only from the epic of Gilgamesh, but from lesser known tales of Inanna (who perhaps became known as Ishtar) and her descent into the underworld. I am obsessed with these myths finally getting the literary treatment! This ancient Sumerian world and wars, the way the Anunnaki move among the people, ruling and being worshipped, and its stories full of sex, grudge, and greed—it's excellently written by Wilson, who has done a lot of research into these stories.

My favorite character is Ninshubar, a female warrior whose tale is at first unconnected from the main story, until she is tied inexorably to Inanna. But the entire book does a good job of storytelling with a real folklore-ish feel. The revelations about the world are hinted at just enough. The reader's mind starts racing as those surprises unfold. The characters are interesting, and Inanna's development is fascinating. I really enjoyed Wilson's interpretation of the grand epic of young Gilgamesh and how Enkidu changes him.

My only complaint is that the book's timing is often confusing. This helps with keeping the action going, and you can almost see the filler chapters that were deleted. Inanna is imprisoned; Gilgamesh goes on a multi-day journey and decides he will save her; now we're back with Inanna, one hour has passed and someone is saving her, and it's Gilgamesh! I understand the temptation to do this, but it doesn't allow for much if any suspense, and can make twists or turns feel too abrupt to carry any weight.

But overall, this was a fun, fresh retelling that tackles a mythology we don't see much of in fiction, but which is the oldest story we currently have. I really love a good female rage story, and this is one, and the characters are very interesting and vivid. I'll be looking eagerly for its sequel.

Content warnings for sexual assault, incest, graphic violence, death/grief.

[nefarrilou]

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[furinana]

Analyzing each SMTIVA Goddess

As I discussed in this previous post, the Goddess shouldn't necessarily meant to be taken as Dagda ressurecting one of Nanashi's partners with their state of mind right before they died and/or under a 'brainwashed' state.

The difference between Dagda reviving Nanashi&Flynn compared to the partners is that the latter is being done from scratch rather than just healing wounds. And if Dagda is making a person from zero, a body alone won't suffice. He needs 'someone' to remember the soul and reshape as how they were. This is particularly useful to consider as reincarnation is a thing in the SMT4 duology, thus a soul could have infinite shapes.

The Goddesses in Massacre are stated in-game to be Nanashi's memories, in other words, 'ideas', 'interpretations', or 'impressions' that Nanashi had of them when alive.

This means that they could come from different periods from when Nanashi knew them. So many possibilities can be made.

Asahi is seen by many as the 'default Goddess' as she not only is the partner with the biggest emotional factor to be chosen by Nanashi, but she's also the one that you never fight against.

Childhood friend, sibling, lover, whatever it be, you knew and cared for each other the longest out of the cast.

If you side with Dagda in your very first run, it's noticeable that she'd be the only partner that won't have the Awakening Skill (which would strongly inhance her healing if she had it). In other words, her Mediarama would be lacking.

Even putting that aside, she still would be frustrating to be around if you're attempting to summon demons exclusive to fusion accidents due to her AI immediately casting Posumudi on your team (having you and your fodder material sick improves the chances for fusion accidents, remember?).

For these reasons mentioned, it can be stated that a Massacre run with Goddess Asahi would be the least helpful or resourceful one. Very characteristic of our little Asahi.

Anyway it doesn't take a genius to interpret this ending specially with the last particular line your partner gives you as something akin to gods giving birth through divine means.

But the real point behind this post is comparing the different flavors of what each union in this route produces.

Toki's vibe seems more of a possessive Goddess despite both girls meaning the same thing in their dialogue. Fair enough, we're talking about someone that attentively watches Nanashi when he takes a nap.

Fitting to her Cosmic Egg dialogue as she was possessed by Inanna, Toki was the partner that would represent this fertility element in the most explicit way.

As attentive fans might have felt, the Chaos alignment in SMT preach for 'one's return to its roots'. The Ring of Gaea wear ancient Japanese clothes and follows the might of the strong while praying for gods that came prior to the God of Law aka YHVH. Many of the Japanese Gods in the franchise originally belonged to the Chaos alignment for this reason.

It's important to have this in mind to understand the nuance of Toki calling Nanashi "Master". She is basically using an archaic way of a wife referring to her husband, and of course one will immediately put the last piece of the puzzle together: Flynn, the one with Samurai mannerisms, is also conveniently using an archaic way to refer to a Lord since he thinks of himself as Nanashi's subordinate in this ending.

If you pick a male partner for the Goddess role, this extra dialogue plays followed by the partner being particularly surprised by your choice.

Hal is usually not considered in the 'harem' as Asahi and Toki since the girl duo is explicit in several levels above him but... when you think about it, it still makes sense for Hallelujah's character. He blushes multiple times, allows Nanashi to vent alone with him, even goes far as showing annoyance at the prospect of Nanashi showing interest on girls and viceversa.

He is a shy boy whose only reference in his life have been hot-bloodied Ashura-kai he grew up around, so he is just more subtle about it. Don't take a Yakuza affectionately calling you 'bro' as nothing.

I decided to group Asahi, Toki and Hallelujah together because they are the trio with the most, let's say... closeness and emotions-resembling-romance in one-on-one interactions towards Nanashi.

With the most crucial evidence being their final phrase conveying their desire towards the act of childbirth itself for you.

OHHHHHHHHH HOLY MOTHER OF NTR

Regardless of your interpretation concerning how Flynn and Isabeau saw each other, she being Flynn's last living teammate and her devotion towards giving assistance to his savior role grouped with she being neutral at best and being secretly disgusted by Nanashi at worst produces a not very... wholesome picture of this scenario.

If anything, the main reason one would think for why Isabeau continued to place trust on Nanashi's party had more to do with Asahi's presence. Isabeau as a partner is highly valued for her good skills in early game but she interestingly doesn't have close interactions with Nanashi as she has with Asahi.

The messiest element of all is that while Isabeau refuses to let Flynn kill her if Flynn sides with Law or Chaos out of not wanting his hands to get dirty, she will give no dignity to Nanashi and lets the young Hunter do as he pleases with her.

To which one cannot help but think as they watch this ending: Nanashi's memories of Isabeau aren't of warmth or friendship as he'd have for any of his other partners. These memories of Isabeau are based on how he watched Isabeau act towards Flynn.

This Goddess choice was made purely out of spite.

Due to what? Her coldness? Her refusal to think for herself aside mostly working for Flynn's sake?

Or simply to twist her into becoming his own tool instead of Flynn's?

Now start noticing the difference regarding Isabeau and the adults compared to Nanashi's young teen peers.

In the case of the adults, as they were less emotionally involved with Nanashi, they use childbirth more as means towards the end.

While Nozomi's baggage can't be compared to Isabeau's, I think of her as a messy option likewise since siding with Nanashi is going against the alignment she originally stood for, specially considering this memory of Nozomi has Danu inside her (she only got to know Nanashi after becoming the Queen of Fairies after all).

Goddess Nozomi particularly gave me a strong impression due to her being the only partner boasting her final quote with a determined face compared to others looking content or prideful. Then you remember why one of her skills is named the way it is.

Nanashi and Nozomi's relationship could be seen as a mirror to the tense mother-son rivalry between Dagda and Danu (which are essentially the main sides you can choose from) but also, when you think about before they even met each other, both were weak characters needing Flynn's help initially. However, through forming a contract to become an 'extension' of a Celtic deity, they gradually became able to stand on their own.

So Nanashi and Nozomi thematically are foils to each other and would be at odds not even necessarily due to each's own sense of morality but because they literally owe how far they got to the blessings Dagda and Danu gave them, respectively. To this argument, Nanashi definitely would pick her with spite just like with Isabeau.

While moments related to his character growth are mostly directed to characters that aren't Nanashi per se in the main story, I deem Gaston as the 'least detached' from the adult group as his attitude shift to protect Nanashi in his endgame partner lines gives you an impression that he developed a bias for the boy he once deemed filthy nonetheless, alongside his intense heartbroken reaction if Nanashi sides with Dagda in contrast to Nozomi's and Isabeau's cold approaches.

You could theorize that Gaston possibly reached the point of placing his full trust in Nanashi once the fact that the boy was the reincarnation of Akira AKA the very first king of Mikado was out, which means Nanashi indeed felt like the blessed figurehead he was desiring to fight for after distancing himself from Merkabah.

The irony in Massacre is that it ended up being that Nanashi did not, in fact, want to follow Akira's steps.

The way I see Goddess Gaston in Massacre, his role strongly matches Flynn's. Both think of themselves as retainers for Nanashi.

Isabeau fought to serve Flynn, Nozomi fought to shield her fairy allies and Gaston fought to eliminate threats against his kingdom.

Nanashi redirected their loyalty towards himself.

I left Navarre for last and separated from the two groups I mentioned since he's, by all purposes, the intended comical exception:

He is the only Goddess where Nanashi still uses his help instead of manipulating the Energy Sword on his own. He is the oldest of the cast and yet he is probably one of the characters with most emotional moments alone with Nanashi (in fact, the very last message in your inbox regardless of your Goddess of choice is always him pleading you to not regret your actions). And most of all, even above Asahi or Toki themselves, he seems the most... in-character of all the Goddesses.

One could argue that perhaps since he never had a body and could potentially shift his attitude according to the circumstances, his ending could even just be interpreted as he being held in custody by Dagda and just being released later.

Navarre only followed Nanashi in the first place because he had nothing or nobody else to turn to. He betrayed his kingdom, refused to face his family and past teammates, died at the hands of a demon and on top of it all, was unable to go to the other side.

And then he saw Nanashi. A dead person trapped in the living world just like his own situation. Nanashi and Navarre's bond was entirely out of chance and yet it could be said it was one of the most genuine of them.

Navarre could simply wander off from Nanashi once he noticed something wrong was happening, as he had no social obligations or strong ties. Nanashi could simply use Dagda's power to destroy the Energy Barriers himself, as shown in the other Goddess routes. But they kept being the company of each other in their lonely state of neither-life-or-death.

If Nanashi would choose the first Goddess group out of emotional ties and the second group for their use as tools, Navarre would essentially be Nanashi finding solace with the one he not necessarily cared about or found useful but just was always the most similar to: a detached soul that no matter what, stubbornly refused death.

Navarre despite everything, was able to meet Nanashi. After all they went through together, he becomes sure he will be able to meet many more like him.

[fox-daddy]

A swap of Familiars

(This is going to be rushed because I forgot to write it.)

Hunter;

Hunter has two familiars Ruby and Goldy. Goldy is a goldfish that Hunter keeps in their necklace. A metal loop with illusion magic build into it to make it look like glass, see-through and everything but still as strong as metal. Due to this Goldy isn't going to be swapped. Ruby however is a red-tailed black cockatoo and is open for a familiar swap.

Ruby being a used to be wild cockatoo can be loud and aggressive however she holds her beck for the right times. Someone is gently scratching her? she's sweet as sugar, someone trying to take away her treat and she's nipping and screeching as a warning, and if that doesn't work? Well say goodbye to your top and middle knuckles.

Muriel;

The biggest reason for a familiar swap is the shopping trip. Hunter doesn't mind going shopping without Muriel and only encourages him to go if he's having a good day.

However Ruby doesn't always want to go either. Big crows, lots of noise, not a lot of good perches, lots of birds to fight for treats with and she doesn't like the crows. This means when she does go she either stays with Muriel or Hunter. So it isn't uncommon for Hunter to go alone.

Being a big strong person they don't really need the back up. However, they do spoil Inanna as much as they spoil their own familiars.

With that said Muriel and Ruby get along great when together. Ruby enjoys sitting on Muriel's shoulder and watching him do work or fly around nearby keeping an eye out for other people. Having a call for Hunter, Asra, Inanna and strangers. The strangers call is split in three, unknown call for people without obvious motives, help call for those who are injured or lost and the rarest one a danger one where the people are clearly out for blood most likely animal blood (aka hunters).

As for Inanna and Hunter they get along just as great. What's better than one 'leave me alone face?' that and a large wolf. While they don't look for trouble Inanna knows if something is going down at the market it isn't hard for her to get Hunter to do something about it depending on what it is and if innocent people are getting hurt. However, luckily for their shopping trips together most of the time nothing happens and they end up having a treat on the way back with Hunter having a treat for Muriel in with the shopping (usually eels).

Julian;

As for them having two birds the biggest reason for a familiar swap is when the familiars themselves decide to swap.

For examples when Malak doesn't feel like flying around keeping an eye on Julian, Ruby will follow Julian. Usually at a distance at first but then usually landing on Julian startling him since when he goes to shoo Malak and seeing ruby instead is always a surprise. Since they are similar size and both jet black.

While it's hard for Malak to confuse Hunter it doesn't stop him from mimicking Ruby and trying to trick Hunter into thinking Ruby had decided to stay at home. While it mostly fails it does occasionally work while Hunter doesn't usually jump they do get a small flinch when their expecting red and black and not just solid black.

Portia;

While usually familiar swaps don't happen, however when their in Vesuvia Hunter does a lot of quick jobs usually unloading boats or just general physical labor.

During these days Ruby usually follows Hunter from the sky keeping an eye on Hunter and making sure nothing happens and if something does happen she can get back up. However, sometimes when she's tired or doesn't want to fly long distances she'll join Portia. Helping keep Camio from bugging Portia and doing Pepi's job of shooing him away. Being a lot more dominate than a was always pet bird.

As for Pepi when Ruby hangs around Portia for the day she tends to join Hunter. Jumping onto their shoulders as their leaving and during jobs will run around Hunter. When she's too much in the way Hunter will scoop her up and put her on their shoulders.

Kyle;

Kyle also has two familiars a kea named Kai and a dragon named Emerald. So their both open for familiar swaps.

Kai being a kea is a loud and a smart parrot is a trouble maker. She will make trouble over food, her play items and can be a big brat.

Emerald is a sweet and gentle soul but being a feathery dragon often gets mixed up for someone that could kill without trying. While she is the height of Portia on all 4's (aka big) she is actually a mostly gentle soul. Being a big puppy at heart.

With that said to keep on time I'm going to assume Emerald is the familiar for this swap and you'll see why.

Asra;

They surprisingly have probably the most familiar swaps. This is due to Kyle getting up much earlier to do shopping before the shop opens. While he doesn't mind going by himself Faust will occasionally sleepily join especially in winter. As in winter Kyle's clothes have a magic signina that makes his clothes warm much to Faust's enjoyment.

This leads to Asra waking up to Faust and Kyle gone but not usually for long and a big fluffy dragon in Kyle's spot in the bed. Usually this leads to one of two things, Asra getting up and getting started on tea for when Kyle returns soon or staying in bed. If they choice to stay in bed Emerald will usually lay her head on top of Asra's chest and enjoy extra cuddles before moving when Kyle returns to let Kyle join the bed cuddles before they ahve to get up.

Aside from that a much less often reason for a familiar swap is sometimes when Asra is heading to a colder area or during winter Faust will stay home where it's nice and warm. While Emerald who has a thick layer of feathers to help with the cold would join Asra. While Asra and Kyle can communicate to each other it's still funny to hear what the familiars think are important. Like that time Emerald used the link to call Kyle to hype about snow for a solid half hour while Asra got to watch Emerald run around them biting at the falling snow and rolling around.

Nadia;

They have the least reason to swap familiars so the reason for a familiar swap is usually only one of two reasons.

1. Kyle is going on a trip that Nadia can't join. This isn't often but Kyle loves to go on what he has dubbed the Blueberry run. (long story and I'm rushing it but basically a two-three week long trip where he ends up with a bunch of blueberries when he's done.) During this Chandra will join Kyle to help him and Nadia keep in contact and because it gives her the chance to hunt in areas outside Vesuvia's city/the garden. She once eat a stoat it was awesome.

2. Nadia has someone she want's to intimated even more than her own overly intimidating presence does. Well then she knows someone who has a full blown dragon. While Emerald is a big puppy people who don't know her don't know that so it can look like Nadia is just vibing with a Portia sized lizard. It especially helps when they don't know Emerald can't breath fire and the fact Emerald knows exactly how to post next to Nadia to appear as tame as an unchained lion. Being able to pull off some rather regal poses, some of which she knew how to do intuitively and others she had Nadia teach her.

Bluebell;

Bluebell has a house sparrow called Chirps. Chirps is a house sparrow small and quick but honestly one strong hit and she's gone down. (fun fact Chirps is trans. Going by she/her while having the male patterns.)

Lucio;

I honestly don't know a reason why they'd swap familiars. Chirps is quiet small and weak and Lucio has two dogs so usually when they split up they just take a dog each and sometimes Chirps will follow Lucio. But this usually just leads to her being cozy on Lucio's shoulder. Only very rarely does she act as look out since the dogs already have that covered.

[draftingtides]

rules: answer and tag nine people you want to get to know better and catch up with. ty @mettywiththenotes for the tag 💜

favorite color - purple

last song - Just a Man from epic the musical

currently reading - bookwise, Inanna by Emily H. Wilson (I'm about a third of the way through). Ficwise, pretty much the entire Hypnos hadesgame tag on ao3

currently watching - nothing atm, tho I do want to catch up on the bnha anime and dungeon meshi

currently craving - chocolate peanut butter banana smoothie but we have no bananas ;-;

coffee or tea - tea definitely, tho I do like a good coffee smoothie

hobby to try - trying to get into exercising again but my schedule is all out of whack rn so it's hard to have a proper routine 😔

current AU - the au from my morpheus hades game fic that I just posted last week <3 I just started working on a sequel to it set ~9 years later, when Morpheus is older and his brothers Phobetor and Ikelos r 8ish

Tagging some ppl but don't feel obligated to do it if u don't want to! @youarentreadingthis @makingtrouble @aevios @oscillatedself @mycobacteria @residentauggust @arquiving @the-meat-machine @voicelesspharyngealnasal

[shebeafancyflapjack]

A Strange God

A story about my OC Silver's death and first meeting with Robin.

Tw: drug usage.

"These will make you see the gods."

That's what Duncan had told her when he'd sold her the shrooms. That's what she'd wanted.

Not to die. Shit, if she'd wanted to take a stupid risk like that she'd have opted for LSD or E. One of the big ones she'd watched those scary PSA films in school. Duncan had assured her that shrooms were one of the "safer" ones to try out, so long as she didn't go overboard. True, she might have added a few more grams than recommended to the tea she brewed and kept in her grandad's flask. But how much of a screw up had she been to be one of the super rare cases to die on magic mushrooms?

Drinking the tea had been the last thing she remembered. Before that, she'd been setting up her ritual for the Esbat, deep in the woods closest to the ancient stone circle she'd read about. Yeah, she was technically trespassing, but the fence had been so short she had practically skipped over it. Plus she'd heard no one really lived in the nearby house other than some reclusive rich lady.

All Silver had wanted to do was find a good spot to set up her makeshift altar, get high as a kite, cast a few spells and hopefully catch a glimpse of her deities, or something supernatural. She hadn't even tried to build a fire, mostly not wanting to draw attention but also just common sense. However, she barely managed to achieve step three, the drugs having kicked in a lot quicker and way stronger than she anticipated.

The moon had been so bright above the treetops, nearly as bright as the sun, except silver - like her. She had named herself after her favourite heavenly body. One of her patron goddesses, Artemis, was also linked to the moon. Silver had gazed up at her in wonder so overwhelming that she'd laughed and laughed until she began to cry. She threw her arms up, as if to catch the moon itself, as it seemed to be falling upon her.

"Isis, Astarte, Diana, Hecate, Demeter, Kali, Inanna!" She sang the Goddess' many names, grateful for any of them to appear to her.

The forest had become a helter-skelter around her, shadows spinning, waltzing, owls and deer and foxes singing as her brain began to stagger with how bright and loud the world had become. Fuck, she should have brought a bottle of water!

Silver tried to search for her backpack but ended up falling to her knees, mucking her fishnets. It had been a warm night, no need for a coat, nothing more than her favourite pink and black shirt over her boob tube. But now her temperature was starting to fluctuate. Too hot, then too cold, then shivers and sweats.

This wasn't normal. It couldn't be right.

Failing to find her backpack - which she now regretting buying a navy one, perfect to camouflage at this exact moment - Silver looked to the tiny statues of her patron gods she had set up on a fallen log.

Artemis, a tiny statue she'd been lucky enough to find while on holiday in Athens, sat against a cresent mood while aiming her bow. Beside her, Pan, sat on a mound playing his pipes.

"Lord and Lady, Goddess and Horned One..." She bowed her head and clasped her hands, a bit more of a Christian-y gesture than she'd prefer, but she was desperate; "...H-help me...Show me something good! A vision or a path, something other than..."

The bloody shadows that were making her want to heave. She batted away what she was certain was the branches of trees trying to grab her arms, like wooden claws.

"Leave me alone! I'm not here for you!" She berated, mostly slapping her own elbow.

"Talking to trees? Oh been there, done that, got fur shirt." Came a gruff voice on the gentle wind; "Trees suck as friends."

Silver glanced around.

"Who's there? Who said that? Is someone watching me? You being a creeper?!" She asked, defensively, realising she was a young woman alone in a wood. Prime murder set up.

Shit.

Her hand moved to the pocket of her shirt where her phone sat. At least she had that still on her, though signal was crap here, limiting her to emergency calls only. That was fine, the police was all she'd need. Hopefully questions on why she was trespassing on private property could wait.

"Me no creeper! Me spectate, big difference. Not know lady could see me...Must have been special potion, like in old times when living speak to me." The voice explained.

"...What?" Silver blinked, her head beginning to throb; "I can hear you but...where are you? Who...?"

"Me right here. You no see?"

The voice was right in front of her. She could practically feel a warm breath waft against her face. And a strange, thick smell of must and burning and....wet dog?

And then, just to make her jump, a hand waved inches from her nose. Her eyes made out the shape of a hand before the rest of him began to materialise. Silver blinked, mesmerised as the shadows seemed to move in to form the silhouette of a being before her eyes. A man, or masculine in appearence at least.

Head like a lion, shaggy mane of wild brown hair, a heavy set brow, a mouth of jagged teeth gawping at her, blue eyes that seemed younger than the lines around them. And his body seemed to be mostly...fur?

"Pan?! Oh....Oh my god! My literal god, is it you?! Pan, my...My Lord!" She broke into hysterical laughter.

There were no horns or hooves that she could see but...surely it had to be him!

"Uhh, that like frying or Peter? Because me neither." He said, putting his palms up.

She needed a better look at him, but she was struggling to keep her eyes open. The pain in her head was becoming intense, lessened only a little by the drugs mostly distracting her. The moonlight felt as though it was burning her retinas worse than staring straight into the sun.

"Who...Which God are...?" She reached forward and her hand went through his forearm.

The man winced, one fist moving up to his mouth.

"Oof! Please no do that."

"I...I'm sorry, I...."

More pain. Louder. Angrier. Burning away inside her skull.

Had she angered this god, whoever it was? She was an idiot to think she could try to touch a divine being! She was in way over her head and now she was regretting ever getting into Wicca.

"Please...make it stop! Lord, please, I'll offer anything just....AARGH!" She collapsed onto her knees, shedding tears as the world now began to melt in her eyes.

The god knelt in front of her, concern etched into his weary face.

"Hey, hey, I no do that." He assured her, "You no look so good. More pale than Moonah. She no like that, get jealous maybe?"

That was hardly something she could help right now!

"I don't like this, I don't like this..." She began to whimper. Was the Goddess really turning against her?

"No, Moonah not hurt, not this, she good and bootiful. She no make you bleed."

Bleed? But she wasn't...

Her hand flew up to her nose, feeling what she'd thought was mucus, only to see the thick red fluid on the end of her finger.

And then came more pain. And light, blinding moonlight. So beautiful. So terrifying.

"He...He....S-stay...Sta...." She begged to the god, whoever he was, not caring if he was one of her patrons or something unknown.

She didn't want to be alone.

"Me here, Moonah girl. Me here." The voice enveloped her as everything else fell to white; "Me got you. You not die alone."

Her body was too busy convulsing in a violent seizure to respond, or dare to argue what he meant by that last point.

When the pain finally stopped, she felt a warm hand envelop her own.

And then darkness.

Sweet, silent darkness. Then, thank the gods, came sleep.

When she opened her eyes, she was still gazing up at the treetops. The moon was hanging in the same spot, still full, still gorgeous, though not quite as imposing and apocalyptic as before. Silver assumed not much time had passed since she fainted.

She raised her head, the world still a little fuzzy around her. But it was manageable, kinda like how it looked without her contacts in. Shit, she could get those in solution, they're gonna be drying out soon after that nap. Not so bad at the moment. She can't have slept long or they'd have been all squidgy between her eyelids.

"What...." It took her a moment to realise why her bearings were off. Not easy to spot at first glance, woods in England all looking mostly the same.

But she'd moved. She wasn't in the same spot as before, near the field adjacent to the mansion. She could hear the soft trickle of a running stream nearby. And she was lying on some sort of mound surrounded by blue flowers. The gap in the canope was the perfect position for the moonlight to be cast down, unobstructed.

Had she awoken in a glass coffin, she'd have fancied herself as Snow White for the new millennium. Someone had laid her there purposefully...and with care.

An outdoor bed? Or a wake?

"You no die alone." That's what the voice of the god had said.

Silver felt her own chest. No. No, she must just not be able to feel it. She checked her own pulse. Nothing.

No...She must still be off her head. She knew from dabbling with weed that come downs usually brought paranoia.

"Woah! You....you awake?"

Silver jumped off the mound at the voice and turned.

It was the furry god again. Far more solid before her now that the world had stopped spinning. In fact, he looked less...ethereal than before.

She remembered to bow her head all the same.

"Uhh, Hi. Uhm, well met?" How do you greet a god face to face? She should have studied a bit more; "Forgive me, Lord, if I messed up the ritual."

"Rich-ul? For me?" He pointed to himself and then chuckled, jaw uneven; "Haha, no one ever do rich-ul for me!"

"...Aren't you a god?"

The man shrugged; "Dunno. Pretty useless god if yes. Can't do lot except make light flicker. Who ask for that? Better gods out there, stick with Moonah, she no give a lot but good light very special."

Feeling a little deflated, Silver straightened up.

"Then what are you? Are you just some...weird guy living out in the woods?" She dropped the reverence from her voice.

He barked another laugh; "Sometime. Except me not live because, y'know, dead."

Silver blinked. There was that word again.

"...You're a ghost?"

He nodded.

"Oh, nice one! Sure, you're a ghost. Hope you don't mind if I just-"

Before the man couldn't react, she lunged and wrapped her fingers around the sleeve of grey fur over his wrist. Her hand didn't pass through like the night before. Her fingers rested in the soft fluff.

"Yeah, mate! Bit harder to fool me now I've come down. Don't feel much like a ghost now."

"No. Because ghost touch each other."

Silver let him go.

"What are you saying? I'm not a..." She patted herself down, her clothes and skin feeling just as solid as the strange man.

Then she knelt to pluck at one of the blue flowers around where she'd been laying down. Her fingers passed straight through.

"I...No, this..." She kept up the tests, waving her arm through the trees and rocks and logs.

They weren't real. Not there.

Or it was she who....

She kept looking at her hand as if it had betrayed her. She couldn't be a...She couldn't be....

"Hey. Come. Sit down or fall." The man moved over to her.

Silver flinched; "What...What are you?! What did you do to me?!"

Patting her pocket, she wished she had her athame as a weapon. But the only witchy tool she had on her body was the pentacle on her neck.

"Me no do anything. Me just ghost." The man raised his hand; "Sit and me explain. Promise."

Her heart should be pounding, knocking hard against her eardrums as it did when she was anxious, but there was only silence, despite the anxiety being at an all time high. She sat on the mound of dirt.

"It full moon. Me come out to say quick thanks to Moonah like do each month." The man explained in his broken English, "See pink hair lady set up altar and have drink. Then lady start talk to trees and spinning around like-"

He twirled, hands flapping above his head. Shit, had she looked that ridiculous?

"Lady then start laugh and cry all at once. Lady speak to me. Then lady start get sore head and nose leak blood. Then lady fall."

She touched her nostril again. No blood this time. Dry as a bone.

"Lady ask me to stay so me stay." She was surprised to hear there was more; "Me watch many die before but lady die different. She no get up and no go up to stars. Lady just sleep. Sleep and sleep and sleep. It big boring. Me thought maybe lady not really dead. But then fox come and start chew on face and lady still no wake. I pick up lady and move away, she leave body but still no wake."

Again, she hoped the man was pulling her leg. The idea of animals eating her corpse before she could be discovered disturbed her.

"It take another day till police come and find body. They set up tent and do quick search but say 'no suspicious'. Something 'bout brain bleeding. Then put body in bag and take away."

Bleed on the brain. Silver clutched at her arms.

A brain aneurism had taken her dad when she was sixteen. Both her grandparents on her mother's side suffered strokes. Her aunt had a tumour removed and barely survived. She had been well aware these things ran in her family, but they didn't tend to become a problem until they reached fifty or more. Nineteen?! How unlucky was she?

"Lady still no wake so find nice spot with pretty flowers and good view of moonah. Less likely to get walked on too. I stand guard for little longer and animals seem to know to leave you alone. Then me got big bored so went back home, but always come back to check."

"So I've just been asleep for the past...couple of days?" For all of that to have passed.

"Uhh....little bit longer."

She frowned, "How long?"

He stroked the front of his furry shift; "Long 'nough for Moonah to get fat again."

A month? She’d been asleep for a whole month?

No. Worse. She'd been DEAD for a whole month.

There was still a weight in her pocket. She pulled out her Nokia and turned on the screen. It lit up - still emergency calls only. She tried 999 all the same but had nothing in return except a single bleep. No service. It didn’t have internet access anyway like some of the newer mobiles but she doubted that would have worked either. No service at all in the afterlife...

She ran.

It had to be crazy. This is what her mum had meant when she'd warned her to be careful getting into witchcraft. It meant having bad trips and meeting crazy people who tried to sell you on lies.

Ignoring the calls of the man, she headed towards the fence she'd easily climbed over. It was in sight, she would just have to...

Blink. Silver found herself facing the man again.

She screamed. Then tried again, turning around.

Again. And again.

By her tenth attempt, she was sobbing, body wracked with distress, chest unbearably tight, a panic attack taking its hold. The man caught her that time, strong hands on her forearms.

"Hey, hey, shh. It okay. Maybe stop now."

"It not okay, I'm fucking dead!" She yelled, eyes red with tears.

"Yeah, true, that suck. But not do you good running round like no headed chicken. Come. Sit."

No bother in finding a chair. The man took her hands and brought her to the floor. Looking down, she saw the dirt didn't mar her outfit anymore.

One of his hands continued to squeeze hers, while another reached to rub her back.

That helped. It was a bit like...

She sniffed; "I wanna go home. I want my mum." For as much as they clashed about everything, she hated the thought of the police knocking on her door to tell her mum they'd found her daughter dead in the woods; "I want...I want my dog."

Brothers and sisters, she wasn't too close to. But her black lab, Jess, had been her best friend, the only one who could truly comfort her when the anxiety flared. Would Jess be lying on her bed, not understanding why she wasn't coming back?

The man at her side gave a curious hum as he continued massaging her between her shoulder blades.

"How 'bout this?"

Silver sniffed, raising her head up to see the man retrieve something small and fuzzy, the same colour as his sleeve, from inside his shift. She stared, tears stilling.

"Is that....?" A puppy? A newborn puppy?

"This Kya. She my cub. Dead like us so never grow up." He cradled the pup like precious china in his hands; "She sleepy girl, like you. Here. Stroke head, it help?"

The little cub stirred only slightly on the man's palms. She was so cute, so tiny, it was difficult for Silver to wallow in grief and loss with this little marvel before her. She delicately ran her fingertip over the pup's head, eliciting the tiniest coo of approval, little tongue poking out.

Silver laughed, the last of her tears spilling. Dogs always did fix everything. She'd joked that Jess was her untrained therapy pet.

"You hold if very careful. Not too tight." He offered to her, his tone turning serious.

She nodded, gingerly taking the cub and bringing it to her chest. Suddenly, she was also reminded of her niece and the first time she'd held her as a baby. Fuck. Fuck, she'd never get to see her grow up.

The tears began again as she let the cub rest against her calvicle, rocking as much for herself as for the baby.

The man was still rubbing her arm.

"Me know it big shock. But lady not alone. Lot of ghosts in big house. I tell them there dead lady in wood but they no believe me. We show them now....when you ready. You like them...some of them....Two, maybe."

Silver rubbed her face; "And...you're not a god? You're just a....man?"

"Sorry 'bout that."

She laughed, as did he.

"Nobody's perfect." She smiled, rubbing little Kya's back and feeling her tiny tail flap against her skin; "Do you have a name then?"

"Many. Friends call me Robin."

"S'pretty." She said, watching a blush appear beneath that brown mane; "I'm Lou-."

Closing her mouth, she nearly let slip the name she'd cast off. The name of the dead girl.

"Silver."

"Like Moonah light? Very nice. Me knew you love her too, is why I lay you to sleep where you always see her. It how my tribe would lay our dead before burning. How I lay my mum..." He began to trail off and Silver saw a flicker of pain on that otherwise jovial face.

Tribe? Damn, how old was he?

"Thanks. It was lovely." It was probably a more thoughtful resting place than the tacky vase her mum was probably keeping her ashes in.

She slowly got to her feet, holding Kya securely, the little wolf melting her heart as she whined and nuzzled her skin.

"These other ghosts...Are they cool with witches and pagans?"

"Hehehe. Fanny gonna love meeting you."

She wasn't certain, but she had a strong suspicion that was sarcasm.

[infjtarot]

World. Mystic Spiral Tarot

Themes and Keywords: Completion and renewal. Matter and time. Eternity. Returning. Closure. Unfolding. Wholeness. Where the journey leads. Beginnings and endings. The ultimate. The least and the greatest. Complete narratives/stories. Imagined worlds within worlds. Confinement = freedom. Going, and to stop. All and one. Astrology/Element At the end of the sequence of trumps, the World card takes on the correspondences of the outermost and slowest classical planet, Saturn, and the heaviest element, earth. Earth is associated with the sephira Malkuth, terminus of the card’s path. We can begin in Malkuth and rise, yet the path of the World is both the beginning and the end. Malkuth is the daughter, connected to Binah the mother through Saturn. It represents commitment to completion, or the ultimate aspiration of initiation to the Great Work, to rise from the mundane and connect to the divine supernal realm. Saturn, the “Keeper of the Records,” rules both Capricorn and Aquarius. Capricorn provides the building blocks and blueprints, while Aquarius provides the vision of how they can be evolved and improved. Both are working with the structures imposed by matter and time (Saturn). Saturn’s exaltation in Libra shows his role as the Lord of Karma, as Saturn’s law will benefit those who operate from Libra’s place of love and partnership with the world. Saturn rules the bones. Its glyph looks like a small letter h topped and weighted by the cross of matter. Matter hangs heavy upon it. Hard hours hatch the harvest. It looks much like the inversion of Jupiter’s symbol, and appropriately represents the forces of contraction and limitation that provide boundaries and counterforce to Jupiter’s expansion. In the end, we are bound by the way we experience time in the material world. Time can be a perceived restriction, or with appropriate conservation and use of energy, it can be a process of gaining wisdom through its passage. Mythology/Alchemy The World maiden suggests Persephone, who descended and rose again in eternal cycles. Yet the figure is said to be hermaphroditic. Consider the “magical images” of the sphere of Saturn, with both male and female variant: the Ancient and the Celestial Queen. The Ancient, with long robes and beard, reminds us of Father Time, the reaper known as self-born Chronos (Aion). In the Orphic tradition, Chronos produced the primordial deities Aethyr, Chaos, and the World-Egg that contained the god Phanes. He emerged from the egg entwined with a serpent, crowned with a nimbus of light. Phanes was made from the intersection of time (Chronos) and necessity (Ananke). Quite a parental legacy to live up to! Phanes’s name means, “to bring light”; his consort Nyx brought night. Chronos is conflated with the Greek god Kronos (Saturn), son of the titans of heaven (Ouranos) and earth (Gaea). Kronos, upon wife Rhea, sired Zeus and his siblings. Fearing his overthrow, he swallowed each of his children except Zeus. Rhea and Zeus fooled him, causing him to disgorge the other Olympians, who did indeed ultimately depose and castrate him just as he had done to his father Ouranos. Saturn’s karma in action! The Celestial Queen image is even more fitting for the maiden. Isis, Nut, Astarte, Ishtar, Inanna, Hera, Juno, Kali, and others have all borne the title Queen of Heaven, all forms of she called the Great Goddess, primordially Eurynome who once ruled the world with serpent Ophion. As the Great Work portrayed involves uniting will and love, we must include Aphrodite Ourania, meaning heavenly, said to be born of the foam from when Ouranos’s genitals were cast into the sea. This is the celestial aspect of the love goddess, counterpart to the more familiar earthly Aphrodite Pandemos (of the people). Susan T. Chang

[starsasunder]

He’s going to brush by and, oh before he disappears she’s going to feel teeth graze against her ear. Ufufu~

Half-asleep in the afternoon sunshine, Inanna does not register the danger of his presence until it's upon her. Eyes blinking open at the contact, said fluffy ears lie back flat against her hair, flicking annoyedly.

"H-Hey! Those are sensitive, you know!" she calls after him indignantly, cheeks flushed and lips pressed into a befuddled pout.

...Why?

[royal-wren]

The whole "Did H//ermes come from P/an or did P/an come from H/erm/es" is boring, tired, annoying, and a waste of time. Does it really impact anything? Does it really matter comparing two deities like Inanna and Ishtar fulfilling identical roles that both have proof of their age at the end of the day? No. Both are super old and recorded to have existed for a very long time and that's the main thing that should be focused on. There are too many what-ifs here, the two could hypothetically have started as brothers/siblings for all it matters. What's more interesting is pondering the historical proof of Her/mes' earlier presenting gender differing from his later id. To have an epithet like Areias (that literally is the same as Areia but with an S) and have prolific primary worship with goddesses does hint at a lot.

[greatspacedustbin]

4, 11 and 17? :)

4. Did you discover any new authors that you love this year?

Emily H. Wilson, for her book Inanna (an adaptation of the Gilgamesh epic)

11. What was your favourite book that has been out for a while, but you now just read?

Finally got round to reading A Christmas Carol (after having watched too many different adaptations over the years, but never getting managing to actually reading the thing), and you know what... timeless classic.

17. Did any books surprise you with how good they were?

Inanna by Emily H. Wilson was great - historical fiction can be hit and miss, but this was really well-written and leaves me waiting impatiently for the next 2 books

And Otherlands: Journeys in Earth's Extinct Ecosystems by Thomas Halliday. As someone who's studied palaeoecology it's been right up my alley

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Sortie du film 24 heures à New-York : Date de sortie? La suite d’24 heures à New-York, a été confirmé un mois après la sortie du premier film au cinéma. Le 19 mai 2023, 24 heures à New-York 2 avait été confirmé. Quand pourrons-nous le voir en salle ? Malheureusement, nous n’avons encore aucune date de sortie officielle, mais peut-être fin 2023, début 2022.

WEB SIP:: 24 heures à New York 2023 United States of America Drame film réalisé Joel Michaely et joué par Lio Mehiel, Cole Doman. Au cours d'une seule journée, trois personnes du passé de Feña, avant sa transition de femme à homme, refont surface dans sa vie : son père étranger, son ex-petit ami et sa demi-sœur de 13 ans.

Sortie: Aug 09, 2023

Durée: 87 min.

Genre : Drame

Étoiles : Lio Mehiel, Cole Doman, MiMi Ryder, Jasai Chase-Owens

Réalisateur : Joel Michaely

24 heures à New-York, le film sera là ! Le film 24 heures à New-York est sorti le mercredi 2 septembre 2023. Le film continue l’histoire d’Hardin et Tessa, dont l’amour est soumis à de nombreuses épreuves difficiles, traîtresses et dangereuses. Ces deux amoureux auront-ils une fin heureuse ? En attendant de savoir si le film a été acclamé par les fans, il y a de bonnes nouvelles : 24 heures à New-York va sortir ! Cela a été confirmé le 3 septembre 2023 par les deux stars de la série dans une vidéo postée sur le profil Instagram officiel d’24 heures à New-York. Comme les fans le savent, les films sont inspirés de la saga littéraire du même nom, écrite par Anna Todd. La série 24 heures à New-York est composé de 4 livres.

L’intrigue du film 24 heures à New-York L’amour d’Hardin et Tessa est encore une fois mis à l’épreuve. Ces deux adolescents vont devoir affronter leur passé. Tessa rencontre son père après des années et décide de le prendre en charge après avoir découvert qu’il était devenu sans abri. Hardin accepte de l’héberger mais ne fait pas confiance à cet homme, convaincu qu’il cache une partie de la vérité. Mais ce n’est pas le seul obstacle. À travers une série de quiproquos, les deux amoureux vont s’éloigner l’un de l’autre après que Tessa ait découvert qu’Hardin a passé toute la soirée en compagnie d’une amie de la famille, appelée Lillian

Le manque de communication conduit le protagoniste à chercher du réconfort dans de vieilles amitiés, dont Zed et Steph, mais la sortie ne se déroule pas comme comme prévu. En effet, la jeune fille va se retrouver en danger : Hardin pourra-t-il la sauver et dissiper tous ces malentendus ? Concernant l’intrigue du film, Castille Landon, le réalisateur d’24 heures à New-York nous assure qu’il sera fidèle au roman du même nom.

Le casting du film 24 heures à New-York : qui sera là ? Nous verrons probablement le retour de deux personnages principaux : Héro Fiennes-Tiffin et Josephine Langford, comme Hardin et Tessa, 24 heures à New-Yorkivement. Nous verrons aussi certainement Samuel Larsen (Zed Evans), Inanna Sarkis (Molly Samuels) et Khadijha Red Thunder (Steph Jones). Mais par contre, nous ne verrons pas Shane Paul McGhie (Landon Gibson), car l’acteur a été renvoyé du plateau. Dylan Sprouse, dont le rôle est Trevor ne revient pas non plus.

Mais il y a aussi une nouvelle de dernière minute : d’autres acteurs ne reviendront pas dans le troisième film, d’où la nécessité d’un renouvellement. Déjà dans 24 heures à New-York 2, on se rend compte que le père d’Hardin n’est plus joué par Peter Gallagher (Andy Cohen pourquoi es-tu parti ?) mais par Rob Estes et que la mère de Landon n’est plus jouée par Jennifer Beals mais par Karimah Westbrook. Nous verrons également beaucoup de changements dans 24 heures à New-York. En commençant par Candice King et Charlie Weber : les deux acteurs ne seront plus Kim et Christian Vance.

L’actrice que nous avons appris à aimer dans The Vampire Diaries comme Caroline est enceinte de son deuxième enfant ! Sa grossesse l’empêche donc de retourner sur le plateau pour filmer 24 heures à New-York. Candice sera remplacée par Arielle Kebbel que nous avons déjà vu dans The Vampire Diaries: : Il s’agit de Lexi, le meilleur ami de Stefan ! Charlie sera remplacé par Stephen Moyer. Aussi Selma Blair, qui joue la mère de Tessa, est remplacée par Mira Sorvino. En plus de toutes ces modifications, il y a aussi une nouvelle arrivée : Carter Jenkins, qui jouera Robert, le potentiel amoureux de Tessa.

La raison de tous ces changements est que le fait de tourner deux films ensemble empêche aussi certains des acteurs principaux de participer à d’autres engagements professionnels ou autres.

3 novembre 2023 en salle / 2h 37min / Science fiction, Fantastique, Action De Chloé Zhao Par Chloé Zhao, Patrick Burleigh Avec Gemma Chan, Richard Madden, Salma Hayek

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[kleenexwoman]

This is a good point. The Cold War metaphor of the book isn't as relevant to a lot of younger fans and it's increasingly removed in time from us as a referent. The corporate metaphor of the TV show is a lot more relevant right now.

Plus, Neil wrote American Gods in between them and now.

That book was so influential in the neopagan community I would argue it mainstreamed a really crucial aspect of chaos magick, which is the idea that deities can grow and die and change depending on what humans think about them.

This is an incredibly postmodern idea. It's basically at war with post-Blavatsky neo-Platonism.

And I haaaaaaaaaaaate post-Blavatasky neo-Platonism.

(this is: "All gods are really just one emanation of the same couple of boy and girl deities and maybe a Corrupting Influence if you're feeling Manichean. These archetypes Really Exist and are The Same Throughout Time. They made us and gave us everything and we should never question them.")

American Gods said, "What if gods are competing for our attention? What if instead of them making us, we make them? What if they can adapt to the world we create?"

If you're a person with the Internet in a relatively free country, you can get in touch with practicioners of hundreds of different faiths and devotees to hundreds of different gods. Some of them are thousands of years old, some of them were invented a few years ago. You can read about atheism and ceremonial magick and New Age manifestation techniques and and mushroom Gnosticism and chaos magick and Appalachian Bible magic and pop culture paganism on Reddit alone. There are thousands of new spiritual paths to try, and most of them are either a sales pitch for herbal supplements or they're being snuck into the herbal supplements somehow.

People used to see their gods as kings because they were ruled by kings. They saw their gods as parents because they were told that family was everything. They saw God as an architect because they knew that architects designed everything. Now they see God as a programmer, Jesus as a hacker, and the universe as a simulation because we live in an increasingly virtual society.

And we saw the Christian church and its leaders saying that God is losing followers and they need them back, they needed to attract more young people, they needed pastors who play guitar and wear jeans and they needed youth groups and coffee shops and to make their God cool again. Buddy Christ and pizza parties. Rebranding.

Because, let's face it, dancing in a circle in the woods under a full moon around a bonfire and going "ISIS INANNA KALI HECATE FREYA MORRIGAN" while you drink blackberry wine is fun. Feeling like you can experience the numinous in a real and personalized way is great. Being able to pick and choose the deities you deal with and having a space where you can share your eclectic experiences and ideas about your spiritual landscape and not have people tell you that your experience is wrong or dangerous but that it's valid and interesting and good for you to explore it, that's a lot better than church.

Christianity is no longer the American government circa 1955, in which alternatives are either unspeakably evil, obvious shoddy fakes, or impossible to get to. It's a megacorporation scrambling desperately for customers in a world where small local businesses, economy-disrupting startups, alternative brands that have been quietly chugging along forever sans advertising, and online communities centered around a niche interest are happily chipping away at its market share. It's hemorrhaging its client base, and its best brand representatives are distancing themselves from management and encouraging other users to stop supporting the shitty customer service and increasingly shoddy products in favor of connecting with other users for repair and maintenance of their units.

i.e. people are leaving the institution of the various Churches and looking for their spirituality elsewhere. Because they can now.

So a Christian Heaven in 2019 via Neil Gaiman is gonna reflect that. It's a sleek corporate office with Don Draper in it telling you that you're being downsized into slime before he walks into a meeting about how to capture more of a market share in this quarter's downturn. It's the Company Line and faking enthusiasm and being really invested in your job because you've been told all your life that you are your job and if you don't do your job well, no matter what it is, you're worthless.

And Mr. Wednesday is sitting on the street corner outside, asking you if you have a quarter and wanna see a magic trick. He's smoking a joint and he looks like he's having a good day. You can extend your lunch break by five minutes. You do want to see a magic trick.

sorry as someone who has a minor in religious studies, aziraphale does not have religious trauma, because he doesn't experience religion. hope this helps.

[luiz-henriques-posts]

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" Fenrir e Surtur ( Surtr )

São Facetas Diferentes de Lóki...,

Ante a Retratação de Fenrir , como Filho de Lóki e Angerboda ( Angerbodr) , no Quadro Metafórico ligado ao Panteão, Cosmogonia, e Cultura Nórdicos, pois Germânicos...,

Já no Panteão Não Alterado, Original Arcáico Germânico -: JORMUNGANDR, a Serpente de Ólhos Brilhantes , é Feminina, Sendo um dos Reflexos Espelhados de LILITH, a Rainha da Noite...,

Onde HEL , também Chamada HELA , é como MORRIGÚ : MORRIGÁN : MORRIGÁN , CAILLEACH : MAG MOULLACH , KALI , LHAMO , COATLICUE , e MORANA , também Chamada MARZANNA -: são Reflexos Espelhados de PERSÉFONE...,

Onde ANGERBODA ( ANGERBODR ) que tem como Reflexos Espelhados -: JÁRNVIDJA e SIGYN é um dos Reflexos Espelhados de RÉHFIA HÉHZTHRIALLIHSSHAÜER HALGÔMERAHNNAIPH, que no Quadro Metafórico Mencionado Assim Acompanha LÓKI ( LOKI )...,

Onde -: LELYA , que em Outra Faceta é VESNA , Deusa Eslavas da Primavera...,

ZHIVA , Deusa Eslavas do Verão...,

e LADA , Deusa Eslavas do Outono -:

Quem são ?

As Três são Reflexos Espelhados Diferentes de Outras Apresentações, Fora dos Panteões, Daquela DEMÉTER que se Liga aos Reflexos dos quais Surgem Reflexos, que cada Reflexo e a Faceta de uma Personificação , Reflexos aos quais se Ligam DIANA NEMORENSIA, SELENE e o Reflexo Desta ARIANROD DO ARCO DE PRATA, em Outra Apresentação, e Aquela -: DANA : DÖN , Facetas da mesma -: KHERIDDWEN : CERIDDWEN à serem Reflexos Espelhados de HÉSTHER HÁLGAMAS HÉLLIONDRAH...,

e NÉFTHIS Quem é (...)?

NÉFTHIS, a Obscura Deusa Egípcia -: está Ligada a ANGERBODA ( ANGERBODR) porque Ambas são Reflexos Espelhados de RÉHFIA HÉHZTHRIALLIHSSHAÜER HALGÔMERAHNNAIPH...,

Que como NÉFTHIS , Acompanha SETH que é o próprio LÓKI ( LOKI ) , Desdobrado Ante si , com Outra Apresentação Máscara Facética e Atributos..., Assistente a um Outro Panteão, Cultura e Cosmogonia...,

Que SETH Desdobrado ante si é THYPHÓN, Já Assistente aos Mistérios Grego Romanos e aos Grego Egípcios como THYPHÓN – SETH , que NÉFTHIS Desdobrada ante si mesma, o Acompanha como ÉQUIDNA , Ligada as Tempestades...,

RÉHFIA do ALÉM DESTA TERRA , que Não é Humana , Mas uma Personificação Deidática e no mesmo Simultâneo Distintos de Natureza Deidática, Deidática Indica que se Assenta como Deidade , e é Simultânea -: Divina , Variante de Demoníaca ou Co- Demoníaca , também Pró Demoníaca e Mais em Indizível, e Manifesta seus Reflexos Espelhados em Quais Destes Módos , Ajustando as Máscaras Facéticas e Apresentações Diferentes a Magnitudes Elegida...,

Está em Junto com Sekhemet-Ra-Bastet: Ísis: Eset : NuUITH..., que em Outras Apresentações é Arthêmis, Frigg também Chamada Fricka...,

Mas Não Insurge ou Surge dos Reflexos dos quais Surgem Reflexos Ligados a Estas Mencionadas, Ligadas a Sekhemet-Ra- Bastet , Já ERESHIKHIGAL também Chamada NINNKHIGAL está Dentre estes Reflexos Espelhados Ligados a SEKHEMET-RA-BASTET , Desde a mesma Fora dos Panteões...,

Por isto -: ISHTHAR, também Chamada INANNA , e NÉFTHIS, como também ÉQUIDNA...,

Foram Mencionadas Junto com Estes Reflexos , porque no Quadro Metafórico ligado ao Panteões, Cosmogonias e Culturas-: Relativos

NÉFTHIS Aparece como Irmã de ÍSIS...,

E ISHTHAR, também Chamada INANNA, Aparece como Irmã de ERESHIKHIGAL, também Chamada NINNKHIGAL...,

Mas NÉFTHIS, ÉQUIDNA, e ANGERBODA ( ANGERBODR ) são Reflexos Espelhados de RÉHFIA HÉHZTHRIALLIHSSHAÜER HALGÔMERAHNNAIPH...,

Enquanto que ISHTHAR, também Chamada INANNA é como VÊNUS de VÊNUSBERG, TURAN : a Deusa Etrusca, BRÍGIDA, ARÁDIA , ÓSTARA , FLINDAIS, ABNOBA -: Reflexos Espelhados de ZÊMORA ÉHZIRANNAIPH ATHLAÍSLLAN, que são Facetas Diferentes Co – Autônomas da própria ZÊMORA (...)!!!

Que ZÊMORA, , PÂHNDOLLA, HÁLLIHPHAX, HEZAHLLÍEDRAH, HÉSTHER HÁLGAMAS HÉLLIONDRAH, RÉHFIA, e VALLÁSKYA -: como Outras que se Ligam -: Como Mencionado -: a CLARINNÉA, HEDRAHMNÉA, ARGÊNTHEA, RUDRAHEXTHILLAH e HEMNACIOPÉIA (...)-:

Emanam do mesmo Princípio Deidático Específico, do qual também Emanaram -:

TIAMAT , NYX , PERSÉFONE e, LILITH...,

e por Outro Lado -: SEKHEMET-RA-BASTET...,

Princípio Deidático Específico ( Deidático se Refere a Deidade ) do qual Também Emanou -:

ASTHREÁLPHIX, ao qual dentre suas Nove Manifestações Diferenciadas está HELLÍASTHER...,

e então -: QINGÚ: KINGÚ que AB- ZU : APSU é uma de suas Facetas ...,

EREBUS...,

e por Outro Lado -:

PTAH – RA : AMON – RA , que Desdobrado ante si é em Outras Apresentações Diferentes -: OSÍRIS : HÓRUS Tri- Uno..., MITHRA: HÉLIO do qual APOLO é um de seus Reflexos, LUGH , BELENO: HEOL , ODIN : WOTAN : WODENAZ -:

Deste na Oposição Surge -:

Com Ligações para com QINGÚ, KINGÚ...,

Mas como Facetas Diferentes Expressas em Reflexos Espelhados Destes Mencionados -: PTAH-RA, AMON-RA ..., HADITH, OSÍRIS, HÓRUS Tri- Uno,MITHRA: HÉLIO: APOLO: LUGH : BELENO, HEOL , ODIN: WOTAN: WODENAZ -:

Assim Surge Este que em Quanto a seus Reflexos Espelhados é o próprio -: LÓKI (LOKI) , SETH , THYPHÓN, THYPHÓN- SETH , PROMETHEUS, FAETONTE -: no Panteão Grego Romano Original Não Alterado, que seu Retratar Verdadeiro foi Perdido, PHÓSPHORUS: HEÓSPHORO do qual Desdobrado ante si, surgiu sua Apresentação com o Nome LÚCIFER : LUXIFERUS ...,

O mesmo que em Outra Apresentação é CHERNOBOG, no Panteão Eslavo, sendo AKER : AKERBELTZ um de seus Reflexos Espelhados...,

Em desde o GLORIOSO DEUS INDIZÍVEL...,

Que é o mesmo...,

INOMINÁVEL...,

Que é IHVH...,

ALLAHU AKBAR...,

e próprio ...,

ALLAH...,

Com seus Nomes e Mistérios Sagrados (...)!!! ! !!! “

“( Continua na Sub-Secção H – Delta )”

[luiz-henrique]

="[ A GRANDE CLAVÍCULA -: LIVRO QUARTO (QUATRO) ]"=

="{ SECÇÃO H -: SUB-SECÇÃO H - GAMA , Continuação da Secção H-Beta }"=

" Fenrir e Surtur ( Surtr )

São Facetas Diferentes de Lóki...,

Ante a Retratação de Fenrir , como Filho de Lóki e Angerboda ( Angerbodr) , no Quadro Metafórico ligado ao Panteão, Cosmogonia, e Cultura Nórdicos, pois Germânicos...,

Já no Panteão Não Alterado, Original Arcáico Germânico -: JORMUNGANDR, a Serpente de Ólhos Brilhantes , é Feminina, Sendo um dos Reflexos Espelhados de LILITH, a Rainha da Noite...,

Onde HEL , também Chamada HELA , é como MORRIGÚ : MORRIGÁN : MORRIGÁN , CAILLEACH : MAG MOULLACH , KALI , LHAMO , COATLICUE , e MORANA , também Chamada MARZANNA -: são Reflexos Espelhados de PERSÉFONE...,

Onde ANGERBODA ( ANGERBODR ) que tem como Reflexos Espelhados -: JÁRNVIDJA e SIGYN é um dos Reflexos Espelhados de RÉHFIA HÉHZTHRIALLIHSSHAÜER HALGÔMERAHNNAIPH, que no Quadro Metafórico Mencionado Assim Acompanha LÓKI ( LOKI )...,

Onde -: LELYA , que em Outra Faceta é VESNA , Deusa Eslavas da Primavera...,

ZHIVA , Deusa Eslavas do Verão...,

e LADA , Deusa Eslavas do Outono -:

Quem são ?

As Três são Reflexos Espelhados Diferentes de Outras Apresentações, Fora dos Panteões, Daquela DEMÉTER que se Liga aos Reflexos dos quais Surgem Reflexos, que cada Reflexo e a Faceta de uma Personificação , Reflexos aos quais se Ligam DIANA NEMORENSIA, SELENE e o Reflexo Desta ARIANROD DO ARCO DE PRATA, em Outra Apresentação, e Aquela -: DANA : DÖN , Facetas da mesma -: KHERIDDWEN : CERIDDWEN à serem Reflexos Espelhados de HÉSTHER HÁLGAMAS HÉLLIONDRAH...,

e NÉFTHIS Quem é (...)?

NÉFTHIS, a Obscura Deusa Egípcia -: está Ligada a ANGERBODA ( ANGERBODR) porque Ambas são Reflexos Espelhados de RÉHFIA HÉHZTHRIALLIHSSHAÜER HALGÔMERAHNNAIPH...,

Que como NÉFTHIS , Acompanha SETH que é o próprio LÓKI ( LOKI ) , Desdobrado Ante si , com Outra Apresentação Máscara Facética e Atributos..., Assistente a um Outro Panteão, Cultura e Cosmogonia...,

Que SETH Desdobrado ante si é THYPHÓN, Já Assistente aos Mistérios Grego Romanos e aos Grego Egípcios como THYPHÓN – SETH , que NÉFTHIS Desdobrada ante si mesma, o Acompanha como ÉQUIDNA , Ligada as Tempestades...,

RÉHFIA do ALÉM DESTA TERRA , que Não é Humana , Mas uma Personificação Deidática e no mesmo Simultâneo Distintos de Natureza Deidática, Deidática Indica que se Assenta como Deidade , e é Simultânea -: Divina , Variante de Demoníaca ou Co- Demoníaca , também Pró Demoníaca e Mais em Indizível, e Manifesta seus Reflexos Espelhados em Quais Destes Módos , Ajustando as Máscaras Facéticas e Apresentações Diferentes a Magnitudes Elegida...,

Está em Junto com Sekhemet-Ra-Bastet: Ísis: Eset : NuUITH..., que em Outras Apresentações é Arthêmis, Frigg também Chamada Fricka...,

Mas Não Insurge ou Surge dos Reflexos dos quais Surgem Reflexos Ligados a Estas Mencionadas, Ligadas a Sekhemet-Ra- Bastet , Já ERESHIKHIGAL também Chamada NINNKHIGAL está Dentre estes Reflexos Espelhados Ligados a SEKHEMET-RA-BASTET , Desde a mesma Fora dos Panteões...,

Por isto -: ISHTHAR, também Chamada INANNA , e NÉFTHIS, como também ÉQUIDNA...,

Foram Mencionadas Junto com Estes Reflexos , porque no Quadro Metafórico ligado ao Panteões, Cosmogonias e Culturas-: Relativos

NÉFTHIS Aparece como Irmã de ÍSIS...,

E ISHTHAR, também Chamada INANNA, Aparece como Irmã de ERESHIKHIGAL, também Chamada NINNKHIGAL...,

Mas NÉFTHIS, ÉQUIDNA, e ANGERBODA ( ANGERBODR ) são Reflexos Espelhados de RÉHFIA HÉHZTHRIALLIHSSHAÜER HALGÔMERAHNNAIPH...,

Enquanto que ISHTHAR, também Chamada INANNA é como VÊNUS de VÊNUSBERG, TURAN : a Deusa Etrusca, BRÍGIDA, ARÁDIA , ÓSTARA , FLINDAIS, ABNOBA -: Reflexos Espelhados de ZÊMORA ÉHZIRANNAIPH ATHLAÍSLLAN, que são Facetas Diferentes Co – Autônomas da própria ZÊMORA (...)!!!

Que ZÊMORA, , PÂHNDOLLA, HÁLLIHPHAX, HEZAHLLÍEDRAH, HÉSTHER HÁLGAMAS HÉLLIONDRAH, RÉHFIA, e VALLÁSKYA -: como Outras que se Ligam -: Como Mencionado -: a CLARINNÉA, HEDRAHMNÉA, ARGÊNTHEA, RUDRAHEXTHILLAH e HEMNACIOPÉIA (...)-:

Emanam do mesmo Princípio Deidático Específico, do qual também Emanaram -:

TIAMAT , NYX , PERSÉFONE e, LILITH...,

e por Outro Lado -: SEKHEMET-RA-BASTET...,

Princípio Deidático Específico ( Deidático se Refere a Deidade ) do qual Também Emanou -:

ASTHREÁLPHIX, ao qual dentre suas Nove Manifestações Diferenciadas está HELLÍASTHER...,

e então -: QINGÚ: KINGÚ que AB- ZU : APSU é uma de suas Facetas ...,

EREBUS...,

e por Outro Lado -:

PTAH – RA : AMON – RA , que Desdobrado ante si é em Outras Apresentações Diferentes -: OSÍRIS : HÓRUS Tri- Uno..., MITHRA: HÉLIO do qual APOLO é um de seus Reflexos, LUGH , BELENO: HEOL , ODIN : WOTAN : WODENAZ -:

Deste na Oposição Surge -:

Com Ligações para com QINGÚ, KINGÚ...,

Mas como Facetas Diferentes Expressas em Reflexos Espelhados Destes Mencionados -: PTAH-RA, AMON-RA ..., HADITH, OSÍRIS, HÓRUS Tri- Uno,MITHRA: HÉLIO: APOLO: LUGH : BELENO, HEOL , ODIN: WOTAN: WODENAZ -:

Assim Surge Este que em Quanto a seus Reflexos Espelhados é o próprio -: LÓKI (LOKI) , SETH , THYPHÓN, THYPHÓN- SETH , PROMETHEUS, FAETONTE -: no Panteão Grego Romano Original Não Alterado, que seu Retratar Verdadeiro foi Perdido, PHÓSPHORUS: HEÓSPHORO do qual Desdobrado ante si, surgiu sua Apresentação com o Nome LÚCIFER : LUXIFERUS ...,

O mesmo que em Outra Apresentação é CHERNOBOG, no Panteão Eslavo, sendo AKER : AKERBELTZ um de seus Reflexos Espelhados...,

Em desde o GLORIOSO DEUS INDIZÍVEL...,

Que é o mesmo...,

INOMINÁVEL...,

Que é IHVH...,

ALLAHU AKBAR...,

e próprio ...,

ALLAH...,

Com seus Nomes e Mistérios Sagrados (...)!!! ! !!! “

“( Continua na Sub-Secção H – Delta )”

[fierysword]

[Wisdom] appears as a prophet, calling out for followers in the most public places of human interaction...at the busiest corner and the city gates (1:21–22), on the heights, beside the way, and at the crossroads (8:2)... [Her vocabulary] is reminiscent of prophetic language. She “calls,” is “refused,” “stretches out her hand,” needs to be “sought” and “found”; 1:24, 28, 8:17; compare 2 Chronicles 15:2, Isaiah 6:9–10, 65:1–2; Hosea 5:6, Amos 8:12...

[The] shift from [Wisdom's] role as speaker for God to more intimate identity with God takes a dramatic turn in [her] self-description in 8:22–36... NRSV’s “The Lord created me” (from the Septuagint) is less likely correct than either “acquired” or “conceived” (in the biological sense; compare “I was brought forth” in vv. 24–25)... NRSV’s “master workman” could also be “darling child”...

[This recalls] Ma’at, the Egyptian goddess of justice, who was also understood both as the child of the creator god and...as the ordering principle of creation. Allusions to Ma’at may also be seen in Wisdom’s claim to establish just rule...and in the depiction of her with long life in her right hand and wealth in her left...for Ma’at also appears with the ankh, symbol of life, in one hand and a scepter in the other...

Parallels may also be drawn to the Egyptian Isis [and] the Sumerian Inanna... Lang has suggested that Wisdom was worshipped as a goddess of scribes, though this remains speculative... [McKinley argues] that female-personified Wisdom is part of a complex dynamic of theological convergence, wherein [God] took on attributes of Asherah.