#WIDER

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morning doodle practice because I fell into a pot of my own making. Apparently All you have to do to understand raph's face is stare at @snackugaki 's art for a long time.

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Starfighter

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Conspectus Deum Theodiscorum

Overview of all my remembered theses to date, assured & unassured, about the Thedish gods.

This being only a summary, I certainly did not give my full train of logic or sources in most cases, so if there's any point where there's curiosity for a clearer & fuller explanation, please do ask.

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First Function.

Geven/Yeven - O.N. Gefjon

This gyden is assuredly the sister of Woden mentioned in Hávamál 164, as seen in the Lokasenna, the unnamed eighteenth spell being prescience. The myths regarding her- as a shapeshifting magical scheming-seducer mislaying kings- affirm this. Compare also Snorri's parallel stories of her mislaying Gylfi the first pagan king with her brother's failed seduction of Tryggvason the first Christian king.

The form of her name I use is borrowed from the Old Norse for its loveliness, not directly from a postulated Old English.

Latinly Diána, Hellenicly Artemis & Hecaté, Indially Kálí, Chámundá, & like Mahádevi-forms.

It would seem that the Theodiscans understood her being the gyden of maidens (meyjar) differently from the Mediterraneans, as only in the same sense that Apollo is unwed.

Woden - O.E. Wóden - O.N. Óðinn

Latinly Juppiter & specifically Védiovis, as well as Mercurius; Hellenicly Zeus as well as Hermés; Iliadicly perhaps Apollón-Hecatos; Indially Rudra, and perhaps Varuna; Bacchus might also be pertinent.

Herne the Hunter is likely a memory of him, Herne being an English form for Herjan.

Although he has clear heavenly attributes- being atop the highest mountain, bridegroom of the Earth, god of ernes & ravens - his nature as a god of heaven in particular is quiet in the extant West Norse verses- part of a trend that does not speak of the gods' essential elementalities, seen also with Thunder & Easter-Free. Contrarwise, the Christian skalds love to give IHVH titles like Sólar Salkonungr (Sun's Hall-King) and Ræsir Regnbýs (Ruler of the Rain-House).

The Sun & the Moon are his two eyen, and the Moon being the eye that lies in Mime's mead, which is akin to the famous link between Chandra & Soma among the Inds.

Frie-Scathe - O.E. Fríg-*Sceaða - O.N. Frigg-Skaði

I consider it likely, though not assured, that these two gydens & brides of Woden are mythologically the same, nikimitama & aramitama.

You will note that Scathe has an elaborate myth of how she came to the gods and wed Nearth and then Woden, but disappears from narrative right as she marries him and, as Snorri says, bears him many children. Contrariwise, Frie is regarded as Woden's wife most regularly, but there is no mythology of where she came from. (The title Fjörgyns mær (Fiergen's maid) given to her in the Lokasenna clearly in context means lover, not daughter, of Fjörgynn, who must be Óðinn; Loki taunts her by a name that recalls her husband's other wife Fjörgyn.)

You will also note the complementarity of the two names- Frie, love, Scathe, harm, as well as Scathe's complementarity with Woden (id est furor).

This also explains why Ing-Free is called Friggjar angan- Frie's sweetness- in the Völuspá; this refers to her role as her beloved son by Nearth, as seen in the För Skírnis.

Latinly Júnó, Hellenicly Héré, Indially Párvatí-Kálí.

Scathe is from the Old Norse, seeing as the very word was regularly borrowed into English. The fully English form would be Sheath.

Wider - O.E. *Wíder - O.N. Víðarr

I straightforwardly affirm Dumézil's theory that Wider is Indially Vishnu; their eschatological roles, their striding & riding are alike, and even the meanings of the names are similar.

His absence from attestations of other Indo-European religions may pertain to his grand eschatologicality. I do consider it possible that he may be hidden as one or another of the Greek heroes.

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Second Function.

Thunder - O.E. Þunor - O.N. Þórr

Thunder agrees with Jove only in his weapon, in all other aspects of cult & myth, in particular his wandering & warding, ambuling & apotropaic, he agrees with Hercules, which is indeed what Tacitus calls him. This in confirmed by his role in the cognate gigantomachy myth; Apollonius notes that the giants could not be defeated until Heracles came, likewise with Thunder.

And one might object that Hercules was said to be a man first and a god second, but so were the Dioscouri, whom we know from the Inds to be in truth eternal gods. And all three of them were in deed worshipped as key gods always, whatever had happened in the mythology.

Of course Indially Indras, Hellenicly Héraclés, Latinly Hercules, & perhaps Márs also.

Tue - O.E. Tíw - O.N. Týr

I must be silent. From toponyms, he appears to have been known, not in Norway whence our verses come, but in Denmark, and further south, among the Angels & Sexen. Perhaps he is the same as Ing-Free- note the vaguness of the names Týr- God- and Freyr- Lord- but perhaps he is not.

Dumézil's thesis that he is an oath-god seems doubtful; his Varuna-Mitra theory has no real examples in any I.E. branch.

Barring new revelation, I do not think Lord Tue will be understood in our eld.

I would worship him like Mars, since that is the best we can do.

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Third Function.

Nearth - O.E. *Neorþ - O.N. Njörðr

No apparent relation to gods in any other I.E. branches; likeness to e.g. Nereus is etymologically unsound. The Icelanders themselves said Saturnus, but this is late, as shown by the name of the day.

A fanciful myth I poet- that Easter-Free & Ing-Free were born from the hanged-gored Woden's blood drifted down into Nearth's sea, just as Venus was born from Uranus bled.

A mystery.

Ing-Free - O.E. Ing-Fréa - O.N. Yngvi-Freyr

There were were two sorts of masculine Third Function gods, the brothers of the dawn-gyden- among the Grecians & Inds one finds the two Discouri, but among the Italians & Theodiscans a solitary god is known as well- an Osirian founder king.

He was called Ing-Free among the Swedes, who held the holy land of the Thedishmen- the Norse name for Zion, Jórsalir, is modeled after the name of the heathen holy see of Uppsalir. His Sexen name is, of course, Sexneat.

Romanly he is Quirínus-Rómulus, but Iguvinely Vofionus.

It thus seems that this sort of cultic god was reconsecrated with a new name in every city or tribe. Hence, perhaps, the generic name of the poets Freyr.

On the other hand, founding twins were common in Thedish genealogies- Hengest & Horse for the Angelkin, Ybor & Agio for the Lombards, Ambri & Assi for the Wendels- and Tacitus claims the unknown Alcis were the Dioscouri. The meaning is not fully clear.

The "Fricco" name by which Adamus Bremensis knows him is perhaps some derivation of frakka, viz. spear, which is ithyphallic, and would match with Seaxnéat & the seax, and Quírinus & his quirís.

Balder, Foal, the other Theodiscan Osiris, may be a doublet of sorts.

Easter-Free - O.E. Éastre-Fréo - O.N. Freyja

Freyja is the Dawn-gyden. This is seen most assuredly by the cognate gigantomachies- in the Grecian the ettins seek Sun, Moon, & Dawn- the three childr of Hyperion as well- while in the Norse the giants seek Sun, Moon, & Freyja.

Thus, of course, she is the English Éastre, hence my lovely modern name for her of Easter-Free.

Furthermore she is the Sithgouth (O.E. *Sinþgúþ, O.H.G. Sinthgunt) of the Second Merseburg Charm, the witch who is the Sun's sister.

And again she is the Suebian Isis who so baffled Tacitus, the name he heard being *Idisiz, a synonym of *Frawjǭ.

Indially she is Ushas, Latinly Auróra & Venus (alma lux Ænéæ), and Hellenicly the triad of Éós in cosmology, Aphrodité in cult, & Helené in the heroic legend, who are all three the Walkyrie of Ilium.

She is the only main god who can be found by this more or less same name in so many branches, doubtless since it was the regular name of a natural element.

Her belovèd Wode (O.N. Óðr) is likely a solar or planetary god, her golden tears for him being like the Heliades' for her brother Phaethon- such a name was given to the belovèd of Eos-Aphrodite as well.

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Homedeal - O.E. *Hámdeal - O.N. Homedeal

He is the god of Awedrassel the holy Tree, which the Völuspá tells us outright is Ash the first man, he & his Emble being made by the gods from driftwood, which must have come from the Tree to begin with, and indeed the last wife & wer Life & her Lover will return to the Tree at the end of days; Tree, God, & Man are all the same again & again, and Woden, we must then note, was hanged upon Man.

The story of the Rígsþula, then, is just Homedeal's aforementioned nature as the god of the Tree that begets Man shown in a different myth.

I affirm Signe Cohen's theory that he is the Inds' & Medes' Apám Napát.

Lock - O.E. *Loca - O.N. Loki

He has been shown to be the god Lóðurr, and so the giver of craft & beauty to mankind.

Possibly he was understood as a malign ghost who always was present at offerings, and who needed to be bound or beaten or bribed or blessèd off. This would explain well his roles in the mythology- how he can claim to have lain with all the gydens, why he always accompanies Thunder, why Woden cannot drink without him.

Hellenicly he is of course Prometheus, likewise a maker of man with Zeus, a giver of arts & beauty, and a divisionary of sacrifice; bound for his sins, but friends with Hercules. And one will note that Prometheus was worshipped, at Athens.

[coochiequeens]

I'm usually anti-death penalty but I would rather this guy get the chair then have women at risk.

By Genevieve Gluck. January 2, 2024

A trans-identified male convicted of the grisly murders of two men is serving his 50-year sentence in a women’s correctional facility. Vietnam war and US Navy veteran Susan Monica, born Steven Buchanan, had dismembered the bodies of his victims and fed them to pigs at a 20-acre farm he owned in Wimer, Oregon.

In 1991, Buchanan purchased a 20-acre farm in Oregon where he would kill two handymen in 2012 and 2013 before feeding their corpses to the pigs he owned at the property. He was sentenced to a minimum of 50 years in prison in 2015, and multiple new outlets reporting on the case referred to Buchanan simply as a “woman,” without mentioning his transgender status or the fact he is a biological male.

“You shot two people and fed them to your pigs,” Judge Tim Barnack told Buchanan during sentencing. “I don’t know how else I can put it. You valued pigs more than you value people. It may sound harsh, but you are a cold-blooded killer.”

According to the Oregon state Department of Corrections, Buchanan is incarcerated at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility, a women’s facility. He is listed under his feminine name, Susan Monica, and is described as being “female” in official records.

In 2012, Buchanan hired 59-year-old Stephen Delicino to assist him with tasks on the farm in exchange for financial compensation and accommodations. According to Buchanan’s testimony, the two became involved in a physical altercation after Buchanan discovered that Delicino was in possession of two of his guns. During a confrontation over the alleged theft, Buchanan claims that a gun misfired, striking Delicino in the back of the head and killing him.

However, Buchanan’s story regarding the death of Delicino was inconsistent. He variously claimed that Delicino shot himself in the head, and that he had shot the victim in self-defense — before his remains were eaten by Buchanan’s pigs.

What was left of Delicino’s corpse would later be found by investigators in plastic bags on the property, but not before Buchanan killed again.

The following year, Buchanan hired Robert Haney, 56, as a handyman by placing an advertisement for hired help. In the summer of 2013, Haney’s children became concerned when they could not contact their father, and filed a missing persons report with the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office.

Haney’s son, Jesse, revealed in a documentary for Oxygen about the killings that he visited Buchanan’s farm on January 1, 2014 inquiring as to the whereabouts of his father, and to retrieve his belongings. “We hadn’t seen or heard from my dad for two months. We just all started to panic,” he said. “His leather jacket was there. His dog was still running around and all his tools were there… It made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.”

When officers initially questioned Buchanan about Haney’s disappearance, he told them that the handyman had quit and left the farm. Yet suspicions were raised when Buchanan was caught on security camera footage using Haney’s Oregon Trail Electronic Benefits Transfer card (EBT) to pay for items at a Walmart the day after he claimed that Haney had left his property.

Law enforcement officers executed a search warrant on the property and were shocked by the dilapidated conditions of Buchanan’s farm, which included piles of garbage, rotting food, and industrial waste. 

“I would describe that property as eerie. There was a very strong order there, a lot of decay,” former Jackson County Sheriff’s Detective Julie Denney told Oxygen.

Then, investigators discovered the remains of a human leg. “It was clear that it was not an animal bone. It appeared to me to be a human leg that had been severed mid-femur, down to the toes,” Denney said.

Detectives brought Buchanan in for further questioning, at which point Buchanan told a bizarre story about putting Haney “out of his misery.”

Buchanan claimed that a few months prior, he had discovered his pigs in a feeding frenzy, devouring Haney’s intestines “with his guts all over the place.” 

Steven Buchanan / Susan Monica, mugshot via Jackson County Sheriff’s Office

“He was being eaten, what I believed to be, alive,” Buchanan told detectives during the interview. “I put him out of his misery. I do that for my animals and this was the first time I did it for a human being and I knew it was wrong but if it were one of my pigs suffering out there, I would have done the same thing.”   

State Police forensic anthropologist Veronica Vance testified that Haney had suffered three to four gunshot wounds to the head. His legs had been chopped off with an ax, though it was unclear whether this occurred before or after Haney’s death. Additionally, his thigh bones showed signed of having been gnawed on by an animal.

Buchanan stated that he didn’t inform authorities about the incident because he feared that his pigs would be put down. When investigators asked whether they would find anything else on his property, Buchanan drew a map with an “X” and said, “Right there. That’s where you’re going to find Steve,” referring to Delicino.

“I do not value human life very much,” Buchanan would admit during a taped confession. “My feeling is the only thing wrong with the planet is there’s people on it. If not for us, all the other animals, even dodo birds, would be here.”

The lead detective involved with the case told the court that Buchanan had admitted to killing over a dozen victims in a similar manner. “She told me that if she told me about the 17 others that she would spend the rest of her life in jail,” said detective Eric Henderson, referring to Buchanan as a woman.

Delicino’s daughter Eva told Oxygen that she also believed there were more unidentified victims.

“I think there’s more people… I don’t know what the motive would be… I don’t think that you kill two people in that manner and that it wasn’t premeditated. I think [he] did it to other people, too… and even the investigators believe that there are more people out there on [his] property.”

Buchanan was arrested on January 14, 2014 and charged with two counts each of murder and first-degree abuse of a corpse as well as one count of identity theft, the Mail Tribune reported at the time. Dozens of crime scene investigators searched the property, digging over 100 holes over the following weeks. Though they uncovered the remains of both Haney and Delicino, as well as the victims’ personal belongings, no other bodies were found.

A former cellmate of Buchanan’s at the Jackson County jail testified to getting “chills” after receiving a birthday card from Buchanan signed, “from the sweetest murderer in Jackson County.”

It is unclear how many men claiming a transgender status are currently being held in women’s facilities in Oregon state. As Reduxx previously reported, a man in custody for the brutal murder of his ex-girlfriend had been briefly transferred to the Coffee Creek Women’s Correctional Facility, but was quickly moved back to the male estate just weeks later for unknown reasons.

Zera Lola Zombie, born Daniel Lee Smith, has received a “vulnerable” designation by an Oregon Court, entitling him to special protections and privileges due to his gender identity. He is classified as a “female” inmate in the Oregon inmate directory.

[renee-writer]

April Prompts Day 14 Wider

Wider then all the

Oceans

Combined

Deeper then them

Too

More vast than

The sky

That is how

Much He loves us

Amazing grace

Indeed.

[mugrootbeer]

MUG ROOT BEER causes children's heads to get wider!

[fieriframes]

[OKAY. AND VISTA NO WIDER THAN THEIR OWN SUNBONNETS. MMM.]

[evidently-endless]

i think we should remind musicians they can absolutely make up little stories for their songs btw. it doesn’t have to be about them at all. you can invent a guy and put him in situations to music. time honoured tradition in fact.

[saetorimedia]

Concert review: NaraBara: Rotterdam - 19-10-2024

NaraBara @NaraBaraBand is a group that identifies themselves as a musical collective that blends Mongolian folk with jazz rhythms. On October 19th they graced @groundsrotterdam in the link you find our review.

[primepaginequotidiani]

PRIMA PAGINA New York Times di Oggi venerdì, 04 ottobre 2024

[net-photos]

Die "Encyclopedia of Alabama" ist ein Buch, das das Erscheinungsbild des Staates Alabama widerspiegelt und zahlreiche Informationen über dessen Geschichte und Kultur enthält. Den ganzen Artikel gibt es hier: https://nordischepost.de/unterhaltung/design/design-das-aeussere-erscheinungsbild-des-buchs-encyclopedia-of-alabama-spiegelt-den-staat-wider/?feed_id=76410&_unique_id=66765cee91d49

[skipppppy]

No offence but I feel like some people got a little too comfortable with telling people to touch grass and swung all the way round to just straight up shaming anyone who might have a less active social life than them to feel better about themselves. “She should be at the club” was a really funny meme until people started acting like fucking middle school bullies towards people who don’t go out with their friends a lot. All those drinking/drugs/sex milestone polls were fun to engage with until it became a wierd circlejerk making fun of people who haven’t done those things before. People on twitter are once again dogpiling someone for wanting queer social spaces that don’t revolve around alcohol or loud music and telling them it’s their own fault for not having friends.

Like I get that nightclubs and sex have strong ties to queer culture and are often the first targets in the hellscape of respectability politics. It’s important we remember our roots and protect these spaces from conservative scrutiny. I mean that. They are important. But just on a surface level it seems like people are starting to see having an inactive social life as some kind of moral failing which…it’s not. I feel like an insane person for feeling like I have to say this on the fucking queer autism website but like. You aren’t inherently a bad person if you don’t have friends. You aren’t “falling behind” if you haven’t had your first kiss in your 20s or never done drugs. The real world isn’t a movie. And if you see someone who doesn’t go out much and instinctually think “wow what a terminally online loser. I bet their social life sucks because they’re a sheltered creep and not because of systemic barriers beyond their control” you need to have a long hard look at why you feel that way.

There are very real barriers that prevent isolated people from finding community and connection. Do you think you’re superior for being able to breach them? Time, money, sobriety, accessibility, none of those factors were a problem for you, so it shouldn’t be for them, right? Right?

[littlemizzlinguistics]

Studying linguistics is actually so wonderful because when you explain youth slang to older professors, instead of complaining about how "your generation can't speak right/ you're butchering the language" they light up and go “really? That’s so wonderful! What an innovative construction! Isn't language wonderful?"

[chaiaurchaandni]

does throwing a stone at a tank

make a child a terrorist?

is terrorism about resisting oppression? is terrorism about demanding your birthright to live safely and peacefully in your homeland? is terrorism about hating the killers of your family, your friends and your people?

accusations of terrorism are often weaponized against those fighting for liberation and sovereignty and dignity. the french settlers called the algerians terrorists. the indian government calls the kashmiris terrorists. the pakistani army calls pashtun activists terrorists. the turkish government calls the kurds terrorists. apartheid south africa called nelson mandela a terrorist. americans called the vietcong and the black panthers terrorists. the israelis call the palestinians terrorists. all oppressive regimes are connected. all oppressed people are connected. injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

[ohnoidontexist]