#art:han

[cozychannie]

[madamlaydebug]

Metta is when you fill yourself up with compassion and acceptance and then offer it energetically to those that are suffering.

This is a service of love that benefits both the one who is offering and to those that it's being sent to.

Blessings🌿✨🐾

(Art:Hans Walør)

[divaricca]

In the ancient Mesopotamian kingdom of Sumer, Inanna was known as a powerful goddess of war, sex, and the dispensation of justice. Associated with political power and the underworld, the goddess Inanna evolved over time, spreading throughout the ancient world and blending with both Ishtar and Astarte

Many of Inanna's early priests were androgynous men, and those who were what we today would view as transgender. Her priests were believed to dress in women's clothing, take traditionally female names, and sing lamentations that were historically the domain of feminine worshipers. Some scholars have theorized that the priests of Inanna were similar to those the people of India refer to as hijra. Although there was once a theory that these priests engaged in sacred prostitution, modern scholars have rejected this idea.

Author Sara Amis describes a passage in The Lady of the Largest Heart and relates a ritual: Inanna removes the symbols of womanhood and “consecrates [a] maiden’s heart as male,” then does the same with a man, granting each the role and status of another gender by divine fiat and simultaneously inducting them into her priesthood.

Amis goes on to say that Inanna herself often appears as whichever gender she wants, and doesn't bother conforming to stereotypical expectations and norms.

Text Source: LearnRelions.com

art:Han Kelecci

Art: Carol Bak

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