#divine temple

[baltarbd]

Diabellstar and Poplar

[mollysunder]

The figure at the center isn't Jinx. The figure isn't wearing the right shirt, she's missing Jinx's cloud smoke tattoos, and you can see her dark hair under the blue hair reach her back as it falls in front of her arm and behind her shoulder.

While the braids are black and white to imply that is the figure's actual hair, it's sprayed on blue like the rest of the youths in the background, because she is like them. The figure at the center is just another kid in the crowd, and they've essentially been designed like they're wearing a Jinx wig, all the kids are.

The artist for this mural is showing that anyone can be like Jinx as long as you want to fight for Zaun. Jinx represents an ideology that these kids choose to embody in both style and action. They're united in blue in their rebellion.

[feminineenergylife]

Reminder: Ladies, your body is a sacred temple. Don’t just give anyone access.

[nevermoor-alternate-universes]

nevermoor headcanon that after morrigan 'died', she became the patron saint of crows, death of young girls, and fortune. whenever she is depicted in paintings, (which is rather often, usually commissioned by the Temple of the Divine), it is usually with her head bowed, and her hands clasped.

she always wears a face veil, as it is disrespectful to attempted to paint a saint of the Divine's face, especially one as venerated as Morrigan. it's considered traditional to gift a necklace with a black eye to young girls once they turn eleven, in honour of her.

[puppetstringed]

The Temple of the Divines in Solitude

[felondese]

coping by coming up with now-possible world states since our choices won't be referenced one way or another in dav. realizing that actually, i'm not limited now by canon options. the choices can be whatever i fucking want. or don't want. they can be fucking bonkers off the wall and if it's not referenced in game, it can be true and unquestioned!

yea i'm shipping everybody and bioware can't tell me it's not canon in my world state

[ihearhercalling]

Please like or reblog (ideally reblog so other people in your sphere can find the post) if you post content about any of the following. If you reblog, please say which, or if you just like please reply and say which! I want to be more active on this blog and need people to follow.

- Celtic polytheism (Irish, Welsh, Brythonic, Gaulic, any really)

- Celtic witchcraft and folk magic, particularly Welsh

- British folk traditions

- Druidry

- Proto Indo-European polytheism

- Venus, Aphrodite, Ishtar and Inanna worship

- Actual genuine Wicca as opposed to the random stuff that gets passed off as Wicca in mainstream book shops

- Feri tradition

- Goddess-centric paganism (Dianic tradition, Deanism, Filianism, Reclaiming, Avalonian) and female mysteries

- Arthuriana from a pagan or feminist perspective (or pagan/feminist friendly)

- Sacred sexuality and tantra

- Herbalism, particularly with herbs native to the UK

[gravedigg]

Overcome by your moving temple Overcome by this holiest of altars

A set of outfit designs for Jean-Baptiste & Virgil for a DurgeDurge BG3 AU.

Jean-Baptiste/Jack belongs to @nullshocked

Closeups and some extras after the cut. :-)

[finelythreadedsky]

thinking about how hecate is iconographically associated with keys and often portrayed in art holding a set of them. lesbian goddess.

[makingapril]

introduction post!

our names are "preacher" (@m41-d) and scott (@shiftygnome). we're a pair of friends who are currently collaborating on building a girl-shaped computer that tells prophecies (using templeOS god word app among other things). we started this blog to document our progress!

feel free to send asks asking for prophecies (or anything else)!

• about templeOS

• state of the project as of october 17th

• example of APRIL working

[where-is-helsknight]

Today Helsknight is on Divine Beast Vah Medoh! -💫

[assmaster-8000]

i cant find much oc content in touchstarved because im lowkey blind but people with touchstarved ocs!!! please info dump to me in comments or dms i /gen want to hear what yall have come up with!!!!! what are their back stories? how different is it from the route you chose for them? what are they like? what do they look like? miscellaneous facts?

[revvethasmythh]

emotionally, I am still living in that moment when orym made his deal with nana morri and she said, "you smell of the touch of divinity. that makes you enticing." I'm supposing she's referring to the wildmother taking a particular interest in him (she cared enough to upgrade his sword for him!), which, in itself, is incredibly interesting because it suggests the divine still has eyes on orym in some capacity. and I also wonder how this deal with morri affects any potential relationship with the divine orym could have. is it enticing for a hag to make a deal with someone touched by the divine because fucking with the divine and, by extension, someone chosen by the divine is fun? to what degree has the divine touched orym, and is he being eyed by a deity (presumably the wildmother) for a more important role, should he be willing to take it? does the deal with morri actively impede a god's attempt to establish a connection with him? i really, truly would like for this to come up again because i am so curious about it all

[templeof-demeter]

October Divination with Demeter

I had a bit of a busy end to my September, exploring my opportunities in work and hobby and making time to rest when I can! I haven’t been engaging in casual divination and practice as much as I’d like; and will be working on that this month. I hope your September was fruitful and relaxing!

1. What message do you have for followers of the temple?

The Tower, Reversed

Ψ - “You have this righteous judgement from the Gods”

As we experience the external changing of the seasons, Demeter may be urging us to look inside ourselves for personal and internal change. Many of us may go through some significant personal changes, we may change our religious practices, beliefs and opinions on topics we once were sure on, question our life and its purposes, have shifts in personality and desires. These things are essential for the growth of a person- and there is no reason to shy away from it. In fact, shying from it may hurt ourselves. Deo is asking that we be in tune with ourselves and give space for the changes because we will change, whether we like it or not.

2. What advice do you have for followers who may be going through difficult times this month?

9 of cups

The Empress, Reversed

You are good enough - Full moon in Virgo

While things may come and go, and aspects of our life may change or be fleeting, we always have something to be grateful for. Demeter urges us to not let the negativity overshadow the positivity, as difficult as that may be. Life has many struggles, she knows it well, but we have to make time for ourselves and to nurture ourselves the way we nurture others. Give yourself the space to connect to nature and yourself, we won’t always have the time to do so- cherish what you can. And no matter the cases of life, you are good enough and worthy of the joys you receive. Do not be upset if these joys and grateful moments feel far and few in between.

3. What signs or symbols should followers be looking out for this month?

Sounds of instruments, clouds, feathers, general religious imagery, full moon

This does not mean every cloud or feather is a sign, but to look out for notable aspects of these things. Such as a cloud in a particular shape you find meaningful; or hearing music when not intending to be listening to it. Use discretion.

[dailyadventureprompts]

I was wondering if you could do something of a Monsters Reimagined for Luthic. It always struck me as odd that even though she is a deity of childbirth and fertility and motherhood she is evil simply because she is an ORC deity.

Monsters Reimagined: Luthic, Cavemother

There are no easy births: it always a matter of blood and broken bones and shit and curses and pain in the desperate hope of getting through it alive and maybe bringing something good into the world in the process. It would stand to reason then that the god who claimed birth as her domain would have to be strong, hopeful yes, but tough as old boot lather and not afraid to get her hands dirty.

Luthic is that god, who lends her strength to those who bear life as the process threatens to rip them apart, who councils with midwives, grannies, bonesetters, and village witches who keep the hardwon knowledge of the fever-herb and staunching poultice.

It is said that before she took her current form Luthic was a god of the dark and secret places of the earth, who first encountered mortals when they sheltered in her caves from the bickering of other gods and their aims during the primordial dawn age. The mortals were new, not yet knowing the design of thier own bodies, and when it came time for the first generation to give birth to the second, someone had to step up and help them through it. Like any mother Luthic encouraged them through their explorations, as playing with sticks led to spears and tools, and painting on stone walls led to art and language. When they were ready, she brought them blinking into the light, and then retired to a well deserved state of distant reverance as her adopted children took their place in the world above.

Adventure Hooks:

Like the great bear that is her crest, the cavemother likes to keep to herself much of the time, unless some idiot stirs up enough of a ruckous to wake her from her hibernation. This time it's some upjumped priest king that's convinced that if he can just impregnate the right woman he can sire a word redeaming chosen one. The only problem is that he's not giving the "right woman" much of a choice in the matter, and has decided to invade the party's homeland to search for and capture her. Luthic isn't going to stand for it, and appears to the party in the form of a local medicine woman to set them on the right path and patch their wounds along the way. Once they've earned her trust, she'll put an ancient bone knife in their hands sharp enough to cut through an army of zealots and imply that they should use it to feed the priest king his own cock. Something about a lession in not sticking it in where it's not welcome.

The caves marked off as sacred to Luthic are wellsprings of primordial power, resounding not only with the wisdom of previous generations but the energy of creation itself. Its said that if you pilgramage into their dark depths one might emerge remade, free of illness or debilitation, or reborn into a body more fitting of who they truely are.

Seeking the holiest of holy places to consummate his marriage to his longtime rival and off again on-again flame, an orcish champion has sought out a long-abandoned mountain temple dedicated to the Cavemother. His dreams of altartop honeymooning has been shattered however as he's discovered that the temple and surrounding highlands are overrun by the brood of Shub-Nuggrath and her cultists. Having perhaps bitten off more than he can chew, he requests the party's aid in ousting the "goatfuckers" from the region.

Titles: Cavemother, She of the Bitter Roots, Bellycarver,

Signs: Unnatural darkness, Rumbling in the mouths of caves, clawmarks in stone, particularly angry bears.

Symbols: The Orcish rune for cave entrance, The Cavebear, or the Jawbone of one.

Despite not being one of the more widely published deities Luthic has been one of my most requested gods to rework, and after I published my take on Gruumsh my inbox I got even more. Normally I won't go into the racial sub-pantheons more often than not because of how conceptually thin most of the entries are, but the asker (and a few others) rightfully noticed the oddness of having Luthic be marked out as an evil goddess despite her domains being centered around fertility, birth, healing, and the earth... all classic mother goddess stuff we could imagine any good aligned druid talking about.

It took me a little while to understand that Luthic's evil was strictly rooted in the idea that she was helping more orcs be born, orcs being a primary enemy of all good people and thus contextualizing a wholly unselfish and natural action as something counter to the forces of good. Remember kids, dig too deep into d&d and you WILL find genocide apologia waiting somewhere under the surface. The same goes for her healing aspect, which is repeatedly brought up as being crude and inferior to the medicine of other races (Her priestesses carry dirt to rub into the wounds of those they care for, because even though it's healing it needs to be gross and inferior because they're orcs and orcs are a standin for anyone the writers subconsciously think are gross and inferior).

That said, removing the one conceit that Luthic is evil ( and all the misogyny baked into her original writeups) we're actually left with a very interesting addition to our pantheon: A goddess who presides over the unpleasant and frequently gruesome process of pregnancy and birth, a fact of life for the historical-ish settings that most d&d campaigns but one that is seldom touched upon. I can easily imagine Luthic's acolytes being the ones to hand out herbs that deal with unwanted pregnancy or to be called for in the difficult case of a breach birth. Luthic likewise being the god who presides over caves because most of the more well-known deities that deal with the underground are specifically mining related, and there's a delicious tension there between between places below the earth that exist to be exploited, and others that exist as sacred, liminal spaces that we merely visit.

Art

[song-for-an-unborn-sun]

Gustave Dorés’ beatific vision, from Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy.