#divinity: fertility

[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.

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[daportalpractitioner]

holistic womb healing tip:

aim to keep your womb warm by avoiding or limiting the amount of cold you put into your body and replacing it with warm foods + liquids. this increases blood flow to the uterus and aids in fertility! even if you're not trying to get pregnant, on a spiritual level, having a fertile womb allows you to naturally magnetize the things that you want in life with ease.

[andromedasdomain]

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[ivyodessa]

Blessed Beltane 🏵️🌱🌼

[themotherofrevelation]

Low-quality sperm is the leading cause of infertility. Man’s quality of inner light is of the utmost importance.

[marilettisuccubi]

[ohhigh-imhi]

Holy Priestess, draped in white silk

Your aura matches your skin, golden glowing galaxies.

Mysterious and divine, I wish to feel your warmth

Your nurturing power guides me home to truth

Open your heart to me and I will graciously protect this most vulnerable treasure

You are a Queen of sweet essence.

Once I get a taste, my molecules begin to bounce wildly as my mind tries to comprehend this level of divinity.

// Artwork: Yosuke Ohnishi (airbrush, 1982)

[mythologyofthepoetandthemuse]

A marble relief of Isis-Demeter from the facade of the main temple of the sanctuary of Isis. 2nd century BC.

Dion Archaeological Museum.

[nickysfacts]

Fitting that the Egyptian god associated with fertility and menstruation has a very bloody past𓁳

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[francy-sketches]

This is the worst explanation I've ever read what 😭

[cosmicallybound]

@empyreous said, well ofc if hyeon and aesma had a kid -- kid headcanons || accepting

Name: Gender: General appearance: Personality: Special talents: Who they like better: Who they take after more: Personal headcanon: Face Claim:

chan-yeol (찬열) / aurelius male thick, curly blond hair w/ dark roots, sides shaven and long enough to pull back into short ponytail. (does he dye it or does it have to do with his "golden" persona... yes. c: ) he shares his father's bright grey eyes, though a strange, amber color cirles his pupils, a constant reminder that he is not human. as tall as his father, chan-yeol strikes an imposing figure, well-muscled but lean. honestly the most fashionable out of the family, tbh. ever the outgoing one, he absolutely lives up to his golden/bright personality. confident, prideful, but serious, he is the perfect representation of the sun. though he loves his twin he becomes extremely jealous of any attention gifted to her that he deems to be "too much". he is the golden child, and should be treated as such. as a demigod/half-demon, chan-yeol is durable. he is a talented fighter and can often be found training with other demons or deities when bored. he has his father's telekinesis and telepathy abilities, though he rarely uses it, preferring more martial practices. though he loves his father, chan-yeol likes his mother better. he was not spoiled as a child, hyeon put him through schooling as soon as he was able. he is to be the celestial god of the sun, and he needed to be ready. chan-yeol simply spent more time with his mother during his formative years and is closer because of it. oh absolutely aesma. although he spent more time with hyeon because of their time away at the celestial palace, chan-yeol wanted to be like his father so badly. both the good and bad. he is a talented and (typically) calm individual, but can be known to unleash a wrath that leaves permanent reminders to those who experienced it, as well as being quite possessive and jealous. chan-yeol would often wander into his parent's room and try on a selection of aesma's clothing when he was younger. it wasn't uncommon to see the little princeling running from either parent in a much-too-large shirt/tie/pant combo, giggling. vernon chwe from seventeen c:

[daportalpractitioner]

short vs. long luteal phase

did you know that your luteal phase is a key indicator for fertility? in a healthy cycle, your luteal phase (which happens right after ovulation) is between 10-17 days. it's important that you are experiencing your luteal phase in its ideal range for womb health regulation, which is responsible for your ability to magnetize + manifest.

a short luteal phase is less than 10 days, meaning that your bleed phase begins less than 10 days after ovulation. having a short luteal phase puts you at risk for infertility + miscarriages because the uterine lining isn't think enough to sustain an embryo.

a long luteal phase is more than 18 days. having a long luteal phase can be associated with hormonal imbalance, such as polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) — a leading cause of infertility.

[forceyourway]

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[stagewitch]

Correspondences Running Master List (D-F)

(raising the) Dead - yew

Dispel Negativity - amethyst, black obsidian, snowflake obsidian, celestite, selenite, lemon, black tourmaline, carnelian

Divination - broom, camphor, cherry, dandelion, fig, goldenrod, ground ivy, hibiscus, meadowsweet, orange, orris, pomegranate

Depression - black tourmaline, carnelian, lemon

Dream Manifestation - hematite, smoky quartz

Education - fluorite, blue goldstone, rosemary

Emotional Stability - tiger’s eye, honey calcite

Employment - devil’s shoestring, luck hand, pecan

Exorcism - angelica, arbutus, asafoetida, avens, basil, beans, birch, boneset, buckthorn, clove, clover, cumin, devil’s bit, dragon’s blood, elder, fern, fleabane, frankincense, fumitory, garlic, heliotrope, horehound, horseradish, juniper, leek, lilac, mallow, mint, mistletoe, mullein, myrrh, nettle, onion, peach, peony, pepper, pine, rosemary, rue, sagebrush, sandalwood, sloe, snapdragon, tamarisk, thistle, witch grass, yarrow

Familial Relationships - apricot agate

Fertility - agaric, banana, bistort, bodhi, carrot, cuckoo-flower, cucumber, cyclamen, daffodil, dock, fig, geranium, grape, hawthorn, hazel, horsetail, mandrake, mistletoe, mustard, myrtle, nuts, oak, olive, date palm, patchouly, peach, pine, pomegranate, poppy, rice, sunflower, wheat

Fidelity - chickweed, chili pepper, clover, cumin, elder, licorice, magnolia, nutmeg, rhubarb, rye, scullcap, spikenard, giant vetch, yerba mate, lemon, rosemary

Friendships - lemon, love seed, passion flower, sweetpea

Focus - fluorite, honey calcite, onyx, apricot agate

Fortitude - red/purple dead-nettle

[lighthouseborn]

thinkin about. on the one hand, mundane henry. on the other, witchchild henry.

[themotherofrevelation]

Readiness and fertility are subject to the cosmic womb’s emotional current.