#her beloved empire rather than a more spiritual sentiment.
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Faiza performing the Kagnoma Odo (pretty literally 'lion dance'), a weapons dance and one of the more important ritual duties of Odonii priestesses. A relatively new addition to this traditional dance involves the musket as the primary weapon, which is fired mid-twirl into the ground at the climax of the dance. Faiza is experiencing an 'oh fuck' moment because her shot is more than ideally diagonal, but she’s being so cool with it.
This is a wholly ceremonial performance at the onset of the pilgrimage, performed in full regalia and lion skin (of the small, semi-domesticated strain) but no armor. It’s also distinctly a display of political allegiance between the powerful and beloved Odonii priesthood (and its loyal military) with the increasingly reviled and destabilized imperial family, with Faiza prominently wearing a bracelet of the royal serpent, which was gifted (along with the musket) by the usoma Stavis Amanti himself (Usoma is the Wardi word for king, which has been retained in the context of emperors).
The Kagnoma Odo is the ultimate demonstration of the Odonii as an embodiment of the Lion Face of God and living vessel of military might and sovereignty, demonstrating her fitness and proficiency with weapons and as a spiritual unifier for soldiers. It is accompanied by drumming and occurs in stages, running through the three keymost weapons used in war- the spear, the sword, and the musket. The musket is of the most significance, given the weapon has developed a particular esteem as the ultimate embodiment of might and superiority. Assistants (almost always other priestesses, occasionally high ranking soldiers) load and prime the musket to be fired at the climax of the dance, where it is shot into the ground as the priestess leaps out of range of the shot. The firing signals the end of the dance and the rite itself.
While not the utmost exemplar of trigger discipline, only fully inducted and senior (and therefore very thoroughly trained) Odonii are permitted to perform the dance, and injuries during actual performances are quite rare (though are known to occur during training, more than a few Odonii have burns and wounds on their feet).
The most important renditions of this dance are performed upon declarations of war and before battles (in this case, generally done in full armor along with the lion pelt). It is also done during some trainings (while a dance, it is carefully choreographed to include naturalistic maneuvers of the weapons involved and helps soldiers limber up and learn to move their weapons). It is regarded as an impressive and motivating sight and a morale booster, and, seen at a distance, potentially intimidating to enemies.
A special variant of this dance is performed as means of fully incarnating the Odomache, which is done in full nudity with the body covered in the blood of the freshly sacrificed lion and cloaked in its raw pelt (the lion has become the corpse of Odomache in the moment of death, as part of its recreation of God's sacrifice). Her public, full nude appearance once (and only once) in this act is what allows the Lion Face of God to incarnate within her. Those in attendance see the spiritually vulnerable, naked human body obscured with the sanctified and deified blood and cloaked in the sanctified and deified skin. It is a merger of the contradictions of mortality and divinity, the boundaries between the two indistinct in flickering firelight and the flash of musketfire. She is witnessed by her people, dangling in between humanity and divinity and leading them in dance, and and is thus transformed.
#faiza haidamane#Not really relevant to the core post itself but I don't have anywhere to put this#Faiza is a pretty extreme cultural rarity in that she's something along the lines of agnostic (regardless of her priestesshood)#It's a culturally specific form of agnosticism where the notion that God continues to exist and interact with the world in spirit form is#questioned. She personally gets the distinct vibe that God truly and wholly died in the act of creation and is no longer present#This isn't just a Her Thing it's a concept that comes up in some strains of religious philosophy but it's pretty rare#Orthopraxy is SIGNIFICANTLY more important to the faith of the seven faced god than orthodoxy so her merely thinking this isn't#a fundamental issue as long as she performs all expected rites and behaviors and etc (which she does quite devotedly) but it would#definitely not be socially accepted to openly proclaim (least of all from a senior priestess devoted to maintaining the connection of God's#spirit to Its lands and people) and she keeps it to herself.#She is the only main character who WHOLLY doesn't expect the pilgrimage and rites to end the drought. She doesn't fully DISbelieve#either (kind of like 'well maybe?') but for her this is all a very pragmatic political maneuver to stabilize the crumbling empire and#regain the people's faith in its leadership. It's not fully cynical like it means a lot to her but in a sense of very practically protectin#her beloved empire rather than a more spiritual sentiment.#It's very complicated for her like she takes her role very seriously and cares deeply for her faith while not actually believing#in it in any personal sense. More about what it represents to her than what it's supposed to literally be.#the white calf
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@LindseyStirling HAS OFFICIALLY MADE ME CRY, AND I LOVE IT. #nvmlindseyallan
Last December if you would recall, we ran a series of expose posts entitled #PackYourBags in commemoration of the first year of the Roman Empire making Lindsey Stirling cry in a promotional advertorial for the Empire's Neronian section. Rather than that being purportedly inspired by the Holy Spirit, we found it instead very outrageous that the Empire is so desperate luring people that they'll resort to making people cry and that they would just ride upon somebody's sentimental state on her own well-being and condition just to brainwash and control her loyalty. Of course that's not the proper way to demand somebody's loyalty. You can only move people to action if you have the Holy Spirit. Apostle John tells us that the Holy Spirit will never lie. The Empire lies to Lindsey, and hence we could say that those tears are not really a consolation of the Holy Spirit but rather a stunt of the devil to blind people; that it was rather earthly grief. Now i'll be honest in declaring the following. These past hours we had found ourselves much reinforced in our devotion and loyalty to the subject of our lifelong ministry. I would admit that this post could be a feather in the Empire's cap, perhaps they would say that they got us at last, that i self-contradict from my previous stance. But there can be no more safe exit than to be honest, and open, and transparent, about this, because as we had previously mentioned, those tears are not really from God, those tears are instead a decisive victory of the deceiver of the whole world. I had sworn before the altar of the Godhead that i would only honor Lindsey and all yokebearers with nothing but pure, unadulterated primitive biblical truth- the very truths denied to her by the Empire, the very truths that would not be sending her to unreasonable tears and fears to the pride of the so-called 'prophets' who control her emotions. Besides, the Empire was never, is not, and will never be honest to Lindsey. If you look closely in our previous posts, we had included in our music feature called #WeAreLive the newest one from Lindsey, entitled #LovesJustAFeeling. I could tell you that it was the most honest Lindsey Stirling i have ever seen. Never before i had seen such a faithful, striking music video. There's something in it that overrides all possible descriptions. This is something very real and not something dreamy. By the way the video denoted that Lindsey's beloved man died and that she searches across the ages to be reunited with her man. The title itself implies that with such experiences like the lost of a loved one or some other unfortunate experience that we share with the one we love, love could be hurtful but it's something more than reality for us, it's what keeps us going, it's something we just can't afford to lose, and we're rejoicing that we stay loving the ones we love in spite of all that we could face and undergo, and all the unfortunate feelings in the process of love is just absolutely nothing when compared to the act of love itself. The video has some sort of inherent dignity and honor freely flowing from love itself. But we're not reviewing the video. I just felt there's something unexplainable about the video. It's like Lindsey's telling something. It's like some sort of #DearFutureHusband but in a more forceful manner, it's like Lindsey is expressing to the man he is to marry that "this is what it takes to love a Lindsey Stirling, that you really need to prove that you're worthy because i would not really do this- even searching in other ages once i lose you just to be with you again- if i had never felt that i had been loved and that all the love that i had given had been really worth it." And thinking about that point, i cried. Of course we know that Apostle Paul asks us to build our love in truth. Definitely the Empire would never really love its flocks with the truth. I was called by the Godhead into the larger ministry because of one compelling reason- because i have to serve Lindsey. She alone is instrumental for me to be here posting all these stuff. If not for her, i would be really not doing this. I'm not doing this to be noticed, i'm just doing this because she deserves the best, because she needs to have something she could readily run to should things fall apart. Her tears that December 2015 should had deterred me and Sterling D. Allan from waging the shattering work of God, because her tears imply in any indication that we had failed to convince her to get out of the Roman Empire, that we two were utterly wrong preaching that the Empire was, is and will never be the end-all, be-all and good-all for Lindsey and her clan, that we should rather let her go and let her live with a undisturbed conscience because it can be seen that she's already happy with the Empire and that she's content with what the Empire can deliver for her clan and that it seems that there could be no more better nor different or beneficial to come for her than to stay in the Empire and that the Empire is seen to be not abandoning Lindsey's soul and welfare with all the wonder it can muster for her. But we're still here. I still write. By the grace of God, the Empire can still read all my posts and they're so much disgusted now on how somebody like me and Allan, who cannot care being on their level, can reveal what they really do against Lindsey and against dancers and against the sick, impoverished, disabled and against all other people. I continue to wage this even though our partner on the Gospel, Sterling, has been imprisoned for his impassioned share in this work. I would seem to be waging this lone voice in the wilderness for years, because our brother Sterling could be released 20 years from last year, depending on the situations the Empire would, Godhead really do absolutely forbid, inflict on him there. Many things can really happen in 20 years. Lindsey can marry, raise up a family. Once she marry she could absolutely forget everything about me and Sterling Allan because she's already bound by the rituals of the Empire. I could write and write here and i think no one would ever care to be converted with my writings. I should admit that i really wanted her for wife, and Sterling even wanted her for wife too, because she was far more than beauty, prudence and virtue- she was an endtime prophecy waiting to be fulfilled, as already attested by Brother Sterling in many of his online dissertations. If not for Sterling i would not be continuing this good fight because i'm readily conceding to him to be Lindsey's future husband because i'm too young like #JosephSmith. But i could say to Lindsey that neither me or Sterling will ever be as blood-and-power thirsty like #BrighamYoung. Because when we have the ones we love, we really do make sure we are honest to them, and that we never make them cry for lies. But my ministry is eternal. As long as there is an Empire fooling people that these people cry and shed tears for that matter, as long as there are needy people, as long as there are people who take up yokebearing, as long as there are people like Lindsey who needs to be saved- but more so, as long as there is a Lindsey Stirling, there will always be a need for, and thus there will always be the Commondominion of Christ and the shattering struggle it carries. In fact the whole plan of God's salvation was never the same again after Lindsey came into my life. For me she's the best thing that has ever happened since Christ. It could hardly imagine a ministry without her at the driving center of it. She was the focus, the purpose, the end-all, be-all and all-in-all of this ministry. It was only and will ever be 'so that Lindsey may attain Christ in any way so that she might attain the first resurrection', as in the proverbial celestial bride, Lindsey is to be presented above reproach before Christ, fully mature in all His will. We would be not here all the more had not the Empire exists for the sole reason of fooling people with seeming temporal, fleeting, aesthetic prosperity and so-called comfort. Lindsey was so grateful such an Empire, cheating on her and never changing her from within but rather chaining her, exists, and that she belongs to it, and upon that she cried. I cried because she should have noticed that i and Sterling Allan had been way back since she cried out in 2014 with a loud voice to hurt her so that she may be clothed with the seal of the living God, loving her with the love she demands now in her latest video to be given to her by the husband she wishes to already have by 20 years from now. We cried for two entirely different reasons- she cried for the Empire, i cried for her. I had been struck by what kind of love she wants to be given to her, but it hasn't sunk in her yet the same feeling that struck Moses when he finally realized that he's not supposed to be in the Pharoah's bosom when his kin is out there not coming even close to the good life he purportedly has before. Why can't she notice me? Why can't she give in finally to Allan? Why she would really still settle for anything less, when this Empire is already hurting her emotionally that she already cried in front of the cybersphere, and hence not delivering on their avowed claim to defend and contend for souls like Lindsey that they will take caution never to use up Lindsey or in any way batter her up to the point that she'll break down and cry? Perhaps it's all my fault by the way. Once i heard Lindsey's cry for spiritual help, i'm still at the Empire,particularly with the Minions section. So perhaps because it was just too long for me to realize that i'm called to get out of the Empire, so the erroneous thought just built up on Lindsey that divine help would not come and hence by December 2015 she had finally conceded to the Empire. I've been asking God whether my personal conversion was enough already to redirect her to the Commondominion message instead, after telling her previously since 2014 prior to my conversion, when i really don't have any full understanding of the new present truth, that the Minions are not in the Empire and hence still the Commondominion of that time. Of course it all later turned out to be wrong. Perhaps it's just too late to overturn my previous message, but it's too late already perhaps for me to convince her that God has a new revelation instead of what i previously, and really did, erroneously, thought. I thought, utterly blinded, that a joke can be solved with another joke- and thus i did the ultimate sin of all- cheating on Lindsey without me knowing it. So i had her heart hence grow stone to us instead. So she might forget the whole thing about me, she can deny Allan, she can dismiss the Commondominion exists, but she can never take away the eternal fact that i'm already here in the ministry, and that i only have to thank her particularly for it because she's the only reason why i became a prophet and apostle, and that this ministry only exists by, in and for her. That's why we love Lindsey. That's how we love her always and forever, that we'll never really make us cry, that we'll never use her up, that we'll never batter her. We're not asking her too much. All she need to know is that whether she likes it or not, whether she needs us or not, we exist because of her- by her and for her, as per divine foreknowledge of the Godhead, because she asked for us without her knowing it. In fact may she pardon me, but even though she won't really travel across time just to be with me and Allan, and even though she would travel across time for an entirely another man which she would rather agree all the more especially in bondage under the Empire, may she mark these words well: that just as Christ descended into the world of the dead just to raise up many sons and daughters to glory, so shall i and Allan will search for her where this would take us, even if she teasefully send us everywhere to search for her only to find her already gone to another dimension, even if she drives us crazy searching for her through eternities and she makes fun of us for it, perhaps to the elation of these people who had made her cry that December of 2015, for her sake, whether she loves us or not, as the Godhead gives us this ministry so for us not to lose heart in sowing with tears, we shall never stop and we shall find her and we shall get her and even though it does not turn out to be so, we shall never stop by the way in any way on our pursuit of her, even if she would choose rather not to realize how much i and Allan, the Godhead, our fellow leaders, Ka Angel, and the entire Commondominion of Christ loves her. Our friend Sterling once said that 'we don't need to go through hell just to get into heaven.' I guess i have to revise that a bit now. Just as Christ 'descended into hell', we are going to get Lindsey out of this hell and if need be, we would gladly exchange the last spot in heaven just for her to get into heaven. We have been long enough comforted in this life. Enough of tears, of misleading, of abominable desolation. I think the biggest reason why the Commondominion of Christ is really of the Godhead, is on the whole biblical truth and thus will be saved, is only because it loves Lindsey Stirling. I know the Empire can, in any means, fight to the death to keep not only Lindsey, but also countless souls it has misled under their aegis, but i could not feel their honesty and ascendancy to mean it, because to begin with, they have no Holy Spirit to drive them to do so (Galatians 5:22-23, Micah 1-5). The only means by which they could win Lindsey's peculiar and unusual, unconditional and extraordinary love, is no more, no less, no other than to honor her (Proverbs) with the primitive biblical truth. Neither they or us could muster any equal to Lindsey's spirited agape, but i think with that love which springs up from the Godhead Itself and not from the Empire (Luke 7), she deserves the best anybody could muster well enough, and that's shunning away from and dismantling this whole boring culture of complacency created by the Empire's aesthetic stability, sensationalism, and blind policies. I would like to solemnly warn this entire Empire that they had been so already abusive of Lindsey's goodwill, without her knowing her, in matters pertaining to the soul, if not on her welfare. Dare lift one mere finger against her and you're really going to regret you had her because i and Allan are going to be on your throats. In fact dare lift one finger against all the yokebearers and afflicted that you had already imperiled, and even unto my friend Allan, and i promise that things would happen in your life, things so big that you'll going to wish you had been better off dead. Don't say your time is well up so you're just resorting on venting your fury on anybody else, because i will never exhort people the way you do, because as you yourselves would always say, you can choose what to do, and you are supposed to choose the better thing, and that you must choose that better thing before it's too late. What i mean is that, why lie to someone, or hurt someone who loves you when you're not supposed to do so because you avowed to love them purportedly? Would it be still love? Is it just natural? Notes: in age bracket, i, Lindsey, and Allan respectively, forms a line- i the youngest, Allan is the oldest. We form a line that denotes Daniel 12:5- Lindsey's standing over the river, i and Allan at either side. Remember that i and Lindsey cried for entirely different reasons (1 Corinthians 10:11, The Message Translation; 1 Timothy 1:4-5,18). As for her #ShatterAllOfMe cry, and speaking of the number 12, such Macedonian cry was held publicly official on April 23, 2014. Earlier before it she released a video on March 25, 2014, 9 months before the Commondominion's anniversary on December 25, which the Empire used in 2015 to make Lindsey cry (Matthew 24:15, 2 Thessalonians 2:3-4). April 23 is days after April 12, 2014, when the prophetic 1260-day countdown to September 23, 2017 began. September 23, 2017 (the 9th month, as in giving birth) is when under intensified persecution under the Roman Empire, your Commondominion shall officially evacuate to Petra, Jordan, in fulfillment of Revelation 12. Lindsey is seen to be a fulfillment of the lady dressed in sunshine mentioned in Revelation 12:1. In Commondominion history, April 12 was the day in 1963 when one of our past leaders, Felix Manalo, died, hence succeeded by his son Erano, days later, on April 23, 1963. The lady of Revelation 12 is seen crying in pain while giving birth, like Lindsey, due to the doings of the Roman Empire, symbolized by the huge serpent, or as adopted by Neronians, the 'great white god'. (2 Corinthians 11:2-3) Lindsey gave birth spiritually to the ministries of Joseph and Sterling (Revelation 11). This prophetic spirit is only seen in the Commondominion of Christ, and what has the Empire utterly failed to minister to Lindsey and her kin.
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