#hildegard von bingen

[motorway-south]

okay

[shaonicwhite]

kind of obsessed with the conlang invented by 12th century composer and mystic hildegard von bingen. she called it lingua ignota and just sort of never explained why it exists or what it’s for? like. girl. why did you do this

in case you're wondering what was up with her, like, in general, she was an abbess who was (1) politically influential, (2) chronically ill, and (3) plagued by visions.

but like seriously girl WHAT was the conlang for. TELL ME

[sex-death-rebirth]

The Cycle of the Seasons by Hildegard of Bingen, 12th c.

[ohholydyke]

When Saint Augustine said “evil and sin doesn’t exist, it’s just an absence of good” and when Saint Julian of Norwich said “sin doesn’t exist, everything is love and charity, we just struggle to perceive and embody that love and thus suffer pain and despair” and when Jesus Christ said to be perfect as god is perfect means to love everyone and when Saint Hildegard said all are sick and feeble and rotting and inherently worthy of love and care and do you see the connections love is everything love is all there is, sin is what happens when we suffer because we do not love and do not allow ourselves to be loved and it’s fixed by restoration of the sinner to the love which never leaves them it just lingers there until they are ready to accept it. The great commandment is love. We are loved and we ought to love. Care community charity affection support interdependence THESE are holy and these are what constitute everything and our oneness in god who is love. The attributes of God aren’t separate. God’s justice is love, his holiness is love, his righteousness is love, his power is love, his knowledge is love. He loved us so much he became us so that we could become one with him in a way creation never could otherwise. That’s why sin entered the world. That’s why the cross happened. So that creator and creation could become one in love through the remedying unification of the passion, like when you have to cut a section out of a tree and cut a branch in order to graft it on so that they become one and begin producing fruit.

The body of Christ is like Van Aken’s tree, which grows forty different types of fruit after a process of careful grafting, tending and growth. Look at it—it’s beautiful. That is our relationship to God through Christ.

[cuties-in-codices]

hildegard's vision of the universal man and the cosmic spheres

from an illuminated manuscript of hildegard of bingen's "book of divine works" ("liber divinorum operum"), italy, mid-13th century

source: Lucca, Biblioteca Statale di Lucca, MS 1942, fol. 9r

[givemearmstopraywith]

I am a person who has neither the strength nor the pride of a lion. I am soft like a fragile rib, but I have been filled with a secret inspiration.

Hildegard von Bingen, Hildegard Von Bingen’s Mystical Visions : Translated from Scivias, translated by Bruce Hozeski.

[discworldwitches]

from hildegard of bingen - the woman of her age by fiona maddocks

[hairtusk]

louise bourgeois, together / hildegard von bingen, the holy trinity

[the-merry-otter]

But that’s my emotional support 12th century nun music :(

[dk-thrive]

We cannot live in a world that is interpreted for us by others. An interpreted world is not a home. Part of the terror is to take back our own listening. To use our own voice. To see our own light.

— Hildegard von Bingen, from ‘Selected Writings’ (Penguin Classics; November 1, 2001) (via Alive on All Channels)

[scherzokinn]

Things To Never Say To Someone Who Just Came Out - Composers Edition!

[amphibimations]

Hildegard von Bingen !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

she was a nun and a scientist and a musician and poet and invented her own language and alphabet. which i think is pretty neat. this drawing is based on a specific medieval illustration: (link)

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

been a while since I posted one of my more complex pieces!

This lil guy is a Hildegard von Bingen quote, I was to include a variety of quite a few flowers!

For anyone curious, something of this detail level would go for around $120-150 CAD

[ohholydyke]

All girls these days know how to do is be lesbian, obsess over niche medieval theology, hyperfixate on Mary Mother of God and yearn.

[holyhyphae]

[austerity-audacity-asceticism]

sharing some resources on the works of st. hildegard of bingen!

Texts and Chants

Hymn to the Virgin (w/ sheet music and commentary)

Scivias

Selected Writings of Hildegard von Bingen

Hildegard of Bingen: Visions and Validation

The visions of Hildegard of Bingen. 1928.

Hildegard of Bingen and the Greening of Medieval Medicine

fair warning, though. some of them are behind a paywall. do with them what you will.