#honoring ancestors

[thevirginwitch]

[witchofbonesandkeys]

This morning I rearranged my altar for All Soul’s Day/Day of the Dead, to include offerings for/reminders of some of my ancestors/where they’re from.

[epicstoriestime]

Ars Angelica: The Angelic Magician’s Handbook

For centuries, mystics, scholars, and seekers have turned to celestial forces for guidance, protection, and divine wisdom. Ars Angelica unveils the hidden traditions of angelic magic, exploring its foundations in medieval grimoires, Kabbalistic teachings, and esoteric philosophy. This book serves as both a historical study and a practical guide, revealing how sacred names, sigils, and celestial…

[honoringthor]

Ancestor offerings. ~coins~ 🪙

Usually left my families and friends of military personnel. The money is often collected to help with cemetery maintenance or caring for surviving vets. This version is practiced in the US and Canada. Some cemeteries would prefer you not leave coins so it’s a good idea to check first. (They can damage graves in left to long)

Pennys = visited grave stone to show respect

Nickel = attended boot camp together

Dime = served together

Quarter = you were present when the died.

Source

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Ancestor offerings ~ stones~

For some, particularly for Jewish people. A pebble is found before leaving and placed on the grave traditionally with the left hand.

Source

Both sides f my family do this. Had no idea it was also a specific tradition for an actual ethnoreligion. It as just something we did because we didn’t have resources to get anything fancy.

Source for both entries

Goodchild, Clair. The Book of Ancestors, a Guide to Magi’s, Rituals, and Your Family History

[jacciturner]

Spiritual Practices: Honoring Your Ancestors

As a white, Western-thinking person, the idea of honoring my ancestors is a foreign concept. My first thought is, “Who the heck are my ancestors?” My family goes back a few generations and then…disappears. A DNA test shows a mix of English, German, Scottish, and Irish with a scattering of other white groups blended in. But the Bible talks a lot about the importance of ancestors. How do we find…

[strangemonochromes]

Shiver - Junji Ito Selected Stories ("Honored Ancestors") // Junji Ito

[bonefall]

Heads up! There is going to be a very long and detailed post about making sausages dropping in a few hours.

It's got a big red content warning and a readmore, so nothing is going to get gruesomely dropped on you, but make sure you add "butchery" or "cw butchery" to your tag filters to be extra safe if the idea of processing animal carcasses is upsetting to you!

It also has an image of sausage casings before they're scraped. I tried to whack the post with as many CWs as I can think of but I'd recommend "cw meat" or "cw organs" if you need them.

[dysthoepiadaily]

I'm so obsessed with this video... Dan has the edgy teen genes...

[wildsaltair]

respectfully I need to climb him like a rope ladder and do him so good we both ascend into the clouds and never recover

[praazlwurm]

Giratina's Temple and the Celestica Ruins

aka Giratina/platinum clan theory is back (also sorry for using mspaint lmao)

So we all know about the Shrouded Ruins, yeah?

(This is the only spoiler warning for Pokemon Legends: Arceus you're gonna get)

Spooky. Ever-cloaked in mists and mystery, surrounded by black-stoned cairns like graves and home to the giant Odd Keystone that once (?) housed 108 souls. Very ghost-centric.

Well what if I told you it was a temple?

Greco-roman temples (and, problematic or otherwise the celestica are absolutely greco-roman coded) are constructed relatively uniformly, with an outer later of columns holding up the roof and an inner layer holding up an internal structure, providing additional support, ect.

We have a perfect in-game model to project from, too, in the Temple of Sinnoh (pre-explosion). You can see that some of the smaller columns are sometimes decorative - likely they held up torches or, in the case of the two nearest the 'altar,' offerings

So knowing that style and having the remaining structures we do see in-game, we can approximate a lay out of what the building may have looked like.

What makes this a temple, however, is more open to interpretation. My evidence to support that it is is actually the blue-tinged pedestals seen within the outline of the building - the place(s) of honor in any temple. Irl, the inner structure - the cella - was often fully-walled in, though sometimes this was constructed via wood and other materials that don't withstand time.

Now, ENORMOUS shout-out to pokemaniacchris and the incredible Crimson Mirelands Archeological Survey Project for a really detailed, in-character breakdown of the ruins structures throughout the mirelands. I can only assume the 'surveyors' hadn't reached Mt. Coronet yet in their explorations.

Pedestals like these (at least superficially similar) are found beneath dozens of statues around Mt. Coronet, including beneath Giratina, Palkia and Dialga in the Sacred Plaza area. Now, I know I'm supposed to be claiming that this is a temple to Giratina, but if we work on the assumption that the four pedestals corollate with Giratina, Palkia, Dialga, and Arceus, a new conclusion can, perhaps, be drawn:

That whoever built this temple saw all four of them on the same 'level' of power or -- and this is my hc taking over -- if the statues were placed in a certain orientation (see below) that they saw Arceus and Giratina on equal footing, with Dialga and Palkia one rank below.

And there is, imo, more evidence to support this disruption of the 'creation trio' into two pairs on equal footing, found in the Celestica Ruins! So, among the structures there are two notable, circular buildings that the Greeks also utilized, called tholoi (plural). Irl, tholoi were a mix of secular-use and small-scale temples, and seeing as these two are small (maybe 10ft across inside?) I would maintain the claim that they're small temples.

And they align/mirror each other just as the statues of Palkia and Dialga do.

This part becomes pure conjecture, but I like to think the smaller structures in the ruins might be other small-scale temples for the various mythicals, honoring each much as the Greeks honored a pantheon.

Lastly, the CMASP describes the "Gapejaw Bog Complex" as being potentially an entire agora all its own and I can't agree more. Such evidence would support the idea of there being two groups of Celestica (Note: Not the Clans.)

I actually found myself wondering if the mirelands weren't always quite so swampy, and instead flooded at some point in the past with the depressions around Gapejaw - left by housing foundations - filled in with swamp water.

At the end of the day, I think there's a lot of evidence that the Celestica revered Giratina as well as Arceus, Dialga and Palkia - at least early on. Something happened to cause this schism, and the Old Verses/Plate inscriptions point to an outburst of rage from Giratina -- though, in "pick a god (and pray)" I actually argue it was mispercieved on the part of the Celestica and this misperception is what caused Arceus to despair and withdraw.

Open to discussion!! fellow nerds please interact!!

[epicstoriestime]

A Grandfather I Never Knew

James Elwood Burchfield Jr. passed away on April 30, 2021, at the age of 93. He lived a long life, filled with stories I’ll never get to hear firsthand, but it’s clear he made an impact on the world around him. He served in the Navy during World War II, retired from Wheeling Pittsburgh Steel, and was a proud Mason. Born in Steubenville, Ohio, in 1927, he saw decades of history unfold, and I can…

[loveaetingkids]

Eh close enough

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[spiraphobia]

Shiver - Honored Ancestors | Junji Ito

[jewel-shard]

[fashionsfromhistory]

Will you be covering the Coronation?

You mean Princess Diana's Ex Husband's 'Compensating for Something' Ceremony?

No.

(Look, after seeing him & Camilla laugh during a throat singing performance, I lost any respect that I had for him (not that there was much to begin with))