#ishtar x aphrodite

[randowitchythings]

Tarot Card Major Arcana Deity List

0 - The Fool: Loki, Pan, Zeus (rarer), Dionysus, Hermes (rarer), Aeolus

I - The Magician: Loki (Rarer), Odin, Hermes, Thoth, Nephthys, Asteria, Circe, Selene (rarer), Medusa, Medea, Cerridwen, Rhiannon, Brigid, Pazuzu, Vasago, Paimon

II - The High Priestess: Persephone, Nyx, The Morrigan, Hekate, Frigg, Selene, Isis, Artemis, Feyja, Ganesha, Daphne, Eir, Nicneven, The Virgin Mary, Guan Yin

III - The Empress: Aphrodite, Persephone (Rarer), Nyx, The Morrigan, Frigg, Hera, Freyja, Isis, Hathor, Astarte, Demeter, Ishtar, Leto, Rhea, Artio, Rashoon, Gremory, Guan Yin

IV - The Emperor: Hades, The Morrigan (rarer), Odin, Ares, Lucifer (semi-rare), Zeus, Horus, Osiris, Ra, Sobek, Beelzebub, Anubis (rarer), Morpheus

V - The Hierophant: Apollo, Hekate (rarer), Osiris, Thoth, Athena, Horus, Hermes (rarer), Odin, Brigid, Saraswati, Ganesha, Dionysus, Prince Stolas, Orobas

VI - The Lovers: Loki (Rarer), Aphrodite, Anubis (Rarer), Hera, Frigg, Rhea, Gaia, Demeter (rarer), Ishtar, Parvati, Hathor, Isis, Brigid, Freyja (semi-rare), Osiris, Cernunnos, Freyr, Dionysus, Pan (semi-rare), Eros, Psyche, Furfur, Gremory, Lilith

VII - The Chariot: Apollo, Ares, Athena, Hades (Rarer), Thor, The Morrigan (Semi-rare), Nike, Astarte, Ishtar, Freyja, Bast, Odin, Hebe, Helios, Eos, Rhea

VIII - Strength: Athena (Rarer), The Morrigan (Rarer), Thor, Hestia, Bast, Sekhmet, Brigid, Isis, The Dagda, The Virgin Mary, The Muses, Heracles, Nike, Sigyn, Fenrir, Malphas, Vapula, Archangel Michael

IX - Hermit: Persephone, Loki (rarer), Hekate, Odin, Isis, Hestia, Hades (rarer), Brigid, The Muses, Hermes (Rarer), Saraswati, Asteria, Nyx, Circe, Erebus, Ceto, Morpheus, The Morrigan, Cerridwen, Vesta

X - Wheel of Fortune: Tyche, Fortuna, Odin (rarer), Hekate (rarer), Frigg, Zeus, Hathor, Isis, The Dagda, Loki (rarer), Fortuna, Jormungandr

XI - Justice: Athena, The Morrigan (semi-rarer), Hekate (rarer), Hera, Lugh, Nemesis, Themis, Nike, Zeus (semi-rare), Fenrir, Skadi

XII - The Hanged Man: Loki (Rarer), Odin, Lucifer (rarer), Artemis, Osiris, Persephone (rarer), Ishtar, Buddha, Jesus, Green Man, Poseidon, Arachne, Anubis (rarer), Apolla (rarer)

XIII - Death: Hades, Nyx, The Morrigan, Hekate, Odin, Lucifer, Persephone (rarer), Isis, Hel, Freyja (rarer), Anubis, Osiris, Thanatos, Morana, Nephthys, Cerberus, Melinoe, Santa Muerte, Baron Samedi, Jormungandr, Medusa

XIV - Temperance: Selene, Hekate (rarer), Aphrodite (rarer), Artemis, Isis, Apollo (semi-rare), Hestia, Iris, Sigyn

XV - The Devil: Loki, Lilith, The Morrigan (semi-rarer), Odin (semi-rare), Lucifer, Dionysus, Pan, Set/Seth, Cernunnos

XVI - The Tower: Loki (Rarer), Odin (semi-rare), Eris, Ares, Sekhmet, Hel, The Morrigan (rarer), Horus, Ceto, Poseidon, Beelzebub, Malphas, Kali

XVII - The Star: Aphrodite (Rarer), Nyx, Hermes, Lucifer, The Star (rarer), Thoth, Ishtar, Astrea, Isis, The Virgin Mary, Nuit, Hebe, Fama/Pheme, Psyche

XVIII - The Moon: Selene, Hekate, Nyx, The Morrigan, Artemis, Chang'e, Rhiannon, Isis, Phoebe, Thoth, Anubis (rarer), Hypnos, Cerberus, Morpheus, Leviathan

XIX - The Sun: Apollo, Amaterasu, Ra, Helios, Artemis, Athena, Lucifer (rarer), Lugh, Helios, Brigid, Bast, Sekhmet, Ra, Horus, Freyr, Eos

XX - Judgement: Anubis, Athena, The Morrigan, Odin, Hera, Persephone (rarer), Osiris, Hephaestus, Isis, Horus, Hades (rarer), Nemesis, Archangel Michael

XXI - The World: Konshu, Aphrodite (Rarer), Gaia, Hermes, Demeter, The Dagda, Isis, Gaia, Cernunnos, Green Man, Iris, Antheia, Skadi, Guan Yin, Eos, Tyche, Jormungandr

[mask131]

You know, if there is a Greek god that rubs you the wrong way, or if you like one element about a Greek goddess but don't like the rest, and still want to write about them in your work or include them in your game or make a fan-art or whatever...

... Instead of rewriting the Greek deity and playing at AUs as if it was your OC, maybe... just look at other non-Greek deities and pick someone else?

As a big fan of Greek mythology I always very glad that so many people are willing to use and explore the Greek gods... But if it is to just reinvent everything and create gods as fictional as the Valar or the Faith of the Seven, it is not worth it. Just invent your own gods for your fictional setting - OR PICK A GOD FROM ANOTHER PANTHEON.

Because here's the thing: people seem to use the Greek mythology as the "default" setting when dealing with mythologies. But you know there are many more mythologies and ancient dead religions and polytheistic set of legends than Greek or Roman mythologies, right? I mean, people usually are aware of Norse and Egyptian mythologies too - but there's even MORE than them. There are THOUSANDS of gods to choose from around the world, so when you take one Greek god but because their characterization displeases you, you change the character entirely, it doesn't feel like "reinventing", it feels like you're a lazy person who didn't bother looking at all the alternative deities that were offered to you.

You hate how the Greek opposed war and wisdom through Athena/Ares? Take Odin: he is both the war and the wisdom! You don't like the animals of Aphrodite and thinks she would look cooler with cats? Just take Freya! You want an hermaphroditic visual but don't like the Greek character of Hermaphrodite? Hapi the Nile god rocks the beard-boobs-beer belly look! You want Persephone to be a guy? Yarilo is awaiting. You like the idea of Aphrodite-Ares couple but you wish they'd be one person? Ishtar is right there!

Seriously, if you force yourself to make Greek deity stuff, then you're just limiting yourself to one branch of an entire world-tree. You don't need to reinvent Aphrodite as being faithful or Ares as being peaceful or Hephaistos as being loved by all or Hades not scaring anyone. That's just creating false images of these deities, and forcing yourself to come up with the reverse of what they are, in terms of culture, history, religion and archeology.

Just... open your horizons. Search into other religions. Read about different mythologies. Heck you even have some public-domain entire fictional pantheons if you want to really god wild, like Dunsany's Gods of Pegana! So don't tell yourself "But I HAVE to do this with X Greek deity", because you're just lying to yourself.

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[transtheology]

Hi, I'm a multigender trans intersex person (bigender transmascfem androgyne, sometimes agender) and I've been feeling a calling towards some kind of occult / pagan / witchcraft practice but am having a very hard time finding anything that will honor both my multigenderness and my intersex body/variation. I was wondering if you knew of any resources or specific practices that might be accepting of this? I had a friend tell me to try out Wicca but it seemed to be very binary-focused in everything I read. Thank you so much for your time!

Wicca is definitely pretty binary focused. Its also diverse and there are many different ways of practicing Wicca, but the fundamental theology is based in a strict binary of the Mother Goddess and the Horned God, and a lot of its beliefs are based on this balance of male/female. As a result much of early Wicca (and some modern Wicca) was very homophobic & gender-sex essentialist (there's also Dianic Wicca, which is goddess-centric and therefore very popular with TERFs). There are trans Wiccans & Wiccan paths which are less binary (or less strict about it), but I wouldn't blame you for not wanting to engage with it.

With Witchcraft, there's a lot more room because "witchcraft" itself isn't its own spiritual tradition as much as a practice or skill you can engage in. In a very general sense Witchcraft is "doing x thing to get y result (through some spiritual/supernatural/mystical method)," so how much you get into cissexism and binary thinking is really dependent on how you see things. For example, a Wiccan might have a very binary view of magic & spiritual energy, but another person might not consider gender at all when doing magic.

A lot of European & WANA (West Asia North Africa) polytheism has some genderfuckery somehwere in its mythology. Inanna/Ishtar in Sumerian/Akkadian/Assyrian polytheism is one example: you might be aware that She had transfeminine devotees called the gala, and she was described as having the ability to "turn a man into a woman and a woman into a man." She has a myth where she descends into the Underworld to confront her sister Ereškigal and gets trapped there. To get her out, Enlil/Ea creates either two sexless beings (gala-tura and kur-jara), or one androgynous being/eunuch (Asušunamir) to save her.

There's also Cybele/Magna Mater in Rome, who also had transfeminine devotees called galli. In Greek polytheism, there is Dionysus, who was heavily associated with gender non-conformity, having been raised as a girl in some versions & having the epithet Androgynos. Aphrodite has the form Aphroditus, who has a beard penis and was worshipped by male and female devotees through crossdressing rituals, and generally her role as Aphrodite Pandemos, a love goddess for all people, has made her popular with queer polytheists. There is also Hermaphroditus, the child of Aphrodite and Hermes, who became intersex/genderqueer when he joined bodies with the nymph Salmacis; a pool formed where this happened that was said to have the ability to androgynize anyone who bathed in it. They were, as you can imagine, heavily associated with androgyny and the union of male and female. In Norse Heathenry, Loki has been seen as an androgynous figure; he transforms into a woman/female animal in multiple myths, and in the Hyndluljóð he eats the heart of a woman and gives birth to several creatures.

There are definitely other deities who have androgynous aspects who I'm forgetting, but in general you can find a lot of genderqueerness throughout polytheist religion. Although there are still transphobic & intersexist witches/pagans/polytheists, and those who use ancient patriarchal practices to justify their behavior. In general I'd recommend seeking out specifically trans & intersex pagans/polytheists/witches and learning from their practices to see what calls to you. Even beyond ancient practices, a lot of modern trans & intersex polytheists worship modern, specifically trans forms of otherwise binary deities. so don't feel the need to limit yourself to just what people in the past practiced. I hope this was helpful.

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The Kabbalah of Barbie x Openheimer

Venus vs. Mars(?) amidst the fire of Summertime Shabbos. There is tremendous public enthusiasm i’m noticing from within the communities about Barbie this year, something that hasn’t been possible for a long time in light of the imbedded nature of exploitation and eros-as-product. Now the public discourse is changed, and a new pseudo-innocence is possible, that of a knowledge that does not disrupt. The Leo mythology is rather scant within Hellenism, the Lion itself understood as Solar King and yet completely unfamiliar in Greece, where they had none. From Babylon and Egypt, again, come the insight-association of Leo-the-Season (late July, early August) with the Lion. Again: the King but the absence of mythology implies the Omnipresence of the narrative in ur-antiquity. I need to assume that the Egyptian metamyth parrallels the Babylonian, in that at least: The Babylonian Lion at the gate of Ishtar is what Ishtar rides, parralleling the Left Eye of Ra that emerges with hostility against mankind in the form of the cruel firey goddess Sekhmet who comes with the judgement of the Left Eye to destroy all the people UNTIL she’s sated with beer dressed as blood, dyed with ochre, and then becomes Ra’s other eye, the nice one, happy dancing erotic cow goddess Hathor                                                                   The house of Hor(us)  Another Venus, split between joyful rewarding fecund and punishing, vicious burning, and I suspect, this is precisely the Lion depicted in Leo: ultimately accommodating, as is the Venus/Aphrodite/Lilith nature. This brings us back to Barbie, The Bar of Bee rather than the House of Hur, the dreamhouse vessel that reflects aspirational capacity. Years ago, noted mystic artist, farmer, editor and publisher Jorian Polis Schutz released a wonderful book of Illustrated Greek Myths as devotional psychological/spiritual exploration. Amidst this he wrote about Aphrodite, relating her to the Barbie concept, as accomodating and devoted product producer of the plastic fantasy that makes ideation possible, spirituality itself:

The challenge of Lilith/Leo, ruled by the Sun as urgent solution to the problem of neglect and indulgence, gives way to the love that wants to be expressed through it.

[conjunction-tarot]

XI Passion Conjunction Tarot

“puissant energy and persuading charisma”

symbols

Power, vitality, vibrancy and sexual transformation

astrology

Venus in Leo

archetypes

Isis, Ishtar/Inanna, Astarte, Aphrodite, Babalon

zodiac & element

Leo & fire

date and ritual

11.11 11:11, the Canicular Days – Sexual Magick, Sensuality

Path of Theth: Chesed – Geburah

read more here:

https://www.conjunction-tarot.com/ct/x-the-wheel/

[megashadowdragon]

[t4tneonj]

OH MY GOD I HAD THE BEST IDEA

[sag-dab-sar]

⚧️ The Gods & Gender ⚧️

Discussing Trans-Exclusive Radical Feminism and the views of the Gods is not "speaking for the Gods,"—it is looking at facts and information and drawing completely reasonable conclusions that squarely put the foundations of trans-exclusion in opposition to the Gods.

(definitely not audio proof read, sorry for the dyslexia)

🌿Aphrodite & Venus🌿

Aphroditos (or Aphroditus) is Aphrodite with male characteristics including a penis and/or beard.

A cult of Aphrodite included a bearded Aphrodite at Amathus, Cyprus on a high cliff temple. [Wikipedia citing Macrobius, Saturnalia III]

Her relationship with bisexuality (referring to being dual sex not sexual orientation in this paper), androgyny, and transvestism is also documented in Cyprus:

— Aphrodite in the Theogony by William Sale in Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association Vol. 92 X

(Sorry for the shitty screenshot JSTOR did not want to work with me)

This worship of Aphrodite with a penis was also seen as equal to Venus:

There's also a statue of Venus on Cyprus, that's bearded, shaped and dressed like a woman, with scepter and male genitals, and they conceive her as both male and female. Aristophanes calls her Aphroditus, and Laevius says: Worshiping, then, the nurturing god Venus, whether she is male or female, just as the Moon is a nurturing goddess. In his Atthis Philochorus, too, states that she is the Moon and that men sacrifice to her in women's dress, women in men's, because she is held to be both male and female." — Macrobius (c. 400s AD), Saturnalia 3.8.2

🌿Hermaphroditos🌿

There is also the "intersex child of Aphrodite & Hermes" named Hermaphroditos.

I have seen many use Hermaphroditos as an excuse to wipe away the Goddess Aphrodite with a penis that the ancients worshipped. Which doesn't even make sense because I hate to break it to you— Hermaphroditos also opposes TERF ideology by its nature. A God existing as intersex/bisexed/dual-sex/bigender (however you'd like to word it) negates the idea that the Gods somehow support the ridged biological essentialism and gender binary that TERF ideology necessitates.

There are different accounts of Hermaphroditos' creation but one, Ovids, tells of him merging with a nymph and then asking his parents to make the water transformative causing men to have thr effeminate bodies like women:

Her prayer found gods to hear; both bodies merged in one, both blended in one form and face. As when a gardener sets a graft and sees growth seal the join and both mature together, thus, when in the fast embrace their limbs were knit, they two were two no more, nor man, nor woman--one body then that neither seemed and both. So when he saw the waters of the pool, where he had dived a man, had rendered him half woman and his limbs now weak and soft, raising his hands, Hermaphroditus cried, his voice unmanned, ‘Dear father [Hermes] and dear mother [Aphrodite], both of whose names I bear, grant me, your child, that whoso in these waters bathes a man emerge half woman, weakened instantly.’ Both parents hears; both, moved to gratify their bi-sexed son, his purpose to ensure, drugged the bright water with that power impure." — Ovid, Metamorphoses 4. 28 ff (trans. Melville) (Roman epic C1st B.C. to C1st A.D.)

🌿More on Aphroditos vs Hermaphroditos read @theoi-crow's excellent post about them here.

Also some lovely statues:

Marble copy statue from a fresco at Herculaneum, Italy. X (left)

Statue from Pergamum, Turkey. X (center)

Statue from Nymph Sanctuary in Lacori, Italy X (right)

Statue from Pompeii, Italy X

🌿Inana & Ishtar🌿

From a hymn to Inana

To open up roads and paths, a place of peace for the journey, a companion for the weak, are yours, Inana. To keep paths and ways in good order, to shatter earth and to make it firm are yours, Inana. To destroy, to build up, to tear out and to settle are yours, Inana. To turn a man into a woman and a woman into a man are yours, Inana. Desirability and arousal, goods and property are yours, Inana. Gain, profit, great wealth and greater wealth are yours, Inana. Gaining wealth and having success in wealth, financial loss and reduced wealth are yours, Inana. Observation (1 ms. has instead: Everything), choice, offering, inspection and approval are yours, Inana. Assigning virility, dignity, guardian angels, protective deities and cult centres are yours, Inana. — A Hymn to Inana (Inana-C) ETCSL 4.07.3 in Lines 115-131.

This shows:

Inana has the power to change a person's gender/sex .... which means people can change gender/sex

This is listed among other normal things such as journeys, wealth, settlements so on. Suggesting that it wasn't super special, it was a part of Sumerian society that Inana was given power over.

This was written by Enheduanna High Priestess of Nanna, Ur's city God, and Inana. Inana was a popular Sumerian deity and Enhenduanna's father, Sargon of Akkad's, personal deity was Ištar. One of Enhenduanna's goals as a priestess was to conflate the popular Sumerian deity Inana with her father's Akkadian personal Goddess Ištar. Then raise Inana (and thus her father's personal Goddess Ištar) to an extremely high place in cosmology and explain just how much control she had in society— including over sex/gender.

Also from @sisterofiris's post on Inana's queer priests here.

🌿Nanaya🌿

In later times Inana/Ištar was equated with Nanaya but in earlier times they were worshipped side by side as separate deities. While Inana's hymn gives her rule of gender, a Nanaya hymn has her directly declaring she has breasts in Dadumu and a beard in Babylon. Leick also mentions here that Ištar was worshipped in both genders.

—Dictionary of Ancient Near Eastern Mythology by Gwendolyn Leick. Page 125.

🌿Asūšunamir with Ereškigal🌿

In Ištar's Descent (not Inana's) Ea's plan to distract Ereškigal and get her to bring Inana back to life is to make a beautiful being. Ea makes an incredibly beautifully brilliant being that's mere aesthetic presence will make Ereškigal happy and let her defenses down. And Asūšunamir's beauty works..... and he is an eunuch, an effeminate male, potentially queer from the ancient's eyes. And yet he is so beautiful he distracts a Goddess.

— The Ancient Near East and Anyhology of Texts and Pictures, edited by Pritchard. Ishtar Descent translation by E.A Speiser. Page 80.

🌿Eštan / Ištanu🌿

The Anatolians (Hittite in particular) loved to both mix deities and keep them entirely dependent like 8 solar deities and 50 storm Gods. But sometimes Hittite, Hurrian, Hattic, Indo-European, Mesopotamian all meld together making the identification of gender ambiguous or even interchangeable.

Eštan is one example (who has numerous equatings):

—A Handbook of Gods and Goddesses of The Ancient Near East by Frayne & Stuckey. Page 105

You can also learn more about the Ištanu and the Sun Goddess of Arinna and her gender from @sisterofiris in a post here.

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I'm sure there are more! But this was my quick round up and sources I could put together. To all the intersex, trans, & non-binary polytheists out there, you aren't abnormal and the Gods see you for who you truly are.

Edit: I wrote this in regards to gender originally because it was a response to an uptick in TERF posts. But this can equally be viewed from the lens of intersex experience, and I want to explicitly mention that now. Intersex, Trans, and Non-Binary people should share solidarity with one another against gender essentialism, against TERFs, and our sometimes unique sometimes shared experiences.

Edit: Want some more? Learn about the feminine qualities of Apollo

[eirikrjs]

Overly Sarcastic Productions has sub-SMT level of research involved in their videos and straight up makes up brand new lies in some. For example, in the Aphrodite video, they assert that "Song of Kumarbi" is about birth of Ishtar which is... geographically and linguistically illiterate (it's about the birth of the Hurrian weather god...). They also do not seem to know basics of ANE writing conventions like "name of deity x can be used as logogram to write name of deity y"

Yeah, this is the kind of stuff I was suspicious of. There are other myth channels I'm aware of that I've never clicked on, like The Mythology Guy and Religion for Breakfast. But I am generally suspicious of most channels that present historical information and tend to avoid them for similar reasons. It's a shame. I know I'd rather read a book.

This is probably a good time to recommend more people sign up for JSTOR for access to scholastic articles. I signed up with my college email but I think any will do now. God knows I never used JSTOR when I actually was in college. I'm still behind on a couple asks that rely on JSTOR articles because of... let's call them bad habits where I look things up but don't write anything down so I have to do everything over again.

[omg-im-such-a-masochist]

ANCESTRAL ROOTS

Prompt: On the first night of her honeymoon, Y/N finds a way to demonstrate her love for her husband without using words.

Word Count: Drabble

Pairings: Roman Reigns x Reader

Warnings: None I can think of..

Tag: @ziasaph , @marlananicole , @akiko-tanaka , @nicolewoo , @saccreigns , @mindofasagittaruis , @reigns-5sos , @auawdo , @lustyromantic , @babydee17 , @yungbludjazz360 And as an exception @theworldofotps and @drewmcintyrekoccsrocbwdgfan because I would love to hear their opinions as well ☺️ (since I’m so damn nervous about this one 😂)

Notes: This little story is basically a sum of my weird mind + Roman + my love for Middle East + mythology + foreign cultures! Y’all know the drill loves,sorry for misspellings,english isn’t my first language (bla bla bla),check out my other stories if you’d like to(it would make your girl here very happy 😊) You can check them out on my Masterlist. Okay,now let’s get to the fun part, shall we? Hope you’ll enjoy 😉

She, who taught me this, was named Mai. She was Egyptian and my grandmother. Every summer vacation, we flew in to Cairo where she taught me everything she knew and learned from her mother and grandmother about old Egypt. The culture, the spirituality, the old gods and goddesses, their worship, the politics, finances and what she loved the most: The dance.

I learned how to dance at a very young age, I was 3 years old. She used to say that ‘when dancing, you can conquer anything you want, albi (my heart). You can demonstrate passion, pain, commitment, devotion..you can tell a story without using sentences and show love without using words’. So what I’m about to do today, will show to my (now officially) husband, how devoted and in love I am with him.

The dance of the seven veils, as was taught by my grandma, was not an erotic dance per say. Originally, the high priestesses danced the seven veils dance in honor to the goddess Ishtar in Babylon, Aphrodite in Greece and Isis in Egypt.

The dance showed self-knowledge and spiritual elevation, by removing the veils one by one it represented the dancer stripping off their material attachments. The veils symbolizes everything that we hide deep down from other people and ourselves. By stripping off the veils you show your true essence to someone.

Grandma told me, ‘Don’t you never, ever perform the seven veils dance to someone if you don’t truly love, respect or wish to be with them forever! This dance is sacred, all the gods and goddesses stop what they’re doing to watch it when you perform it. Therefore, do not disrespect the gods, my dear Y/N, but do make them proud to be the witnesses of your devotion and love to another soul’.

The chosen song? A shortened seven minutes instrumental version of Umm Kulthum’s - Enta Omri. Or as the English translation suggests: ‘You are my life’

I guess it’s pretty fitting for this man who really became my whole life.

“Baby, how long are you gonna stay locked up in that bathroom? It’s been like an hour since you got in there!” Roman yelled from our honeymoon overwater bungalow, in the Maldives.

*Men! Always rushing things* I thought to myself

I spray my body and the last veil with perfume. Pressing play on the song I make my way to the bedroom. Where an eager Roman awaits.

Once his eyes meet my body and he sees the light sand color bedlah (belly dancer outfit) and the seven different colored veils his mouth dropped opened and a faint ‘fuck’ could be heard.

The song starts and I begin to dance for him.

Never forgetting to honor the gods, my grandmother and the love of my life: Roman.

Please if you’re comfortable with it, let me know your thoughts on this? Feedbacks are always appreciated 🥰

[countryshitposts]

countries saying my favorite overly sarcastic productions quotes (part 1)

America: You're not my real dad!

Britain: I'm everyone's real dad!

Mexico: Blood sacrifices keep the planet from eating your feet!

Japan, holding out an Amaterasu x Uzume poster: Read into it as much, or as little, as you want to

Ireland: Hello Cu Culainn. It is I, your fairy dad mother.

Britain: MYSTERIOUS COLORS, UNLIKE ANY OTHER SEEN ON EARTH.

Greece, summarizing Eros and Psyche: The lamp oil also thinks Eros is cute and a little bit tries to get closer to him and ends up splashing on him.

Israel: If you're nonbinary, you're magic, Ishtar loves you, and the Queen of the Underworld thinks you're hot.

Roman Empire: Alexander the- ALRIGHT, ALRIGHT, ALRIGHT!

Philippines, after reading Frankenstein,: So, moral of the story is, don't be an asshole. Or if you gotta be an asshole, don't play god and create more assholes.

China: I'm the father of lies, he's not even wearing pants.

Taiwan: AHHHH I'M NOT EVEN WEARING PANTS-

China, about America, Japan, and Philippines: If America, Japan, and Philippines had been honest about their feelings, they would've entered a supportive relationship. Poly-armory! Thank you and goodnight!

Germany: You are pure evil!

Past Germany: I am necessary evil!

The Allies after WWII: TRULY A VICTORY FOR THE FORCES OF JUSTICE

America: MISCHIEF TIME

India: You're spoiling him.

China, giving Japan his alphabet: I AM NOT!

Japan: Yes he is

Sweden, looking at Aaland suspiciously: Why do you smell like beef

Indonesia: I don't think we appreciate the sun enough, and I say this as someone who gets a sunburn from looking at Hubble pics and people with shiny teeth.

Peru: I'm picturing Jacob's ladder... made of nightmares

Wales: Oh? You saw Mothman out back of a 7-11 and he ate your favorite socks?

Scotland: Bonnie Janet saw the queen of the fairies out in the Carterhaugh Forest, and she stole her second favorite boyfriend.

Greece, talking to himself: This is not expected from a divine representation of something both fickle and potentially amazing as love, but a lot of 4th and 5th philosophers weren't content with Aphrodite being a sort of nebulous, inconsistent deity. They wanted something concrete-

Italy: -SO THEY SPLIT HER IN HALF-

Russia, talking about the possibilities of his birth: The bathbomb ballsack is the least disturbing version

Australia: Seriously, were classic painters allergic to putting women in clothes?

Holy Roman Empire, looking at a nude mural in Pompeii: DAMN IT POMPEI JUNK LIKE THIS IS WHY YOU GOT SET ON FIRE

[lonley-witch]

Devotional Playlists

I’m starting some devotional playlists for my gods! Please give me song suggestions, especially if you also worship the deities in question!

Apollo

Walking on Sunshine by Katrina & The Waves

Here Comes the Sun by The Beatles

Love Shine a Light by Katrina & The Waves

Heaven is a Place on Earth by Belinda Carlisle

Icarus by Bastille

I’m a Believer by Smash Mouth

Hallelujah by Rufus Wainwright

Walkin’ on the Sun by Smash Mouth

Somebody to Love by Queen

High Hopes by Panic! At the Disco

King of the Clouds by Panic! At the Disco

Immortals by Fall out Boy

So What by P!NK

Wake me Up Before You Go Go by Wham!

You Give Love a Bad Name by Bon Jovi

Magic Carpet Ride by Steppenwolf

Blow Me (One Last Kiss) by P!nk

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Aphrodite

God is a Woman by Ariana Grande

Girls Like Girla by Hayley Kiyoko

Venus by Lady Gaga

Girls/girls/boys by Panic! At the Disco

Girlfriend by Icona Pop

Timber by Pittbull and Ke$ha

Alrighty Aphrodite by Peach Pit

Love you like a Love Song by Selena Gomez and The Scene

Who Saya by Selena Gomez and The Scene

The Love Club by Lorde

Womanizer by Brittney Spears

Pretty Girl by Hayley Kiyoko

Charming by Amber Gray

No one Else by Deneè Benton

thank u, next by Ariana Grande

Dancing Queen by ABBA

Sucker by the Jonas Brothers

Dark Horse by Katy Perry

Born This Way by Lady Gaga

Confident by Demi Lovato

Run The World (Girls) by Beyoncè

Love Injected by Aminata

Just the Way You Are by Bruno Mars

Hollaback Girl by Gwen Stefani

Girls Just Wanna Have Fun by Cyndi Lauper

Heartbreaker by Pat Benatar

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Hades

Mr. Sandman by SYML

Heavy in your arms by Florence + The Machine

Six Feet Under by Billie Eilish

Helena (So Long and Goodnight) by My Chemichal Romance

I Miss You by Blink-182

Welcome to the Black Parade by My Chemical Romance

This is Gospel by Panic! At the Disco

Emperor’s New Clothes by Panic! At the Disco

Come Sail Away by Styx

A Monster Like Me by Mørland and Debrah Scarlett

Sound of Silence by Dami Im

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Persephone

Gods & Monsters by Lana Del Rey

Pomegranate Seeds by Julian Moon

Monsters by Ruelle

The Mad Queen Theory by Riel

Persephone by The Tragic Thrills

Young God by Halsey

This Side of Paradise by Hayley Kiyoko

Young and Beautiful by Lana Del Rey

Our Lady of The Underground by Anïas Mitchell

Shadows of the Night by Pat Benatar

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Isis

Walk like an Egyptian by The Bengals

Dark Horse by Katy Perry

Rise Like a Phoenix by Conchita Wurst

Catch My Breath by Kelly Clarkson

Hit Me with Your Best Shot by Pat Benatar

These Boots are Made for Walking by Nancy Sinatra

I am Woman by Helen Reddy

This One’s for the Girls by Martina McBride

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Ishtar

Roar by Katy Perry

Bad Blood by Taylor Swift

The Edge of Glory by Lady Gaga

Fight Song by Rachel Platten

Girl of Fire by Alicia Keys

Who Saya by Selena Gomez and The Scene

Fighter by Christina Aguilera

Run the World (Girls) by Beyoncé

Confident by Demi Lovato

Eye of the Tiger by Survivor

Just Like Fire by P!nk

Miss Independent by Kelly Clarkson

Can’t be Tamed by Miley Cyrus

You Don’t Own Me by Grace and G-Eazy

I’m Every Woman by Chaka Khan

I Don’t Need a Man by The Pussycat Dolls

Girls Just Wanna Have Fun by Cyndi Lauper

Hit me with Your Best Shot by Pat Benatar

The Warrior by Patty Smyth

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These playlists are all works in progress, and suggestions would be very helpful!

[deathofamemer]

📌💎

📌 how did you find your hyperfixation?

lego movies: i watched the first one when it came out in theatres back in 2014!! i loved it instantly and read a ton of fanworks for it, shoutout to piece of rebellion, and it just captivated me. the interest waned and then flared back up for the lego batman movie, and i loved tlm2 when it came out in theatres. the actual fixation part didn’t start until a rewatch with you a few months later, and now i’m drowning in lego hell and can closet cosplay rex dangervest. we out here?

danny phantom: i remember seeing bits of it on tv back when it was airing and getting spooked by it (around 2007 considering the ep i remember freaking me out was a season 3 episode) but i didn’t get into it solidly until arouuuuuund 2012? i caught the tail end of an episode on nicktoons and it got my interest, and i ended up watching the entire series and getting really invested in fanworks and forums. i’ve got some old dms on ffn that crafted semi-scientific lore for it, i just got sucked in fast.

greek mythology: i’d say it solidly started around 2010? i started reading percy jackson and got hooked, especially after we did a thing in class about myths and went to the parthenon (the replica in nashville) on a field trip. i’ve always been a sucker for fairy tales and folklore, and greek myth just sunk its fangs into me fast.

pokemon: i grew up hearing about pokemon, my cousin jessie played the games and had the trading cards, so i knew some things but didn’t get into it for a long time, and then in 2013 i finally picked up pokemon x and i just fell in love. x might be comparatively weak, but it’s got a fond place in my heart as my first pokemon game.

💎 are there any fun facts or trivia that you would like to share?

lego movies: scribble cop’s voice isn’t actually a specific tone on the part of liam neeson! he forgot to do a voice for them, so scrib’s voice is just a bad cop-ish tone but pitched up. also the benny minifigs are the first minifigs to be broken by design! his helmet’s plastic is actually extra thick to keep it from actually breaking more than it’s supposed to.

danny phantom: in an old concept for danny phantom, he was going to be a human teenager with a ghost sense, hunting ghosts and kicking ass. he was going to have a motorcycle. and a pet owl named spooky.

greek mythology: while greek myth is known for having the romans borrow quite a bit from them, the greeks actually borrowed some of their deities as well! the most notable one is aphrodite, who’s technically a loan of the goddess ishtar!

pokemon: swsh is the first game to have a dark type gym leader! previous dark type specialists have been either the villains or part of the elite four, with the exception of nanu, who is a kahuna and thus outside of the typical pokemon league structure.

[clairecognizance]

When discussing deities

I am always here for a good post of someone’s UPG. That is really what a lot of deity worship is; just you and how you see your gods. However, I have a lot of problems with people saying “God X is just God Y, God Z, Person W, etc.” I see this defended as people making sure to respond that the gods are always with us, and I agree but they are with us as themselves. Are you saying there are things about your deity that you see in other’s actions? Valid. Is your deity teaching you something that is a general teaching in this other religion? Valid; growth is universal.  But those people are not your deity. Deities are always and only ever themselves. Also it’s just rude to say that your deity literally is a deity in someone else’s religion. Which brings me to my next problem. 

I also have a problem with people saying that all the gods of one designation are essentially the same person like Aphrodite, Venus, Freya, Ishtar and Isis. They’re all so different. Their stories are different. Their personalities are different. They have an overlapping patronage, but patronage and teachings are normal things to overlap. Medicine, Music, Travel, Magic, Chaos/trickery, and Love all have at least one deity in each pantheon. Some have multiple deities within a pantheon. But no one has ever insinuated that they’re the same person. Because it’s ridiculous like why. 

Which brings me to my final problem. STOP USING DEITIES AS SYMBOLS. Especially if they’re from closed cultures. No goddess is just a representation of feminine energy to use in your spell. The same can be said for any category of deity and relevant symbolism. Don’t use them. Give them offerings, praise, respect. Gods are meant to be venerated and not used. 

Basically in short, UPG is good but Gnosis is important and you can’t throw it away because whatever you believe feels better to you.