#lady lucifera

[cursecuelebre]

Roman Goddess Luciana of Childbirth and Light

Attributes:

Childbirth

Matrons (Married Women)

New borns

Midwifery

Soon - to - be Mothers

Virginity/Chasity

Celestial Light Moon and Sun

Light that which brings Newborns into life.

Fertility especially when it comes to women

Symbols:

Torches

The colors red, black, and white

Libyan Lotus trees or Nettle trees. Member of the Elm tree family. The trees are southern European species of nettle trees, the Romans just refer them to as Lotus trees.

I’ve read from a source that lady bugs or lady birds are sacred to her but I find just one source so take it with a gain of salt. Lady bugs is mostly associated with Freyja so I would imagine relating to fertility.

Titles and Epithets:

Luciana is the Goddess of light and childbirth and newborns. Her name is alone to be just be a goddess alone which is possibly she originated from a Sabine moon goddess. But her name itself can be a title like how “Hekate or Hekatos” is used not just for a name of a goddess. Her name Luciana can be derived from the Latin word “Lux” which is luminous and light also “Lucus” which means Groves I’ll explain in the next paragraph. I’ll put other names she was referred by but also what goddesses of which they took her name as an epithet/title.

- Noctiluca - Giving Light by Night

- Luna - Of The Moonlight

- Lucifera - Giver of Light

- Juno Lucina - Shining one. With this title there is more information about the worship of Luciana.

- Diana Lucina - Divine Queen

- Hekate Lucina - Hekate was also known to bear this title as a light bearer.

- Saint Lucia or Saint Lucy: It is theorised and not so uncommon of when goddesses or gods become saints after Christianisation a well known example is St Brigid once known before in pre-Christian Ireland as a Celtic goddess of the Hearth. Saint Lucia is said to be the Goddess of Luciana whose symbol is a torch as well.

General Information

During the early days of the Roman Empire Luciana was one of the first temples to be established. She is said to be originated from the tribe of Sabine whose role as a moon goddess. Her role within Roman religion was mostly documented as Juno Lucina which isn’t surprising since Juno is the goddess of marriage and motherhood and childbirth. Her temple was set on Cisipan Hill on a Grove. But a shrine to Luciana was built on Esquiline Hill around 373 BCE on March 1st. It was always set on a grove which was surrounded by Lotus trees or Nettle trees which was very sacred and celebrated by offering locks of hair from Vestal Virgins who acknowledge their vows of chastity and a choice to not become a mother.

When Luciana was invoked during childbirth for easy delivery and a healthy child to be born. Women would let their hair loose and untie any knots from their clothing in a way of sympathetic magic letting energy of the birth flow easily and without any complications. After the baby was delivered, the child would be brought to the goddess’s altar called Sellisternium (a altar dedicated to a goddess) along for a feast of celebration. Luciana is very much centered around all things pregnancy, newborns, fertility, she even is called a Saviour from infertility, She is in charge bringing Newborns into the light of the world, also grants Newborns safe passage.

Her festivals

Held on March 1st, the Roman new year also called Matronalia plus the anniversary of the temple’s founding. Where married women would be given money from their husbands to make an offering to Juno Luciana of Womanhood. They (Matrons) would general go to the temple make offerings on Esquiline Hill. Afterwards a festival of Family would began as the Matrons of the household would be a central figure with their husbands giving them gifts and Slaves would be served as well.

Editor’s Note:

It was brought up very importantly that Luciana is the Italian proper name but “Lucina” is the correct and proper spelling for the titles and epithets for Juno and Diana not Luciana. The difference is very hard to notice at first which I made that mistake, but thank you to the lovely user who made it known to me in the comments! Putting this here so that it’s a marking of update, I will retype the titles and such for the correction 💖

[tomionefinds]

Hy there!

I just read jagged hiccupfound and I was looking for more fics with fated mates!

Hi Anon:

Below are some soul mate fics. We also have a large library under our Soulmate tag, which is where we'd put something like fated mates. These fics focus on them being bonded together, not necessarily in the same vein as Jagged - Haus

Our Magic Knows No Bounds by PinkGlitterMasturbation

E | complete | 350k

Narcissa Malfoy is done with crazy, and she is determined to fix the mess her life has become. She has brains, a plan, and more than one dark spell to help her. But before she can put her plan into motion, she discovers a shocking secret about Hermione Granger, one that the girl doesn't even realize about herself. Before Hermione knows it, Narcissa has cursed them both, sending them back in time to deal with the Dark Lord in the form of the child Tom Riddle. Of course, Tom is no ordinary child, and time doesn't take kindly to being rewritten, so this will be a bumpy ride full of awesome, magical women, pragmatic decisions, and, rest assured, dear readers, plenty of sex eventually! *Winner for Best Story in the Rare Pair Category in the Beyond the Book Fanfiction Nook Summer 2018 Award!*

Uxor Lucifera by LittleMulattoKitten

E | WIP | 21k

“Listen, mate,” she started. “I don’t know who the fuck you are, or how the fuck you got into my flat, but you’ve got about two seconds to make your way through that door-” she pointed at the door she’d just entered through “-before I call the cops. After dealing with my cunt of a boss and Cormac and his creepy arsehole friends, I’ve had just about enough bullshite for one night, thanks. He’s being carted off to the hospital hopefully, go rob him.” Tomione. Smut. Demon Mate AU.

Shared Flame by Lady Miya

M | complete | 311k

It all started when two normally clever individuals both had a really lousy day.

The Black Veil by Nerys

M | Complete | 13k

Samhain: When the veil's at its thinnest, the impossible will occur. Up is down, down is up. Everything can be achieved by those the Goddess values.

[maiamars]

asoiaf brainrot is trying to link ashara and howland through the moat cailin : the name cailin can be linked for some to the goddess diana, ashereh/diana = fertility goddess, diana during the trojan war putting a deer/stag instead of iphigenia, one of diana's titles is diana lucifera (light-bearer)/ martemis phosphorus, phosphorus (morning star)=/hesperus (evening star) -> arthur/brienne, phosphorus=Eosphorus (dawn bringer),"I swore an oath to keep him safe," she said to Rhaegar's shade. "I swore a holy oath.""We all swore oaths," said Ser Arthur Dayne, so sadly." We = arthur (every after his knighthood)and brienne (lady stoneheart) on jaime

everything comes back to arthur is brienne and brienne is arthur

[mask131]

For my last Helluva Boss celebration I made a whole series of posts about the Nine Circles of Hell in Dante’s Inferno (see a few reblogs below). For my new Helluva Boss celebration, I wanted to take a look at various literary depictions of the seven deadly sins as personifications. This post was originally prepared to celebrate Mammon’s Magnificent Musical, but given the release of “Look My Way”, it will still work even though I post it quite late.

When it comes to looking at classic embodiments of the deadly sins, I want to begin with one of the “modern, non-Antique epics” that marked the history of literature, like the Orlando Furioso or Paradise Lost. I want to take a look today at Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene, the great British epic of the 16th-17th centuries, a medieval-romance-like set of stories depicting the adventures of allegorical knights fighting allegorical monsters. The poem is filled with characters embodying various vices and virtues – the very heroes of the story are a set of knights acting as the champions of the various Christian virtues (the Redcross Knight is the champion of Holiness, as an avatar of saint Georges the patron of England ; Guyon, first of the Faerie Queen’s knights, is the champion of Temperance ; Britomart, the woman-knight, is the champion of Chastity, Artegal is the champion of Justice, etc, etc.) ; while the villains are very unsubtle in their nature (a female demon named Ate is assisted by Duessa – deceit – and spreads discord among friends ; a lonely man named Despair convinces the hero to kill himself, etc, etc.)

But today I want to focus on a specific episode of the epic’s first book. An episode usually known as the “House of Pride” and where the main hero (the Red-Cross Knight, the protagonist of the epic’s first book) encounters the embodiments of the seven deadly sins.

For a bit of context, the depiction of the seven deadly sins here is meant to parallel and counter-exemplify two other parts of the poem. On one side, the House of Pride is later opposed by the “House of Holiness” where the Redcross-Knight is helped, healed and cared for by a lady named Caelia, who has three daughters, Fidelia, Speranza and Charissa. This is all supposed to embody the Christian concept of the “three theological virtues”, the three virtues that come from God – Faith, Hope and Charity, born of “The Sky/The Heavens”. On the other side, the House of Pride and its queen are meant to mirror the titular Faerie Queene of the poem, Queen Gloriana – a very flattering fictional portrait of Elisabeth the First, but also the embodiment of “Glory” as her name says. Aka the positive, well-deserved and non-sinful twin of the viceful Pride – here embodied by the dreaded lady Lucifera.

Lady Lucifera is, it comes to no surprise, the owner and ruler of the House of Pride. The other deadly are all male, and act as both her counselors and her court wizards (being called alternatively “sage counselors” and “old wizards”). This all fits within the accepted idea that pride is not just the most dangerous and “important” of the seven deadly sins, it is also their root and their “superior”. In many metaphors, it is translated by pride being seen as the “king” or “mother” of the other deadly sins: in the Faerie Queene, she is their ruler, their queen. But, in an interesting twist, Spenser establishes a true relationship of co-dependency between the sins: the other six might be Pride’s servants… but they are still her advisors, counselors, and they are later literally seen pulling her chariot, clearly showing that while Pride leads them and gives them order, without the other sins, Pride would literally go nowhere.

But let us return to Lucifera before looking at her “old wizards”. Lucifera is obviously named after Lucifer, the figure of the fallen angel that became a devil, if not THE devil, for thinking of himself as better than humanity, and ultimately rebelling against God and trying to cast Him down. Lucifer is commonly seen as THE demon embodying pride – and Spenser also loves to throw various references to the mythological origins of Lucifer, as his name meaning “light-bearer” is due to how, in Greco-Roman mythology, Lucifer was the spirit of the Morning Star, announcing dawn. Here, Lucifera is constantly described as “bright” or as “shining”, and when she leaves her castle on her chariot, she is explicitly compared to “Aurora in her purple pall” coming out from the east of the world – aka, Eos, the Greek goddess of Dawn. Not only that, but the excessive “shine” and almost blinding light that is emitted by the lady of Pride is also put in parallel to the light of Phaeton. Remember Phaeton? The human who thought he could drive the chariot of Helios/Phoebus, the god of the sun? And who in the process almost destroyed the earth, and had to be killed by being thrown out of the sky with a fire-bolt? Another example of pride punished, and one explicitly meant to mirror Lucifer’s own fall from Heaven. But this woman is not a fallen angel, no: rather she is described as an actual goddess, “daughter of grisly Pluto and sad Proserpina, queen of Hell”. So, she is a deity, but part of the grim, sinister, chthonian gods of death, and she is a princess true, but a princess of the Underworld (aka Hell, since the two are treated as one and the same, and Pluto/Proserpina gained demonic connotations by this time). Already we have here a Pride that is explicitly rooted in death and the afterlife, in darkness, oblivion and rot – we are in the same logic as the “vanities” and the “memento mori”, the lesson that ultimately nothing is eternal, and vanity is a folly because all beautiful faces will end up as a skull.

However Spenser cleverly also prepares us, by this mythological references, to the presentation of what Lucifera’s behavior and crimes are. Because Lucifera is not one of those “vain fools” who think of themselves as beautiful when they are not – on the contrary. Lucifera is immensely beautiful, and even if it wasn’t for her beauty, she sits in an array of immense luxury, wearing the most refined and outstanding clothes and dazzling jewelries you can imagine. Lucifera is a truly admirable figure – quite literally since it is said that knights and lords from all four corners of the world come to her palace to admire her. The twist lies in HOW she behaves and acts. Because Lucifera does not care for her many guests, hosts and admirers, treating them with only scorn and disdain – breaking the basic law of hospitality and the rules of courtly behavior by her immense selfishness. Her many admirers and courtiers are said to constantly make themselves prettier, shinier, more noble and more appealing, attracting, charming, all in the hope of pleasing her – but she does not care at all for all their effort, and probably does not even notice them. When great knights and lords offer themselves to her, she does thank them… But in a disdainful way, and with very brief words, and only because they promised to spread words of her fame and glory and beauty. She is said to hate everything that is “low” (which is why, out of allegorical joke, she always sits on a high throne and makes sure she is above everyone else) – but given she thinks of everything outside of herself as “low”, she ends up hating everybody. She only looks at two things – either her hand-mirror (because her own reflection brings her “great delight and joy”), either the heavens. Again, due to a hatred of “anything low” and a desire to only have the highest, tallest and grandest things – but also because she rejects her own chthonian, underworld-roots. Indeed, while she is the daughter of Pluto and Proserpina (Hades and Persephone), she rather places herself on the same level (and sometimes above) as Jove (aka Zeus). Zeus/Jove, Eos/Aurora, and Phaeton: Lucifera dreams and fashions herself after the celestial beings of the sky and of light, when in truth she is a chthonian entity of death, earth and darkness.

Not only that, but she fashions herself a queen when she is not… Remember when I said that she was the daughter of Pluto and Proserpina, king and queen of Hell? It makes her a princess alright… An eternal princess, since her parents are immortal gods and thus will never pass any crown onto her. But Lucifera, devoured by ambition and arrogance, HAD to be a queen. So what did she do? She went onto earth and there obtained a crown… “with wrong and tyranny”. She literally stole and took by force a crown that was not hers, usurped a territory and made herself the sole and absolute ruler of it. Not only is she a false ruler with no actual right to sit on the throne, but she even went as far as to usurp a domain that had no relationship to her parents, lineage or world – daughter of the principles of death and the underworld, she decided to make herself a queen of the livings onto earth’s surface… Even worse, she is not a good queen, because according to Spenser, beyond being a “tyrant”, she does not rule with “laws” but with “policies”. And in the language of the time, “policies” are here to mean “cunning and crafty devices”. She is a tyrant who not only brutally seized a crown and usurped a thrown, but on top of that establishes her rule through cunning, trickery and unlawful behavior (it is not surprise that here, her counsel is explicitly described as being formed of “six wizards” – they are not men of the law, they are not men of politics or courtiers, they are not men of war or economy, they are wizards and sorcerers, forming a government of magic tricks and deceiving enchantments). As a visual touch to denote the evilness and danger inherent to her superb appearance: at her feet, lies a dragon, that forms a “hideous trayne” to her glorious, shining, sparkling and luxurious dress.

[There is also a “gentle husher” that works for queen Lucifera, and notably always prepare her passage before she goes anywhere, obviously called Vanity, but there isn’t much to say here since he is a one-line reference]

Just as important as Lucifera herself is the palace she lives within and rules from: the House of Pride, which is the architectural twin of Lucifera, and the inanimate embodiment of the sin of Pride (and of all sins and vices in general). The House of Pride is described as a great and grandly palace, all filled with luxuries, all shining and bright… It is covered in gold! Or rather… it is foiled in golds. The walls of the palace were covered in a thin layer of gold to hide the actual material in which the castle was made – a very rough and very poor material. Great and high walls that impress everyone by their size – but which are made of bricks without mortar, and are thus very easy to destroy. The palace is thought of as grandiose because it has many hallways and numerous towers and a LOT of rooms – but its foundations are actually very weak, since the castle was built… on a “sandy hill”. A hill of sand that is very unstable and regularly collapses – threatening the entire palace, which “shakes with every strong wind”. Finally, while everybody amasses themselves and awaits by the front of the palace, its backrooms and back-parts, those not seen from the path leading to the House, are noted to all be old ruins… but “painted cunningly” to hide their own decrepitude. You could say that Vanity, the “gentle husher”, is an extension of the House of Pride itself – since it all depicts the sin of vanity itself. A great care of appearances and an obsession with beauty forcing one to hide the truth, to fight foolishly and senselessly the effects of time or one’s true nature, all to create a deceptive idea of an ideal self that never truly existed. More generally, the House of Pride represents the very trap that is a sin, or a vice in general – it is the House of Evil if you want. It is grandiose, immense, beautiful, shining, with all sorts of riches and treasures… But it is built out of poor materials, it offers no real protection or comfort, its riches are only skin-deep (or wallpaper-deep), and it is overall an unstable structure that is already a half-ruin. The danger of the House is made even more explicit by the large road that leads to it – a large pathway that many people take to go to the House, but that very few people use to leave… And when Lucifera leaves her castle on her chariot, and goes down the road, the protagonist can suddenly see what paves the way and that he missed before – the things the wheels of Lucifera’s chariot gleefully crushes. The bones and skulls of all those that “went astray” and went by the House of Pride…

The dual of nature of the House and Lucifera (who represent the two sides of pride – Lucifera is scorn, disdain, ambition and arrogance, while the House is vanity and vainglory, Lucifera is the “superbia” pride while the House is the “vanagloria” pride) is even reflected in a sort of bizarre “competition” that is sets between the two. Indeed, when we see Lucifera sitting on her throne… The poet sarcastically describes how both the throne and the queen on it shine brightly, and they glitter and sparkle so much as if “the blaze of the glorious throne” and the blaze of the queen herself tried to “dim each other”. Pride will always be the most envious and jealous of itself…

After spending some times inside the House, we follow Lucifera as she leaves her castle and takes her coach by the road. The coach is just as luxurious and glittering and blazing as the House and the queen, since it is all of “gold and garlands”. And again, we have explicit mythological comparisons: Lucifera, with all those flowers around her, make her look like “Flora in her prime”… But she actually tries to imitate and surpass another goddess – Juno, aka Hera, queen of the gods and the heavens. The parallel is even reinforced by the presence of peacock feathers on the chariot. “Argus’ eyes”, on one side, the mythological emblems of Juno/Hera… But also the common symbol of vanity and pride, the peacock being considered THE bird of this sin.

And if it was not clear enough that this was an EVIL queen, the coachman of Lucifera, the one holding the whip… Is said to be none other than Satan himself. Aka THE actual Christian Devil, THE Great Fiend himself who gleefully leads queen Lucifera wherever she wants to go. And whips the six other sins to ride faster… Because, as I said before – Lucifera’s chariot is not pulled by horses… But by her six “sage counsellors/old wizards”, aka the other deadly sins. However, since this post is already getting quite long, I’ll keep them for another time.

[cheyenneosis]

lalalala 4 month old reference piece thingy of one of my ppg ocs, Lucifera ! for some funny reason i've become deeply invested in her and my other oc's design/bio so theyre um 3 years in development at this point but if you've seen the older images of her well now theyre outdated as she's had a slight redesign :9 still changing things up but read more for a shortened bio !

Lucifera was born with naturally green skin to a party animal lady turned god fearing woman (she thought she was being "punished" for her ways) she attended a religious school for a while but that didn't go so well and the school eventually just kicked her out due to being a "distraction" (families + staff complaints, other children's teasings of her being disruptive) she got shit for merely existing and had teachings shoved down her throat and became more sympathetic towards the rising evil in Townsville in her teens from everything and would occasionally fantasize about becoming a Gangreen Gang member or at the very least some sort of villain...after getting expelled for getting into a violent fight at school her mother was about to send her off to a boarding school but Lucifera decided to change her looks (finally got out the gothy clothes she bought long before but feared wearing around her mom) then ran away that night and lived on her own for a bit. eventually she'd run into the Gangreen Gang after witnessing them rob a gas station which initially got her in trouble with them until she helped hide them from the Powerpuff Girls. They all then stuck together but ofc got confronted by the puffs every now and then. Another gal would eventually join (Serpentine) and other lovely things would take place, but Luci wouldn't always have things great after all this...more info TBA!

[reno-matagot]

[Creation of my own Wiccan Tradition]

THOUGHTS - PERSONAL MYTHOLOGY

Erikapaios (Orphic God, the Lord, Lucifer) & Nyx ( The Lady Night ) ''give birth'' by Spirit (Blue Fire) to/ or incarnate as - Eros and Tanathos (Divine Twins of Feri) & to all divinities (of Hellenistic Polytheism), including the Witch Mothers (Circé, Hecate, Nyx, Séléné, Medea ~ traditional witchcraft). This Wicca is duotheist (of course) and very Polytheistic.

The Gods are also the Divine Twins, (Feri Tradition) Pillars of the Wild (The World described in Strix Craft) & the Civilised (Helpol), Artémis & Apollo, The Dioscuri..but also the Red and the Green Man of Blue Rose Feri: Pan & Dionysos. Gender is fluid.

The Blue God is Eros. Arddhu is Tanathos.

Quacoralina is Nyx.

Lucifer, the God, is Erikapaios/ Phanes. (Luciferianism), but also Apollo and Helios. He's may be Abraxas.

Lucifera is also Hekate, Séléné, or Hestia (fundation of the cult amongst human).

Being Luciferians, these Gods remains separate individuals: Hekate is not Nyx, Helios is not Erikapaios. Hestia is not Hecate !!

The goddess of the Esbat is Selene. Hecate is honored by the Deipnon. Dionysos, Aphrodite and Pan, Hermès, Apollon, the Kharites, are important, with Artémis (1st Goddess who visited Gaul) ( Zeus, Asclépios, Hadès ,etc) Primal Gods, Titans and Olympians are worshipped. Heroes too.

The Wheel of the Year is informed by Strix Craft. The calendar incluses also famous greek festivals. There is a myth close to Traditionnal Gardnerian Wicca but only as a formula of invitation of the Goddess and the God: the ''Sabbats''honor individual Gods (Hestia : february the first, etc)

There are other festivals for the Theoi and the Witches.

The Queen of Witches is Circé who also represent ontological anarchy (Chaos, Hakim Bey), the Black Heart of Innocence.

She's the (spiritual) daughter of Hekate & She's a Goddess.Witchcraft is informed by the Land spirits and french folklore can be invited as long as it stays under the patronage of Hecate, the Queen Circé, (to be continued) Hecate bears the Witch Fire and Kirke is the one I chose to transmit it. Some special Tools.

The Divine Initiate is Antinous (the Blue Lotus)

There are 3 types of Ancestors.

This Wicca is dynamic equilibrium between duotheism and polytheism in my own tradition. It names Orphic Gods but isn't initiatory and accessible to all. It's not ''Orphic''. It is the Wiccan Twin of Strix Craft. It is Luciferian.

Respect to Traditionnal Wicca: • Circle: insist, but all spells do not fit well with a Circle casting (powder-spells, etc) • 4 Guardians: _______• Elemental workings • Tools •

Death - Hermes Psychopompe > the Garden of Persephone.

There are 3 souls, 3 Worlds, et 4 main categories of Divinities and spirits : Red, White, Glas, Black. The Witch Can work with many spirits (Médusa, Helios, etc) : this Wicca is deeply informed by Feri, but is not Feri.

This Wicca has 4 focus: Relationship (The Gods and the Self) , Nature (spirits) , Witchcraft and Community (Wicca, Helpol, Witches, Strix Craft)The Goddess Can manifest by the Pentacle of Iron, The God by the Pearl Pentacle (or the other way) etc

Values: to be continued. No Threefold Law.

To be continued.

That's all, folks!

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i wish this shaking coward would make lady lucifera available

[divaricca]

Black Madonna, Mother of Light and Dark, Star Goddess, Lady Lucifera, Shine your divine light upon us, illuminate our Darkness, alchemize our pain and sorrow, may we transform into strength and beauty, may we live in harmony with ourselves and the world, grounded and rooted.

[giallofever2]

A Rete Italiana/Spanish HORROR/COMEDY with the Italian Sexy_Star Carmen Villani

1979

Lady Lucifera

Also Known As (AKA)

(original title) Polvos mágicos

Italy Lady Lucifera

West Germany Zwei Kuckuckseier im Gruselnest

Release Dates

Spain 26 October 1979

West Germany 5 August 1983

Directed by José Ramón Larraz

Music by Stelvio Cipriani

Writing Credits

Mauro Ivaldi ... (screenplay) &

José Ramón Larraz ... (screenplay)

technical specifications

Runtime 1 hr 28 min (88 min)

Interpreti e personaggi

Carmen Villani: Lady Lucifera

Alfredo Landa: Alberto

Vincenzo Crocitti: Paolo

Eduardo Fajardo: maggiordomo

Maria Vico: Zulema

Elisa Montés: Alberta

Assumpta Serna: Carlotta

Carmen De Lirio: contessa

José María Caffarel: conte

Carlos Lucena: sacerdote

Trini Alonso: Anna

José Nieto: giudice

[rabidhiss]

#rosalbaneri one of the most underrated queens of grindhouse and exploitation throughout the 60’s and 70’s. One of my favorites is #ladyfrankenstein #1971 She was also brilliant in #99women One film that’s rather obscure that I’d love to get ahold of is Lucifera: Demon Lover, which is described as being pretty hallucinogenic.

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

Lucifera by  Alex Horley

[maiamars]

not to bring up my ashera is alive/nod to diana especially lucifera but i thought of jaime's dream in jaime vi but leaving harrenhal leads him to see 2 of his old paths before he falls asleep on the weirwood tree stump and he just ends up in his own hell but like on of the epithets of diana is trivia where she is with hecate and selene and the three of them are goddess of the underworld by as much as of the crossroads. the three of them are often represented with torches in their hands. Just like Cersei "Her torch was the only light in the cavern. Her torch was the only light in the world." before jaime and brienne got their own with their flaming swords. so three paths but cersei leaves him, and his own dies soon after. so his dream seems to tell him that only brienne's path seems to be the correct one. but like did jaime "It was not him, he thought. It was never him." understood that his dream was not his own. why arthur replied "so sadly" to brienne specifically when she was talking to rhaegar why arthur is always described as sad in both ned and jaime vision kinda a warning dream to brienne and jaime over their oaths, warned about lady stoneheart ???? grrm give me twow pls

[littlemulattokitten]

I’ve written like...3/4 of the next chapter of The Lady. 

Maybe 1/3 of the next chapter of Uxor Lucifera.

1/2 the next chapter of His Little Star.

A lot of rewrites and edits and planning done on the novel thing.

Am I a fanfic author again yet?

[tarotbee]

hi! could you do diana? and if you can, could you please tell me how to start worshipping, i'm a new witch and im really lost

Offerings and ways of Worshipping Lady Diana

(In mt experience the best way to begin worshipping a deity is to first establish communication, this can be through throwing together a quick pendulum board and using a paper clip on a bit of string or using a tarot app (I recommend golden thread tarot) if you don't own a deck of your own. Establishing contact is an important first step, it can tell you why the deity is there and give you an insight into what they may be seeking from you in return. (I suggest biddy tarot for card meanings. Next what you'll wanna do is create a devotional space for them, this can be anywhere, outside, a desk, a bedside table, in a small box, wherever you can fit one. This space will be where you put offerings, candles and incense. (Of its in a box use electric candles or remove the candle from the box when you light it. Once you've made an offering commune with them Once more, see if they liked it (I do this through pyromancy but other divination works just as well), find out your deities sacred day(s), or honestly whenever you have free time and use that time to set offerings (I do mine weekly or whenever feels necessary.) Proceed as feels correct (or ask for help from fellow practitioners)

Incorporate elements of worship for Latona and Apollo into your practice with Lady Diana, in ancient Rome she was most commonly worshipped alongside her brother and mother

Aid pregnant people and animals however you can

Study midwifery

If you hunt, do so ethically

Diana is the goddess of the wild, children, providence, abundance, harvest woodlands, the hunt, fertility and domestic animals, and in Italy, the sun but she became associated with the Moon when people equated her with Artemis (and later, Selene, Luna and Hekate) so anything moon shaped would be an acceptable offering for her

Moon cakes

Sun or moon water

Items found in the forest, this can be leaves, flowers, sticks, rocks or even interesting trinkets you may find

Leave (decomposable) offerings by a lake or body of water

Bow and arrow imagery

Practice archery or knife throwing

Arrowheads

Things in threes (Diana was sometimes called Threefold Diana Trivia, this was one of her earliest Epithet)

Learn about her epithets, such as Trivia, Diana Lucifera, Diana Triformis, Diana Tifatina and Diana Nemorensis

associated scents for candles and incense: jasmine, frankincense, lemon, aloe, ginseng, verbena, camphor, rose and sandalwood

associated plants: apple, rue, balm, beech, vervain, jasmine, mugwort, lavender, walnuts, willow, Oak, aloe, cedar, tarragon, wormwood, lemon, anemones, flowering almond, Hazel, ranunculus, honeysuckle, passionflower, thistle, laurel, fir tree

associated gems and metals: amethyst, emerald, moonstone, pearl, quartz, crystal, silver, turquoise, iron, aluminium, moss agate and diamond

Associated animals: Dogs, deer, goats!, guinea fowl, horses, bear, dove, and bees

Dog teeth (ethically sourced)

Dog fur (ethically sourced)

Honey

Deer antler (ethically sourced)

Goat horns (ethically sourced)

Candles of silver, white, red, purple, green and turquoise

Celebrate August 13th (Diana was worshiped at a festival called Nemoralia, or the Festival of Torches, beginning on August 13 each year. After washing their hair and dressing it with flowers, Diana’s followers would proceed around the sacred Lake Nemi) and 15th (her feast day, now the Catholic day of Mary's assumption into heaven)

A statue of her! Or her two dogs

Just spend time outside under the sky (Diana's name derives from the word sky/daybreak)

Fresh fruit (particularly apples)

A mirror or mirrors on her altar or shrine

Bread

Clay figurines

Foster dogs

Feed stray dogs

Leave dog biscuits and meat offerings for her hounds

You can also refer to my posts or other sources about the worship of Lady Artemis from the Greek Pantheon if you need more inspiration for worship and offering ideas but keep in mind they are different deities

[metvmorqhoses]

i read up on the etymologies for apollo and art's names! so "apollon" apparently means 'destroyer', but placed w'in the context of destroying evil; w art, etymology either comes from the word for 'butcher'/'protector', the difference between the two being one letter, which was interesting. mentioning this as you said something earlier of the twins' destructive natures being discussed less, & after certain versions of the orion & coronis myths. killing each other's lovers in a jealous rage? sEXY

as promised, here i am with the second part of your ask!

indeed your research was quite correct, apollo and artemis’ names have various possible etymologies and therefore meanings - and not innocent ones.

the most famous, and probably the most intriguing, translation of apollon is from the verb απολλυμι, which as you say means “to destroy”, but it’s a common, “modern” misconception to think it had a benign meaning, while it wasn’t really (or anyway only) the case. yes, apollo was one of the most important and worshipped gods of the whole greek pantheon, but he was also one of the most ruthless and therefore feared. apollo destroyed his people’s enemies, but was ready to let his fury unleash upon his very devotees. the scorching light that burned through him cast also impenetrable shadows upon the whole world. it’s funny to think that each and every possible etymology of his name bear the same terrible double connotation, both light and darkness: it was theorized that the name apollon could also come from the noun απειλε‘, which means “promise” but also “threat”; and again from ἀπέλλω, which means “to deliver” but also “to confront with ruthlessness”; from the indoeuropean root -apelo, which means “force”, both in a good and in an evil way; or from απολουσιs, which means “purification” and not simply in a painless way.

as you can see, apollo was far from a docile deity, no matter how rational and orderly his domains. he had a rather dionysian, disturbing side. for example, he was also widely associated with butchering and sacrificial blades (on this topic there’s a great book by marcel detienne, apollon le couteau à la main - apollo with the knife in hand).

i also find particularly interesting one of the less commonly known interpretations of his name, which could simply mean “apple”. this version is wildly suggestive in its simplicity, it immediately reminds of both the apple of discord and the apple of the original sin: the serpent was one of the principal animals sacred to him, one of his very symbols - it immediately makes you think at apollo’s obvious eventual association with lucifer’s figure from the christian times onward (one of apollo’s epithets was Φωσφόρος, “the light bringer”/”the morning star”, also used by the romans in its latin translation, lucifero).

as for artemis, things are more complicated. artemis has always been a mercurial goddess, not easy to analyze or define, especially because she has most definitely pre-greek origins. she’s one of the few deities whose name is certainly identified in cnosso’s linear b. her name can mean both “maiden” and “lady/untouchable/strong” (fortifying her original minoan association with the potnia theoron, the lady of wild beasts and with kore/persephone, the cretan lady of the labyrinth), but her name can also mean “butcher”, as her brother, or can come from the indoeropean root -ar (the best), which in many many languages identifies the meaning of “honorable, best, bright”. it’s also of notice, in both greek and roman mythology, she shared the same “light bringer” epithet of apollo (in rome they were apollo lucifero and diana lucifera).

it’s fun to know (speaking of fierceness!) some scholars associate her name to bears and war and claim king arthur’s name is an open derivation and tribute to hers!

we can safely deduce from all these historical linguistics that we are not dealing with sheeps, but with wolves (and literally! wolves were sacred to them both and wolf-like was the form their mother leto took while pregnant to escape hera’s wrath).

we can also safely say no one ever came out alive from their myths.

[insomniac-jay]

BNHA Next Gen: Full Hero Names

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Makoto Tetsutetsu: Ironclad

Denryoku Sero: Boltshock

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Shinokure Ojiro: Ghost

Hiromi Tokage: Miss Zilla

Kuroyoru Shoji: Hollow Scream

Carrie Kurakimichi: Bloody Carrie

Kokaon Shoda: Phrase

Nibui Honenuki: Null

Hinamane Togata: Fusiona

Himeka Shinso: Lady Highness

Avyanna Harkness-Nightwalker: Sorceress

Nano Daigiri: Nano Prime

Lucia Zokukurai: Lucifera

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America Davis: Kaboom

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