#live in the divine history

[blackisdivine]

BLACK LIVES MATTER ❤

Artwork source: https://www.instagram.com/kenslerb/?img_index=1

[fluffytimearts]

Happy black history month ya'll!!!

[eleanor-arroway]

“The job is the unquestioned goal for all free citizens of the world – the ultimate public good. It is the clearly stated exit goal of all education and the only sanctioned reason for acquiring knowledge. But if we think about it for a moment, jobs are not what we want. We want shelter, food, strong relationships, a livable habitat, stimulating learning activity, and time to perform valued tasks in which we excel. I don’t know of many jobs that will allow access to more than two or three of those things at a time, unless you have a particularly benevolent owner or employer.

I am often told that I should be grateful for the progress that Western civilization has brought to these shores. I am not. This life of work-or-die is not an improvement on preinvasion living, which involved only a few hours of work a day for shelter and sustenance, performing tasks that people do now for leisure activities on their yearly vacations: fishing, collecting plants, hunting, camping, and so forth. The rest of the day was for fun, strengthening relationships, ritual and ceremony, cultural expression, intellectual pursuits, and the expert crafting of exceptional objects. I know this is true because I have lived like this, even in this era where the land is only a pale shadow of the abundance that once was. We have been lied to about the “harsh survival” lifestyles of the past. There was nothing harsh about it. If it was so harsh – such a brutish, menial struggle for existence – then we would not have evolved to become the delicate, intelligent creatures that we are.”

- Tyson Yunkaporta, Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save The World

[felondese]

coping by coming up with now-possible world states since our choices won't be referenced one way or another in dav. realizing that actually, i'm not limited now by canon options. the choices can be whatever i fucking want. or don't want. they can be fucking bonkers off the wall and if it's not referenced in game, it can be true and unquestioned!

yea i'm shipping everybody and bioware can't tell me it's not canon in my world state

[bestworstcase]

something something "your mother said those words to me" being the cruelest retort salem can think of when ruby upsets her

ruby shatters trying to be who summer was and now she's trying to put herself back together with "i'll be who you were and i'll be even more"

salem's father punishes her for her mother's death in childbirth by imprisoning her literally in her mother's "favorite place" and treating salem herself as a proxy, an inadequate replacement for her mother with no personhood of her own.

(the way ruby's self-identity is so distorted by the reflection of summer is in itself a fractal repetition of salem's story; of course salem is both the one who "took [her] mother" and the one who cracks the mirror)

[iamtyraash]

Every great dream begins with a dreamer Happy Black History Month!!

[liroyalty]

The silence is long & draw, as a pair of onyx eyes stared out onto open lands Jailiam before the cliffsides. Wide open spaces for as long as one could see, tents filled with shoulders that celebrate the day's victory away before open fires & shared drinks. The joys of men & women for fought hard, their returns were to play hard, as much as they wanted, & their lords provided.

It was still but a sampling of what it was Sue wanted to make. A place where those worked the hardest got the spoils they deserved, where those with power treated those below them as their own, & worked their labors to keep them well. And for once she had a alley with her.

Of charcoal black hair, a man beside her watched the same screen, coffee brown eyes absorbed the sights of his men mingling with that of the Lareryth Queen's beside him. Ears graced with the distant signs of life & joy. This... were the delights of a conquer. To wage war, fight a great battle, gain victory & celebrate it with drink, feast & a warm body. Pleasures Arthur Rogue had come to know overly well, the beautiful Suzanne being no small part in such.

How graced he is, to just simple be able to live this dream as he wished in full, but to do so with such a gorgeous & power queen in his services as well. Yet, there's a hollow he sees in her eyes, finally turning them towards her from the screens of their camp.

"Troubled?" Rogue questioned finally.

Eyebrow raises at the question, but she doesn't turn to face him. "Troubled? After a victory? You're joking."

The warlord chuckles at her. Of course, she would word things like that.

"I am merely thinking."

"You are always thinking, my dear." His responses sounds sassy, but he speaks it as if it was fact. He knows the queen a little too well. "I am a man of many talents, but mind reading is yet one I do not have." It is Arthur's way of saying that he wants to know just what it is she's thinking of.

"..." The pause & silence of her is only broken by the sounds of the celebration below. "... I thought... a long time ago, I would have been happy, simply taking Lareryth from Seth." She begins, sighing at the memory of her dead ex-husband, she did tell Arthur of truth of that instance, & they swore to each other they would never speak of her killing the ex-ruler of the Lareryth Empire. He has gained her trust in such a high regard over the years of fighting together. "I knew he would be unfit to be a king, & I thought gaining the largest empire in the world under my wings would sate me."

"And yet, here you are." The warlord scooted closer to her, a tiny smirk peeling at the edge of his mouth. "Still hungering & fighting for more, you ambition is powerful, my dear."

"Perhaps I am simply greedy." She restores with a low snort.

"To have ambition is to be greedy, my dear." Arthur responses quickly. A single hand of his moving slowly, finding it's way under her chin, where but a thumb & finger would lift & turn it to have Sue face him. "Ambition is to want, to need, to have a desire so great the bound of normal means can not contain it. Something that makes the world bend & change & only those with the courage & strength to chase their ambitions will see it done."

"And I have boundless strength for a boundless ambition." Suzanne thought when she was young she'd be happy with just the empire, but she wants more. Not just for herself, but to take ill & ailing people under her wing, so she can see them thrive. No one may live in a worse situation then she ever has. No one will have to know pain & blame as she.

Her response only made the man smirk fully spread across his face. A daughter of the great king, the man who won the old war, was not like any other mere woman. "So, what is your grand desire? How much of this world do you want?"

"I want an empire... that is the likes no one on this world has seen before. And to have that... I will want, need, more then what Jailiam will give me, Arthur."

Finger flex just a bit, gripping her chin just a tad tighter, & the warlord bites his bottom lip, hearing just how sure she knows what she wants now. If this lovely queen wanted to wage world to claim the world, Arthur would do so with an eagerness. To make a Queen in an Empress, & with he as Emperor beside her. Only he can be such a fitting partner for such a wild & ambitious beauty.

"As you wish."

[bijoumikhawal]

Rotating siskarak in my mind again

[blackisdivine]

Black Lives, Dreams & Futures Matter

Art by Kelly Marcelle Malka

[panicinthestudio]

Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Maya Art Virtual Opening, December 1, 2022

In Maya art, the gods are depicted at all stages of life: as infants, as adults at the peak of their maturity and influence, and as they age. The gods could die, and some were born anew, serving as models of regeneration and resilience. Join Joanne Pillsbury, Andrall E. Pearson Curator of Ancient American Art in The Met's Michael C. Rockefeller Wing, alongside Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Yale University, curators of the exhibition along with Laura Filloy Nadal, Associate Curator of Ancient American Art at The Met, to virtually explore Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Maya Art.  In this exhibition rarely seen masterpieces and recent discoveries trace the life cycle of the gods, from the moment of their creation in a sacred mountain to their dazzling transformations as blossoming flowers or fearsome creatures of the night. 

Maya artists depicted the gods in imaginative ways from the monumental to the miniature—from exquisitely carved, towering sculptures to jade, shell, and obsidian ornaments that adorned kings and queens, connecting them symbolically to supernatural forces. Finely painted ceramics reveal the eventful lives of the gods in rich detail. Created by master artists of the Classic period (A.D. 250–900) in the royal cities of what is now Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico, the landmark works in this exhibition evoke a world in which the divine, human, and natural realms are interconnected and alive. 

Learn more about the exhibition here: https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2022/gods-divinity-maya-art

The Met

[yellowhollyhock]

I actually hit the tag max so I have to say this part in reblogs

DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY FLOWERS THERE ARE. DO YOU UNDERSTAND THAT IT COULD TAKE YOU LIFETIMES TO STUDY IN DEPTH AND CATALOG EVERY KIND OF FLOWER. AND YOU COULD DO THAT WITH BIRDS AND RODENTS AND CATS AND FROGS AND MUSHROOMS AND ROCKS

And that's not even getting into learning how to build stuff, lifetimes, LIFETIMES, to perfect every hobby that ever sparks joy, EVER. NO TIME CONSTRAINTS

And grief is just another beautiful part of that. Every person you meet is an exciting new incredibly complex and deeply worthwhile topic of study. You'll remember them after no one else does, you'll love them forever and ever and ever, you are their voice decades decades decades after they're gone. Does it ever stop hurting? And if it does is that better or worse? Isn't it wonderful to feel alive enough for the absence to sting? Isn't it wonderful to be alive?

I would do this forever I would do this forever I would do this forever I would do this forever

.... wait am I already insane ?

[innovativejunction]

Sunlit Reverence: Celebrating Chhath Puja, the Ancient Festival of Devotion

Sunlit Reverence: Celebrating Chhath Puja, the Ancient Festival of Devotion As dawn breaks over the riverbanks of Bihar and the plains of northern India and Nepal, a beautiful, ancient tradition comes to life – Chhath Puja. This festival honours the Sun God (Surya) and his sister, Chhathi Maiya, embodying themes of purity, gratitude, and resilience. My own memory of this celebration is rich with…

[compassionmattersmost]

Understanding the Roots of Religious Tensions: A Historical Perspective on Divine Righteousness Across Cultures

As we embark on our journey through the Caravan of Love: Interfaith Healing & Harmony, it’s essential to explore the historical and cultural contexts that have shaped the way different religions view the divine. One of the most significant sources of tension between religious traditions has been the concept of idol worship and the worship of multiple gods. However, when we delve deeper into the…

[fshoulders]

Hate to be the odd cis woman who can’t stop thinking about Ancient Rome, but…if you think misogyny cannot affect people who aren’t female, I invite you to take a Roman history class. Or just read Plutarch’s Lives.

There are two sticks* that are used to beat men with and try to make them conform to a largely unattainable (and under Empire, increasingly unrewarding) ideal of Roman Manhood. One is “Eastern/Greek/effete”. The other is “womanly”. They are absolutely cut from the same tree, and you can see how one amplifies into the other. Look at the widespread story that Julius Caesar bottomed for King Nicomedes (the Romans differentiated a man penetrating another man — not approved of, but just pervy and outré — and being penetrated and thus totally disgraced, debased, and ruined), shorthanded in the epithet ‘Queen of Bithynia’. You might also look at the elaborate stories where Cleopatra (an Eastern, ethnically Greek, sexually aggressive woman in power, the nightmare!) not only made Mark Anthony abandon Rome and Romanness, but unmanned him through cross-dressing, et cetera. These stories are probably made up, but they’re made up to demonstrate values, and lack thereof: this is what a man shouldn’t be. This is why Catullus responded to ‘kinda girly of you to write poetry’…the way he did. (Content note on Catullus 16 for rape threats!)

The worst thing a man can be, according to Roman culture, is a woman. Rome is in the DNA of the modern (imperial!) world. And misogyny still works this way.

The idea that misogyny, ‘the hatred of women’ — the poisoned tree around which patriarchy’s house is built, its family lineage, its root and foundation — can only be used against women, or against people you recognize as women by your own criteria, is astonishingly blinkered. It assures you will continue living in the ashes of the master’s hearth forever. This doesn’t mean that misogyny stops hurting women for a moment. We’re still the stick. When the blow lands, the ‘woman’ stick and the beaten target both feel the impact!

But it does mean that if we want to uproot the tree of patriarchy and stop living in its noisome shadow, cis and trans women need to ally with trans men, with men who have sex with men, with gender-non-conforming men, with men with girly hobbies, with people who are men maybe twice a week, with people who default to ‘woman’ or ‘man’ but don’t really feel it strongly, with non-binary people, with every erased gender, with none-of-the-aboves. With everyone who’s willing to acknowledge the bruises of patriarchy on their flesh and say ‘no more’. It’s going to take, not a village; but the scum, underclass, rebels, dreamers, and discontents of an entire world-empire.

If that makes you feel less SPECIAL? That misogyny permeates a system of oppression that hurts basically everyone? Then maybe you only wanted to feel special, and didn’t want to attack the root at all. That doesn’t sound very radical.

[ausetkmt]

Washitaw Dugdumoundya - go see for yourself

information for the public about the Nation of people who are indigenous to the American continent. Many people are unaware that this Nation of people even exists at all. We are a multicultural, highly spiritual nation of aboriginal, indigenous Americans who were originally called Washitaw Mu’urs (or Ouachita as it was amended by others throughout our history). We accept both lineal and non-lineal citizens into our Nation.  We DO NOT discriminate based on race or religion, as this is the heart of God and of our current Empress, Her Highness, Verdiacee “Tiari” Washitaw-Tunica (Turner) Goston El Bey. Her Highness Previous Spiritual Advisor of Spiritual Education and Information of the Ministry, Oukhara Zeshera, states No Longer Advisor), “All of us within our nation are creations of the Divine Creator, and we are all our Brothers and Sisters. We need to learn our past spirituality, so we can build as a nation. Remember, the first principle in Washitaw is LOVE!”

 Imperial Royal Court French & Spanish “The Washitaw de Dugdahmoundyah was recorded as The Oldest Indigenous People on Earth in the final list of all attendees.”

In 1993, The Washitaw Indigenous Nation of Mound Builders received its United Nations number: 215/93. To date, the Empress, as one of the living heirs of Henry Turner, has recovered the title to 68,883 acres of land comprising most of the northern part of the ‘said state of Louisiana. The Washitaw never drew boundaries, We are the original inhabitants of all the lands from wherever you find mound sites you find part of the Empire in so called north America

( A-Meri- Ta ). The one letter rule change one letter to hide the truth they change the letter ” T ” into “C” from Meri-Ta, to A-meri-ca.

The area from Alleghenies to the Rocky Mountains, from Canada down to the Gulphe of Mexico, including East and west Floridaes: and the Pecos River, encompasses the domain of the Empire Washitaw de Dugdahmoundyah. A land mass over 30 million acres. This is one of the regions that the United States claim as part of the Louisiana Purchase.It’s the same region Abraham Lincoln coined as, The Egypt of the West.

The Ancient and Medieval American Mississippian culture 500-1500 AD

Going down a deep dive of the Mississippian mound culture of precolumbian United States.

I knew some stuff about the topic, pretty basic and precursory information, but now I think I'm gonna do some more in depth research. It's just fascinating to learn how throughout the Mississippi river region and deep south there were large cities that rivaled medieval cities in Europe with populations in the tens of thousands. Cahokia Illinois for example.

And they made all kinds of really cool artifacts

They had trade routes all over North America. For example copper from the Great Lakes region, shells from the Atlantic and Gulf Coast, and Obsidian from Mexico. In addition their own goods have been found exported to archaeological sites all over North America.

Then around the 14th century the Little Ice Age started, which was basically a sudden drop in global temperatures lasting until the mid 19th century, which resulted in crop failures and famine worldwide. In addition large populations were already stretching the food resources and agriculture of the area. This resulted in the decline of urban culture among the Mississippians. At the time in Eurasia the same was happening, which helped bring about the Black Death. So there were hard times all around. The 14th century was a bad time to be alive almost everywhere. Final collapse occurred in the 16th century when smallpox swept through the Americas after European contact.

Unfortunately for us they had no system of writing, at least none that can be found. So we will probably never know their story and history as well as say the ancient Romans. All that we know is pieced together through archaeological findings and oral history of their modern descendants.

Anyway I'm gonna find some good audiobooks to listen to on the subject while I do my weightlifting.