#mountain deity

[timotey]

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HJJ filming Mountain Deity Nov. 19 2024

[appalachiasferaldaughter]

Hail to the Old Gods;

The ancient ones, Deities of forest, mountain, and sea, for whom my ancestors poured from their ram horns.

Hail to the god of emotions, who teaches us when to embrace chaos and when to refrain for the moment.

Hail to the goddess of seiðr, who holds the key of divination in the waves of her golden hair trailing down her breasts.

Hail to the god of strength, guardian of the deer herds, who teaches me when to cry for help and when to stand and gore. Hail to the Allfather, whose unconventional wisdom hurt me greatly in the moment, but saved my soul from perpetual insanity through the binding of runes.

(Thank you all for everything)

Hail to the Old Gods.

[dailyadventureprompts]

Villain: Jysh'parun, Outergod of Unwelcoming Earth

As distant and ancient as a mountain, as scornful as an axebitten tree

Many philosophies debate and negotiate the relation of mortals to their environment. Some see nature as a thing to be tamed in the name of survival, domesticated, exploited. Others proffer a more symbiotic path, a holistic system to be protected and stewarded.

Beyond these there are the ravings of those claimed by Jysh'parun, who claim that mortals have no right to exist at all, and survive merely by the beneficence of the trees and stones. While all but the most foolish agree that heed must be paid to nature, none but those under the unwelcoming earths dominion would think that there is some geological-feudal hierarchy to which we must all submit.

This then is the paradox of the Unbowing Mountain: a god that claims the worship of things that do not traditionally think, but views nature through a distinctly mortal lens of domination and hierarchy. It's an absurdity bordering on being a joke, atleast until Jysh'parun's influence washes over the land and the forest marches off to war while the rivers start demanding tribute.

Adventure Hooks:

Having come into possession of a disused tract of land, a young farming couple were picking the stones from their new field in preparation for planting when they came across the petrified remains of some indescribable horror. Resembling nothing so much as a horse sized mandrake-root with teeth, they've reached out to neighbours, the sheriff, even the local wizard looking for advice about what to do... only to wake up one morning and find the thing gone. Theft or reanimation are both equally alarming possibilities, and the whole region has been on edge since.

Having been thought dead for years after being lost in a winter storm, a dwarven cartographer descends from the mountains claiming to be their mouthpiece and demanding sacrifices in their name. Her words at first go unheeded, at least until the glacial rivers begin to run with noxious acid, transforming back only when something living is thrown in. Farms and villages are drying out and grisly offerings of livestock now fail to meet her standards she claims the mountains will only be satisfied when the people of the realm throw their rulers in and swear fealty to the peaks on high.

The king's palace is in chaos after a coup took place in the royal gardens, specifically when the great tree that shaded his majesty's favourite thinking bench stabbed him in the back with one of it's branches and then skampered off to replant itself on the throne with the crown in tow. Before Anyone knew what was happening, greenery had overtaken the palace locking most outside while trapping certain vital hostages inside.

Inspirations: Something that's all too often lost in the "madness and tentacles" misinterpretation of eldritch horror is that much of the genre is spun off from the particular phobias of HP lovecraft. When we use the iconography without understanding the anxieties behind it, we risk creating a shallow B movie version of the horror we want our audience to feel.

To write good horror then, we need to draw off fears we understand, and with Jysh'parun I wanted to tap into climate anxiety in a way I don't think I've seen before. We've all resigned ourselves to the fact that climate change is happening, with the understanding that its being driven by the bullheaded egos and greed of people who are so powerful their perspective on life bears no resemblance to anything we could possibly conceive of. Translate their willingness to let us suffer for the sake of profit into a psudo historical fantasy context and you get the Unwelcoming Earth: widening sinkholes that demand tolls from passersby while an approaching tsunami proclaims the divine right of kings. It's not only absurd it's fundamentally idiotic but that it doesn't mean it won't destroy you and everyone you know.

Worshippers: Delusional druids and geomancers. Goliaths and dwarvenkind who get too into being "children of the mountain". Sentient trees, Living crystals, and other elemental entities who seek to put themselves "above" other forms of life. Corrupted primoridals.

Signs: Aberrations that resemble roots or stone spontaneously emerging from nature, acid flowing from normally clear running springs, statues of lordly alien figures carved from erosion, not tools. Proclimations in an unknowable script engraved deep under the earth or on monumental scale.

Symbols: A glyph resembling a mountain range or branches of a tree in the shape of a crown.

Titles: The Unbowing Mountain, The Insuperable, King of all Corners,

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[leslie-redirects-here]

[angelicstarsight]

Getting lost in the woods of Artemis and the bounty of Demeter.

[unironicallycringe]

storm's clearin'

[musical-chan]

Father of Time Chapter 77: Hiking in Hebra

Hebra knew every stone, every source of water and every bit of plant matter in her territory. 

She knew this because for many years she neglected her Siblings for her grief.  After Warm Waters and (she believed) Western Oceans had been defeated, her only duty was to her mountains.  Nothing else mattered.  She did not reach out to the others, could not face that she had survived where her Siblings had not, didn't even speak to Eastern Oceans as he limped back to his watery home.  She let time pass her, watching the seasons cycle and mortals move and shift around her like snow.  She Protected them as best she could but not many chose her frigid home as their habitat.  Everything was there one moment then gone in the blink of an eye.  The steady, solid presence of deities was gone, a wound in her soul she didn't know how to heal. The music didn't touch her sorrow.  The Mothers offered words but they felt hollow.  There were so few of her Siblings left.  Sometimes Aevum would check in on her but she pushed her Sister away. There was no reason to mingle when all they had to look forward to was death.

And then the Protector of Night returned.

(Read the rest on AO3!)

[xiaogesword]

241105 | Huang Jun Jie as Jin Shisan in 山神 (Mountain Deity) ~ "Waiting for the right time to make a move."

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[piratedllama-art]

Deity

Acrylic marker on canvas board

[deusinabsentiaa]

About Me

DO NOT FOLLOW OR INTERACT IF YOU ARE: UNDER 18-NAZI-COP-TRUMP SUPPORTER-ZIONIST-FUNDAMENTALIST/CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIAN Hello folks! I'm Travis (he/they pronouns please), the owner of this account (obviously wtf). This is just a little "about me" post since my old one got lost somehow.

First and foremost I'm a polytheistic Satanist (I'm mainly a devotee to Satan, Lucifer, Apollo, Ares, and Thanatos. Although Lucifer is the main deity who shows up in my work, I worship and work with all five. I'm fairly new to polytheism but not unfamiliar to it. I've been slowly learning over the last...10 years or so, but only after deconstructing my faith and leaving the christian church did I finally follow the call and jumped into learning about and worshiping Satan and Lucifer, and most recently Apollo, Ares, and Thanatos. In my personal life, I'm a huge fan of the band Ghost, I discovered them in the fall of '23 during a really hard time in my life and they really me. After seeing Ghost live on 9/11/23 (barricade baybee), I don't think I can ever live without them 😭 Outside of Ghost, I listen to a lot of music (mainly hard rock & metal), pretty much as long as I'm by myself I'm listening to something. Some current favorite artists/groups are: Chappell Roan, Princess Liv, Drag Talk, Chanter, Nirvana, Foo Fighters, MCR, Metallica, Slayer, Mötley Crüe, Black Sabbath, Ozzy Osbourne, Danzig, Billy Idol, Mary Goore, Twin Temple, Repugnant, Lucifer, Behemoth, Judas Priest, Amon Amarth, Rammstein, Slipknot, and Iron Maiden. I'm also a big film/movie fan, but lately I've gotten into the old horror/suspense universe, especially The Universal Studios Classic Monsters films and some Alfred Hitchcock (mainly Psycho and Vertigo). I'm not the biggest horror fan but Frankenstein, The Bride of Frankenstein, Dracula, The Mummy, The Invisible Man, Wolf Man, and The Creature From The Black Lagoon are all great. I enjoy some of the cheesier Universal Studios horror films as well, they can be a lot of fun. But overall I love watching film, especially older films from the 50s and 60s (The Great Escape and The Magnificent Seven are probably my all time favorite movies). Despite chronic stomach problems and medications that decrease my appetetite, I love Dutch Bros and good BBQ food (or any good food in general). Dutch Bros is one of my biggest weaknesses, I travel over an hour at least once a month to get it. I'm a big BBQ fan, especially ribs 🤤 But overall I love food and trying out new fun spots to eat. I have a bit of a thing for roleplay/asmr audios on youtube, I find them so relaxing and comforting, even if the audio isn't intended for my gender 😤 I listen to a lot of BeforeKnightFalls, Redacted Audio, DadeAudio, Velvet Voice Audios, WhispurrAudio, Nomads Tales, YuuriVoice, Aussie Ben, and BearBoss Audios. At the end of the day, I'm just a boring (but occasionally chaotic) disabled 30 year old stoner. I can be deathly shy when meeting new people, but I would love to make friends with other theistic Satanists & polytheists, or anyone who is part of the Ghost fandom or enjoys anything I've listed above!

[timotey]

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Huang Junjie filming Mountain Deity/Mountain God. It does the soul a world of good seeing him laugh so freely!

[saharikya]

Sun And Moon Reflections

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[appalachiasferaldaughter]

Hail, Spirit of the Mountain, Hail, Landvættir!

Hail to you, Spirit of the Mountain lands, Although I am from Appalachia, you welcome me as your own kin and Daughter.

Hail to you, Landvættir: the Great Deer Herds, The Guardians of these mountains and woods, Keepers of the Ancient Wisdom and tales.

May I recognize your presence all times, May I always listen when you speak up, May you be blessed in all your endeavors.

Hail, Spirit of the Mountain, Hail, Landvættir!

[vileidol]

“and I still don’t know if maybe I did start to believe it. that grand mythology of me. eighth child of an eighth child, first daughter of our house, most favoured of Lolth and my mother’s daughter to the last.

all I know is that it was killing me.”

[leslie-redirects-here]

[angelicstarsight]

I started this blog not knowing quite what the gods had in store for me. Now, they’re pushing me to write about and show my craft to teach others.

Some examples of content would be:

Reviewing books related to a topic

How I form a relationship with a spirit

My deity work practices

How to discover your folk practice

How to form a relationship with the land