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[alexsgrimoire]

Hyrule(an Magic) Historia: An Effort for Archival

Greetings. It's my first time posting on this blog, so it's nice to meet you all.

The purpose of this post is to detail my behind-the-scenes effort to archive as many of the lost Hyrulean Paganism/Magic blogs and posts as possible. For those unaware, in the mid-2010s, there was a "renaissance" of The Legend of Zelda Pop Culture Pagan posts and blogs. The pantheon/practice went by many names, such as Mudoran Magic, Hyrulean/Hylian Magic, Hyrulean Paganism, etc. As a result, efforts to find remaining content can be complicated, especially when perusing tags. Different phrases were used for various blogs and posts, sometimes leading to dead ends.

Thankfully, there are some leads. @lostwoodstarryskies made a list of blogs, both old and new, here. This is a good start and helps navigate search engines such as Google more efficiently. Additionally, this post by the now-defunct @/hylianshrinemaiden (more on her later) lists additional blogs.

Now, to Twili (hylianshrinemaiden). While we (the Magic Collective) weren't in the same Pop Culture Pagan circles at the same time, it's clear she was a pillar in the community. It's a shame that she and other active members deleted their blogs, as Tumblr's archival system is half-functional at best. There is some hope of recovering her blog, however. @hyrulian-legends reblogged this post from her, listing various spells and resources from her. While it's not entirely clear if this list is her complete work, it at least gives names to her work. Through this list, I've had some luck on Google, and a surviving reblog of her Minish Cap Glamour was found here. I'm not sure what else is available, as I became un-frontstuck when I was planning on searching further. (Such is the way of systems.)

I plan on delving further into what remains, and I'm very grateful to the remaining community members for their advice on where to look. Many thanks, in particular, to @knightofhylia, @knightofhylia-sageofthetriforce, @wind-sage-serin, and @lostwoodstarryskies. Additionally, those in the Community of Hyrulean Faiths Discord server provide resources.

There remain some posts in the Collective's communal Likes that we plan on sharing upon adding to our Grimoire document, so expect those somewhere down the line. In the meantime, I'll continue my search and bring updates whenever possible.

Sincerely,

Vaati the Wind Mage 🌪️

[knightofhylia-sageofthetriforce]

At the Roots of the Great Deku Tree

I have an injury that is going to require surgery. Sometimes I have to lie down to ease the pain. It was during one of those times yesterday evening that I was praying to Lady Hylia asking her to protect and provide for my family. I also asked if she would please provide me with some form of healing or relief that would help me to continue to do well during my long wait for surgery.

It was during that brief prayer session that I began to receive a vision. I vividly saw the branches of a tree spreading out. Then I saw his tree’s canopy spread out tall, its roots run deep. It was akin to what some would associate with Yggdrasil, but I was told “This is the function of the Great Deku Tree. He connects realms and os the source and guardian of sacred life energies”

I was instructed to imagine myself approaching him and sitting down among his roots. Breathe slow and deep. Allow the sacred life energies that flow from him and his land to fill my entire being. Slowly exhale, expelling stagnated breath and energies to be absorbed and recycled into new and fresh energies. Just spend time like this, communing with the great guardian spirit of nature.

Lady Hylia may be the primary goddess I worship, but it is still good and important to have good relationships with the spirits. Seeking balance is itself a virtue. Aligning with Lady Hylia and the Golden Goddesses is to align with the Sacred Realm and the Triforce and to honor them for their part in the creation of Hyrule and its protection. Spending time communing with the guardian spirits of the land is to align with the Earth which becomes our own Hyrule as we walk it. Heaven and Earth come together as one within our sacred beings.

The Triforce is Wisdom, Courage and Power. Another Triforce is Heaven, Earth, and all sentient life.

May the Goddess Smile Upon You

-Florian Knight

P.S. I wanted to apologize for being away so much. The injury I mentioned has been keeping me permanently exhausted between pain and just down difficult it can be to get around and perform basic tasks sometimes. I’m really hoping to be so much more active in the days coming up! Especially after my surgery :)

[lanternagainstthedark]

LanternAgainstTheDark's Trailmarkers

"Magic and belief, however, are like a dense forest. It is full of paths and trails and secrets. However many paths exist, however, there are 3 times that number unknown. Finding your path, treading your trail, marking your map, that is up to you. The only right answer comes from these three places in balance: Belief(from your heart), knowledge(from your mind), and respect(from your actions). Treat this sacred and magical place with respect, and you will find a place of acceptance, love, and great impact on yourself. Magic is a journey. Lace up your hiking boots," grab your lantern, "and get to walking."

I wrote this quote for the first time in a notebook. It was written after multiple false starts, and as a new introduction for a book I am still trying to write. It's a book I wish I had when I started my own path. It now exists on this tumblr, and in a google doc, and still within that notebook.

Let me be clear. My username does not in any way shape or form denote that I am against baneful magic. The "light" is representational of wisdom, knowledge, and learning. My "lantern against the dark" is my vow to learn in-spite of everything that prevents my own learning.

My hope is that my blog can be a bastion of knowledge for people who are lost like I was, in the darkness of unknowing, and being unknowable. My lantern is one of acceptance and will be here to mark the trail. I hope to help you find your lantern.

Shall we begin the journey?

Hiking Boots is a book I have the bare bones of. I have been writing it has a how-to guide for building or finding your path-because that is what belief needs. A path, one you follow or one you make. It is linked to #Hiking Boots(Magic).

Pop Culture Paganism- the bulk of my path is made along this. I will not be responding to any hate or rudeness in regards to this.

Mudoran Paganism/Hyrulean Paganism/loz paganism-Legend of Zelda based beliefs, practices, spells, and rituals. This is mostly focused on the Lady Farore, as she is who my practice is focused around. These are the major tags I use for those posts.

Emelan pagan- focuses on the practices and beliefs of the Winding Circle Temple in Tamora Pierce's books the Circle of Magic/Circle Opens/Circle Reforged. Most of the posts authored by me are for Lady Mila of the Grain. I reblog some posts from the past for others, but my focus is Lady Mila.

Minecraft Paganism- nothing posted, and I seem to be moving away, but anything that ends up here will be tagged this.

Star Wars paganism/Jedi Magic/The Force is Within Me- I have recently moved into star wars in my practice, so you can expect posts to be under these tags.

Popular Tags

epithets- I am very fond of sharing epithets- and in the PCP realm, creating them. Feel free to ask me to think of some for your deity, I would love too!

my personal practice- personal practice and UPG, as well as spell work, ritual work, sigils etc.

magic 101- anything that I think is useful for young witches and/or pagans to know!

[alexsgrimoire]

Plurality & Paganism: An Introspective

If any of you keep up with my main (@sinfulauthor), you may have noticed this post, along with my new pinned post. In short, I've come to the realization (after burying the thought of it for many years) that we are a Collective.

Now, how does this impact this blog and my craft?

To start off, this blog's content will remain the same. It will still primarily act as an e-grimoire with some additional posts, but the people posting what content will change. Specifically, these people:

-Alex (they/them), the host (hi!). I'll generally do most of the talking/posting. Works with The Signless/Sufferer and Dionysus. ANP that the IRL coven knows. (I'm not open with them about being a Collective just yet.)

-Vaati (he/him), who works with Demise and focuses on divination. Writes solely in cursive and gets VERY frustrated when grimoire notes are in standard print.

-Ghira (he/him), who works with Demise closer than Vaati for Obvious Reasons™️. (Though he generally doesn't do any actual spellwork, just offerings, worship, and altar setup.)

-Karkat (he/they) on occasion, solely because Signless HAS shown himself to him and is very much a Dad™️.

-Toko (she/her) has not yet "awakened." She was a former kin heavily associated with our craft. Taking bets on her being a spellcrafter/writer.

So, now that the roll call is done, onto some other stuff regarding plurality and paganism, the introspection the title mentions. (This will be below the cut as it's not as integral to the "functioning" of this blog.)

So, coming to the realization as a system was... interesting. We first became aware of dissociative disorders through Danganronpa (Yes, Toko's horrible representation. We know.) and related to Toko heavily. At the time, we were heavily involved in the Fictionkin community and had "memories" of those "timelines." However, this relatability on the DID aspect was soon hidden under the guise of "I like to write, and so does she! Also super traumatized like me lmao," and then we didn't think about it for five more years.

Come 2023, we've relapsed for the first time in four years and are going through some pretty traumatic stuff again. At an Esbat in September, an argument breaks out that causes us to dissociate and brings up those really painful feelings from childhood. Nothing felt real, and the rest of the night was foggy. (The people in the argument have since apologized. It was also an extremely stressful night due to our old High Priest being ousted for sexual misconduct not even 4 hours before we started.)

At this point, this whole debacle causes us to realize, "Hey, this isn't really a normal trauma response. There might be something else going on." We have a lot of friends who are systems, and we went to them asking, "Hey, do you like. think we're a system?" and FIVE OF THEM SNIFFED US OUT YEARS AGO AND DIDN'T BOTHER TO TELL US??? Like maybe that would have been useful information, idk (We still love our friends to bits, though)

So, fast forward to 2024. Still in the process of diagnosis but receiving trauma-focused therapy to process things. It's been a long process of figuring out how to live/function as someone with a dissociative disorder, but we're learning.

Thankfully, having a good support network has been a great help. We have an almanac (specifically The Practical Witch's 2024 Almanac by Friday Gladheart) to track our craft/spiritual work, and it's interesting to see the input of everyone in the collective. It's a lot of taking things day by day and seeing how things go, but we feel the energy around us changing.

Anyway, ramble over. If y'all read this to the end, thanks for sticking around. I've got some other posts we plan on making, so keep an eye out for those, too.

Signing off,

Alex of the Magic Collective

[alexsgrimoire]

Extremely bored as we wait for our appointment to get our ears repierced, we're gonna reblog some ask games! Feel free to send us other asks/q&a stuff, too!

-Alex

[alexsgrimoire]

Hiya! I saw you made a post back in February about trying to gather an archive together of Mudoran information and magic. Back in 2018, I left tumblr for a while, but I wanted to gather up some Mudoran posts I found useful onto a backup google document so I wouldn't lose it. It's extremely rudimentary––a bunch of stuff copy-and-pasted over into the doc with absolutely zero additional formatting, fan art is mixed in with some random recipes and now defunct masterposts of dead hyperlinks, etc etc––but I'd be happy to share a copy with you or anyone else trying to archive all this information. I'm not sure how much of it would be useful, but I figure it's at least worth glancing at in case it contains any of that lost information, right?

Gods, you have no idea how much we've been waiting for something like this! Please share it with us, whether in DMs or in a reblog! I'm keeping my fingers crossed that there will be some breakthroughs!

-Alex 🩵

[knightofhylia-sageofthetriforce]

Anchoring Force

Thumbnail from a video by Ganonfan on YouTube

Some time ago, I shared my personal force cultivation technique I call Embodying the Triforce. You can read it here:

Since that time I have learned more about energy work because I am slowly taking in resources on Tai Qi and Qi Gong. I have learned that energy, “force” in a Hylian context, naturally wants to rise upwards. This can become a problem if too much force accumulates in the head. This unbalanced state can lead to anxiety, anger, and general restlessness. I didn’t know this when I posted Embodying the Triforce, so I wanted to amend that here.

It is vitally important once we have awoken the Force Gates of Power, Courage, and Wisdom and formed internal Triforce that we then draw that accumulated force downwards. The Gate of Power is the place where the highest concentration of force should reside and the energy should flow lightly through the rest of the body like wind. This can be done by visualization in a relaxed position, but I find that physical movement also helps.

For the mental version, take a comfortable position and settle the mind. Visualize and feel the force as it flows through your body. Inhale deeply then exhale, drawing the energy down into the Gate of Power. Store the bulk of it here. Inhale, flowing the force under the sacrum and up the back until it reaches your head. Exhale, drawing the energy down again. Repeat this cycle as you inhale and exhale. This practice is known as the Microcosmic Orbit in Taoist Qi Gong. In a Hyrulean context, I’m considering calling it the Dragon Path since in Tears of the Kingdom the dragons fly in a cyclical path between Hyrule and The Depths.

For the physical movement method, settle into a comfortable position either sitting or standing and settle the mind. As you inhale, slowly raise your arms until they reach above your head and the peak of your breath. Bring your hands together into the Triforce position Rauru uses in TotK and slowly draw it down along the center of your body as you exhale, settling the force into the Gate of Power. As you inhale again while raising your arms, bring the force up your back until it reaches your head. Exhale and draw the hands down. Repeat as many times as feels comfortable.

I hope this helps keep you grounded if you follow my energy practices.

May the Goddess Smile Upon You

-Florian Knight

[knightofhylia-sageofthetriforce]

Prayer and meditation are powerful tools. I have shared a few prayers here and I will certainly share more. However, often times in the moment we may not be able to meditate or focus on a prayer. This is when a mantra can help. They are also great for chanting during devotion.

Today while talking with @knightofhylia about prayers and mantras, I came to the mantra that follows:

“I bathe in the Light of Goddess Hylia.”

I hope that this mantra may help you in the future.

May the Goddess Smile Upon You

[knightofhylia-sageofthetriforce]

Prayer of a Sacred Knight of Hylia

This brief prayer can be tailored to any of the Goddesses of Hyrule, but was written as an expression of my faith in Lady Hylia.

Smile upon me, Lady Hylia.

Raise me up to stand one foot in the Sacred Realm and one foot on the land of Hyrule.

So may it be.