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[blacklodgemusictx]

Texas Show Three: Austin Night Two

I'm in my San Antonio hotel room, awaiting Show Four. I can see how a person might get used to this. New city, new hotel, comfy bed (fingers crossed), tiny writing desk/table/bureau for me to sit at and pour out my adventures from the night before.

But there is a not insubstantial quantity of animals at home who need me back, not to mention a boss who will notice if I'm not back and re-chained to my oar at the proper time.

So I will continue on with the time allotted to me.

Last night was the Cactus Cafe in Austin and this had me feeling a lot of feelings (in my feelings? as the kids say?) If all eventualities are still playing out every where at any given time, four-years-younger me was still wandering the halls, looking for the cafe.

I was still there taking pictures with Marty where I accidentally hit record and ended up getting a video of the table top and random audio of our weird conversation (90% of conversations with Marty are probably weird conversations and I am 100% here for that), me with my hotel room freshly cancelled out from under me still talks to Salim (he has kind eyes... He's tall. Like me. Most people aren't tall like me. Why is he talking to me?), talks to Danny (who will go home to England and yet - on the other side of a stack of calendar pages - will still become my Skype guitar mentor). Maybe in some reality we still have our Austin hotel room and all is well, maybe in some realties, we hit a deer on the way home (Hill Country Deer roulette is a thing, y'all, never doubt.)

The stage curtains are still red at the Cactus Cafe. The whole thing felt small. Like when you return to a childhood classroom after a growth of years and wonder at the doll-sized tables and chairs, hooks for coats and backpacks now at stooping level.

The audience was good. A very respectable number. Quiet and attentive. Joe and Salim are appreciably tighter as a duo than just a couple of days ago. The songs with Oliva (all songs should be with Olivia. That should be the rule. If you want your song to be exponentially more gorgeous, allow her to deftly draw her bow across it) have grown from one to two ("Friends for Life" and now "Miette.")

Curfew at 10 doesn't afford Marty the same relaxed approach as previously. He still banters... he just tries to do it quickly/more condensed. Still. A sight to behold. I mentioned to Danny ("Laish" from the last tour, 2018) that we didn't get back from Celina last weekend until after 2am. You know how Marty loves to talk. That man, he agrees, loves to talk. But I don't think any one of us who have met him would have it any other way.

If there were ever enough time, I would love to take Marty strolling in some cool, storied old cemetery. He has prefaced "Hopes and Fears" each night with mention of a love story occurring during the Industrial Revolution where people were being eaten by machines just miles from the picturesque English countryside.

I wonder what he would say at the Colorado mining town cemeteries we've been to in years gone by where my favorite thing to do was walk amongst the headstones and imagine the tragedies that went with each short span between dashes. Injury, illness, tragedy... anything has to be infinitely more interesting and therefore romantic than the angry, disposable society of today.

It was a good show. The best possible incubator for what is about to happen because I'm surely about to be standing in Philly tomorrow (philly... philly... philadelphia. TOMORROW. Wake up. Terrifying miracle of modern air travel *POOF* other side of the US) wondering where all that good will and attentiveness went.

Salim gives voice to exactly what I'm thinking (he gestures to me twice last night to come back over to where he is because I wander off when people want to talk to him. Still, watching him wave at me, I stifle the urge to turn around and look behind me. Surely, he's waving at someone else.)

The touring unit, Salim says (Joe, Salim, Marty and Olivia) are hitting their stride and perfecting their performance (story about Venice here, speaking in different accents, counting in different languages, story about the arrival of "I Don't Think So" in one day's work)... just to only have one night left and done. This is the kind of situation where you want this to be the beginning, the warm up, not the end.

The East dates will not be like any of this. I know that. And I worry. He doesn't need me to worry. He's an old pro at this, but I also remember very clearly standing in the West Salem gig in 2020 and just being so angry while forks clattered against plates and people just would not *shut up*. They talked over Rhett too which is bizarre to me as this is who most of them are paying specifically to see (I still have only the most basic concept of Rhett. I know he is kind and gives off similar good feelings as Salim... but I also know he's on TV. Like, a lot). These audiences will be looking for a tipple, looking for a gnosh and the music will be a backdrop that a lot of them will barely pay attention to.

I'm glad for the Texas gigs. I'm glad for the love that has been afforded everyone so far. So so much.

Salim mentioned liking the response gotten so far to "Protect Your Peace," a lovely song Salim has been weaving around a piece of audience participation that has - so far - gone beautifully. I feel like this song is probably not even going to be tried on the next leg of shows... just a feeling.

But an old, dear friend of mine I've never actually met in person bought EIGHT tickets for Philly so there is as much positive mojo as anyone could possibly want right out of the gate.

And Sarah and me and my husband will be there. Which means, no matter how hard he has to fight to win the room every night... the cheering section from home will still be there.

And doubtless, there will be someone there every night that was just like I was. Someone who didn't know that some guy they've never heard of from Texas is EXACTLY what they needed to include to make their listening, their *living* experience that much better.

And winning one person is WINNING.

Grand adventure awaits.

[donnaink]

Faces of Rap Mothers by Candy Strother DeVore Mitchell available in pre-release

Faces of Rap Mothers by Candy Strother DeVore Mitchell available in pre-release

Faces of Rap Mothers by Candy Strother DeVore Mitchell available in pre-release

“Faces of

Rap Mothers,” by Candy Strother DeVore Mitchell is a first of its kind collaborative compilation, published by Beat Deep Books.

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[deityspellofghostbible-blog]

Schizophrenia

I am the author and artist of all substance inherited, content beseeched and context consecrate of this form of media. 

Name: Mason Ryan Fitzpatrick.

Company: Occultum Nocturum.

[mydevotionstodea-blog]

What is a Sun Wheel & When is Mothers Night?

https://deanic.com/2017/11/13/what-is-a-sun-wheel-when-is-mothers-night/

Dear Friends and devotees of Dea,

I know that until 28 Samhain / November 27 we are still enjoying the sacred season of Autumn / Fall but the sacred season of Winter will arrive and we will be fully emerged in joyous festivities. So I am posting about the Deanic Sun Wheel early so that we may all be prepared to participate in our custom.

Madrina Sophia

This is an article about the background.

What is a Sun Wheel?

In pre-Christian Germany, the people used wreaths with lit candles during the cold, dark days of December as a sign of hope for the return of the sun and for longer days and warmth. In Scandinavia, during Winter, lighted candles were placed around a wheel and prayers were offered to the God of Light to turn “the wheel of the Earth” back toward the sun in order to lengthen the days and to restore warmth. (1) Others hung up cartwheels and decorated them with candles and evergreens and spun them around in order to invoke the return of the sun. Some Pagans did so in preparation for the ‘birth of the Sun-God’; others, for the Sun-Goddess, Sunna. (2) During the Middle Ages, Christians adopted this tradition in anticipation of the birth of the Son-God.

When is Mothers Night?

Modraniht is Old English for `Mothers-night`, an ancient Anglo-Saxon feast referred to by the Venerable Bede in De temporum ratione 13. He wrote that the still heathen Anglo-Saxons hold a sacrifice in the New Year in the modraniht id est matrum nocturum [“the Modraniht, that is, in the night of the mothers (=matrons?)” ]

This feast corresponds to other Germanic Yule-tide festivals. It was once speculated that this may have been a Celtic festival but this is largely refuted these days.

Three Matronae display their bounty, Gloucestershire, England.

Modraniht may be associated with the cult of the mothers or the matrons largely found amongst the West Germanic tribes and the disablot celebrated by the North Germanic tribes in Scandinavia. The Matrons or matronae are Mother-goddesses to whom votive stones and altars were set up between the 1st and 5th centuries CE. There are approximately 1100 inscriptions and half give Germanic matron names. The matron cult was also to found amongst the Celtic tribes. Almost exclusively these matrons were presented in groups of three. These females were worshipped as matrons or Mother-goddesses.

Their functions involved fertility, childbirth, the protection of the family and occasionally to act as war-goddesses. These correspond to the disir in the North Germanic areas. The disir were female fertility deities. The word stems from the Old Swedish dis. This is possibly related to the Old Saxon Idisi mentioned in the First Merseburg Charm. The disablot is recorded twice in two Icelandic sagas from the middle of the 13th century CE. In Viga-Glums saga 6 the disablot is celebrated at a Norwegian farm at the beginning of winter in mid-October. Egilssaga 44 also mentions a disablot at an autumnal festival in Norway. Snorri Sturluson writing in the Ynglinga saga 33 identifies a similar feast at Uppsala in Sweden. Literary sources indicate that the cult of the disir was more common in Sweden than in West Nordic regions.

First Merseburg Charm Once the Idisi set forth, to this place and that; Some fastened fetters; some hindered the horde, Some loosed the bonds from the brave Leap forth from the fetters! Escape from the foes! (3)

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“In the work called De Temporum Ratione, written by the Venerable Bede, we read that the Anglo-Saxons celebrated a festival which he called modranect or modraniht, which when translated into modern English means mothers night or night of the mothers. The celebration of mothers night was held during the season of Yule and approximately around the same time that the Heathen Anglo-Saxons celebrated their new year. And already we can see how sacred and important this particular time of the year was to the Heathens of ancient England. For within this short space of time we have three festivals or celebrations that fall very close to one another, those being Yule, the new year and of course mothers night. But who were the mothers that shared this sacred time of the year?. It is very likely that the Anglo-Saxon mothers are one and the same, or at least very similar, to the Germanic matronae (matrons, mothers), goddesses that we find venerated within the borders of the Roman Empire.

…the night of the mother’s celebration took place sometime close to the Heathen Anglo-Saxon new year, approximately the 25th December… ” (4)

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Helya’s Night – The night of the mother

This was the night that saw the children of each household committed into the protection of “Midder Mary”, or Mother Mary.

On first glance, although this looks like a purely Christian ritual, the veneration of the Virgin Mary was a later addition to a pagan tradition.

Helya’s night is undoubtedly the same as “Mother’s Night” – a night that, wrote the 8th century monk Bede, coincided with Christmas Eve.

In his account of the pagan calendar in 725 AD, the Venerable Bede wrote:

“And the very night that is sacrosanct to us, these people call modranect, that is, the mothers’ night, a name bestowed, I suspect, on account of the ceremonies which they performed while watching this night through.”

The “mother” connection and the “watching” ceremonies of Mother’s Night seem to indicate that Helya’s Night was the same event, although overlaid with a Christian veneer.

On Helya’s Night, just as the children had once been committed to the protection of a goddess, ancestor, or the female deities known as the Disir, the ceremony became Christianised and the “mother” was naturally equated with the Virgin Mary, Christ’s mother.

But what was the ceremony?

An account written in the 19th century recounts the experience of one woman who remembered her grandmother carrying out the ritual. She explained that, once the children were in bed, the old woman rose from her place by the peat fire and made her way over to the cradle where the youngest lay.

Raising her hands over the slumbering infant, she spoke aloud:

“Mary Midder had de haund Ower aboot for sleepin-baund Had da lass an’ had da wife, Had da bairn a’ its life. Mary Midder had de haund. Roond da infants o’ wur land.”

[Mary Mother had a hand, Over, about for sleeping bound Had the lass (young woman) and had the wife (mature woman) Had the baby and its life. Mary Mother had a hand, Round the infants of our land.]

This procedure was repeated over all the children, while the grandfather sat raking the peats in the hearth. The old man was also thought to have been reciting something but, unfortunately, his softly spoken words were inaudible.

As to the name, Helya strikes me as a corruption of the Old Norse heilagr, meaning holy – Holy Night being an obvious later name for Christmas Eve. (5)

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In Bulgaria

Virgin Mary bore Jesus Christ one day before the Christmas, but actually went into labor four days prior to his birth. This day is celebrated on the 20th of December and is known as St. Ignat’s Day or ‘Ignazhden’. Households light candles on this day and commemorate the strength of Virgin Mary and anticipate the ‘arrival’ of Jesus Christ. (6)

Bulgarians are primarily Eastern Orthodox, however, in Bulgarian folk belief, we see a similar honoring of Mary. Christmas Eve or Mother’s Night is one of their most sacred folk festivals.

After the days of the labor pains of the Mother of God comes the last evening, Christmas Eve. This last night of the labor pains of the Holy Mother of God is the day filled with the most excitement and rites, culminating in a ritual supper. They bake different types of bread, most significantly a large, round loaf upon which a cross, circle, x and other symbols are placed. These symbols represent the solar cross, an equal-armed cross, and the x represents the World Soul whom the ancients identified as the Goddess.

They must dress in clean, festive clothes and prepare a special sourdough bread, a bloodless offering, with sacred herbs and decorations. Only the women may take part in this ritual. The bread is connected with the Sacred Hearth and the Goddess as Keeper of the Hearth.

Ring shaped buns are given to carolers. The women cook food without any animal products. The men must prepare a special fire from certain woods and an end hole is made into which is placed frankincense, wine and oil. The rituals continue with other rites and a censing of the home. The first piece of bread is intended for the Mother of God and is placed upon Her home altar. Others pieces are for the house spirits. (7)

Notes (1) http://bustedhalo.com/questionbox/what-are-the-origins-of-the-advent-wreath-isnt-it-pagan (2) http://www.blogher.com/simple-seasonal-practice-christians-pagans-and-those-between (3) http://celto-germanic.blogspot.com/2008/12/modrnihtnight-of-mothers.html (4) http://beyondthemystery.forumotion.com/t834-mothers (5) http://www.orkneyjar.com/tradition/yule/yule3.htm (6) http://www.indobase.com/holidays/christmas/world/christmas-in-bulgaria.html (7) I do apologise, I have lost the link.

[magnanocturnum-blog]

The Basis of Magna Nocturnum: The Husk Theory

The basis derives from the mother religion, Hexisim. The original name is the Jar Theory. For Nyxisim we call it the Husk Theory, which goes as follows.

Every person starts off as a husk, and empty vessel. Before this body comes into existence bits a pieces are mashed together to make the soul inside the husk. Depending on your purpose determines your spiritual make up.

A Number: The Number is made up of recycled bits of other’s with that same number. A Number will die if it is not seen that they are on the path to achieve their goal. The remains are used to form the new Number with its new goal that is slightly based off the goals of the previous owner of that soul bit. A Number is determined by date of birth and can only go up to nine (loosely based off of numerology.)  

An NPC: The NPC is made up of scarp soul bits and is used by the numbers to help them with their goal. A number, if powerful enough, can put some of their essence in the NPC to “claim” them.  On face value it sounds like an NPC is a waste of space, worthless.  In actuality, the NPC is a very important being. They are given a special view on the world that most cannot grasp. They are aiding for a better, important goal. They have the opportunity to become privileged beings. Though the downfall of the NPC is their ability to be close minded, thus not being able to allow others in. The other downfall is that an NPC can be used by an opposing number to sabotage the rivaling numbers goal.

An Arch: (In Hexisim the Cralos). The Arch is an Arch Angel of sorts. Each number has their Arch(s) which protect them. They could be numbers in your Group or just bystanders in your everyday life. Sometimes they are higher entities on the spiritual plain and occasionally they manifest in other beings to help and guide a Number.

After all of this is put into play there are overall goals of a Number. The collection of the Numbers is called a Group and the Group revolves around the nine in that Group as the overall end goal of the collective numbers. The nine is also the leader of said Group. In nature and by law there is always an opposite as well as an equal. To the simplest of putting’s, there is good and evil. Now not all good agrees with good and same goes with evil. Thus Groups may find an opposing group a treat and try to alter the path of the Group. Opposite there are groups that have their own views but sees how another’s can work with them thus forming a larger group made up of two or more. This is called a Society.

In summary we are all husks with a soul inside and dependent on what makes up that soul we have a different role in life. Do to this there are groupings made up of certain husks known as Numbers. There are fights that can be had between Group as well as alliances. NPC’s are used to benefit the Group and become something more than just a binary NPC and an Arch protects and helps guide the individual Numbers on their path.

Stay posted for an essay that goes a little more in depth with diagrams as well as a video explanation, this video explanation will also be able for audio download.  

Again some of the terms have been changed but the majority of this derives from Magna Nocturnum’s mother religion Hexisim. Hexisim was not a religion I created and I have slowly been branching away on. The creator of Hexisim is still working on her page and once that is established I will link you to it!

[blacklodgemusictx]

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