#not a holy/spiritual thing

[empyreau]

Miquella felt his body grow cool, numb, unfeeling to the very air around it. It built up like an invisible weight and worked to smother him ever so slowly. No matter how just or pure one's intentions, the road to godhood demanded the very basest of its prospects—their body's flesh and blood. And there could be no new god without a consort. With his own blood, Mohg's body, and Radahn's soul the ritual had been completed and his godhood attained. From a body covered with and defiled by his blood to one awash in golden luminance Miquella was renewed. The stain remained, however, entangled with the very threads of his divinity.

He breathed the heavy air in and out, sinking ever deeper within it. With Mohg's body regenerated would it now be required of him to give of his blood and flesh for eternity? The throes of burgeoning godhood forever the mark upon his new age.

"The ritual I had performed on thee is most unforgivable and so I will not ask thy forgiveness." He could feel the contained heat from that eye sear into his own and still he continued to hold it. What, truly, was a god: a being to make others fall prostrate before it, or a being at the mercy of those who venerated it? To be reviled was simply the other half to being revered.

"Thy Mother of Truth demands, and thou craves," he said softly, like trying to push back a boulder with a feather. "Yet, somehow I feel that it is the reverse." He started to reach out a hand for he saw a spattering of blood upon one of Mohg's many horns but he paused as he watched it spread. A vision only. "This love . . . in what form does thou desire it be given . . ."

"... And mine it shall be," Mohg finished. And at last he looked upon the empyrean-turned-god, his eye narrowed with a fury held in restraint. For though a god Miquella had become, he was a hypocrite in Mohg's eye. For what compassion had he been spared?

Miquella had given no regard to Mohg's soul... It had taken time for him to manifest in this new body of his, granted to him by the Mother of Truth. Whether Miquella would have returned to him, he knew not. But where things stood, as it were, in Mohg's mind, he was nothing more than a tool that had seen its use, and been discarded.

"You have brought me great pain and humiliation in your quest, kindly Miquella," said Mohg.

"The Mother of Truth craves wounds. And there is none greater than that of abandonment... It has taken a great deal of time for this body of mine to regenerate, and a longer time yet before I have fully recovered. But I do not seek healing from you. No... You may rule the lands above while I make the lands below my domain. But I demand recompense, for I have been burned most terribly by your flame of ambition... As recompense, I would demand the love that you abandoned."

It was a bold move on his part. For who was he to make demands of a god?

[godslove]

[lionheartapothecaryx]

The Vodou Files

Diddy & his entitlement an blatant disrespect of Lwa Ezili Dantor/Black Madonna

For all intent and purposes, the following information is alleged and for entertainment only.

In year of 2024, it’s no secret that Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs is a polarizing figure. After his recent arrest and federal indictment this September on charges of s*x trafficking and more, and with multiple lawsuits alleging a multitude of abuses against men and women, this cannot be denied.

Let’s get into the possible spiritual implications of his recent arrest. In 2017 Diddy tattooed the Black Madonna aka Ezili Dantor on his back, for protection. The Black Madonna syncretism is often been used in Vodou to represent the Lwa Dantor.

Here’s a rending of the photo of Ezili that he seems to have taken inspiration from for his tattoo.

Ezili Dantor is the patroness and holy mother of Haiti. She is known as a protector of women and children, and was one of the petro or war spirits who were instrumental in the Haitian Revolution of 1804, allowing the Haitians to lead the first successful slave uprising. She assisted with giving them the strength in battle to defeat their colonizers and inspired others to resistance in the Diaspora. France went bankrupt during the Haitian revolution and had to sell off their land to pay off the massive debt this caused, spurring the Louisiana purchase and leading to creation of America as we know it, today. These acres of land make up the states of Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado, North & South Dakota, Minnesota, Wyoming and Montana. There would be no American Independence, if it hadn’t been for the Haiti.

While Ezili does not own my head, I know her children. They are usually women who are family matriarchs and mothers, who are incredibly kind, patient and strong and actively involved in their communities. They tend to be well respected within their communities and usually involved in community activism to varying degrees. They generally have a pleasant disposition but can be dangerous fighters when challenged spiritually and physically. They make great leaders and can be very wise. It is common for children of certain Lwa to take on similar traits of said Lwa & I believe this aspect can especially be seen in her children, who she claims. While I do not have her in my court, I do carry her sister aspect the darker, merciless and vengeful Le Rouge.

The Ezili are a powerful class of spirits within the Vodou pantheon. Ezili Dantor is an example of a very powerful spirit who can shift fate and reality. She is the peaceful mother but can exhibit extremely controlled violence when necessary, a triumphant warrior queen personified. She does not take disrespect or injustice lightly.

Diddy invoking her essence and protection, with this tattoo while assaulting and harming people continuously would draw her ire, wrath and ultimate disrespect. Some think someone recommended he do this to hasten his downfall or he did this out of pure stupidity.

Others of the Catholic faith, see it as the Holy Mother, the Blessed Black Madonna looking out for her children and protecting them.

Either way it’s clear the drums of justice have begun to beat for Diddy and it’s time for him to account for what he has done.

[solradguy]

I'm so grateful that the only GG fans that care about the light novels are the ones that can be normal about things because Lightning the Argent goes from the rawest scenes of carnage imaginable to Ky Kiske doing something mildly religious like offering a short, silent, prayer for someone that got mangled to death by WMD dragons, and I just know that, in the wrong hands, those brief religious moments would generate the most annoying goddamn memes you could ever imagine

[twinknote]

everyone’s asleep it’s time to post about how excited and proud i am for having really screamed for the first time today after genuinely trying to learn for less than a week!!!!! i think that is so cool and obv it is just a baby scream with a long way to go but i was getting frustrated about not being able to do it and then today in the car i was like Oh! Hello!

[succubusdivinity]

[heartoflesh]

He doesn't care.

He doesn't care that my heart could break without him. He says he wants me to be happy. That he cares about me and wants me to be happy. Doesn't he know that he is what I want. He can make me happy. It can be so simple. He says he wants what's best for me. But if he truly felt that, if he wasn't lying, he wouldn't brush it off. He wouldn't make it sound like I could be with someone else. That I could be without him. That I would even want to. Or that I could be happy alone when I've already had a taste of him and everything he had so lovingly and eagerly given to me before the world split in two and separated us a further distance than just Ontario and Florida. There are days that I'm so angry. But I try not to be. There are days where I am so sad. But I try not to be. I am always grieving. I want so much to be the happy person that I was before. I didn't ask for any of this. I didn't want any of this. I avoided everything having to do with it. I was so careful. But I was given it. I was given it and in the beginning, it was so good. And then it was taken back. Ripped away from me. Life, joking with me. And now I'm just supposed to be happy. But I find myself crying at 1:41 PM, in my mother's office at work. To myself. Hysterically. Silently. By myself. Just the way he made me feel. And it feels like God isn't listening to my prayers. As much as I cry out to Him for help. To ease this pain. To make me forget. To pull me out of this mud and mire that I didn't ask for. But nothing is happening. It feels like nothing is happening and it was so fine before. I was so fine. And now I am broken, wondering when I will finally heal and forget about all this. When will I have traversed enough time to put enough distance between me and these emotions that tear through my muscle and bone. I have never known so much anguish. I have never known this much grief.

Yet I feel so much urgency. Like if I continue to feel this, if I continue to stay in these feelings, I'm elongating this process God has me going through. I'm postponing the blessings. But I don't know how to heal any faster. I don't know how to be ok.

— Excerpt from a book I'll never write, William

[oohbuggypie]

holy hell i need to make something that involves Great Tiger Dancer AU so bad . Tiger making a face mid dance similar to that of the woman in the Ecstasy of Saint Teresa statue . Tiger putting on a performance so good it literally makes him feel not real and like hes having a spiritual experience UGHHH

[cathymee]

OKAY why is ang huling el bimbo THE song. like it's THE song. of all time.

[brown-little-robin]

oh great. I'm being sanctified again.

[pissmoon]

Some of these corny posts that whine about atheists here are something else 'its so dumb of atheists to say institutionalized religion sucks'. Do you live under a rock? What do you expect atheists to say about institutionalized religion? That its good or above criticism? They are atheists. Like realistically speaking what could their stance possibly be?

[theawkwardvirgin]

Yesterday, we dropped two of my siblings off at a weekend retreat. Today, we have 3+ inches of water in the basement.

[incomingalbatross]

I guess he did have a knowledge given he spent 30 years in Ireland and his wife fully converted to Catholicism a few years after Dracula. But not intimate knowledge.

Those do definitely seem like indicators he would have been exposed to knowledge of the Eucharist. (I didn't know that about his wife!) But just going by the text of Dracula, either Bram Stoker did not have any real understanding of the Catholic doctrine of the True Presence, or he was willfully ignoring it. I tend to assume the first—it's something that it's very easy to pick up a watered-down version of, if (as you say) you have no intimate knowledge of the subject.

[gxlden-angels]

I know we all hate bitch ass Calvin and his pre-determination, but I just learned the term Arminian and think we should show homeboys Jacobus Arminius and John Wesley some hate too <3

[grison-in-space]

Also if you think the angel Aziraphale has ever heard the song "Take Me to Church" without being consumed by enormous, contradictory, and incompatible feelings you have another think coming let me tell you that. Not sure he can figure out what they are, mind, but there are definitely little gears turning away in there.

[transingthoseformers]

Who else loves it when a fic displays a culture shock between Cybertronians and humans (or, hell, between autobots and Decepticons) and the historical precedent is explained?