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Hogswatch self-care idea inspired by Hogfatherāand it is that time of yearā Follow Mustrum Ridcullyās example and take a long hot shower, real indulgent, while singing your favorite pagan ish holiday carols. Just donāt use a bath by B. S. Johnsonā¦.
#self care#discworld#hogfather#pagan ish#sir terry pratchett#terry pratchett#my posts#my writings#christmas#yule
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Greta Gerwig's Barbie movie makes use of the Triple Goddess archetype, and though I can't prove Gerwig did it on purpose, it does make for some interesting reading. The Oscars are right around the corner, now might be a good time to read it.
#barbie#the barbie movie#greta gerwig#the oscars#a very good looking writer i must add#analysis#feminism#pagan ish#margot robbie
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i'm gonna make my painful contribution to The Discourse and say i do not see the harm in women reclaiming female centric spirituality.
i am not a religious person nor do i want to become one but spirituality is also about culture, community and celebration. i would much rather women celebrate nature, the female form, and "divine femininity" than patriarchal phallocentric religions. that "divine femininity" is used pejoratively has always tickled me considering we live in a world hooked on divine masculinity. the old matricentric religions are really the only form of female culture devoid of male-centric worship we can grasp at, since men have dominated our belief systems for thousands of years. and women learning about the old religions is the best way to unravel the myth of the male creator, and realise it is really women who are the closest thing to a "god" on Earth.
there's also an element here, which i think is deeply capitalist, patriarchal, and a little racist, of people considering the connection to & celebration of nature as somehow primitive. i think that the lifestyles most of us live now, with none of us knowing anything about the land around us is actually very infantile and regressive for humanity as a whole. the ways of life we consider "primitive" (primitive communism, matrilineal societies) are really what we need to find ways to return to post-capitalism. they were in tune to nature, sustainable, and much more communal & equal. how can nature be primitive or ascientific when science *is* in nature, and the practices of these old societies were early scientific discoveries & practices. as a Black person, my community is often trying to reclaim our lost practices. it makes sense to me that women would try to do so too.
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A shitty meme me and my brother talked into existence
#percy jackson#kane chronicles#magnus chase#i have since seen that all religions (pagan and abrahamic) are right-ish in the riordanverse?#i thought it was just the grecoromans; norse; and egyptian ones#i need to catch up on it
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Christian iconography? in my Merlin??
#it's more likely than you think#ok has anyone written meta about religion in merlin or#i don't mean based on historical facts#i mean literally based on merlin canon#because i'm fascinated#they didn't dwell too much on it (for understandable reasons)#but that scene where merlin talks to his mother and says āTHE GODS will protect meā?#implying they're both polytheists#whereas arthur and gaius say things like āthank godā#i'm reading too much into things again probably#i just want to know if the writers gave it some thought even if it wasn't included in the show#i don't know shit about the introduction of christianity to britain but like#isn't it roughly around this time that it was gaining predominance over paganism (5th-ish century??)#so it's possible yeah? idk idk#i just wanna know if the writers thought about any of this#or if merlin mentioning āthe godsā was just a random line#merlin#bbc merlin#ramblings#merlin meta#eta: pls read added meta in the reblogs! (not mine)
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I wish I was in the underworld, in Erebus In that calm darkness with no responsibilities or stress. Quiet, no overstimulation, no need to eat or drink for survival, no need to follow societal rules that make no sense. Just a shade, milling about. Watching the gods go about their days, napping in the poppies outside of Hypnosā cave.
Iām having the worst years on my life in the transition from child to adult, all because Iām stuck in a world thatās not built for the neurodivergent, traumatised, fatigued people that inhabit it. No fiends, no job, no aspirations, no direction. I need money for top surgery but no fucker will hire me because Iām very clearly autistic and I canāt hide it. But Iām not considered autistic āenoughā for support. I can walk, I can take short trips out and about so Iām not considered disabled āenoughā for support, but when I come close to fainting and have days I canāt leave my room Iām just seen as ābeing dramatic and lazyā
If I was a shade, lying in the poppies with Hypnos in that calm darkness of Erebus, Iād be so much happier. But I know I canāt do that, I have to die to reach the underworld. And Iām too young, I canāt die yet. I need to live a full life, the gods WANT me to live a full life. But itās so hard, itās so endlessly hard to live a full life when you simply arenāt made for the world youāve been placed in.
Iām tired, Iām so so tired. The only escape is the comfort of Hypnosā domain. The vanisher of woes, they call him that for a reason. Sleep is the only time Iām not stressed out of my mind just trying to live.
I want to be a shade in the darkness of the underworld under the watch of Hypnos. But I canāt go there yet, itās not my time. Thanatos wonāt take me yet.
Hypnos give me fucking strength.
#vent? ish?#hypnos deity#hypnos god#hypnos devotee#hellenic deities#hellenic pagan#hellenic polytheism#hellenic worship#hellenism#greek mythology#cthonic gods#Hellenic underworld#greek underworld
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#alternate herstory where we rose up during the burning times and worshiped our fallen ancestors for dying to inspire our anger (takes via @subaruseventhsister)
alternate history where instead of a cross, the Christian symbol is some other form of execution, or even all of them
tried to stylize and reduce each as much as possible, but itās genuinely difficult to do that with the stake
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Do you ever feel like your soul is divine, but not in a god way?
Like, you are powerful and all that, but you best think of it as being a herald or something akin to an angel? Just something lower than a god but cthronic? As a Hellenic pagan, its heavily disrespectful to claim to be a god, and I am heavily not so. By no means am I identifying as a god or something anywhere close to their power and divine holiness.
But I feel like some part of me is divinely cthonic in nature, immortal to some degree. Am I just delusional or something? Does anyone else feel this way? Or do I just need to touch grass and get help?
#divinekin#angelkin#ish?#I havenāt read anything about Hellenic versions of angels that arenāt deities.#but the underworld feels like it should be home#it just feels right to serve the cthonic divine in an immortal but powerful servant way.#hellenic community#hellenic pagan#pagan witch
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Iāve been very sick and tired for the past week and before that I was so busy that I hadnāt had time or energy to even pray, but I finally did and I see a spark in myself that wasnāt there before when I opened my eyes. thank you, Lady Aphrodite š
#pagan#hellenism#hellenic polytheism#hellenic pagan#religion#paganism#aphrodite devotion#aphrodite#aphrodite deity#aphrodite worship#pagan witch#prayer#deity devotion#deity work#aphrodite devotee#deity worship#hellenic deities#hellenistic#hellenic worship#hellenic polythiest#hellenic devotion#hellenic gods#hellenic community#personal#ish
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So Iāve been thinking.
The Celts may have had some sort of cultural impact on the Norse during their interactions with each other and there are similarities between the fae and the vaettr. So if we consider that vaettr are, essentially, the same as the fae and Loki was originally a vaettr before he achieved Godhood statusā¦ā¦..
I feel like that could explain a lot.
#random thought#just an idea#hear me out#upg-ish#loki#norse god loki#lokean#loki deity#god loki#heathenry#norse pantheon#norse loki#norse gods#norse paganism#paganism#pagans#norse pagans#pagans of tumblr#celtic mythology#druidry#vaettr#the fae#history#global history#im just saying
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I may be pagan, but sometimes the only way to get my emotions across is with a good ol' "my brother in christ" or a "in the year of our lord 20--?"
Those phrases are just peak language, idk
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Because this generation is serving as the midwife for the rebirth of the Shechinah, we will have to be familiar with the ancient knowledge and traditional prayers which invoke her, at the same time that we are creating new forms. In this ancient/future subculture we will need poets and prophets, rebels and rabbis, musicians and mothers.
What is clear is that we have the beginnings of a movement without a hierarchy, a central leader, or a single organization.
This Goddess who shines on us as we study sacred texts is found in redwood groves and apple orchards. She is coming to us in the wind and the water, in the ocean and the mountains. Like the underground Goddess herself, this movement comes from the subterranean parts of the human psyche. It emerges from a place of discovery and awe, from a place of wonder and worship.
Rabbi LĆ©ah Novik, collected from The Goddess Re-Awakening collection by Shirley Nicholson
Note that "Shechinah" means, literally, "the presence of God" and it is a multifaceted concept in the Talmud, in Midrash, and in the Mishnah. Rabbi Novik's points are, I think, applicable to a lot of Goddess-oriented activities, but the words "Shechinah" and "Goddess" are not interchangeable.
#soulstead-sanctuary#gatekeeper-of-witchcraft#jewitch#goddess#the great goddess#witchblr#pagan ish#women's voices#quotes#shechinah#food for thought#women's liberation
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Joseph, John, Pagan, do yall like legend of zelda (specifically botw) cause like Link, yall are consistently serving cunt and it is fantabulous
"... Serving what."
"Well... I've only heard of it, never actually played these games. But of course I'm serving cunt, I'm the horniest man alive~"
"I can't say that I have. I don't like doing games when I'm trying to run an Empire after all!.. Thank you for the compliment darling, as always."
#copy that taccom { ask }#internalchickens#muse: joseph seed#muse: john seed#muse: pagan min#nsfw-ish#spicy
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i have a rlly unique name for my frankly boring real name, but honestly itās SO unique that i donāt even use my name online. but anyway a good equivalent to my name/nickname is my real name being (the equivalent to) Marcus and a nickname of Mars or something like that? if that makes sense. idk if thatās the best equivalent tho.
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#god i rlly want to over share online#but iāve had business teachers whoāve admitted to hiring descrimibation because they looked someone up and they had pagan-ish hobbyās#and now iām paranoid that iāll be denied a job for like. idfk spirking?#so i just donāt use my name online#and honestly sometimes do a bit of misdirection on any of my personal info#but i have a REALLY cool name story of like how i got my nickname#mutuals yall can DM me if yall wanna know the story#but yeah
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Itās been a few years since Iāve changed how I do my practice and worship and I have come across a heavy feeling of envy when I see others
Some seem so fantastical and wonderful and touch and yet sometimes when comparing I feel so mundane
I want and crave so much go do what others even though I know I cannot
I donāt have the energy to set up elaborate spells and rituals. It takes so many spoons just to do a simple one without feeling super tired after and taking the rest of the day or night easy
I may have the money now but so many materials commonly used in stuff is expensive. Candles are lovely but get expensive over time, and they take up room for things Iām not guaranteed to use. A lotta different herbs n flowers arenāt easily available where I leave in variety other than basic cooking stuff that I wouldnāt have to order online
I live in what is basicallr a sburb like area. Thereās not many easy stuff in nature to get, and frankly Iām not educated on identifying wild plants
Hell, I hardly have room for any more materials other than my altars I have set up
I try to channel things into a way that is realistic for me and more involved in interests I know I engage it. I still regularly talk to my deities and spirits Iām involved with and such, maintain altars, give offerings when I can
I know everyoneās practice is different but sometimes I feel so much lesser compared to others or like Iām not doing enough.
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like temperance brennan has to have a big explanaion on why she's an athiest and has to field questions and considerations and comments about "getting right with the man upstairs" FROM HER LOVE INTEREST. no wonder i was so fucking annoying about being an athiest in my teen years
#these days im more pagan-ish than anything else but gods have mercy this shit makes me want to go back to my old way of thinking#and be So Fucking Annoying about it
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