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Holidays 7.29
Holidays
Air Force Service Day (Indonesia)
Armed Forces Day (Peru)
Americans For Prosperity National Day of Action
Army Chaplin Corps Day
Bonalu (Telangana, India)
Buckinghamshire Day (UK)
Chincoteague Pony Round Up (Chincoteague & Assateague Islands, Virginia)
Constitution Day (Moldova)
Don’t Be A Dick Day
Emancipation Day (Bermuda)
Eunomia Asteroid Day
Festival of the Polymorphously Perverse
Fiery Night Festival (Elder Scrolls)
Four Tops Day (Michigan)
International Butler Day
International Tiger Day (UN)
Life Stories Day (UK)
Manchester Day (UK)
Mary Prince Day (Bermuda; 2nd Day of Cup Match)
Mohun Bagan Day (India)
NASA Day
National Anthem Day (Romania)
National Challenged Champions and Heroes Awareness Day
National Harold Day
National Lipstick Day
National Thai Language Day
Odesza Day (Washington)
Ólavsøkudagur (a.k.a. Ólavsøka; Faroe Islands)
Oslok (a.k.a. St. Olaf's Day; Norway)
Pardon of the Birds Day (Quimperle, Brittany, France)
Photograph Your Children When They’re Not Looking Day
Prescribed Harm Awareness Day
Rain Day (Waynesburg, Pennsylvania)
Special Operations Forces Day (Ukraine)
SSGN 729 Day
Switchgrass Day (French Republic)
World Oral Rehydration Salts Day
Food & Drink Celebrations
Cheese Sacrifice Purchase Day
Chicken Wings Day (Buffalo, NY)
Gnocchi Day (Argentina)
National Chicken Wing Day
National Lasagna Day
Independence & Related Days
Peru (from Spain, 1821) [observed]
Territory Day (Wallis and Fortuna)
Wendatia (Declared; 2020) [unrecognized]
New Year’s Days
Egyptian New Year Feast Day of Wedjet of Buto (Fire-Spitting Cobra Goddess; Ancient Egypt)
5th & Last Monday in July
Carnival Monday (Bonaire, St. Eustatius and Saba) [Last Monday]
Festivals Beginning July 29, 2024
Douglas County Fair (Lawrence, Kansas) [thru 8.3]
Festival of Santa Marta de Ribarteme (Neves, Spain)
Flamingo Republic (Novalja, Croatia) [thru 8.1]
Feast Days
Birthday of Set (Ancient Egypt)
The Bookworms (Muppetism)
Brigham Young Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Cnoc Aine (Celtic Book of Days)
Dave Stevens Day (Artology; Humanism)
Eastman Johnson (Artology)
Feast of Cherries (Medieval Hamburg, Germany)
Feast of Martha the Dragon-Slayer
Felix II (Christian; Saint)
Francesco Mochi (Artology)
Jenny Holzer (Artology)
International Beer Day (Pastafarian) [also 8.7]
Ivan Aivazovsky (Artology)
Lazarus of Bethany (Christian; Saint)
Lupus of Troyes (Christian; Saint)
Martha of Bethany (Catholic, Anglican, and Lutheran Church) [Innkeepers]
Mary of Bethany (Christian; Saint)
Olaus, King of Sweden (Christian; Saint)
Olaf II, King of Norway (Christian; Martyr)
Olsok (a.k.a. ...
St. Olaf’s Day (Norway)
The Day of the Wheat (Everyone Dresses as Sandwiches; Golden Girls)
Everybody Hide the Corn Day
Hay Day
Day of the Princess Pig
Raphael (Positivist; Saint)
Simplicius, Faustinus and Beatrix (Christian; Sibling Martyrs)
Stanley Kunitz (Writerism)
Stikklestad (Honoring Asatru Martyrs)
Susanoo’s Day (Pagan)
Tarasque (Fire-Breathing Dragon Festival; Ancient Tarascon, France)
Thor’s Day (Norse)
William of Brittany (Christian; Saint)
William Pinchon (Christian; Saint)
Ximena Armas (Artology)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Taian (大安 Japan) [Lucky all day.]
Premieres
The Adventures of Tom Bombadil, by J.R.R. Tolkien (Poetry; 1962)
Another Country, by James Baldwin (Novel; 1962)
Aristocrats (Documentary Film; 2005)
Attack the Block (Film; 2011)
(The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes, by Elvis Costello (Song; 1977)
Bad Moms (Film; 2016)
Barcelona (Film; 1994)
Bosko’s Mechanical Man (WB LT Cartoon; 1933)
Cocktail (Film; 1988)
Compressed Hare (WB MM Cartoon; 1961)
Cowboys & Aliens (Film; 2011)
DC League of Super-Pets (Animated Film; 2022)
Eliza Runs Again (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1938)
Enter Sandman, by Metallica (Song; 1991)
The Fellowship of the Ring, by J.R.R. Tolkien (Novel; 1954) [Book 1 of The Lord of the Rings trilogy]
The Fox Hunt (Disney Cartoon; 1938)
Help! (Film; 1965)
Jason Bourne (Film; 2016)
Kiki’s Delivery Service (Studio Ghibli Animated Film; 1989)
Krull (Film; 1983)
Little Red Riding Hood (Ub Iwerks Disney Cartoon; 1922) [1st Disney Short]
Lt. Robinson Crusoe USN (Film; 1966)
The Mask (Film; 1994)
Must Love Dogs (Film; 2005)
National Lampoon’s Vacation (Film; 1983)
The Negotiator (Film; 1998)
Old King Cole (Silly Symphony Disney Cartoon; 1933)
Private School (Film; 1983)
Renaissance, by Beyoncé (Album; 2022)
The Shindig (Disney Cartoon; 1930)
The Smurfs (Animated Film; 2011)
Snowman’s Land (WB MM Cartoon; 1939)
Stardust (Film; 2007)
The Trumpet Artistry of Chet Baker, by Chet Baker (Album; 1954)
Whenever I Call You Friend, by Kenny Loggins and Stevie Nicks (Song; 1978)
Women, by Charles Bukowski (Novel; 1978)
You Try Somebody Else (Betty Boop Cartoon; 1932)
Today’s Name Days
Landislaus, Martha, Lucilla, Olaf (Austria)
Kalin (Bulgaria)
Flora, Lazar, Marta, Urban, Vilim (Croatia)
Marta (Czech Republic)
Oluf (Denmark)
Olaf, Olav, Olavi, Olev (Estonia)
Olavi, Olli, Oula, Uolevi, Uoti (Finland)
Beatrix, Loup, Marthe (France)
Olaf (Germany)
Kallinikos (Greece)
Flóra, Márta (Hungary)
Marta (Italy)
Dzilis, Edmunds, Edzus, Vidmants (Latvia)
Beatričė, Mantvydas, Mantvydė, Morta (Lithuania)
Ola, Olav, Ole (Norway)
Beatrice, Beatrycze, Beatryks, Cierpisław, Faustyn, Konstantyn, Lucylla, Maria, Marta, Olaf, Serafina, Urban (Poland)
Alevtina, Valentina (Russia)
Marta (Slovakia)
Beatriz, Marta (Spain)
Olof (Sweden)
Seraphim, Seraphina (Ukraine)
Bea, Beatrice, Beatriz, Beattie, Marta, Martha, Olaf, Olav, Serafina, Trixie (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 211 of 2024; 155 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 1 of Week 31 of 2024
Celtic Tree Calendar: Tinne (Holly) [Day 24 of 28]
Chinese: Month 6 (Xin-Wei), Day 24 (Jia-Wu)
Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]
Hebrew: 23 Tammuz 5784
Islamic: 22 Muharram 1446
J Cal: 1 Purple; Oneday [1 of 30]
Julian: 16 July 2024
Moon: 34%: Waning Crescent
Positivist: 14 Dante (8th Month) [Raphael]
Runic Half Month: Thorn (Defense) [Day 6 of 15]
Season: Summer (Day 40 of 94)
Week: Last Week of July
Zodiac: Leo (Day 8 of 31)
Calendar Changes
Purple (Month 8 of 12; J Calendar)
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Holidays 7.29
Holidays
Air Force Service Day (Indonesia)
Armed Forces Day (Peru)
Americans For Prosperity National Day of Action
Army Chaplin Corps Day
Bonalu (Telangana, India)
Buckinghamshire Day (UK)
Chincoteague Pony Round Up (Chincoteague & Assateague Islands, Virginia)
Constitution Day (Moldova)
Don’t Be A Dick Day
Emancipation Day (Bermuda)
Eunomia Asteroid Day
Festival of the Polymorphously Perverse
Fiery Night Festival (Elder Scrolls)
Four Tops Day (Michigan)
International Butler Day
International Tiger Day (UN)
Life Stories Day (UK)
Manchester Day (UK)
Mary Prince Day (Bermuda; 2nd Day of Cup Match)
Mohun Bagan Day (India)
NASA Day
National Anthem Day (Romania)
National Challenged Champions and Heroes Awareness Day
National Harold Day
National Lipstick Day
National Thai Language Day
Odesza Day (Washington)
Ólavsøkudagur (a.k.a. Ólavsøka; Faroe Islands)
Oslok (a.k.a. St. Olaf's Day; Norway)
Pardon of the Birds Day (Quimperle, Brittany, France)
Photograph Your Children When They’re Not Looking Day
Prescribed Harm Awareness Day
Rain Day (Waynesburg, Pennsylvania)
Special Operations Forces Day (Ukraine)
SSGN 729 Day
Switchgrass Day (French Republic)
World Oral Rehydration Salts Day
Food & Drink Celebrations
Cheese Sacrifice Purchase Day
Chicken Wings Day (Buffalo, NY)
Gnocchi Day (Argentina)
National Chicken Wing Day
National Lasagna Day
Independence & Related Days
Peru (from Spain, 1821) [observed]
Territory Day (Wallis and Fortuna)
Wendatia (Declared; 2020) [unrecognized]
New Year’s Days
Egyptian New Year Feast Day of Wedjet of Buto (Fire-Spitting Cobra Goddess; Ancient Egypt)
5th & Last Monday in July
Carnival Monday (Bonaire, St. Eustatius and Saba) [Last Monday]
Festivals Beginning July 29, 2024
Douglas County Fair (Lawrence, Kansas) [thru 8.3]
Festival of Santa Marta de Ribarteme (Neves, Spain)
Flamingo Republic (Novalja, Croatia) [thru 8.1]
Feast Days
Birthday of Set (Ancient Egypt)
The Bookworms (Muppetism)
Brigham Young Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Cnoc Aine (Celtic Book of Days)
Dave Stevens Day (Artology; Humanism)
Eastman Johnson (Artology)
Feast of Cherries (Medieval Hamburg, Germany)
Feast of Martha the Dragon-Slayer
Felix II (Christian; Saint)
Francesco Mochi (Artology)
Jenny Holzer (Artology)
International Beer Day (Pastafarian) [also 8.7]
Ivan Aivazovsky (Artology)
Lazarus of Bethany (Christian; Saint)
Lupus of Troyes (Christian; Saint)
Martha of Bethany (Catholic, Anglican, and Lutheran Church) [Innkeepers]
Mary of Bethany (Christian; Saint)
Olaus, King of Sweden (Christian; Saint)
Olaf II, King of Norway (Christian; Martyr)
Olsok (a.k.a. ...
St. Olaf’s Day (Norway)
The Day of the Wheat (Everyone Dresses as Sandwiches; Golden Girls)
Everybody Hide the Corn Day
Hay Day
Day of the Princess Pig
Raphael (Positivist; Saint)
Simplicius, Faustinus and Beatrix (Christian; Sibling Martyrs)
Stanley Kunitz (Writerism)
Stikklestad (Honoring Asatru Martyrs)
Susanoo’s Day (Pagan)
Tarasque (Fire-Breathing Dragon Festival; Ancient Tarascon, France)
Thor’s Day (Norse)
William of Brittany (Christian; Saint)
William Pinchon (Christian; Saint)
Ximena Armas (Artology)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Taian (大安 Japan) [Lucky all day.]
Premieres
The Adventures of Tom Bombadil, by J.R.R. Tolkien (Poetry; 1962)
Another Country, by James Baldwin (Novel; 1962)
Aristocrats (Documentary Film; 2005)
Attack the Block (Film; 2011)
(The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes, by Elvis Costello (Song; 1977)
Bad Moms (Film; 2016)
Barcelona (Film; 1994)
Bosko’s Mechanical Man (WB LT Cartoon; 1933)
Cocktail (Film; 1988)
Compressed Hare (WB MM Cartoon; 1961)
Cowboys & Aliens (Film; 2011)
DC League of Super-Pets (Animated Film; 2022)
Eliza Runs Again (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1938)
Enter Sandman, by Metallica (Song; 1991)
The Fellowship of the Ring, by J.R.R. Tolkien (Novel; 1954) [Book 1 of The Lord of the Rings trilogy]
The Fox Hunt (Disney Cartoon; 1938)
Help! (Film; 1965)
Jason Bourne (Film; 2016)
Kiki’s Delivery Service (Studio Ghibli Animated Film; 1989)
Krull (Film; 1983)
Little Red Riding Hood (Ub Iwerks Disney Cartoon; 1922) [1st Disney Short]
Lt. Robinson Crusoe USN (Film; 1966)
The Mask (Film; 1994)
Must Love Dogs (Film; 2005)
National Lampoon’s Vacation (Film; 1983)
The Negotiator (Film; 1998)
Old King Cole (Silly Symphony Disney Cartoon; 1933)
Private School (Film; 1983)
Renaissance, by Beyoncé (Album; 2022)
The Shindig (Disney Cartoon; 1930)
The Smurfs (Animated Film; 2011)
Snowman’s Land (WB MM Cartoon; 1939)
Stardust (Film; 2007)
The Trumpet Artistry of Chet Baker, by Chet Baker (Album; 1954)
Whenever I Call You Friend, by Kenny Loggins and Stevie Nicks (Song; 1978)
Women, by Charles Bukowski (Novel; 1978)
You Try Somebody Else (Betty Boop Cartoon; 1932)
Today’s Name Days
Landislaus, Martha, Lucilla, Olaf (Austria)
Kalin (Bulgaria)
Flora, Lazar, Marta, Urban, Vilim (Croatia)
Marta (Czech Republic)
Oluf (Denmark)
Olaf, Olav, Olavi, Olev (Estonia)
Olavi, Olli, Oula, Uolevi, Uoti (Finland)
Beatrix, Loup, Marthe (France)
Olaf (Germany)
Kallinikos (Greece)
Flóra, Márta (Hungary)
Marta (Italy)
Dzilis, Edmunds, Edzus, Vidmants (Latvia)
Beatričė, Mantvydas, Mantvydė, Morta (Lithuania)
Ola, Olav, Ole (Norway)
Beatrice, Beatrycze, Beatryks, Cierpisław, Faustyn, Konstantyn, Lucylla, Maria, Marta, Olaf, Serafina, Urban (Poland)
Alevtina, Valentina (Russia)
Marta (Slovakia)
Beatriz, Marta (Spain)
Olof (Sweden)
Seraphim, Seraphina (Ukraine)
Bea, Beatrice, Beatriz, Beattie, Marta, Martha, Olaf, Olav, Serafina, Trixie (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 211 of 2024; 155 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 1 of Week 31 of 2024
Celtic Tree Calendar: Tinne (Holly) [Day 24 of 28]
Chinese: Month 6 (Xin-Wei), Day 24 (Jia-Wu)
Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]
Hebrew: 23 Tammuz 5784
Islamic: 22 Muharram 1446
J Cal: 1 Purple; Oneday [1 of 30]
Julian: 16 July 2024
Moon: 34%: Waning Crescent
Positivist: 14 Dante (8th Month) [Raphael]
Runic Half Month: Thorn (Defense) [Day 6 of 15]
Season: Summer (Day 40 of 94)
Week: Last Week of July
Zodiac: Leo (Day 8 of 31)
Calendar Changes
Purple (Month 8 of 12; J Calendar)
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Evangelical leader destroys Trump like we've never seen before
COMMENTARY:
Evangelicals need to accept the fact that the Key Bridge disaster is a sign of God's anger at the heresy of Trump saluting the January 6 traitors singing The National Anthem from Jail.
when I say "a sign' i mean it exactly in the context of the Gospel of John,
Now, I know you have this prissy little fetish of putting the Gideon Bible in our hotels room on the floor outside your door, It's a characteristic you share with Ben Shapiro, that sort of intellectual prissiness.
The thing is, I've had a conscious relationship with the Holy Spirit since 1953 and a working relationship with him since 1990, assembling the evidence that the Gospel of Mark was written by Cornelius, the centurion featured in Acts 10. Cornelius exists in the person and office of the Command Sergeant Major of the US Army across the hall from the US Army Chief of Staff. All the centurions were Pagan God Fearers long before Moses cam into their lives as members of the profession of arms, LIke Abram, they knew Yaweh, Queen of Battle without having to be circumfixes.
As a combat crazed Vietnam veteran I know Yaweh, Queen of Battle, I am a process theology guru because, unlike Whitehead, the existence of The One is excludes doubt from the Pucker Factor. I'm not making this stuff up.
Trump represents the spiritual smog of evil intent of the January 6 agenda going bac to the Nixon Plumbers, One of the effects tha the broadcasting of Christian Nationalism associated with January 6 and the House Freedom Caucus is causing the extreme weather in the Bible Belts by agitating the Spirit of God that continues to hover over the waters. This constant roll of weather coming across from the Pacific is the Spirit of God responding to the emanations of the collective Id of neo-Nazi Jesus Freaks centered around Colorado Springs. The constant barrage of Christian Nationalism broadcasting for Conservatives since Newt Gingrich became Speaker has probably been acceleration global warming by the spiritual distortions of all things Trump.
So, I'm not kidding about the Key Bridge disaster being a sign from God that Trump is the anti-Christ. Francis Scott Key was a British prioner on a gunship right where that bridge fell down and watched the bombardment of Fort McHenry, This is God's indictment of Trump and the January 6 conspiracy for high crimes and heresy, This is God's endorsement of what is sacred in the US Constitution and Declaration of Independence and God's condemnation of Trum; et al's sacrilege and heresy,
Lay that outside your hotel room for all the world to see.
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Pics: Collections & a "can do" HPL!!
It's thought that all of Lovecraft's heroes are learned wimps who go mad at the drop of some debased ichor!
This is not true.
Howard had a select few heroes who got things done.
Violently - & smartly...
I mean, ramming your ship up into Cthulhu's belly - & making it explode (!!) - has got to be up there with our modern heroes's body counts...
If events had run differently, HPL could have ended up an action writer!! Somewhere along the lines of Robert E. Howard, creator of Conan...
With his Anglo-centric fixture, could Lovecraft have rewritten Robin Hood or set down the hellish adventures of Olde Camelot!!
(Like Kirby's Demon origin story?)
Hey, we can dream - right?
1914: Commentary on "Teuton's Battle-Song."
Intro: "Battle-Song" is Howard's poem on the glories of war - as seen by the descendants of Anglo-Saxon blood.
Christianity is but an alien influence "worn lightly" by English-Americans.
Whose ancient prowess was so badly needed for the sake of the U.K. - as it was affected by WW1.
Comments: This piece of HPL's war propaganda is an expression of his persistent racist views.
Lovecraft hated that Aryan nations were fighting each other, rather than the real danger - the racially inferior enemies of civilization itself.
Howard harks back to pre-Christian paganism, evoking a philosophy of violence & bloodshed.
But, it's merely a work of fascist rhetoric. One making use of Nordic culture & white supremacist 'dreams.'
This survives today, as some modern Neo-Pagans hold explicit racist beliefs - to the dismay of the more peaceful worshippers.
These Nazi ideals also filter thruout the works of Black Metal, NeoFolk & Martial Industrial music.
For example: Boyd Rice's (of NON) anthem "Total War" has the same central point as HPL's "Battle-Song."
Both see Christ as being for wimps & that soldiers need to be merciless during war...
These same ideas were also present in Germany - since the 1800s onwards. And, reached their peaks before both World Wars.
Lovecraft, sadly, believed in the whole notion of Aryan/Nordic/Teutonic superiority.
But, with his "Battle-Song," Howard seemed to be coming up with an Anglo version of Germany's national- ism.
Though HPL claimed to strongly dis- like romanticism, he did use it for propaganda purposes.
Lovecraft himself states that he wrote "Teuton's Battle-Song" as a rebuke for U.S. pacifism.
Indeed, Howard's sabre-rattling would continue thruout WW1.
And it started long before the sinking of the Lusitania stirred up American resentment against Germany.
"Arthur" (fake-geek-boy) judges that HPL's work is - at this time - notably better than his poems.
Yet, Lovecraft wouldn't abandon his old-fashioned & heavyhanded style - until he finally switched back to writing fiction again.
Strangely enough, Howard was aware of his poetic limits.
But, thought his ability to evoke poetic imagery & emotion was so bad, that he had to maintain a strict metrical form.
HPL actually considered it more important to be formally correct - than creatively interesting - ouch!!
But, he would finally find his inner poetic muse - much later in his life.
Never give up, never surrender...
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Hrvat Pobunjenik
They'll tell you that you're crazy
And you need their medication
Yea, well, maybe we're all messed up
Because of their shitty education.
Pure manipulation, blantant fascist indoctrination.
Keep your information cause I'm in a new dimension
You can’t even fathom.
Dig my knee into your national anthem,
It could cause a chasm.
Make your overlords tweak and have a brain spasm.
I am not a dictator, I am your god damn liberator…
Now tell your overlords it’s time for their death chamber.
Been places you've never, ever, ever dreamed
Connected with omnipotent interstellar beings.
They've given me knowledge of unknown supernatural themes.
I can sense your fear;
Knowledge beyond your Yahweh got yah scared.
Well, bootlicker, I don’t really fuckin’ care.
No room for paganism, it’s theocratic rule here
Burn you at the stake, modern medieval war fear
M.J. told us in the 90s that they don’t care.
But you never minded listening because of the media's fear.
My daddy Ukranitz, my momma Adriatic,
Mix Scililian with that Slavic
You get a psycho-pathic bad bitch.
No finesse like Italians,
Got my Balkan goons comin' like battalions
You better run and hide; they real fuckin' valiant.
Better beg forgiveness that you ever even rallied ‘em
Got the snakes and all tools to topple all your holy men
Been places you've never, ever, ever dreamed
Connected with interstellar beings.
They've given me knowledge of supernatural themes.
I can sense your fear. Knowledge beyond your Yahweh got yah scared.
Well, bootlicker, I don’t fuckin’ care.
I can see you wave your flag still like a bunch of fucking servants.
Got my new home drone, human kill shots; it is fully equipped
Don’t care if we’re supposed to be “countrymen” or brethren
I been free-bleeding like a goddamn concubine
I can paint you red, paint you dead,
Paint you like you ain’t got no head.
For all intents and purposes, you are brain-dead.
Let’s see how very far-right you are then. . .
So frightened of my heightened sense of the feminine self
You’re too busy gathering dust on your antebellum shelf
Cucky mother lovers, I don’t want your fucking help
Go get yourself some culture,
Don’t be a lame-ass appropriating vulture
Don’t steal shit cause your traditions are fucking awful
Let us get united, Kill our masters, hype shit
Now it’s their turn to be all out frightened.
These chains someday must be severed
I can’t see that in my kid's present,
Shit, I can’t even see it in their future
No dreams are fucking pleasant.
Got my kids learnin guerilla warfare
And the constitution
Teach them to kill their masters
And take over the fruit, yeah. . .
No root no fucking fruit, chyeah. . .
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Books I read in 2022
I’m trash for it: Call dawn the hawk, Mister impossible, The foxhole court, The raven king, The king’s men, Mistborn, The well of ascension, The hero of ages, Moon knight, The true lives of the fabulous killjoys: national anthem, The umbrella academy, Tales from the umbrella academy: you look like death, Greywaren, The true lives of the fabulous killjoys,
One of the best books I’ve read: The alloy of law, Shadows of self, The bands of mourning, The red pyramid, The throne of fire, The serpent’s shadow, The sword of summer, The hammer of Thor, The hidden oracle,
The dark prophecy, The tale Sinuhe and other ancient Egyptian poems, The burning maze, The ship of the dead, The tyrant’s tomb, The tower of Nero, Doom patrol, Maus, The Homeric hymns, Not the life it seems: the true lives of my chemical romance,
A good book: The last wish, Ninth house, Mao, Sword of destiny, season of storms, This fabulous century 1950s, The lightning thief, The sea of monsters, The titan’s curse, The battle of the labyrinth, The last Olympian, The lost hero, The son of Neptune, The blood of Olympus, This fabulous century 1870-1900, Elasoe, Mythos, Troy, The prose, Tales ancient Egypt, Mythology, Lovely war, The school for good and evil, Alexander the great, Hokusai, A snake falls to earth, Green day: the ultimate unauthorized history, Legion, White sand, Neverwhere,
Okay: Black ships before troy, The mark of Athena, The house of hades, Treasury of Egyptian mythology, Pagan curious, The song of Achilles, The darkhold, Everybody hurts: an essential guide to emo culture,
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#in memoriam#isaac bonewits#gwydion pendderwen#bards#samhain#halloween#pagan national anthem#we won't wait any longer#we are stronger than before#bardsong
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So if paganism is so superior and natural compared to Christianity why did Christianity win? Why did all of your pagan ancestors convert? And don't say they were forced to because that's not true. Most countries converted peacefully.
oh man there's a lot to unpack here.
first, just because a certain idea or system prevails doesn't mean it's necessarily better. i'm not really a "might makes right" person. i do think might goes a long way, but it's not the be-all and end-all. there are other considerations.
anyway, nice try. "don't say they were forced" lmao. you think you can get away with that? many were forced though. and by that i don't just mean the leaders of the countries that were converted but also the commoners of those countries that were then forcefully converted by the newly converted leaders. so even if the leaders "willfully" converted they probably still forcefully converted their people.
but what about those were were more "willfully" converted (how willful is debatable)? why would they abandon the faith of their ancestors to worship a foreign god and practice some new, strange slave religion? well, my answer is twofold: (1) for power, administration, alliances, trade networks, infrastructure, etc, and (2) they didn't.
imagine: you are a small but rising norse chieftain. you're so close to overcoming your rival but you still need that edge. then along comes this christian priest. as you know, the christians have inherited the roman empire. now this christian offers you access to these rich and powerful realms. by saying a few words and dunking yourself in some water you will have a significantly expanded world and all that entails. but even more than that i think it's most alluring aspect is institutional and administrative; christianity with its churches and educated clergy and its written language (latin) dramatically increases a ruler's ability to centralize and consolidate his domain. all of these result in christianity being highly lucrative and pragmatically appealing. it's the same reason under-developed countries of the modern world eagerly embraced the systems of developed countries (liberalism, capitalism, free trade, parliamentary democracy, rational-legal authority, flags and classically composed national anthems, etc). like...these are just the things you do and symbols you gotta embrace to be seen as legitimate in the eyes of the great powers of the world. so why did they convert? because it was politically expedient.
now about my second point. i think there's a lot of room to doubt the sincerity of almost any of these early conversions, especially when considering the above. i mean, even bede talks about how people would relapse back into paganism and laments how they would use spells and magical amulets. the second king of kent after kent's christianization was quite openly "christopagan" keeping a temple dedicated to both his pagan gods and christ. i really doubt how seriously these pagans took christianity. i mean, just consider the extent of the average christian's familiarity with the bible and christianity theology /today/. now imagine you're an illiterate norseman that doesn't even speak the language the priest's bible is written in. indeed, there's a plethora of evidence to suggest that early germanic converts really did just conceptualize jesus as an ordinary foreign god and simply assimilated him into their pantheon the same way they would with any other foreign god, even portraying him as a heroic warrior leading a retinue of warrior-disciples, not as a meek carpenter preaching to turn the other cheek. so there was definitely syncretism going on -- as germanics became christianized christianity became germanicized -- and i can easily imagine pagans nominally professing a christian faith while still very much believing in their gods with full christianization taking place over several generations.
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Mammoth List of Feminist/Girl Power Books (200 + Books)
Lists of Real, Amazing Women Throughout History
Bad Girls Throughout History: 100 Remarkable Women Who Changed the World by Ann Shen
Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls by Elena Favilli & Francesca Cavallo
Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls 2 by Elena Favilli & Francesca Cavallo
Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Immigrant Women Who Changed the World by Elena Favilli & Francesca Cavallo
Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World by Pénélope Bagieu, Montana Kane (Translator)
Rejected Princesses: Tales of History's Boldest Heroines, Hellions, and Heretics by Jason Porath
Tough Mothers: Amazing Stories of History’s Mightiest Matriarchs by Jason Porath
Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World by Rachel Ignotofsky
Bygone Badass Broads: 52 Forgotten Women Who Changed the World by Mackenzi Lee
Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors, and Trailblazers Who Changed History by Sam Maggs
The Little Book of Feminist Saints by Julia Pierpont
Rad Women Worldwide: Artists and Athletes, Pirates and Punks, and Other Revolutionaries Who Shaped History by Kate Schatz
Warrior Women: 3000 Years of Courage and Heroism by Robin Cross & Rosalind Miles
Women Who Dared: 52 Stories of Fearless Daredevils, Adventurers, and Rebels by Linda Skeers & Livi Gosling
100 Nasty Women of History by Hannah Jewell
The Warrior Queens by Antonia Fraser
Sea Queens: Women Pirates Around the World by Jane Yolen
The Book of Gutsy Women: Favorite Stories of Courage and Resilience by Hillary Rodham Clinton & Chelsea Clinton
Fight Like a Girl: 50 Feminists Who Changed the World by Laura Barcella
Samurai Women 1184–1877 by Stephen Turnbull
A Black Woman Did That by Malaika Adero
Tales from Behind the Window by Edanur Kuntman
Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists: A Graphic History of Women's Fight for Their Rights by Mikki Kendall
Witches and Pagans: Women in European Folk Religion, 700-1100 by Max Dashu
Mad and Bad: Real Heroines of the Regency by Bea Koch
Modern HERstory: Stories of Women and Nonbinary People Rewriting History by Blair Imani
Individual and Group Portraits of Real, Amazing Women Throughout History
Alice Paul and the Fight for Women's Rights: From the Vote to the Equal Rights Amendment by Deborah Kops
Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All by Martha S. Jones
Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life by Jane Sherron De Hart
The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice by Patricia Bell-Scott
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai, Christina Lamb
Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA by Amaryllis Fox
Native Country of the Heart: A Memoir by Cherríe L. Moraga
The Soul of a Woman by Isabel Allende
Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
Ashley's War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
Alice Diamond and the Forty Elephants: The Female Gang That Terrorised London by Brian McDonald
Women Against the Raj: The Rani of Jhansi Regiment by Joyce Chapman Lebra
Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution by Sara Marcus
The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women Across the Ancient World by Adrienne Mayor
Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars by Nathalia Holt
The Women of WWII (Non-Fiction)
Women Heroes of World War II: 26 Stories of Espionage, Sabotage, Resistance, and Rescue by Kathryn J. Atwood
Skyward: The Story of Female Pilots in WWII by Sally Deng
The Women with Silver Wings: The Inspiring True Story of the Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II by Katherine Sharp Landdeck
The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II by Svetlana Alexievich, Richard Pevear (Translation), Larissa Volokhonsky (Translation)
Les Parisiennes: How the Women of Paris Lived, Loved, and Died Under Nazi Occupation by Anne Sebba
To Serve My Country, to Serve My Race: The Story of the Only African-American Wacs Stationed Overseas During World War II by Brenda L. Moore
Standing Up Against Hate: How Black Women in the Army Helped Change the Course of WWII by Mary Cronk Farrell
Sisters and Spies: The True Story of WWII Special Agents Eileen and Jacqueline Nearne by Susan Ottaway
A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II by Sonia Purnell
The White Mouse by Nancy Wake
Code Name Hélène by Ariel Lawhon
Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II by Liza Mundy
Tomorrow to be Brave: A Memoir of the Only Woman Ever to Serve in the French Foreign Legion by Susan Travers & Wendy Holden
Pure Grit: How WWII Nurses in the Pacific Survived Combat and Prison Camp by Mary Cronk Farrell
Sisterhood of Spies by Elizabeth P. McIntosh
Spy Princess: The Life of Noor Inayat Khan by Shrabani Basu
Women in the Holocaust by Dalia Ofer
The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos by Judy Batalion
Night Witches: The Untold Story of Soviet Women in Combat by Bruce Myles
The Soviet Night Witches: Brave Women Bomber Pilots of World War II by Pamela Jain Dell
A Thousand Sisters: The Heroic Airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II by Elizabeth Wein
A Dance with Death: Soviet Airwomen in World War II by Anne Noggle
Avenging Angels: The Young Women of the Soviet Union's WWII Sniper Corps by Lyuba Vinogradova
The Women of WWII (Fiction)
Among the Red Stars by Gwen C. Katz
Night Witches by Kathryn Lasky
Night Witches by Mirren Hogan
Night Witch by S.J. McCormack
Flygirl by Sherri L. Smith
Daughters of the Night Sky by Aimie K. Runyan
The Lost Girls of Paris by Pam Jenoff
Code Name Verity series by Elizabeth Wein
Front Lines trilogy by Michael Grant
The Alice Network by Kate Quinn
All-Girl Teams (Fiction)
The Seafire trilogy by Natalie C. Parker
Elysium Girls by Kate Pentecost
The Good Luck Girls by Charlotte Nicole Davis
The Effigies trilogy by Sarah Raughley
Guardians of the Dawn series by S. Jae-Jones
Wolf-Light by Yaba Badoe
Undead Girl Gang by Lily Anderson
Burned and Buried by Nino Cipri
This Is What It Feels Like by Rebecca Barrow
The Wild Ones: A Broken Anthem for a Girl Nation by Nafiza Azad
We Rule the Night by Claire Eliza Bartlett
Tigers, Not Daughters by Samantha Mabry
The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion by Fannie Flagg
Saving CeeCee Honeycutt by Beth Hoffman
Bad Girls Never Say Die by Jennifer Mathieu
The Secret Life of Prince Charming by Deb Caletti
Kamikaze Girls by Novala Takemoto, Akemi Wegmüller (Translator)
The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See
The Passion of Dolssa by Julie Berry
The Scapegracers by Hannah Abigail Clarke
Sisters in Sanity by Gayle Forman
The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place by Julie Berry
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix
The Lost Girls by Sonia Hartl
Hell's Belles series by Sarah MacLean
Jackdaws by Ken Follett
The Farmerettes by Gisela Tobien Sherman
A Sisterhood of Secret Ambitions by Sheena Boekweg
Feminist Retellings
Stepsister by Jennifer Donnelly
Poisoned by Jennifer Donnelly
Girls Made of Snow and Glass by Melissa Bashardoust
The Girl Who Fell Beneath The Sea by Axie Oh
Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins by Emma Donoghue
Doomed by Laura Pohl
The Seventh Bride by T. Kingfisher
The Boneless Mercies by April Genevieve Tucholke
Seven Endless Forests by April Genevieve Tucholke
The Queens of Innis Lear by Tessa Gratton
A Thousand Nights by E.K. Johnston
Kate Crackernuts by Katharine M. Briggs
Legendborn series by Tracy Deonn
One for All by Lillie Lainoff
Feminist Dystopian and Horror Fiction
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Grace Year by Kim Liggett
Sawkill Girls by Claire Legrand
Godshot by Chelsea Bieker
Women and Girls in Comedy
Crying Laughing by Lance Rubin
Stand Up, Yumi Chung by Jessica Kim
This Will Be Funny Someday by Katie Henry
Unscripted by Nicole Kronzer
Pretty Funny for a Girl by Rebecca Elliot
Bossypants by Tina Fey
We Killed: The Rise of Women in American Comedy by Yael Kohen
The Girl in the Show: Three Generations of Comedy, Culture, and Feminism by Anna Fields
Trans Women
Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More by Janet Mock
Nemesis series by April Daniels
American Transgirl by Faith DaBrooke
Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock's Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout by Laura Jane Grace
A Safe Girl to Love by Casey Plett
Gracefully Grayson by Ami Polonsky
Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars by Kai Cheng Thom
Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family by Amy Ellis Nutt
George by Alex Gino
The Witch Boy series by Molly Ostertag
Uncomfortable Labels: My Life as a Gay Autistic Trans Woman by Laura Kate Dale
She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders by Jennifer Finney Boylan
An Anthology of Fiction by Trans Women of Color by Ellyn Peña
Wandering Son by Takako Shimura
Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg
Feminist Poetry
Women Are Some Kind of Magic trilogy by Amanda Lovelace
Wild Embers: Poems of Rebellion, Fire and Beauty by Nikita Gill
Fierce Fairytales: Poems and Stories to Stir Your Soul by Nikita Gill
Great Goddesses: Life Lessons from Myths and Monsters by Nikita Gill
The Girl and the Goddess by Nikita Gill
A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland by DaMaris B. Hill
Feminist Philosophy and Facts
The Creation of Patriarchy by Gerda Lerner
The Creation of Feminist Consciousness: From the Middle Ages to Eighteen-Seventy by Gerda Lerner
Misogyny: The World's Oldest Prejudice by Jack Holland
White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color by Ruby Hamad
We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism by Bushra Rehman
Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics by bell hooks
Here We Are: Feminism for the Real World by Kelly Jensen
The Equality Illusion by Kat Banyard
White Feminism: From the Suffragettes to Influencers and Who They Leave Behind by Koa Beck
Everyday Sexism by Laura Bates
I Have the Right To by Chessy Prout & Jenn Abelson
Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World by Kumari Jayawardena
The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
How to Suppress Women's Writing by Joanna Russ
Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color by Andrea Ritchie
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism by bell hooks
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment by Patricia Hill Collins
But Some of Us Are Brave: All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men: Black Women's Studies by Akasha Gloria Hull, Patricia Bell-Scott, Barbara Smith
Women, Race, and Class by Angela Y. Davis
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Cherríe L. Moraga, Gloria E. Anzaldúa
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas D. Kristof & Sheryl WuDinn
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde
Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
Difficult Women by Roxane Gay
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay
Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture by Roxane Gay
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by by Cherríe Moraga & Gloria Anzaldúa
Power Shift: The Longest Revolution by Sally Armstrong
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney Cooper
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall
Had It Coming: What's Fair in the Age of #MeToo? by Robyn Doolittle
She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story that Helped Ignite a Movement by Jody Kantor & Megan Twohey
#Notyourprincess: Voices of Native American Women by Lisa Charleyboy
Girl Rising: Changing the World One Girl at a Time by Tanya Lee Stone
Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers: Monstrosity, Patriarchy, and the Fear of Female Power by Sady Doyle
Sisterhood is Powerful: An Anthology of Writings from the Women's Liberation Movement by Robin Morgan (Editor)
Girls Make Media by Mary Celeste Kearney
Rock She Wrote: Women Write about Rock, Pop, and Rap by Evelyn McDonnell (Editor)
You Play the Girl: And Other Vexing Stories That Tell Women Who They Are by Carina Chocano
Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl: A Memoir by Jeannie Vanasco
The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers by Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Editor), Hollis Robbins (Editor)
Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman by Lindy West
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
Believe Me: How Trusting Women Can Change the World by Jessica Valenti and Jaclyn Friedman
Bread Out of Stone: Recollections, Sex, Recognitions, Race, Dreaming, Politics by Dionne Brand
Other General Girl Power/Feminist Awesomeness
The Edge of Anything by Nora Shalaway Carpenter
Kat and Meg Conquer the World by Anna Priemaza
Talk Before Sleep by Elizabeth Berg
The Female of the Species by Mandy McGinnis
Pulp by Robin Talley
Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera
How to Save a Life by Sara Zarr
That Summer by Sarah Dessen
Someone Like You by Sarah Dessen
Honey, Baby, Sweetheart by Deb Caletti
The Girl With the Louding Voice by Abi Daré
Mrs. Everything by Jennifer Weiner
Beauty Queens by Libba Bray
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
American Girls by Alison Umminger
Don't Think Twice by Ruth Pennebaker
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women by Alice Walker
You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down: Stories by Alice Walker
Wonder Woman: Warbringer by Leigh Bardugo
Sula by Toni Morrison
Rose Sees Red by Cecil Castellucci
A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik
Moxie by Jennifer Mathieu
Rules for Being a Girl by Candace Bushnell & Katie Cotugno
None of the Above by I.W. Gregorio
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Orlando by Virginia Woolf
Everything Must Go by Jenny Fran Davis
The House on Olive Street by Robyn Carr
Orange Is the New Black by Piper Kerman
Queens of Geek by Jen Wilde
Lady Luck's Map of Vegas by Barbara Samuel
Fan the Fame by Anna Priemaza
Puddin' by Julie Murphy
A Heart in a Body in the World by Deb Caletti
Gravity Brings Me Down by Natale Ghent
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
The Summer of Impossibilities by Rachael Allen
The Dead Girls of Hysteria Hall by Katie Alender
Don't Tell a Soul by Kirsten Miller
After the Ink Dries by Cassie Gustafson
Girl, Unframed by Deb Caletti
We Are the Ashes, We Are the Fire by Joy McCullough
Maybe He Just Likes You by Barbara Dee
Things a Bright Girl Can Do by Sally Nicholls
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart
Uprising by Margaret Peterson Haddix
The Cure for Dreaming by Cat Winters
Dress Coded by Carrie Firestone
The Prettiest by Brigit Young
Don't Judge Me by Lisa Schroeder
The Roommate by Rosie Danan
Tomboy: A Graphic Memoir by Liz Prince
Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love Between Women from the Renaissance to the Present by Lillian Faderman
All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation by Rebecca Traister
Paper Girls comic series by Brian K. Vaughan
Heavy Vinyl comic series by Carly Usdin
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Hi, @reve13, I promised to tell you about the Russian holidays, I hope it comes in handy and will be fun😉:
1. The very first in the year and the most widely celebrated holiday is the Novyy god (New Year).
It's celebrated on the night of December 31 to January 1. New Year holidays (weekends) last from January 1 to January 8. New Year is a secular holiday loved by almost all the inhabitants of the country, regardless of nationality or religion.
According to tradition, a few days before the New Year it is customary to install and decorate the fir-tree, as well as the house. As a rule, when the New Year is celebrated, close people gather at the New Year's table, usually on the evening of December 31 of the outgoing year.
The coming of the new year and the actual beginning of the celebration is marked by the Kremlin Clock striking twelve, i.e. midnight Moscow Time preceded by the New Year Address by President of Russia and followed by the playing of the National Anthem of Russia.
The most popular dishes of the New Year's table in Russia are "Olivier" salad (Russian salad), "Selyodka pod Shuboi" salad (Herring under a fur coat), Kholodets (aspic), caviar, champagne, tangerines, etc. Popular hot dishes include a roasted pig, roasted meat chunks, goose with apples, chicken stuffed with buckwheat and mushrooms, sour cream hare, venison, lamb, whole fish, etc...
Gifts to Russian children and adults are brings by Ded Moroz (Grandfather Frost). This is a character of Slavic fairy-tale folklore. In its origins, he is a pagan personification of the forces of nature (winter and frost) and a wizard. Ded Moroz is depicted as an old man in a colored - blue, blue, red or white coat, with a long white beard and a staff in his hand, in felt boots. He rides three horses. Usually comes accompanied by his granddaughter, Snegurochka (Snow Maiden), who helps him. Snegurochka is also a fabulous folk character. At holidays, acts as an intermediary between children and Ded Moroz. Sometimes portrayed as a little girl, sometimes an adolescent. She wears long silver-blue robes and a furry cap or a snowflake-like crown. They can also be accompanied by forest animals.
We also have very popular fireworks. After midnight, it may resemble a small colorful war, hee hee.
2. Christmas in Russia (Russian Orthodox Church), commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ, is celebrated on 7 January in the Gregorian calendar. Christmas is considered a high holiday by the Russian Orthodox Church. On Christmas Eve, 6 January, there are several long services, including the Royal Hours and Vespers combined with the Divine Liturgy. The family will then return home for the traditional Christmas Eve "Holy Supper", which consists of 12 dishes, one to honour each of the Twelve Apostles. Devout families will then return to church for the "всенощная" All Night Vigil. Then again, on Christmas Morning, for the "заутренняя" Divine Liturgy of the Nativity. This holiday is important for religious Orthodox Christians.
3. St. Valentine's Day is a holiday of Catholic origin, which is celebrated on February 14 in many countries of the world. Named after one of two early Christian martyrs with the name Valentine.
Those who celebrate this holiday give their beloved and dear people gifts, flowers, sweets, toys, balloons and special cards (often in the shape of a heart) with verses, love confessions or wishes of love - Valentine. This holiday gained popularity in the 90s in Russia. It is not a public holiday or a day off, but rather widely celebrated by young people.
Сompetition for Valentine's Day is All-Russian Day of Family, Love and Faithfulness (The Day of Saint Peter and Saint Fevronia). This holiday is celebrated on July 8th. Its symbol is a white daisy. The history of the spouses of Peter and Fevronia is the embodiment of the unquenchable love and loyalty. This date are trying to popularize , because many Russians dislike the foreign Valentine's Day, which is called commercial.
4. Defender of the Fatherland Day (День защитника Отечества) is a holiday observed in Russia on 23 February.
Officially, as the name suggests, the holiday celebrates people who are serving or were serving the Russian Armed Forces (both men and women, both military and civilian personnel), but unofficially, nationally it has also come to include the celebration of men as a whole, and to act as a counterpart of International Women's Day on March 8. Because the majority of men in Russia undergo mandatory short military service.
The holiday is celebrated with parades and processions in honor of veterans, and women also give small gifts to men in their lives, especially husbands (or boyfriends, fiances), fathers, sons and brothers. As a part of the workplace culture, women often give small gifts to their male co-workers. State day off.
5. International Women's Day is celebrated on the 8th of March every year. It appeared as a day of women's solidarity in the struggle for equal rights and emancipation. State day off. The celebration of March 8 in Russia includes the established tradition of giving women flowers and other gifts.
6. Maslenitsa (Мaсленица) is an Eastern Slavic religious and folk holiday, which has retained a number of elements of Slavic mythology in its ritual, celebrated during the last week before Great Lent, that is, the eighth week before Eastern Orthodox Pascha. The date of Maslenitsa changes every year depending on the date of the celebration of Easter. The traditional attributes of the Maslenitsa celebration are the scarecrow of Maslenitsa (which burn), making visits, sleigh rides, dressing up, bonfires, snowball fights, the capture of the Snow Fortress, festivities. Russians people bake pancakes and tortillas. It is customary to eat them with various fillings and share with friends.
7. The Russian Orthodox Church celebrates Easter (Paskha/Пасха) according to the Orthodox calendar, and so it can occur in April or May. Russians celebrate Easter with decorated eggs, special foods, and customs. The day before Easter all churches hold night services and organize religious processions around churches. By that time, kulich, the traditional holiday baking symbolizing the body of Christ, had been already baked and Easter eggs painted. The morning starts from visiting neighbors and giving away Easter eggs. The common phrase you can hear on that day is: "Khristos voskres!" (Christ is risen!), which is to be followed by "Voistinu voskres" (Truly He is risen! This traditional greeting followed by hugging and triple kissing is called "kiss of peace". Christian Easter feast lasts seven days and is called the Holy Week or Sedmitsa.
8. Spring and Labor Day. 1st May Day in its present form arose in the middle of the 19th century in the labor movement, which put forward the introduction of an eight-hour working day as one of the main requirements. In today's Russia, the holiday has lost its original political character. Some political parties and labor unions may have demonstrations on this day, but most Russians use Spring and Labor Day for gardening or spending time with their families. It is also common for people to have picnics or barbecues. Men may give spring flowers, especially tulips and lilacs, to women, and parents may buy balloons and ice-cream to their children to celebrate the end of the cold season in Russia. 1 May is a public holiday.
9. Victory Day. May 9, Russia celebrates the victory over Nazi Germany, while remembering those who died in order to achieve it. On 9 May 1945 (by Moscow time) the German military surrendered to the Soviet Union and the Allies of World War II in Berlin. Victory Day is by far one of the biggest Russian holidays. It commemorates those who died in World War II and pays tribute to survivors and veterans. Flowers and wreaths are laid on wartime graves and special parties and concerts are organized for veterans. In the evening there is a firework display. A huge ground and air military parade, hosted by the President of the Russian Federation, is annually organized in Moscow on Red Square. Similar ground, air and marine parades are organized in several other Russian cities. It’s a public holiday.
10. Russia Day (День России/Den Rossii) National Day, celebrated on 12 June. On this day, in 1991, Russian parliament formally declared Russian sovereignty from the Soviet Union.
11. Unity Day (День народного единства/Denʹ narodnava yedinstva) is a national holiday in Russia held on November 4. It commemorates the popular uprising which expelled Polish–Lithuanian occupation forces from Moscow in November 1612, and more generally the end of the Time of Troubles. The day's name alludes to the idea that all classes of Russian society united to preserve Russian statehood when there was neither a tsar nor a patriarch to guide them.
Celebrations of these days are accompanied by: Flag hoisting, parades, fireworks, award ceremonies, singing patriotic songs and the national anthem, speeches by the President, entertainment and cultural programs.
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Holidays
Anniversary of the Oil Expropriation (Mexico)
Austria Asteroid Day
Awkward Moments Day
Bindus Diena (The Day the Bears Wake from Hibernation; Ancient Latvia)
Carnival of Body Music
Casey Jones Day
Cheikh Al Maarouf Day (Comoros)
Colonel Day (Battlestar Galactica)
Day of Action Against Bullying and Violence (Australia)
Day of Internal Troops (Belarus)
De Molay Day
Electric Razor Day
Flag Day (Aruba)
Forgive Mom and Dad Day
Gallipoli Memorial Day (Turkey)
Global Recycling Day
Grandparents' & Grandchildren's Day (Michigan)
International Day of Revolutionary Political Prisoners
Maidenhead Fern Day (French Republic)
Make Peace with Your Parents Day
Marien Ngouabi Day (Republic of the Congo)
Men’s and Soldiers Day (Mongolia)
My Whole Self Day (UK)
National Anthem and Flag Day (Aruba)
National Biodiesel Day
National Child Sexual Exploitation Awareness Day
National Day of Remembrance for COVID-19 Victims (Italy)
National Farm Rescuer Day
National Natural Gas Utility Workers’ Day
National Public Defender Day
National Supreme Sacrifice Day
Oil Expropriation Day (Mexico)
Ordnance Factory Day (India)
Paris Commune Anniversary Day
Phoebe, Moon of Saturn Day
Saint Throw-Up Day
Stab e-Barat (Night of Records; Bangladesh)
Sheelah's Day (a.k.a. Sheela Na Gig; Australia, Canada, Ireland)
Sheikh Al Maalouf Day (Comoros)
Sheep and Goats Separation Day
South Carolina Day (South Carolina)
Space Walk Day
Sparky the Fire Dog Day
Supreme Sacrifice Day (Congo)
Take Down Tobacco Day
Teacher’s Day (Syria)
Transit Driver Appreciation Day
Trisomy 18 Awareness Day
World Eagle Day
World Juvenile Arthritis Day
World Young Rheumatic Diseases Day
Food & Drink Celebrations
National Jambon Day (Ireland)
National Lacy Oatmeal Cookie Day
National Sloppy Joe Day
Oatmeal Cookie Day
St. Broccoli Day
3rd Monday in March
Act Happy Day [3rd Monday]
Benito Juarez Fiestas Patrias (Mexico) [3rd Monday]
Dangerous Dan's Annual Coffee Cup Washing Day [3rd Monday]
Dribble to Work Day [3rd Monday]
Labor Day (Christmas Island) [3rd or 4th Monday]
Wellderly Day [3rd Monday]
World Folk Tale and Fable Day [3rd Monday]
Weekly Holidays beginning March 18 (3rd Week)
Act Happy Week (thru 3.24) [begins 3rd Monday]
Global Money Week [thru 3.24]
International Teach Music Week (thru 3.24) [begins 3rd Monday]
Independence & Related Days
Aruba (from Netherlands; 1976)
Panay Liberation Day (Philippines)
Festivals Beginning March 18, 2024
AKFCF Convention (Las Vegas, Nevada) [thru 3.22]
American Meat Conference (Nashville, Tennessee) [thru 3.20]
Bar & Restaurant Expo (Las Vegas, Nevada) [thru 3.20]
Culpepper Downtown Restaurant Week (Culpepper, Virginia) [thru 3.24]
IDFA Women’s Summit (Washington, DC) [thru 3.20]
World Tea Expo (Las Vegas, Nevada) [thru 3.20]
Feast Days
Adam Elsheimer (Artology)
Alexander of Jerusalem (Christian; Saint)
Anselm of Lucca (Christian; Saint)
Asklepieia (Ancient Greece)
Barney Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Breasil of Hy-Breasal (Celtic Book of Days)
Cyril of Jerusalem (Christian; Saint)
Edward of the West Saxons (Anglican Church)
Edward the Martyr (a.k.a. Edward, King of England; Christian; Saint)
Exorcist Day (Make the Spirits Disappear; Pastafarian)
Fridianus (a.k.a. Fridian; Christian; Saint)
Goddess of Fertility Day
Hrethmonath (Starza Pagan Book of Days)
John Updike (Writerism; Humanism; Saint)
Oide Matsuri (Departure Festival; Shinto; Japan)
Philo Zilfinger (Muppetism)
Salvator of Horta (Christian; Saint)
Sheela-na-gig (Irish Pagan Fertility Goddess)
Sheep and Goats (Separation) Day (Shamanism)
Socrates (Positivist; Saint)
Usajingu Reitaisai (Shinto; Japan)
Vodka Day (Pastafarian)
Waqf al Arafa (Islam)
Orthodox Christian Liturgical Calendar Holidays
Great Lent begins [1st Monday in Lent; Orthodox Christian] (a.k.a. …
Ash Monday
Blue Monday
Clean Monday (Greece)
Collop Monday
Green Monday (Cyprus)
Hall Monday
Kathara Deftera
Merry Monday
Monday of Lent
Pure Monday
Rose Monday
Shrove Monday
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Butsumetsu (仏滅 Japan) [Unlucky all day.]
Unlucky 18th (Philippines) [1 of 3]
Premieres
Alexander’s Ragtime Band published (Song; 1911)
Allegiant (Film; 2016)
The Bronze (Film; 2016)
Cedar Rapids (Film; 2011)
The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown (Novel; 2003)
D.O.A. (Film; 1988)
Dominick and Eugene (Film; 1988)
Flora (Color Rhapsody Cartoon; 1948)
Getz/Gilberto, by Stan Getz and João Gilberto (Album; 1964)
Happy and Lucky (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1938)
The House Builder-Upper (Fleischer Popeye Cartoon; 1938)
Ice Princess (Film; 2005)
The Lincoln Lawyer (Film; 2011)
The Lost Dream (Noveltoons Cartoon; 1949)
The Man Who Fell To Earth (Film; 1976)
Mickey’s Mellerdrammer (Disney Cartoon; 1933)
The Milagro Beanfield War (Film; 1988)
Naked Gun 33-1/3: The Final Insult (Film; 1994)
Paul (Film; 2011)
Pee Wee’s Big Holiday (Film; 2016)
Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Minor, by Sergei Rachmaninoff (Piano Concerto; 1927)
Pirates of the Caribbean (Disneyland Ride; 1967)
The Poet and Peasant (Andy Panda Cartoon; 1946)
Rio Bravo (Film; 1960)
Sanditon, by Jane Austen (Unfinished Novel; 1817) [Last Day She Wrote It]
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty James Thurber (Short Stories; 1939)
The Spine of Night (Animated Film; 2021)
Steamboy (Anime Film; 2005)
Strangled Eggs (WB MM Cartoon; 1961)
The Suicide Sheik (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit; 1929)
Wanted: No Master, featuring Count Screwloose and J.R. the Wonder Dog (MGM Cartoon; 1938)
The Well of Loneliness, by Radclyffe Hall (Novel; 1928)
Whatever and Ever Amen, by Ben Folds Five (Album; 1997)
White Riot, by The Clash (Song; 1977)
Today’s Name Days
Cyrill, Edward, Sibylle (Austria)
Ćiril, Edo, Eduard, Spasoje (Croatia)
Eduard (Czech Republic)
Alexander (Denmark)
Edi, Eduard, Eedi, Eedo, Eedu (Estonia)
Edvard, Eetu (Finland)
Cyrille (France)
Edward, Cyrill, Sibylle (Germany)
Edward (Greece)
Ede, Sándor (Hungary)
Cirillo, Salvatore (Italy)
Adelīna, Ilona, Razna, Sartite (Latvia)
Anzelmas, Eimutė, Eimutis, Sibilė (Lithuania)
Aleksander, Edvard, Sander (Norway)
Aleksander, Anzelm, Boguchwał, Cyryl, Edward, Narcyz, Narcyza, Salwator (Poland)
Chiril (Romania)
Eduard (Slovakia)
Cirilo, Eduardo (Spain)
Edmund, Edvard (Sweden)
Cyril, Cyrilla, Grover, Salvador, Salvatore, Sibyl, Sybil, Sybilla (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 78 of 2024; 288 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 1 of week 12 of 2024
Celtic Tree Calendar: Fearn (Alder) [Day 2 of 28]
Chinese: Month 2 (Ding-Mao), Day 9 (Xin-Si)
Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025)
Hebrew: 8 Adair II 5784
Islamic: 8 Ramadan 1445
J Cal: 18 Green; Foursday [18 of 30]
Julian: 5 March 2024
Moon: 65%: Waxing Gibbous
Positivist: 22 Aristotle (3rd Month) [Xenocrates]
Runic Half Month: Beore (Birch Tree) [Day 9 of 15]
Season: Winter (Day 89 of 89)
Week: 3rd Week of March
Zodiac: Pisces (Day 29 of 30)
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Holidays
Anniversary of the Oil Expropriation (Mexico)
Austria Asteroid Day
Awkward Moments Day
Bindus Diena (The Day the Bears Wake from Hibernation; Ancient Latvia)
Carnival of Body Music
Casey Jones Day
Cheikh Al Maarouf Day (Comoros)
Colonel Day (Battlestar Galactica)
Day of Action Against Bullying and Violence (Australia)
Day of Internal Troops (Belarus)
De Molay Day
Electric Razor Day
Flag Day (Aruba)
Forgive Mom and Dad Day
Gallipoli Memorial Day (Turkey)
Global Recycling Day
Grandparents' & Grandchildren's Day (Michigan)
International Day of Revolutionary Political Prisoners
Maidenhead Fern Day (French Republic)
Make Peace with Your Parents Day
Marien Ngouabi Day (Republic of the Congo)
Men’s and Soldiers Day (Mongolia)
My Whole Self Day (UK)
National Anthem and Flag Day (Aruba)
National Biodiesel Day
National Child Sexual Exploitation Awareness Day
National Day of Remembrance for COVID-19 Victims (Italy)
National Farm Rescuer Day
National Natural Gas Utility Workers’ Day
National Public Defender Day
National Supreme Sacrifice Day
Oil Expropriation Day (Mexico)
Ordnance Factory Day (India)
Paris Commune Anniversary Day
Phoebe, Moon of Saturn Day
Saint Throw-Up Day
Stab e-Barat (Night of Records; Bangladesh)
Sheelah's Day (a.k.a. Sheela Na Gig; Australia, Canada, Ireland)
Sheikh Al Maalouf Day (Comoros)
Sheep and Goats Separation Day
South Carolina Day (South Carolina)
Space Walk Day
Sparky the Fire Dog Day
Supreme Sacrifice Day (Congo)
Take Down Tobacco Day
Teacher’s Day (Syria)
Transit Driver Appreciation Day
Trisomy 18 Awareness Day
World Eagle Day
World Juvenile Arthritis Day
World Young Rheumatic Diseases Day
Food & Drink Celebrations
National Jambon Day (Ireland)
National Lacy Oatmeal Cookie Day
National Sloppy Joe Day
Oatmeal Cookie Day
St. Broccoli Day
3rd Monday in March
Act Happy Day [3rd Monday]
Benito Juarez Fiestas Patrias (Mexico) [3rd Monday]
Dangerous Dan's Annual Coffee Cup Washing Day [3rd Monday]
Dribble to Work Day [3rd Monday]
Labor Day (Christmas Island) [3rd or 4th Monday]
Wellderly Day [3rd Monday]
World Folk Tale and Fable Day [3rd Monday]
Weekly Holidays beginning March 18 (3rd Week)
Act Happy Week (thru 3.24) [begins 3rd Monday]
Global Money Week [thru 3.24]
International Teach Music Week (thru 3.24) [begins 3rd Monday]
Independence & Related Days
Aruba (from Netherlands; 1976)
Panay Liberation Day (Philippines)
Festivals Beginning March 18, 2024
AKFCF Convention (Las Vegas, Nevada) [thru 3.22]
American Meat Conference (Nashville, Tennessee) [thru 3.20]
Bar & Restaurant Expo (Las Vegas, Nevada) [thru 3.20]
Culpepper Downtown Restaurant Week (Culpepper, Virginia) [thru 3.24]
IDFA Women’s Summit (Washington, DC) [thru 3.20]
World Tea Expo (Las Vegas, Nevada) [thru 3.20]
Feast Days
Adam Elsheimer (Artology)
Alexander of Jerusalem (Christian; Saint)
Anselm of Lucca (Christian; Saint)
Asklepieia (Ancient Greece)
Barney Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Breasil of Hy-Breasal (Celtic Book of Days)
Cyril of Jerusalem (Christian; Saint)
Edward of the West Saxons (Anglican Church)
Edward the Martyr (a.k.a. Edward, King of England; Christian; Saint)
Exorcist Day (Make the Spirits Disappear; Pastafarian)
Fridianus (a.k.a. Fridian; Christian; Saint)
Goddess of Fertility Day
Hrethmonath (Starza Pagan Book of Days)
John Updike (Writerism; Humanism; Saint)
Oide Matsuri (Departure Festival; Shinto; Japan)
Philo Zilfinger (Muppetism)
Salvator of Horta (Christian; Saint)
Sheela-na-gig (Irish Pagan Fertility Goddess)
Sheep and Goats (Separation) Day (Shamanism)
Socrates (Positivist; Saint)
Usajingu Reitaisai (Shinto; Japan)
Vodka Day (Pastafarian)
Waqf al Arafa (Islam)
Orthodox Christian Liturgical Calendar Holidays
Great Lent begins [1st Monday in Lent; Orthodox Christian] (a.k.a. …
Ash Monday
Blue Monday
Clean Monday (Greece)
Collop Monday
Green Monday (Cyprus)
Hall Monday
Kathara Deftera
Merry Monday
Monday of Lent
Pure Monday
Rose Monday
Shrove Monday
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Butsumetsu (仏滅 Japan) [Unlucky all day.]
Unlucky 18th (Philippines) [1 of 3]
Premieres
Alexander’s Ragtime Band published (Song; 1911)
Allegiant (Film; 2016)
The Bronze (Film; 2016)
Cedar Rapids (Film; 2011)
The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown (Novel; 2003)
D.O.A. (Film; 1988)
Dominick and Eugene (Film; 1988)
Flora (Color Rhapsody Cartoon; 1948)
Getz/Gilberto, by Stan Getz and João Gilberto (Album; 1964)
Happy and Lucky (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1938)
The House Builder-Upper (Fleischer Popeye Cartoon; 1938)
Ice Princess (Film; 2005)
The Lincoln Lawyer (Film; 2011)
The Lost Dream (Noveltoons Cartoon; 1949)
The Man Who Fell To Earth (Film; 1976)
Mickey’s Mellerdrammer (Disney Cartoon; 1933)
The Milagro Beanfield War (Film; 1988)
Naked Gun 33-1/3: The Final Insult (Film; 1994)
Paul (Film; 2011)
Pee Wee’s Big Holiday (Film; 2016)
Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Minor, by Sergei Rachmaninoff (Piano Concerto; 1927)
Pirates of the Caribbean (Disneyland Ride; 1967)
The Poet and Peasant (Andy Panda Cartoon; 1946)
Rio Bravo (Film; 1960)
Sanditon, by Jane Austen (Unfinished Novel; 1817) [Last Day She Wrote It]
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty James Thurber (Short Stories; 1939)
The Spine of Night (Animated Film; 2021)
Steamboy (Anime Film; 2005)
Strangled Eggs (WB MM Cartoon; 1961)
The Suicide Sheik (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit; 1929)
Wanted: No Master, featuring Count Screwloose and J.R. the Wonder Dog (MGM Cartoon; 1938)
The Well of Loneliness, by Radclyffe Hall (Novel; 1928)
Whatever and Ever Amen, by Ben Folds Five (Album; 1997)
White Riot, by The Clash (Song; 1977)
Today’s Name Days
Cyrill, Edward, Sibylle (Austria)
Ćiril, Edo, Eduard, Spasoje (Croatia)
Eduard (Czech Republic)
Alexander (Denmark)
Edi, Eduard, Eedi, Eedo, Eedu (Estonia)
Edvard, Eetu (Finland)
Cyrille (France)
Edward, Cyrill, Sibylle (Germany)
Edward (Greece)
Ede, Sándor (Hungary)
Cirillo, Salvatore (Italy)
Adelīna, Ilona, Razna, Sartite (Latvia)
Anzelmas, Eimutė, Eimutis, Sibilė (Lithuania)
Aleksander, Edvard, Sander (Norway)
Aleksander, Anzelm, Boguchwał, Cyryl, Edward, Narcyz, Narcyza, Salwator (Poland)
Chiril (Romania)
Eduard (Slovakia)
Cirilo, Eduardo (Spain)
Edmund, Edvard (Sweden)
Cyril, Cyrilla, Grover, Salvador, Salvatore, Sibyl, Sybil, Sybilla (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 78 of 2024; 288 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 1 of week 12 of 2024
Celtic Tree Calendar: Fearn (Alder) [Day 2 of 28]
Chinese: Month 2 (Ding-Mao), Day 9 (Xin-Si)
Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025)
Hebrew: 8 Adair II 5784
Islamic: 8 Ramadan 1445
J Cal: 18 Green; Foursday [18 of 30]
Julian: 5 March 2024
Moon: 65%: Waxing Gibbous
Positivist: 22 Aristotle (3rd Month) [Xenocrates]
Runic Half Month: Beore (Birch Tree) [Day 9 of 15]
Season: Winter (Day 89 of 89)
Week: 3rd Week of March
Zodiac: Pisces (Day 29 of 30)
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How Greek Mystery Cults Shaped Christianity | Dr. M. David Litwa
COMMENTARY:
The Cult of Mithras was a front organization for the t secret Christian church of the Italian Cohort that resulted from the unilateral covenant cutting ceremony that began with the splitting of Jesus and the Talking Cross. As Dr. Litwa's research indicates, the Mithras Cult was present where ever the legions were and are "Those from Italy" Theophilus refers to in Hebrews 13::24.
The Talking Cross is the :tidings lf joy" that inspired Pilate's lost euangelion to Pilate cited by Tertullian in Book V, Apology, Cornelius, the centurion featured in Acts 10, is the author of the Gospel of Mark and conveyed the contents of Pilate's euangelion to Peter at that meeting, which became the basis for The Gospel of Peter an element of the euangelion Peter employed to vet Paul in Acts 15:7, Cornelius was the senior centurion in Caesarea and Pilate's administrative chief:: he was in the room with Pilate during the interrogation of Je Jesus and the centurion in Matthew 8 and Luke 7, He is the curator of Quelle which was the intelligence archives of the 10th Legion. Cornelius is denominator in all the Gospels and Acts.
Theophilus is Pilate's and Cornelius's direct report with the Italian Cohort in Rome, The Italian Cohort is the hard core of the Praetorian Guard and the founding military organization of the administrative state of Rome, By the time Paul and Luke get to Caesarea, Theophilus is the Bishop of the Church of the Talking Cross, which is embedded throughout the legions, which is to say, all the roman legions were christian.
Theophilus was an equestrian and part of the executive leadership of the Italian Cohort, In terms of intelligence from the field, he had a role similar to George Smiley's in John LeCarre's MI5 and issues the official finding regarding the Talking Cross, the Letter to the Hebrews. He was part of whatever imperial court sat in judgment of Pual one can infer result in Paul's end zone celebration in Philippians.
The thing abouut Constantine is that, at the Milvian Bridge, he discover that the soldiers on both sides were Christian, the difference being that the legions he brought back from Britain had marinated in the Druid culture fro two centuries and had adopted the abiding spirit of Boudicca, Queen of Battle, The Chir Rho symbol his sodliers painted on their shields was a Druid talisman and represented the moral advantage for Constantine,
Constantine's fatal blunder for the future of the Empire was to dismantle the Preaetorian Guard as a consequence of their role in the Milvian battle, The Praetorian Guard was the iron jaw of Daniel's vision and the centurions the iron teeth, They also represented the horizontal strauture, solicologically, that ensured the stability of the Empire. Within the century, the Roman Empire ceased to exist.
The thing is that the Pagan soldiers of the legions were God Fearers long before they encountered Judaism The apparent divinity of Jesus merely validated their battlefield experience of The One, There is more truth in the axiom that there are no atheists in foxholes. It is useful to understant that Jimi Hendrix was a Starship Trooper and his cover of The National Anthem at Woodstock is what it is like to follow Yaweh, Queen of Battle, into Hell as a Starship Trooper, going back to Rome,
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Flag of szekelys (hungarian minority in Transylvania)
from /r/vexillology
Top comment: [Székely anthem](https://youtu.be/rP6qNaRkkPg) [Coat of arms](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Coat_of_arms_of_Szekely_Land.svg/2000px-Coat_of_arms_of_Szekely_Land.svg.png) [In the wild](https://dailynewshungary.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/2014-04-27-12.09.27.jpg) This was the flag adopted in 2004 by the Székely National Council, based in Romania. You can also see the flag outside the Hungarian Parliament, I believe. The flag's colors and sun and moon have represented the Székelys and their land for centuries, and can be found on [the coat of arms of Transylvania](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/Coa_Transylvania_Country_History_v3.svg/2000px-Coa_Transylvania_Country_History_v3.svg.png), and as a result, [Romania](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Coat_of_arms_of_Romania.svg/2000px-Coat_of_arms_of_Romania.svg.png). The sun and moon originally came from Hungarian Paganism, but lost their religious significance when the Hungarians converted to Christianity in the 11th century. The Székely symbols are all beautiful, timeless, and with ancient roots. I like how they're all so tranquil. Despite the flag's reserved appearance, it's been the subject of much controversy. Random fact: Louis C.K.'s real name is Louis Székely (say-kay). Anybody not familiar with Hungarian writing (i.e. most people) would probably guess Székely was pronounced something like "Shekel-y".
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Music For Diviners - ‘The End of Time’
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Thusfar, these Music For Diviners posts have explored soundscapes that aren’t merely inspirational, but may have some kind of practical utility. (To the extent that one considers divination “practical,” but why not just humor me?)
This is the history of music itself; for as long as humans have been making it, we’ve used it as the gateway to other realms of existence, other parts of the self. Our ancestors used it to elicit and express feelings there weren’t words yet to describe. Even now, language often fails us in these areas. That’s how I feel every time I sit down to write about music.
Living in New York City is what drove me to incorporate music into my practice; no matter where I lived, silence was never an option. Like so many of you, I find it much easier to relax with a controlled background layer of noise —otherwise everything in the goddamn world distracts you by making its own tiny noise, including our own goddamned bodies.
*duodenal gurgle*
Music is also an enticing mode of creative expression for any magician. Look, I have almost no musical talent whatsoever, and artistically I tend to stay in my lane, but tinkering with unique tracks to accompany certain experiments allows me to bypass that self-censor. Because I’m the only person it has to be good enough for, right?
This is a neurotic preamble to explain why I’m posting some of my own homespun little music bits alongside others made by ACTUAL MUSICIANS. Because you might actually find them useful? Or perhaps they’ll help you feel permission to create some of your own.
CASEFILE: TITANOBOA
I won’t bore you with too many of the details, but I spent a couple of years harboring a magical fascination pre-human life forms. It began with researching humankind’s most recent common ancestor with birds, as a way of retracing our evolutionary steps to the point where, had things gone one way instead of another, you might be flying and singing and laying eggs today instead of reading these words. (By all means, don’t let me stop you!)
In case you’re curious, here’s how close scientists have it pegged:
• Archaeothyris (on the mammal side) - 306M years ago during the late Carboniferous Period (Protoclepsydrops is possibly older, but fossils are too fragmentary to be certain.)
• Hylonomus (on the bird side) - 312M years ago during the late Carboniferous Period
So at some point predating both of these species, there existed some kind of weird, ratty little lizard creature whose descendants ended up reaching VERY different conclusions about, for example, what to do about breakfast.
But I digress! Already!
In 2012, I happened to catch the Smithsonian Channel’s documentary “Titanoboa: Monster Snake.” The gist is that 60 million years ago, an area of Colombia was dominated by the largest snake that ever lived, now known by the name Titanoboa cerrejonensis.
Look, I don’t know what kind of serpent-y magick-y stuff you’re into... Hecate? Quetzalcoatl? Kundalini? Cthundalini? Whatever it is, I can only assume it could stand to benefit from associations with the largest ding-dang snake our planet ever produced... that we know of!
On a lark, or perhaps as a gesture of blatant self-disregard, I attempted a couple of rituals geared toward making contact with Titanoboa across the eons and applying its symbolic potency toward certain magickal aims.
Hi mom, if you happen to be reading: sorry I’m like this!
I shouldn’t have to point out how many of our feelings and desires are tethered in complicated ways to the experiences of our non-human forebearers. The needs which have historically compelled our species to “magical” solutions run deep, deep! We tend to forget about that since our own feelings are so painfully immediate, and our consciousness tends to remain very rooted in the present tense, to the point where we have to strain to see beyond it. Once upon a time our very survival hinged on this, but our needs have gradually evolved to the point where we crave far more than mere safety. In fact, a lot of what we crave runs completely counter to our survival instinct. It’s complicated, ya know?
Musing over all this, I decided my Titanoboa work demanded a sonic backdrop blessed by Our Lady of Poor Self-Preservation Instincts. That’s right, I’m talking about Lana Del Rey, whose “Born To Die” album happened to be released the same year as that Titanoboa doc. Coincidence? Gosh, I sure hope so!
I would only be slightly full of shit if I described this album as a fantasia of proto-human desire, expressed in the most cold-blooded ways through the idiom of American capitalism.
To Lana (in that stage of her songwriting, anyway), love itself is an expression of darwinism. Nearly every song is about survival and sacrifice, eating and being eaten, thanatos bleeding over into eros.
“I sing the National Anthem
While I'm standing over your body, hold you like a python...”
I could go on, but you’re probably better off just going back and listening to the album.
This doesn’t even count as a digression though, since my Titanoboa devotional track — embedded up at the top of this post! — ended up consisting of just one line from the song “Blue Jeans,” the part where Lana sings: “I will love you till the end of time.”
The song is about a woman left to eternally rehash the details leading up to her gangster beau’s disappearance. You may recall, the music video (embedded below) featured LDR lounging with her love in a pool that turns out to be full of alligators — Titanoboa’s snack of choice! What a potent visual metaphor for attempting love in a world teeming with danger, recognizing one’s role at the bottom of the food chain and then wading in anyway. What do we have to fear from any mega-reptile, when our own desires are enough to cut us off at the knees? Might as well at least go ahead and pick out a nice one-piece and get our legs wet before we lose them.
The author Lawrence Durrell meditated on this at length in his Alexandria Quartet novels, and nothing would surprise me less than finding them on Lana’s nightstand. He writes:
“I realized then the truth about all love: that it is an absolute which takes all or forfeits all. The other feelings, compassion, tenderness and so on, exist only on the periphery and belong on the constructions of society and habit. But she herself — austere and merciless Aphrodite — is a pagan. It is not our brains or instincts which she picks, but our very bones.”
And later:
“By one of those paradoxes in which love delights I found myself more jealous of him in his dying than I had ever been during his life. These were horrible thoughts for one who had been so long a patient and attentive student of love, but I recognized once more in them the austere mindless primitive face of Aphrodite.“
This may end up being a LOT of setup for what’s ultimately just a simple ten-minute chunk of “music,” which was achieved by plucking out that one lyric and sloooooowing it down, then layering it, slooooowing it down again, blending into a chunky primordial soup. The result is a many-layered hymn of cthonic moaning, with no words clearly expressed: just a slurry of proto-mammalian melancholia: austere, mindless, primitive, coiling and uncoiling in warm pools of black water.
The warmth of it is actually what surprised me; I imagined it might turn out to be too bleak and desolate to use for any real length of time, and the last thing I need is to work even harder at depressing myself. But I’ve played it on a loop for hours at a time while I was working on... stuff, without feeling oppressed by it. I don’t really fux with Titanoboa anymore, but this bit of “music” has remained a useful tool in my magickal arsenal.
I tested the track on an unsuspecting friend recently, who detected a “strong generative energy” in it and said they’d love to use it for goddess work. Incorporate this into your appeals to Hekate, or to Venus, or your preferred source of succor in all matters primally personal. As a backdrop for divination, it’s the sonic equivalent of black candles on a black tablecloth, with things squirming in the shadows.
So there you have it! I’ve opened up to you about my creative process and certain absurd inspirations, standing bare before you in the full splendor of my nerdiness, “blurring the lines between real and the fake,” as a certain living snake goddess avatar might put it.
Like I said, the ultimate goal in sharing this is to remind you to take these same deep dives yourself. Follow your obsessions to their (un)natural conclusions! Risk making terrible art in pursuit of articulating the uncanny! You never know what might end up taking on a life of its own. The end of time could prove to be just the beginning!
This has been yet another installment of Music For Diviners. Thanks for tuning in!
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Astronaut | Amanda Palmer
“Yes, you are my love, the astronaut; flying in the face of science. I would gladly stay an afterthought. Just bring back some nice reminders.”
Bite | Troye Sivan
“Kiss me on the mouth and set me free. Please don’t bite.”
Boom Clap | Charlie XCX
“You are the light and I will follow. You let me lose my shadow. You are the sun, a glowing halo. You keep burning me up with all your love.”
Break The Walls | Fitz & the Tantrums
“Give me a sledgehammer and give me strength. Watch the world come crumbling down. Cut me loose, I seek the truth. I beg the freedom will carry me.”
Circus | Britney Spears
“So baby, I hope that you came prepared. I run a tight ship, so, beware.”
Clarity | Zedd (feat. Foxes)
“‘Cause you are the piece of me I wish I didn’t need. Chasing relentlessly. Still fine, and I don’t know why. If our love is tragedy, why are you my remedy? If our love’s insanity, why are you my clarity?”
Come On, Eileen | Dexys Midnight Runners
“These people 'round here wear beat down eyes sunk in smoke-dried faces, They’re resigned to what their fate is. But, not us (no, never). We are far too young and clever.”
Die Young | Ke$ha
“I hear your heart beat to the beat of the drums. Oh, what a shame that you came here with someone. But, while you’re here in my arms, let’s make the most of the night like we’re gonna die young.”
Do It With A Rockstar | Amanda Palmer
“Are you really sure you wanna go when you can do it with a rockstar?”
Enjoy | Bjork
“How can I ignore? This is sex without touching.”
Fame | Irene Cara
“I’m gonna live forever. Baby, remember my name.”
For Your Entertainment | Adam Lambert
“Do you like what you see? Let me entertain you 'til you scream.”
The Greatest Show | Hugh Jackman, Zac Efron, Keala Settle, Zendaya & Ensemble
“It’s everything you ever want. It’s everything you ever need. And, it’s here right in front of you. This is where you wanna be.”
Here’s To Us | Lea Michele
“Here’s to us, here’s to love; all the times that we messed up. Here’s to you, fill the glass, 'cause the last few days have gone too fast. So, let’s give 'em hell. Wish everybody well. Here’s to us.”
Home | Gabrielle Aplin
“With every small disaster, I’ll let the water still take me away to some place real.”
I Belong To You | Muse
“When these pillars get pulled down, it will be you who wears the crown. And, I’ll owe everything to you.”
I Love You | Woodkid (feat. Angel Haze)
“Whatever I feel for you, you only seem to care about you. Is there any chance you can see me, too? 'Cause I love you.”
Kiri | Monoral
“Believe in me, and take my hand, and drink the wine, and fill me up. Believe in me, and take my hand, and drink the wine, and let me follow.”
Love is the Drug | Oscar Issac & Carla Gugino
“Face to face, toe to toe, heart to heart as we hit the floor.”
Love Me Like You Do | Ellie Goulding
“You’re the light, you’re the night, you’re the color of my blood. You’re the cure, you’re the pain, you’re the only thing I wanna touch. Never knew that it could mean so much.”
Lowlife | That Poppy
“All these years on my own, fight my fight all alone,'til you came. Don’t you know? Baby, you’re the highlight of my lowlife.”
National Anthem | Lana Del Rey
“Red, white, blue is in the sky. Summer’s in the air, and baby, heaven’s in your eyes. I’m your national anthem.”
Neon Lights | Demi Lovato
“Baby, when they look up at the sky, we’ll be shooting stars just passing by. You’ll be coming home with me, tonight. And, we’ll be burning up like neon lights.”
Nothing On (But The Radio) | Lady Gaga
“I’m calling 'cause I need you. You know I need you so desperately. You know how bad I can get. And, you know how good I can be.”
Oh, What You Do To Me | Swing Republic (feat. Patti Page)
“Won’t you let me cling to you, sing to you, bring you to heaven tonight?”
The Other Side | Alex Goot
“So tonight, kiss me like it’s do or die, and take me to the other side.”
The Other Side | Hugh Jackman & Zac Efron
“'Cause I got what'cha need, so come with me and take the ride- to the other side.”
Pagan Poetry | Bjork
“He offers a handshake- crooked, five fingers. They form a pattern yet to be matched.”
Paralyzed | Ken Ashcorp
“You’ve got me hypnotized. I’m feelin’ so obsessed with you. You left me paralyzed. And, now I’m stuck. You got me stuck.”
Run Away With Me | Carly Rae Jepsen
“You’re stuck in my head, stuck in my heart, stuck on my body. I wanna go, get out of here. I’m sick of the party. I’d run away, I’d run away with you.”
Shut Up and Dance | Walk The Moon
“She took my arm- I don’t know how it happened. We took the floor and she said…”
This One’s For You | Ed Harcourt
“My, oh my, oh my, I’ve had a few. My, oh my, oh my, this one’s for you.”
Uptown Girl | Billy Joel
“Uptown girl; she’s been living in her white bread world, as long as anyone with hot blood can. And, now she’s looking for a downtown man. That’s what I am.”
Wasteland | Woodkid
“How did you get to save me from this desolate wasteland? In your eyes I see the dawn of brighter days, again.”
Welcome Home | Radical Face
“You were never supposed to leave. Now, my head’s splitting at the seams. And, I don’t know if I can… Here, beneath my lungs, I feel your thumbs press into my skin again.”
What A Feeling | One Direction
“You’ve got stars in your eyes, and I’ve got something missing tonight. What a feeling, to be a king beside you, somehow. I wish I could be there, now.”
When My Boy Walks Down The Street | The Magnetic Fields
“Amazing- he’s a whole new form of life. Blue eyes blazing, and he’s going to be my wife.”
Wings | Birdy
“Oh, lights go down. In the moment, we’re lost and found. I just wanna be by your side. If these wings could fly. Oh, damn these walls. In the moment, we’re ten feet tall. And, how you told me after it all, we’d remember tonight for the rest of our lives.”
Young and Beautiful | Lana Del Rey
“And, all the ways I got to know your pretty face and electric soul. Will you still love me when I’m no longer young and beautiful? Will you still love me when I’ve got nothing but my aching soul? I know you will.”
#P.T. Barnum#The Circus King#Phillip Carlyle#My melancholic disgraced alcoholic love.#Barlyle#OTP: You brought joy into my life.#The Greatest Showman#Playlist#Yes#my song choices are cheesy.#I'm awful like that.
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