#personal god

[sag-dab-sar]

Prayer for Protection from a Personal Deity

Dingir means "God/Goddess" in Sumerian. You can replace it with the specific name of a deity, or My Goddess, My God, or My Deity. Or adapt it to other pantheons if you want.

"My Dingir, who looks upon me. Splendid one who encourages celebration and listens to words of prayer, you guide fine speech and tongues, great one who loves the truth, august intercessor, hear my words.

Direct my eyes, ears, and mouth towards truth and goodness. My Dingir, it is you who watches me. My Dingir, it is you who hears my cries, My Dingir, it is you who is pleased by my laughter.

My Dingir, I seek your protection as I go about my day. My Dingir, I seek your protection as I sleep at night. My Dingir, I seek your protection from those who wish me harm.

My Dingir, your divine splendor radiates in all directions. My Dingir, your power puts me in awe. My Dingir, I graciously thank you for your protection.

Sweet is your praise."

—By IzkurEreškigal

Notes

Context: Many ANE cultures believed in having a personal God, often unnamed but sometimes named. They were usually the ones you turned to first. They could also be seen as intercessor between you and other Gods.

While it is written in Mesopotamian style you can adapt it to other pantheons if you like!

Mesopotamians like repeating things 3 times 😅

I chose to spell it dingir and not Diĝir to try and make pronunciation easier. Diĝirĝu (Dingirngu) is "My God/Goddess" in Sumerian.

This was inspired by lines 1-4 of segment D in ETCSL 4.02.1

[dian-of-the-figuring-out]

Making your own religion

Thinking real hard about fully committing myself into making my own religion. With my own gods, rituals, scripture. I wonder who else has done this?

I have already developed my own personal god, was mainly thinking about expanding that into a fully fleshed religion. Should I? How could I like give it power?

I'm interested if anyone else has done this or knows of resources about this :3

[atheostic]

[cuntylouis]

Ignoring the real possibility he intentionally let himself be caught from the little we know so far Luigi Mangione's case is a fascinating combination of astonishing brilliance and confusing stupidity. This young man plans and executes his assassination and escape with such a meticulous care and calmness that it's suspected that he's a professional hitman. He comes up with Riddler-sque moves like writing his manifesto poetically on the bullets and leaving his backpack behind full of Monopoly money. He carefully wears a mask to avoid being identified but removes it because a woman who was checking him into the hostel was flirting with him and wanted to see his smile. He still manages to escape the most surveilled city in the country in the midst of ongoing national manhunt only to get caught in the middle of bumfuck nowhere Pennsylvania while eating at the McDonalds. Because for some reason he had the same clothes and mask as in New York and was carrying the same gun and suppressor. And when the cops detained him he showed them the same fake id he used in New York. And oh yeah he's a frat bro gym rat who has a masters degree in computer science from Penn but reads stupid self-help books about being on the grind and is 'anti-woke' while being bisexual suffering from anxiety and wanting to end oppressive capitalism. Not even god himself could invent a person like this

[gorgo4ne]

Can the guy at the bottom kill himself or something

[tariah23]

Oh…. Well, it’s over for Crunchyroll I guess

[temple-of-daneh]

Supreme Danéh

Supreme Danéh, infinite God,

who creates and destroys universes by thinking,

Listen to my petitions, O Good one,

my God Danéh, you I worship

[noelledeltarune]

EVERY SINGLE DAY there are MILLIONS of characters in their late 20s who get falsely accused of being father figures to teenagers when in reality the description of "weird older cousin" or "step-sibling that moved out before you were born" is 1000000x more apt

[hinamie]

to moving forward

[haroldhighballjordan]

sometimes I randomly think about the time a girl posted in this girls only Facebook group I’m in telling everyone how she broke up with her boyfriend and he lied saying that he lost the spare key she gave him, only to then break into her apartment when she wasn’t home and steal the cat they’d adopted while they were together, but then he denied having done this and she didn’t really have proof that he took the cat since he wouldn’t let her come into his place and look for it. And then another girl saw this post and knew her ex-boyfriend, and she was like “girl. I used to hook up with your mans back in xxxx and I still have his number. If you want, I’ll hit him up and get him to invite me back to his place and see if your cat’s there.” And the OP was like “bet.”

So this woman hit up homie dog, asked him out for drinks, went home with him, slept with him, and then woke up in the middle of the night and TOOK THE CAT. Like she had only said that she would confirm if the cat was there but then she took it upon herself to steal this woman’s cat back. Like she full on Trojan horsed this man and then hit up homegirl like “I got the goods. Where you wanna meet.” And then the two of them posted a photo of them together with the cat to the group.

And I just think women supporting women is so beautiful.

[problemnyatic]

when will we talk about the willful helplessness epidemic on here. So many people on this god forsaken website demand to have any and all things that exist outside their personal experiences directly, personally pre-chewed and spoonfed to them. And when you do, they'll then ask for you to swallow for them, too, because, you see, in THEIR experience..,

[vickihinze]

The Spiritual Journey of John Denver by James R. Coggins

“You can talk to God and listen to the casual reply,” John Denver sang in the song “Rocky Mountain High.” What did he mean by that? Denver was an American singer and songwriter who died in a solo plane crash in 1997. His songs chronicle a spiritual journey, a journey not uncommon for people of my generation. “Rocky Mountain High,” released in 1972, describes a spiritual awakening when Denver…

[payasita]

being a manager sucks balls half the time but the cashier kids im in charge of trust me enough to dick around in front of me so ive been keeping a running list of the shit they say that makes me laugh randomly: -"guys, is it cheating if you play fortnite with your ex" [4 seperate others, immediately]: "YES" -"there must be like… infinite sentences" -"bro what bro what the fuck bro what's that mean bro why'd you say that bro what" <distraught response to a girl randomly greeting him with 'hey there big boy' in an old timey transatlantic news reporter accent

[fearlesswriterblog]

Jesus Appeared....to individuals

Several of the post-resurrection appearances were to specific individuals instead of groups.  I previously wrote about Jesus’ encounter with Mary,  but today I want to look at Jesus’ appearances to Peter and James.  The appearance to Peter is mentioned in passing in Luke 24:34 “saying, “The Lord has risen indeed, and has appeared to Simon!”  and in 1 Corinthians 15:5 by Paul “and that he appeared…

[belphegor1982]

Brennan Lee Mulligan, Matthew Mercer, Aabria Iyengar

the weavers of tales of Exandria

[kimdokjas]

though the movie might be cancelled, yuri on ice will live forever in our hearts. thank you yoi fandom, it's been real ♡