#prayer to nut

[akhret]

Prayer to Nuit

Great Goddess, Nuit

Open your womb to take me into your embrace for all of eternity.

Lift me up into the Impershiable Stars when you do.

Shelter and protect me for all eternity.

Bring me in to live amongst the gods, the Great Netjeru.

I have done no wrong. I have committed no evil. Let my purified ba come to you to light up the heavens in the form of a star.

-Raet / Akhret

[hyolks]

I'm so normal about him. like fr. (<-lying)

[lale-txt]

really rawdogging this trainride

[acrosscenturiesandgenerations]

▪︎Prayer Nut Pendant.

Artist: Attributed to Adam Dirckz (Netherlandish, active ca. 1500-1525)

Date: 1500-1525

Period: Renaissance

Medium: Boxwood

[greenerteacups]

was conducting my bi-weekly reread of lionheart (as one does when in need of a pick me up) when i noticed a note in the preface about how the original title of lionheart was initially “all their words for glory”. glory was a huge theme in book 1, considering the whole sorting hat vs draco debacle, but i was also just wondering if there was a story behind what prompted the title change?

Yeah! Glory was a huge theme in Book 1 — to a similar but slightly lesser extent in subsequent books because there's not usually all that much glory to be had in middle school, even if you are trying to save your idiot friend from dying, at least as Draco understands it — but it crops back up in the last two books in a major, major way, and it was those two books (basically, the ending of the fic) I was thinking of when I named the fic. But it kept itching at me for some reason, because I didn't like the length, or the syntax, or the mouthfeel or something, and more than anything it just felt... wrong. Like, it wasn't a bad title, but it wasn't the title, you know? It wasn't right. I kept toying with alternatives, like "Glory" or "Words for Glory," or other song excerpts, but nothing satisfied.

Then one day, I was brushing my teeth and thinking about the fic — as you do — and the word "lionheart" dropped into my brain. Just out of the blue nowhere. It's like the muse kicked up her sexy-ass leg and pitched a fastball straight into my brain.

I changed the fic name the next day, and it's been that way ever since.

[notruevampire]

Nwt, Goddess of the Sky

[get-tusi]

love is just a drug from god.

(Yes I edited my childhood church.)

[shinesurge]

ok nobody asked but i've been chewing on it and i think my own personal reasons for immediately hitting 11 when i see the Carbon Monoxide Detector bit is because i'm one of those socially inept weirdos whose coping mechanism of choice is "basically doing stand-up comedy," and the carbon monoxide people are some of the most exhausting audiences you can run into

most of the time you get people who are unimpressed by your humor OR they're completely unused to it so you're getting laughs and a good grade in socializing (both are Fine) OR if you're really lucky someone is catching the ball and throwing it back (The Ideal). But there's a secret third thing where someone is acting like you couldn't POSSIBLY have said The Joke on purpose, whatever you just said was SO fucking strange or clever or whatever that you, tragically afflicted in some way that makes you too stupid to choose your words intentionally, must not be aware that what you just said could be taken as a joke

But it's okay! this helpful audience member is going to stop everything, take your hand and look in your eyes, and inform you in the most lukewarm way possible that not only do they think you're not smart enough to be funny, but your primary way of communicating comfortably isn't going to work here! they will be undermining you and ruining your punchlines for the rest of the night, the ball has been intercepted and confiscated

if you're not a comedian here's another angle; were you a teenage girl surrounded by people who had to halt everything to point it out anytime anything you said could MAYBE be taken as an innuendo, because a teenage girl couldn't possibly have made that kind of joke on purpose? remember how annoying it was trying to talk about shit with someone who had to pause every other line to collect themself about the alternate universe where you're very embarrassed about whatever basic thing you said that they couldn't handle? and it felt like being stuck on a tightrope where you had to decide between being boring but maybe listened to or constantly have your autonomy called into question because even your own weird personality isn't allowed to belong to you?

idk i can't speak for everyone obviously but i keep seeing people Bewildered about why some folks get irritated about it so here's a possibility. LIKE it's fine to think someone's not funny and it's fine to think they are but these kinds of comments come off more like "i thought what you said was funny but for reasons i'm not going to examine i'm embarrassed for thinking that, so i'm gonna flip it on you and act like you didn't say it For Real." it's frustrating and i think people are justified to feel frustrated about it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[hirakiyois]

i was waiting for pit babe to finish before i could catch up after like episode 7 (and also because college was and is kicking my ass) but knowing what they did to way and his character....

I'll just live in my hopes and dreams where way becomes pete's adored trophy husband

[avenetjer]

May Nut stills you inside of Her starry belly. May the wings of Aset encircle you as you sleep.

— [kemetic writings | kemetic blessings]

[headlessmage]

May i please have a prayer for Nut?🌌 Doesn't need to be anything specific, just praise and adoration or whatever comes to mind. I hope you have a lovely day or night💜

O Great Sky Who Carries Ra, Divine Mother Sycamore,

Your children sing your praises as You keep the Gods Alive!

O Mistress of the Night, Golden Ray of Light,

My Ka rejoices You Who created me!

[hrere]

Dua Nut, great beauty above, Tonight I praise you and I celebrate you You are strong and you are vibrant You protect the sun each night You rebirth the sun each dawn You keep him safe against enemies When he is weak you are strong Great mother Nut I sing great praises to you! Heavenly one, great mother and great lover Lady of the Tree, giver of fruit, Keeper of thousands of Souls, I praise you and celebrate you Dua Great Mother Nut Your beauty outshines all! Your grace is plenty! Dua Nut! Dua Nut! Dua Nut!

[onenakedfarmer]

[ilbound]

so a little lore for those that asked ( no-one asked ) : kaëltyr was regarded in long-lived mythos as this IMMACULATE LIGHT to humanity ( hence how it has been able to sustain faith for so long , methinks , bc people sought it as a benevolent creature & arbiter of fate , thus immortalized ) .  anyways , a primary facet of its existence is the motif of fire - “the breath of life” , according to some - an element distinguishable for being both a force for ruin as much as for creation ; for kaëltyr , each was true.

it’s well-known that kaëltyr would perform purifying rites by immolation when taking on souls into its realm ( literally , a brutalizing act that would purge away all former darkness & replace it with a cleansed , blessed existence ; in effect , what was left could barely be deemed “human” ) .  and many of their punishments were done with fire ( such as forcing those who broke the commandment “speak with virtue” to choke on their burning lies for the rest of eternity ) .

however , another aspect i find fascinating is the trial kaëltyr forced mankind to endure when coming to supplant it for a blessing.  so do you know ( you probably don’t ) how in dragon prince , the sun elves pretty much basically utilized the essence of the SUN ITSELF to test the virtue of someone ( rather , their “light” ) ?  i wager it was basically the same here.  kaëltyr would rip itself open , forcing a kneeling human to be exposed to the unbearable radiance of ITS OWN SOUL ( much like the sceptre the sun elves used ) .  humans would have to gaze , unblinking and unflinching , into this light for several arduous seconds while kaëltyr scried their soul.  Based upon what it found , it would pass judgment , either finding them worthy or unworthy of blessing and boon.  you can probably assume the rest.  those found to be “pure” were not given the option of leaving , though , they ( well , most ) were immediately taken and inoculated , never to be seen again ( though assumed to be well taken care of ) .

[justmaghookit]

My idea for how Stranger became a God in Faerun is Random Tarasque event.

Like some spell casters accidentally woke the big guy up, no one was prepared, no adventuring party in site, gods are trying to organize their chosen to go hunt it down and Stranger is just there in this random city, hears people shouting for someone to help them and goes "Well they asked."

accidentally spawns a small cult when she talks down the rampaging monster people think doesn't have higher intelligence and asks it nicely and politely to help clean up the mess it caused and then sends it to go back to sleep and now you're accidentally mother of monsters

[angstmongertina]

It begins…