#that's some cool ass hunter gatherer ancestors

[songsofbloodandwater]

Stumbled upon a documetary about Göbekli Tepe and ended up reading on it's headless figures, the underworld, animism and ancient religion.

I'm pretty sure it's a lead I'm getting towards understanding the Headless God better, whether it's Him or a predecessor with the same symbolism. If I find anything particularly interesting I'll share it here! So far the articles I've found on the matter are an absolute delight.

[irlactualhuman]

In my youth, there was nothing so empowering or cool as finding a unique stick. Maybe a pair of cool looking gloves. Boots with some metal on them. Like... a bangle, maybe. A weird hat.

Yknow. Artifacts.

Gloves of immense power that would allow you to lift or throw things twice the size you could before. Boots that enhanced your speed and jumping capability. Talismans that were proof against detection or harm or that granted mystical power. Glorious Swords that could fell giants with a tap to the knees or imparted their wielder with knowledge of intricate combat techniques and sight arcane.

Stuff that made you cool. Maybe better than you were. Maybe just more interesting. Maybe filled a void in your life. Helped you deal with loneliness or trauma. Pretending is the oldest of human art forms.

I like to think of our hunter-gatherer ancestors traipsing about the forest with an anklet made of daisies thinking that they were just *so* much faster now. Maybe tying a fetish or two made of some cool-ass rocks to their spears cuz it made them strike true. Finding a big ol' banana leaf or some such and fashioning it into a hat that kept them safe in the night.

There no real point here. I just think about this often and I think it's beautiful.

[sixrealmsbeneaththesea]

Lamia cont’d

Their skin…it’s thinner and weaker in infancy before it works its way towards calcification. Uhhhh is it because all the nutrients in the skin are redirected in fortifying the lamia’s new nature? I wonder. But they do forsake the light and burn like regular vampires. But they don’t (normally) combust. It’s like…poisoning and skin cancer at an accelerated rate unto death. Close or past calcification, sun doesn’t hurt anymore.

Ohhhh cool idea: lamia graveyards. To the untrained eye they just look like scrapyards or weird art installations for statues. But lamia who age and can’t get past turning to stone are stuck as statues. Kinda like that muscle stiffening disease that Celine Dion is going through. Most lamia are smart enough to forge suicide pacts with significant others, fledglings and thralls to kill or shatter them if they can’t successfully age into incubi/succubi, but some graveyards will just have…screaming, staring statues that nobody has the heart to break. Don’t look too close or you’ll find rocks strangely shaped like real organs in the heaps.

Purebloods do exist and may or may not just look like huge ass snakes or lizards, but they’re fading into myth and legend because they supposedly house the spirit and remains of the ancestor spirit and safeguard them in the event that they’ll need to repopulate (religious and technological booms raise monster hunters quite a bit), so they’re gonna be entombed somewhere

The race’s relationship with El and his kingdom? A little tenuous. He’s romanced a lot of nobles, kings and queens so he has connections…but has also eaten/disappeared a lot of them too. He emphatically offers the lamia a place to call home in his predominantly non-human nation, since they’re decentralized, but they don’t trust him …probably because he’s gathering millions of people to sacrifice but they don’t know that yet, just that something is fishy lol.

Will you ever write Holy Body? If it could be the only original thing you ever wrote and published in your life…

[aeriseta]

Some stuff I believe

I was talking with a friend recently about my ideas on God and spirituality. I've been wanting to share what I believe in for awhile, but have resisted the urge to because I didn't feel like I had a whole hell of a lot figured out and no accurate way to articulate what I believed. One of my favorite pass-times is discussing beliefs with friends because it's always interesting, and I always leave the conversation feeling like I've learned something! After all, friendly debate is a way to practice articulation and recall of information!

So what do I believe? I believe in a lot actually. My beliefs encompass my living, too! I recycle because I want to help save the planet. I want to help save the planet because if we don't, our resources will be depleted, natural disasters will keep gaining in magnitude and frequency until our Earth Mother (Yes, I kind of believe it's a real thing, like Eywa from Avatar.) brings things back into balance, so to speak. I believe that if the human race is to survive, we willhave to adopt real sustainability practices and refuse to deviate from them!

Part of being sustainable means being conscious of what foods you buy and what they are packaged in. Can that container be recycled or reused some how? If the answer is no, opt for something else where possible. "We vote with our dollars!" (Uncle Roy)  That means what we buy is what companies will want to sell to us. I remember a time when it was difficult for me to buy organic food for my family but now you see organic food just about everywhere because more and more people have made it known that organic is what we want!

I still don't see much recycling in my opinion. I think there should be recycling bins EVERYWHERE, in gas stations, banks, malls, restaurants, bars, even. I also think there should not be a law against dumpster diving! I swear that is one of the dumbest laws I ever heard of!  If something is in the trash, it should be free game and people shouldn't be prosecuted for grabbing something out of the dumpster that can still be used! I've found some pretty cool things scavenging out of dumpsters including a neon Bob Marley poster that glows brightly under my blacklight; a Brita water filter, still in the package(!) because someone tossed it for having a little knick in the top(!); and a coffee table and a shelf. Brad's neighbors put their table and chairs out on the side of the road last year and I grabbed them!lol  There's almost always a way to donate, reuse, recycle, and reduce waste!

Now, back to food. I believe diet is everything! What we put into our bodies directly affects what our bodies manifest! Literally, we are what we eat! I believe that what our ancestors ate is probably what we should be eating! I'm talking about hunter/gatherer roots! Indian days! Oh, I mean, Native American days.lol Whatever you prefer. This land was supposed to be the land of the free and it used to be! To the Native Americans! The first peoples who were here before the Europeans, who stole the land and forced "civilization" onto the once peaceful landscape! I've been told I am part Indian/Native American before but I have yet to complete the ancestry thing due to lack of funds...

Now I'm thinking again of Pocahontas and why I started this whole post in the first place! lol  You guys remember Grandmother Willow! (Side note: Did you know white willow bark was the precursor and is the natural alternative to aspirin?) Grandmother Willow is the perfect metaphor for something I believe in and that's that all living things are sentient in some way! I mean, think about it! Did you know that plants can scream? Did you know they release pheromones to communicate with other members of their own species?! I recently discovered this and it's really had me thinking! I've never gone vegan or vegetarian because they didn't make sense to me. Biologically speaking, our teeth were made like other omnivores' to bite meat and to chew vegetation.  So this new bit of information about plants being sentient is not to say we are all wrong for eating other sentient beings. Not at all! I don't know who said it but "Life requires death." We must kill to eat to survive. That's why the Indians/Native Americans only killed what they absolutely needed to eat and used and ate every part of the animal! They also prayed to the animals spirit and thanked it for its nourishment! I wonder if they did that to the plants they used too? Maybe they just looked at Mother Earth as a sentient being (Avatar) and worshiped her. Maybe we should adopt some of those ideologies! We sure as hell wouldn't treat the planet so poorly! What we audaciously fail to realize as a species is that what we don't give back to the earth is what we will eventually be starved to receive! Oh, wait, that's happening right now!

I believe that there is a collective consciousness spread out and manifested in different forms and spirits are a part of this inconceivably interconnected life Force! And yes, just like in Star Wars, I believe there is a Dark Side and a Light Side. Let's get real here. There are definitely ghosts and other entities out there besides just us. (I believe in aliens too, cause how could there not be other lifeforms throughout the vast expanse of the universe?) Did you know that DMT or N, N-Dimethyltryptamine is a molecule that is found in potentially all living things? Did you know it's also illegal? There's another dumbass law.  DMT, an entheogen (which is a plant, fungus, or even a secretion of a certain kind of amphibian with psychoactive properties that people have used for thousands of years in shamanic rituals) is known as the most powerful psychedelic substance on the planet, but our brains make it! Why? DMT has been dubbed the Spirit Molecule (actually there's a documentary on the subject by the same name DMT: The Spirit Molecule that's really worth watching if you're interested in this kind of stuff!). I think DMT is the physical molecular manifestation of our consciousness! It's produced when we are born, and when we die and it's been suggested that it affects dreamstates as well! And it's in all living things!  It's a sort of theory of mine anyway. lol

Anyway, I'm actually pretty tired and am going to put a stop to this long-ass post now! haha Let me know what you guys think! Have questions?

Do you guys have any plans you'd like to share about the future? When I get around to it, I'll share my plans to eventually live out of a bus or two and travel the country!Good night and much peace and love to ya, fam!