Altar del Cielo

23 MA

[axtssmnfr]

A hymn I wrote and recorded for Ra-Khepri-Atum. Translations by Ali Strnad.

[quasi-normalcy]

If you have bodily autonomy, then there is always a chance that you will do something to your body that you will regret. This is not an argument for taking that autonomy away.

[quasi-normalcy]

There is a much, much higher chance that someone who is not you will do something to your body that you regret.

[thequeer07puss]

🌞

[A hymn to Ra]

The Lord covers me with his hand,

His billions of rays beaming down on me,

His kind eyes looking at me with fatherly love

As he rises from his horizon.

With the Lord evil does not befall me.

His light banishes darkness, nothing escapes his sight.

He sees good and evil, just and unjust,

The beauty of the world he made shining in his light.

His self-renewing fires casting golden hues over the universe

He made the heavens and the earth,

And the universe obeys his word.

He is the Sun, the Lord, the great King who is known as Ra,

Who emerged on the day of the First Occasion,

Lord of all, lord of life.

May I see him both in life and in death

As he passes through the gloomy Duat.

Or among the unrelenting stars in the blue-dark heavens.

[eldritchbauble]

You're just a mammal. Let yourself act like it. Your brain needs enrichment. Your body needs rest. You feel hunger and grow hair. You need to pack bond with other sentient things so you don't become unsocialized and neurotic. You are biologically inclined to seek dopamine and become sick when chronically stressed. "Hedonism" is made up to place moral value on taking pleasure in sensory experiences. I am telling you that if you don't let yourself be a fucking mammal, as you were made, you will suffer and go insane. No grindset no diets no trying to be above your drive for connection. Pursue what makes you feel good and practice radial rejection of the constructs meant to turn you into a machine. You're a mammal.

[eldritchbauble]

I am so serious about the way people are taught to view themselves as separate from and above any other animal being the root cause of a lot of problems. You're not better than a beast.

[ancientcharm]

One of 12 Roman mosaics with the Latin inscription of each month and allegorical images, from early 3rd century, found in Tunisia.

This mosaic refers the festival of this month. In Ancient Rome, death and resurrection of Osiris was commemorated during the first days of November. The main figure with an Anubis mask and caduceus represents the god Hermanubis, syncretism between the Greek god Hermes, guide of souls to the afterlife, and the Egyptian god Anubis, guardian of the tombs. Hermanubis arrived in Rome to the relief of the ancient Romans who especially feared during November the souls that wandered the earth tormenting the living.

It was a Ptolemaic Egypt festival that became known in Rome after the conquest of Egypt and it was very popular throughout the Roman territory from the 1st to the 3rd century AD. Although the cults of Egyptian gods, such as Isis and Hermanubis, became popular from the reign of Caligula, who was an admirer of Ptolemaic Egypt.

[barbarastreisandof]

Blocking out her name and picture to protect her from harassment, but this is a Palestinian journalist reporting out of Gaza who I've personally had contact with through Twitter.

Money and aid is not getting through. Crowdfunding is not helpful. Ordering things is not helpful. Buying keffiyehs that say the money goes to Gaza is not helpful.

Gaza is a concentration camp - nothing is getting in or out that Israel does not approve of and right now Israel wants people dead or dying.

Most of social media, and tumblr is no exception, skews toward "taking action" being things that put you at zero risk and only ask for money or bits of time, or sometimes just doing nothing and calling it a boycott. "Call your rep!" "Buy this thing!" "Share this link!"

The reality is that you get out what you put in and if it was easy and low risk and comfortable for you to do it, then that is the level of impact it is having - low, comfortable to ignore, and flimsy.

Palestine, Gaza and increasingly the West Bank, NEEDS real help and the reality is we do not have the power as individuals to give it.

We DO have the power to band together and influence things collectively and the best way to do that is to loudly unequivocally express our anger and clarity of purpose.

So that does mean calling reps and being polite and firm and brief and giving your real address because otherwise they can't confirm you're a constituent and they'll ignore you. "Hello, my name is ______ and I am calling as a constituent to demand representative/senator _______ support aid to Gaza and to call for an end to support for all support to Israel."

It is important that your support for Gaza include opposition to Israel - there is no supporting Gaza while supporting Israel, it genuinely is one or the other.

Tear down pro-Israel posters. Tear down those fake kidnapped propaganda posters. Show up to rallies and marches where you can and if you can't, find out who's organizing them and get in touch to offer your support and help. Talk to family and friends. LEARN! Read up on these things and teach yourself history so you can better advocate and push back on propaganda.

Be willing to have people not like you. Losing friends over this is, and I don't mean to be cold here, nothing. It doesn't matter. Fuck em. If advocating against genocide costs you friendships and gets people calling you antisemitic, fuck em, good riddance. Privately process the loss of those relationships if they really matter to you, but publicly don't give it air because this is not a time to be focused on the feelings of people who cannot bring themselves to oppose ethnic cleansing.

The culture is shifting, support for Palestine is growing and it NEEDS to continue and we have the power to make sure it does.

[karlmarxmaybe]

Also I cannot stress this enough: the most useful thing you can do is phisically stopping the US and UK or whichever of the other genocidal countries from sending weapons to Israel. The workers at docks are refusing to let boats that will carry weapons dock. One in Oakland has actually been successfully deterred to Vancouver, where people are gonna deter it again. And this is happening internationally, with workers in South Africa stopping boats too and weapons factories in the UK being seized and shut down by protesters. Join this. If you live in a place where you are able to organize and phisically obstruct and delay the transport of weapons to israel, do it. Calling your representatives does nothing, it's direct action that matters. And follow the BDS boycott of companies that support Israel directly: HP, Siemens, AXA, Puma, Israelí fruits and vegetables, SodaStream, Ahava, Sabra. It works. This is the thing that really, really works.

Also keep an eye out for propaganda; the FBI is, very likely, going to stage a "terrorist attack" on US ground, problably against Jewish people, blame it on Hamas and use it to rile up post-9/11 islamophobia and support for the genocide of Palestinians. Please don't let the US fool you. They did it with Vietnam, they did it with Irak. And they have staged many terror acts on their own land before to blame on islamic people and get support for their imperialist and colonialist invasions of Middle Eastern countries. It's propaganda. You are warned; we know the FBI's tactics. Don't fall for it. It's November 4th, 2023.

[bl00dveil]

“I have come from my town,

I have descended from my nome,

I have done justice for its lord,

I have satisfied him with what he loves.

I spoke truly, I did right,

I spoke fairly, I repeated fairly,

I seized the right moment,

So as to stand well with people.

I judged between two so as to content them,

I rescued the weak from one stronger than he

As much as was in my power.

I gave bread to the hungry, clothes to the naked,

I brought the boatless to land.

I buried him who had no son,

I made a boat for him who lacked one.

I respected my father, I pleased my mother,

I raised their children.”

— inscription of nefer-seshem-re in his tomb at saqqara (6th dynasty)

[bl00dveil]

All the love God would allow, but all God’s love means nothing now / The bitter blood of many foes sustains me, and heavy is my hammer swinging ‘round / and soft are their throats, and soft are their skulls, and fragrant is my many flower’d crown

- FRAGRANT IS MY MANY FLOWER’D CROWN, Lingua Ignota

[igamuinacra]

Inviting The Divine

A ritual to invite the presence of a Netjer(u) to a designated space.

Step 1: Designate/Create a space for the Netjer(u)

Step 2: Cleanse the space

Step 3: Set up space/shrine

Step 4: Present offerings

Step 5: Invoke the Netjer(u)

I invoke you,  _____ here and now. Let Your Presence be known to me, let Your Strength permeates this area, let Your Might fill this space. I have call upon You, ______, in this moment and time to come forth and let your presence be known.

Hear me now, ______, and come forth to this domain. 

Hear me now, ______, and descend down to this domain.

A sanctuary I have created for you _____ to imbue with your presence and power.

I have made for You, _________, a sanctuary to rest your weary bones and your tired mind. I have made for you a sanctuary to rest thyself, a place to call home. Let this space become your domain so that I may worship you and bask in your presence.

Hail to thee  ____, a sanctuary I have created for you, so fill it with Your Might and Power, Your Glory and Greatness, so that I may bask in your Divine Presence. 

Step 6: Say thanks to the Netjer(u)

You have deign to imbue Your Presence here in this sanctuary, to call it home, so that I may bask in your Glory and Greatness, Hail to thee O _____ Let your stay here be peaceful, let your stay here be fruitful and I give to you my thanks and devotion.

[lunacrystalllc]

[outlawterritory]

The whole pantheon wants to share in this crucial moment of existence 🙌

[dwellerinthelibrary]

A bit of divine wordplay: the Egyptian word for tears, remi, was similar to the word for humanity, remetj. So here’s the human race, being born from Ra’s tears. (In his embrace are the creator’s first children, the twins, Shu and Tefnut.)

[intaier]

Reblogging for @webenbanu

Creation of humanity from Ra’s tears

[ityi-itui]

Anyone know where this is from?

[theheartroad]

@ityi-itui

It’s from this book. 

[soft-sunbird]

O, Bast;

Seek well the small souls

Under the rubble

Oh, Sekhmet;

Stoke hearts to roar

Guide the healers;

O Thoth,

Look well on the writers

Keep safe their stories, voices and names.

Dua Maat

Dua Maat

Dua Maat

[philhelias-moved-deactivated202]

Spaces for Deity work, spirit communication, and witchcraft aren’t even remotely as safe as they could be for people with psychotic disorders, high levels of anxiety, schizophrenia, paranoia, and other conditions altering one’s perception of reality so here’s a reminder: 

Not everything you receive via spiritual communication is a sign. Your sensations can be deceiving and might need double checking. 

Only you and the Deity/spirit/entity you work with know what is and what isn’t a sign. 

People you have never met, especially people online, have no authority over the validity, truthfulness, and meaning of your communication. 

There are no rules nor regulations that would stop you from reasking if something feels off or makes you paranoid. 

People claiming you need to do or be something before reaching out to Deities are fearmongers. If a God wants something first, they will tell you. 

You are not in danger for customizing your own communication. 

You are not obliged to keep up communication that makes you anxious. 

Your wording, pose, spacial orientation, appearance, and other physical characteristics do not define validity of your communication. 

Your intrusive thoughts do not manifest. They are not intentional. 

Your Deities, spirits, and entities can tell your intrusive thoughts apart from your conscious thought process; they won’t make the former come true. 

You do not offend your spiritual companions with thoughts and emotions you cannot control. 

Your spiritual and/or Divine communication must not bring you discomfort. If it does, leave, cleanse, and start anew. 

[theinconvenientlifestyle]

[strangeracrossthestreet]

credits for the images:

letstalkpalestine

[only-fragments]

#2239

I am a living flame of Bast None shall harm me or mine! I call down fire in the name of Sekhmet I call down fire in the name of Mafdet I call down fire in the name of Maahes I call down fire in the name of Bast!

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[ladychlo]

"nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them" Assata Shakur

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