Canaanite Recon

Canaanite Polytheist She/her -- Cis ace/bi -- Spoonie Not a witch. Email: [email protected] "Primary" blog: Talysia Current status: Chronic Fatigue Nazis and TERFs not welcome.

[hellenhighwater]

I've started the process of documentation on the last labyrinth, which is...an undertaking.

[hellenhighwater]

I forgot my favorite picture!

[hellenhighwater]

And here’s "Asterion."

[hellenhighwater]

And our middlest boy, "A Crack in the Labyrinth. "

[lilgothbee]

i wish somebody would have told me that you don’t need to use candles in your practice.

i remember first getting into witchcraft and believing candles are the staple of the whole practice - that without them you can’t be a good practitioner.

oh how wrong i was.

yes candles are popular in witchcraft, but they’re also a preference - you decide if you want to use them or not, it's not a must have criteria to be a good practitioner.

there are so many different things you can do that doesn’t include candle work, such as:

-> making enchanted oils.

-> making herb bags.

-> learn/practicing tarot.

-> meditating to help communicate with your deities

-> making sigils.

-> making simmer pots.

-> making ritual baths.

and probably many more! so don't feel like you need to include candles to be a good practitioner, do what's right for you and your circumstances <3

[sludgewizard666]

if it sucks hit da bricks <- litany against sunk cost

take it easy but take it <- litany against burnout/apathy cycle

fuck it we ball <- litany against perfectionism

now say something beautiful and true <- litany against irony poisoning

[pepsimansthickjuicymeatyschlong]

some others i found in the notes

[sacred-portal]

[enkidusbi]

everybody shut up and look at my favourite anatolian hieroglyph

it's the L9/L444 sign and it means embraced or beloved

[stitchposts]

[fongus-the-ninth]

[asmeesh]

Doodled while watching the calves in the field

[asmeesh]

One more cow doodle. Ghost and her calves.

[saritazoo]

Happy International Vulture Awareness Day!

It’s about time I got the chance to draw my favorite animal for this account! This is the Bearded Vulture (Gypaetus barbatus), a scavenger of scavengers, the only known vertebrate whose diet consists of 70–90% bone! In order to digest bone, the Bearded Vulture’s stomach acid has a pH concentration of 1, about as acidic as battery acid! The Bearded Vulture can swallow bones up to the size of a lamb’s femur whole, or, it will break them into smaller, more manageable pieces. It does this by flying them to a height of 50–150 m (160–490 ft) above rocks and then dropping them so that they fall at a precise angle. They may need to repeat the drop multiple times if the bone does not break sufficiently. This learned skill requires extensive practice, and can take up to 7 years for the bird to master. They can fly with bones up to 10 cm (3.9 in) in diameter and weighing over 4 kg (8.8 lb), nearly equal to their own weight!

Bearded Vultures are also one of the few animals known to use cosmetics. While their head, chest, and leg feathers are naturally a cream color, they will bathe in iron-rich dust or mud to dye them red, orange, rust, or pink! They will also transfer this coloration to their eggs.

The Bearded Vulture has been declining severely in Europe over the past several decades, and has also seen declines in Asia and Africa. Threats include loss of habitat, collisions with powerlines, poisoning (intentional and unintentional), and trophy hunting.

Bearded Vultures are one of the more charismatic species of vulture, but on this Vulture Awareness Day let us remember how important all vultures are. As highly effective scavengers with strong stomachs, vultures help clean the earth and stop the spread of diseases such as rabies and anthrax. They return nutrients that other organisms would miss into the cycle of life, and they do not need to hunt and kill to eat. This is one of the most imperiled group of birds, and without them, ecosystems around the world would collapse.

[criticalthinkingwitches]

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[mildlybizarrecorvid]

Character who says "I must consult the ancient texts" and starts scrolling really far through a group chat

[intothestacks]

Wake up, babes. New cuneiform tablet just dropped.

News - Newly Deciphered Cuneiform Tablet Contains Unknown Sumerian Myth - Archaeology Magazine

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS—A riveting lost Sumerian myth was recently rediscovered thanks to University of Chicago Sumerologist […]

[peaceheather]

[peaceheather]

The only post I've ever made that broke containment, even a little bit.

I'm sharing it again because a couple days ago I was reading a book on ancient Mesopotamia (I don't have it in front of me right now to name the author but she's pretty great; the title is "Between Two Rivers"), and I learned about this palace they were exploring in the 1920s when archeologists found a room with a bunch of artifacts in it from different time periods, only all on the same layer. Usually, you find older stuff in deeper layers and newer ones closer to the surface. Scholars at the time weren't sure what they were looking at, until they deciphered the script on one of the objects and realized it was a label.

Y'all.

The world's oldest known museum was in this princess's palace, in ancient Mesopotamia.

They had stuff in this room that predated the invention of writing, stuff that would have been ancient even to the folks who first compiled the collection. And they labeled it and kept it and honored their past, because people have not stopped being fundamentally people in thousands and thousands of years.

How cool is that?

[fairycosmos]

[bumblebeebats]

This was genuinely what it was like growing up in New Agey circles btw, my mum's friends would come round like "So I went out to the woods this weekend and fasted and meditated and I had a vision of the Sacred Stag and all my guardian angels and I asked them how to find love and they said that I need to focus on my own healing first and stop repeating cycles of the past" and then the very next week it'd be like "So I'm back with James again" girl..... the Sacred Stag could not have been more clear....

[fiberartandspells]

That one girl who asked me for almost weekly tarot readings and yet ignored everything the cards said...

[wheatfieldtemple]

I lost the files of my art of Ba'al Hadad! I'm upset but I'm glad I have a printed out poster of it. It's a lot lower quality res, and I don't have a scanner, so phone pics 😭😭 I'm hoping to recover/redraw to get a good enough quality to put on maybe redbubble so other worshippers can have tapestry or posters or stickers or whatev.

Left: with white paint pen overtop

Right: no paint pen.

Middle: Ba'al with Thunderbolt Relief/Stele - found in bronze age Ugarit! The inspiration for my art!

[bookofwisdom]

Oh no! Have you dug through your blog to see if you maybe shared a version of it? Apparently you were working on it in mid-November of 2024. (I opened the post and tumblr suggested a work in process post)

[space-queen]

witchy discussion

what do you think is the very first thing that a beginner witch should learn or research?

[asksecularwitch]

Witchcraft isn't a monolith & it's certainly not a universal experience. While Wicca is a witchcraft religion, it is also not a monolith and also does not speak for all forms of witchcraft.

Yeah and history and stuff I get it. But really it's also about detecting what is persuasive writing and propaganda as well as how to track down certain claims.

Like fully agree with some some folks about casting spells (Luck, Money, and Protection are the basics I give to everyone). But ultimately at the end of the day, the first thing that pops up in every fucking new age book so far as been shit like "Witchcraft is a religion & it is called Wicca" because a lot of these books are older and that was the messaging.

So clearing that hurdle to be like "hey that's not the case" and then moving on, is the easiest thing that will help reduce confusion and bring people away from maybe two years of going around completely lost in the sauce (or was that just my experience?) arguing about this or that that they read in some book that was written by someone who wanted to pad their book station.

[upthewitchypunx]

I would hope that a new practitioner would already come with some critical thinking skills. So, after that, whatever you are interested in. Follow your curiosity!

[thearchaeologicalwitch]

Imma also gonna step into this convo and argue that they need to understand a couple of topics that relate to the history of the NeoPagan/Wicca movement before they move forward.

1.) The modern neopagan wiccan movements are linked to Theosophy, an anti-modern organization that really did NOT like the idea of Evolution and seeks the "First Religion/Race". These people traveled the world appropriating religious symbols from colonized areas to reconstruct a "Source culture" that is conviently Western Empires. They also inspired (and continues to inspire) the Nazis, Imperialism, Colonialism, and Racism.

2.) Depending on where you live, Wicca and Paganism are born out of and tend to align themselves differently on the socio-political spectrum. If you are from the British Isles, it is a right-wing antimodernity movement seeking the "Original Religion" of their particular ethnic nation to escape a shifting definition of "English, Scottish etc". If you are from the US, it is a left-wing feminist religion as a way to escape the patriarchal authoritarian christian hegemony in the USA, and oh also granola mom shit. (DISCLAIMER: I am not too familiar how the other Anglosphere Nations compare to this) Regardless: BOTH FLAVORS OF THIS USED GENDER ESSENTIALISM/ ANTIMODERNITY TO FURTHER THEIR POINTS.

3.) As more people come under the Pagan/Wicca umbrella, the lore expands and grows. This means we can prune the old white ppl bullshit away in favor of new ideas. Because our world is always growing, trying new things. So should we.

[space-queen]

witchy discussion

what do you think is the very first thing that a beginner witch should learn or research?

[sewceress]

i'm gonna be annoying and say how to research and how to figure out whether the information they're consuming is credible and reliable

[space-queen]

i have to agree with you!

research + history + introspection - why do you wanna be a witch? what do you hope to gain? what has attracted you to all of this in the first place? etc etc.

plus some foundational education and terminology

[bookofwisdom]

I know it's not fun, but I would suggest getting used to googling what culture a practice comes from, if it's closed, and if there's a similar concept that isn't closed. ...also fire safety and getting used to googling if plants are poisonous.

[witchyphilosophe]

Set up an altar for Pride month and included my grandfather and his partner of 37 years, plus some queer community ancestors.

It never hurts to have a little extra love, devotion, and protection in June. Whether you celebrate at the big rainbow-festooned events, at home in your own private way, or through acts of protest as pride month is rooted, may you be safe, and happy, and healthy.