Musings of a Polytheist

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the seven planets of the middle ages personified; from Ramon Lull's Practica ff.56-66

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[aerislunam]

Vintage book covers

[centuriespast]

Clonfert mermaid, chancel arch, Clonfert Abbey, County Galway, Ireland, 15th century.

photo by one Andreas F. Borchert

[theancientwayoflife]

~ Six lords and ladies with fabulous beasts, fragment of a wall hanging.

Place of origin: Basle, Switzerland

Date: ca. 1410-1420

Medium: Wool tapestry

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On an equinox night by Anne Bachelier

[notyourmothersspellbook]

This is a page from Urban Homesteading (2011) by Blume and Kaplan, but the concept of bioregionalism is a valuable and necessary practice for more than just environmentalism.

[kawaiisatanist]

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Hi everyone! I wanted to make a new list of resources for you all, including books and some useful blogs to follow.

It's very important to get information from places other than Tumblr, so I thought I'd link you all some good places! Please DM me if you want me to add something!

A sidenote: please respect my boundaries. I'll put it up here for readibility.

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Thanks so much!

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In Satan's Honour - This website is pretty regularly updated and even has a patreon! There are a lot of thought provoking articles and great resources on there.

Spiritual Satanist - The website and blog is a great resource and the author is vocally anti nazi. She made a blog post about how nazis don't belong in the community a few years back. (Blog here)

Theistic Satanism - An older site, but plenty of worthwhile stuff on there. Several other sites are also maintained via this site!

Black Goat Cabal - Now shut down but the websites maintained by the above site. Lots of essays, rituals and advice.

Your Friendly Neighbourhood Devil Worshipper - Maintained by the same person who maintains the BGC and theistic satanism website. LOTS of great advice, sermons and even has a section for new theistic satanists.

Satan's Den - A lot of information on satanic magic & Satanism in general! There's also a blog attached to the website, so even more content.

Aleister Nacht - A lot of videos and information on Satanism. Has a list of Satanic holidays you can follow if you wish! Also has a Patreon!

In Praise Of Satan - A website about someone's personal journey with Satan. There's an FAQ section and some other information.

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Here's a list of recommended reading from @saltsulphur! Some are PDFs, some aren't. A lot of very good books though!

At Satan's Altar - a book of prayers, chants, hymns ect. I believe Marie Ravensoul also has a website that I've linked! I'd recommend buying this if you can afford it - please don't pirate it as this person is an independent author.

Spiritual Satanist Prayer Book - A book of prayers and such by Venus Satanas - the author of a website I've previously linked. I'd recommend buying this if you can afford it - please don't pirate it as this person is an independent author.

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@saltsulphur / @bitteroccultist - Lucian is another very knowledgeable Satanist! He runs another blog, bitteroccultist, for blunt informational posts.

@satanourunholylord - A great person and a great resource for a lot of paths of Satanism & Norse Paganism! He's an agnostic Satanist and shares a lot of good information so he's definitely worth a follow!

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I have been looking for new Theistic Satanist texts for a while now. I suppose I have to look into Rev. Cain.

[lesensdutemps]

Soleil Pourri, de Georges Bataille

       Le soleil, humainement parlant (c’est-à-dire en tant qu’il se confond avec la notion de midi) est la conception la plus élevée.  C’est aussi la chose la plus abstraite, puisqu’il est impossible de le regarder fixement à cette heure-là.  Pour achever de décrire la notion de soleil dans l’esprit de celui qui doit l’émasculer nécessairement par suite de l’incapacité des yeux, il faut dire que ce soleil-là a poétiquement le sens de la sérénité mathématique et de l’élévation d’esprit.  Par contre si, en dépit de tout, on le fixe assez obstinément, cela suppose une certaine folie et la notion change de sens parce que, dans la lumière, ce n’est plus la production qui apparaît, mais le déchet, c’est-à-dire la combustion, assez bien exprimée, psychologiquement, par l’horreur qui se dégage d’une lampe à arc en incandescence.  Pratiquement le soleil fixé s’identifie à l’éjaculation mentale, à l’écume aux lèvres et à la crise d’épilepsie. De même que le soleil précédent (celui qu’on ne regarde pas) est parfaitement beau, celui qu’on regarde peut être considéré comme horriblement laid.  Mythologiquement, le soleil regardé s’identifie avec un homme qui égorge un taureau (Mithra), avec un vautour qui mange le foie (Prométhée) ; celui qui regarde avec le taureau égorgé ou avec le foie mangé.  Le culte mithriaque du soleil aboutissait à une pratique religieuse très répandue : on se mettait nu dans une sorte de fosse couverte d’un clayonnage de bois sur lequel un prêtre égorgeait un taureau ; ainsi on recevait tout à coup une belle douche de sang chaud, accompagnée d’un bruit de lutte du taureau et de meuglements : simple moyen de recueillir moralement les bienfaits du soleil aveuglant.  Bien entendu le taureau lui-même est aussi pour sa part une image du soleil, mais seulement égorgé.  Il en est de même du coq dont l’horrible cri, particulièrement solaire, est toujours voisin d’un cri d’égorgement.  On peut ajouter que le soleil a encore été exprimé mythologiquement par un homme s’égorgeant lui-même et enfin par un être anthropomorphe dépourvu de tête.  Tout ceci aboutit à dire que le summum de l’élévation se confond pratiquement avec une chute soudaine, d’une violence inouïe.  Le mythe d’Icare est particulièrement expressif du point de vue ainsi précisé : il partage clairement le soleil en deux, celui qui luisait au moment de l’élévation d’Icare et celui qui a fondu la cire, déterminant la défection et la chute criarde quand Icare s’est approché trop près.         Cette distinction entre deux soleils d’après l’attitude humaine a une importance particulière du fait que, dans ce cas, les mouvements psychologiques décrits ne sont pas des mouvements détournés et atténués dans leur impulsion par des éléments secondaires.  Mais ceci indique d’autre part qu’il serait a priori ridicule de chercher à déterminer des équivalences précises de tels mouvements dans une activité aussi complexe que la peinture.  Toutefois, il est possible de dire que la peinture académique correspondait à peu près à une élévation d’esprit sans excès.  Dans la peinture actuelle au contraire la recherche d’une rupture de l’élévation portée à son comble, et d’un éclat à prétention aveuglante a une part dans l’élaboration, ou dans la décomposition des formes, mais cela n’est sensible, à la rigueur, que dans la peinture de Picasso.

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Georges Bataille, Documents n° 3, Hommage à Picasso.  Lu sur le très riche site pileouface, où l'on peut d'ailleurs télécharger la revue dans son intégralité.

- Illustration : Picasso, Corrida, 3 avril 1959

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A guide to worship of Pan- cheat sheets

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[nir4z]

Sun Kissed

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SO YOU WANNA LEARN ABOUT YOUR LOCAL ECOLOGY!

Maybe you love the bird that always comes to your windowsill and wonder what he’s up to. Maybe you heard about that invasive species that everyone’s stomping out and you want to know why its so bad. Or maybe you just wanna know more about where you live! You should learn about ecology!

You probably know some about it already whether you know it or not. Now, I’m no Subject Matter Expert (SME), but I have an undergrad degree in environmental studies, I work in the field, and I’ve spent a lot of time continuing my education the best I can, so hopefully I can pass some basic stuff along, and include some general resources to help you on your way. But where do you start?

(There will be a TL;DR and a resource list in the end, but bear with me here) (1/8)

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STEP 1.) THINK ECOLOGICALLY. Look around. What do you see and feel? No observation is too basic. What rocks are on the ground. How’s the temperature. Is it rainy, dry, humid, windy. Lots of trees, not many, how tall is the grass, is there any life visible at all?* No matter what you see you are making observations about the things that drive the living engine. Make a habit of this. We will return to this stuff later, but once you are Noticing the Patterns you are well on the way to the slippery slope of ecological knowledge-seeking.

*its often said that lawns and cornfields are one or two species away from a parking lot, but while urban and industrial agricultural landscapes are massively degraded ecosystems they still host some biodiversity if you know where to look (2/8)

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STEP 2.) WHERE ARE YOU. Start close, think about how things look where you are, work your way out until you’re thinking at like, county level. Bigger. Think how long it would take to drive (sorry american post lmao) to someplace that looks noticeably different, where the landscape changes. That is, at its most basic level, an ecoregion, or a rough area where the ecosystems stay pretty consistent. They blend into each other, people disagree on where they start and stop and how many there are, but you sure as shit are in one right now. Now there’s different levels of ecoregion, and there’s a few places that have their own maps, but to start with look up an EPA map of Level 3 ecoregions for your state*. Where are you?

*the WWF also has ecoregion maps, and your state’s parks and wildlife or environmental department will likely have one that’s most closely mapped to how the locals see the area. For instance, the EPA insists the eastern Texas region is called the South Central Plains but down here we all know its called the Piney Woods (3/8)

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STEP 3.) WHO LIVES HERE, WHO LIVED HERE. Before you go any further, go to Native Land and figure out who stewarded the land before Europeans settled it. One of the most crucial concepts in ecology is that we are not separate from the ecosystem, we are a part of it, and we affect it, for better and for worse, and you need to know who shaped this land before you got here. Make notes, look up the websites for those tribes. Second, google that ecoregion you’re in!! Wikipedia might be a good start, but a great resource is probably gonna be your state university agriculture extension, who will almost certainly have a section on ecoregions and the species that live there. Take a read. Find some cool species, maybe pick a neat bird, a mammal, a grass, a tree, maybe try to find a species you recognize from step 1! (4/8)

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STEP 4.) HOW DO I CONNECT IT. Buckle up: How high up is your ecosystem? How much rain does it get? What kind of soil does your ecoregion have? What’s the climate? What kind of plants can grow here? What kind of rock and terrain and geology underlay all this? What watershed are you in? What’s a watershed? What’s any of this? What do any of these maps and numbers even fucking mean? Well, for now, maybe not a whole lot, but get started one thing at a time, and think of it this way: abiotic factors (ie not alive) drive the biotic factors (living things), which then in turn affect the abiotic factors again, and that’s an ecosystem, baby! That’s all it is! A farming quote that I may well end up tattooing over my heart for how much it means to me is “Despite all our accomplishments, we owe our existence to a six-inch layer of topsoil and the fact it rains” The abiotic factors shape what organisms can live and thrive where you are, including us, and how we live on and off the land and among our living neighbors. How do those organisms you picked out earlier rely on the landscape and the abiotic factors to live? How did native americans and first nations peoples rely on them? How did they shape the landscape, how did we shape it in turn? (5/8)

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STEP 5.) FOLLOW THE THREADS. Maybe you found yourself interested in the soil stuff (check out your local ag extension again). Maybe you feel like learning to identify all the trees in your area (google ’[state] trees’, or get a Peterson Field Guide). Maybe you want to learn about invasive species, how to manage them, start noticing them all over the place, lose your mind because now you see them everywhere, then settle into a kind of meditative stupor about what you could do with a chainsaw, some drip herbicide, native seeds, and a day off. In any case, pursue the avenue that interested you most. Download iNaturalist and start identifying everything you see. Apply to join a Master Naturalist program in your state, or a native plant certification. Take a few evening classes at a community college, volunteer, watch some webinars. Send your ag extension an email, ask a silly question, they love that shit. If you see a weird plant learn what it is and how it fits into the grand web of natural life in your area. Learn about soil biota, aquatic ecosystems, native land management, keystone species, migration routes, adaptive species, agroecology, species reintroduction, foraging, fire ecology, prescriptive grazing, habitat restoration, food sovereignty. Go nuts.

(If you reblog this post without this next part I’ll beat what I just taught you right back out of your head, dont be a grimy little poser) (6/8)

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STEP 6.) DO YOUR FUCKIN BIT. I’m not gonna lie to you, shit is rough out there. My home ecoregion is one of the most degraded in the hemisphere and occupies less than a few percent of its original range, with none of it at climax. Urban sprawl, corporate industrial agriculture, pesticide drift, invasive species, overdrawn aquifers, fertilizer runoff, pollution, and yes, goddamn lawns and golf courses, all of it is making a hash of out of thas magnificent earth.

BUT there’s a whole lot you can do. There’s conservation orgs you can volunteer with, habitat restoration projects, advocacy groups, local and municipal policies and zoning you might actually be able to change. Plant a pollinator garden with plants native to your area, leave some brushpiles and old logs out. Volunteer with a local tribe or a native org if youre near one, there’s tons of cool conservation programs and organizations there. Teach others what you’ve learned. Get sweaty clearing invasives with a work crew. If they don’t let you change shit, fuck it, do it anyway, get into guerilla gardening, throw some seedballs into the highway roadside, uproot your neighbors invasive plants, stand in front of a bulldozer (satire, dont do this :)

There is a bill in congress, right now (November 2022), Recovering America’s Wildlife Act, which somehow stands a decent chance of passing and would actually help a lot, so maybe call your evil shithead congressman. That said, an economic and political system predicated on permanent growth and the pursuit of profit over all else, built on colonialism and imperialism and bloodshed around the planet, is never gonna do any more than somewhat mitigate its own damage, at best. But while you organize and build community and maybe [redacted] to hack away at capitalism, I guess you can vote on local and state shit if it helps. Just don’t think we can vote ourselves, or the ecosphere, out of this.

Anyway get out there and know the land.

TL;DR Look around you, look up your ecoregion, learn the biotic and abiotic factors, learn the people and plants and animals who have lived there, learn how they all connect, do your part to preserve it, protect it, and unfuck it. (7/8)

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RESOURCES:

Google your state ag extension, seriously, if you take one thing away from this, do that Also check out the parks department, either state or federal, they kinda suck, but they have info Level 3 ecoregions: https://www.epa.gov/eco-research/level-iii-and-iv-ecoregions-continental-united-states WWF ecoregions: https://www.worldwildlife.org/publications/terrestrial-ecoregions-of-the-world Native Land: https://native-land.ca/ Soil map: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/12/USDA_soil_taxonomy_global_map.png Climate map: https://www.plantmaps.com/koppen-climate-classification-map-united-states.php Plant hardiness: https://planthardiness.ars.usda.gov/ Geology: https://www.americangeosciences.org/critical-issues/maps/interactive-map-united-states-geology-and-natural-resources Watersheds: https://water.usgs.gov/wsc/map_index.html Master Naturalists: https://www.ecosystemgardening.com/master-naturalist-programs-by-state.html

The rest will depend where you are, but just keep folowing links on ag extension sites, and the links on those sites, and go down the rabbit hole! (8/8)

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Another good resource, @rot_collective on Instagram, just posted a “Learning About Your Landscape” master post on their page, check them out!

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[elysianselcouth]

Some more magical drinks!!

Hope you enjoy them!! Perfect recipes for yummy drinks under a beautiful moonlight night my lovelies!!!