Dakota King

☦Orthodox - Black Hills Nationalist - Mountain Man - My Better Half: @dakotaqueen

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St. Georgi the Recluse of the Black Mountains

A patron saint assigned by request to the blog of my brother in Christ, @dakotaking.

St. Georgi labored in the Black Mountains near Antioch, where he lived the ascetic life in the cleft of a mountain. Not many details are known about his life due to his strict life of reclusion. It was around the 10th and 11th century, during which the Christian community thrived in Antioch, so St. Georgi lived this way in order to avoid the contentions that arose amongst the diverse groups of monks who traveled from different parts of the world to live in the Black Mountain.

Despite his efforts to remain unknown, he was recognized for his virtuous character amongst the people who lived in the area, as “a man who is as pure as a dove.” He was visited by a monk named Georgi from Samtskhe, Georgia, and became his spiritual father. St. Georgi the Recluse tonsured Georgi the Younger into the schema after training him in the strictest ascetic contests for three years. Georgi the Younger eventually received the blessing to head to the Holy Iviron Monastery in Mount Athos in order to help the Athonites translate manuscripts from Greek to Georgian.

Georgi the Younger became slothful and neglected his obedience, doing only the work of a novice until seven years later when Georgi of the Black Mountains sent monk Theodore to rebuke him, at which Georgi the Younger immediately set out to obey the will of his spiritual father. Because of his hard work, Georgi the Younger himself became known as St. Georgi of the Holy Mountain.

St. Georgi the God-bearer and Recluse reposed in 1068, after the death of his venerable disciple, St. Georgi the Hagiorite of the Holy Mountain. His commemoration is on the 3rd of July.

It took me much prayers to find St. Georgi, but I knew as soon as I read his entry in the Synaxarion that he’s the patron saint for your blog. At first I searched for married saints so it would be for you and your wife but learned by prayer that St. Georgi deserves some recognition, albeit his biography is quite short and not very detailed.

Through the prayers of our holy fathers, of St. Georgi of the Black Mountains, Lord Jesus Christ our God, have mercy on us and save us. Amen.

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Love this 1

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The actual Tolkien quote is “The Shadow that bred them can only mock, it cannot make: not real new things of its own.”

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Made a new poster! :)

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Worstershire Sauce

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The other night husband and I were watching a documentary about the yeti where they were doing DNA analysis of samples of supposed yeti fur, and every one of them came back as bears.

Anyway, the next night we watched a thing about some pig man who is supposed to live in Vermont. People said it had claws and a pig nose but walked upright like a man. Now, I happen to know that sideshows used to shave bears and present them as pig men. So every piece of evidence they gave of this monster sounds to me like a bear with mange.

So now the running joke in our house is that everything is bears. Aliens? Bears. Loch Ness monster? Bear. Every cryptozoological mystery is just a very crafty bear.

Bears. They’re everywhere. Be wary. Anyone or anything could be a bear.

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oh shit

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As the OP of this post, I’m going to threaten that if this gets to one million notes by the 10 year anniversary on 1 June 2026, one year from today, I will get a lower back tattoo of the loch ness bear monster.

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At time of posting, this is at 711.6k notes

29 Days Remain

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Only 12 days left.

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It’s Saturday, May 30, 3:18 PM EDT

The note count as of 3:12 PM EDT was 742.4K.

We’re almost 258,000 notes short of the Committment To The Bit Tumblr Curse goal, or what I am choosing to call:

The Bear Nessiecity

You know what to do.

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$100 phone costs $500 ✅

11 stripes on the American flag ✅

Piss yellow instead of the promised gold ✅