πλανάον ἐν χθονῐ́, λάω Ἠλῠ́σῐον

Apollonic priest & vice-head of organisation for religious education. They/them.

[micahulrichdraws]

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[alanspazzaliartist-deactivated2]

𝓐𝖗𝖈𝖍𝖆𝖓𝖌𝖊𝖑 Occult Artist ,

[risujoves]

[homunculus-argument]

Corvids have a basic grasp of the theory of mind - the ones who hide their food will remember who saw them bury it, and will come back to stash it elsewhere when they know they’re no longer watched. They are vaguely aware that others are also capable of thinking and planning, and anticipate that another bird would seize the treasure later, if ever given the opportunity.

Many corvids also mate for life. They have foods they prefer more than others, and it has been discovered that they can also know and remember their partner’s favourites, and bring those treats to each other, even if they personally don’t care for this food source.

Is that love? A crow cannot be forced to do something it does not want to do, they do as they please and it pleases them to bring gifts to their partners. What is love but joy that stems from the joy of another?

Do they know what love is? A jackdaw knows that another jackdaw it can see has seen it in return - do they know that a spouse that brings them treats does it as a treat to themselves as well?

Do these birds know what love is? Do they know that they love, and are loved in return?

[mapsontheweb]

US Elevation.

by @cstats1

[ginger-ale-official]

man the Appalachian mountains really aren’t shit huh

[archosaur-automaton]

The Rockies are new, young and virile and fresh from the Laramide orogeny, tall and lanky teenagers on the geological scale. the Appalachian mountains are old, formed hundreds of millions of years ago before dinosaurs walked the Earth. They are ancients, elders, witnesses to half a billion years of life coming and going. To be tall is not a virtue. To be small is not a sin. The Appalachians are eroding under the weight of time, slowly shrinking and returning to the Earth from which they sprang. Appreciate them while they are still here.

[beabaseball]

I do want to say real quick again about the age of the Appalachians…

They said “before dinosaurs,” but we have a cave here that began forming between 450 million to 550 million years ago.

There are no bones in that cave. No fossils. No nothing.

That’s because this cave began forming before bones existed on land, and had only just started to exist in the ocean. Shellfish hadn’t evolved yet. Limestone, which forms many caves, was just starting to become a more prevalent rock.

The mountains aren’t older than dinosaurs. They are older than bones.

[jumpingjacktrash]

see that little lump up at the top of minnesota? the sawtooth mountains? so small most places would just call them hills?

those are over a billion years old.

that’s why they’re so small. they’re the last ancient remnants of a lava flow 5 miles thick. the lava didn’t kill any dinosaurs. or any fish. or any animals at all. because there were no animals. you know what there was?

algae.

those mountains were 5 miles tall when the most advanced life on earth was algae.

so i’m just gonna go ahead and keep calling them mountains, even though all you need to climb them is hiking shoes and a nice afternoon. because a place where you can crouch down and touch basalt that was lava before leaves were invented deserves some respect.

[bumblebeerror]

The earth is unfathomably ancient, and you garner no love from her when you insult her eldest children.

[fiovske]

not only that, the Appalachians predate the Atlantic Ocean and were fragmented. they stretch across three continents, as Atlas in Africa and Caledonians in Europe as you can see here:

the Appalachians are way way old. the fossils that ARE found in these ranges are ancient marine beings, whose fossil remains predate the anatomical structures of beings migrating to land for the first time. THAT’S how old the Appalachians are.

show the elders some respect, they have witnessed eons and are returning to the land from which they grew, it’s the kind of the passage of time on a scale that our human lives could not even begin to comprehend.

[friendly-neighborhood-patriarch]

@i-am-the-broken-bride​

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[zagreus]

girl you look like a Mariusz Lewandowski painting (complimentary)

[zagreus]

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[itscolossal]

Earth’s Rotation Visualized in a Timelapse of the Milky Way Galaxy by Aryeh Nirenberg

[akiyty]

[drst]

This messed me up.

[bestie-gor]

We really do just be on a rock without a fucking clue huh

[weaselle]

everybody thinks of the earth spinning, and then maybe they think about how we’re traveling in a circle around the sun.

but we’re not

because the sun is traveling through space too

so what the earth is actually doing is this

and that line the sun is making is actually its 225 million year orbit around the center of the galaxy, and our galaxy itself is moving through space, so our sun is actually doing its own version of that crazy earth orbit corkscrew up there too. We’re all dancing an insane helix made of helixes through the universe at a speed of about 1.5 million miles per hour

[koraki-pharmakis]

I am not a Wiccan

I am not a Wiccan

I am not a Wiccan

I am not a fucking Wiccan!

There are good Wiccans, but Wicca as a religion is built on appropriation. Its core beliefs and holidays are largely stolen. My main beef with Wicca is people calling every pagan Wiccan, and treating my deities like archetypes of Wicca!

You can be a Wiccan without appropriating, but to do that, you have to be so careful, so well researched, and deconstruct half the religion. Which, frankly, most Wiccans… don’t.

But the most insulting thing of all is insinuating my centuries old religion, my ancient praxis, is just a 60 year old religion made by white guys that totally removed its entities from their rituals and religion. The most insulting thing is lumping me in with a religion that steals from both my Hellenic religion and Latine culture, because you saw Wiccans call Hekate the crone and Pan the horned god.

#NotAllWiccans, but if you call me a Wiccan, guess what? You’re one of those Wiccans.

[jimbr549]

Fights amongst the Pagan community are a waste of energy.

Agreed some are not one "type" and take it offensively when associated with them. Instead of being angry why not try to understand where the person is coming from. Wicca is something the general population is acceptable of, not the word Pagan, or Witch. Try educating the people before getting all negative, and claiming your not one thing.

We are all Pagan's as the majority of the world thinks and believes.

[koraki-pharmakis]

I understand where people are coming from. You chose to assume I haven’t tried “being nice” and “educating,” called my calling out harmful colonialist behaviors of many Wiccans was infighting and a waste of energy, just so you could ignore my genuine arguments (which you failed to address in your response).

Also, frankly, tone policing—especially tone policing on a post where I explicitly stated I was a non-Wiccan pagan of color—because I’m “too negative” about my cultures being appropriated is racist and just generally shitty.

I’m not even arguing. I’m just saying I do not consent to being called Wiccan, that being called Wiccan is insulting to me, and that Wicca as a whole has objectively done a lot of harm to my communities even if there are good Wiccans out there.

To which you responded by… basically proving my point, actually, by tone policing and using the word ‘Wicca’ to erase other forms of paganism and witchcraft by calling Wicca the more acceptable umbrella term.

In case anyone didn’t believe me, this shit right here is why I felt the need to post that in the first place.

[freshic]

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[mienar]

silent rain

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[thegirlwiththelittlecurl]

[sandmoonyelse]

Forest poetry…

[thegrapeandthefig]

I found this in a sewing book out of all places but this is genuinely a good breakdown for all of you who struggle with the timeline.

[escapekit]

NEW EARTH  Iceland-based photographer Thrainn Kolbeinsson shares absolutely stunning shots of an erupting volcano in Iceland. He has spent the last 6 days at the eruption site where he captured these images. For more updates and images, head over to my Instagram.

[museiums]

artist: natalia vico

[dirtandspit]

A place that feels holy almost.