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[formulaemagicae]

I feel bewitched

[poppet-nymph-art]

Agathos daimon (good spirit) 🐍

You typically offer him unmixed win after meals or on the second of the lunar month as libation for protection etc.

You can find my video on him here~ https://vt.tiktok.com/ZS5NXdCVd/

[formulaemagicae]

Curse Tablets

[balkanradfem]

I'm gonna say it. I don't think Jesus is that good. Hear me out.

So christians sell the idea that Jesus was the kindest person ever and that the entire point of the religion is to be more like him. Today I'm going to argue why both of this is false.

Why is Jesus good? They say it's because he's full of love and kindness, well how does this manifest in his day-to-day life? He is very forgiving, he hangs out with the outcasts, sinners, sick people and prostitutes, he feeds the hungry and washes people's feet. Nothing to complain about, right?

Well I can think of a significant part of the population who did those things, and more, way before jesus arrived. Their name is women. Women have been forgiving crimes comitted against them, giving chances to the poor, sinful and the outcasts, feeding everyone from birth, washing everyone from the start of their life, and have been prostituted thus being the only ones able to empathize with prostitution.

Some of jesus's main miracles (witchcraft) have been about making food from nothing, making wine from water and healing. Women's role in society has been to make food, even when the times were tough and they had very little resurces, they were expected to provide healing and nursing as well, as if they're natural healers.

So how come? Why, when the bible was creating the kindest and most loving m*n, they used all the traits and actions of women, to show how good he is? And he can make wine on top of it, just to be the 'cool girl'. This is written in a book that has barely few women named, where nothing women did or said mattered except for giving birth, where women were sidelined into oblivion. What is bible trying to say?

Jesus is appropriating women's work to showcase what a good and special male he is. 'He is so good he's doing what a woman does" is the message. But when women do it, it doesn't matter. It only counts if a m*n does it, and we will give him a saint status while ignoring billions of women who did it before him.

And then to really rub it in, he volountarily suffers for other people's sins. Something women have been doing since we existed. It had been said that the bible had to torture a male as a symbol because a tortured and murdered women is so common, it wouldn't feel like anything out of the ordinary. Torture and death only matter when done to males. And look women, isn't he so kind to suffer for your sins. What fucking sins are we even talking about.

Jesus is just some guy whose grift is appropriating women's labour for attention and following. Had he been kind and just, he would have highlighted women's labour, women's kindness, their deserved place as the creators and caretakers of society. He would have told us who cooked the last supper. But no. He only boosts his own image and talks about his daddy issues. We have seen m*n do this before.

Now let's look how this 'emulating jesus' works in practice; as a good traditional christian you're supposed to marry and have kids. Jesus never married. Hmm. He never had kids either. He wandered around and gathered following, like a cult leader would. Interesting.

It seems that jesus was never a 'provider' but males are supposed to be 'providers', as communicated by the religion. Who are they emulating? It doesn't seem like m*n are really pushed to emulate jesus at all, they're emulating, well. What do we call when you keep someone in your house and this person does constant labour for you, but you don't pay them and expect them to keep doing more and decide if they get any resources or say in their life? Slave ownership. Anyway.

Women are strongly pushed to emulate Jesus' forgiveness and kindness, they're the ones who feel closer to him, seeing as he does similar things, but isn't this kinda circular and nonsensical? He is emulating us. And then we're told to emulate a male who took credit for our accoplishments. He didn't have to marry a guy! He didn't even have a career or give birth or raise a kid! His love was just in preformative miracles! Where was his family, his social circle of equals who weren't just followers, his social obligations, people he took care of? He never committed to anything, wandered around telling stories and had bunch of people follow him, we would call him a bum and we wouldn't be wrong. He doesn't even emulate us well because no woman is as irresponsible or attention seeking as jesus.

His ultimate act of kindness was to 'sacrifice himself for humanity', and women already do this, with way less demands for attention or glory. Sacrificing our well being and our bodies in order to create new people is inherently female, even dying in pain and doing it volountarily. It's what women have done forever. They made up one guy and said 'see m*n do it better' and 'this is more important than anything you have ever done or sacrificed' and no it isn't. It gave everyone guilt issues to hear in detail about jesus being tortured while torturing women is made into entertainment and porn. Our collective sacrifice enabled humanity life, jesus just made everyone feel guilty and bad for him. Again, it's what we've seen m*n do before.

Women don't have to emulate jesus because we already did all that, before him and better than him. Jesus is a strawman for males to get to lecture women about forgiveness and sacrifice, traits that somehow never manifest in their personalities. Incidentally, it is always males we are told to tolerate, forgive and sacrifice for, when not even jesus had to deal with that. When are we allowed to abandon everything to go to the desert and work on personal philosophy? Apparently we just need to stick to forgiveness and sacrifice, and then submission - when was jesus submissive? Don't answer that. I shouldn't type that on tumblr. You have to find a fanfic to meet jesus they want you to emulate.

The logic of christianity doesn't make sense. M*n are emulating nothing and sticking to 'having all power and getting their way', while women emulate a preformative male. Is this what life shoule be built upon?

Being told that Jesus is the kindest human and then looking at the facts of it is infuriating. Every woman is kinder. Every woman does more already. And we are told we don't do anything and shamed for existing in our bodies while he gets credit. Cancel this m*n.

[bolaneno]

faces dated from 2,000 years ago carved in stone at the Lajes Archaeological Site in Manaus, Brazil

[keithcurrypochy]

The Owl of Hontoon Island. 

This owl was pulled from the St. Johns River in 1955. It was carved about 700 years ago, likely by the Mayacan people who lived in this area. The purpose of this carving is not know, as the Mayacans were wiped out by the Spanish. Smaller, similar artifacts were also found in the river around Hontoon Island in 1978. Replicas of these artifacts can be found near the visitor center. 

Hontoon Island State Park, FL

[boop428-deactivated20260202]

The Nebra Sky Disc - the oldest depiction of the cosmos in the world; showing the sun, moon and several other celestial constellations.

Found in a burial in Saxony - Germany, associated with the Bronze Age Únětice Culture

Dated to 1600 BC

[orthodoxadventure]

Archaeologists working at the Hisardere Necropolis in Iznik, Turkey, have uncovered a chamber tomb containing a fresco depicting Christ as the Good Shepherd, believed to be the only known example of this type in Anatolia.

The newly documented chamber tomb was discovered during the 2025 excavation season. The structure extends on a north-south axis, with the east, west and north walls largely intact despite serious damage to the south wall. All three preserved walls and the ceiling are covered with frescoes that include human figures, an unusual feature among painted tombs in the region.

The Good Shepherd scene appears on the north wall, behind a raised platform called a kline where the deceased were laid out on square terracotta slabs. The fresco shows Christ as a young, beardless figure in a simple tunic, carrying a large horned goat across his shoulders. Pairs of goats flank him on either side in a symmetrical arrangement.

While no objects suitable for direct dating were found inside the tomb, its structural features correspond to other examples in the necropolis. Based on these comparisons, the chamber tomb is dated to the third century, placing it in the Early Christian period.

[egypt-museum]

Eye of Horus presents a bowl with burning tapers

New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty, ca. 1292-1189 BC.

Tomb of Pashedu (TT3), Deir el-Medina, Thebes.

[gemsofgreece]

Aphrodíte riding a swan depicted on a tondo from an Attic white-ground kylix, painted by Pistóxenos around 460 BC, discovered in Tomb F43 at Kámeiros, Rhodes island.

[useless-catalanfacts]

Photos by Marco Ansaloni/Descobrir.cat and Planeta Dunia.

Ancient Roman mosaic that represents the mythological characters Medusa, Perseus and Andromeda. This mosaic was made in-situ in the late 2nd century AD or the early 3rd century AD in a domus (house) located in the Roman city of Tarraco (modern-day Tarragona, Catalonia). Nowadays, it can be seen in the National Archaeology Museum of Tarragona.

In Roman mythology, Medusa was a woman with snakes as hair who turned people into stone when they looked at her eyes. Perseus was the demi-god who killed Medusa using a mirror, so he could look without being petrified. When he was coming back home after killing Medusa, he saw a beautiful naked woman tied to a rock. This woman was Andromeda, who was about to be sacrificed to a sea monster following the orders of an oracle. Her mother had boasted that she was more beautiful than the sea nymphs, which had angered them and made them ask the sea god Neptune to punish her. For this reason, Neptune had sent floods and the sea monster to punish their homeland, and an oracle had said that sacrificing Andromeda to the sea monster was the only way to be saved from it. Perseus killed the sea monster and married Andromeda as a reward. Later, the goddess Athena would immortalize Perseus, Andromeda and Cassiopeia (Andromeda's mother) as constellations in the sky.

[tiktoksgay]

[bentothuglife]

@elodieunderglass

[elodieunderglass]

I love to think about this. Not just because it’s a swan, not just because it’s clockwork, not just because it’s old, but because the creator thought about how to physically animate the idea of light on water.

[egypt-museum]

Clepsydra of Karnak - The Oldest Known Water Clock

The Clepsydra of Karnak is the oldest surviving water clock with physical evidence, dating to the reign of Amenhotep III.

In ancient Egypt, the day was believed to begin at dawn, just before sunrise. Timekeeping followed a system of twelve hours of night and twelve hours of day, meaning the length of each hour changed with the seasons.

This remarkable device measured time by the steady lowering of water inside its basin. Priests or officials would read the time by observing the water level in relation to a series of carefully carved internal markers. The vessel’s shape ensured the water flowed at a consistent rate, though the interpretation of hours varied depending on the month and whether it was day or night.

New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, ca. 1391-1353 BC. Now in the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization, Cairo. JE 37525

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[didoofcarthage]

Prayer Nut with the Nativity and the Adoration of the Magi, attributed to the workshop of Adam Dircksz

Netherlandish, c. 1500-1530

boxwood, silver, and gold

Rijksmuseum 

[cryptotheism]

I thought this was clickbait but no turns out a looted Olmec artifact depicting the mouth of Tepeyollotlicuhti, and symbolically marking an entrance to the underworld, was recovered in Denver and returned to Mexico.

Its called "Portal al Inframundo" look how cool this thing is.

[captainjonnitkessler]

When I was a kid I had a book of like, "fun physics experiments for kids". And one of them was an "experiment" where you hold an object by a string and just by focusing on the direction you wanted it to swing, it would start to move in that direction even without your input. The book of course explained that this was the ideomotor effect, a phenomenon where your thoughts can create minute, unconscious movements in your body.

Then a couple years later I got a fortune-telling kit that included a pendulum. You hold the pendulum over a piece of paper that says "yes" and "no" and ask a question, and whichever way the pendulum moves is the answer.

At which point I was like "hey WAIT a minute", and in hindsight I think that experience explains most things about who I am as a person

[darkmodepls]

Makes sense

A lot of fortune telling boils down to guided meditation with fun accessories and a heaping dose of pattern recognition.

if you ask a question of the cards/tea leaves/pendulum/etc. the answer, whether it's positive or negative, is going to come from the diviner's subconscious.

[fromthedust]

Esoteric arts: Archaeologists at Pompeii in Italy have found what they believe is a female sorcerer’s box of objects. The magnificent little miniature amulets, gems, and other items were found in the remains of a wooden box at Casa del Giardino, and were most likely used for personal ornamentation or protection from evil forces and bad luck. Among the objects found were crystals, buttons made of bones, phallic amulets, and a glass bead engraved with the head of Dionysus.