Speak of the devil

Cypher-they/them Furry, Therian, Mythology/Spirituality/Theology

[berensreverie]

Another oil painting :D

[tlirsgender]

You are not the daughter of the witches they couldn't burn you are a white woman with a rock collection and wicca was invented in the 1950s

[tlirsgender]

I have a little spiritual woowoo to me so I Am familiar with some freaky neopagan/new age/etc stuff & every time I'd be like "hmm I'm getting a weird vibe from all the bioessentialist gender fertility stuff, what's up with that?" & I'd look it up & it's like "the founder made all of this up based on appropriating other cultures he didn't understand as well as fabricating historical documents, to make as many women have sex with him as possible" & I say Oh ok. And this is like really easily accessible information but people are still being grifted into buying penis candles for their fake ancient rituals

[tlirsgender]

That's the thing yknow not just with wicca but with anybody telling you they can sell you spiritual enlightenment. They can't. They're selling you penis candles and self help books & then it's just a racist sex cult again. You have to find spiritual enlightenment yourself. By being insane, like me

[zaprowsdower27]

The really sad part is you don't need a racist sex cult to have penis candles. If you want to light some penis candles around your house, just go buy some penis candles! You don't need rituals for penis candles any more than you need rituals for maple-scented candles.

[weepingwidar]

Michael Gao (Chinese, 2002) - The True Nature (2025)

[trishabeakens]

Goldie you're such an icon.

And then my OC named Franny bc I thought it'd be cute to give Goldie a gf.

[glowdevil]

My phantom shifts are mostly varied in terms of triggers and parts but consistently I get phantom fur from music that is pleasing to me. I get the sensation of it being scritched and pet. From sunlight on cool days also.

[glavilio]

illus. Terrie Smith, for Associated Student Bodies #2, 1998

[design-is-fine]

Acquaintance cards, a variety of calling cards, 1870s-80s. USA. Via dangerousminds. More to see: Mays / flickr. They were used “by the less formal male in approaches to the less formal female.”

[est-nord]

[tim-official]

what world do people imagine their fursonae exist inside of. I love how undefined it is. some people are like "this is my sona Hryàxe, a hybrid dragon with ice powers who has been alive through three astral ages and toppled many kingdoms of men" and someone else is like "this is my sona he's an arctic fox named blurt and hes a barista in Toronto who loves to play mahjong." And then blurt and hryàxe are lovingly having sex on a tropical beach somewhere. and I'm like how'd they get to the beach

[mythologyolympics]

Mythology Olympics tournament round 1

Which mythological figure is better?

Tláloc

Luisón

Voting ended onNov 21, 2024

Propaganda!

Tláloc is the god of rain in Aztec religion. He was also a deity of earthly fertility and water, worshipped as a giver of life and sustenance. This came to be due to many rituals, and sacrifices that were held in his name. He was feared, but not maliciously, for his power over hail, thunder, lightning, and even rain. He is also associated with caves, springs, and mountains, most specifically the sacred mountain where he was believed to reside. Cerro Tláloc is very important in understanding how rituals surrounding this deity played out. His followers were one of the oldest and most universal in ancient Mexico.

The Luisón is one of the seven legendary beasts of Paraguay, and is the seventh and last son of Tau and Kerana. He appeared to be a giant dog, and was said to be extremely ugly, even horrendous looking. The myth says that in a family with seven male children, the last child will become Luisón.

Propaganda from the submitter:

If you heard about the argentinian law that the seventh son born in a family is to be protected/blessed by the president this is why. The belief that the seventh son born in a family transforms in a werebeast led to some families to be fearful of the child and only with the president as godfather could the curse begone.

[mythologyolympics]

Tláloc moves on to round 2!

[mythologyolympics]

Mythology Olympics tournament round 1

Which mythological figure is better?

Lugh

Malacandra

Voting ended onJun 29, 2025

Propaganda!

Lugh or Lug (Old Irish: [l͈uɣ]; modern Irish: Lú [l̪ˠuː]) is a figure in Irish mythology. A member of the Tuatha Dé Danann, a group of supernatural beings, Lugh is portrayed as a warrior, a king, a master craftsman and a saviour. He is associated with skill and mastery in multiple disciplines, including the arts. Lugh also has associations with oaths, truth, and the law, and therefore with rightful kingship. Lugh is linked with the harvest festival of Lughnasadh, which bears his name. Lugh is typically described as a youthful warrior. In the brief narrative Baile in Scáil, Lugh is described as being very large and very beautiful and a spear-wielding horseman. Elsewhere Lugh is described as a tall young man with bright red cheeks, white sides, a bronze-coloured face and blood-coloured hair.

In C.S. Lewis's Space Trilogy, Malacandra, known on Earth as Mars, Mavors, and Tyr, was the fourth planet of the Field of Arbol and located between Thulcandra and Glundandra (Jupiter), just before the Asteroids. The surface of Malacandra was once all inhabitable, but then The Bent One destroyed its outer layer, and the inhabitants of Malacandra where forced to live in handramits, large deep cracks or canyons in the ground. Only Sorns can live above the handramits. Malacandra is an old world, and is predicted to be one of the first worlds that will be removed from the Field of Arbol. Malacandra is "the world that never fell" and remains a perfect, Edenic society. Technically, Malacandra was damaged in the Fall, but not in the moral sense. Oyarsa states that everyone used to live on the surface, but The Bent One damaged the planet, forcing him to dig out canyons or Handramits for most people to live in. Morally, however, all of Malacandra's inhabitants are upright. The real Edenic world however, is Perelandra, as some individuals on Malacandra are "bent".

[mythologyolympics]

Last day for this poll! Reblog for reach!

[glowdevil]

Im working on my arachnophobia but the real irony is that Anansi stories were always my favorite ones. When hes a dude with eight limbs its like ok cool. I need to get better about him in all forms tho.

[everydaylouie]

thievery

[beetlebuggsblog]

I've brought you.. a gift!

[echosblanketfort]

reblog to bring prev a gift

[thatlavendergremlin]

Older artwork illustrating "Le loup criait", Arthur Rimbaud

[talos-stims]

meat stimboard :o)

requests are open

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[thatlittleegyptologist]

Fun fact: Egyptian gods do not have ‘animal heads’. The depictions of gods are meant to contain a duality, as is important in Egyptian Religion (life/death, red land/black land, chaos/order, human/animal). So when you see, say, Anubis with a man’s body and a Jackal head it represents both his human form and his Jackal form, meaning he might appear in either form. But never as a human with a Jackal head. That is only something you’d see on temple walls for the duality aspect.

[ezairick]

How di you know??

I mean it sounds likely but where are you getting your information from?

[thatlittleegyptologist]

I’m an Egyptologist? This is literally my job.

But if you want a source, read: Silverman, D. (1991) Divinity and Deities in Ancient Egypt, In J. Baines, L. Lesko, & D. Silverman, Religion in Ancient Egypt: Gods, Myths and Personal Practice. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press. 7-87.

[ezairick]

Thanks for the sources.

I had just never heard about that fact before.

[thatlittleegyptologist]

No worries! (I realise I put a full stop instead of an exclamation mark at the end of “this is literally my job” which might have sounded harsh, so I apologise!)

[imboredofthisurl]

This is a very pure interaction

[unyanizedcatboys]

this is exactly how you should react to hearing new information that you’re skeptical of or don’t immediately believe is true

[theyhaveacavetroll]

also I’m fascinated by the punctuation question here. Full stop means “I’m done with this interaction and not amused” whereas exclamation mark = hey no big, I’m happy to explain!

Our generation has solved an issue that written English has had for centuries and I love it.