new religion

I am a Child of Earth and Starry Heaven.

[velvetcloak]

rodarte backstage ss19 // painting by nagayama yuko

[fleur-aesthetic]

margarita_karenko

[fleurdulys]

The Triumph of Bacchus - Gustave Moreau

[hadrian6]

Medusa. 1911. Vincenzo Gemito. Italian 1852-1929. gilt silver. Getty Museum.  http://hadrian6.tumblr.com

[saint-of-the-pit]

A witch is, actually, a successful (in the sense of surviving) deviant. You have a cultural, ideological, social, what-not pattern which is, for that society in question, normal (and, importantly, this is understood as a synonym for natural). Most people survive because they conform to these patterns, because they behave normally. […] But then suddenly you get a deviant which survives, and since it does not draw its support from the normal pattern, […] that deviant is understood as drawing its support from “unknown,” “supernatural” sources. […] If we cannot survive without our order, how can she [the witch] survive in solitude? Hers must be indeed a very powerful order to exist so independently, without all the inter cooperation and individual compromise which we have to go through to survive. And if it is so powerful, then it could destroy us. We must try to destroy it first.

Maya Deren, “From the Notebook of Maya Deren”, c.October 1947, vol. 14: pages 21–45. (via saint-of-the-pit)

[detailsdetales]

Oberon, Titania and Puck with Fairies Dancing (1786)

William Blake

[laveyinthehouse]

“If the account given in Genesis is really true, ought we not, after all, to thank this serpent? He was the first schoolmaster, the first advocate of learning, the first enemy of ignorance, the first to whisper in human ears the sacred word liberty, the creator of ambition, the author of modesty, of inquiry, of doubt, of investigation, of progress and of civilization.”

~ Robert Green Ingersoll

[grimnirs-child]

Do not be afraid, in ritual, to be undignified, to be strange, to express what is animal and taboo and shameful in your desires. To express emotion, to be ugly, to get dirty.

Ritual - most especially ecstatic ritual - is about finding and expressing the power of your deepest, rawest, wildest self. That doesn’t look pretty, it is not what society asks us to be, but that is not what witchcraft is about.

[hearthglow]

You will find to the left of the house of Hades a spring and standing by it a white cypress. Do not even approach this spring! You will find another, from the Lake of Memory, cold water pouring forth; there are guards before it. Say, “I am a child of Earth and starry Sky, but my race is heavenly. You yourselves know this. I am parched with thirst and am dying; but quickly grant me cold water flowing from the Lake of Memory.” And they themselves will grant you drink from the sacred spring. And thereafter you will rule among the other heroes.

- Petelia Tablet, 4th cent. BCE, case from Roman era

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[lavendersheetmask]

i can’t stop looking at them ‼️♥️

[paradoxicalissue]

[bee-girlfriends]

Take one step towards the gods and they will take ten steps towards you.

Mythologist Joseph Campbell (via bee-girlfriends)

thanks, Joe, that’s ominous as fuck

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Dionysos

[purplebuddhaproject]

A flower blossoms for its own joy.

Oscar Wilde  (via emiliaclarke)

[metaphorformetaphor]

bring me the sunflower gone mad with light.

Eugenio Montale, from “Bring Me the Sunflower So I Can Transplant It,” A Selection of Modern Italian Poetry in Translation edited by Roberta L. Payne (McGill-Queen’s University Press , 2004)

[shoegazr]