Magic In Emotion

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[marshthebogwitch]

the gods have had mentally ill worshippers for as long as they’ve had worshippers.

the gods have had chronically ill worshippers for as long as they’ve had worshippers.

the gods have had neurodivergent worshippers for as long as they’ve had worshippers.

they won’t be offended or think less of you just because your devotion looks different to able-bodied neurotypical devotion. they understand.

[berniesrevolution]

[zanmor]

these ones

[lavendermanna]

oh we can get even more specific than just a list of billionaires:

here are all of the scum who control oil, coal, and natural gas

here are the ones who run the factories

and here are the ones who extract the raw resources that the others need to make it all work

[libertarian-therapist]

23,000 people are reblogging a hit list

[bogleech]

Good.

[hornedsnakeofanwyn]

Prayer to Khonsu

Glory to you, youthful moon

Son of the King of Kings

Lord of Light, Lord of Night

Khonsu, father of time

Great warrior, mighty and strong

Enemy of the enemies of Amun

Devourer of the wicked and unworthy

I give praise to you

The days and nights are your children

The light of the moon is your body

Giver and taker of life, god who lengthens and shortens our days

Praise to you, praise to you

Son of Mut who takes from us our ills

Take from us all our flaws and miseries

Skilled Healer who can turn fate

Yours is the power to create and shape

Hail Khonsu, Lord of Heaven, destroyer of darkness

I bless you and venerate your light

As you command the sky, I give to you my prayers

In your name is the incense raised

Fierce Lord of Heaven, devourer of my enemies and the enemies of Amun

Great and trusted warrior of Ra, youthful and bright, strong and mighty

Source of salvation, destroyer of the profane

Khonsu, it is your eye that brings light to darkness

It is your light that gives life

Hail oh glorious Khonsu, lord of silver

Eternal praise be onto you

[the-witch-in-the-woods-grimoire]

Khonsu

Alternate spelling: Khons, Chons

Other names: Khensu-pa-khered, Khonsu-pa-khered (Khonsu the child),  Khonsu pa-ir-sekher (Khonsu the provider), Khonsu heseb-ahau (Khonsu, decider of the life span)

Pantheon: Kemetic

God of: Moon, youth, time, healing, fertility

Other domains: Protector of those who travel (particularly at night),  power over evil spirits that roam the earth

Symbol: Crescent moon

Animals: Hawk, baboon, neutered bull (during the full moon)

Items: Crook and flail

Planet: Moon

Offerings: Biscits, meet, small cakes, light beers, cow milk, lamb, dill, grass, moonstone, quartz, amber Offerings (From personal experience): White chocolate, figet toys, party pies

Cult center: Thebes

Possible name origins: To cross, To travel

Festivals: 

- Festival of Khonsu (Month of Pakhons)

- Opet festival (15 Phaophi)

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Khensu-pa-khered:

The personification of the light of the crescent moon, he helped woman concive children and help livestock breed sucsessfuly, also assoceated with fresh air

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Khonsu-pa-khered/Khonsu the child:

Discribed as the “first great son of Amun” and the son of Nubt, and an aspect of Ra. Like Ra-Horakhty he was thought to be a child in the morning and an old man at night. He was also characterised as, a youth at the beginning of the year, who cometh as a child after he had become infirm, and who reneweth his births like Disk. Khensu-pa-khart was both the spring sun and the spring moon, and the moon at the start of each month.

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Khonsu didn’t start as a benevolent, protective deity. During the Old Kingdom, Khonsu was considered a more violent and dangerous deity. In the Pyramid Texts, he appears as a part of The Cannibal Hymn, where he is described as a blood-thirsty god who helps the dead king capture and devour other gods.

[banefulwitch-deactivated2023080]

✨The Goddess Freyja✨

Freyja is a Norse Goddess of love, sex, fertility, war, death, and Seidr (magic). Her name translates to Lady. Freyja is also spelled many different ways, Freya, Freja, Frøya, or Fröja. Freyja is a Vanir goddess from the realm of Vanaheim, however she lives in the realm of Asgard with the Aesir deities. She is the only mentioned goddess of the Vanir deities. She, Freyr (brother), Njörd (father) went to live with the Aesir gods as an act of peace between the two realms. According to Snorri, Freyja is one of the most important of the Asynjur (goddesses the Aesir), he says that her potion is practically as high as Odin. She chooses the first half of those who died in battle to go to her hall Sessrúmnirin, Odin has the other half of the fallen warriors. 

“And Freyja is the most excellent of the goddesses. She has a homestead in heaven which is called Fólkvang, and wherever she rides to battle she has half the dead, and Odin half… Her hall is Sessrúmnir, it is great and handsome. And when she travels, she drives her cats and sits in a carriage. She is the most accessible for people to call on, and from her name it is a sign of respect that women of substance are called frúver (ladies). She enjoys erotic poetry. It is good to call on her for love.” ~ Grímnismál stanza 14

Her husband is Óðr, little is known about him. According to the Prose Edda Óðr is missing, she weeps tears of red gold while searching for him. They have two daughters together, Gersemi and Hnoss. The meaning of their names are translated to treasure and something that is considered valuable or precious. They are only mentioned once. She is the daughter of the god Njörd, her mother is unknown. Nerthus (mentioned in Tacitus Germania) or Skadi may possibly be her mother. It is mentioned in the poem Gylfaginning that Njörd had two children (who are assumed to be Freyja and Freyr) it is insinuated that the children were with Skadi, this is where Snorri first introduces Freyja and Freyr. Saying that they were powerful and beautiful. 

Freyja owns a chariot that she travels in that is pulled by two gray/black cats, who were gifted to her by the god Thor. The names of her cats are unknown. She has a cloak of falcon feathers that allow her to travel unnoticed through the 9 realms and the sky of midgard to observe what is happening on the ground. Freyja is said to let the other Aesir gods and goddesses use her falcon feathered cloak when they need to travel to a different realm quickly. She has a boar named Hildisvíni which translates to “battle swine,” she rides him when she isn't using her chariot.

Associations: sex, fertility, beauty, magic, war, death, gold, magic

Offerings: erotic poetry, honey, love songs, amber, mugwort, mead, primrose, wine, flax

Runes: Ehwaz and Berkano

Animals: rabbits, boars, falcons

[guidingforce-deactivated2023111]

some reminders from Odin:

• Don't run your mouth 24/7, shut up and just listen.

• Do not get carried away with alcohol, it can turn a wise man into a fool very fast.

• Reciprocate the nice things your friends do for you.

• Do not feel ashamed if you are lacking more than others. All one needs is clothes on their back and a roof over their head.

• Find happiness in yourself and do not rely on others for this happiness.

(all from the Hávamál)

[ If you use any of the Poetic/Prose Edda to justify your racism or bigotry gtfo btw ]

[rudjedet]

Controversial Truths About Ancient Egypt Masterpost

The pyramids were built by contemporary workers who received wages and were fed and taken care of during construction

The Dendera “lightbulb” is a representation of the creation myth and has nothing to do with electricity

We didn’t find “““copper wiring””” in the great pyramid either

Hatshepsut wasn’t transgender

The gods didn’t actually have animal heads

Hieroglyphs aren’t mysteriously magical; they’re just a language (seriously we have shopping lists and work rosters and even ancient erotica)

The ancient Egyptian ethnicity wasn’t homogeneous

Noses (and ears, and arms) broke off statues and reliefs for a variety of reasons, none of which are “there is a widespread archaeological conspiracy to hide the Egyptian ethnicity”

[thatlittleegyptologist]

The carvings at Abydos aren’t modern machines but recarvings over old carvings. Sure they look like them but if you can read hieroglyphs and know that Ramesses II will even usurp the carvings of his own father just to be a little shit

[rudjedet]

‘No soot on the ceilings and walls of the Dendera temple!’ is actually because of extensive restoration works and not because Egyptians were in on shit like Baghdad “batteries”

While the Egyptians were fine-ass astronomers they didn’t align any of their enormous and/or important buildings to modern star constellations, because constellations look very different now than they did ~5000 years ago 

The pyramid is the simplest, sturdiest shape with which to build and many different cultures discovered this in their own time. There were never any weird fish humans/aliens involved

[rudjedet]

The sphinx of Gizah is only an approximate 5000 years old; the 10,000 year/rain erosion nonsense is proven hokum

Speaking of that particular sphinx, the Napoleonic expedition is not responsible for its missing nose

Akhenaten was not a “heretic” by contemporary standards

Ramses II appropriated a lot of his predecessors’ buildings/reliefs and isn’t really deserving of the epithet “the Great”

The Battle of Kadesh ended in a stalemate (twice)

[rudjedet]

While they had feline deities throughout their history, Egyptians didn’t actually worship cats themselves. This was a later Greek/Ptolemaeic addition

It was not, in fact, practice to shave off eyebrows after cats died; Herodotus lied about that

Herodotus lied about a lot of things and many misconceptions about ancient Egypt can be traced back to his Greek ass

[rudjedet]

I can’t believe I forgot my favourite Hill to Die On

Seth was not the god of “evil”, and despite his chaos providing a foil to order, he wasn’t completely villified until very late in Egyptian history, when he became associated with despised foreign enemies

[rudjedet]

Hats off to the few of you who’re reblogging this with tags saying you’re going to check my claims later. You make me not entirely despair of this hellhole.

Here are some vetted Egyptological books/sources (that are by and large appropriate for a lay-audience) you can find most, if not all of the above:

Lehner, M., The Complete Pyramids

Wilkinson, R. H., The Complete Temples of Ancient Egypt

Hornung, E., The One and the Many: Conceptions of God in Ancient Egypt

Dunand, F. & Zivie-Coche, C., Gods and Men in Egypt

Kemp, B., Ancient Egypt: Anatomy of a Civilization

Bard, K., An Introduction to the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt

Stevenson Smith, W., The Art and Architecture of Ancient Egypt

Kitchen, K. A., The Life and Times of Ramesses II, King of Egypt

Sweeney, D., Sex and Gender (in Ancient Egypt)

McDowell, A. G., Village Life in Ancient Egypt:  Laundry Lists and Love Songs

Te Velde, H., Seth, God of Confusion 

[rudjedet]

Guys do me a solid and reblog this version instead of continuously asking for sources on the other versions thanks

[prismatic-bell]

You’re doing the good work, friend.

[transkojiro]

ok but can we go back to the ancient erotica pls

[rudjedet]

We sure can!

[slaughterrmysins]

is there a version of this post where y'all talk about how the ancient Egyptians had advanced technology (that is lost and unknown to us) that allowed them to cut multiple ton granite stone to such precision that if you were to try to slide a human hair between the cuts, the hair wouldn’t fit? and if you try to take a photo of the cut from a few inches over head that you can’t even tell the cut line is there? unless the ancients were some sort of advanced earth benders, how do y'all explain that???

[rudjedet]

Yeah it’s called “the ancient Egyptians were skilled stone workers with the attested tools at their disposal and we didn’t lose that knowledge actually” and you can find all the pertinent evidence in The Complete Pyramids, run along now.

[slaughterrmysins]

i made a great response to this but then i realized your complete and utter rudeness is not worth it at all. i had a genuine question and there was no need to respond like that. and no, my “earthbender” comparison wasn’t serious.

[rudjedet]

You know why I was harsh? Because you coached your question in the exact same terms every single conspiracy theorist uses to deny ancient Egyptians their agency when it comes to their stone working. Your reply had the exact same tone of many, many people who tried to play gotcha with me in 119k+ notes, and I’m just not here for that. There is a need to respond like that, actually, because conspiracists will take a mile if you give them an inch on their barely disguised racist beliefs that the Egyptians couldn’t have built their monuments themselves. You either shut it down immediately or you give them ammo. If you got caught in the crossfire of that, that’s regrettable but there is a reason for it.

And why am I making that “dumb comment”? Because I’m an Egyptologist. I have studied this, reviewed the evidence, read all the theories. And as I stated, we do have proof. We do have evidence that metal tools and harder stones can, in fact, cut stone. The same tools can, in fact, create a level surface on a quarried block because the Egyptians, like many contemporary civilisations, knew how to use things like measures and plumb lines.

There is, again, nothing lost or too-advanced about it. It’s technology that is actually still in use today in various fields and quarries together with more modern techniques. If you look through the recent reblogs you’ll find one that attaches many different videos showing exactly what I’m talking about.

And to reiterate, if you’re genuinely interested you can find all of this info in Mark Lehner’s The Complete Pyramids, which is relatively easily accessed online. Barring that, you can look at his website or any of the freely accessible articles by the same and also read up on this. It’s no skin off my nose if you don’t want to take my word for it, but that is why I added sources.

[magic-in-emotion]

Beautiful

[crazycatsiren]

White gentile witches have got to learn that graveyards are not playgrounds.

Burial grounds, final resting places of loved ones and elders, are sacred to many cultures. Many cultures abide by the rules that the dead are to be left in peace at all costs, and under no circumstances are their graves to be disturbed for any reason.

Have respect when you're in a place where the dead reside. Not only for those who have passed on, but also for the ones they have left behind.

[magic-in-emotion]

Khonsu, Egyptian God of the Moon

I’ve been more drawn to ancient Egypt recently so I’m going to post a brief summary about this god

Khonsu is the Egyptian deity and personification of the moon. His parents are Amun, one of the sun deities who later merged with Ra to become Amun-Ra and was the prominent “Father God” of the Egyptian pantheon, and Mut, who was considered to be the mother of everything

These three gods were primarily worshipped in Thebes, with Khonsu overseeing travelling and the passage of time. This family was also considered to be responsible for the creation of the world and all the things that lived in it.

While Khonsu is not widely talked about anymore, he held a very important role in the lives of ancient Egyptians in that he provided guidance, protection, and healing.

He’s one of my favourite Egyptian gods and quite honeslty one of the most straightforward and friendly. So do me a favour next time you see the moon at night, and send him a thanks for watching out for us

[magic-in-emotion]

There are no Nazis in Valhalla.

Or at least there better not be or I'm coming up there to kick their asses and the dumbasses that put them there

All respect to my gods. But also what I'm saying is

NO. FUCKING. NAZIS.

[spiritsandsunflowers]

MERRY YULE! ❤️🌲✨

Today is the Ninth Day of Yule and I’ve completed my Yule vignette for the 2021 year 🥰

Sif baked yuletide cookies! And you know Thor is gonna eat plenty 😂

I hope everyone is having a safe and blessed holiday season, I am so grateful for each and every one of you. Another month until our Etsy shop opens again, and I’m cooking up some goodies to start our 2022 year off right 😊❤️

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[Image Description: Sif with her long golden hair stands smiling, holding a tray of sugar cookies. The cookies are shaped like pine trees, goats, ornaments, and mjolnirs. Thor stands next to her, his face alight with laughter. He holds two cookies aloft, a Mjolnir in one hand and a tree with a big bite taken out of it in his other hand. Crumbs decorate his beard. The words “Merry Yule!” run along the bottom of the image. End description.]

[bogleech]

How the fuck can there be anti vaccine "witches?" If you disagree with binding an invisible malignant entity into a single drop of potion that seals a subject's blood against the full force of that very same entity's curse then you are not and can never be a witch you're just a karen who buys rocks

[spiritsdancinginthenight-deacti]

egyptian singer amira selim sings ancient egyptian verses at the pharaoh’s golden parade, in which the mummies of egypt’s ancient royalty were transported to their new home. 3rd April 2021.

[triptihosmrti]

this a hymn to the goddess isis btw

[sewickedthread]

@davidcridout did you see this?

[losttheforestpath]

So as it turns out, sometimes the quickest way to heal your mental health (not an instant fix but definitely an improvement), is to stop spending time with people who make you feel desperate to impress them or get their approval, attention, and time.

Remembering you and your time and energy are just as valuable is so, so important

So keep an eye on people that you feel like you always have to reach out to or make you feel bad for wanting to spend time with them (within reason)

Remember icarus:

Don't fly too close to the sun and burn your wings but also remember not to let the water of the ocean beneath you drag you down into darkness

[shoeboxgoblin]

Rejection sensitive dysphoria is wild. Someone will be like “hey just so you know the thing you did was a little bit loud/uncomfortable/insensitive but it’s ok I know you didn’t mean it” and my brain will instantly translate “you should be shot”

[ajani]

The fun other side of this too is when you are afraid of making other people feel that way so you just let shit go 90% of the time even when it’s reasonable and valid to make a comment/critique/etc

[lifeofawitch2020]

Shout out to the witches that aren’t Wiccans.

Reblog this so we all can connect

[guerrillatech]