steadfast and greatly-horned

animist | yt + native

[moor-walker]

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[hopepunk-humanity]

“Humans are inherently selfish--" Then why do so many cultures value hospitality, to the point of dictating it in their religions? Why is it so common for hosts to offer their visitors their best food, and as much of it as they can? At some point, multiple cultures decided that they knew what it felt like to be alone and vulnerable, and promised each other to never let those who stay with them feel that way. That doesn't sound very "inherently selfish" to me.

[wolfsteax]

"humans are the plague"

No. Humans are animals as much as the fish and the bear. We are pack animals who have survived by strong bonds and community.

Do not buy the lie that humans are inherently evil. Societies can trick you into believing this, but it's not the truth of humanity.

Humans crave being together, sharing together, and thriving together.

Capitalism just wants you to believe we're destined for selfishness.

[lamignonette]

[emmonarts]

The Way You're Made, 2025 Analog collage

[garden-granny]

some of y’all never close your eyes in the sun and allow it to envelop you in feelings of peace and contentment and it shows

[cuteitem-deactivated20220720]

Yeah I'm thinking that its dope asf that the river turns rocks smooth

[lostinthewoodskhi]

I really believe more people need to reconnect with nature in order to protect it. I feel like so many people don’t care about climate change because they never really expierenced how stunning this planet is.

[lostinthewoodskhi]

If you ever sat in the forest and feeling like you are a part of it how can you cut that forest down? If you understand the pain all of this is causing you can’t just ignore all of this, or can you?

[platinumdragonchaos]

This is exactly why I feel people aren’t meant to live in cities.

I think an old farmer said it best “The extent that people disconnect themselves from the planet (or nature in general) is the same extent they disconnect themselves from their own souls.” To me that is 100% exactly what has been happening for generations now and the first thing that needs fixing.

[regardintemporel]

Sandra Požun

[wolfhoundwitch]

I think we need to bring local shrines back. Not in the sense of like, a church, but somewhere in a local community where offerings to the spirits, fae, deceased loved ones, can be left. not too dissimilar to community shrines to local spirits in Japan.

[ancat-dubh]

Ime (I live and do local land-based magical practice in the south of England, have also lived in France and a few places around the US) these exist in loads of contexts, they’re just rarely Designated As Such – expanding my perspective on this has been a joy! And you can set one up, or make your local one A Thing, way easier than you might think.

I probably notice one at least once a day when I leave the house these days – I think when you start looking for them they start popping up everywhere. There are at least three or four working communal shrines/altars in my nearest big public park that’ve been there for years; someone left petition candles to Oshun and St Michael at the base of a local oak tree a few weeks ago; there’s a DIY memorial with names of babies who died in infancy hanging from a tree in my old neighbourhood; my current neighbourhood’s got a Luigi-Mangione-As-Saint street mural that’s pulled in loads of associated graffiti, lots with explicitly spiritual messages or symbols.

Most common ones I notice are: stone piles/cairns left at crossing places, roadside memorials, wishing wells and fountains, statues that’ve acquired their own good luck rituals from visibly rubbed spots, padlock bridges, people leaving photos or messages in mini free libraries/food cupboards, graffiti and street sticker hotspots that take on their own lives and specific purposes/vibes, memorials/sigils/spiritual symbols carved into specific trees and park benches, statues or displays in community gardens/allotments, clooties/stones/flowers/misc stuff decorating big or communally placed trees.

If you leave a few ribbons tied around a tree you like, or some flowers by a forgotten statue, that’s as good as a sign that says ‘leave a stone here to remember someone you love’ (which also works). People love a DIY shrine and still 100% have instincts for it even if they’re not thinking of it as spiritual/religious.

[telekitnetic-art]

🌇🕊️ MO(U)RNING DOVE

This is sort of an experimental piece that I've been excited to share for a while!! Mourning doves are common near me, and I always get a nice feeling of calmness when I hear them in the early morning, singing while perched on the powerlines outside. This illustration is dedicated to that feeling.

[feather-bone]

[ID: a digital drawing of many different animals and plants in a simple style in grey, including opossum, owl, snake, seal, panther, chicken, monkey, bat, turtle, squid, scorpion, frog, penguin, jellyfish, and more. they surround the words "every other being is as real as i am" in light blue capital letters. end.]

Why am I me and not someone else? Does everything have its own "me"? Living beings see from only their own perspective, but we can observe our fellow beings and imagine - what is it like to exist as a cat or an oak tree? They're all out there having their own experience of existence that I could never come close to understanding with human senses. But does that mean those experiences are less important than mine? Maybe from my own perspective, presumably not from theirs.

Anyway, that line of thinking results in drawings like this one - an obvious truth that we can perhaps forget at times when our empathy fails. How many different living things can you identify in this drawing? :)

[meanbuddhist]

you may find me having intense spiritual breakthroughs and revelations just to completely forget about them one week later don’t worry about me i am on my path

[siliconpoems]

Prehistoric 'Swimming' Reindeer Mammoth Tusk Carving, 'Ice Age Art Now' Exhibition, Cliffe Castle, Keighley, Yorkshire

Posed with their chins up, antlers tipped back, and legs outstretched, the reindeer appear to be swimming as they do when crossing lakes and rivers on migration. This made the best use of the tapering tip of the mammoth tusk. The wavy lines on the male's face may represent water.

Montastruc rockshelter, Midi-Pyrenees, France British Museum, Palart.550

[mcromwell]

A kingfisher made from a circular saw blade, paint pen, and spray paint. I sketched it, @echomary cut it out and added the copper eye, and I painted it. This was a gift, but we'd love to make more birds like this! What birds would you want to see?

[cyberxbattalion]

"A wolf paw print in bison blood from this morning in Yellowstone. From one of the members of the Junction Butte pack"

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[sandmandaddy69]

[stlamb]