Ritual Coffee

*Coffee and the Occult* A blog for magick, the occult, the supernatural, and my unhealthy obsession with coffee. (This is not my main blog.)

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Lavishly Illustrated Medieval Playing Cards Flouted the Church and Law

Secular and religious officials alike frowned on card playing in Europe's Middle Ages

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Discover the Renaissance Origins and Mystical Evolution of Tarot Cards

An exhibition at London's Warburg Institute traces tarot decks' evolution from the 1450s through the present

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The Colorful History of Tarot Is as Mesmerizing as the Decks Themselves

The original meaning behind the cards, first created 500 years ago, still remains elusive. But that didn't stop our reporter from traveling

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Saj Issa - Crocodile Crown

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twisted wire bone hoops

A pair of earrings created with twisted and soldered brass wire adorned in salvaged bone.

New bone hoops!

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Daughter (2026), oil on linen by Filip Mirazovic

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[themoonandmyman]

therapy should just be One Session where they just slough off all the Goo and then you’re done. Will someone please take my Goo

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Gold beaker with turquoise, Sican culture, Peru, 900-1000 AD

from The MET

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Glint

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tired of cannibalism as a metaphor for love or sex. can we get into cannibalism as a metaphor for colonization.

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1. Europeans using Egyptian mummies as medicine

2. The Delectable Negro: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism Within US Slave Culture by Vincent Woodard

3. "Abolitionists turned the tables on Europeans by accusing them of being cannibals when they ate sugar tainted with the flesh and blood of slaves."

4. Zombies (which I would class as cannibals, since they were human and need to eat humans to live) have a root in Haitian folklore and represented enslavement.

[vintagedean]

adding that, if you can find it, cannibal culture by deborah root is about exactly this. the way the white western world is a hungry, destructive force that cannibalizes non-white cultures and creates wealth and status through the cannibal colonization of those cultures.

here's the intro

i almost think there's an essay in bell hooks' black looks about this too? yes! just checked, there's an essay called "eating the other"

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This was genuinely what it was like growing up in New Agey circles btw, my mum's friends would come round like "So I went out to the woods this weekend and fasted and meditated and I had a vision of the Sacred Stag and all my guardian angels and I asked them how to find love and they said that I need to focus on my own healing first and stop repeating cycles of the past" and then the very next week it'd be like "So I'm back with James again" girl..... the Sacred Stag could not have been more clear....

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Lilith, (Detail), (1887), by John Collier (English, 1850 – 1934), oil on canvas, 194 cm (76.3 in) x 104 cm (40.9 in), Atkinson Art Gallery and Library, England

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Thinking of starting a sideblog called "Is it Occult Knowledge or Misogyny*, **?" and it's a collection of bigoted, bizarre, and plain illegal practices in occult books.

*other bigotries also explored

**no TERFs allowed

I thought about calling it "Just Cis Man Occultist Things"

Please suggest a better title

[tuiliel]

I like the concept - are you taking submissions? 😂

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Of course