#ancient magic

[ailurophilum]

Hogwarts Legacy Lore Discussion (tldr at the end)

I'm currently working on a backstory for one of my Hogwarts Legacy OCs who isn't an Ancient Magic wielder.

I was thinking, what if Ranrok and Rookwood had been searching for potential Ancient Magic wielders years before the events of the game, perhaps when the MC was still around 10 to 12 years old?

The problem is that Ancient Magic doesn't seem to manifest until years later. The MC's abilities remain dormant until they are around fifteen, meaning there would have been no obvious way to identify the future Ancient Magic wielder beforehand.

So, what if Ranrok and Rookwood were hunting down children they believed possessed unusual magical potential? Before the MC's abilities awakened, they probably had no clue who the future Ancient Magic wielder would be. As a result, they could have easily mistaken ordinary but talented young witches and wizards for their target.

In some cases, they might have pursued the wrong child, attacked the wrong family, or even caused some people to be killed while searching for someone who wasn't actually the Ancient Magic wielder at all.

TLDR: What if Ranrok and Rookwood had been looking for the future Ancient Magic wielder long before the events of the game? Since the MC's abilities hadn't awakened yet, could they have targeted the wrong children and attacked wrong families?

[dramioneasks]

And yet, you're here - WritingfromParis - not rated, 19 chapters - Years after the war, a rip of ancient, volatile magic starts bleeding through London’s wards, and the Ministry drafts an uneasy task force to hunt the missing artefact. Hermione Granger supplies the theory; Draco Malfoy—whose bloodline is disturbingly attuned to the spellwork—becomes the reluctant linchpin. Between midnight archive sessions and magic raw enough to crack stone, they learn that the hardest thing to seal may be the distance between them—even when the city’s fate hangs in the balance.

[book-of-forbidden-knowledge]

Yes, You Can Work with Gods from Multiple Pantheons

Every once in a while, I see anxiety among newbie witches about “mixing pantheons,” evoking gods from different cultures within the same spell or ritual (e.g. one Greek god and one Celtic god). Mixing religions is called syncretism, and it’s always permissible. Magic in particular has always been heavily syncretic! But like with anything in magic, you should put some extra thought into it.

Ancient magic spells from the Greek Magical Papyri (PGM) combined pantheons almost as a rule. PGM spells evoke Greek gods, Egyptian gods, Hebrew angels and the Abrahamic God, with even some Babylonian names thrown in there. It’s almost like the magician wants to curry favor with as many gods as possible. Here’s an example:

O Lord Apollo, come with Paian. Give answer to my questions, lord. O master Leave Mount Parnassos and the Delphic Pytho Whene’er my priestly lips voice secret words, First angel of [the god,] great Zeus, IAŌ And you, MICHAEL, who rule heaven’s realm, I call on you, archangel GABRIEL. Down from Olympus, ABRASAX, delighting In dawns, come gracious who view sunset from The dawn, ADONAI. Father of the world, All nature quakes in fear of you, PAKERBETH. — PGM I, 262–347

This is a pretty typical example of a PGM incantation. It evokes the Greek god Apollo, with his classical associations to Mt. Parnassus and the oracular shrine at Delphi. It also evokes the angels Michael and Gabriel, and mentions the Abrahamic God, IAŌ, whom it seems to identify with Zeus. Also in there is the Gnostic magical name Abrasax. “Adonai” is another epithet of the Abrahamic God, and “Pakerbeth” is a nonsense magical name that appears throughout the PGM. This is a pagan text, but the Abrahamic God is evoked more times in the PGM than any other deity. It’s rarer to see the names of angels, though.

Here’s another example:

I entrust this binding spell to you, chthonic gods, HYESEMIGADON and KORE PERSEPHONE ERESCHIGAL and ADONIS the BARBARITHA, infernal HERMES THOOUTH PHOKENTAZEPSEU AERCHTHATHOUMI SONKTAI KALBANACHAMBRE and to mighty ANUBIS PSIRINTH, who holds the keys to Hades… — PGM IV 296–466

This spell evokes a bunch of chthonic (underworld) gods. It identifies Persephone with the Mesopotamian goddess Ereshkigal, whose name appears in a number of other places. (There’s another spell that evokes as many chthonic goddesses as possible, and treats them as if they’re all the same entity.) Hermes is identified with the Egyptian god Thoth. Anubis’ name also comes up. Adonis is associated with Persephone, but he was already a Hellenized version of the Mesopotamian god Dumuzid (Tammuz). The rest of the names are nonsense magic words.

A magical talisman depicting Hermanubis, Hermes + Anubis

So, looking at all of that, it’s not too weird for modern witches to evoke Hekate, the Morrigan, and Lilith in the same spell because they’re all “dark goddesses.” (Or, it is weird, but that’s part of what makes it magic.) Normally you wouldn’t want to attract the attention of three powerful, scary goddesses all at once, especially when they have only tangential things in common. But that’s kind of how magic works — you evoke as many divine powers as will listen to you.

Where syncretism gets dodgy is when modern witches start treating gods as interchangeable names or correspondences. It’s pretty common for beginner witchcraft books to include lists or tables of divine names arranged by domain, e.g. “here are all the gods of the moon.” These lists are often really shallow and poorly-researched, to put it mildly. They don’t show any interest in who these gods are or what they’re associated with beyond one-note stereotypes. They imply that one should just plug the gods’ names into a one-size-fits-all ritual formula, like deity Mad Libs. My guess is that isn’t gonna go over well with said gods.

So, if you want to mix pantheons in your spells, think about why you’re doing it. Why do you identify these particular gods with each other? What do you hope these gods will contribute to your magic? What’s the intended effect of the spell itself? What techniques are you using, and where do they come from? How does syncretism boost your spell’s effectiveness? Syncretism is always an option, but the gods are still gods, and worthy of your respect regardless of what you call them. Treat them like deities, not like a grab-bag of ingredients.

[azizogluhatice]

''Aşkın Kainatı kitabının ana karakterleri: Kraliçe Binhance ve Kral Limastake.''

"The main characters of the book The Universe of Love: Queen Binhance and King Limastake."

[azizogluhatice]

Bir Kainat Aşkı Unutunca Ne Olur?

Bu soruyu kendime sorduğumda cevap bir roman oldu...

Uzun zamandır içimde taşıdığım bir his vardı. Aşkın gerçekten ne olduğuna dair. Sadece bir duygu değil bir frekans. Bir kök. Bir varoluş biçimi. Ve o his bir gün kelimeye döndü, kelime sahneye, sahne dünyaya, dünya kainata...

Böyle doğdu Aşkın Evreni.

Nuranset bir kainattır. Büyücülerin, kristallerin, hologram haritaların varolduğu kadim bir evren. Bir zamanlar her şey canlıydı burada yağmur renkli yağardı, büyü köklerden beslenirdi, gökyüzü sabahları törenle açılırdı. Ama yüzyıllar içinde bir şey silikleşti. Sessizce. Fark edilmeden. Renkler soldu, törenler boşaldı, haritalar sönmeye başladı.

Neden?

Çünkü kainat aşkın frekansını unutmaya başlamıştı.

Binhance Nuranset'in kraliçesidir. Boyutlar açar, gerçekliği katlar... Güçlüdür. Ama içinde yıllarca adını koyamadığı bir boşluk taşır.

Limastake ise haritadan silinmiş, yüzyıllarca unutulmuş bir krallıkta tek başına bekleyen kraldır. Taşın ağırlığını, karanlığın derinliğini taşır omuzlarında. Sert görünür. Ama o derinlik o kimsenin görmediği derinlik en büyük gücüdür.

İki ruh buluştuğunda kainat hatırlamaya başlar.

Bu roman sadece bir aşk hikâyesi değil.

Aşkın neden karanlığa da ihtiyacı olduğunu soruyor. Karanlıktan geçen aşkın neden daha güçlü çıktığını anlatıyor. Köklerini bulmayan ışığın neden sarsıldığını gösteriyor. Ve en büyük soruyu soruyor:

Asıl yaratım nedir? Taştan şehir mi, kristalden büyü mü yoksa her zerreye kadar yaşayarak var etmek mi?

Kitabın 1. cildi tamamlandı.

16 bölüm. Kadim kainatlar. Karanlığın valsı. Ve kapıda bekleyen bir savaş... Aşk ile aşksızlığın savaşı.

Bu blog o yolculuğun kaydı olacak. Karakterlerin sesleri, kainatın renkleri, yazılmayan sahneler, ilham anları. Her şey burada.

Aşkın evrenine hoş geldiniz.

"What Happens When a Universe Forgets Love?

When I asked myself this question, the answer became a novel...

For a long time, I carried a feeling inside me. About what love truly is. Not just an emotion a frequency. A root. A way of existing. And one day that feeling turned into a word, the word into a scene, the scene into a world, the world into a universe...

This is how The Universe of Love was born.

Nuranset is a universe. An ancient cosmos where sorcerers, crystals, and holographic maps exist. Once, everything here was alive rain fell in color, magic was fed by roots, the sky opened ceremonially each morning. But over the centuries, something quietly faded. Silently. Unnoticed. Colors dimmed, ceremonies emptied, maps began to go dark.

Why?

Because the universe had begun to forget the frequency of love.

Binhance is the queen of Nuranset. She opens dimensions, folds reality... She is powerful. Yet she carries within her a void she could not name for years.

Limastake, on the other hand, is a king who waits alone in a kingdom erased from the map, forgotten for centuries. He carries the weight of stone and the depth of darkness on his shoulders. He appears hardened. But that depth that depth unseen by anyone is his greatest strength.

When the two souls meet, the universe begins to remember.

This novel is not simply a love story.

It asks why love needs darkness too. It tells why love that passes through darkness emerges stronger. It shows why a light that cannot find its roots begins to waver. And it asks the greatest question:

What is true creation? A city built from stone? Magic forged from crystal or is it bringing something into existence by living it to its every last particle?

Volume 1 of the book is complete.

16 chapters. Ancient universes. The waltz of darkness. And a war waiting at the door... The war between love and the absence of love.

This blog will be the record of that journey. The voices of the characters, the colors of the universe, unwritten scenes, moments of inspiration. Everything here.

Welcome to the universe of love."

[myanimethought]

Ancient Magic's Power: Legendary Man's Ability ``Ancient magic (Antica Magia) is too much'' A legendary man who uses ancient magic, his ability is Read more: https://myanimethoughts.com/ancient-magic-antica-magia-legendary-man-ability #ancientmagic #AnticaMagia #legendaryman #ability

[myanimethought]

``Ancient magic (Antica Magia) is too much'' A legendary man who uses ancient magic, his ability is