~ Plaque of conjuration against the Lamashtu, called "plaque of the underworld" or Hell Plate.
Period: Neo-Assyrian (1st half of the millennium)
Place of origin: Assyria
Medium: Bronze
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~ Plaque of conjuration against the Lamashtu, called "plaque of the underworld" or Hell Plate.
Period: Neo-Assyrian (1st half of the millennium)
Place of origin: Assyria
Medium: Bronze
Lamashtu, Daughter of The Sky. Watercolor pencils and ink in my sketchbook.
Gr'alla, an NPC in my pathfinder 2e game. She's a devoted priestess of Lamashtu and the second last surviving member of her tribe. Be nice.
mother lilith, you who has freedom printed behind your eyelids,
guide us through the forest of uncertainty.
burn away the doubt with your flame of hell and melt away our hesitance.
monstrous one, blind to shame, light the way to a life free of guilt.
allow us shameless ecstasy. allow us pleasure and indulgence, freedom to live the life we crave.
mother lilith, you who the world despises, who is unshaken by judgement and persecution, we beg you to print freedom behind our eyelids.
freedom from shame, freedom from self-doubt, freedom from puritan value,
mother lilith, you who is unbridled freedom.
free us
@afraidparade i never fonished this but i intend to someday. so.
Babylonian Goddess Lamashtu - Helmiruusu
I mean, if you want to worship an ancient demon who was responsible for infant and maternal mortalities, there's Lamashtu. If you want an ancient goddess for that, there's Artemis. Both are from open traditions. You don't need to appropriate a Jewish demon.
Mission to Silas: Chapters 15/16 - "Holding Out for a Hero"
Summary: A prequel to Love's Sacrifices and Still Here Breathing.
In the days after Amy Bradshaw made her escape with Lucy Diamond, the two find themselves on the run. Forced to make an emergency landing in the county of Silas, Styria, as it so happens the rumors of Silas are of interest to the D.E.B.S Academy.
While Amy's friends are assigned to this mission, they are reluctantly joined by a girl doing what she can to escape the curse taking hold of her life. What they don't know is there are people waiting for them at Silas, including a coven of witches who have yet to pick any sides.
Now part of the Fog of Worlds Saga.
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Link to chapter fifteen here.
Author's Note: Good day/evening/night/whenever you're reading this.
Sorry for the long wait for those reading, this actually mean to be up during the summer. This marks a two part penultimate chapter before this story is wrapped up for good.
At which point I am planning to focus more on getting back into Love's Sacrifices and my new story Still Here Breathing; the latter has it's first two chapters up. The reason I'm holding of on them for is because I want to finish this story, and I plan for it's ending to carry over into the other two.
This is strictly the climax of the story, but everything else will be wrapped in the next chapter; it will also be setting up Brigitte and the Coven's arcs for Still Here Breathing as well as tying into Love's Sacrifices.
Hopefully, I can get the next chapter of Love's Sacrifices ready by January.
Context Warning: Gun violence, werewolf violence, ghosts and possession, scenes may make you straight up sad; mild nudity and sexual content...
And quite possibly the most batshit battle sequence I have ever written. I named it after Shrek 2's climax for a reason.