#syncretic

[cagedsanity]

Mater amata, intemerata

Virgo, respice, Mater, aspice

[thekemeticsau]

Hermanubis Guides Me ~ Sigil ~

[unholyleaf]

Isis of the Suebi In the book Germania, by Tacitus, he reports on the worship of Isis by the Suebi tribe. It's common belief that this interpretatio romana is likely in regards to the worship of Freyja/Frigg. It is my belief that Freyja and Isis are syncretic with one another. I incorperated some celtic and modern symbology into the art as well, such as the symbol of Awen, as I consider myself to be a druid, and the triple goddess symbol to represent unity of the goddesses/divine feminine.

[sheepskinnedgoat]

If you're comfortable answering, how would you describe Sophia and your relationship with her? ☺️

Oh gosh, well, lemme try.

Sophia is Wisdom. Not just a personification or an embodiment of it, but the path to it. I think through this Wisdom, we can strive for better things for ourselves and the collective of humanity and earth and the world around us. It could even bring an individual closer toward "transcendence" or something like that, where our soul finally finds it's full way back to ultimate Oneness spiritually? But first, Oneness comes materially; I feel like that's the Wisdom test, really.

Anyway, she's also like, the mom to our mom. Since I was raised by my grandmother, both Earth and Sophia give me "your grandma, but raises you like a practiced mom" feelings and so I cherish both very much. And to make things harder to formulate into words, Sophia in all her wise momness gave us a creator/crafter to give us earth and the universe and our entire existence.

And like a good mom, "bridges" the gap between the self still forming and the self still growing and the self that finds completion.

So I guess that's how I would describe my relationship with Sophia.

[kemetic-dreams]

The Fang people, also known as Fãn or Pahouin, are a Central African ethnic group found in Equatorial Guinea, northern Gabon, and southern Cameroon. Representing about 85% of the total population of Equatorial Guinea, concentrated in the Río Muni region, the Fang people are its largest ethnic group.The Fang are also the largest ethnic group in Gabon, making up about a quarter of the population. In other countries, in the regions they live, they are one of the most significant and influential ethnic groups

  The Fang people speak the Fang language, also known as Pahouin or Pamue or Pangwe. The language is a Southern Bantu language belonging to the Niger-Congo family of languages

The Fang people are relatively recent migrants into the Equatorial Guinea, and many of them moved from central Cameroon in the 19th century. Early ethnologists conjectured them to be Nilotic peoples from the upper Nile area, but a combination of evidence now places them to be of Bantu origins who began moving back into Africa around the seventh or eighth century possibly because of invasions from the north and the wars of West Africa and sub-Saharan Africa.Their migration may be related to an attempt to escape the violence of slave raiding by the Hausa people,but this theory has been contested. The Fang people were victims of the large transatlantic and trans-Saharan slave trade between the 16th and 19th century. They were stereotyped as cannibals by slave traders and missionaries, in part because human skulls and bones were found in open or in wooden boxes near their villages, a claim used to justify violence against them and their enslavement. When their villages were raided, thousands of their wooden idols and villages were burnt by the slave raiders. Later ethnologists who actually spent time with the Fang people later discovered that the Fang people were not cannibalistic, the human bones in open and wooden boxes were of their ancestors, and were Fang people's method of routine remembrance and religious reverence for their dead loved ones.

They have a patrilineal kinship social structure. The villages have been traditionally linked through lineage. They are exogamous, particularly on the father's side.Polygamy was accepted in the culture of the Fang people.The independence of villages from each other is notable, and they are famed for their knowledge of animals, plants and herbs in the Equatorial forests they live in. They are traditionally farmers and hunters, but became major cocoa farmers during the colonial era. Under French colonial rule, they converted to Christianity. However, after independence their interest in their own traditional religion, called Biere, also spelled Byeri, has returned, and many practice syncretic ideas and rites.One of the syncretic traditions among Fang people is called Bwiti, a monotheistic religion that celebrates Christian Easter but over four days with group dancing, singing and psychedelic drinks. The art works of Fang people, particularly from wood, iron and steatite, are regionally famous.Their wooden masks and idol carvings are on display at numerous museums of the world

[studentofshinto]

Cool video... wut???

OK, if you've been paying attention there are a number of things about this "Shrine" to Inari Okami that are going to make you begin to question everything I've said about Shinto shrines. There is no Torii at the entrance. OK, the video doesn't actually show that but trust me, there's no torii at the entrance. The entrance has a large covered gateway in the style of a temple entrance. The place is dedicated to Inari Okami and is listed as one of the big three in many travel guides. There is none of the familiar red/vermilion torii that I'm aware of, just a handful of stone torii. There is no purification fountain. What it does have is a jokoro, which is an incense burner typically found at Buddhist temples. What they do have are foxes by the score and banners. That's because the place is not technically Shinto at all, it is actually a syncretic Buddhist temple of the Soto sect that somehow survived the separation of Buddhism and Shinto.

The main location is in Aichi, Japan with a smaller more shrine-like location in Tokyo that does have the familiar vermilion torii.

Toyokawa Inari - Toyokawa Kaku Myogonji Temple (Enpukuzan Toyokawa-Kaku Myogon-ji)

Toyokawa Inari is considered one of Japan’s Big Three Inari Temples, along with Kyoto’s Fushimi Inari and the Yutoku Inari Temple in Saga Pr

Be sure you know which one you are going to if you get the opportunity to go and be cautious of what travel sites are showing you. I've seen several travel sites that had pictures of both locations while only providing directions to one. Why it's almost like the person who put the page together didn't have a clue about what they were writing about to include that unfortunate moniker of Fox God. No, the foxes are the messengers. Ōnamuchi-no-kami is probably thinking how nice it must be to not be known as the Bunny God. XD

[rvexillology]

Flag of The Syncretic Union

from /r/vexillology Top comment: What's the backstory on this?

[krolikowskiart]

Wonderful present from metamodern designer Karina @superkabuto - new Krolikowski Art  stickers! 

That's awesome, thank you!