the whore of the blade.

witch ; amazigh ; ocpd ; weird

[kenluvskittens]

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[litttleprincess-deactivated2017]

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[trappedinmyoldways]

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[jaydove-writes]

Please reblog this. I don’t care what your blog’s theme or aesthetic is. This is important.

[whylee-wheeler]

This is important to reblog for yourself too, not just for others to see it. You never know when something could come up and if you need help it’s right there on your blog

[androidfoe]

My interpretation of the most famous couples in amazigh mythology

— Ifru (head of pantheon, goddess of war, warriors' protection, protection in general and fertility) & Argurzil (god of war and thunder) ;

the couple ever tbh, very healthy and probably extremely funny. girlboss and malewife except they both can and will kill you. their rare arguments are probably war strategy-related.

— Tannit (goddess of wisdom, civilisation, war and protection) & Ba'al Hammon (god of the cosmos, -can be compared to Ouranos-, harvest and fertility) ;

okay hear me out but to me it's impossible that both sisters have an healthy marriage. see how most traditional men can act very lovey dovey with their wife at home and they actually adore them but outside they act ashamed of said wife and ignore her? that's them except that Tannit is being the asshole here, to show the matriarchal traditions of amazigh culture but also as an access of pride, she's Ifru's sister so it means that she's a person to look up to but she ain't no head of pantheon so she tries harder to keep the respect people have for her and one of those way is to completely neglect her husband when they're with other beings. it hurts Ba'al but he's in love and his wife is the one with the most power so he just shut up (Loving Feeling by Mitski kinda thing)

— Anzaar (god of rain and water) & Tarenza (goddess of rainbow) ;

Any person that is a tiny bit into amazigh mythology knows about the myth of Anzaar's bride (or how Tarenza was forced into becoming Anzaar's wife) and there's no need to be very smart to guess that it is a one-sided marriage where both are unhappy. Anzaar is hopelessly in love ever since he first laid his eyes on her and Tiziri hates him ever since he took her away from her people. I can see her MAYBE hating him a little less with time and acting a bit more friendly but she's never falling in love with him.

— Teryel (ogress, witch and protective goddess of women) & the free man (Lion)

i know that they're rarely depicted as lovers but THE SYMBOLISM PLEEAAASE?? they both chased freedom, and did so hand in hand, living their love far from the domesticated men and women, but the wilderness slowly turned the man into an animal and Teryel, devastated to see her lover turned into a lion, ate the golden leaf of the Tree of Life and become an ogress. the tragedy. please.

— Isli (the groom) & Tislit (the bride)

amazigh romeo and juliet what do you want me to say? except they committed sucide hand in hand

also a rare pair i invented that makes no sense is lunja x genius of africa.... don't ask me just silly immortal lesbians.

[thewhoreoftheblade]

Silly immortal lesbians??? Elaborate please I thirst for more of our myths 😭

[androidfoe]

This isn't really based on anything sorry 💔 Well it is based on Lunja (Teryel's first daughter) eating all the princes who wants to marry her, which is to me so funny to consider as lesbian behavior, and on the other side we have Genius Of Africa who's a female spirit and most likely a messenger for the gods, and do I really need to explain how queer and chaotic the messengers in mythologies are? I think they would get along !! Sorry to disappoint btw </33

[thewhoreoftheblade]

Oh trust me you didn't disappoint at all, I like how you think!!!

[from-a-spiders-web]

Hygieia (goddess of health), Hippocrates (Father of Medicine), Flora (symbol of nature and flowering plants, incl. medicinal plants) and Galen (medical researcher) Shop signs for the The Golden Lion pharmacy in Josefstadt 1826 | Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller

[shoebanfoo]

Hygieia, Greek goddess of good health and disease prevention.

Drawn as a commission.

[princeofthegreen]

Marble relief of Asclepius and Hygieia. From Therme, Greece, end of the 5th century BC. Istanbul Archaeological Museums.

[edinburgh-by-the-sea]

timeless shrine

[thecapturedspy]

My take on Klimt's "Hygieia", but make it Arcane. ✨🌌✨ Absolutely love the show's Machine Herald design, and I had tons of fun making it abstract <3

[shoebanfoo]

Hygieia Declining the Panacea Image of Hygieia and Panacea, Greek goddesses of good health and universal cures (respectively), drawn as a commission.

[jennifernicolejewelry]

A beautiful necklace that is perfect to wear on any occasion. This necklace features a cup with a serpent wrapped around it. The symbol of H

[boymanmaletheshequel]

Subtle ways to honor Hygeia 🫧⚕️

- be kind to yourself

- brush your teeth

- use soap and shampoo

- take baths or showers

- treat wounds or infections

- be kind to care providers and nurses

- be kind to sanitation workers and custodians

- clean your bathroom when it begins to turn nasty.

- trim your nails

- sanitize and sterilize surfaces of items or objects that could accumulate bacteria and make you sick

- do your dishes

- use tissues and other proper sanitary devices like toilet paper and face masks if necessary.

- dispose of garbage responsibly and correctly.

- treat blemishes like acne and pimples holistically and safely.

- use hygiene products that are safe and effective for your skin and body

- wash your hands after using the bathroom (I know some of y’all don’t, too)

- please for the love of GOD flush toilets, especially public ones.

- use deodorant and perfumes

- get necessary vaccinations

- support local bills and political proposals that benefit public health and safety

- correct people on dangerous medical misinformation surrounding disease and sanitation.

[princeofthegreen]

"To Hygeia (Health), Fumigation from Manna.

O much desired, prolific, general queen. Hear me, life-bearing Hygeia, of beauteous mien, mother of all; by thee diseases dire, of bliss destructive, from our life retire; and every house is flourishing and fair, if with rejoicing aspect thou art there. Each daidal art they vigorous force inspires, and all the world thy helping hand desires. Aides (Haides), life's bane, alone resists thy will, and ever hates thy all-preserving skill. O fertile queen, from thee for ever flows to mortal life from agony repose; and men without thy all-sustaining ease find nothing useful, nothing formed to please. Without thy aid, not Aides' self can thrive, nor man to much afflicted age arrive; for thou alone, of countenance serene, dost govern all things, universal queen. Assist thy mystics with propitious mind, and far avert disease of every kind."

Orphic Hymn 68 to Hygeia (trans. Taylor)

[butterlaneantiques]

Roman "Asclepius & Hygeia" Carnelian Intaglio Signet Ring

A fascinating antique signet ring with an ancient Roman intaglio. The carnelian agate intaglio depicts two Greek gods- Asclepius, the god of medicine and Hygeia, his daughter and goddess of health. Asclepius carries a snake-entwined staff, while facing his daughter. The ring mount is crafted in solid 18 karat yellow gold.

Asclepius was the son of Apollo and mortal princess Coronis. His name- literally meaning "to cut open" as he was born by caesarean section. He was married to Epione, the goddess of pain relief and healing. Her name comes from the Greek word "epios", which means "soothing". They together had a number of children, including Hygiea. Asclepius was given to the Centaur Chiron, the wisest of all centaurs, who raised him and taught him medicine and the healing arts. Legend has it, at some point along the way, Asclepius healed a snake, which in return taught him secret knowledge... Snakes were considered divine beings that were wise and could heal and this is how his symbol came along.

Hygeia's (hygiene) classical symbol was a bowl containing a medicinal potion with the serpent of wisdom consuming it. This is the same serpent of wisdom, which appears on the staff of Aesculapius. She played an important part in her father's cult, while her father was more directly associated with healing, she was associated with the prevention of sickness and the continuation of good health.

[helpolhaven]

Celebrating the processing of trauma and altar update

[androidfoe]

i think i mainly consider ifru as head of pantheon because she's called "great mother and protector ifru" and out of all the deities, she's the one to appear the most in physical representation of numidian era (like, she has way more presence than any other god but in an ungodly amount). "but in some source, it's said that amon is the creator-god!!!" and the same thing is said in egyptian mythology. let's keep in mind that sheshonq (an amazigh prince) became pharaoh, so of course the two mythology would effect each other! gurzil is literally the product of an accouplement between amon and a cow (don't. fucking. ask.) so him having other apparitions is natural (see that like a crossover between two shows). "but if gurzil is amon's son, why isn't he head of pantheon instead?" because my dear friend, you have to remember that amazigh culture was extremely MATRIARCHAL!! women were leaders and men were, there. ("she's everything, he's just ken" ahh culture, i know). so yeah. amon would have probably gave power to his daughter-in-law. there's also myths about another creator goddess that was way more evil and also created tafkut (the sun) and ayyur (the moon)? i'll have to research a bit lol. at this point obsessing over amazigh mythology is just creating headcanons, theories and fanfictions about the gods.

[androidfoe]

what myth in amazigh mythology that you like a lot? :0

i've already talked about multiple myths (anzar's bride, ayyur and the orphan, teryel trying to kidnap ayyur and tafkut) but i remember not really expending on lunja— who's one of my favorite! <3

lunja, sometimes described today as a "cannibal rapunzel", is an ogress and daughter of teryel, mother of all ogres. teryel gave birth to her little time after her time in attala—the underworld (the magic place where humans originate from) and while little is known about how things went like there (how did teryel —a mortal— ended up in attala? how did she survive? how did she found the tree of life and death? how did she get out? all is unknown, i personally believe that ifru —who's also the goddess of attala— had something to do with it), but we do know that she consumed a golden leaf from the tree of life and death, and thanks to it, gained magic powers, became an ogress and immortal/goddess. she also was gifted with 80 biological children, while it is hinted that teryel was pregnant, it is even more hinted that the reproduction wasn't sexual, and that only the consumption of the golden leaf leaded to the pregnancies.

her first born was lunja, a girl with unmatched beauty and glowing golden hair. teryel loved her daughter very much and spoiled her (ex: trying to steal the sun and moon for her). and of course, lunja is her mother's daughter and is a man- eating ogress. she doesn't use the same tactics as her mother, who simply chase human, lunja uses her beauty. so many princes asks her hand in marriage, and each time she accepts, but when the couple's first night together is here, lunja kills the man and eats him (and some sources also says that she eats any other men present in the palace). the funny thing is that even if most princes proposing to her doesn't know about her being an ogress, other's do, but still asks for her hand, believing they can change the ogress' daughter to become mortal. how wrong they are.

[androidfoe]

amazigh mythology: tamttant and the concept of after-life.

tamttan is a primordial being (a goddess probably. i doubt that she is a spirit.) who is a personification of death. she appears under the form of a woman wearing white fabrics and armed with a harpoon or a spear that she uses to take away the iman (soul) of any living being.

the concept of after-life in imazighen beliefs are pretty much unknown in our modern world due to the absence of written sources. we could think that like in greek mythology, the underworld (tallast/attala to which great mother ifru is the goddess of) would be the ultimate place of rest, but far from it, as it is the birth place of humanity before they joined the surface of the earth and where spirits and the tree of life and destiny lives (tallast and attala are sometimes described as different places and sometimes as the same, i prefer the second option). i saw some people mentioning an equivalent to heaven and hell called "tismi" and "tamsunt" and even if the conditions to get in one or the other is unknown, it's said that the dead will come back under the forms of diverse creatures if they weren't buried and honoured (the cult of the ancestors is very important) correctly. but there's a lot more of mentions of reincarnation in amazigh beliefs. "when a tree dies, a man dies" said a lot of elders, which implies that the man becomes tree after his death; a come back to the start of the circle of life, considering that in a lot myths, amon created humanity from trees.

i am not a scholar or a professional researcher. as much as i try to double-check my sources, i am not immune to commiting mistakes. i do these research to learn more about my culture (who is slowly disappearing and getting simplified to pretty clothes and dancing) both because i love it and also to share it to others. if you notice any real mistake (keep in mind that sometimes, mythology simply has different versions of the myth) or simply wants to talk about amazigh mythology with someone, my ears are all open!