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sorry for making the divine monstrous. that one is my fault i take full credit for it.

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sorry for seeing the divine in the monstrous. not my fault.
sorry for making the divine monstrous. that one is my fault i take full credit for it.
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Altars
I remember somebody asking me to show my families home altar. When i asked my Grandmother, she was not too keen on it. So I asked her if I could show you guys the smaller altars and statues that lay around our house, and she agreed.
I’ll also be sharing some of my siblings personal altars, since they don’t care if others see them.
( @beastcpu )
(fair warning, we have quite a bit, since we live in a rather large farmhouse. i’ll only be posting my personal favorites at this moment)
(also, most of the altars you’ll see here picture a statue of the Virgin Mary. That’s just how we as a family like to portray our Mother. when i show my siblings altars you might see more diversity based on how She appears to them.)
(ok sorry this will be my last note but i just want everyone to have full context lol. in my house we have this little thing where when you pass a statue you should reverence towards it. even if it’s just a little head nod, or make the 5-pointed-star over our hearts, or a full on 90 degree bow. most of us don’t reverence towards every statue or altar, only ones that we feel the most drawn to or called to reverence)
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^ this is one of the first things you’d see when you walk into our home. when i walk in it seems to remind me to thank Her for bringing me back safely, so i do.
^ one of my favorites because She looks so lovely here. i like to give Her reverence every time i pass Her.
^ here She is on my sisters vanity. usually my sister has a little candle lit at Her feet or some little candy for Her.
^ this is a little table in the hallway where our rear entrance is. my family has gotten this funny little habit where we place our keys on the table for Her to watch over. we like to reverence Her when we’re leaving the house and i always ask for Her protection and blessings while i’m gone. a few of us reverence when we return to the house as well.
^ My younger brothers altar. he wanted me to tell you all that although he’s not the best at keeping up personal devotional time, or offering Her things, he likes to keep a fresh flower by Her feet. in his words: “i don’t know, i guess i just want Her to know that i haven’t forgotten about Her.”
^ although he doesn’t live at home my older brother sent my mother this photo a while back and i’ve asked him if i could share it and he agreed.
^ the last one i’ll be sharing today is my older sisters. this is her pride and joy because she spent tons of time going through thrift stores looking for everything lol. her favorite things to offer Her are fruits.
and that’s all :) i hope you all enjoyed this, and my siblings send you all many blessings. they want for you guys to know that they hope you will recognize that there are many shapes and forms the Goddess comes to us individually, and we should honor Her based on our individual experiences.
Thank you so much for sharing!! (@beastcpu reblogging from my religious sideblog)
I was just talking to some filianic friends the other day about how much I missed having a permanent altar up in the very limited space I have and how I never realized the little habits I had, like saying hello or thank You whenever I passed Her. How I wish I had several of them in my family home! I love hearing about the traditions and habits you and your family have and seeing the different imagery you all use. All of these images spoke to me on a spiritual level, you can definitely tell the love that went into building these altars ❤️
aw, it’s too bad you don’t have a permanent altar where you are right now! and thank you so much for your kind words 🤍. have you thought of having a travel altar? like in a shoebox or one of those little tin cans? perhaps that could work for you :)
I've tried having an altar inside a drawer but I find having an image of her in plain sight is the best reminder to stay in touch with her. I promised myself that if I come across a figure I truly connect with I'll try to set up a smaller altar than the one I once had. Maybe something like the one your younger brother has!
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thinking about this today
Moon and Venus conjunction
Constantly torn between beauty is a scam and beauty is divine
Was reading on wikipedia about how lots of ancient cultures had beliefs and traditions where you had to offer prayers and/or sacrifices if you wanted to cut down a tree because you were basically killing the spirit that lived within the tree and if you did that without good reason bad stuff would happen to you
we should bring that back. if you want to clear cut a forest you have to pray and sacrifice on behalf of every single tree
The more I learn about ecosystems, the more I realize that characterizing "animistic" belief as superstitious and primitive is one of the dumbest lies ever told
I, as well, am an animist (knows what a soil microbiome is)
There is air plankton. A question I had on an exam revolved around how if we sterilized the entire atmosphere, we aren’t sure if rain would still happen. So yeah, even weather kind of!
You could also say words also count as communication between different cells/microbes, and those are often biologically produced. Antibiotic compounds can also be signaling molecules. In my opinion, they have ‘spoken’ for at least 3.5 BY, since they have cooperated to make incredibly complex architecture similar to or surpassing the complexity of animal circulatory systems. These fossils are stromatolites and they exist even now.
IIRC the transpiration of water from the trees in the Amazon Rainforest is needed to create the very rain that sustains it
Yes, people assume rainforests just grow where the climate is rainy but they just make it rainy, beginning as dry-tolerant forests but gradually terraforming the region in waves of more wet-adapted plants over thousands of years. The near daily rain over rainforest is literally the condensation of the breath of that many organisms in one place.
That means if the rainforest dies you just get desert. The tropics go away because the tropics were the plants. And we won't be able to put it back like it was just by planting seeds.
maybe i will talk to the sea she’s as angry and as gentle as me
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poll time because something my mother said pissed me off lmao
do you remove or shave your body hair (on your legs, under your arms, etc)?
all the time
i don't really care for shaving but i do it because of society
sometimes but not always
never
if i remember to
i don't have any body hair that is worth shaving tbh
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on death with 1. lilies abounded, @petfurniture, twitter; 2. frances molina, “o’death”
in bonono culture, if a male eats before a female, every female in the troupe jumps his ass. it's just not tolerated in their society. close female bonding and matriarchal traditions have made bonobo society completely different from chimpanzee society, in spite of the fact that they are very nearly genetically identical. there's debate as to whether or not they should even be considered separate species. bonobos are the closest living genetic relative of human beings
Love that somehow my right eye getting bloodshot regularly for no reason has become a reminder to return to deanic tumblr
In other news my eye hurts but it's cool
Love that somehow my right eye getting bloodshot regularly for no reason has become a reminder to return to deanic tumblr