i cannot keep you safe, but i can keep you loved

my name is Maggot i worship death and love and life and indie folk rock band The Mountain Goats

[vulturepunk]

i have decided to remake my blog at a new url because i’m looking for a Fresh Start, stay tuned & i’ll post a link to New Blog when it’s set up

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Vulture

The Hebrew word “nesher” is often translated in English versions of the Bible as eagle, but most scholars agree that “griffon vulture” is at least an alternate, if not a more fitting, translation.

When God reminds Moses how He bore the Israelites on “nesher’s” wings, and when the prophet Isaiah promises that the faithful will rise up with wings like “neshers’” - think vulture instead of eagle.

Vultures may be loathsome to the average westerner, but they are some pretty badass creatures.

They are remarkable purifying machines. They take care of rotting remains that could otherwise spread diseases. They have uniquely strong digestive juices that kill bacteria and nasty pathogens.

The Mayans referred to the vultures as death eaters. This struck them as a good, godlike thing. It makes sense. We need something to eat death (digest it, rid it of its toxicity). Vultures stare death in the face and fear it not at all.

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[the-thought-emporium-imperial]

“Hear me, proud members of the Carrion Church, We are the saviors of the dead. Through us they live again, with us they travel, and thusly they are eaten again when we ourselves fall. We are, all of us, moving and living mausoleums where the walker and the flyer are remembered with our every action. Revel, for the dead rejoice within you.”

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Today I learned of the existence of the Griffon Vulture.

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[vulturepunk-archive]

“She never saw God in her fits— not the way the others did: what if God was a vulture licking her clean, her words a machine-hand rigging her legs back as she sang, her mind a sack of apologies emptied.”

— Rochelle Hurt, “The Humility of St. Teresa of Ávila,” published in Tupelo Quarterly  (via blancheparish)

[xinling]

Turkey vulture girl

[glumshoe]

Vultures are excellent birds.

And I’m not just saying that because I’m a goth.

[bogfox]

but it helps.

[gyrrakavian]

They don’t just clean up the carion, they even clean up the pathogens that might have killed it. Vulture stomach acid is strong enough to kill SARS and rabies, and this acid is in their droppings, too.

[glumshoe]

A toast to vultures!

[talesoftim]

CHEERS

[todaysbird]

this is a turkey vulture with leucism. the bird’s light brown color is the result of a reduction in pigment from leucism. leucistic birds rarely make it to adulthood, as they are more visible to predators, and tend to have weak eyesight & feathers.

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[depsidase]

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

The girls are having a good day out <3

[cryptonature]

Vultures are holy creatures.

Tending the dead.

Bowing low.

Bared head.

Whispers to cold flesh,

“Your old name is not your king.

I rename you ‘Everything.’”

[thyrell]

why does every vulture look lesbian as hell

[thyrell]

like honestly im dead certain i saw this couple drinkin pabst at a potluck last week its not just me right

[featheredcritter]

“vultures are not cute” “vultures are nasty” WRONG. vultures are actually so powerful and cute get real

[featheredcritter]

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@vulturepunk

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[ducissatenebrarum]

Aaron S. Coleman, “The Vulture Eats Between Its Meals” 

[firstfullmoon]

[text ID: tweet by Sanna Wani that reads, “all of my poetry is just me saying grief grief grief and then pointing at God”]

[ultrabright-flashlight]

Hosts will really just go ‘Well I don’t recall experiencing any symptoms lately so I must be faking’ while ignoring the fact that they can’t actually recall anything else this past week anyways