May152013
I like stick and poke tattoos but that eye of hours one doesn’t even really border on ok, ok? Not even close.

I like stick and poke tattoos but that eye of hours one doesn’t even really border on ok, ok? Not even close.

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May22013
dodgerthirteen: thetwistedrope: satdeshret: msarano: scrollofthoth: A good place to start would be the Egyptian Book of the Dead, the translations of the Papyrus of Ani by EA Wallis Budge - http://www.sacred-texts.com/egy/ebod/ I thought he wasn’t considered a reliable source any more? :-? He’s not. Nope. Budge is typically bad news. fwiw, if anyone reading does want a good beginners list, this is mine: Temple of the Cosmos: Jeremy NaydlerRed Land, Black Land: Babara MertzReading Egyptian Art: Richard WilkinsonMagic in Ancient Egypt: Geraldine PinchThe Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt: Richard WilkinsonEternal Egypt: Richard Reidy iirc, one of the other Kemetics around here has a longer, more indepth list that we use a lot on Pagan101 :3  I’m still working my way through RLBL and then I’m moving onto Naydler, I think. I use (and love) Awakening Osiris by Normandi Ellis. Anyone else know how reliable it is? I’ve never heard much bad about it

dodgerthirteen:

thetwistedrope:

satdeshret:

msarano:

scrollofthoth:

A good place to start would be the Egyptian Book of the Dead, the translations of the Papyrus of Ani by EA Wallis Budge - http://www.sacred-texts.com/egy/ebod/

I thought he wasn’t considered a reliable source any more? :-?

He’s not.

Nope. Budge is typically bad news. fwiw, if anyone reading does want a good beginners list, this is mine:

Temple of the Cosmos: Jeremy Naydler
Red Land, Black Land: Babara Mertz
Reading Egyptian Art: Richard Wilkinson
Magic in Ancient Egypt: Geraldine Pinch
The Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt: Richard Wilkinson
Eternal Egypt: Richard Reidy

iirc, one of the other Kemetics around here has a longer, more indepth list that we use a lot on Pagan101 :3 

I’m still working my way through RLBL and then I’m moving onto Naydler, I think.

I use (and love) Awakening Osiris by Normandi Ellis. Anyone else know how reliable it is? I’ve never heard much bad about it

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March292013
meritset: People The Egyptian word for people used in creation texts with a picture of a man and a woman following the phonetic part of the word. Humanity seems to have been divided into two genders from the beginning. This is in contrast to other ancient mythologies that made woman an afterthought or offshoot of the male body. G Pinch- Handbook of Egyptian Mythology

meritset:

People

The Egyptian word for people used in creation texts with a picture of a man and a woman following the phonetic part of the word. Humanity seems to have been divided into two genders from the beginning. This is in contrast to other ancient mythologies that made woman an afterthought or offshoot of the male body.

G Pinch- Handbook of Egyptian Mythology

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March242013

beforetheworldgoesheadlong:

I’ll never understand why atheists have to tag all their “god not real lol” with “pagan” or any other irrelevant tag

they remind me of the children I work with who want to tell me the same thing over and over again

yes I heard you here’s your cookie now go away Miss Natasha is actually trying to work here

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accurate 

March232013

victusinveritas:

anarcho-queer:

Police Forcefully Evict Native Brazilian Squatters After Long Resistance

Police evicted two dozen Amazon natives on Friday from an old native museum that will be demolished to clear areas adjacent to Brazil’s legendary Maracana soccer stadium, the main venue for next year’s World Cup.

The natives from different Amazon tribes had been living on the grounds of the Rio de Janeiro museum since 2006 and were resisting its demolition, which caused further delays to the overhaul of the stadium complex.

Riot police handcuffed the natives, some of whom wore feathered headdresses and body paint, and used tear gas to disperse street demonstrations by sympathizers trying to block the eviction.

The museum area was originally planned to become a parking lot for the stadium, but after the protests Rio authorities decided to build a sports museum on the site. The Indians were taken to alternative housing provided by the city.

This just angers me. Fire and fucking sword need to be taken up. They’ve already got bows, thankfully.

Fuck, really? Really? 2013?
March152013
beforetheworldgoesheadlong: religeology: I was just browsing the #pagan tag and saw these two right away, and it’s good because this represents a misconception I wish to address. I understand that these two are kids and are probably just playing (I mean, one is tagged #the craft.  so.).  And that is great.  I think everyone should play, especially as we leave childhood.  We should never forget how to do that. But I don’t want fledgling pagans and/or witches to see this and think “Oh no, I had better be careful about spellcasting and astral projection or I could get hurt/in trouble!” Magic is not a dance club, where you will meet a guy with a really cool leather jacket.  Nor is it a hard drug which will physically harm you.  This is “Harry Potter” magic - don’t get me wrong, I LOVE Harry Potter (no, really.  I have read those books a number of times that is just uncalled for)!  But it is important to make a distinction between real life and fantasy, even with magic! Magic is the sheer force of will you use to affect your surroundings.  Usually some kind of religious symbolism is used to communicate your will (but not always), and we always have to bear in mind that even if we will something as hard as we can, sometimes it’s just not meant to be :(  this is why some witches (Wiccan witches anyway; I’m not sure about witches of no/other faiths) will include “God/dess willing” or something similar. Don’t get me wrong; magic CAN be physically harmful.  That’s what we generally call “black magic,” and can include anything that hurts the bodies, feelings, or comprises the free will of others.  This is why “love spells” are black magic: you are violating another person’s free will.  Black magic can be very tempting sometimes, but always remember the Wiccan Law of Return: anything you send out will eventually come back to you. Spellcasting can be tiring, but physical symptoms should feel like over-studying.  Symptoms like shaking and not being able to walk are likely the result of something else you are doing.  While it does require energy and focus to cast, a deficit of energy will not sap you of your life force - your spell will simply fall flat.  So don’t be worried about getting yourself into trouble :) if your intentions are good, the worst that will happen is nothing at all. Ex-fucking-cuse you.  I am not a “kid”. I’ve been doing this shit for over a decade. Take your fucking condescension somewhere fucking else. You don’t “understand” shit. Lol, trying to tell ME what I will PERSONALLY experience/not experience in the astral? Try fucking harder. Don’t fucking attempt to confine magic into your stupid neat little bubble. That’s your magic. It’s not mine. Get it? We good? No we’re not fucking good you condescending fuckwad, and here’s why: 1) I JUST FUCKING EXPLAINED IN AN EARLIER POST THAT MY MAGIC ISN’T RELIGIOUS AT ALL JFC  I TRAVEL FOR RELIGIOUS REASONS TO ME THIS IS NOT EVEN MAGIC  2) “BLACK MAGIC”? Are you fucking KIDDING ME? Really? Let’s have some racism thrown into this festering mix of fuckery, too! You get the underlying racism of those terms, right? Nope, clearly not, because you’re still using them. I’m not even going to get into the curse shaming undertones here, because what’s the fucking point? 3) NOT ALL PAGANS ARE WICCAN. NOT ALL PAGANS ARE WICCAN. I DON’T FUCKING BELIEVE IN THE LAW OF THREE OR WHATEVER YOU KIDS ARE CALLING IT THESE DAYS. NOT ALL PAGANS ARE WICCAN. DO YOU GET THIS SHIT YET? ODIN’S FUCKING EYE, HOW MANY TIMES ARE WE GOING TO HAVE TO SAY THIS? 4) “If your intentions are good, the worst that will happen is nothing at all” HAHA HAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA RIGHT OKAY  BECAUSE SPIRITS ARE ALWAYS WELL INTENTIONED AND NICE AND SWEET AND WONDERFUL AND NEVER DO ANYTHING TO FUCK YOU EVER AND LOVE AND LIGHT! FUCK YOU Seriously, wtf.  But I don’t want fledgling pagans and/or witches to see this and think “Oh no, I had better be careful about spellcasting and astral projection or I could get hurt/in trouble!” Like really? Because I do want fledgling Magick Users to realize how much trouble they could get in, and how easy it is to get in it. Seriously people? And as for the red leather jacket thing, you can’t tell someone that their magick isn’t real or that it ‘doesn’t happen that way’Magick is subjective, and it works, especially on the level of perception, by activating existing paths in your subconscious, THEREFORE the way you see something and the way someone else sees the exact same thing can be so different. I don’t want to rant because I think Madam headlong touched on basically everything, but really, sometimes you just need to stfu.

beforetheworldgoesheadlong:

religeology:

I was just browsing the #pagan tag and saw these two right away, and it’s good because this represents a misconception I wish to address.

I understand that these two are kids and are probably just playing (I mean, one is tagged #the craft.  so.).  And that is great.  I think everyone should play, especially as we leave childhood.  We should never forget how to do that.

But I don’t want fledgling pagans and/or witches to see this and think “Oh no, I had better be careful about spellcasting and astral projection or I could get hurt/in trouble!”

Magic is not a dance club, where you will meet a guy with a really cool leather jacket.  Nor is it a hard drug which will physically harm you.  This is “Harry Potter” magic - don’t get me wrong, I LOVE Harry Potter (no, really.  I have read those books a number of times that is just uncalled for)!  But it is important to make a distinction between real life and fantasy, even with magic!

Magic is the sheer force of will you use to affect your surroundings.  Usually some kind of religious symbolism is used to communicate your will (but not always), and we always have to bear in mind that even if we will something as hard as we can, sometimes it’s just not meant to be :(  this is why some witches (Wiccan witches anyway; I’m not sure about witches of no/other faiths) will include “God/dess willing” or something similar.

Don’t get me wrong; magic CAN be physically harmful.  That’s what we generally call “black magic,” and can include anything that hurts the bodies, feelings, or comprises the free will of others.  This is why “love spells” are black magic: you are violating another person’s free will.  Black magic can be very tempting sometimes, but always remember the Wiccan Law of Return: anything you send out will eventually come back to you.

Spellcasting can be tiring, but physical symptoms should feel like over-studying.  Symptoms like shaking and not being able to walk are likely the result of something else you are doing.  While it does require energy and focus to cast, a deficit of energy will not sap you of your life force - your spell will simply fall flat. 

So don’t be worried about getting yourself into trouble :) if your intentions are good, the worst that will happen is nothing at all.

Ex-fucking-cuse you. 

I am not a “kid”. I’ve been doing this shit for over a decade. Take your fucking condescension somewhere fucking else. You don’t “understand” shit.

Lol, trying to tell ME what I will PERSONALLY experience/not experience in the astral? Try fucking harder.

Don’t fucking attempt to confine magic into your stupid neat little bubble. That’s your magic. It’s not mine. Get it? We good?

No we’re not fucking good you condescending fuckwad, and here’s why:

1) I JUST FUCKING EXPLAINED IN AN EARLIER POST THAT MY MAGIC ISN’T RELIGIOUS AT ALL JFC 

I TRAVEL FOR RELIGIOUS REASONS TO ME THIS IS NOT EVEN MAGIC 

2) “BLACK MAGIC”? Are you fucking KIDDING ME? Really? Let’s have some racism thrown into this festering mix of fuckery, too! You get the underlying racism of those terms, right? Nope, clearly not, because you’re still using them.

I’m not even going to get into the curse shaming undertones here, because what’s the fucking point?

3) NOT ALL PAGANS ARE WICCAN. NOT ALL PAGANS ARE WICCAN. I DON’T FUCKING BELIEVE IN THE LAW OF THREE OR WHATEVER YOU KIDS ARE CALLING IT THESE DAYS. NOT ALL PAGANS ARE WICCAN. DO YOU GET THIS SHIT YET? ODIN’S FUCKING EYE, HOW MANY TIMES ARE WE GOING TO HAVE TO SAY THIS?

4) “If your intentions are good, the worst that will happen is nothing at all”

HAHA

HAHAHAHAHAHA

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA RIGHT OKAY 

BECAUSE SPIRITS ARE ALWAYS WELL INTENTIONED AND NICE AND SWEET AND WONDERFUL AND NEVER DO ANYTHING TO FUCK YOU EVER AND LOVE AND LIGHT!

FUCK YOU

Seriously, wtf. 

But I don’t want fledgling pagans and/or witches to see this and think “Oh no, I had better be careful about spellcasting and astral projection or I could get hurt/in trouble!”

Like really? Because I do want fledgling Magick Users to realize how much trouble they could get in, and how easy it is to get in it.

Seriously people?

And as for the red leather jacket thing, you can’t tell someone that their magick isn’t real or that it ‘doesn’t happen that way’
Magick is subjective, and it works, especially on the level of perception, by activating existing paths in your subconscious, THEREFORE the way you see something and the way someone else sees the exact same thing can be so different.

I don’t want to rant because I think Madam headlong touched on basically everything, but really, sometimes you just need to stfu.

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March142013
“Throughout their history, the Egyptians themselves attributed the origin of their writing system to the gods. This divine source is seen in the very name which the script was accorded: medu netcher: ‘the words of the gods’ or ‘divine words’. This meaning was preserved in the word hieroglyphs (‘sacred writing’) which the Greeks later gave to the Egyptian inscriptions. But the Egyptians’ characterization of their hieroglyphic script goes deeper than we might casually assume. Not only did the hieroglyphs command a measure of respect as a divinely appointed system of communication, but in many instances„ they were also treated virtually as living things - entities which were themselves endowed with divine power.” Symbol and Magic in Egyptian Art, Chapter ‘Words as Magic, Words as Art’ by Richard H. Wilkinson (via kallistaqbhwt)

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March62013

jaylyons:

soloontherocks:

In case you missed it, my poor Kemetic polytheist comrades, I really wanted to spell this out.

According to Rick Riordan and his Egyptian series…

Set is an evil villain
Bast is literally someone’s pet cat named Muffin
Djehuty lives in Tennessee
Sobek lives in New Orleans (and is a villain)
Sekhmet can be defeated in combat by a teenage mortal (and is a villain)
Isis is Egyptian (SHE FUCKING ISN’T, PERCY JACKSON FANS, SHE IS FUCKING ROMAN) and likes to possess teenage girls and turn them into Jedi
Anpu is physically romantically involved with a teenage girl (And he’s losing in a love triangle. To a teenage boy.)

Also as near as I can tell Horus is some kind of glorified pokemon.

In direct contrast, American Gods by Neil Gaiman features Bast as a cat who is very intelligent and skilled at opening doors which a cat could not, Djehuty and Yinepu run a funeral parlor in an American city named Cairo, Loki fucks everything up, and there’s respectful portrayals of everyone from African tribal deities to Norse and Kemetic ones, there’s eastern European deities… the list goes on.

WHICH DO YOU WANT TO READ NOW

2PM
“If Goddess religion is not to become mindless idiocy, we must win clear of tendency of magic to become superstition. Magic - and among its branches I include psychology as its purpose to describe and change consciousness - is an art.” Starhawk (via anerdywitchspath)

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March32013
jake-benge: rumblefishx: I live by the beach and this little guy just popped by for a visit  EXCUSE ME Excuse me, do you have a moment to talk about our lord, Poseidon?  This is going on this blog for the last comment, so perfect.

jake-benge:

rumblefishx:

I live by the beach and this little guy just popped by for a visit 

EXCUSE ME

Excuse me, do you have a moment to talk about our lord, Poseidon? 

This is going on this blog for the last comment, so perfect.

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