George Crumb's "Black Angels" keeps getting better every time I hear it. Been too damn long since I listened to this, this is some fantastic shit right here!
#classical #music #postmodern #strings #GeorgeCrumb #KronosQuartet
Left: Our lucky black cat, Bishop Right: His best buddy, Max, from next door
Today is Friday the 13th again (already!), as well as the final day of Miew Khem, the LV-426 Setian "Month of the Black Cat." May everyone have as blessed a day today as these two handsome young lads. ❤
#FridayThe13th #BlackCats #Setianism #Sutekh #Kemetic #Egyptian #Pagan #Polytheist #Holiday
The polytheist answer to this question is that we don't. Humans are perfectly capable of accepting each other while believing in different Higher Powers. It's just harder for people to do this when monotheism is their baseline.
A much better question, from a polytheist perspective, would be: "Why is it assumed that we all NEED to be worshiping 'the exact same thing' in order for us to accept each other?"
Polytheist deities are not interchangeable, and to insist that They are is to erase what polytheists actually believe about our own deities. It would be like telling Christians they are really worshiping Zeus, when they already know good and well that they are not.
Polytheists argue that this same principle applies to the divine just as much as it does to anything else.
For example: Just because two different people are librarians doesn't mean they are both the exact same librarian. All librarians across the globe are not the exact same person. Same thing with lawyers, trees, and polar bears.
There is no such thing as "just one" of ANYTHING in nature; we accept divinity as being INTRINSICALLY plural. Jesus, Zeus, and Kali Ma are each treated as real individual beings, not just "cultural metaphors" for the same thing.
For monotheists, the diversity of human spiritual experience is often just a "surface detail," or even a "satanic" distraction from "the Truth." But for polytheists, spiritual diversity is absolutely fundamental.
The statement that "we are all worshiping the same thing," while often intended as a gesture of multifaith inclusivity or unity, is dismissive and alienating toward polytheists. In fact, we often view it as a form of systemic erasure that is only thinly disguised as "religious tolerance."
It's even simpler than that. It's not even about "protecting the fetus," really. The point is to control and punish women.
This is your daily reminder that the concept of "fetal personhood" did not exist anywhere, in any culture, until it was invented during the 1960s by Roman Catholic activists.
"Fetal personhood" is about as biblical as "the Rapture" - which is to say it isn't "biblical" at all.
It's heresy.
Depiction of the purely imaginary Canaanite deity "Moloch," with "FAKE" in big red letters.
From left to right and top to bottom: 1. John Carpenter's Halloween (1978) 2. Alien (1979) 3. Omen III: The Final Conflict (1981) 4. Sorcerer (1977) 5. Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982) 6. Stanley Kubrick's The Shining (1980) 7. Koyaanisqatsi (1982) 8. John Carpenter's The Thing (1982) 9. John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness (1987) 10. Ishiro Honda's Godzilla (1954) 11. Quatermass and the Pit (1964) 12. William Friedkin's The Exorcist (1973) 13. Firestarter (1984) 14. The Stone Tape (1972)
Just a few of my favorite things...
#Movies #Soundtracks
Pictured: Some loose leaf red lettuce
Oh this is a great question! I consulted with my wife about this, and she recommends any kind of red, loose-leaf lettuce, like in the picture below. She also suggested a Napa cabbage. Man, those cabbages taste pretty sweet once they're cooked!
While this is not exactly a perfect parallel to the world we live in today, it does go to show that ancient peoples were not nearly so rigid about sex and gender as people living today would like to assume.
And since her reign was remarkably stable and successful, no one in Egypt considered her being the Pharaoh or wearing men's clothes to be "scandalous."
The office itself was more important than the sex or gender of the office-holder. So Hatshepsut wore the Pharaoh's crown, the royal kilt, the trademark "false beard," and she was even addressed as male by the people, at least within the context of her rulership.
Statue of Hatshepsut on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatshepsut#/media/File:Seated_Statue_of_Hatshepsut_MET_Hatshepsut2012.jpg
The Pharaoh #Hatshepsut was a woman. But in her role as Pharaoh, she presented herself as a man. When you became the Pharaoh, you became a human incarnation of the male God Horus, and the Egyptians figured this applies just as well to a woman as it does to a man.
I mean this from the very bottom of my heart: FUCK you. FUCK you and your privilege, FUCK you and your "spiritual warfare," FUCK you and your satanic panics, and FUCK you and your cheap, fragile, performative, empty-headed "faith."
It HAS to be some kind of external "Pagan" influence, right? Because absolutely nothing good can ever come from anything that isn't monotheism, right?
Saying, "These people aren't really worshiping 'God,' they're worshiping BA'AL" is real fucking cheap. Their evil and hypocrisy can't POSSIBLY be due to something toxic within their very own religions, cultures or power structures, right?
A Near Eastern polytheist storm deity is not in any way, shape or form responsible for the evil things that people who claim to be Christian, Muslim, or Jewish are doing.
When people start murdering people in the name of HaShem, Jesus or Allah, you don't get to re-write the narrative and blame Paganism.
Everyone who keeps repeating this bullshit about "worshiping Ba'al" needs to treat themselves to a nice hot cup of SHUT-THE-FUCK-UP.
You are so welcome! ❤️
#Setian #Setianism #Sutekh #Kemetic #Egyptian #Pagan #Polytheist #Religion #Spirituality #Inspiration #Motivation #Faith #Ma'at #Isfet #God #Evil #WWIII
Dua Set! MAY THE SERPENT TREMBLE WHEN WE PASS NEAR!!!