"The Magician" is available as a tapestry in my shop :). 🧙♀️ - https://shop.sylvia-ritter.com/collections/tapestries #art #illustration #matoart #tarot #krita #fox
It's #folkloreThursday
So let's talk about the Babylonian myth of Ashuhunamir, the first nonbinary person.
After the goddess Ishtar got herself trapped in the underworld, the gods created Ashunamir, a being who was neither man not woman, to seduce Erishkigal, the Queen of the underworld, and free Ishtar.
They succeeded in their quest, but for thier troubles Erishkigal cursed them and all those like them to always be viewed with suspicion in human society, but Ishtar, to counter this, blessed them and those like them with wisdom, prophecy, healing and that they would always be held sacred to Ishtar.
@FreyaManibrandr People would be a lot less weird about it if Transness wasn't a Diagnosed Condition first, and a valid life choice only Way later.
Hopefully that's getting redefined considerably, since, yanno, we get to take all kinds of Other drugs to be Different people.
Like I don't need Zoloft, I need finasteride.
@ifixcoinops Melt-rivets and probes on the 7 segment displays that contact traces on the board.
Southern Mass's local machine healer and part time witchdoctor.
Tiny motorcycles, magic potions, machine tools, progressive rock, trance states, and hand sharpened drill bits. Oh, and I read Tarot. Probably 18+ just to be sure.
#nobot