Indi Latrani @indi@awoo.space
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Religion, Magic, Gods
What if the true manifestation of an ideal isn't in any given godhead, but in the relationships of godheads to each other around that ideal? What if all the gods in a pantheon that shared an interest in a virtue represented different takes on that virtue, and to truly understand that virtue you needed to understand how those gods interrelated?
What if there never was only one right answer, just endless layers of interpretation, and you could find one that made sense to you?
@vahnj Koboldad
Boarding plane to Reno now, woo!
So hyped for BLFC, and yet so very not ready. c.c;
@starkatt ...TWO of them (out of 8) are in New Mexico. :D
@starkatt And did you see the setting one-pagers? https://buriedwithoutceremonyblog.files.wordpress.com/2017/01/monsterhearts-2-small-towns1.pdf
@starkatt Oooh, I've been wanting to give this game a try for a loooong time.
Spiritwork link of the day (h/t @forestservice for pointing me to this blog):
http://galabes.blogspot.com/2016/10/foundations-of-magical-practice.html
This finally convinced me to do daily Tarot readings, and also has a really cool aside about the intersection of neurodiversity and magical practice.
@forestservice Also, very queer-positive and created by a trans artist. ^.^
@starkatt And I keep trying to work out how anarchosocialism would work in that world; it's particularly hard to tell how (or if) gods could play a part there.
...I guess I should probably read the other books. c.c;
@starkatt To me the God Wars read as Objectivists riding to feudal serfs and saying "We'll save you!"
@starkatt I wanna try to come up with one for the series as a whole but I'm having a hard time getting past the feeling that the 2SR one basically sums up the core tension of the world, there. ;)
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i wonder how discordians feel about how Eris is depicted in the Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy cartoon
Spiritwork link of the day:
http://paganbloggers.com/wolftracks/2017/05/23/relationships-and-cosmology/
This is basically what I've been trying to say about animism basically ever since it's been a thing in my head and I'm relieved now I have a link I can just point at (and only mildly put out that I didn't get around to writing it myself first!)
@kauko 💜💜💜 for you~~~
@Ulfra_Wolfe At the same time, another thing to consider here is that in a LOT of cases, what we (folks reading myths translated into English) think of as 'names' for gods are actually just descriptive titles that someone didn't bother to translate.
@Ulfra_Wolfe I have one like that, who only seems to barely accept an epithet, just because they'd be really diffiult to talk about otherwise. ;)
@Ulfra_Wolfe At the top you have your all-in-one depersonalized Godheads, with branches off for the named ones (YHWH, Allah, etc) and then it divides out into more conceptual spaces (Light, dark, love, fire, trickery) and those too have sheaves of names associated with them. And each name may itself have different epithets; realizing that the Greeks realized this thousands of years ago was a major boost to my own understanding here.
@Ulfra_Wolfe Re: 'Huntress' vs 'Artemis'... From what I can tell, one of the things about that vast and confusing realm is that there are also no clear borders, but instead sort of a continuous semi-taxonomical hierarchy.
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