“Iä! Shub-Niggurath! The Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young!”
Month: June 2012
It’s been a funny economic period for the last thirty years. We’ve been through thirty years with real wage stagnation. That’s never happened before. There’s been economic growth, there’s been a sharp rise in productivity, but the effects have flown and gone into very few pockets. For a majority of the population, it’s been a bad period. Stagnation, sometimes decline, reduction of benefits, higher working hours, a lot of breakdown of social structure, it’s hard for people to deal with. Now, the parties don’t want to deal with this because their constituency is basically business and the wealthy, so they’d like to divert attention to other topics. Those are called social issues like stem cell research, abortion, and so on. These become not individual matters anymore, which they were before, but rather social policy, and are used (and I presume designed) to keep away from the issues that really affect people.
Noam Chomsky
First photo: My Ancestor Box/shrine. With it are inherited items such as the candle holder, crystal jar, and handkerchief, Galos de Barcelos, dried soil from Portugal, white and blue candles, and an incense paten. When the hydrangeas are in full bloom, the Ancestor get fresh flowers too. Not seen are the water glass and tea cup and saucer also for offerings.
Second photo: the shrine in progress.
Third and fourth photos: Big D’s shrine all cleaned and tidied up.
Eventually, I want to make a few more small altar and/or shrine spaces for the Big 12, my two Iberian Gods, The SEA, and two very tiny spaces for two more of my personal spirits.
Yewa (also known as Ewa)
The orisha associated with death and the final resting place of the underworld and watches over and protects people’s graves and is the guide the dead to the afterlife. As guardian of the underworld she aslo works alongside Oya. Yewa’s colours are burgundy and pink, she often depicted eliding a horsetail whip and a sword.
…hunting the fnords…: The Future Doesn’t Work
…hunting the fnords…: The Future Doesn’t Work
Joshua Ellis wrote a follow-up to his Grim Meathook Future thing thing for Grinding:
It’s my experience that most venture capitalists and serial entrepreneur types are almost identical, personality-wise, to the street hustlers and drug dealers whose acquaintance I’ve made…
There is no force in the universe more powerful than will. It is literally the production of something from nothing. What begins as a concept, something with no mass, no dimensions, no tangible presence whatsoever, one can build empires.
I have no clue why the Hunger strike news is not worth to be covered for the western media ?
More than 3000 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails on day 18 of their open hunger strike, While Bilal Diab & Thaer Halahleh are on day 68. #PalHunger
Where’s media !? Today , I finally saw the solidarity here in Palestine rise to a better level . Protests everyday in almost every town here in Palestine .
Now it’s your turn ! Please do your part in supporting humanity !!
see Palestinian prisoners issue on The Palestine you don’t know
Raise the awareness
