Month: November 2014

Ave Babalon

dark-beauties:

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Ave Bablon

darantha:

Loki, the trickster god of norse mythology.

While his father and mother were the jöttuns Fárbauti and Laufey, he was adopted by the other Aesir and considered one of them. His role in the myths often involves him solving whatever problems he’s caused the gods, or otherwise aiding them. It was his escalating gamble with two pair of dwarven smiths that resulted in Thor getting his legendary hammer Mjölnir, along with items such as Odin’s spear Gungnir, Freyr his boar Gullinbursti, and Sif golden hair as a replacement for Loki cutting her hair off from the start.

Loki was also a skilled shapeshifter, and the father of Hel, ruler of Nifelheim, the giant wolf Fenrir and the snake Jörmungandr by the jöttun Angrboda, and Narfi and Nari by the goddess Sigyn.

After that Loki caused the death of Odin’s son Baldr, the gods bound him under a snake that dripped its venom into his eyes. There he would remain fettered until Ragnarök, where he and the god Heimdall would kill each other in battle.

the-darkest-of-lights:

Some of my illustrated pages from my book of shadows.

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the-darkest-of-lights:

These are some pages in my book of shadows about different symbols and their meanings. Do not remove my caption or source.

templeofapelles:

Venus Riding a Satyr, 1602-1608
Dirck de Quade van Ravesteyn

sprightlymind:

i. A magical miscellany, early 17th century. (MS. e Mus. 173, folios 61v – 62r)
ii. The Rawlinson necromantic manuscript, 15th century. (MS. Rawl. D. 252, fol. 28v)
iii. The Rawlinson necromantic manuscript, 15th century. (MS. Rawl. D. 252, fol. 29r)

A selection of texts from the Bodleian Library’s summer exhibition – Magical Books: From the Middle Ages to Middle-earth.

Although many seventeenth-century magical manuscripts were no longer written in Latin, their authoritative mystique was preserved in the use of complex occult alphabets and mystical symbols. This miscellany contains relatively straightforward instructions of how ‘to see by thy selfe … in a crystall stone’ or ‘get treasure out of the sea’, but it also includes these elaborate magical charms. The circle bottom right wards off violent death ‘by sword and poison’. It is sealed with the spell-word ‘Abracalabra’ [sic] and promises the user ‘Verum est’ (It is true!). (x)

zurada:

from “The Children of Mu” by James Churchward, 1931