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I’m an ancient Goth Dinosaur
OLD AS TIME!!!!!!
I wanna say theres a couple practitioners on here older than me
scrollofthoth is the only one that comes to mind.
This place tends to be a reincarnation of the TOPY to some extent so here I am since I missed the boat on that when I was a kid.
I’m not old I’m 43!
Okay, that’s old as balls for tumblr.
I believe abwatt is a practitioner on tumblr who has at least reached 30.
Ave Babalon
Bowl Dedicated to the Goddess Inanna
An alabaster bowl dedicated by a merchant named AK-Enlil to the goddess Inanna, whose name is written in the far right column. The inscription is in Sumerian.
Inanna (or Inana) is the Sumerian name of the goddess Ishtar, the goddess of love and war, and one of the more complicated deities in the Mesopotamian pantheon. In the early period from which this vase comes, she is usually listed in the top tier of the pantheon after Anu and Enlil.
Nippur, Early Dynastic IIIa (c. 2600-2500 BCE).
Metropolitan Museum of Art. Image from CDLI.
Since I’ve become more serious about making custom prayer beads and other devotional jewelry through my shop Sister Wednesday, I’ve received an incredible amount of support. To thank you, I’m holding a giveaway!
I will be giving away one custom, necklace-sized set of prayer beads, for the deity, spirit, or theme of your choosing. This will be entirely custom, like my usual commissions, and valued at about $50. I take your input about colors, materials, patterns, and aesthetics, and transform that into a set of prayer beads uniquely for you.
To enter, please be following proserpinas-garden and reblog this post. That’s it!
I will choose a winner Sunday, February 1st so you have until then to enter.
I am also open for regular commissions through the shop, OR use coupon code “TUMBLR” for 10% off any listed items.
Thanks and good luck!
Ave Babalon
tonight, the gods are sick of being gods.
aphrodite drinks your worship straight from your lips
and chases it with a scotch, crashes a cigarette,
flicks the ash on the floor and leaves
without so much as a thank you.you find apollo in a nightclub on 55th and 3rd,
his prophets writhing in the intermittent darkness,
bassline pounding in their ears, liquor coursing in their veins,
smoke and strobe lights clouding their eyes.you watch as ares starts a fight in a dive bar, takes
a knife from his pocket and uses it without flinching,
smiles as he wipes the blade on his thigh,
smashes a bottle on the floor and lights a match.artemis spends the night in a jail cell,
blood on her knuckles and on her shirt and in her mouth,
the smell of metal lingering in the air.athena chainsmokes in an alleyway,
waits for a boy with dark eyes and a mouth like sin.dionysus shoots up in a basement in the seedy side of town.
hades stalks the streets, hazy in the fog of the streetlamps.
tonight, the gods are sick of being gods
and somewhere in the city
their forgotten divinity waits for morning.
Codex Gigas (portrait of the devil) From the manuscript Codex Gigas. Photo by: National Library of Sweden/Claes Jansson/Per B Adolphson
The portrait of the Devil is the most famous image in the Codex Gigas (f. 290r), and it is the cause of the the book’s nickname, the Devil’s Bible. The Devil is shown alone, in an empty landscape, within a frame formed by two large towers. He is crouching with his arms held up (he has only four fingers and toes) and wears an ermine loin cloth. Ermine is usually associated with royalty, and its use here is to emphasise the position of the Devil as the prince of darkness. http://flic.kr/p/8acFak
