Mysticmemos

THE other day I went to a museum in my town and they had a gar in the tank and it was just swimming around with a rock in its long snout

All other religions bind you with rules; "Do this. Don't do that."

The Devil alone says "Do as you wish. For I will never judge."

--Belial

HAIL LILITH

This is a ward my husband created using a Crawdad Claw and a piece of old Lead that he pounded flat and ritually inscribed—both of which were gifted to him by the river that initiated him. The ward was additionally composed from, and underpinned by, the virtues of Wild Rose .

Jacob

btw almost every single thing pagans credit with “the reason we aren’t respected as a religion” is wrong. it’s not community infighting, or woo magic users, or pop culture pagans. it’s the fact we live in a culturally Christian society that teaches all other religions are “primitive and backwards”, and considers similarity and proximity to Christianity to be the basis by which other religions are evaluated as “respectable” or “superstitious nonsense”. if you think that you would get “respect” from mainstream Christians and secular people because you’re a strict recon who never argues with other pagans or does anything considered “weird” within paganism, you’re fooling yourself.

i wonder why it is that so many people are so very concerned with getting “respect” from mainstream religious groups and the secular world, while you can’t be bothered to treat other polytheists and pagans with respect as soon as they in any way challenge your personal comfort, or jeapordize your perceived “respectability” by association.

If you get the Lucien Lachance summoning spell as a bonus in the Skyrim dark brotherhood quest line he says something interesting when you’re looking for Cicero in the Dawnstar sanctuary. “I will kill this jester if you so desire, but there is a disturbance in the Void. Our Dread Father does not wish this.” I usually kill Cicero but i decided to let him live on my most recent play through, because of what Lucien said I realized Cicero was kinda right. Astrid did betray us and Cicero knew he didn’t like her, he just didn’t know why.