In many ways – socially, technologically, industrially – we’ve improved greatly from the ancient societies. For all the flaws of the world today, and there are many which we need to overcome, we should recognize that we as a species have achieved a tremendous amount.
That being said, we need to start painting elaborate scenes on our pots and bowls again. I’m stick of my saucepan just being black instead of having some ritual or historical event on the sides.
Mongolians are cool because they’ve merged their traditional and modern ways of life so rather than having poverty due to losing all their important skills they just live in their yurts with their cows and 827474874mbs internet
sure their GDP in dollars is low but when you can survive like your anscestors did it doesn’t mean anything, nothing wrong with adding a motorcycle and wifi into the mix
Everyone should live like their ancestors did 1000 years ago but with the addition of wifi tbh
Leave Her, Johnny, Leave Her except it’s 1871 and you’re actually hearing a group of sailors singing it as they return from a voyage to the bustling docks in your seaside irish town
This summer has been testing our ability to let go of things that no longer serve us. A major lesson has been non attachment to outcomes, learning to accept our current situations for what they are in the moment. Sunday’s full moon is a closing of this chapter.
The over-sexualization and objectification of women in Western Mystery Tradition groups, traditional witchcraft circles, and in pagan and polytheist traditions in general is extremely pervasive and toxic to everyone involved…. There is a massive, massive difference between supporting women’s sexuality and objectifying them for it, and that objectification comes in many forms, including the erasing of our humanity by pinning goddesses to us, the apparent entitlement to our sexuality, and not letting us define us.
“Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft are written by men.” – Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
“You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.”
— Aldous Huxley (b. 26 July 1894)
The intended meaning here must be “drive you insane” but at first glance I parsed it as “really piss you off” and honestly I intend to keep it this way
pope clement vii, trapped in the castel sant’angelo by the holy roman emperor’s troops and thus unable to grant king henry viii an annulment from his marriage to said emperor’s aunt:
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