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“magic isnt real” — plants just grow out of the ground. for free. everywhere.

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An interesting Italian ritual that is still kept alive by many is the " Barca di San Pietro " ( St. Peter's Boat )

During the feast of Saints Peter and Paul (June 29) it was customary to fill a bowl of water and immerse an egg white in it (fresh from the day). The bowl had to be left for the whole night between June 28th and 29th, in the middle of a meadow, or a garden or on a window sill, so that during the night the egg white could absorb the dew.

The day after the egg white had the appearance of ship sails which had been produced by " the breath of St. Peter who blew on them during the night ".

Tradition says that this transformation takes place exclusively on this date and, depending on how the sails appeared, you could tell if the crop that year would have been abundant or not. The farmers also understood the season's weather conditions from the shape of the sails, : open sails meant good weather and warm temperatures, closed sails meant the arrival of rain and colder temperatures.

Nowadays open sails mean that a good year will lie ahead, closed or no veils at all mean that the year won't be all that great.

If you try it, post it here, I'd love to see how your year will turn out! :)

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Neptunalia

Today, according to Varro, is the Neptunalia! A feast to celebrate the great King Neptune! And by extension, his wife Salacia, goddess of the saltwaters. Traditionally, as with many other Roman holidays, games would be played! Devotional acts today could be visiting the beach, watching and/or playing sports, or donating to ocean conservation charities. Ave Neptunus, et Io Neptunalia!

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especially in some cases when that specific deity is way more ancient and has had cults for them longer than the myth in question was ever made 🙏🏻😭

the moment as a worshipper and devotee when someone says they judge and hate your deity because of what they did in their myths (they don't know these myths have been written by humans)

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Doves drinking.  Mosaic from House of the Doves, Pompeii.

Archaeological Museum of Naples, Italy

By: Jebulon (CC0)

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Esoteric arts: Archaeologists at Pompeii in Italy have found what they believe is a female sorcerer’s box of objects. The magnificent little miniature amulets, gems, and other items were found in the remains of a wooden box at Casa del Giardino, and were most likely used for personal ornamentation or protection from evil forces and bad luck. Among the objects found were crystals, buttons made of bones, phallic amulets, and a glass bead engraved with the head of Dionysus.

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EtruscanCulture VII Century BC, an extraordinary Bronze Sculpture of a mythological Siren, from the ancient Necropolis of Strozzacapponi, Perugia, Umbria, Italy.

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Crab hilted sword from Venice, Italy, 17th century

from Czerny's International Auction House

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Photographs of Rome in the mid-1800s.  The first two were taken by Calvert Jones, and the second two are attributed to him:

Capitoline Hill (1846)

Colosseum (1846)

Temple of Concord (1850s)

Temple of Antonina and Faustina (1850s)

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KPDH FIRST HUNTERS IN MY CULTURE 🇮🇹🦁

I DID IT I FOUND SOME TIME TO FINISH THISSSS AAAAAAAA At first I wanted to do something Carnival-like cause, you know, Veneto is mostly famous for the Venetian Carnival, but then I thought, why not going BACK in time, to the ancient Venetians, the Venetkens?? In particular I tried to represent the cult of Reitia, the most important deity in the Venetian pantheon. Their weapons are: a sword from the Bronze Age, a staff with an intricate decoration on top (maybe a snake? Idk I copied it from an art piece of the time, if it's a snake it could be connected to the healing powers of the goddess) and the tools they used to write.

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I love my gods. I love them so much that they are in my every step, my every breath. Wisdom, strength and courage all stitched into my being, passed down by divinity.

They are present in my actions, my words, and thoughts. My very existence has been molded by them.

I am an extension of their will. Not by birth, not by tradition, not by force.

But because every single day I choose to be.

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ancient yuri <3

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Aid me Bellona, while the dreadful Fight Betwixt a Nation and two Whales I write: Seas stain’d with goar, I sing, advent'rous toyl, And how these Monsters did disarm an Isle. Bermudas wall’d with Rocks, who does not know, That happy Island, where huge Lemons grow, And Orange trees which Golden Fruit do bear, Th'Hesperian Garden boasts of none so fair? Where shining Pearl, Coral, and many a pound, On the rich Shore, of Amber-greece is found: The loft Cedar, which to Heaven aspires, The Prince of Trees, is fewel for their Fires: The smoak by which their loaded spits do turn, For incense might, on Sacred Altars burn: Their private Roofs on od'rous Timber born, Such as might Palaces for Kings adorn. The sweet Palmettas a new Bacchus yield, With Leaves as ample as the broadest shield: Under the shadow of whose friendly Boughs They sit carowsing, where their Liquor grows. Figs there unplanted through the Fields do grow, Such as fierce Cato did the Romans show, With the rare Fruit inviting them to spoil Carthage the Mistriss of so rich a soil. The naked Rocks are not unfruitful there, But at some constant seasons every year, Their barren tops with luscious Food abound. And with the eggs of various Fowls are crown’d: Tobacco is the worst of things, which they To English Land-lords as their Tribute pay: Such is the Mould, that the Blest Tenant feeds On precious Fruits, and pays his Rent in Weeds:

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Aid me Bellona, while the dreadful fight

Edmund Waller  1606-1687

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Graphic - Bartholomeus Spranger  1546-1611

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Camillo Pacetti, 1758-1826 (Factory of Wedgwood, England)

Diana, 1788, plaque, jasper ware, coloured green, 9x7.60 in

British Museum Inv. 1909,1201.207