#manatal

[cloudykyuu]

🩷💎[Manatal]💎🩷

‼️3D JUMPSCARE ‼️once again… 3D is my go to when it comes to experimenting apparently. This time I had to design a Fakemon as part of the class challenge with a random animal + type and I got a Fairy type manatee!

I decided to add the Rock type as secondary type because that implied that I could draw crystals and at this point you should know I’m WEAK for crystals and gems 💎🩷✨so I filled this big guy with a lot of rocks.

He’s my big baby now and I love him a lot.

[chanafehs]

lineup of thedas' gayest heroes, my beloveds

[nous-teleios]

"Have you seen al-Lāt and al-'Uzzā and Manāt, the third, the other? These are the high-flying cranes and their intercession is to be hoped for."

[tomorrowwithme]

A college in California cancelled the speech of Indian-British Kashmiri author Salman Rushdie because Muslim student group and civil rights activists opposed him. Why are Muslims opposing Salman Rushdie though? Let's look into it!

It was 1988 when Rushdie's book Satanic Verses was published. The title of the book is a reference to the "satanic verses" which prophet Muhammad had recited in the praise of the three pre-Islamic Meccan goddesses al-Lat, al-Uzza, and Manat. This was written in the early biographies of Muhammad, notably by al-Waqidi. Later on Muhammad claimed that him praising the Meccan goddesses was not from Allah but Satan who caused him to err. Muslim apologists either twist the story as Muhammad doing anything to win over the pagan Arabs who were still worshipping and deeply attached to the Meccan goddesses. Other Muslim apologists reject the story entirely by appealing to the infallibility of the prophets and claiming that the story was a slander against Muhammad. 

Rushdie's book was considered blasphemous against Islam and the Islamic Prophet Muhammad. The perceived blasphemy motivated Islamists to riot, bomb and kill, and this sparked a debate about censorship. Fearing riots, Rajiv Gandhi's government banned the importation of the book into India, first in the world to censor the book in fact (on a side note, Congress have always been in the wrong side of history and grovelling in front of Moslems. Pappu apple doesn't fall far from the tree). The Iranian ayatollah issued an Islamic judgement, decreeing the murder of Rushdie. Since then, Rushdie has been facing constant threat to his life. 

On August 12, 2022, Rushdie was stabbed multiple times by a 24-year-old Jihadist, just before he was about to give a public lecture at the Chautauqua Institution in New York, United States. The Jihadist was not even born when the Iranian ayatollah put a bounty on Rushdie's head. Why does Rushdie's fictitious book still enrage Muslims? Young Muslim college students living in the United States, where the freedom of speech is guaranteed by the constitution, are opposing this author's right to give a speech. Why? Are Rushdie's writings hurting Prophet Muhammad? Are Muslims afraid of the Arabian pre-Islamic goddesses? These Muslim students were definitely pulling the Islamophobia card when opposing Rushdie, a victim of Islamist mob violence. Again, asking, how is it possible to live with such rabid creatures, who have total disregard to human rights yet occupy educational institutions, use liberal-coded-language to cloak their Islamism and play the victim at every turn? 

[spnfanficpond]

Busy Saturday!

We've got another super busy day in our Discord server coming up! Writing sprints, a rewatch chat, and a chat with Admin Michelle!

Admin MJ will be hosting her usual writing sprint session!

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[nordseehexe]

🦁🧿🌙 Pre Islamic Goddesses 🌙🕋☀️

Al-Lāt, syrian and arabian goddess of destiny and the city Mecca, Lady of the temple, her Name means „Goddess“ and is the female version of „Allah“, represented by the lion, married to Bel, prototype for the greek goddess of wisdom, Athena, her followers took her figures with them in battles, one of the three goddesses of Mecca, the kaaba 🕋 was build for them, her shrine was a red stone cube

Al-Uzza, syrian and arabian goddess of destiny and the venus, one of the three goddesses of Mecca, the youngest of the them, she got worshipped at the kaaba 🕋 and was the greatest idol of the Qurayash who controlled Mecca, they used to journey to her, offer gifts and sacrifices, her shrine was a white stone cube

Anat, syrian and egyptian goddess of war and protector of wild animals, goddess of love and eternal virgin, mother of all, life and death

Ašera, syrian-canaanite sea goddess

Astarte, semitic goddess of love and fertility

Aštoreth, ugarit goddes, bride of the tyrrhenian sea,

Athirat, ugarit sea and sky goddess, lady of the sea, producer of gods, lady of gods

Ereškigal, sumerian goddess of the underworld and Inannas older sister, she can kill with her eyes, snake goddess, she is naked, with eyes out of stone and black hair, sometimes she wears a lions head and her palace is out of lapislazuli

Han-Ilat, northern arabian big goddess

Inanna, sumerian goddess of war, sex, love and the venus, lady of the sky, lady of all houses, city godess of Uruk, female leader goddess, her symbols are the moon and the star

Išhara, syrian underworld goddess

Ištar, babylonian and mesopotamian goddess of war, sex and the venus, most important diety in the ancient world of middle east, many goddesses are versions of her symbols are lions and the star

Ištar of Arbela, assyrian goddess of war

Kiriša, elamic mother goddess with an aspect of war, Lady of the sky, benefactor of the kings, mother of gods

Kulitta, servant of Ištar/Šauška

Lamaštu, babylonian sky goddess, demon with lion head who eats children and makes people sick, kills innocent people, always around rotten and filthy stuff like feces and dead animals,

Lilithu, sumerian goddess of mischief, misery, the night and the storm who lives in ruins, seduced men and stole children

Manat, arabian goddess of the moon, the venus, destiny, and one of the three big goddesses of Mecca. Her shrine was a black stone cube, pilgrims used to cut their hair at her shrine to conplete their journey to the kaaba 🕋

Nammu, sumerian creator goddess of the primordial sea, created together with her son Enki the first men out of clay

Nanše, sumerian goddess of water sources, and brooks, divination, dream interpretation and the holy order, most important goddess in Lagaš, Mother of her daughters Ninmah and Nunmar

Ninatta, servant of Ištar/Šauška

Ningal, mesopotamian goddess, wige of the moon god Nanna, great queen, high lady, lady, star of the prince, sevenfold light, treasured, goddes of the city Ur, goddess of epiphany, mother of Inanna and the sun god Ut

Ninmah, sumerian goddess of midwivery

Ninsianna, babylonian goddess, rust red lady of the sky, pure and sublime judge, sometimes war goddes with a scimitar and a lion headed club, she is the goddess of venus and she wears a star on hear horned crown

Ninšubur, sumerian goddess and holy servant of Inanna, Lady of the servants, been very popular because she was seen as a messenger between men and gods, seen as personal goddess by some kings, guardian who fights with the weapons of air and the sky

Nisaba, sumerian goddess of corn, goddes of writing texts, science and architecture, sister of Nanše and Ningirsu

Pinikir, elamian, later mesopotamian, hurrian and hittian mother goddess

Šauška, hurrian goddess of love, war, incantations and healing

Tiamat, babylonian goddess of the sea, embodiment of salt water, married to Abzu the embodiment of fresh water

Tunit, punish goddess of fertility and guardian of cartago, virgin mother of Baal, who gives him every year new life, her attributes are pomehrenates, figs, ears of corn and the dove

[chiakit-art]

[jezzzebel]

PRAYER TO THE ARAB GODESSES : ALLAT , AL-UZZA AND MANAT.

Image source:

https://www.thaliatook.com/AMGG/arabtriple.php

Mighty goddesses, you who have protected us from all harm through the centuries, please hear my prayers. Aid me in my hardest times, and look over me when i need you. I humbly ask you, great Al-Uzza , Al-Lat and Manāt , to protect me when i need it, and be there for me. May my life be as clean as a desert with yellow sand. May my future be as bright as the Sun protected by the goddess Shams. May my life be as abundant as Allat's grain fields. May my love be as gentle as Al-Uzza. And may the time of my death be as far away as time. Thank you, for everything.

Glory to you, great goddesses.

[lifearoundtheworld]

Money Around the World

Azerbaijan, Azerbaijani manat (₼)

[chernobog13]

Michael Whelan's cover painting for Edgar Rice Burroughs' The Chessmen of Mars, the fifth novel in the Barsoom series.

[chanafehs]

can you tell us more about your rook, and her relationship with asma??

*tucks hair behind ear* well if you want to know...I know DA4 doesn't care about any lore I'm creating but Manat was orphaned during the Mage-Templar war and was discovered by Asma and her companions during their journey through the hinterlands. Manat was only 15 at the time but held off against Templars and Apostates until being rescued - already showing promise as a warrior.

She was brought back to Haven and escaped to Skyhold with the rest of the Inquisition, eventually becoming a maid for a bit of coin. That's where their relationship takes off because Asma is the only one who can really get a word out of her. Josephine at some point insists that Asma as Inquisitor should take up a lady-in-waiting for appearances and to help with her daily tasks around Skyhold. Manat has no skills that would make her good for this role but Asma chooses her anyway, if anything it's more to keep an eye on her.

The relationship becomes less professional and more maternal before either of them can really realize it (Asma insisting she brush her hair, teaching Manat Elven, reading her books—education is important—and playing the occasional game together). Asma is a bit of a strict parent but Manat loves to push her buttons sometimes, she's a kid that's what they do.

Towards the end of Inquisition, Asma knows Manat has no family and nowhere to go so she promises the girl that she can come with her when all of this is over. Trespasser ends up pulling them apart - Asma can't be found for some months after the exalted council and by the time she returns, Manat is already gone. I don't know if you've ever seen that quote that's like "I'm not your mother" "I know that, do you?" because that's very them. This definitely won't cause problems between them in the Veilguard/sarcasm.

Thank you for the ask!🫶❤️

[ciaomilhouse]

Al-Lat, Al-Uzza, Manat

[older-brother]

my chest hair is insane

[sornya7]

คนที่รู้ใจ (TeSaka feat. SanSaka)

หากให้ทุกคนลองเล่าความสัมพันธ์ของตัวเองมา ว่าจุดเริ่มต้นของความรักของแต่ละคนนั้นเป็นอย่างไร หลายๆ คนคงตอบจากความประทับใจแรกพบ บ้างก็อาจเริ่มจากเกลียดแร���พบ

แต่สำหรับผม มันเกิดขึ้นด้วยความกระอักกระอ่วนจนลืมไม่ลง

วันนั้นคือวันที่เขารีบคว้าแขนของมานามิคุงไว้อย่างรวดเร็วเสียจนผมไม่ทันตั้งตัว มานามิคุงเองก็ด้วย

แน่นอนว่าผมตกใจมาก แต่มานามิคุงดูจะตกใจมากกว่า

ปกติมานามิคุงมักจะยิ้มแย้มตลอดเวลา ท่าทางไม่ทุกข์ไม่ร้อน เหมือนไม่เคยมีเรื่องอะไรทุกข์ใจ แต่วันนั้นมานามิคุงกลับมีใบหน้าที่กังวล กระสับกระส่าย มองสลับไปมาระหว่างผมกับคนแปลกหน้าคนนั้น ซึ่งผมมั่นใจว่าทั้งสองคนคงรู้จักกัน

"เด็กคนนี้คือใครน่ะ!" น้ำเสียงที่ดูเจ็บปวดรวดร้าวราวกับจะร้องไห้ ทั้งดวงตาที่คลอไปด้วยน้ำตา ใบหน้าหล่อเหลาที่บิดเบี้ยวเพราะความโกรธเกรี้ยว เสียใจ เส้นผมสีดำหยักศสที่ยุ่งและกระเซิง

นั่นคือครั้งแรกที่ผมได้เจอกับเทชิมะ จุนตะ

หากคุณคิดว่าการได้คบหากับคนที่รัก คือช่วงเวลาที่มีความสุขที่สุด

ผมอยากจะบอกคุณไว้ ว่าไม่มีอะไรที่ยั่งยืนตลอดไป

ทุกสิ่งล้วนมีวันที่พังทลายลง

เหมือนวันนั้นที่โลกของผมพังทลาย เมื่อได้รู้ว่ามานามิคุงมีโลกอีกใบที่ไม่เคยบอกให้ผมรู้

"นายไม่ต้องขอโทษฉันหรอก นายเองก็โดนหมอนั่นหลอกเหมือนกันนี่" แม้ว่าผมจะเป็นโลกอีกใบของคนที่ตัวเองรัก แต่คุณเทชิมะก็ไม่แสดงท่าทางโกรธเคืองใส่ผมเลย

คนเดียวที่ถูกโจมตีด้วยแรงอารมณ์ของคุณเทชิมะ มีเพียงแค่มานามิคุงที่โดนกำปั้นกระแทกเข้าที่หน้าอย่างแรงในวันนั้น

หลังจากนั้น แม้จะดูแปลก แต่ผมกับคุณเทชิมะก็ยังคอยติดต่อกันเรื่อยๆ ช่วงแรกๆ พวกเราก็คุยกันเรื่องมานามิคุง ช่วยปลอบใจกันและกัน เรื่องที่อีกฝ่ายแอบมีโลกสองใบโดยที่โกหกพวกเราทั้งสองคน

อาจเป็นเพราะเรื่องแบบนี้ มีแค่พวกเราทั้งสองคนที่สามารถเข้าใจกันและกันได้ลึกซึ้งที่สุด เลยทำให้พวกเราใกล้ชิดกันได้อย่างรวดเร็ว

จากที่เคยแค่นัดมาทานข้าวและพูดคุยกัน มาสู่การเดินทางไปเที่ยวเพื่อใช้ช่วงเวลาวันหยุดด้วยกัน

จากเมื่อก่อนที่เวลาแบบนี้ ผมจะนอนอยู่ในอ้อมกอดของมานามิคุง ตอนนี้แขนทั้งสองข้างที่กอดผมไว้คือแขนของคุณเทชิมะ

"นี่ หลังจากนี้นายไม่ต้องเรียกนามสกุลของฉันแล้วนะ เรียกว่าจุนตะเถอะ"

บางทีผมอาจจะไม่ได้ต้องการความรักที่น่าประทับใจตั้งแต่ครั้งแรกที่เจอกันก็ได้ ผมอาจจะแค่ต้องการคนที่เข้าใจและพร้อมจะรับฟังผมทุกเรื่อง พร้อมไปเดินที่อากิบะและร้องเพลงด้วยกันเฉยๆ

ซึ่งคุณเทชิมะ ไม่สิ คุณจุนตะพร้อมจะเป็นคนคนนั้นให้ผม

อา หายจากการมาเวิ่นในทัมเบอร์ไปนานเลย รอบนี้มาแบบให้มานามิเป็นตัวร้ายเลย แถมรอบนี้มาในแบบที่เริ่มต้นใหม่กับโลกอีกใบของแฟนเก่าด้วย ไม่รู้ว่าทุกคนจะชอบกันรึเปล่านะคะ แถมลองบรรยายแบบบุรุษที่ 1 ให้น้องซาคามิจิครั้งแรกด้วย

ยังไงก็หวังว่าทุกคนจะชอบจุนตะกับน้องซากะเวอร์ชั่นนี้กันนะคะ อาจจะดูแปลกหน่อย555555

[nordseehexe]

The three goddesses of Mecca

[staystillinthedeep]

Tagged by @voidika to do these quizzes

Quiz 1: what is your ocs true role in the story?

Quiz 2: the "oh" quiz

Kijou

the h̶e̶r̶o̶ villain

so we meet again, don't we? pity, I hoped our reunion would never occur. oh, pardon my discourtesy would you? but I really find tyrants unpleasant to the mouth. "sic semper evello mortem tyrannis." I have seen many before you fall, and I will see many after you descend as well. oh don't give me that hateful sneer, you more than anyone should know the expanse of my kindness, but vain little heroes are but villians in different shoes. you grew up wishing to prove yourself, you were good once, or I thought you were. maybe you were born nasty. you strove to reach the stars, for you felt unworthy, ha, perhaps you were onto something you pushed those you saw as dirty into the dirt, face down in the name of righteousness. but one does not merely hate for hatred itself. all abhorrence stems from fear. you call yourself a savior to merely stomp on the ones beneath you. would you like a bitter truth? no one's beneath you, some just strike more worry into your heart. are they better than you? as much as I'd adore saying yes, there might still be hope for you yet. after you swallow a few slices of humble pie, and wake up to reality. you cannot force anyone to change. you cannot force anyone to do anything. it is as simple as that. reality has very few set rules and somehow even then people find a way to break them. you're not a god, little beast. it's time you stopped acting like one, for one day a real god will smite you where you stand, and they will be disguised as the "lesser" people you mock so bitterly.

the kiss

you typically wait until the last second to believe the truth--because it would destroy you to believe it, and then find out it was a lie. you are someone who has never wanted to want, but has rarely been able to do anything else. the idea that you might have to break down your walls for the sake of someone else, someone who could easily decide they don't like what is on the other side, is harrowing. why let people get close enough to be rejected? you are enough for yourself. and you will tell yourself that every time you catch yourself staring at their mouth, smirking at their joke, finding a reason to flick their shoulder. until the kiss. that's when the flood of want, want, want bowls over you and you realize that you are torn between two ways of living. Oh, you think. because despite how complicated you have made it, the moment you kiss, somehow, things seem incredibly simple. they won't be once you start thinking again, but for now, for this moment, you live in the quiet peace of revelation. Oh.

Helena

the rising underdog.

why hello again dearie, I see you managed to help those frogs those children were kicking, hm? oh how much I can emphasize we are but the ghosts of our childhood passions. and, unsurprising enough, the hero to the trodden little creatures of the earth is now a rising golden savior to the masses. oh love, I said you'd go far, didn't I. for the good always prevail in the end, somehow, they do. you lived a difficult life, I know, but you never let that get you down. you took beatings with a grin, and dished back kindness in return. inequality and injustice made you outaged, and you strove to assist the hurting and abused. oh shining dragon, you are bathed in golden light. please keep being true. you have tasted blood and death, but you refused to force it down the throats of others. and that alone proves there is inchor in your veins, demigod. you will be struggling until the very end, battling for your comrades, your people, and yourself. never lose sight of your goal my dear. sometimes you needn't have one, except see the good, and protect it. that is all my advice can tell you. I implore, protect the goodness in yourself with everything you have, but never refuse to share it also. young hero, you are growing. you are destined for wonders even I may not live long enough to encounter. keep up the good work, and keep your head held high. you are bound to do the impossible, all because you see the truth. there is good in the world, and it deserves to be found.

the unrelated moment

you tend to be more preoccupied with practical things, to the point where you've been blinded to matters of the heart. sure, you're close with this person. you like to be close with people. it is rewarding to know and be known in return. you leave realization no choice but to sneak up on you. they're not even in the room when it happens. someone or something else spells it out for you, an observant friend's passing comment or a particular sentence you were reading in a book, and suddenly it hits you, what it all means. the person your feelings have been building themselves around. Oh. it's them. it's time. it's them and you, here and now, and you have to decide what to do at this crossroads. luckily, you're practically-minded.

Manat

the antihero

ah yes, hello edge lord. it is lovely to see you again. you my dear, are the incarnation of duality, and you might think of claws and venom mixed with grace but alas, nothing near as poetic. you my friend, are mixture of what is seen as right, and what is questioned. you follow the path of your own two feet, you know the twists and turns of life's forests quite well if I do say so myself. and you can meander along them wonderfully. you strive to stay true to a certain sense of principles you might call your code, but whereas in reality, those would be your morals. people tend to see you as strange. sharp edged and glinting you hide behind a cloak of chain mail but really you just prefer to show off your imperfections first. unlike many who scramble to make it as if their flaws never existed, you proudly raise yours up. saying, "this is me, this is the worst of me, now you know what to expect." and might I say, it is quite an intriguing mindset, for truth be told, the ones that love your spikes and craters are the ones who appreciate your softness the most. you wish not to be loved as something lovable, but as a monster. for aren't we all just beasts in human skin? you are brave, but you are lonely. you know quite well how to scare off most, making even the heroes with the boldest bravado creep away with their tails between their legs. you are not a villian, sometimes you play the part a bit too well. but nevertheless you are no hero either. you put yourself first, but if one wins your trust then may the gods have mercy on those who might wrong them. you long to be a poetic mess of sorts, and well, if the ink sets in long enough you might just become that sooner or later. but for one who is so dead set on truth you sure do hide a lot don't you? please, step out of the shadows, there is a difference to not making your flaws visible and to simply acting as if you're the most despicable person in all the realms. it's because you're afraid of attachment is it not? well let me tell you a little secret, everyone is. you say you wish to be left alone for eternity but than why are you craving connection. you wish to be known and understood truly, but you snarl and push the ones that might be trying away. please little wolf, accept you are lovable. you are not some ravenous beast that terrifies the multitudes, sure, you are not for the faint of heart but that does not make you an inkling less perfect as you are. young antihero, step into the sun. you would do better actually reaching for the things you want rather than pining for them in the darkness.

the unrelated moment

you tend to be more preoccupied with practical things, to the point where you've been blinded to matters of the heart. sure, you're close with this person. you like to be close with people. it is rewarding to know and be known in return. you leave realization no choice but to sneak up on you. they're not even in the room when it happens. someone or something else spells it out for you, an observant friend's passing comment or a particular sentence you were reading in a book, and suddenly it hits you, what it all means. the person your feelings have been building themselves around. Oh. it's them. it's time. it's them and you, here and now, and you have to decide what to do at this crossroads. luckily, you're practically-minded.

Tagging: @shegetsburned @poisonedtruth @scentedcandleibex @jinfromyarikawa