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“Public libraries are such important, lovely places!” Yes but do you GO there. Do you STUDY there. Do you meet friends and get coffee there. Do you borrow the FREE, ZERO SUBSCRIPTION, ZERO TRACKING books, audiobooks, ebooks, and films. Have you checked out their events and schemes. Do you sign up for the low cost courses in ASL or knitting or programming or writing your CV that they probably run. Do you know they probably have myriad of schemes to help low income families. Do you hire their low cost rooms if you need them. Have you joined their social groups. Do you use the FREE COMPUTERS. Do you even know what your library is trying to offer you. Listen, the library shouldn’t just exist for you as a nice idea. That’s why more libraries shut every year

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Reblog if you are a Pagan willing to answer any questions about your practice without hate, ridicule, sarcasm, or superiority.

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Especially because a lot of this rhetoric comes straight from Protestant anti-Catholic propaganda that you're just feeding into. When you say "Easter is actually a Pagan holiday for Ishtar", you're not just spreading misinformation; you're aligning yourself ideologically with evangelical Christians.

Can Online Pagans/Wiccans/Witches stop claiming that every Saint, Holiday, Tradition etc is Pagan? it's very annoying to hear "uhm AKHTSUALLY [Holiday/Holiday Tradition] is From [Pagan Holiday/Tradition]" or "Uhm AKHTSUALLY [Saint/Figure] is [Pagan God/Godess]" it's annoying and it's sometimes misinformation. Not everything has roots in Paganism.

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“Sine Cerere et Libero friget Venus."

In English:

“Without Ceres and Bacchus, Venus grows cold.”

Metonymically:

“Without food and wine, love grows cold."

-Eunuchus, by Terence

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Yearly reminder that the claim that Easter comes from Ishtar was originally asserted by Alexander Hislop, a 19th century conspiracy theorist who claimed that all pagan religions were based on a Babylonian mystery religion founded after the Flood by Nimrod and Semiramis, and that the Catholic Church is secretly this same mystery religion in disguise.

Hislop would claim that any two names that sounded even remotely the same were etymologically related if it supported his conspiracy theory, and that any two figures that seemed to resemble his ideas of who Nimrod and Semiramis were, were actually based on them. His book, The Two Babylons, is a bunch of non-stop Bat Deduction.

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Hot take, and I truly mean this in the kindest way possible, but some Pagans very much need to examine their own religious trauma before speaking on what is right/wrong to say in Pagan spaces.

I understand that Paganism is an incredibly freeing religion for many people (most notably for those coming from Christianity), and that’s wonderful, but Paganism isn’t lawless, and it never has been.

I understand that you don’t like religious dogma, that’s fair. But that doesn’t mean this religion is a free for all. The Gods are authority figures, they are rulers, and they do ask things of us. For some Pagans I fear that they have based their entire religion on being an opposition to Christianity and that’s just… not ideal.

You cannot build a healthy relationship to the Gods if you are constantly comparing them to Christianity. You cannot follow the Gods if you refuse to do anything they ask of you that feels too similar to another religion that has hurt you in some way.

I’ve seen people say that Pagans shouldn’t veil because modesty is only a Christian invention designed to oppress women. I’ve seen people say that blasphemy doesn’t exist and that the idea that Gods (any God(s)) can get offended is a Christian fear tactic. I’ve seen people say that humans are on the same hierarchical level as the Gods and that the idea that humans are servants to God is a Christian tool for denying human power.

Not only are these things blatantly untrue, but it also negates the power of the Gods, and pushes doubt upon the personal convictions of fellow Pagans.

Paganism exists independently from Christianity. I truly don’t know how anyone can build a healthy practice when the only way they connect with the Gods is in a reactionary “screw Christianity!!” sort of way. Despite what society may say; Paganism is not an enemy to Christianity. It exists independently, and it has for thousands and thousands of years.

I really hope everyone who struggles with religious trauma can find the healing they need, but I implore you to not allow that to be the defining factor of your religion, and I beg that to not distract you from the undoubtable authority of the Gods.

May the Gods bless everyone, hail the great Lords and Ladies above 🩷

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im sorry????????

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Keep that AI shit out of witchcraft.

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“You look at trees and called them ‘trees,’ and probably you do not think twice about the word. You call a star a ‘star,’ and think nothing more of it. But you must remember that these words, ‘tree,’ ‘star,’ were (in their original forms) names given to these objects by people with very different views from yours. To you, a tree is simply a vegetable organism, and a star simply a ball of inanimate matter moving along a mathematical course. But the first men to talk of ‘trees’ and ‘stars’ saw things very differently. To them, the world was alive with mythological beings. They saw the stars as living silver, bursting into flame in answer to the eternal music. They saw the sky as a jeweled tent, and the earth as the womb whence all living things have come. To them, the whole of creation was ‘myth-woven and elf patterned’.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien, from ‘Mythopoeia’ (via sempiternele)

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northern hemisphere babes we made it to the longest night of the year. we made it. for the next 6 months, every day will give us a little more daylight than the last. let's go. take my hand. climb out of the darkness with me

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Nazis will never be welcome in paganism. They have no space in our communities, we will have a zero tolerance policy when it comes to nazis. You have no right to the cultures, gods and religions you hijack to spread your disgusting ideologies. You will find no refuge or comraderie amongst pagans.

Reblog to let nazis know they’re not welcome here.

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How do you feel about fascism in paganism? I see a lot of this via the Instagram platform? Also, quote a bit on here too.

this is a bit of a strange ask—pardon my wariness if you are kindly—but obviously, I loathe it. While people act like paganism is a paradise for leftism & marginalised people, like anything, it can be weaponised. My Dea Bellona has lead me further into becoming anti-fascist—as is her nature.

As pagans we need to self-actualise and make active efforts against fascism and the evils of the state. We do have a power of being a boogeyman against the mainstream—Christofascism hates and fears us—so if we embraced paganism as a resistance, as a fundamental change to what it means to be religious, and inoculated our spaces against such rhetoric, we’d have a better community. Often, community is formed through a common struggle, and we must resist and support people who are going to be devastated by the state of the world.

may bellona smite every fascist 🙏

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*grabs you and shakes you but gently cause I love you* you do not need to be ‘called’ to worship the gods. Just worship. Please just worship if it is what your heart wants.

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Bella Aventine Romana: The Decolonial & Anti-Imperialism Rompol Server

Roman polytheism as many of us know is full of “romana boos” and fascist types that venerate the empire and imperialism. As such, we’ve made this server—under the command of Dea Bellona—to have a space to decolonise rompol and embrace it as a modern, living tradition instead of a larping desire to be Roman (especially as Rome still exists) and venerating textbooks & propagnda instead of gods and nature.

if you’re interested, feel free to join, we are happy to have all that seek justice and love the world today with or without the Roman gods.

Praise to Dea Bellona!

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"i have the right of way" was a form of protective charm uttered by urban travellers in the early 21st century. They believed this phrase acted as a ward against danger and injury, invoking the divine spirit of 'Traffic Law', one of their primary deities.

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while i’m sure it’s certainly cool to be chosen by a deity for worship/devotion, i think there’s something beautiful about choosing them instead. having little to no signs from a deity, but seeing them and saying “yes. yes. yes. you are the one i want to devote myself to. work on myself for. be a part of your life as you are mine.” as a practitioner and then setting forth. i personally feel like we don’t have many options in life, so it’s nice to be the one to decide.