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im finally back!! \o/ as good as new hehe 

been craving sweets for a good while and uhhh that’s showing..

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Pink Diamond 🌸💎🏞️💖

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Deity Work & The Classics✨

Why Consult Classic Literature?

Classical literature can tell us a lot about the lives of the people during the time it was written. Myths from the ancient world can give us insight into the treatment of the sexes, rites of passage, common practices and even superstition of the time. We can consult the classics for guidance, clarity and use them to understand the responses of our deities. For example, even though Apollo is considered a sun god, he is also the god of prophecy so it may be more common to receive messages from him in your dreams than during the day. In his mythology, you would be able to see by what means he most commonly communicated with mortals and be able to base your signs on his historical representation. We can apply this method to every god who has written mythology (for gods without, it may be more difficult to pinpoint what is historically accurate).

Another important reason to consult the classics during deity work is to understand the cultural context of your deity. Deities change over time as do their associations. For example, Hecate is known as a chthonic deity but also as a deity of childbirth, knowledge, guidance, protection and more. Each of these aspects come from a different region or group and understanding how these associations came to be is important. Each god will have different epithets associated with them and although each speak to a different quality or group, they are all important and all contribute to our understanding of that god.

Incorporating Ancient Practices:

The myths will often provide us with different rituals or practices that ancient people performed in honour of the gods. These are especially important when we consider their importance to ancient societies. The people depended on these practices for their livelihoods (i.e performing a certain ritual or offering to a certain god during planting would provide a bountiful harvest). The gods were also depended on for serving justice or retaliation against wrongdoers.

Many ancient practices, like giving libations, are practices that can still be performed today. For example, when working with greek chthonic deities, the ancients would have dumped their offerings into a pit. This may not be entirely practical for everyone (apartment dwellers) but a variation on this may be. Other practices like leaving offerings at certain places (ie. leaving offerings for Hecate at the crossroads) are practices that can be more easily incorporating into our modern veneration. Remember, if a practice was important to a god in ancient times, then they will likely appreciate you trying to incorporate it (or something similar) while working with them.

Online Resources:

🖤For more information on the greek/roman gods, check the website Theoi

🖤For accessible (audio included) retellings of ancient myths from all around the world, check out the website Storynory

🖤For more information on the poetic Edda, check out the website Sacred Texts (not sure on the accuracy of this translation as I do not work with the Norse gods. If someone has a better version, pls let me know)

*All images are from Pinterest*

🖤If you know of any other websites, please let me know and I will add them to the list!

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Saw a post from someone who said they don’t ship Wataei because they think they’re just best friends. This is somehow more shocking to me than every bad take on them that I’ve ever read. This is amazing. I’ve never seen this before. Brand new specimen out in the wild, untamed and free. Oh, how I want to walk around in your mind.

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hell yes bible study time

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hiya!! love your blog, can i request cuddling and all that sweet stuff with mika? hes my comfort character and i just want cuddles from him 😭

it's been a while since Mika's got any spotlight here!!

♡ — mika | sweets & cuddles!

‣ tws/cws: none!

‣ reader: gender neutral - they/them

‣ author's note: mika is back guys and i learnt how to write 4 him better letsgo.

the sweet stuff is just up this boy's ally!!

It's kinda obvious when mika wants to cuddle or just simply relax with you and shower you with some of the love he can give you... because he'll speak it verbally

either way! it took a while for mika to become the way he is with you now, but he's a very affectionate person when it comes to his s/o so it eventually happened.

Mika is still very much someone who prefers being held, rather than being the one holding the other person but there are times when he doesn't say what he wants to you directly and simply counts on how well you know him by just actions. if ya’ didn’t... he’d start to groan and mope, as if he has just been scolded from shu for not eating any proper meals and is in the process of making up some sort of response. On other happenings, instead of trying to approach you, he will tap your shoulder which he prays will get you to skim next to him, so he can get you in his arms. mwahaha his master plan indeed. ꒰⑅ᵕ༚ᵕ꒱˖♡

it was a sad, knowing he was barely ever treated this way, but you were glad to be the first to give him new experiences

something he quite enjoys whenever you lay with him is when your fingers trace little designs on his shirt! It's really soothing to him and you don't even know it~

but mika.. okay, i got this idea from searching the wide world's of tumblr— but as warm and fuzzy as he is, HES DANGEROUS in cold whether.

he has insanely cold feet, you have cuddled with this man while being asleep and once his feet touched your legs=as I believe he's a wild sleeper, it literally:

almost scared the living daylights out of you. especially when he does it on purpose sometimes to make you jump, he means no harm really !! He just wants to wake you up half the time !! (ノ｀⌒´)ノ

Be wary of his hands as well because they are just as cold as his feet, :cry:...

if ever you fall asleep when he wasn’t tired enough to do the same, he'll gently play around with your lovely hair~ this man will never consider cuddling weak or unmanly whatsoever - shu words... he really cannot express how much he adored you

he has no shame in showing his affection for you, and it’s was definitely no different behind closed doors!

he just loves being near you, and that’s all~

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do you guys care him

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haven’t drawn a baphomet in a while!

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eye really like the new digimon

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Mayshroom Jackalopes 1-3

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Having a bad day, having a relapse, slipping back into a bad habit, making a mistake, none of these things erase the progress you’ve made so far. You’ve done well before and you can do well again. All of the strides in the right direction that you’ve made don’t disappear just because you tripped over on your path. Get back up, keep walking, you can do it.