#@lingua

[dionysus-complex]

i. The Wanderer (anonymous Old English poem ca. 9th-10th century; trans. A.S. Kline)

ii. Maffeo Vegio, Book XIII of the Aeneid, 1428, trans. Michael Putnam

iii. J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers, 1954

[rottendeerteeth]

[theanonymousarmadillo]

[lykeios]

once i start posting in latin it’s over for y’all

[blackvelvetofnight]

media that is unapologetic about grief. that shows unresolved trauma as hollowing yet all consuming. that follows the pain all the way down. that you cannot uproot it without descending deep deep down into the seat of the earth

[agirlnamedbone]

Lingua Ignota (via Cvlt Nation/Official Website)

[twinsfawn]

LINGUA IGNOTA / REVEREND KRISTIN MICHAEL HAYTER

PHOTOGRAPHED BY A.F. CORTÉS

[claymarrows]

Spite alone holds me aloft. (Kill them all)

[holesss]

Belladonna of sadness // Manchester orchestra // I spit on your grave (1978) // Perfect blue // Lingua Ignota // Adriana Varejao // Doja cat // Bibi // Sza // Fka twigs // Fiona Apple // Carrie (1976) // Vampyros lesbos // Jennifer's body // SOPHIE // The haunting of bly manor

[evilios]

λιπαροπλόκαμος (liparoplokamos) - a poetic epithet of Leto in Pindar and Homer as one with "shiny, glossy hair/curls".

[terpsikeraunos]

latin word of the day: anser, a goose; sacred to Juno, and which preserved the Capitol in the Gallic war. Hence held in high honor by the Romans.

[angel-void]

St Hildegard von Bingen’s Litterae Ignotae, an alphabet of her crafted mystical language Lingua Ignota. She was an 12th century abbess, a mystic who experienced visions from God, a writer, and a composer of hymns.

[rottendeerteeth]

[theanonymousarmadillo]

[nabakovian]

kristin hayter on subverting metal for survivors

[twinsfawn]

IN UNFORGIVING NIGHT, GOD CAME