#Ritual/Process

[leonbasinwriter]

Explore Where Knowledge Becomes Craft in System Building

@leonbasinwriter 🛠️ Builder Guild Artifact: The Living Forge A framework for creating resilient, adaptive systems RITUAL The System-Building Ritual: “Heart of the Mountain” The Gathering of Stone: The Builder begins by sourcing raw data and foundational principles. This isn’t mere collection, but a communion with the ‘stone’ of information, feeling its weight, texture, and potential. The…

[kublakola]

I knew the OVA was gonna be gay but that... wow.... levels of homosexuality not previously conceived...

[marragurl]

HOW WE FEELING AFTER THE 2.3 LIVE STREAM GANG???

Every time I think Ratio and Aventurine can’t get more obvious they just throw a whole new curveball at me 😭

THE DOMAIN HAS THEIR CATCAKES AS A SYMBOL I AM SCREAMING

[somsonsomsoff]

headcanons for the employers have somehow turned into a crossover with de skills

[dazachi]

skk be like "hey, isnt it great that we get to defeat a seemingly impossible enemy by being partners just like back then when we were teens? why dont we celebrate it by dropping Sigma 15 times?" "great idea! let's do it!"

[lmaster37]

finished my reread of gideon the ninth. what a stunningly, horrifyingly, gut-wrenchingly amazing book. i am in shambles

[12am-motivation]

episode 13!! THEY'RE ALL STARTING TO COME TOGETHER

if i weren't occupied with other stuff i would've taken the time to go through the past chapters again one by one to collect all the scattered hints ;;;

though slowly but surely, all the clues about the clash and the current situation between houses are finally being connected and some theories and questions are now progressively being answered

i'm gonna try to participate in this ep's discussions as well o7

(more rambles below)

[illustratus]

Pompa Circensis by Julio Borrell Pla

[harmoonix]

When you realize your moon sign and phase also indicates rituals and beneficial things to heal yourself on the day your moon returns in the same sign (especially nurturing rituals be like)

Yas go girl give me that harmony rituals already -

[mrsimqle]

I’ll always be there to point and laugh when people act like it’s impossible to depict black and poc in their art especially the damn sims

[navree]

jonah jonah jonah what were you cooking up in this universe

[nosyphythia]

Sacrifice, libation and procession

A brief explanation of animal sacrifices, libations and processions.

Neleus' city. There, on the sea shore, the men sacrificed black bulls to the bluish-curled PoseidonNine were the number of benches, five hundred sat on each; each of these gave nine bulls. They now tasted all the entrails, and burnt the loins of the god. Homer, Odyssey, 3rd canto

Before I continue with the text, I would like to ask you not to sacrifice any living creatures!

In one of my courses at university we discussed the subject of animal sacrifice and the exact procedure. I would like to explain this and other rituals to you in this short article.

First, I would like to explain the procession (pompé). It consists of several people (priests, musicians, citizens) who go to the altar of the temple where they want to make the sacrifice. This could take place within a town or between towns. Intermediate stops are planned at several places of worship, such as forests, springs or cult areas. They take place annually or after major festivals (e.g. olympic games, victorious wars, etc.). They can also take place more frequently in smaller versions.

First of all, a suitable animal must be chosen for the deity to be worshipped. Examples of which animals can be sacrificed to which gods can be found in sacrificial calendars. Traditionally, male animals are sacrificed to gods and female animals to goddesses, often especially white ones. Once the perfect animal has been found, it is decorated with flowers or golden chains and horns. It is then led in procession to the altar in front of the temple. The priest performing the sacrifice washes his hands before throwing the barley and cutting off a lock of the animal's hair. Prayers are then said. The animal is then killed and butchered. Again, the order is important. First the legs are cut out, wrapped in double-folded lard and the raw meat (legs and tail) is placed on top. This is then burned on the altar and sprinkled with wine. The rest of the meat is skewered and eaten by those present.

Preparation (praying, finding the sacrificial animal) & purification (pre-kill)

Killing, slaughtering, sacrificial skewers (grilling) & burning of the sacrificial hair/fur (kill)

Libation, feast, drinking party & consecration/consecration gift (post-kill)

There is also a special variant of animal sacrifice; the slaughter sacrifice (sphagia). Here the sacrificial animal is not burned and the blood of the animal plays the most important role.

Another type of sacrifice is the libation. After the procession to the altar and purification, the deity is sacrificed by pouring out liquids. The liquids used were wine, honey (often mixed with milk or water), water, milk and (olive) oil. At the end, prayers are said. However, a distinction must be made between Choen-Libations and Sponde-Libations in this ritual. Choen describes the libation in its function as an offering for the dead. Sponde is a sacrifice to please the gods or to ward off epidemics, performed before symposia and journeys.

According to the religious explanation, the tradition of the sacrifice originates from the sacrificial betrayal of Prometheus. The reason for the sacrifice was an agreement between man and the gods. Prometheus wanted to sacrifice an ox for the gods, but with the ulterior motive of deceiving them. He divided the sacrifice into meat and fatty entrails, which he hid in the animal's skin. The other part consisted of beautifully carved animal bones, which he covered with the animal's fat. He then gave Zeus the choice as to which part of the sacrifice should be reserved for the gods. Zeus, however, saw through the ruse and removed the fat from the bones. But it was too late to choose the other part. Since then, people have been expected to sacrifice bones to the gods on their altars. Zeus then punishes mankind by taking away their fire, which Prometheus steals back, but in return he is bound to the Caucasus, where an eagle eats the liver out of his body every day, until Heracles finally frees him.

(I am still working on my Overview of the ancient greek religion, it is maybe getting a little long)

[angelocerantola]

Procession © Angelo Cerantola

[gingermintpepper]

I was reading the Orphic Argonautica last night and the author has mentioned the various methods of divination Apollo knows and guess what? One of them is prophesying by studying the entrails of organisms. As soon as I read that I was reminded of your headcanon of Apollo being into hepatoscopy for divination and I giggled.

Awww 😳😳It's so nice of you to think of me!

Hehe, so fun fact, the overall practice of divination by studying the entrails of animals (including blood, lungs, intestines and so forth) is extispicy while hepatoscopy is specifically using the liver in prophecy and divination readings.

If, like magic in old text exactly like the sort Medea is described as using, the types of divination spoken about in the texts are reflections of the popular divination cultures of the time, I much rather prefer ascribing those to Apollo than I do some vague, somewhat mysterious power which he uses to see the will of the fates, especially since it's mentioned a few times that he'll teach his sons the language of the birds and how to read their signs and so on and so forth.

In short: HEPATOSCOPY APOLLO IS COOL!! HE'S SO NEAT!! Apollo at the altar who predicts the coming droughts and famines from the entrails of his flock!! It's just such a neat little image (to me)!

Also the Orphic Argonautica bangs, genuinely I hope you enjoy it! Orpheus is an insane man and I do not think him along with the collective subspecies of mythical man known as 'sons of Apollo' get enough credit for how truly unhinged they are at any given point in time.

[aldisobey]

Why is writing so hard lol

Wish it could be faster but forcing the feeling is impossible. Begin with musical ritual. Scrolling walls of artful halls. Masticating prose. Sink and dwell and rot with a feeling caught.

And then a different part of the story retches to page. Like prepping a body for possession. Sometimes a spirit you didn’t expect comes calling with an embrace you can’t escape.

I wish the process was outline, drafts, edit, and edit, edit, edit, edit, etc. But I need to check the moon the bugs the wide space of tide

drown my pretentious ass and toss me out to sea

It needs to be real and alive within, burgeoning to escape before I can excise a word.

I don’t think I’d like it easy

[fisheito]

yakuya in MY swamp? in MY ecosystem? no . i am still in disbelief. i hope you all know that my particles are bouncing off the everything. i am using periods as punctuation but the state of my mind is naught neareth final.