#Ritualistic

[theserpentspsalm]

[joyskinks]

i very much feel like having ritualistic sex. splay me out on the altar and make my pleasure an offering to your gods

[yaghrib]

Solem Suscitat.

Yaghrib 2019

[milktoooth]

𝑅𝑜𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑤𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑒𝑠

[zef-zef]

hypnotic folk music

Nam phat khay

Mengpou tom dokmay

from: VA - Laos - lam Saravane - Musique Pour le Khène (Ocora, 1978)

[dying4music]

We delve into the unknown,

searching for answers in ancient symbols...

but sometimes,

the mystery is not in what we find,

but in what we carry within us.

[majestativa]

You change the signs. You are smooth as a shore offered like a virgin to the tide that has come to her at night. Your purity is indescribable. I love you like those sacred statues machine-gunned by sandstorms. You only ever came back to me bathed in the sea.

— Julien Gracq, Prose pour l'Étrangère, to Nora Mitrani, transl by Alan Jenkins

[blommaavmorker-blog]

Karduzh

O que vê não é visto. O que sente já foi semeado, esse nome não lê, ele se abre. -Vc já foi afetado, mas a consciencia do que esta por vir, é retroativa, eventualmente indetectavel...Para os olhos daqueles que buscam o obvio, apenas espelhos serão encontrados...

[theserpentspsalm]

[foobars-cool-car]

this is my becoming a man i think

(graduated from weed pen to weed pipe)

[ang1331]

[fckrteeth]

Woods Mattress - "variations of trance"

c30 cassette (edition of 10)

9 left

$7 shipped

[zef-zef]

Nurse With Wound & Current 93

Steven Stapleton & David Tibet - The Sadness Of Things from: Steven Stapleton & David Tibet - The Sadness Of Things (United Dairies, 1991)

[the-way-of-divine-justice]

[phoenix-joy]

Author: Sonja Anderson Publication: Smithsonian Magazine Timestamp: January 22, 2024

Extract:

Researchers have long been puzzled by the Roman dodecahedron. More than 100 of these strange 12-sided metal objects have been found throughout Europe—but their purpose remains unclear. Now, another discovery in England’s countryside has reignited the mystery surrounding the ancient artifacts.

[...]

“[Dodecahedrons] are one of archaeology’s great enigmas,” [Richard Parker, secretary of the Norton Disney History and Archaeology Group] says.

“Our example is remarkable. It’s in an excellent condition—considering it’s been buried for 1,700 years—and complete with no damage.["]

[...]

The hollow, grapefruit-sized object is made of copper alloy, as the Norton Disney group writes on its website. Its 12 flat sides are punctuated by circular cut-outs and studs on each corner.

According to the group, the discovery brings the number of dodecahedrons unearthed in Roman Britain to 33, while about 130 have been discovered throughout the Roman Empire’s northwest provinces. [The dodecahedron discussed in the article] stands out because it’s still in one piece, while many of the others were found fragmented or damaged.

[...]

Some Roman dodecahedrons date to as early as the first century C.E. However, no visual or textual references to the objects have been found in historical records. [...]

“Nobody knows for certain how the Romans used them,” wrote Smithsonian magazine’s Sarah Kuta last year. “Some theories are that they functioned as measuring devices, calendars, ornamental scepter toppers, weapons or tools.”

[...]

[...] the group agrees with experts who think dodecahedrons were used for ritualistic or religious purposes. [...] researchers at Belgium’s Gallo-Roman Museum have hypothesized that Romans used the objects in magical rituals, which could explain dodecahedrons’ absence from historical records: With the Roman Empire’s eventual embrace of Christianity came laws forbidding magic. Practitioners would have had to keep their rituals—and related objects—a secret.

/end of extract

"12-sided Roman relic baffles archaeologists, spawns countless theories"

Author: Leo Sands Publication: The Washington Post Timestamp: April 30, 2024 at 11:09 a.m. EDT

Extract:

“One reason that it is so captivating for the public is that it’s hard to believe that we have anything from the Roman period that we don’t know what it’s for,” Lorena Hitchens, an archaeologist specializing in Roman dodecahedrons[...] “It’s very tempting to want to solve that mystery.”

[...]

Internet sleuths have joined the speculation [...] with many gravitating toward an explanation that revolves around their use as tools. [...] knit and crochet pattern designer Amy Gaines posits [...] that dodecahedrons may have been used to knit gold chains, constructing a 3D-printed replica to demonstrate her theory.[...] English Heritage lists theories ranging from a tool for finding the best date to sow grain, to functioning as a candleholder, a polygonal die, a range finder, a surveying instrument, or a way of knitting gloves.

But academic archaeologists shy away from the suggestion that they were practical objects used as everyday tools. “I know that because I’ve examined a lot of them, and they don’t have the kind of use wear you’d expect from a tool,” Hitchens said.

“They’re also much more delicate than people realize,” she said. “They would be broken very quickly.”

[...]

The most popular theory among academic experts [...] is that dodecahedrons held religious or ritual meaning, linked in some way to local practices on the Roman Empire’s fringes.

Proponents of this theory [...] point to the intricacy of the object itself, suggesting it probably had special value. According to Hitchens, the relic was made using a lost-wax bronze-casting process, an extremely technical feat — made even more challenging by the fact that the final product was hollow. [...]

/end of extract