#dancing goddess

[twistedappletree]

The funniest “Jin Ling damsel in distress moment” is actually in the donghua on dafan mountain when Lan Jingyi kicks Jin Ling into the cave with so much force (infamous Lan Clan hamstrings?) that he just disappears??? I mean logically, he probably just fell on his face then got up and was like “screw this loser” and started exploring the cave for the heck of it but it’s so much funnier to imagine LJY kicking him so hard that he just rolled through the entire cave system for like 5 minutes straight until he crashed into the dancing goddess statue

[magdalene-spirit]

The Goddess

What is a mind-wave—

The rising of thought-energy—

Within our consciousness?

The mind, is, a subtle substance— How do we know? Because we can observe the mind, it is therefore subtly objective. Thoughts are objects or structures of consciousness. Within the mind-substance, movement occurs.

At the most subtle depth, there is simply vibration. The hum of aliveness. The pure mind immersed in consciousness sings “I AM.

Some may call this deeper level of mind, simply the HEART, it much subtler than the ordinary thinking mind.

But what is the cause of mind/thought movement?

The parinamavada view considers the observed substance of mind & its transformations materially real. Shakti & tantric teachings may lean towards the parinamavada view of material causality. Matter, matters. The Mother, matter is literal. Matter is not inert.

The Advaita Vedantic perspective is that of vivartavada, that the substance & its transformations is only apparently real, not actual; but Advaitins may also differ in interpretations of the said Upanishads discussing causation/cause & effect. Matter is considered inert.

There are other theories of cause as well. The Advaitic vivartavada view is popular, but the parinamavada view is an epistemologically earlier attempt to explain cause; substantiated by the Rig Veda.

As people come to the heart, they speak as they experience the reality & persons of different temperament may speak in these different ways. None of these expressions are wrong & no expression can fully contain the reality.

Vrittis are whirlpools, formed within the mind substance. As we see in Nature & natural phenomena, for example boiling water; and from modern science we know that movement leads to perturbation & eventually turbulence which then collapses into the universal spiralling of forces, the vortex of self-organising, far-from-equilibrium systems.

These spiral & wavy flows of the Forces of Nature, have long been associated with the Goddess. The Goddess is Nature, she is prakriti, the primal substance, ever-transforming in her creative dance.

Vivarta— in vivartavada, means the transformation of consciousness, either materially or apparently. Again, transformation, is the swirling, whirling, dancing Goddess.

And, altered states of consciousness, like bliss or ecstasy are the prerogative of the Goddess.

The world is impelled by Consciousness-knowledge. Refer to Atareya Upanishad 3.3 of Rigveda.

A natural desire, born of the heart. A sankalpa then, is a conception born in the mind-substance, that is a motive force that impels the creation process.

Forces of creation are always of the Goddess, desire is the world-making dance of Goddess.

Elucidation of relevance of Sanskara to come in a later post.

#goddess #vritti #vivarta #parinanamavada #vivartavada #sankalpa #sanskara #primordialmother

[flowerytale]

Florence Welch photographed by Lillie Eiger

[shroomthedecayedfox]

Stolen Time 💃

[legendarytragedynacho]

Cher

[greghatecrimes]

the Wednesday trifecta

[victusinveritas]

[meirimerens]

the pathologic Kin is largely fictionalized with a created language that takes from multiple sources to be its own, a cosmogony & spirituality that does not correlate to the faiths (mostly Tengrist & Buddhist) practiced by the peoples it takes inspirations from, has customs, mores and roles invented for the purposes of the game, and even just a style of dress that does not resemble any of these peoples', but it is fascinating looking into specifically to me the sigils and see where they come from... watch this:

P2 Layers glyphs take from the mongolian script:

while the in-game words for Blood, Bones and Nerves are mongolian directly, it is interesting to note that their glyphs do not have a phonetic affiliation to the words (ex. the "Yas" layer of Bones having for glyph the equivalent of the letter F, the "Medrel" layer of Nerves having a glyph the equivalent of the letter È,...)

the leatherworks on the Kayura models', with their uses of angles and extending lines, remind me of the Phags Pa Script (used for Tibetan, Mongolian, Chineses, Uyghur language, and others)

some of the sigils also look either in part or fully inspired by Phags Pa script letters...

some look closer to the mongolian or vagindra (buryat) script

looking at the Herb Brides & their concept art, we can see bodypainting that looks like vertical buryat or mongolian script (oh hi (crossed out: Mark) Phags Pa script):

shaped and reshaped...

[thesorceresstemple]

[madcat-world]

Bilquis - Dananayi Muwanigwa

[tygerland]