#time-life books

[thefugitivesaint]

Jill Karla Schwarz, 'Tam Lin', ''Fairies and Elves'', 1984 Source I'm going to use this post as the perfect opportunity to direct you to my favorite song from the folk band Fairport Convention from their 1969 album 'Liege & Lief', Tam Lin (which, I'm sure, I've posted about at some point)

[lisamarie-vee]

[maypoleman1]

1st February

Bride’s Day

Brigid: A Multi-Faceted Goddess. Source: Celtic Native website

Today is St Bridget’s Day, but it is also the feast of the Celtic goddess Brigid, or Bride. Of the historical Bridget, little is known. She lived in Kildare, where she founded a nunnery and became its Abbess; she died in 525. However, after her subsequent canonisation, a number of miracles were attributed to her, including the ability to make cows produce more milk, and her turning an armful of rushes into fish during a fish scarcity. She was also, illogically, given she lived in the sixth century, also supposedly Jesus’ midwife. Bridget took on a cultish status in Ireland, Wales and the Isle of Man. In central Wales a gathering of twenty nuns fiercely guarded an ever-burning fire dedicated to Bridget, which no man was permitted to approach. If all this sounds rather pagan, it is because it was. The Christian missionaries in the Celtic west encountered strong belief in the goddess Bride, who was associated with fertility, water and the spring. The winter fires set by the pre-Christian Celts in honour of Bride explain the saint’s fire cult, and her association with fertility and child birth, explains the Christian linking of Bridget to the birth of Christ.

A more specific tale concerning Bride and the return of spring was also told in pagan times. Bride was the daughter of the “Good God” Dagda, the god of plenty. In a similar tale to that of Hades and Persephone, Bride was said to have been kidnapped by Cailleach, the goddess of winter, who held her in a mountain fastness, forcing Dagda to withdraw his benevolence from the earth and enabling Cailleach to spread her sheet of ice all over the land for four months. However, the agreement with Dagda was that Bride should be released in early February, and on this, her feast day, the young goddess would emerge from her mountain prison, and the snow would melt as she stepped through it, bringing the light of spring in her wake. The people would set candles in their windows to welcome the waxing sun and placed a bed by their door to encourage Bride to enter their homes, bringing warmth and good fortune with her.

Inevitably, come the end of October Bride had to return to Cailleach and her winter confinement.

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

Conrad G. Mueller, Mae Rudolph and the Editors from Time-Life Books - Light and Vision - Time - 1975

[obsob]

bedtime story with my love !!

[egophiliac]

like mother, like son, but less wholesome this time?

(I couldn't decide whether or not to put them together, so have them in all the different ways!)

[somnimagus]

My page for @sheikahzine; about Impaz's duty to her village, empty of people and full of memories.

[id in alt text]

[weirdplutoprince]

The sun and the star review

[jessieroses]

Dear Joanne Kathleen Rowling,

[pien-art]

Remember how at the end of The Dragon Reborn, Ishamael wrapped Moiraine in black lightning and she screamed and Ishy hurled her across the room into a column where she lay unconscious for the whole duration of the book's final confrontation and then that was just never mentioned again and she was completely fine ?? Not on my watch 🤨

[7amaspayrollmanager]

Alright let's imagine a scene that is all too normal in palestine. A palestinian business owner finds his building covered in graffiti stars of Davids and Hebrew that says "gas the arabs" and "death to arabs"

Now imagine there's a reporter there and asks the palestinian business owner what happens and they say "the jews attacked my business"

Pause. Now your response might be "uncle no. Say israelis not jews" and then this is when he would look at you like youre stupid because the israelis doing this are jewish. They are not the Christians or the druze or the palestinian ones with Israeli citizenship. They are Jewish israelis who believe in their religious supremacy. When you graffiti stars of david all over a palestinian business, car, or the street you seek that conflation. it sends a message, this is jewish land and you're next.

The problem is that these videos circulate in zionist circles. "Watch this video of children in gaza calling for the death of jews" "watch how they say they want to fight and kill jews" those children are referring to Israeli soldiers that come in night and do their raids with the star of David attached to their uniform or the ones that bomb them. It's easy to watch those videos and assume that palestinians are indoctrinating their children on anti semitism or you can realize that those children's only interaction with jewish ppl is through violence and parents cannot protect their children from this. Doesn't matter context is lost

Abby Martin went to Jerusalem and interviewed israelis for 2 hours and she says every israeli was extremely confident to say that this land is for them and that they should push the Arabs out and when she interviewed palestinians they spoke of freedom from occupation and their dreams. That's reality. Not the soundbites.

And yet we have invasive youtubers and interviewers constantly in the street of ramallah or wherever in palestine asking palestinians "do you hate jews?" And in those videos you hear those palestinians say "no we have no problem with jews we have a problem with occupation and we have a problem with zionism." Bc this is how we are trained to respond to this trope. Palestinians are very aware what the world thinks of us and the reality is that many palestinians have internalized it and we grow up reading books on the Holocaust and train ourselves to recognize anti semitic dog whistles so zionists don't get the soundbites they want.

So we say "anti zionism is not anti semitism" and we say "israeli zionists" and we do not say "jewish supremacy" even thought it exists in palestine but "zionist supremacy" and in these carefully worded speech we water down what is happening to us in an effort to not deter people away from solidarity. But it means nothing. The world categorically blames palestinians for rising anti semitism they blame us for jewish insecurity globally.

[stargirl230]

Take a break!

This is for anyone who's been working hard (me, because once exam season starts it never ends...)

(no reposts; reblogs appreciated)

[mangotalkies]

setting up, flavored tea, and a humble beginning to the festive season

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Gaslight, Gatekeep, Girl found dead in a hidden room.

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[umeji-imeji]

So.......... I might have become obsessed with MDZS too I redrew my favorite book illustration, and added the color (original artwork by Marina Privalova)

[obsob]

once more around the sun!! :3