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I’m not a strange person posting on this forum, but I have a strange secret: I believe in ghosts. When I was little, about 4 years old, on one occasion I was helping my grandparents move into an apartment. As I recall, I took charge of emptying a box of miscellany onto the floor in the bedroom. If ...

Constantine wrote: ↑Tue Jul 11, 2023 1:01 am That is some weird shit Maia.

It is.

Fields of the Nephilim are a band that's popular among certain segments of the Pagan community, and that particular song, Psychonaut, gets trotted out at all sorts of events. I always felt it to be about as subtle as a sledgehammer.

He was nodding to the sumerian female priesthood. They would dress up as fish people, because their underworld and afterlife was in the Abzu of Iraq.... About being the swampland or rivers edge. They would see fish down there, and thought that would be them. They developed the seven gate theology y...

Yeah. That's what the role is. So don't use matriarchy. Frank Herbert's nurturing but firm Fish Speakers? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IG4FRR7gIww Yes, maybe something like that, but without the speaking to fish thing in dreams, which I think, to be more inclusive, should be widened to include all...

When I was very young I was quite badly bitten by my best friend’s pet tortoise, and it left me with a lifelong phobia of anything that lives in a shell. Some things that happen to us in childhood can stay with us all our lives, and significantly influence our adult personalities and behaviour. In ...

There wasn't much difference of size of settlements in England before and after the bronze age. They just got poorer as nobody needed their tin. And it doesn't rule our a matriarchy. A few existed in the historical record. Spain is a far better location for it though. But it doesn't really suggest ...

When I was very young I was quite badly bitten by my best friend’s pet tortoise, and it left me with a lifelong phobia of anything that lives in a shell. Some things that happen to us in childhood can stay with us all our lives, and significantly influence our adult personalities and behaviour. In ...

There wasn't much difference of size of settlements in England before and after the bronze age. They just got poorer as nobody needed their tin. And it doesn't rule our a matriarchy. A few existed in the historical record. Spain is a far better location for it though. But it doesn't really suggest ...

Europe certainly was behind on the construction of stone fortified settlements, but certainly had forts. I've been going over forts in Wales and Southern England for a while, while systemmatic warfare fortifications designed to repulse a siege appears quite late in the bronze age, the settlements w...

Oh.... since about 5,000 BC kingly authority mattered more. We can date it easily. Your first fortified cities with monolithic architecture developed then. The Neolithic fat chick statues were handheld in size, and I don't think fat women were patrolling 400 square miles with the men. The women und...

The marsh tritonius was the lake tritonius. It is leftover rememberences of Carthage, their punic religion borrowed heavily from the luwians and hittites. As to the bronze age.... the cult of Dea Syria I've found reference in exact parallel found in Lucian of Samosota in a 12th century Egyptian tex...

I don't have it that old yet. Edge of the bronze age. I could tolerate 14th or 15th century BC. If someone runs off saying Neolithic I'm gonna cough whatever I'm drinking up through my nose. When Yu was controlling the floodwaters and was making a passage through Mount Huanyuan, he changed into a b...

Ah.... largely impossible. Like the phrase: WE ARE THE GRANDAUGHTERS OF THE WITCHES YOU COULDN'T BURN doesn't have historic application as most people burned were not witches, were just Christians but heretics, or simply had a mental disorder. This isn't a historical mindset to predicate on. The ca...

I go out of my way to avoid them. But my history work is open to all. I just don't think most neo pagans would like my face when I fail to stop a eye roll when I notice stuff is off or incorrect. Like, yesterday I finally after months located a missing text on Callisto, was searching Iranian source...

Constantine wrote: ↑Sun Jul 09, 2023 12:32 pm No, Thelema. He was only interested in my knowledge of ancient religions. I wasn't doing any geolocating or covering the war then because Russia hadn't invaded yet, so was mostly just historical stuff.

I've met a few Thelemites at Pagan events. They tend to be quite weird.