Technically tomorrow would be the 3rd Sorrow of Mary— the loss of Jesus in the temple.

After the passover pilgrimage to Jerusalem Mary & Joseph travel for a whole day, then they realize Jesus is not with them and turn back to Jerusalem

So I'd assume the day of travel would be the day directly following the end of passover, and the second day is when they would realize he was lost. (They return to the city and spend 3 days searching)

Passover ended April 30th this year, the parents would have traveled on May 1, and then noticed his loss and begin to turn back on May 2.

😬 I am just not on my game with wanting to observe the sorrows at various points in the year, albeit 4 of the 7 all take place on one day. Thats followed by the day of honoring Our Lady of Solitude.

I will not forget good friday i will not forget good friday i will not forget good friday i will not forget good friday

Steven Green, the owner of The Museum of the Bible says his collecting practices were “a little naïve”. Unbelievable, and I mean that literally. I am very thankful, however, that they are doing the right thing and giving the looted and stolen materials back. That is commendable.

TV Show: White roses the symbol of

Me: death

TV Show: innocence and purity

Me: . . . oh

This Picrew and last song you listened to.

Stolen from @khaire-traveler

Too tired to tag but @helvetica12point

(The black cat is Felix)

Another ancient reblog response from my original blog. My 'communication is not needed' soap box has only become stronger. Nor is an interpersonal relationship required btw.

do i technically have to be devoted to the gods to worship them? like for the life of me, I’ve never been able to communicate with any of them, but I still very much respect them and want to thank them for everything they’ve done. I just dont think I really have the time or energy or knowledge to try to write hymns and prayers and try to build a real relationship with them

  if any of this even makes sense

 I JUST WANNA DO NICE THINGS FOR THEM SOMETIMES WITHOUT ASKING THEM FOR ANYTHING BUT I DONT KNOW IF THAT EVEN COUNTS

Oh Happy Earth Day!

May Gaia & Uraš bring you happiness & peace 🌎

I'm sure I've complained about this before but migraines are boring. I have a host of podcast episodes I want to listen to, my YT watch later list is piling up, I just resubscribed to Disney+/Hulu so I can catch up in Bleach, watch the newest Doctor Who, watch a few ep of Law & Order I want to rewatch, watch any of the movies I've written down in a note since most are on Hulu (I don't watch movies so the fact that I have a list is mind boggling).

One little problem: noise.

I cannot do any of that because it all makes fucking noise. And my migraines is aggravated by a small fan whirling let alone a show. Watching with subtitles simply wouldn't be enjoyable(?).

And lets not even start with how my migraine makes cognitive shit like reading also difficult so I don't even have an alternative.

Migraines are so fucking boring

I finally moves all my "real" drafts that I normally kept in a pause queue (for easy access) to my google drive. Especially because tumblr will randomly post them regardless of the pause.

I also moved my rant/journal posts I wrote but decided not to post and let them rot in drafts to google drive.

I went through the rest of my drafts and deleted the ones I didn't care about or put them in the google drive folder for actual writing.

This left me with like 167 drafts when I had over 200. Mainly complex posts from my old blog (since I saved a backup) and a few reblogs I want to add to.

And also now I only have 7 queued posts (Inana book series) instead of whatever ridiculous amount I had.

This will definitely help me keep writing I think AND tumblr won't fucking delete all my hard work anymore.

AS TO THE TWO ANONS I claimed I'd get done in Jan... then March... now:

I'vs started working on the Ereškigal one again, finally now that life is kind of sort of calming down

I was searching for some info on henotheistic tendencies in later Mesopotamian religion and got directed to the book Religion in Mesopotamia book (1998) by Bottero which luckily I already own and just had to get it off the bookshelf. I've spent the past like hour reading various section and I enjoy it, even if I don't agree with everything (based on synthesizing all the other info I've read on ANE). But something that really really bothers me is he just kind of completely ignores the 3rd millennium (writing) and 4th millennium (proto-writing & pre-writing), and just decides that Sumerian religion is so inseparable from the Semitic religions around it (the most apparent being Akkadian) that he won't even bother separating the two. Which as a Sumerian polytheist who prefers the 3rd millennium stuff, kind of sucks. Like for example he goes off about how Mesopotamians had to justify the extreme anthropomorphism in the 2nd millennium and its like if you looked further back as both Jacobsen and Katz do it's obvious that anthropomorphism and transcendence was gradual

This academic made the same gripe as I did link in his review

I will one day read the book cover to cover..... eventually.... probably........... . . . at some point.

Don't touch my wheelchair. If you go to grab my chair absentmindedly I won't feel even remotely bad about how much these legitimately hurt.

They come off and on so no issue with putting my bag on, or if I do actually need help. Oddly the one on my left is harder to get on/off for some reason, but at least I have them now.

A little UPG: Damu seems to be very happy with me taking this step— waking up and choosing violence 😂 (wheelchair is dedicated to Epione and Damu).

TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE l APRIL 2024

ALFREDO JUÁREZ | RAMI ASTRO | JOSHUA INTINI | KENDALL RUST | DERAN HALL | KUZCOKHANDA | TREVOR MAHLMANN | OTHINGSTODO | NASA | STEVEN RATNIK

Today is a solar eclipse the sun will be obscured almost entirely (only a sliver still visible) in my area. Tomorrow is the historical start date for the Sumerian Ur calendar (first "sight" of the waxing crescent) and thus an Akiti festival. I was planning on a procession that leads the deity away today and a procession of return tomorrow. And its was going to be Enlil (or An, Enlil, Enki not sure). But the meaning of leaving/returning would be perfect for a festival to Utu the Sun God. However, Amaterasu-Ōmikami forbade me from worshipping any other solar deities (or deities in solar aspect) many many years ago. So a solar celebration of Utu is out of the question. I just realized how intensely this can represent the story of Amaterasu-Ōmikami in the cave story so maybe I'll read that during the eclipse and maybe say the Hi-fu-mi prayer of purification (I'll be with my parents though)

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Edit after:

The eclipse could only be seen with special glasses but it got super cold as we sat there, like my wheelchair rims got cold to the touch. And it became a grey sky without clouds which was weird.

I read the Kojiki rock-cave story while waiting for it to reach maximum

I guess one might say the real 2024 April Fools Day was the friends we booped along the way.

Fun Facts

Easter has NOTHING to do with:

Ishtar

Ostara

Pagan holidays

A goddess called Eostre (Bede was a speculating idiot and he’s the original source for this nonsense)

Easter has EVERYTHING to do with:

The Jewish celebration of the Passover seder

The Christian celebration of the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ

Nobody stole our shit. Easter was never pagan to begin with. Rabbit was considered “fish” by the medieval Catholic Church so that people could eat it during the 40 days of Lent, and eggs laid during the Lenten fast were hardboiled for preservation and then eaten during the breaking of the fast on Easter Sunday. That’s why we have bunnies and eggs.

Stop conflating Easter with pagan holidays, and get the fuck out of here with that casual anti-semitism.

Thank you and good day.

I made the mistake of looking in the notes.... as a Sumerian polytheist I am legally allowed to throttle 1 pagan who asserts Ištar = Ostara/Eostre per Easter season.

Also this was a joke but I guarantee when I'm playing tsougrisma this year Aphrodite Areia is definitely going to pop into my head and I'll be miffed if I lose 😂

Not everything the Christians do is stolen from some anonymous pagan culture. I'm sorry y'all but the Christians did actually come up with a bunch of shit on their own.

Oh no, I forgot about the "eggs & bunnies actually come from Germanic fertility goddess rituals" annual assertion

Ya know, if every pagan is going to assert that ahistorical festival, can the Greek bright red Easter eggs (kokkina avga) come from a Definitely Real Historically Attested™ fertility festival to Aphrodite. They're red specifically to honor Aphrodite Areia and the traditional smacking the eggs together game (tsougrisma) is symbolic of a battlefield confrontation. And the victor of tsougrisma gets Aphrodite Areia's blessings of luck for the next year.

Not everything the Christians do is stolen from some anonymous pagan culture. I'm sorry y'all but the Christians did actually come up with a bunch of shit on their own.