One difficult issue with DID that I never expected was keeping up daemonism. Prior to Syscovery this was never an issue. My daemons were always noticeably present, 24/7. Even after Syscovery, after I realized we had a diagnosis it was pretty easy, I think right up through the teens (of alter count). But now we're at over 30 alters and you know how sometimes an alter/headmate/part will say something but you're not sure who?

Turns out it can drown out your daemon's voice. We've been attributing most unidentified comments as an alter whom either didn't want to be or we couldn't recognize. But I'm starting to think maybe it's wrong to do that.

After a lot of introspection I realized that, even when I'm solidly in front, my mind is always obsessing over the System. Whether that's my OCD obsession or my anxiety about how many are coming out of dormancy lately, I don't really think that matters. Being able to disconnect and think about other things besides your System is healthy, but a habit I wasn't participating in. I realized I'd been ignoring them so much that I wasn't even telling them good morning/night anymore.

My daemons are endlessly patient, but I still feel really bad about it. So I've spent most of the past few days just really, intentionally giving them attention. Like, right now Ani is flapping around my bedroom as a freshwater ray and Thom's perched beside me as a yellow-headed blackbird (both eclipse suggestions from @xxboarpunkxx,'s Aka <3). And I can feel their excitement about today's eclipse. Their love for me and each other. Their appreciation of being included in my life.

It's surprising how acknowledging their presence clears my mind. I'm not currently obsessing over the System or whether or not I'm faking my DID. I'm not worried about what it means that we have so many coming out of dormancy right now or what the newly discovered sub-Systems mean for us. It's just ... quiet. Positive. I can focus on other things. The brain's quiet for once. Existing with your System is important, but I also think it's important to step away from it for a bit and just be you as an individual and all that encompasses.

Thom Q&A Pt. 4/10

31. Are there any forms that you dislike or refuse to take? I was always adverse to humans but that solidified when I took it exactly once. Never again. I will also, of course, refuse to take anything that makes Em uncomfortable.

32. If you took a fictional form, what would it be? I have many, spanning across many fandoms and mythologies

33. Have you ever fronted or attempted to front? Absolutely not. It’s always been a firm boundary, since Em is one of the hosts of a System. But I did it once on accident. Not even a full front, just taking an arm to bring her coffee. It was startling and disorienting and neither of us have any wish for it. 

34. Do you have any regrets? Doesn’t everyone?

35. Do you love your person? What a stupid question, of course I do.

36. Have you ever felt a close bond to another human/daemon/headmate? I love Cayde and Kit of The Crew fiercely. 

37. What are you afraid of? Unfulfilled promises

38. Does your human have a headspace? What does it look like? That is a complicated and detailed question. Very, very simply, there are two main headspaces for Em. 1. The System headspace: This is shared by everyone. It’s a clearing in a dense forest with everyone having their own dwellings. There are other clearings in the forest to explore 2. And Imperial-Class Star Destroyer that we haven’t really explored. Em likes the four main rooms best, each showcasing a different season of the year. They truly are quite lovely.

39. Which form best describes YOUR personality? A yellow-throated marten, my settled form

40. Where do you see yourself in 5 years? 10 years? Exactly where I am. Hopefully a little wiser.

Daimon directory project

Daimon directory project Daimon directory project is an international world wide great brand marketing idea powered by Carl William Brown and the Daimon Club Organization to support, foster and spread the original spirit of the Daimon creative meaning.  Daimon is an inner force, an inner passion, a mixture of desires and aspirations. Our daimon is the genius that lives with us, good and evil at the same time. As Blake would say, it's the marriage between heaven and hell. It's death in life and life in death. It's a kind of enthusiasm that guides us towards the search for knowledge, without believing in any superior entity. It's an olistic approach to life that struggles against any form of vanity, of stupid power and false authority. It's a form of magic, of ecstatic feeling, it's the art of living for freedom without having to submit our inner thoughts to the banalities of our society. It's a dream that gives hope to our intellect, it's a mistery without solution. it's the absurdity of our life, it's a nonsensical joke. That's why I thought to link the surrealistic poetics with the spirit of my creation, and that's why the Daimon Club was born. Carl William Brown One of the first examples of surrealistic writer and daimon guided author was Laurence Sterne. He was born in Ireland in 1713 end died in 1768. As a clergyman, Sterne was rather unusual. Besides being involved in frequent amorous escapades, together with some friends he formed a group called "The Demoniacks" which used to meet at Skelton Castle, a curious house on the border of the Cleveland Moors, (belonging to a friend of Sterne's, who called it "Crazy Castle", where they indulged in moderate revelry. When I found the Daimon Club I didn't know about Sterne's association, but now what I intend to point out is that unfortunately we don't have a castle, and it's always more difficult to find people who like to be open minded, not only from a sexual point of view, but also from an artistic and intellectual one. Carl William Brown When towards the end of 1997 Carl William Brown registered the first few pages of the Daimon Club website in the main search engines the term Daimon did not appear becuase as a matter of fact it was unknown. Therefore, digitally speaking, it was our association that has had the privilege of inaugurating what would soon have become a real phenomenon. Try to type today on the most famous Internet spider the word Daimon, or Daimon Club and you will immediately realize the real development of the trend. Carl William Brown The concept of Daimon is also strongly connected with the meaning of Aristotle's Eudaimonia, that is to find your inner passion and develop it in a good manner without any excess to live in a virtuous happy way. Carl William Brown Each life is formed by its unique image, an image that is the essence of that life and calls it to a destiny. As the force of fate, this image acts as a personal daimon, an accompanying guide who remembers your calling. James Hillman

International Daimon Directory The daimon motivates. It protects. It invents and persists with stubborn fidelity. It resists compromising reasonableness and often forces deviance and oddity upon its keeper, especially when neglected or opposed. It offers comfort and can pull you into its shell, but it cannot abide innocence. It can make the body ill. It is out of step with time, finding all sorts of faults, gaps, and knots in the flow of life - and it prefers them. It has affinities with myth, since it is itself a mythical being and thinks in mythical patterns. James Hillman Daimon meaning The Greek daimon means 'divine power', 'fate', or 'god'. To the Greeks daimons were intermediary spirits between human beings and the gods, acting as spiritual advisors. See Genii, Jinn, Djin and Genius. Daimon is also a common persons name, so we have several websites that tells us something about different Daimon. Daimon is also a semi God of past religions, so we have many sites that explain the original meaning of the word. For more information and if you want to join our great DAIMON international branding marketing project, you can write us using our Ko-fi.com page, where you can also offer us a small donation to support this initiative. Thank you so much and don't hesitate to keep in touch, we are waiting for you! www.daimon.org The Daimon Club official website, it is the international domain of our club. The Daimon Club is a virtual cultural association founded in Brescia, Italy in 1997 by Carl William Brown. Its purpose is to develop a new cultural and communicative methodology. The website offers a variety of sections including thousands of original aphorisms, quotes, jokes, and proverbs in English, as well as free e-books, humorous texts, and links to cultural resources. There are also sections dedicated to visual communication, business, finance, and web marketing. The Daimon Club does not have any advertisements or use cookies. It also offers fast research through its Daimon Spiders and can be found on various social media platforms. www.daimonclub.it  It was The Daimon Club Italian mirror website. Now it is the official links tree of Carl William Brown and it redirects to AllMyLinks. Inside it there is the International Daimon Directory Project, it will include all websites that have something to do with the concept of Daimon Creativity and its origins. www.daimonclub.ro  Daimon Social Club – Insula verde din Bucuresti. In the heart of the Capital, in the middle of a lush vegetation, is Daimon Club: your oasis of relaxation and energy. The story of Daimon Club was born to provide people an imposing location, with complete services, where you can celebrate the most important events in your life, but also to spend quality time in the company of your loved ones.

Daimon Directory project www.daimonproduction.com  Daimon Production is an independent production company founded in 2009 by the freelance video reporter Emiliano Pappacena. Daimon Production has swiftly become a real teamwork of young professionals who pool their know-how in the audiovisual industry. Our mission is to produce TV reports, documentaries and new TV formats paying particular attention to social issues, immigration, environmental sustainability and technological innovation. Our video reports have been aired on Rai Due, Rai Tre, Rai Storia and on the satellite television Rai Edu. www.eudaimon.it  It's an Italian firm specialised in physical and psychological counseling, time-saving services and day care services. www.daimonbarber.com/ Peerless male grooming products by Daimon Barber. Innovative formulation, unrivalled quality and beautiful design. Made in the UK. www.daimon-italy.com  DAIMON is a brand owned by GRE EUROPE SAGL, a company based in Switzerland with multiple activities in Europe and Asia. Daimon collections are produced by Zoko Italy srl, a company that counts more than twenty years of experience in the production of yarns, fabrics and garments and that makes quality, production control and timing some of its strengths . www.daimoninstitute.com The Daimon Institute for the Highly Gifted conducts research, offers research-based and best-practice presentations, and provides educational consulting to support the overall development of Exceptionally and Profoundly Gifted (EPG) people. www.fondazionedaimon.com Padre Monti Saronno graphics schools. OUR HISTORY. Born from the philosophy and values of Father Monti, the Daimon Foundation passes down a precious heritage of ideas and activities in the educational, training and technical fields. Innovation, professionalism and the valorization of our students' successes characterize us and accompany us continuously. www.thedaimonbarber.com  Classic hair pomades by The Daimon Barber. Innovative formulation, unrivalled quality and beautiful design. Made in London. www.daimon.nl  This is the portfolio of photographer and filmmaker Daimon Xanthopoulos. Here you can see full screen selection of his photography and documentary work. daimon.agency  We are a Brand Experience Studio born digital and grown looking for the unexplored among all channels. We have the courage to give shape to creativity that performs and experiences that can tell a story. For us this is being bold. This is our boldness. www.daimonart.it  It is a Website Art Gallery, a Graphic, Advertising and Marketing Agency specialized in Internet services. (La Daimon Art Gallery è uno spazio dedicato agli artisti, quotati e non, che vogliono esporre i propri lavori, e far circolare le proprie idee, per un pubblico non necessariamente di collezionisti o esperti del settore.

Daimon directory daimoneventi.it An Italian company. Daimon Eventi intertwines creativity, imagination and competence, offering companies qualified work in the supply of personnel and services for various events. Daimon Eventi can offer suggestions and exclusive atmospheres thanks to a staff of actors, musicians, dancers, painters, sculptors, magicians, jugglers, DJs, male and female models, hostesses and stewards... but also set designers, screenwriters, graphic designers, video operators, photographers , catering, tour operators…and so on. www.daimongames.com  Daimon Games offers (mostly) free (as in free beer) tabletop Role Playing Games and adventures. www.daimon.qc.ca  Centre de production Daïmõn photo-vidéo-nouveaux médias. Le Centre de production DAÏMÕN is an artist-run centre that supports research, creation and production of works in photography, media arts, multimedia, new media and their interfaces. DAÏMÕN also initiates events and screenings of works produced in these artistic practices. DAÏMÕN is a non-profit organisation that is supported by its members, the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, the Canada Council for the Arts and the Service des arts, de la culture et des lettres de la Ville de Gatineau. www.daimon.ch  Daimon Publishers Online bookstore devoted to books on Jungian Psychology, Relationships, Personal Development and Growth of Consciousness www.progettodaimon.it  by Walter Alamanni; it's a cultural group interested in Counseling, Development of human potentialities, shamanism, educational training and so on. Nello sciamanesimo il termine Medicina significa forza vitale, energia intrinseca nella natura. La medicina di una persona è la sua potenza, la sua conoscenza, la sua espressione di energia vitale. Le Ruote di Medicina sono ruote di coscienza, conoscenza e comprensione ed essendo ruote di coscienza ci insegnano l’equilibrio e il rapporto fra tutte le cose. Fin dall’antichità l’uomo ha usato Ruote di Medicina per l’insegnamento riguardo al cosmo, in tutto il mondo... www.daimon-italy.com  A fashion company, guided by a very famous Italian woman stylist, that has chosen the word Daimon as an Ancient Greek term that defines the soul and inner strength to its purest forms but can then also turn to a more transgressive meaning. The Daimon Luxury Collections came from the idea to make a special and inimitable shape, as the woman who is wearing it. Cutting edge cuts, sharp and precise, transgressive combinations of precious yarns and fabrics, craftsmanship in all details, strong and inimitable identity. www.daimonfilm.com DAIMON FILM SRL is a company that produces, sells, and promotes film, television, and multimedia products. They also provide artistic consulting and organize events and concerts. Daimon Film covers the world of entertainment at 360 degrees by producing and creating videoclips, television programs, commercials, films and docufilms, up to the creation of major events and concerts.  The production is handled by Raffaella Tommasi, a project manager with twenty years of experience in large international projects. They have organized the IMAGinACTION Festival and Tour, as well as the Comacchio Beach Festival, featuring popular Italian artists. daimonrestaurant.com  Daimon Japanese Restaurant - Sunset Beach / Huntington Harbor. With over 30 years of history, Daimon invites you to enjoy an evening of excellent food, fine drinks, and great fun. Our caring and committed staff will ensure you have a fantastic experience with us. www.daimonsoft.com  Daimon Soft is committed to providing our customers with superior software, website, and web hosting solutions that will improve the efficiency and appearance of your company, leading to a more successful business or personal venture.Daimon Soft L.L.C. North Prairie, WI dancingfrog.net  Echu-Daimon Kite Festival. As we traveled around Japan to various kite festivals it seemed like every third person was from Daimon kite club in Toyama Prefecture. Echu is the old name of Daimon. With this harbinger of things to come, we headed off to the train station in Osaka where we met the other members of the Osaka Kite club.

Synthetic principles of applied Daimonology www.instagram.com/daimon_tattoo  Daimon Tattoo Studio A very high specialized tattoo and piercing studio based in Tuscany, Italy. Address viale Diaz 20, 53034 Colle Val D'Elsa, Toscana, Italy. You can discover a lot about it visiting its Facebook page. www.daimon.org.br Centro de Estudos do Relacionamento O Daimon é uma instituição que contribui para o estudo da psicoterapia, da psicoterapia de grupo e do psicodrama no Brasil. Você encontrará informações sobre grupos de estudos e grupos de supervisão. Terá acesso à programação das sessões abertas de psicoterapia, aos eventos e aos artigos publicados pelos profissionais que aqui trabalham. Você poderá ainda adquirir os livros publicados pela nossa editora. www.daimon7007.co.jp  Daimon Manufactures a variety of flexible tubes and colored pipes for applications such as microphones and optical scopes. Company Name Daimon Manufacturing Inc. Founded May, 1968 President Yoshishige Miyazawa Head Office, Factory 7007 Sakaki, Sakaki-machi, Nagano, Japan 389-0601 En.wikipedia.org  Daimon is a town in Toyama prefecture, Japan. Toyama prefecture (???; Toyama-ken) is located in the Chubu region on Honshu island, Japan. The capital is city of Toyama. Toyama is leading industrial prefecture on the Japan-sea coast , and has industrial advantage "cheap electricity". The Itai-itai disease occurred in Toyama around 1950. www.mulino.it/daimon.htm The birth of Daimon is explained first and foremost with a simple reality, but full of consequences: the transformation of Italy into a multicultural and multi-religious country. Following a path common to all Western Europe, the map of religious affiliations and, even more, the common feeling towards religious phenomena is rapidly changing in Italy. This transformation has highlighted the superficiality of knowledge of religions and the almost total ignorance of their regulations: the first and most immediate objective of Daimon is therefore to provide a tool for understanding the rights of religions, in order to reconstruct and understand the new reality that is taking shape in Italy and Europe. daimon.us  DAIMON Logistics USA was founded in 2011 and giving reliable, trusted logistics services for more than 10 years. We think that our customers are also our partners and have to find best and fast solutions for their all logistics needs. www.daimonlogisticsbd.com  Daimon Logistics , a Bangladeshi freight forwarding and Logistics company was founded in 2012. Daimon carries out air and sea forwarding, consolidation services, project forwarding and sea- air, air-sea, CHB and Trucking connected transportations in import and export fields. We have our own office both Dhaka and Chittagong to serve our customers. www.searchdaimon.com  Searchdaimon is an open source search engine for corporate data and websites. It is as simple to use as your favorite Internet search engine, yet it has the added power of delivering results from numerous systems with standardised attribute navigation. Searchdaimon is easy to install, open and scalable. For those wishing to learn more about the topic, I suggest the following articles: Introduction to Daimonology Daimonology synthetic principles Great philosophy quotes Daimon Club organization Carl William Brown The teachings of Plato Plato complete works Essays with quotes Quotes by authors Quotes Read the full article

I think a lot about the element of A Little Life which is this pure focus on extremity - extremes of suffering and extremes of good fortune, right against one another, the agonizing descriptions of violence and physical suffering and psychological anguish right next the lavish extrapolations of immense love, tenderness, the materialities of beautiful objects and physical spaces.

My experience of the world is not so extreme as Jude's, in either direction. But the doubleness of those extremes in the novel express something crucial to me, something I struggle to countenance, and I come back to it often. I feel so eudaimon - in my beloved partner, in so many aspects of the life we get to live together - and at once such extreme violence has been done to my body [I am still unsteady with the number of times realization from last week], my mind holds such overwhelming and isolating experiences outside of consensus reality, and the anguish of all that does not fade next to all the joyful things and that rapture of them. How can they both be so true, and so much?

Outros Deuses e Seus Epítetos - Agathos Daimon, o Nobre Espírito.

Continuando nossa série de postagens sobre os Deuses, hoje focaremos em uma deidade peculiar e, principalmente para aqueles fora da religião, pouco conhecida integralmente. Falaremos hoje de um daimon muito importante -- Agathos Daimon, o Bom (Ou Nobre) Espírito!

Representado como um jovem com uma cornucópia ou como uma serpente, o Daimon é um espírito dito responsável pela prosperidade do lar, sua proteção e, no caso de locais com plantação, um guardião da boa colheita.

Em outra visão da mesma deidade, o Agathos Daimon também é descrito como um espírito atribuído a cada pessoa. Um daimon pessoal de cada um, capaz de guiar, ensinar e proteger, similar ao eudaimon descrito nos escritos de Platão. Era por vezes dito que o Agathos Daimon era o consorte de Tique, a Sorte, e por isso tinha domínio sobre nossa própria prosperidade.

Em termos de culto, o Agathos Daimon não era uma deidade com templos cívicos na maior parte da Hélade. Seu culto era de natureza doméstica quando acontecia, com libações simples dedicadas a ele.

Por vezes, o Daimon era sincretizada com diversos aspectos de Zeus, como o Zeus Meilichios (Zeus, o Afável) que era representado como uma serpente (uma representação ctônica) e Zeus Ktésios (Zeus dos Bens), onde era honrado com a feitura de um kathiskos -- um pequeno recipiente selado com azeite, comida, grãos e mel, dedicado mensalmente ao Deus do céu neste aspecto doméstico, invocando sua prosperidade.

Além de Zeus, os Deuses Baco e Hermes são alguns dos que levam a associação direta ao daimon, tendo-o como epítetos endereçados a si próprios. A forma de honrá-lo seria com uma libação no segundo dia do mês helênico, onde costumeiramente se derrama uma libação de vinho na terra para este espírito auxiliador.

Na região de Kemet (o Egito), o Agathos Daimon fora sincretizado com o Deus Sérapis e era cultuado em templos na era helenística principalmente. Sua origem é debatida mesmo nos tempos antigos, com Hesíodo afirmando em seu Os Trabalhos e os Dias, que os bons espíritos da "Era de Ouro" eram estes daimones que guiam os mortais.

Independendo da forma e origem, todos se complementam no aspecto benévolo do Agathos Daimon, tal é a nobreza de seu nome aqui. Estabelecer um vínculo com este espírito, faz parte de uma comum prática entre os politeístas helênicos modernos.

Por fim, encerramos o post com o Hino Órfico 73, que sincretiza o Agathos Daimon com o próprio Zeus: "Ao Daimon [Zeus]. A ti, poderoso governante Daimon temeroso, eu chamo, Zeus brando, doador de vida, e a fonte de tudo: grande Zeus, muito errante, terrível e forte, a quem vingança e torturas terríveis pertencem. A humanidade de ti em riqueza abundante abunda, quando em suas habitações alegres tu és encontrado; ou passa pela vida aflito e angustiado, os meios necessários de bem-aventurança por ti suprimidos. É só teu, dotado de poder ilimitado, para manter as chaves da tristeza e do deleite. Ó santo e abençoado pai, ouça minha oração, disperse as sementes do cuidado que consome a vida, com mente favorável aos ritos sagrados, e conceda à vida um final glorioso e abençoado.

I love seeing people travelling with their musical instruments on public transport. It's like Where art thou travelling, fine bard? Shall thou serenade me, o Eudaimon of the Arts, voice of the Gods on this Earth?

honestly as someone who's entered the void, i definitely think that the void is all that. OF COURSE it's ONLY all that bc of ourselves & i firmly believe we're the creator of our realities.

but as someone who's had a miserable life, i didn't even know where to start when i learned abt the void i made a list of everything that i wanted to change and I've persisted like crazy but it just seemed impossible. the void helped me with my self concept / my dream life and im so glad it did. and honestly WHO can be patient, who can actually do as easy as said and look inside ur 4d how life is actually like when yre confronted abt ur horrible life. ofc we care abt the shit and I'm not even mad many including me are like that. I'm not saying it's good to constantly cry over the 3d when it's all abt ur imagination but imagine how tired you'll start being after seeing ur fucking nightmare every time u wake up and you're just there like "okay but in my 4d I'm happy in a mansion eho cares if I'm being beaten up in my 3d fr 😹"

I'm just saying u guys need to stop using the word "victim mentality" & get upset when someone is reacting over their very reasonable 3d.

i don’t want to invalidate anyone’s feelings. it’s okay to react to the 3D, it’s okay to feel bad bc of what is happening outside. all those feelings are valid. but learning how to handle them is such an important skill. and that comes through truly acknowledging that you’re the creator and frankly you’re not doing that if you constantly rely on the 3D for validation.

for me, at least, manifesting isn’t about curing your sadness with getting things to appear in the 3D. it’s about acknowledging yourself as the creator and through that knowing you inwardly move towards eudaimonic happiness. your happiness shouldn’t be solely reliant on the 3D, if that’s the case, you’re still chained. to be free means to find happiness within, no matter the outer circumstances.

and that’s what being fixated at getting in the void does. it’s attractive because you could wake up with everything you want materialised. why does it have to be materialised for you to feel happiness? something being materialised doesn’t mean it’s now more real. it’s already real in your imagination. if you’re able to feel happiness just from imagining, if you’re able to accept it as yours, then it will inevitably show up in the physical anyway. but that doesn’t even matter bc you can feel all the bliss you want inside before it materialises. when you want something, you want it bc you want to feel the emotion attached to getting it. what’s stopping you from feeling it right now? a lot of people here don’t realise that in order to be free you must focus on the feeling not the “getting” , bc the feeling is the thing that you’re actually wanting, not the thing itself.

A eudaimonic lifestyle is an Islamic one, alhamdulillah.

Very Very Far Shot But...

I stumbled upon the concept of this today, and it, uh, struck me and my Dragalia-attuned (among other games) brain.

The word?

Eudaimonia (well, or 'eudaemonia' or even 'eudemonia'). As you might be able to surmise, it is Grecian.

Since it's a bit of a more complicated word in concept, here's snippets of both the good old Wikipedia and Encyclopaedia Britannica regarding it:

Closely following this is the more modern concept of eudaemonism, which is the school of thought that evaluates the worthiness of actions based on their capacity to produce happiness.

But wait, there's more!

There also was a concept of eudaimonias as actual spirits, a sort of guardian angel figure.

And, well. This all sounds vaguely familiar to Euden. He himself in Dragalia lore is something of a symbol of dragalia itself made manifest, creating the ultimate har-har in the game's title after the last chapter. Replace "Euden's dead" everytime you see "Dragalia Lost" and it's darkly amusing. What do you mean, in the game "Euden's dead, in the chapter "Euden's dead" Euden dies? Impossible!- But just as he reforms bridges between people and dragons, so too is Euden very concerned and involved with the flourishing of humanity in all stripes. As leader to New Alberia, he also serves something as a guiding figure for the people who chose to follow him, on both a literal 'big-picture, what do we even do' scale as well as a more personal one, as he pays attention to most every individual he meets.

There's also this snippet regarding the actual 'figure' of the eudaimon:

With dragons in Dragalia being essentially nature personified, 'mother nature bites back' champions of higher, more intangible powers and occasionally all but killable gods themselves with their might, it forms a neat sort of comparison with Euden, the intermediary between them and the 'lesser races' of humanity. Euden himself is already something of an intermediary between the divine and mortal, with the whole Xenos-Morsayati-Nedrick trifecta involved in his creation even if he is himself largely the same as most other human.

Of course, with the whole notion of Greek deified heroes entering the mix and their many ends in mythos, it adds another potential tie in, since, yeah. He dead (after performing supernatural feats).

Dragalia also possibly drew on Greek/Roman inspiration for others in his family so it might not be completely impossible. There's Leonidas, who was most notably a king of Sparta and has a few other little tidbits to him that make me wonder if they drew on him for inspiration, and Marcus Aurelius, who was noted as part of the "Last of the Five Good Emperors" in Ancient Rome, a noted militaristic society like Alberia's. That almost reminds me of Aurelius' status in the main campaign, where he ruled as King for very long and further helped Alberia prosper before it all started going downhill.

So...yeah. Euden as a possible literal manifestation of a eudaemon, eudaemonia and/or eudaemonist himself, anyone?

Fairly certain that “daimon” refers to your own personal spirit/god that watched over you. That’s where we get the term to be in good spirits, eudaimon with the prefix “eu” to mean good or ideal. This is what I learned when taking Ancient Greek/getting a classics degree a few years back

It meant that! It was also used to refer to ghosts, and domestic spirits, and genus loci though. I think the best definition I could give would be "An entity of similar nature to both gods and mortals."

100 Q's For Thom Pt. 2/10

11. List five of your favorite songs, and five of your human’s favorite songs: Neither of us can even start that process

12. Who was the last person you talked to, other than your human? Kit of Cayde

13. If you could change one thing about your human, what would it be? I’d want her to be kinder to herself.

14. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be? Nothing, I’m perfect

15. Are you affectionate? Only if I like you

16. Are you introverted, extroverted, or in-between? Very extroverted

17. Do you like to meet other daemons? I do

18. Do you have any friends, excluding your human? A few

19. What do you do during a conflict? Express what Em cannot

20. Are you happy with the amount of time you are projected currently? Extremely. Nearly always

Daimon origin and meanings

Daimon origin and meanings Daimon origin and meanings, character and destiny, the history of etymology and evolution of the concept, from the ancient Greece of Socrates and Plato to Hillman's psychology and Brown's methodology. "... We refuse to establish a principled opposition between the two sets of etiological factors (constitutional and accidental), but admit that they always act together in the production of the observed effect. Daimon kai tuke (natural heritage and fate) decide the fate of a man; rarely, if ever, a single one of these forces." Sigmund Freud (1912): Dynamics of translation. Perhaps he could have chosen in the best way, but his Daimon was not so reliable, moreover Dada doubted everything, and for this reason he almost never knew how to make the most appropriate choice, however he enjoyed trying, not without a certain nostalgic and melancholic suffering. Carl William Brown Of the celestial stars I will invoke the sacred splendor with voices conforming to the rite, calling the demons holy. Orphic hymns, Scent of the stars-aromas Ethos anthropoi daimon. (Character is destiny.) Heraclitus Character is destiny, that is, our life is closely linked to our behavior and vice versa. Carl William Brown The daimon that forces us, with need, to take the way: the little individual god, the Shiva within. Carl Gustave Jung The soul always metaphorizes. Plotinus A demon from ancient Greek δαίμων, trasl. dáimōn, "divine being" is a being who stands halfway between what is divine and what is human. In religious culture it acts as an obstacle between these two dimensions, in Greek philosophy, it acts as an intermediary between man and the divine. According to Welcker, the term daimon is one of the oldest principles of Greek philosophy.

The Daimon that forces us In Hesiod, who lived between the eighth and seventh centuries BC, the demon is the post-mortem state assumed by the beings of the first golden generation: "Then, after the earth this race had covered, they are, by the will of the great Zeus, propitious demons, who are on earth, guardians of mortals, and observing the judgments of justice and wicked deeds, clothed in foggy air, everywhere prowling the earth, dispensers of riches: this royal privilege they possess." Hesiod Then the first generation, the aura living at the time of Cronus, disappeared overwhelmed by sleep, Zeus then transformed them into demons, "guardians of mortals", protectors of mankind. In the Orphic religion the demon is the very essence of the soul, imprisoned in the body for a guilt committed and from which it tries to free itself. Heraclitus (fifth century BC) speaks of it as a destiny linked to nature: "The character of a man is his daimon". Socrates Socrates refers to a dàimon or "divine guide" who often assists him in his every decision. It would be a sort of "moral conscience" that is progressively revealed as a form of divine delirium and inspiration, a voice identifiable as the authentic nature of the human soul, its rediscovered self-awareness. According to Plato's testimony, the daimon of which Socrates speaks consists in fact of a divine presence, similar to a tutelary genius, which is felt in him through signs to stimulate his reason to execute the most suitable choice, but not so much to induce him to perform certain actions, but rather to divert him: "There is within me I know nothing but divine and demonic spirit; the one of which even Meleto, joking about it, wrote in the indictment. And it is like a voice that I have had inside since I was a child; which, whenever it makes me heard, always dissuades me from something I am about to do, and never makes me proposals." Apology of Socrates, 31 d Through the daimon Socrates thus manages to express the highest degree of his typical irony even in the religious dimension.

Eros is a great Daimon The interpreters were for the most part very disconcerted and gave the Socratic daimonion very disparate exegesis. Someone believed they could cut the question in the trunk, putting entirely into account the Socratic irony and its inventiveness the whole thing of the daimonion; others have understood this very peculiar Socratic experience in a psychiatric key, so to speak, that is, as a fact of a psychopathic nature; others, more moderately, have reduced it to the voice of conscience, or to the feeling of the convenient, or to the feeling that pervades genius; And the examples could be multiplied, up to modern interpretations in a psychoanalytic key or inspired by psychoanalysis. In truth, these are scholars who do not believe in the religious fact and resolve and dissolve it in a positivistic or rationalistic or psychological or psychoanalytic way and who, consequently, irreparably misrepresent what is peculiar in the experience of the Socratic daimonion. First of all, it should be noted that daimonion is a neutral, and that therefore (and on this the interpreters of positivistic or rationalistic extraction have reason to insist) does not indicate a demon-person, that is, a personal being (a kind of angel or genius), but a fact or event or divine phenomenon: in fact never, neither in Plato nor in Xenophon, The daimonion is called "Demon", but it is called "sign" and "divine voice". Having clarified this, however, it is immediately to be noted the following: a) expressly Socrates, in Plato's Apology, connects the "divine sign" with the demons, explaining that, to the extent that he believes in "demonic things", he believes in the demons and therefore in the Gods, from which the demons derive b) moreover, just as expressly, he connects him with God himself, saying without the possibility of equivocation that the sign and the voice he heard within himself were a sign of God and the voice of God. Now, all Greekness has considered demons intermediaries between gods and men and it is highly probable, not to say certain, that this was also the belief of Socrates. For the Greek, it was not easy to think of an immediate contact or relationship of God with man, and the pluralistic conception of the divine, which, as we have seen, even shared Socrates, led in itself to think about the relationship between God and man through the intermediary of demons. The "divine sign" therefore had to come to Socrates through a demon, however he avoided this word and it is not correct (as many do) to translate certainly daimonion with demon, because, in doing so, it makes explicit what Socrates deliberately left in the indeterminate: he, in fact, preferred to stick to what he felt in himself and to qualify this phenomenon as divine, without deepening the way in which it took place and for what mediation. Continuing our analysis we must conclude that the real meaning of the "daimon" for Socrates has been variously interpreted: with this term, according to Paolo De Bernardi, he seemed to indicate the authentic nature of the human soul, its newfound self-awareness. While for Gregory Vlastos the dáimon sent its signs in order to stimulate the reason of Socrates to make the most suitable choice. Giovanni Reale following Vlastos believes that the dáimon in Socrates expressed the highest degree of Socratic irony also in the religious dimension. However, the authors agree that in the Socratic conception the element of interiority referred to eudemonia was prevalent, that is, happiness, inner serenity was the effect of a rational behavior directed to virtue. This is the so-called ethical intellectualism of Socrates who maintained that the only possible cause of evil was ignorance of the good "I know instead that committing injustice and disobeying those who are better than us, god or man, is ugly and bad. Therefore, in the face of evils that I know to be evil, I will not fear and I will never flee those that I do not know if they are also goods." but once the good was known, it was not possible to refrain from acting morally by realizing the good that was in itself "pleasant" as it generated eudemonia, the serenity of the soul.

Daimon is our destiny Eudaimonism "Eudemonism. Every doctrine that assumes happiness as the principle and foundation of the moral life." Nicola Abbagnano placeholder image The term Daimon also appears central to eudemonism, that is, the moral doctrine that placing the good in happiness (eudaimonia) pursues it as a natural end of human life. From eudemonism must be distinguished hedonism which proposes as the end of human action the "attainment of immediate pleasure" understood as enjoyment (as the Cyrenaic school of Aristippus thought) or as the absence of pain (according to the Epicurean conception). The term derives from the Greek  - εὐδαιμονισμός - (eudaimonismòs), from - εὐδαιμονία - (eudaimonìa), composed of good (εὖ èu) and spirit guide-fate (δαίμων dàimōn), a term also associated with "divine being", "genius", "spirit guide"' or "conscience". In a broad sense, "eudemonia" means "to be in the company of a good spirit". Emilio Lledò, professor of History of Philosophy at the Universidad Central of Barcelona, responds on the research around the good, the good existence, in Greek philosophy and explains the concept of eudaimonia, whose semantic field in Greek is wider than that of "happiness" in Italian. According to his etymology, this word refers to a conception according to which happiness depends rather on the benevolence (eu) of the daimon than on the autonomous action of man. Lledò refers here in particular to Aristotle, who after having, in Book I of the Nicomachean Ethics, put in close relationship the pursuit of good with the search for happiness and virtue, returns to another place of the same treatise (L. IX, 9, 1169 b) to refute the adage that "he who has a good daimon does not need friends". Returning to the deep meaning of the term in question and to the character related to the personal Daimon by Heraclitus and then also by Freud, I feel I am very close to Aristotle who believed that each individual was endowed with a particular vocation, a special inclination, I could add a more or less creative genius, that he called "daimon". For the undersigned, therefore, everyone has his own Daimon that must be protected, studied, deepened, researched, perfected, cultivated, and put in close relationship and communication with the most intimate, intellectual and spiritual part of our person. Let's also say that it is a symbolic and metaphorical element that characterizes us and that should push us towards good and therefore a constant improvement, or towards more problematic experiences and perhaps harmful to ourselves, which is why in this case it would be a negative Daimon, which instead of helping us to feel better, would do its best to make us feel worse. In any case, the Daimon always identifies with ourselves and is obviously not an element external to our individuality. Plato and Xenocrates In Plato the demon Eros, son of Penia and Porus, is that demonic force that allows man to rise towards the supersensible. Thus in Plato's Symposium the teaching on Eros imparted by Diotima to Socrates is narrated: "Eros is a great demon, O Socrates: for all that is demonic is intermediate between God and mortal. It has the power to interpret and bring to the gods the things that come from men and to men the things that come from the gods: of men the prayers and sacrifices, of the gods, instead, the commands and rewards of sacrifices. And standing between them, it works a completion, so that the whole is well connected with itself." Plato, Symposium 202, G-D A fundamental idea, inherent in the name itself, that Plato helped to spread is precisely that of the Daimon. "Daimonia kaina" literally means "new divine (creatures)". The daimonion spoken of in the Apology is the neutral adjective that comes from daimon (from daiomai: pantry, do in lote), a divine creature not necessarily malevolent, who presides over the fate of men, a kind of tutelary genius, a spirit that advises and directs us, and that stimulates us to reflect, without imposing its decisions on us. A daimon is contained in the word eudaimonia (happiness), which means, etymologically, something like: "a good daimon rules my destiny". The daimon is the divine creature who presides over the destiny of each one. In Er's story, the daimon does not happen to be a lot, but is the object of a choice. Freedom of choice makes virtue "without a master", unlike what happened in traditional morality, where this was the prerogative of a well-determined social figure, the aristos, or in any case of an extremely small group.

The Socratic Daimon In another dialogue, The Symposium, Plato describes demons as messengers of the divine will and beings of contact between mortals and gods: It is thanks to the demonic element that divination and the practices of priests could have taken place, in relation to things that have to do with sacrifices, initiation rites, spells, different prophecies and magic. (202E-203A) With Xenocrates the figure of the demon taken from Plato's work is analyzed. The demons for Xenocrates are always intermediary beings between men and gods, they are more powerful than men but less than gods. Unlike the latter who are always good, among the demons there are also bad ones. When the ancient myths tell of divinities fighting each other involved in human passions they, for Xenocrates, speak of demons not gods. Demons have a prominent place both in acts of worship and in oracles. The demons finally correspond to human souls freed from bodies after death, remaining in them the conflict between good and evil, they transfer it from the Earth to the celestial world. The same theses of Xenocrates can be found in the text De deo Socratis by Apuleius. Stoicism Even the Stoics maintain the existence of demons as beings who watch over men by sharing their feelings. Thus Diogenes Laertius: "The Stoics say, then, that there are also some demons who have sympathy for men, who watch over human affairs, and also that there are heroes, that is, the surviving souls of the virtuous." Diogenes Laërtius, Lives and Doctrines of the Illustrious Philosophers Book VII, 151 Marcus Aurelius indicates as a demon the intellectual soul that must be cared for and deprived of disturbances: "Moreover, there remains the care not to sully the demon that has taken up residence in our breast, the care not to disturb it with confused and manifold impressions; to keep him serene and kind, giving him ritual and honor as to a God; and say nothing that is contrary to the truth; do nothing against justice." Marcus Aurelius, Conversations with Himself Book III, 16 Middle and Neo-Platonism With medioplatonism the figure of the demon is characterized in an increasingly articulated way and is inserted as the third aspect of the hierarchy of the divine after the supreme god and the secondary gods. Thus Plutarch: "Plato, Pythagoras, Xenocrates, Chrysippus, followers of the primitive writers of sacred things, affirm that the Demons are endowed with superhuman strength, indeed they far surpass our nature by extension of power, but they do not possess, moreover, the pure and uncontaminated divine element, but participate, at the same time, in a double fate, as to a spiritual nature and bodily sensation, so it welcomes pleasure and labor; And this mixed element is precisely the source of the disturbance, greater in some, lesser in others. So it is that even among demons, no more and no less than among men, differences arise in the gradation of good and evil." Plutarch, Isis and Osiris, 25 Alexander of Aphrodisias argues that the daimon of every man consists in his own nature. In Neoplatonism, Plotinus entrusts to the "daimon that has befallen us by lot" the task of guiding us in the ascent to the suprasensible, through the power of eros and beauty. Since conscious and purely logical thought is not enough, it is also a mystical inspiration, the spark of a divine spirit thanks to which it is possible to rise from the material to the intelligible dimension. According to Porphyry, Plotinus himself was assisted "by one of these demons who are close to the gods".

Daimon origin and evolution Change of meaning Subsequently, the negative use gave the Christian vocabulary the term to designate the evil spirit (devil), becoming from then on the object of study of demonology. In positive terms, however, the meaning of daimon can be compared in some ways to the guardian angel, or to the notion of tutelary guide or genius. Renaissance philosophers loved to compare the texts of Plato and Aristotle with Arabic astrology with the precise purpose of investigating on themselves the spiritual meaning of the Daimon of birth, a mysterious force from which character, vocation and fortune originate. Interpreting Mercury, the Sun or Mars on the ascendant of birth meant in fact being predisposed to exercise some bodily talents over others, or certain mental abilities over others. Those who had the female planets on the point of the zodiac where the sun rose could instead expand the qualities of the soul, namely perception, intuition and sensory awareness, essential qualities to become artists, poets and court jesters. The Greek term Daimon means genius, spirit guide, divine power, and also, inferior deity or deified hero, but not only, in fact the verb expressed by this word also meant to divide, distribute, share, share and the suffix "from" was common to words such as democracy, demiurge and other terms that derived from the name "demos" ie people, And perhaps this is why he was never looked upon favorably by the official power, which did not want to share its privileges and saw in the genius of criticism the devil of evil. Thus Satan was born from genius, for Carducci "the vindex force of reason", for Baudelaire "le plus savant et le plus beau des anges". Carl William Brown "Before birth, the soul of each of us chooses an image or design that we will then live on earth, and receives a tutelary spirit to guide us, a daimon, which is unique and typical of us. However, in coming into the world, we forget all this and believe that we have come empty. Read the full article

Race design for the Eudaimon Bloodline in My Cute Vampir. They are known as the Joutunn, giant Demons of immense stature. Unlike other bloodlines each Eudaimon Bloodline splits into sub-species that are relaxed but have such a different morphism that they are classified as a different species within the Bloodline.

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Agathos Daimon

First, what is a Daimon?

In general a Daimon is simply a term the ancient Greeks used for spirits, and they have nothing to do with the Christian demons. In fact, there were both benevolent daimons (Eudaimon) and malevolent daimons (Kakodaimon.) They were somewhat of an inbetween of mortals and Gods; semi-divine beings. They were not as powerful as the Theoi, but more so then a mortal. It was believed that one could not speak directly to the Gods, and it was daimons that were the intermediary, the messengers for us to the Gods. 

There were two types: the Golden Daimon, and the Silver Daimon. Golden Daimon were a race of humans that lived during the golden age, and were transformed into daimon after death. They ruled the skys, and granted good harvest to those who were good and just. Silver Daimon were the second generation of humans to be transformed into daimon, less powerful to their golden counterparts and ruling over the earth. They had less authority over mankind, but their influence was still strong. Kakodaimon come from this silver generation, less pure beings that abused their power over us.

So then what is an Agathos Daimon, and why are we celebrating Him?

Agathos Daimon roughly translates to “good spirit” or “noble spirit.” Originally, He was a daimon seen as the protecter of vineyards and cornfields, and said to bring good luck and protection. He was the companion to Tyche, but was also associated with Dionysos, or even seen as just an aspect of Zeus Ktesios. It was custom to drink or pour out a few drops of unmixed wine in honor of Him during every symposium or formal banquet. Libations were also poured if one crossed paths with a snake, creatures heavily associated with Him, on the road.

He was later adapted into a more general type of daimon that presided over a household, looking over the house and it’s inhabitants, as well as the pantry and food of the house, and bringing good luck and protection. Some accounts say that everyone had their own guiding Agathos Daimon. These Daimons were typically depicted as either a snake or as a young man holding a cornicopia.

No matter which belief you hold, The Agathos Daimon is a bringer of protection and fortune to our food, our homes, and our loved ones, so it’s no wonder as to why they were celebrated so frequently.

What is the holiday associated with Him, and how can you celebrate?

On the second day of the month, immediately following Noumenia, A day dedicated specifically to the household and spirits that protected it were held. It was the last of a trio of holidays that closed out the previous month and opened up the new one. Unlike Noumenia, the holiday preceding this one, its releatively simple. 

As stated above, it’s traditional to offer a libation of unmixed wine to the Agathos Daimon. You could take the time after dinner(or really during/after any feast or formal party) to pour a libation to Agathos Daimon. On this day, pray to him for His continued granting of fortune and protection to you and your household. If you have something specific to ask him for, now would be the time to ask(maybe with an extra offering as well.) 

If this is your first time reaching out to the spirit, take the time to introduce yourself as well! Sit with Him for a little, maybe tell Him about yourself. Although, if it’s not your first time, that shouldn’t stop you from chatting with Him either, especially about matters of the home.

If you don’t have one already, you could build a small altar to him. Decorate it with things you associate with good luck, and abundance, as well as snakes. If you don’t want to build a brand new altar, or don’t have the space, decorating your pre-existing altar with things that you associate with good luck on this day would also work. 

Although this day is mostly dedicated to Agathos Daimon, you could also set aside time to say a prayer and make an offering to Zeus Ktesios. Especially since the two are heavily associated, and some even see Agthos Daimon as an aspect of Zeus. If you have a Kathiskos*, you can refill it today in honor of him(after cleaning it out on Hekate’s Deipnon or Noumenia.)

Agathos Daimon is a relatively simple holiday, but an incredibly important one. Creating a bond with The Agathos Daimon will be a priceless connection, one that will bring much abundance, love, and protection into your life.

Sources: Golden Daemones - Theoi.com  Silver Daemones - Theoi.com Daemon - Mythology.net Agathos Daimon - Hellenion Agathodaemon - Wikipedia  Agathos Daimon - Patheos.com

Other links: *Kathiskos - Hellenion

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