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skvlldonotcry · 6 months
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kittybangx · 9 months
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Goodnight 😘
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vanillabloodart - unholy (DeviantArt)
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booknerd693 · 24 days
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Just a little tutorial with some of my crafting and worship supplies. Nature has the best elements for worship. I worship Satan, I worship Nature, I worship myself, someday my neighbors will understand that.
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churchofsatannews · 30 days
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Satansplain #057 – Satanic Symbols (Pentacle vs. Pentagram, Inverted Crosses, 666)
Addressing some of the more annoying misinformation out there on Satanic symbols: pentacles vs. pentagrams (no, it’s not as simple as which way it points), along with inverted crosses and the number 666 (yes, Satanists can use these). Satansplain #057 – Satanic Symbols (Pentacle vs. Pentagram, Inverted Crosses, 666)
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Wanna be with you in the sweet lights and the moonlight. 🍭
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infernal-werwolf · 2 months
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𝕯𝖆𝖗𝖐𝖓𝖊𝖘𝖘 ⛧ 𝖂𝖆𝖑𝖐 𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖍 𝖒𝖊
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As the wretched spirits walk by
Black ballpoint pen drawing, 2014
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femondoetus · 6 months
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insomnia 🌷 by 👁‍🗨 Arkestar
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insipid-drivel · 1 year
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Inverted crosses and crucifixes are not “iconic symbols of Satanism”!!!
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The above image? 100% holy. Totally canonical. Has absolutely NOTHING to do with Satan, Lucifer, or “The Devil”. It’s called the Petrine Cross aka The Cross of Saint Peter and is a symbol of piety, humility, deference, and martyrdom particularly to Jesus Christ (not necessarily his other canonical phases of existence) and his relationship with the Pope. It’s also one of the symbols most closely associated with The Pope.
It is one of the main reasons I can’t take exorcist and demon-themed horror movies seriously ever. Not because I’m a polytheistic soul-selling Bandrui (those things are true but they’re not why), but because it’s a continuity error! A hilarious one if you think about it! The demon is just showing how much the characters really don’t understand about the religion they’re espousing in the movie!
So, why would St. Peter be associated with something that, for all intents and purposes, we visually associate with something that is backwards from Christianity or whatever “holiness” means? Because, like Jesus, St. Peter was also crucified, or at least that is the version of St. Peter’s story that is considered most canonical. In truth, stories about St. Peter that still exist date back only as late as 200 AD with the apocryphal “Acts of Peter”. Whether or not the upside down part of the story was canonical hasn’t been determined with any real certainty, but it was the version told by this guy:
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Origen of Alexandria! Origen was largely considered one of the greatest early Christian luminaries, scholars, philosophers, poets, and all-around book nerds and is the primary source for the whole “St. Peter was crucified upside down” story, inspiring Renaissance masterworks like this little number by Caravaggio:
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“Crucifixion Of Saint Peter”
Origen’s popularized telling of the tragic demise of St. Peter makes a big deal about the story-canonical feature that St. Peter insisted upon being crucified upside-down because he didn’t feel worthy to emulate the same, now-iconic crucifixion of Jesus.
So how did the Petrine Cross become a symbol associated with Satanism?
France.
Well, not all of it, but France was involved. In the early 19th century, a cult leader by the name of Eugène Vintras insisted that he was the reincarnation of the Prophet Elijah. Aside from that, he also practiced necromancy (which is the art of cavorting with DEMONS, not corpses for the love of my blackened, shriveled occultist heart) and was commonly seen wearing robes and symbols depicting the Petrine Cross.
In comes This Guy:
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Éliphas Lévi was another famous 19th century French Occultist (after leaving the Catholic priesthood when he was in his 20′s to get drunk and listen to metal or something) who took one look at, and presumably all surviving sketches of  Eugène Vintras, saw his regalia of Petrine crosses, and wrote the literally-damning words that for wearing his inverted crosses, Vintras’ satanic leanings were obvious.
After Éliphas Lévi wrote about Vintras’ wearing of the Petrine Cross and Satanic preferences, the inverted cross gradually became more and more associated with anti-religion movements and, of course, Satanism. The final nail in the Apocryphal Iconography Crucifixion came in the 1960′s-1980′s with the dawn of the horror movie franchise and the rise of the Satanic Panic, a mass hysteria movement that had to be debunked by the FBI where young people and children were convinced by their therapists during hypnotherapy sessions that they had been the subjects of Satanic rituals at the hands of the parents/guardians at very young ages that never happened, destroyed families, left countless people traumatized. FBI agent Kenneth Lanning went on to publish what’s commonly referred to as “The Lanning Report” to debunk the claims of abuse and lambast the therapist that started the panic in the first place.
If you want to really rock like a Satanist, consider donating stuff like feminine hygiene products to your local Planned Parenthood ;)
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brightvoid · 9 days
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miasmavice · 2 years
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Fucking legends. Mercyful Fate.
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