POV: A sovereignty goddess is geasing you

#DarkSouls #DarkSouls3 You may rest here too, if you’d like.

In preparation for my talk in May on Spinoza and atheism, I've been gathering historical artworks depicting atheists, and I've made some great discoveries so far

He’s an alien because he’s not a real god. He’s a hoax made in the 1970s who the author claimed was represented by shakoku dogu. In Kaneko’s new game, he still appears as a dogu, then this alien design breaks out for the boss battle.

Ranni the Witch, Age of stars woven crewneck 🌑

Two FromSoftware demiurges. Yaldabaoth in all but name. Given form by women who are bound and blinded, the punishment for Sophias everywhere.

Elden Ring: The Nature of Stars & the Celestial Mechanics of Fate ununtrium.medium.com/elden-ring-the…

Found "Civil War" rather uninspiring, but "Men" and "Annihilation" are the right register and give me confidence Garland might know what he's doing.

Minoan snake goddess figurine from the Palace of Knossos, Crete, c. 1600 BC, currently housed in the Heraklion Archaeological Museum on Crete.

Cholly Mistletoe

In Ireland, Midsummer's Eve bonfires were known as "tine cnaimh" or "bone fires" 🔥🦴🔥 Fires lit to ward off evil spirits would have the bones of animals cast into the flames as offerings in order to ensure a good harvest season 🌾☀️ The ashes of the fire would be brought to

「さまざまな宗教的イメージでは、樹の根は人間の髪の毛に喩えられるが、東シベリアのシャーマンでも同様である。シャーマンの樹はナカッセNakassäと呼ばれ、その幹の下端に顔が刻みこまれており、その根は髪を意味している」（ルルカー）。

そうであってみれば、倒立した樹は西方にあってはいわば伝統的な表象である。したがって「ある程度カバラに通じてい」るウィグネル（これはユングの言い草）が「人間が自分の頭髪を根として楽園に植えつけられているという奇妙な観念を「雅歌」7章5節……によって裏づけて」も何ら突飛なことではない。

albi ⭐️🌊 The only other time you see it is on the collector’s edition where it’s made clear it’s the sails of the long ship on his skirt.

Everdark Fulghor and Johfra Bosschart's Sagittarius #NIGHTRIEGN

The Crucible as Elden Ring's Body without Organs. A gradient of pure potential, bursting with bright mutations.

Schliemann decking his wife in archeological drip from the Troy digsite would be kinda iconic if it wasn’t so insanely unethical lol