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graveyarddirt · 14 hours

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Armed & Ready [2024]

Hindsight’s 20/20, which is why I normally take a photo of birthday and winter holiday gifts as I’ve often found they provide divinatory hints about the year ahead.

(Armed and ready for 44. 💪)

see also: #altar, #birthday

#today's ~orthodox birthday~#meant to celebrate #but had to get the hexennacht altar up #b/c holy week & easter are a-comin'#diary

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graveyarddirt · 20 hours

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#lol

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Earth Day [2024]

i will sing about the mother of all, the well-founded and eldest who feeds all creatures as many as they are, all that move on the trusty land, and all in the sea, and all that fly, all these are fed from her wealth. - faun, 'gaia' [homeric hymn 30]

Intermittent rain cancelled Earth Day's plant crime this year (digging up wild cherry suckers), but it was just dry enough to shuffle out into garden and snap some photos of previous heists.

Pink Columbine (Aquilegia vulgaris, 'Winky Rose-Rose'). Origin: local pedestrian walkway btwn homes. Propagation method: transplanted.

Tuberous Comfrey (Symphytum tuberosum). Origin: 18th century rural graveyard. Propagation method: transplanted.

Solomon's Seal (Polygonatum multiflorum). Origin: local woodland footpath btwn homes. Propagation method: transplanted.

Bicolor Monkshood (Aconitum x cammarum). Origin: lochside holy grounds. Propagation method: transplanted.

Blackcurrant (Ribes nigrum). Origin: 13th century local graveyard. Propagation method: cutting.

Redcurrant (Ribes rubrum). Origin: ancient royal forest. Propagation method: cutting.

Gooseberry (Ribes uva-crispa). Origin: 18th century rural graveyard & cairn of indeterminate age. Propagation method: cutting.

Black Poplar (Populus nigra). Origin: local public park (this is one of Marena's 2021 vernal guards). Propagation method: cutting.

Black Elder (Sambucus nigra). Origin: Peck-Man's birthplace (a local rookery). Propagation method: cutting.

see also: #garden, #plant crime

#plant crimes #diary

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graveyarddirt · 20 hours

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Art Deco Aphrodite and Venus by Erté aka Romain De Tirtoff, detail.

#Aphrodite #Venus #Erte #doves

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graveyarddirt · 22 hours

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The Saffron Goddess (1600 B.C.) is a detail from a Minoan fresco depicting a saffron harvest, Akrotiri, Santorini island, Greece

#saffron

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graveyarddirt · 22 hours

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I don't think it really "means" anything, but I think it's kind of interesting that a lot of human societies have been quite squeamish about sex—in particular viewing it as a worldly pleasure which is gross, sinful, or unvirtuous to engage in—while generally not feeling squeamish about eating in the same way.

I think this is interesting because, conceptually, sex is actually pretty tame. It is (or at least should be) pleasurable for both parties, it's connected with both romantic love and the creation of new life (things which people generally valorize), etc. Obviously I understand the practical reasons why cultures might frown on unrestrained expression of sexuality in a world without birth control, but on a purely conceptual level sex seems pretty wholesome all around.

On the other hand, eating is rather disturbing as an idea, isn't it? Eating necessarily involves killing—even eating plants. As heterotrophs we literally cannot eat anything without ending life in order to do it. And of course most people now and throughout history have eaten meat, which means that eating involves slaughter. It's a gruesome thing; the pleasure we take from food is intimately and inherently tied to death. Eating is an act of destruction which is necessary to nourish the physical body. Surely this should be regarded, by the sorts of people inclined to the idea, as the greatest symbol of the fallen nature of the material world as compared to the spiritual. Surely it is hunger and not lust that should be the archetype of sinful material desire.

While ascetics of various backgrounds do seem to have mentioned gluttony (it is after all one of the seven deadly sins), my impression is that usually lust is a much greater concern for them. Why? Because lust is more tempting, a greater threat? I don't think so. I think it's because food is more tempting. Because you can go a lifetime without sex if you actually decide to, but a few days without food and your brain will basically shut down your capacity for higher reasoning and make you eat. Even when desire for food is railed against, it is generally merely excessive desire (gluttony), and not, as with lust, desire-at-all (hunger). I think only the most hardcore Buddhist monks take umbrage with hunger. Because lust is small potatoes; hunger has us all in its thrall. No matter how pacifistic we think ourselves to be, hunger drives us to kill and kill and kill. Isn't there a little more inherent horror in that than in, uh, people having sex?

At least the Jains seem to have taken the inherent-horror-in-eating stuff seriously.

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