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Massive fuck you to everyone who is talking about Palestinians as if we’re already all dead and sharing more solidarity with our corpses than us living. “We will never forget the beautiful Palestinian people-“ how about you stop “making peace” with Palestinian extermination. My people are not going to be forgotten because we are going to live. Palestinians have already survived one genocide and have been surviving one ever since.

Do not ever let the idea that all Palestinians are going to die exist in your mind. Mourn the dead, fight like hell for the living.

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🇵🇸🍉 Free Palestine 🍉🇵🇸

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“Hamas shouldn’t have attacked”

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The Israeli genocide of Palestinians has been ongoing for 70 years.

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"A Child’s View from Gaza" was an art exhibition showcasing drawings created by the children of Gaza.

"The captioned illustrations were created by Palestinian children who lived through the Israeli bombardment of Gaza in 2008-09. The pictures were drawn as part of an effort to help children deal with the horrors they had experienced. A Bay Area nonprofit, Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA), arranged to display a collection of these pictures at the Museum of Children’s Art in Oakland, California. However, under pressure from the Jewish Federation of the East Bay and other organizations, the museum backed out of the agreement at the last minute."

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The world continues to look on

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You see this at the end of every empire

When France left Vietnam they poisoned the wells and burned down any buildings they could

In Indonesia the Dutch killed civilians as they retreated from the newly liberated country

When the British army left India they stole everything they could carry on the way out

Western imperialism can't stand seeing their colonial dreams fail, and they always show their true colours by massacring civilians out of spite

Israel will fail too. Just like the rest.

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Annie Lennox at the Grammys during a performance dedicated to Sinéad O'Connor, "Artists for ceasefire. Peace in the world."

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Keep in mind northern Gaza has been isolated for months and people there have been made to starve with no access to water or adequate aid. This is one example, another example was Israel shooting and killing Palestinians who were attempting to get aid when it did arrive in the area. Not to forget the insane scene of unhinged Israelis literally blocking aid trucks from entering Gaza, some saying that this war is only lasting this long because aid keeps going in....

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This is Bisan Owda (@wizard_bisan1 on IG), she's a young journalist who's been documenting the daily life in Gaza, Palestine since before October of last year and continues to do so now, as her and her family have been displaced by Israel, her home and workplace destroyed in the bombings. If you don't already follow her, I highly suggest to do so, as she takes interviews from the local people in the refugee camps and provides a fantastic insight into Palestinians as a nation, their culture and the horrors they face under the Israeli apartheid regime in their own land.🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

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FINALLY SOME GOOD NEWS

(Free Palestine 🇵🇸)

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reblog to kill him faster

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smacked right in the mouth

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So I have been wanting to do more research on the Lares, Penates and Manes. This leads to a few questions. 1) What are the Lares? Some sources seem to say that they too are ancestors others say they are not, what is your opinion (if any)? 2) Do you have any sources that you know of on any of these entities? 3) Do you have any suggestions on how to better add them to my worship? Thank you, I appreciate you for all you do!

Salve, Anon!

1) Lares are protective spirits of the household. I don’t think they were seen as ancestors as much as ancestral, considering that household statues and the actual household may have passed from one generation to another. I don’t think anyone knows for certain, but someone setting up a new household and buying new statues for their lararium might have considered their lares to be the same familiar protective spirits they knew from their childhood home. 

2) The bibliographies of these texts are also great resources: 

Flower, Harriet I. The Dancing Lares and the Serpent in the Garden: Religion at the Roman Street Corner. Princeton University Press, 2017.

Laing, Gordon. “The Origin of the Cult of the Lares.” Classical Philology, vol. 16, no. 2, 1921, pp. 124–140. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/262829. (X)

Sofroniew, Alexandra. Household Gods: Private Devotion in Ancient Greece and Rome. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2015. 

Waites, Margaret C. “The Nature of the Lares and Their Representation in Roman Art.” American Journal of Archaeology, vol. 24, no. 3, 1920, pp. 241–261. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/497689. (X)

3) If you don’t have one, you could make or buy a lararium for your home - see my #lararium tag for ideas. I make daily offerings of wine and salt to our lares.  In ancient times, the lararium was decorated with flowers on holidays and special offerings were made. 

Hope this helps!

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Vegan Libum Cake Recipe

For offerings at the lararium, specially to Janus.

You will need: one cup flour, one quarter cup applesauce (plain or cinnamon) or one mashed banana, a pinch of salt, six bay leaves, agave nectar (optional).

The original recipe in De Agricultura by Cato (75) calls for cheese, but you can substitute anything you’d like. Frances Bernstein’s Classical Living recommends cream cheese for this recipe.  There are several brands of vegan cream cheese on the market, but I have no idea if they bake well.  Maybe you can just spread it on top of the cake once it’s baked?  Personally, I prefer to keep it simple and skip the substitute.  Bernstein’s recipe calls for 16 ounces of whatever cream cheese you’d like to add in.  She also recommends drizzling the cakes with honey afterward, but if you prefer not to use honey, you can substitute fair trade agave nectar, which is what I do.

Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.  Mix together flour, applesauce/banana, and salt until smooth.  Prepare and oil a cookie sheet.  Oil and place the bay leaves on the cookie sheet first.  Then roll the dough into six two-inch balls and press each of them onto one bay leaf.  This method makes sure the leaf stays stuck to the cake once you turn them over after baking.  Bake for 25-30 minutes, turn over so the bay leaf shows on top, and then cool.  Drizzle agave or another sweetener on top as desired.

Frances Bernstein, Ph.D., Classical Living: Reconnecting with the Rituals of Ancient Rome (2000), p. 18. 

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