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Egyptian gods - The Ennead, Seth

To begin this brief and synthetized exploration of the deities and myths of Ancient Egypt, what better start than with the villain of the Ennead, the evil (but quite nuanced) antagonist of the Osirian myth – I am talking, of course, of everybody’s favorite hated god, Seth.

Seth is often compared to Hades from Greek mythology because both are “gods that keep being portrayed by those dumb Americans as a god of evil and the ultimate bad guy when in fact they originally weren’t all bad and just neutral”. Which is partially true… but very partially. Because unlike Hades, who REALLY wasn’t evil, Seth was actually a wicked deity. He was a bad guy, a nasty god, a massive jerk, and, yes, he was quite close to what a “devil” in Egyptian mythology would be.

I) Seth: The uncle that makes everything awkward at parties

Set is one of the four children of Geb, god of the earth, and Nut, goddess of the sky, forming the last generation of the Ennead alongside his brother Osiris and their sisters, Isis and Nephthys. Set married Nephthys, whereas Osiris married Isis. Seth’s most famous role in Egyptian mythology was being the villain of the “legend of Osiris”. Now… given this myth is VERY long I will try to simplify it as much as I can. Also note that the only complete and full record we had of this legend was a Greek translation by Plutarch – which was itself an attempt at compiling the various contradicting Egyptian stories about the Osiris myth. We do have some Egyptians versions of the “Osiris legend”, but they are all fragmentary and incomplete. So let’s try to shorten and simply MASSIVELY this whole mess.

In these early days of the world, the gods still walked on the Earth and ruled over humankind as pharaohs. Geb, the earth-god, was the pharaoh of humanity for a time, but then it came time for him to pass on the crown – and he selected his elder son, Osiris, as the new ruler of the world (the human world being just Egypt, because you know – Egypt is the entire world, of course). Osiris was a good ruler beloved and adored by all – and Seth didn’t like it. Seth was not only a jealous brother who disliked seeing all the love Osiris received, but also a power-hungry god who wanted to be the stole ruler of the world. At least this is the “Cain and Abel” dynamic of the most widespread and popular version of the myth – there are several alternative telling giving other reasons for the animosity between the siblings. Some say Osiris received the good lands of the north of Egypt, with its fertile valley and the Delta, while Seth received the more hostile and arid lands of the south, and Seth disliked this very much. Other claim that Seth actually was trying to get back at Osiris because he had an affair with Nephthys behind Seth’s back. And some make Seth massively petty and say he did all of his vile crimes because Osiris had kicked him once and he felt so humiliated he swore to destroy him…

All in all, Seth decided to take over his brother’s throne, and since Osiris wasn’t going to just nicely give it up, Seth decided to murder him. The Egyptian records we have of the murder all differ and contradict each other: sometimes Seth drowned Osiris in the Nile, other times he cut his body into little pieces and scattered them throughout Egypt, in a third he turned into an animal (a bull or a crocodile) to kill his brother… Plutarch tried to gather all of these stories into one narrative, which became the most famous one: Seth gathered a great number of co-conspirators to get rid of Osiris, threw with them a fake banquet/treacherous feast to which Osiris was invited, there was a game involving trying to see who would fit perfectly into a lavishly-decorated box, and when it came to Osiris’ turn (the box was of course a perfect fit for him), Seth and his allies sealed the coffin with melted lead and threw it into the Nile. But later, when the spies and servants of Seth informed him Isis had discovered her husband’s corpse and hid it in the swamps of the Delta, the treacherous brother took it back, cut into little pieces, and scattered it throughout the Nile (he did so because he knew the tricks of his cunning sister, and he knew she had great magical powers able to resurrect the dead). By cutting the corpse into little pieces, he hoped to destroy him entirely.

Problem is: Osiris left a son behind, young Horus, who was raised secretly by his mother in the swamps. When he came to age, he made himself known to the world and demanded the throne of his father back (since, of course, Seth had usurped it as soon as Osiris “went missing”). Seth, being the wicked uncle that he is, refused to give the throne back – and this started the greatest court case of all of Egypt’s history. A trial organized by a tribunal of the gods, and that went on for more than EIGHTY YEARS to settle the legal question: who, of Seth or Horus, should inherit the throne of Egypt (aka the world)? Technically Horus should have received it, since all of the gods agreed that he was the rightful heir, that his grievances against Seth was legitimate, and that Seth was a very poor ruler compared to the universally beloved Geb and Osiris. But Seth had one massive ally with him: the very president of the séances, the overseer of the entire trial, the Master of the Universe and Creator God, Ra (well I say “Ra”, but note that in the original text the identity of this “Universal Master” is left unclear - for the sake of simplicity I will call him Ra from now on, but know it should technically be “The Master of the Universe”). Every time the gods seem to arrive at a consensus (even the ones where they attempt to please Seth, for example giving the throne to Horus, but offering Seth in compensation two new wives, Anat and Astarte), Ra, who likes Seth and doesn’t want to make an enemy out of him (for reasons I’ll describe later), started again the debate, all so that Seth could obtain the only thing he ever wanted, the sole and absolute power over Egypt. Ra, the supreme master of the universe, even complied to every whim and tantrum of Seth – for example ending up banishing Isis from the debates when Seth grew tired of her constantly defending her son. However Seth’s own flaws lost him: seduced by a beautiful woman he had never seen before, he was so charmed by the sexy temptress that he confessed to her everything. Blinded by his lust, he answered to her questions, revealing that yes, he was the murder of Osiris, and yes, he had no legal right for the throne as Horus was the only true heir. He only realized afterward that the “sexy woman” was none other than Isis in disguise – and this time not even Ra could help Seth, since he had foolishly revealed on his own that he was an usurper and a criminal…

However Seth, always quarrelsome and full of hatred, was ready to stay down even after this legal defeat, and he challenged his newly-crowned nephew to a strange competition: see which of the two would hold their breath the longest under water when turned into hippopotami. During this competition, an incident causes Horus to kill his own mother in a fit of anger. She gets better later, as gods do, but this still makes Horus a criminal in the eyes of Ra, and Seth is of course the first one to volunteer to punish Horus, by removing his eyes (there’s a lot of stories about how, during a challenge or competition or duel, Seth was responsible for removing or destroying one or all of Horus’ eyes, which then became celestial bodies in the sky). This “hippopotami competition” and what ensues is but the first of a series of trials and challenges the two rival gods inflict on each other. The next famous episode is the one of the “homosexual meal” – as Seth and Horus are invited to share a meal, Seth tries and almost succeeds in raping Horus, an action that would have “degraded” his nephew as a weak bottom, so to speak, unfit for the crown, while the dominating, virile, “top” that is Seth would deserve the crown. [If you are familiar with Norse views on homosexuality, we are in a similar case, tops are good, bottoms are bad]. But learning about this, Isis reverse the situation by placing some of Horus’ semen into Seth’s salad (his favorite dish), so that when Seth brings the story in front of the tribunal of the gods, Horus calls forward his semen which manifests itself inside Seth’s belly, making it seem that it was Horus that topped his uncle, thus humiliating him in front of all the deities. In some fragmentary records, the semen actually makes Seth “pregnant” in an abstract way, as he “gives birth” to a golden disk which manifests on his forehead, or is taken by Horus to wear on his forehead. Another fragmentary record also depicts a different origin of the semen incident, as Seth actually expressed honestly his lust for his nephew and asked Horus to have sex with him, something Horus only agreed to if Seth gave him a portion of his divine strength and power – only for Horus to then fall ill, as the semen – especially the one of Seth – was perceived as a toxic, poisonous product by Egyptians). Many more challenges and episodes would be intertwined with this story, such as a boat race in which Horus cheats, prompting Seth to become an hippopotamus to try to kill his nephew, or an episode of Horus emasculating, taking or destroying one or all of his uncle’s testicles…

Ultimately, after more rigged games, mutual humiliations, many co-mutilations, it is said that this endless conflict between the two only ended up when Osiris himself was summoned from the Underworld to give his opinion to the tribunal of the gods concerning the matter… Only for Osiris to explain that it was ridiculous to doubt that Horus, his only son and direct heir, shouldn’t have his throne, that the entire harassment and bullying of the young god was absurd and unfair – and the new ruler of the underworld, doubling as a god of vegetation, ended up with huge threats to the divine court (such as causing massive famines or an invasion of undeads) if his son wasn’t left alone as the legal ruler of Egypt. This is what forced the gods and the Master of the Universe to finally declare Horus as the undisputable divine Pharaoh of Egypt, to forbid Seth from making any more claim to the throne or attempt at taking the crown, and some even say to banish the treacherous murderer to the depths of the desert.

II) Seth, the most ambiguous of the gods

As you can gather from this story, Seth is a bad guy. He is the jealous and bitter brother, the wicked and scheming uncle, the murderer and usurper, the fake king and the rapist. Seth was thought to be a god of all things bad, wicked, dangerous or hostile in Ancient Egypt. He ruled over the desert and sterility, he was the god that caused storms and thunder. He was a god of war and violence, a troublemaker and disturber, the sower of discord and troubler of peace, an herald of disorder and unreason. He symbolized the foreigner and the invader, and all those that were hated and distrusted. The Greeks even identified him to the monster Typhon out of all beings!

However, Seth isn’t all bad… or rather, wasn’t all bad. We know that there was a process of “demonization” of Seth, who went from an unpleasant and morally-gray deity, to a full on “devil before Christianity”. Take the Osirian myth for example: in the legend of Osiris, Seth is seen as a rival and usurper, opposed to the “hero/good prince/legal heir” that is Horus, and the conflict is only settled when Horus becomes the absolute ruler and Seth is banished. This is one of the key parts of the Heliopolis cosmogony, the one of the Ennead. BUT in an older theology, the one of Memphis, from the Old Empire, it was implied that Horus and Seth co-ruled over Egypt somehow, since they were the “Two Lords” of which the pharaoh was the heir: from Horus he inherited Lower-Egypt, and from Seth he received Upper-Egypt. Seth was in fact glorified during some eras of Egyptian history, such as the Ramesside era during which numerous shrines and sanctuaries were raised to him near the various oasis, so he could protect them. The various Thutmoses kings had an habit of invoking Seth during times of war, for their army, so he could transmit to the soldier his desire to win and his rage in battle ; and the Ramesside dynasty, originating from Avaris, the sacred town of Seth, (and in general the 19th and 20th dynasties rulers) took the habit of naming themselves “Sethi” in honor of the god. Another sacred town of Seth was Nagada, in Upper Egypt - it was believed that Nagada was the place where Nut (violently and painfully) gave birth to Seth. It seems that in this “original” perception of Seth, he was seen as a “needed evil”, in a “yin and yang” logic: he was the south whereas Horus was the north, and while Egypt had all sorts of pleasant things (Horus) Egyptians themselves recognized it had a lot of dangers that were part of its very nature (Seth). The Egyptians did recognize that disorder and chaos, as manifested by Seth, did exist before the order of Horus, and was needed to maintain some sort of balance - plus, while the desert that Seth personified was thought of as an arid and dangerous place, it also was recognized by the Ancient Egyptians as a source of wealth. The desert was the place that gave Ancient Egypt many of its riches - most notably gold, amethysts and turquoises. So Seth wasn’t all-bad, or rather he was a “necessary evil”.

However, this glory-age of Seth took an end starting with the Late Period of Egypt, as from a “complementary” god of Horus, the yang to his yin, a key god in the balance of the world, he grew to a hated and reviled figure, and the enemy of the Egyptian gods. Hymns only sung of his defeat at the hands of Horus, his name became the one of a demon and was removed from all sacred texts, and by the 7th century BC, his statues and depictions were being destroyed. It was during this whole era that his association with the “foreigners”, as the god of everything foreign, became honestly xenophobic, since in the Egyptian mind “foreigner” became equivalent to “invader” and “oppressor” thanks to the various political and historical events (the Kushite and Persian Empires and they relationship with Egypt are sometimes invoked).

But one key feature of the “ambiguity” of Seth remained, an element that was even included in the Osirian myth and was invoked as the reason Ra had such a fondness and liking for Seth. Despite seemingly being the god of all things negative and destructive, Seth is actually one of the guardians of the existence of the world – as in, he is one of the protectors of the solar boat. Ra, the sun god, crosses the sky during the day on a boat, and when night falls, still on a boat, he travels throughout the depths of the underworld, until he can reach the surface again (sunrise). This travel into the bowels of the universe is extremely dangerous, as numerous vile beasts, demons and monsters try to attack Ra and his boat, and so Ra needs a whole host of deities to fight by his side during his nocturnal travels. Seth is the most prominent and bravest of those defenders of the Sun – for it is he that, armed with a spear or a knife, faces the monstrous Apophis, a gigantic snake that tries to attack Ra at his weakest with only one goal, devour the Sun so that the world may be plunged into eternal darkness. It is Seth, the warrior-god, that battles ferociously the primordial snake each night to make sure the sun may rise once more, and it is he that kills the beast of darkness each night – only to see the beast resurrect by the next day, and ready to swallow the Sun again… As such, Seth shows that while he might be a murderer, a power-hungry usurper and the divine patron of all rapist uncles, he is still one of the first defenders of the universe, and one of the sacred warriors that fight to prevent the end of all things. He might be the god of hostile and dangerous elements of the world, he still doesn’t seek its destruction. He is the kind of villain that wants to rule over the world, not ruin it. And in a strange, paradoxical double-play, while Seth is the one sowing discord and disorder among the civilization of the gods and the realm of mankind, he is actually during the nocturnal travels in the underworld a champion of order against the primal, world-ending chaos that is Apophis…

III) More weird things

The ambiguity of Seth doesn’t just rely in his mysterious dual role, but also in his very depiction. Seth, like most of the Egyptian gods, is depicted alternatively as a human with the head of an animal, or as said animal fully-bodied. But the animal that represents Seth is so bizarre and so unique that nobody knows exactly WHAT it is. This strange creature is mostly referred today as the “Set animal”, or the “Typhonian beast” (in reference to how Seth is perceived as Typhon by the Ancient Greeks). Many MANY theories and interpretations have been pushed forward. A first theory is that the Set animal was a creature that lived in Ancient Egypt but went extinct today. A second theory is that this animal is actually an artificial creature, invented exclusively to symbolize the disconcerting and disquieting nature of this god of chaos, trouble and stereility. And finally a third theory is that this animal is simply an hyper-stylized depiction of an actual animal. A lot of different options were brought forward: it could be a hyena, a wild dog, a giraffe, an okapi, a fox, a pig, an aardvark... A prominent candidate is the donkey, as we know the donkey was one of the sacred animals of Seth, and the most common beast to sacrifice to him. If you were quite rich or part of the upper-class, the sacrifice rather involved more extravagant or dangerous beast, such as the oryx antelope or an hippopotamus (a beast that, as you can see with the Osirian legend, was strongly tied to Seth, who was said to regularly take his shape). In fact we do have several Late Period depictions of Seth with a donkey head instead of his bizarre Typhonian beast head... But at the same time the Late Period depictions of Seth were quite bizarre and crazy in the middle of this big demonization and censorship-wave ; heck, we have a Late Period depiction of Seth with a FLAMINGO HEAD! Overall the Set animal is still a mystery today, though it only adds to the charm and charisma of this ambiguous god.

Seth was strongly associated with the color red. On top of it being a color of danger and aggression, Seth was also called the “Red Lord” or the “Red God” because he was supposed to rule over the “Red Land”, aka the desert with its burning sands, opposite to the “Black Land” of the “Black Lord”, aka the fertile, silt-filled lands of Horus. Among his many titles were included: Seth gateway to the desert ; Seth powerful-in-his-mighty-arm, or Seth lord of the oasis. In Egyptian astronomy, Seth was associated with the planet Mercury. Final trivia: “Seth” is actually the Ancient Greek spelling and transliteration of the deity’s name. Most of the Egyptian gods we know today by their Greek name – the actual, original Egyptian name of the god would be written Sutekh.

WARNING NOTE: This is by no mean an expert speaking about a well-known subject. It is just a random fan of Egyptian mythology putting together the things he knows, I might be dead wrong, this is just a “here’s what I know” post. There is also a lot of info I cut out for the sake of simplicity.

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COLUMBINE STUDENT'S FATHER 12 YEARS LATER !! Guess our national leaders didn't expect this. On Thursday, Darrell Scott, the father of Rachel Scott, a victim of the Columbine High School shootings in Littleton, Colorado, was invited to address the House Judiciary Committee's subcommittee. What he said to our national leaders during this special session of Congress was painfully truthful. They were not prepared for what he was to say, nor was it received well. It needs to be heard by every parent, every teacher, every politician, every sociologist, every psychologist, and every so-called expert! These courageous words spoken by Darrell Scott are powerful, penetrating, and deeply personal. There is no doubt that God sent this man as a voice crying in the wilderness.. The following is a portion of the transcript: "Since the dawn of creation there has been both good & evil in the hearts of men and women. We all contain the seeds of kindness or the seeds of violence. The death of my wonderful daughter, Rachel Joy Scott, and the deaths of that heroic teacher, and the other eleven children who died must not be in vain. Their blood cries out for answers. "The first recorded act of violence was when Cain slew his brother Abel out in the field. The villain was not the club he used.. Neither was it the NCA, the National Club Association. The true killer was Cain, and the reason for the murder could only be found in Cain's heart. "In the days that followed the Columbine tragedy, I was amazed at how quickly fingers began to be pointed at groups such as the NRA. I am not a member of the NRA. I am not a hunter. I do not even own a gun. I am not here to represent or defend the NRA - because I don't believe that they are responsible for my daughter's death. Therefore I do not believe that they need to be defended. If I believed they had anything to do with Rachel's murder I would be their strongest opponent. I am here today to declare that Columbine was not just a tragedy -- it was a spiritual event that should be forcing us to look at where the real blame lies! Much of the blame lies here in this room. Much of the blame lies behind the pointing fingers of the accusers themselves. I wrote a poem just four nights ago that expresses my feelings best. Your laws ignore our deepest needs, Your words are empty air. You've stripped away our heritage, You've outlawed simple prayer. Now gunshots fill our classrooms, And precious children die. You seek for answers everywhere, And ask the question "Why?" You regulate restrictive laws, Through legislative creed. And yet you fail to understand, That God is what we need! "Men and women are three-part beings. We all consist of body, mind, and spirit. When we refuse to acknowledge a third part of our make-up, we create a void that allows evil, prejudice, and hatred to rush in and wreak havoc. Spiritual presences were present within our educational systems for most of our nation's history. Many of our major colleges began as theological seminaries. This is a historical fact. What has happened to us as a nation? We have refused to honor God, and in so doing, we open the doors to hatred and violence. And when something as terrible as Columbine's tragedy occurs -- politicians immediately look for a scapegoat such as the NRA. They immediately seek to pass more restrictive laws that contribute to erode away our personal and private liberties. We do not need more restrictive laws. Eric and Dylan would not have been stopped by metal detectors. No amount of gun laws can stop someone who spends months planning this type of massacre. The real villain lies within our own hearts. "As my son Craig lay under that table in the school library and saw his two friends murdered before his very eyes, he did not hesitate to pray in school. I defy any law or politician to deny him that right! I challenge every young person in America , and around the world, to realize that on April 20, 1999, at Columbine High School prayer was brought back to our schools. Do not let the many prayers offered by those students be in vain. Dare to move into the new millennium with a sacred disregard for legislation that violates your God-given right to communicate with Him. To those of you who would point your finger at the NRA -- I give to you a sincere challenge.. Dare to examine your own heart before casting the first stone! My daughter's death will not be in vain! The young people of this country will not allow that to happen!" - Darrell Scott Do what the media did not - - let the nation hear this man's speech. Please send this out to everyone you can. God Bless ~Charles

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winchestercherrypie08 · 10 months

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Sword of God

The Past

Pairing: spn Charakter x reader

Warnings: death

Summary: When one day Sam and Dean Winchester needed her help, she didn't know that the decision to help them would change her whole life.

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Hi guys! This is my first story I've ever written and English is not my first language either, so there could be mistakes in the text and the grammar could be wrong, but I hope you like it anyway. Love Helena

Many moons ago when God created Adam and Eve, he created from a piece of wood of the forbidden tree a woman as beautiful as an angel with black curly hair, piercing green eyes and a smile that shines brighter than Sirius, the brightest star in the sky.And her name was Isabella. Just like Eve, she was created to serve a man and in her case it was Cain.

Her beauty and kindness was not only known to people but also to the archangels, especially Lucifer the morning star desired her beauty. Against all the laws that existed, Lucifer approached her and fell in love. His goal was to win her heart and make her his queen, but her love already belonged to someone else. Every day he meets her until she looked more into him and began to long for him. But their love doesn't last long. When Cain killed Abel, she tried to save him, but she died in this attempt. Full anger fought Lucifer against Cain until he stood on the threshold of death. When Lucifer wanted to strike the last blow, two angels held him back and a third gave Cain the Cain’s Mark.But the torture he got was not enough, Lucifer wanted more, he wanted his bright star back.

So he made a deal with God. He wanted Isabelle to live again, but she should be much stronger and more powerful than before. He wanted her to become immortal so that he would never have to live without her again.

To his surprise, God accepted the deal, only under one condition Lucifer should not get too close to her and never tell her the truth about her past. Lucifer looked expectantly at the earth and waited. Minutes turned into hours and hours into days and after the seventh day he saw her. As promised, she was more beautiful and stronger than before. But one thing was new, she had wings, beautiful bright white wings. Desperate, he Looks for God and when he finally found him, he got the answer. God not only brought her back to life, he made her the first prophet and she was to be known under the name, God's sword. She should destroy the evil on earth and be his warrior.

Lucifer was able to stay away from her for a few centuries until one day. He went to his favourite place on earth, it was a beautiful clearing in the forest with an old wooden swing and there she sat, even more beautiful than the day he saw her for the first time. He forgot the promise and started talking to her, laughing with her and finally kissing her. For centuries he waited for this moment, when he slowly broke the kiss apart and looked her in the eyes. But she went up in flames right in front of him. You could hear her screams from miles and Lucifer, who stood right in front of her, couldn't do anything to help her until nothing from her was left.

Angry, he confronted God. "Why did she had to die, why"? He screamed. „You, samael, broke your promise, so I broke mine.“ God Said Camly "You will regret this, I will take revenge on you"! that were Lucifer's last words then he disappeared. And when he came back, he started a rebellion against God. He killed dozen of angels.He fought as hard as he could against his brother Michael but he couldn't win and he was locked in the cage of hell.

Now he sat on the floor of the cage surrounded by bars, humiliated by his brother and greedy for revenge. But still, only one question went through his head, will I ever see my love again.

#supernatural #lucifer fanfiction #dean winchester #sam winchester

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Los Angeles Doomers HOLY DEATH Unleash ‘Moral Terror’

~Doomed & Stoned Debuts~

By Billy Goate

The marriage of death to doom was inevitable, with some of its finest exponents emerging in the '90s and continuing to this present age where we are confronted with the scourge of HOLY DEATH.

Rooted in the tinder box of the Los Angeles underground metal scene, Holy Death have been releasing record after record of terrifying death-doom since 2019. Their latest record, in fact, is called 'Moral Terror' (2022) and it brings together two EPs released over the summer with a third to complete the 'Moral Terror' trilogy. I like how the band went about publishing these, something they also did on last year's Sacred Blessings (itself a compilation of EPs from 2020). Besides this, the Long Beach-based three-piece has issued a dedicated full-length record, 'Separate Mind From Flesh' (2021).

The riff that greets us on "East ov Eden" is a merciless one, and no wonder for it's got "blood on my hands, guilt on my mind." Is this the anthem of the fabled first murderer Cain, who was given a mysterious mark by God for murdering his brother Abel? Or is Holy Death tapping into our humanity's collective guilt for turning paradise into a fetid sewer of violence, hate, and pollution? Dirty, irradiated bass bass crunches emphatically, whilst guitar screeches with abandon. "Death is upon us, end all life." Frontman Torie John's crooning is mingled with bitterness, disgust, and sorrow, mingled with defiance:

East of Eden the vultures circle I will not be defeated

The regress from enlightened ape-man back to feral, frightened animal continues with "Ultraviolent," a two-minute pounding that obsesses with revenge against one's foes. The guitar menaces with swirling downward arpeggios, met by rattling drums, grim bass, and grizzly vox barking:

Death is a gift you will not receive until you've suffered beyond reprieve

"Annihilationism" awaits next, and it takes the perspective of the hopeless: "Born to rot, guilty thought, empty dream -- nothing left for me." It's a sentiment I suspect many can relate to after two-and-a-half years of disease, isolation, fear, and despair. Guitar and bass lay out a slow-chugging rhythm as our two-minute window closes. "Bite my tongue, taste the blood, grinding teeth -- nothing left for me."

"Serve No King" is one of the most damning songs of the record so far. It's that sinister four-note riff; it makes me feel like I'm being carried bound in chains before the court of some medieval tyrant. The song pronounces judgment on the head of the "jester upon the throne" who "vomits lies," and leaves him with a warning:

Justice is not dead the blade will find your head

Now onto the final block of three songs, which fans of the band will be hearing for the first time via this Doomed & Stoned premiere. "神経" is Japanese and has something to do with the nerves (or having nerve). Described by Holy Death as a "contemplative Dungeon Synth inspired interlude," it provides a nice palate cleanser before we encounter the ravaging "Paradice Death." You might think I (or the band) misspelled that, maybe on purpose, and you'd be partly right. "Paradice" was one of the oddly framed words that stood out in the cryptic letters of the Zodiac Killer, sending investigators on an eternal quest to solve a riddle of death and madness.

"The Blood Earth Consumes" may hearken back to the story of Cain & Abel that presumably kicked off this excursion into moral chaos. In the Genesis account, the Lord said, "Listen: your brother's blood is crying out to me from the ground." That's some pretty spooking shit. The mood of this last song is dire and savage, heralded by the insanity of disonnent guitar and thumping drums, and driven forward like some infernal death machine grinding everything in its path.

Sonically, the record sounds amazing -- produced and mixed by Alex Estrada (Nails, Xibalba). You can get a hold of Holy Death's Moral Terror (vol. 1-3) this Friday on streaming platforms, as well as on cassette (pre-order here). Stick this on a playlist with Eyehategod, Come To Grief, Serpentine Path, and Ghorot!

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What the hell is the Second Epistle of Judas? There IS a Gospel of Judas which wasn't actually WRITTEN by Judas, but there isnt even one Epistle of Judas??? wtf

This book is quite notorious among demons, as you might have noticed from my previous post [put a link there], but it has never been released to the general public until parts of the Tindall version of the translation were leaked in 2004.

As Judas committed suicide out of despair, he was subsequently accused of turning away from God. It is quite notable that Judas himself stated on multiple occasions that his betrayal of Christ did not serve as a deciding factor in his judgement, not only because Judas did not commit asked for forgiveness of Christ and confessed to his sins multiple times, showing his repentance. Neither was his suicide, as suicide was named a sin solely by man -to reduce suicide rates among people who believed they would go to Heaven as martyrs for dying at someone's hand. The true deciding factor was his lack of belief in Jesus's forgiveness and his despair that led him to suicide.

Therefore, as his only unrepented sin was considered minor, Judas was sentenced to Limbo and the celestial version of service public service. He is the force behind the establishment of New Akeldama, as well as great help to Cain and Abel in their work in Hell. (For context to those who lack it: Abel was not sentenced to Hell, but eventually his bleeding heart led him to come to Hell and help his brother in his work; God allowed it and thus Abel currently lives in Hell by his own volition. Both of those events are contributing facts to Lucifer and Satan accusing God of favoritism and unjust behavior when they were voicing their grievances with him.)

During his servitude, Judas was called upon by Jesus and had written down multiple epistles from his words. The current estimations point at no less than three and no more than six epistles, although only two have become available. Note that while Jesus isn't welcome in Hell, we can do little in the way of stopping him.

The first Epistle was released nigh immediately, and is quite a read, as while it is clear that is the message is not meant to be taken seriously. It's a word-for-word retelling of Jesus's words, but due to there being no doubts as to its canonicity, which brings us one of at least six lies in the Bible. Not counting many obvious contradictions in it, of course, which could be considered falsehoods, but are not facts and therefore cannot be considered lies.

The second Epistle, "God's Will To His Errant Sons", takes quite a turn in tone as it is a collection of rewritings of Jesus's advice to demons by Judas, who is decidedly not a good writer. He attempts to keep it in contemporary at that time Bible verse, but sometimes fails and resorts to prose, which is the way in which the original Gospels were written, or even defaults to pesukim-like writing. He separates the writing into four chapters, the first two addressing Lucifer and Satan accordingly, the third one intended for other Fallen, and the fourth one for all of demonkind. As the epistle is written in Aramaic and riddled with metaphors, more literal translation techniques such as spells fail to produce coherent results. Multiple attempts have been made in the 17th century, but due to natural decay and poor management by Judas, not much of it remained and it was sealed in stasis until restoration work was done by the team consisting of Eleanora Tindall, Charles Adlai Levy and Dai Ike Roshanee. After parts of that version of the translation were leaked by an unknown individual (presumably a member of Lucifer's family or one of many restoration consultants), the partial restoration of the last two chapters from 1600s was released to the public in 2008 in its original form, which was written in a mix of Early Modern English and Latin, and translated the entirety of the writing as one block of text with blanks in place of words or sentences the translator did not understand. In 2018, the Judas Epistle Project combined all the information we have from both releases and translated it into modern Hell dialect of English, as well as replaced parts of the third and fourth chapters with Tindall's translation whenever possible. It's currently available online for all citizens of Hell who can confirm their identity through a hell.gov integration. Otherwise you might have to find a demon to check it out for you.

P.S. Judas has been heard mentioning that part of an unreleased epistle he had to rewrite himself, as the words used in it fell out of fashion and would not be in place in the mouth of Jesus. He has also confirmed that the Gospel of Judas is an entirely fabricated piece of writing that came long after his death.

#hell ama

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BABY SINS AU

Part 2

Based on the sentence prompt "There's that smile! There's that smile that I love!"

Greed was, admittedly, a tricky little baby. One moment he was cuddly, then wanting to be put down, then coddled, then left to his own devices. With the little one's preference changing on a whim, Abel honestly had a hard time keeping track. Though for once he could brag that he was doing better than his older brother. Cain had long since put his attention to Gluttony with only minor interest in the oldest child, Wrath, and nothing short of disdain for little Greed.

Abel, admittedly, worried about the affect it would have on the other children, seeing his brother's lack of concern when it came to his blatant display of favorites. Perhaps, he reasoned, it was why he felt so responsible to pick up the pieces, trying his hardest to not play favoritism. He hoped Cain needed time to turn around or perhaps one of the four other children they had to collect still would win the oldest member's heart. For now though, he was content to share the love he had stored up for ages.

Having had Lucias settled down with a book and Cain already tending to Gluttony with a bottle, he opted to check on the third child. He poked his head into the room quietly, on the off chance that the blonde baby was already fast asleep, but instead he found him babbling and cuddling away with the stuffed cat he and Cain got for him, "Well hello," he cooed moving more into the pastel room and closer to the green bassinet.

Lux looked up and immediately started to prattle on in an almost fussy manner and Abel couldn't help but laugh a little in amusement, "Ohh it's truly a wonder why your Uncle Cain doesn't like you more," he cooed, leaning against the little bed slightly, playfully wagging his fingers over the little baby's head, "I suppose I just need to be grateful I don't understand baby talk, huh? Would you be mean to Uncle Abel if you could?" he continued to tease, tone nothing short of lovingly. Lux giggled at this, waving his free hand up to Abel, still trying to insist his fussy babbles as he did, Abel grinned, glad to play along.

"Ohh you spoiled little boy," he hummed, "talking all mean to your uncle, I'm just being nice! What are you and your kitty doing?" he cooed, finally lowering his hand enough to lightly tap the toy. Greed squealed in response.

"Itty! Itty!" he cheered, trying to wave the toy despite it being too big for him to do so.

"Yes, you have your kitty. Let's see, how does that song go...?" Abel trailed off a moment to recall the words, snapping his fingers when they reoccurred to him, "Soft kitty, warm kitty, little ball of fur... happy kitty, sleepy kitty, pur, pur, pur...." he smiled softly at Lux clumsily clapping his hands in response to his singing.

"Yay! Yay!!"

"Oooh yay, huh?" he cooed, "You like that song, hm? Well, I will just have to keep that in mind won't I, little prince?" he hummed.

Lux smiled wide and bright at the term, coos suddenly becoming much sweeter than before. Abel's humor only grew, eyes twinkling a bit, "You like that too, hm? I know I like it much better when you're sweet like this, little one," he gently murmured, "and look, there's that smile! There's that smile that I love!"

Lux continued to gleefully coo, abandoning his hold on the white cat toy in favor of making grabby like motions for Abel. Now confident that he wouldn't have a tantrum in his arms, the younger brother picked him up, gently bouncing him, "Oh you make it very easy to fuss over," he cooed, "come along now, let's see if we can't get a bottle in you then, we'll get all three of you kids ready for story time."

#dc oc #sfw #original character #abel dc #cain dc #original child character #oc #greed #lux #baby greed #greed oc #oc greed #au #alternative universe #baby sins au #uncle cain #uncle abel #mainly abel and lux because i need some doting in my life

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Gen. 4 to 7

Basil the Great and Gregory of Nazianus, mem.

Chapter 4 starts off the heels of the previous with Adam and Eve having two sons, Cain and Abel. Cain’s name is a pun in that it sounds like the Hebrew word for ‘create.’ Fitting for the first child ever. In time, Cain grew up to be a tiller and Abel grew up to be a shepherd. One day, the two offer sacrifices to God, and God likes Abel’s very much but doesn’t like Cain’s at all. Cain became upset at this, so God says this to him: “For whether you offer well, or whether you do not, at the tent flap sin crouches and for you is its longing but you will rule over it.” I’m not the only one who thinks that verse makes very little sense, as Oxford calls it a “difficult verse” and Alter describes it as “enigmatic and probably quite archaic.”

After this, Cain invites his brother to go out into the field together and there he kills him. On Abel’s death, God asks his second ever question: “Where is your brother?” God knows the answer, of course, as Abel’s blood cries out to him from the ground. Despite this, God gives Cain a chance to confess. Cain doesn’t, and instead asks “Am I my brother’s keeper?” I really like Rabbi Telushkin’s quote regarding this moment: “In essence, the entire Bible is written as an affirmative response to this question.” For killing his brother, Cain receives his punishment. He will have pain in tilling the ground and he will be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth. When Cain can’t bear this, God marks him with protection, decreeing that whoever harms Cain will suffer seven-fold. After this, Cain goes away from the face of God into the land of Nod to have children with his wife.

This jarring introduction of other humans into the story is well noted and Oxford says that perhaps “the narratives about him were not originally connected with creation.” Cain’s children serve as the first little seed of violence propagating. Cain was fruitful and multiplied, but so did the violence. He also founded the first city, so make of that what you will. The end of chapter 4, after a short genealogy, has Lamech recounting to his two wives how he just murdered two people. All this time late, or perhaps at the same time, Adam and Eve have their third son, Seth, whose descendants are listed off at length in the following chapter. The very last sentence of the chapter is quite enigmatic as it contradicts the narrative in the rest of the Pentateuch that God first revealed his name to Moses.

The entirety of the next chapter is a long genealogy list from Seth down to Noah’s sons. It is long, and boring, and I will not summarize it here. Unfortunately, this is neither the last nor the worst of the genealogies. That being said, there are a few notable things here. The names on Seth’s line often share the same name as people on Cain’s line. Right in the middle of the chapter, we meet Enoch for four verses. In these four verses, we learn that Enoch never died. He was taken by and walked with God. This fascinating little tidbit, along with the equally bizarre Gen. 6:1-6 is what spawned all of Enochic literature. Alter notes that this is one of several instances in Genesis that preserves little fragments of earlier traditions that we only can guess at today. In addition, Enoch is quite similar to Enmeduranki from the Sumerian King List. Emmeranduki is also the seventh in a series and he was also taken before the gods and granted wisdom. Towards the end of the chapter, we meet the main characters for the next few chapters: Noah and his sons, Shem, Ham, and Japeth. Noah’s name is a pun on the word for ‘relief’ which is explained in the text (5:29). This name pun goes further as Lamech names him so because he will be the one to take away the pain of their hands, a term used only for Adam and Eve and thus linking back to the curses in Ch. 3. In addition, the names of Noah’s sons were once used as demographic categories, with Shem corresponding to the Middle East, Ham to Africa and Japeth to Eurasia. In fact, this is where the terms ‘semite’ and ‘semitic’ come from. Even though genealogies might seem boring– and they are– they’re there for a reason. Genealogical lists mark off narrative sections and are linked to the initial commandment to “be fruitful and multiply” and also with threats to that end.

Chapter 6 starts off with the wildest little bit of narrative that has absolutely nothing to do with anything that comes before it. In vv. 1-2, the Sons of God saw the daughters of men and had children with them. In v. 3, God sets the limit to human mortality to 120 years. In v. 4, we resume the previous story, naming the children of that union as the Nephilim and describing them as “heroes of yore, the men of renown.” My favorite explanation for this is that these Nephilim are another holdover from the polytheistic days in that they are demigods: half-human, half-god, and famous heroes. Their name means ‘the fallen ones,’ so presumably fallen in battle. There’s precedent in the Near East for such figures (Gilgamesh, Hercules). «Trey the Explainer» does a good job of explaining this theory.

The rest of the chapters are the incredibly famous story of the Flood. God grows incensed at the corruption and violence being fruitful and multiplying on the earth and He regrets ever having made the creatures. He resolves to destroy it all, but Noah finds favor with God. So God tells Noah to build an ark, a big boat, and gather animals to save them. Fun fact: there might actually be some historical truth to the ark story, or at least, «we know what the ark might have looked like.» After Noah had done all that, the Flood began. The waters grew higher and higher and it covered mountains. It kept flooding for 40 days (numerological shorthand for ‘a lot’). This basic flood story is shockingly common across the world with nearly every culture having some version of it. And the story beats are often the same too! In Mesopotamia, the character at the center is Utnapishtim, in India it’s Manu, and in Greece it’s Deucalion.

Despite the Flood’s near universality, it does fit into Genesis’ own story. Here, God is not angered by the humans and their noise, like in Mesopotamia, but instead by the violence devised in the hearts of men that fills the earth. In fact, the whole flood narrative represents a return to chaos. Remember that, in the beginning, the spirit of God moved upon the surface of the waters. The whole story echoes and parallels the story of creation; first, the perversion of creation by mankind and then a reversal of creation by God. Alter notes that it “abounds in verbal echoes of the Creation story (the crawling things, the cattle and beasts of each kind, and so forth) as what was made on the six days is wiped out in these forty.” In the Bible, creation and destruction often go hand in hand.

What’s interesting about the Flood narrative is just how much the hands go back and forth, interweaving two separate strands of story together. As previously mentioned, the Pentateuch is replete with doublets because it’s the product of many different authors. Usually these doublets go one after the other or there might be some separation between them. This is one of the few places where the different sources overlap. The thinking is that since at the end of the Flood, God promises never to do that again, there’s no way these two accounts could go at two separate points, and so they are forced to overlap. Wikipedia has a «good list» of which verses are from which author.

Next up: Gen. 8 to 11.

#yenpet reads #book of genesis

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Culumbine Students Father 12 Years Later

Guess our national leaders didn't expect this. On Thursday, Darrell Scott, the father of Rachel Scott, a victim of the Columbine High School shootings in Littleton, Colorado, was invited to address the House Judiciary Committee's subcommittee. What he said to our national leaders during this special session of Congress was painfully truthful.

They were not prepared for what he was to say, nor was it received well. It needs to be heard by every parent, every teacher, every politician, every sociologist, every psychologist, and every so-called expert! These courageous words spoken by Darrell Scott are powerful, penetrating, and deeply personal. There is no doubt that God sent this man as a voice crying in the wilderness.. The following is a portion of the transcript:

"The first recorded act of violence was when Cain slew his brother Abel out in the field. The villain was not the club he used.. Neither was it the NCA, the National Club Association. The true killer was Cain, and the reason for the murder could only be found in Cain's heart.

"In the days that followed the Columbine tragedy, I was amazed at how quickly fingers began to be pointed at groups such as the NRA. I am not a member of the NRA. I am not a hunter. I do not even own a gun. I am not here to represent or defend the NRA - because I don't believe that they are responsible for my daughter's death.

Therefore I do not believe that they need to be defended. If I believed they had anything to do with Rachel's murder I would be their strongest opponent.

I am here today to declare that Columbine was not just a tragedy -- it was a spiritual event that should be forcing us to look at where the real blame lies! Much of the blame lies here in this room. Much of the blame lies behind the pointing fingers of the accusers themselves. I wrote a poem just four nights ago that expresses my feelings best.

Your laws ignore our deepest needs,

Your words are empty air.

You've stripped away our heritage,

You've outlawed simple prayer.

Now gunshots fill our classrooms,

And precious children die.

You seek for answers everywhere,

And ask the question "Why?"

You regulate restrictive laws,

Through legislative creed.

And yet you fail to understand,

That God is what we need!

"Men and women are three-part beings. We all consist of body, mind, and spirit. When we refuse to acknowledge a third part of our make-up, we create a void that allows evil, prejudice, and hatred to rush in and wreak havoc. Spiritual presences were present within our educational systems for most of our nation's history. Many of our major colleges began as theological seminaries. This is a historical fact. What has happened to us as a nation? We have refused to honor God, and in so doing, we open the doors to hatred and violence. And when something as terrible as Columbine's tragedy occurs—politicians immediately look for a scapegoat such as the NRA. They immediately seek to pass more restrictive laws that contribute to erode away our personal and private liberties. We do not need more restrictive laws. Eric and Dylan would not have been stopped by metal detectors. No amount of gun laws can stop someone who spends months planning this type of massacre. The real villain lies within our own hearts.

"As my son Craig lay under that table in the school library and saw his two friends murdered before his very eyes, he did not hesitate to pray in school. I defy any law or politician to deny him that right! I challenge every young person in America , and around the world, to realize that on April 20, 1999, at Columbine High School prayer was brought back to our schools. Do not let the many prayers offered by those students be in vain. Dare to move into the new millennium with a sacred disregard for legislation that violates your God-given right to communicate with Him. To those of you who would point your finger at the NRA—I give to you a sincere challenge.. Dare to examine your own heart before casting the first stone!

My daughter's death will not be in vain! The young people of this country will not allow that to happen!"

- Darrell Scott

Do what the media did not - - let the nation hear this man's speech. Please send this out to everyone you can.

God Bless

~Charles

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SCP: Special Craft Projects

A list of weird requests I've had for various things on site. Some from staff, some from our residents. And one from a kitten, via his human spokesperson.

035 once asked me to do some calligraphy for him. He wanted a quote in copperplate, bright red ink. The quote? "Have you considered the possibility that it is, in fact, your fault?" To be sent to 079. Request denied on order of O5.

682 once asked me for a hat. Granted, he looked really cute with his yellow bobble hat last winter. Next winter... he gets a matching hat and scarf.

Dr. Gears asked me to do some diagrams for him... for an Indian motorcycle engine. Not my best, but they still hang in the lobby to his office.

Dr. Clef keeps asking me for a lei. Not sure if he's teasing me.

053 has a standing order for cookies once a week, for her tea parties with 682 and 999. Did not know jellybean cookies were a thing, but they are now!

Agent Strelnikof asked me to make some toys for Niko. Wound up making a few, ranging from little hacky sack things filled with cellophane to a catnip banana. The cheese pillow was a hit though, it was a block of swiss with hidden little treat pockets where the holes were. Niko sleeps on it.

Abel asked me for a crochet sheep. With a sword. Wound up creating a weirdly cute Link/sheep mix plushie.

Origami shoes. Just... how? Why? And how much of the wacky lettuce led to this one?

Hand Drawn Cassie once asked me to draw her ice skating. That was fun.

Cain asked me to crochet him a cactus. A six foot tall cactus, with flowers. Still debating on that one.

A Mario chain chomp, with chain.

Another 035 calligraphy request: "Already disturbed, just go away already!" This one I gave into. It's on the outside of his door on days he can't be bothered.

049 requested a couple of signs himself. First, a dual sided plaque with the classic Doctor is in/out, and then... Autopsy in progress, please do not disturb.

Several people have asked me to crochet scarves, hats, toys... but only Leonard "Lenny the Letch" O'Hare would ask me to make him a hooker. Denied. In fact... Clef and I laughed him right out of the boss' office on that one.

A sailboat. Full sized. How?

Two goldfish, real size. Granted, used embroidery floss.

Got asked to draw a few NSFW things of certain anomalies. Denied. First... 076-2 and 073 are my brothers. Iris is my sister. Not biologically, but that is a line I do not cross. Second... not my style. Third... Abel doesn't like you, Karin. At all.

Dr. Iceberg asked me to bake him a pecan pie once. Not all that weird, but Iceberg doesn't really ask for a lot, or often. He said it was almost as good as his mom's. I call that high praise indeed.

Since Clef found out I can cook, I get weekly requests for cheesecake. I'm running out of recipes! Another unexpected hit: lemon cake.

343 asked me to make him a door sign. Nothing fancy, just "Please wipe your feet". Granted.

Geoff, one of our elevator guys, asked me to crochet him a mini Chris Redfield. Gave him a matched set of Redfields, after all can't break up siblings, right?

A Tetris themed afghan, for Agent Markovich. Iris wanted a surprise for his birthday. That was a fun challenge.

Used to muck about making my own dice for RPGs. I had to stop due to getting headaches. That... and the last dice I made, an eyebleeding neon tie dye nightmare set for Dr. Bright. Never. Again.

Dr. Glass asked me for some ink blots, like the psych test ones. He also asked me to do some garden landscapes for him. Both are framed, landscapes in the lobby. The ink blots are at his apartment.

Clown shoes. Nope, I do not think so.

Golf clubs. Not kidding. Had to say no on that one.

A life size version of 999. I'm thinking about it. Maybe as Evie's Yule gift this year.

Origami grenades. How are those even supposed to work, Clef?

A cape. Hey, anything you need, Cactus Man.

A ball gag. Yes, for Dr. Bright. Denied. Just order from Adam & Eve, Dr. Rights! Or... 100 mph tape.

Shotgun cozies. Didn't even know such things existed.

Wizard's hat, blue velvet, with hidden pockets. Eobard, my man... those things never stay on, plus I am not a hatmaker! What's wrong with a hood?

106 asked me for a skeleton once. It's almost done, just gotta assemble Mr. Squishybones. Once I figure out how.

A mini version of 682. Yes, it was for 053, Evie. She sleeps with it.

A voodoo doll of Dr. Gears. Not for pins, though... 166 wanted to hug it, so maybe he'd cheer up a little. Clef thought it was cute, granted. No signs it's working yet though.

Voodoo doll of Dr. Clef. I did make one, but since it was intended for bad purposes... that went to 166 too. Clef has been less edgy since, so maybe it works?

Mikell Bright once asked me to make a few pieces of jewelry for him. Nothing fancy, just a chainmaille bracelet for Claire and a necklace for one of his lady companions. Took me a few weeks, but in the end it was good enough. The damn bracelet was worse, that was supposed to be almost like a bracer. I no longer do chainmaille.

035 asked for a bubblegum pink crochet bikini. Managed to talk him out of it. Dr. Gears thanked me for that. Weird Thursday, but that's the Foundation for you.

A cup of coffee. With googly eyes. Dr. Glass has him on his bookcase in his office, calls him Dr. Java. Cute, but also good for getting younger patients to open up.

And finally... yet another rejected Karin Moritana request: photorealistic nude blanket of Abel. Nope. Nope. Nope. That is a giant nope, and yes... I did make her go see Dr. Glass about her obsession with my brother. Clearly, homegirl needs help.

#scp foundation #tales from site redacted #agent rabbit #dr clef #dr gears #dr bright #scp 049 #dr glass #scp 076 2 #scp 105 #hand drawn cassie #scp 682 #scp 166 #scp 035 #what were some of you smoking

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The Sandman and the DC universe, part 2: One of a trio

Part 1 of this series was about how Neil Gaiman dug up all sorts of old EC and DC horror hosts to create the inhabitants of the Dreaming and the cast of The Sandman. But here I want to talk about the “original trio” that The Sandman started as a part of.

The original story of The Sandman was closely tied to two other series of DC Comics, forming together a sort of “unholy trio” of horror-based “mature audience” stories, all sharing a same universe and having their respective characters pop up in each other.

The most obvious of this trio is the Hellblazer comics. You know Hellblazer. THE comic of John Constantine (in fact its original name was “John Constantine, Hellblazer”). The comic in which Constantine became a protagonist and central character, starting in 1988.

The link between Hellblazer and The Sandman seem obvious due to John Constantine appearing as a secondary character in Preludes and Nocturnes, being the character Dream has to tag along with to find back his bag of sand. But there’s more! Did you know that Dream of the Endless does appear in Hellblazer? Yep, John Constatine’s appearance in The Sandman issue 3 was prepared and planned in advance, and announced in Hellblazer itself, as Dream makes an appearance in issue 19, as a prelude/prequel to Constantine’s appearance in The Sandman. (Mind you given the character was still brand new, Dream’s appearance in Hellblazer is... quite weird to say the least).

Neil Gaiman isn’t just a fan and enthusiast of Hellblazer: he is also one of the co-creators, as he participated in it! He wrote issue 27. And the tie between the two comic lines only became stronger when in 2019 the Hellblazer comics were revived for a special series that would be part of the newly launched “The Sandman Universe” comics.

But The Sandman and Hellblaze have one more thing in common, a comic book which forms the third part of the trio: Swamp Thing.

Swamp Thing was where John Constantine was created and first appeared, as a secondary character, before Hellblazer was created to give him his own series. It was a comic Neil Gaiman greatly liked, and he even wrote the fifth annual for its second run (the stories “Brothers” and “Shaggy God Stories”. Before Neil Gaiman reused Abel and Cain with their Houses of Mystery and Secrets in his Sandman comics, Alan Moore had already “resurrected” them and used them in Swamp Thing - for issue 33. Which was actually a quite ironic twist of fate as the very comic book “Swamp Thing” was originally based and inspired by one of the horror stories told in the comic “House of Secrets”, the comic in which and for which was created Abel!

But more importantly; Swamp Thing is where Matthew comes from. Yep, Matthew the raven. Neil Gaiman did not create or invent him. His full story (or rather backstory now) is in Swamp Thing, where he was a government agent named Matthew Cable. He had a long story and tons of adventures, and in the second run of the series (what people refer to as “volume 2″, he finally met his end. Falling into a coma in issue 31, he then plunges into the Dreaming. And there, meeting with Eve and Dream, he ends up dying in issue 84 - and due to dying in the Dreaming, he is allowed to be resurrected there... as Dream’s personal raven.

And so, if you want to see what the rest of the Sandman world look like, you can safely look up at the Hellblazer comic and the Swamp Thing comic (Hellblazer’s original rule, not to be mistaken with a similar comic titled “The Hellblazer” ; and the second run or “volume 2″ of Swamp Thing) - as the story of The Sandman was designed to be woven with these two. Sandman, Hellblazer, Swamp Thing: the unholy trinity.

#sandman #the sandman #dc comics #dc universe #hellblazer #john constantine #swamp thing #matthew #matthew the raven #dream of the endless #dream #cain #abel #house of mystery #house of secrets

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Open & Concealed Carry LawsDecember 19, 2012 · COLUMBINE STUDENT'S FATHER 12 YEARS LATER !!

It needs to be heard by every parent, every teacher, every politician, every sociologist, every psychologist, and every so-called expert! These courageous words spoken by Darrell Scott are powerful, penetrating, and deeply personal. There is no doubt that God sent this man as a voice crying in the wilderness.. The following is a portion of the transcript:

"Since the dawn of creation there has been both good & evil in the hearts of men and women. We all contain the seeds of kindness or the seeds of violence. The death of my wonderful daughter, Rachel Joy Scott, and the deaths of that heroic teacher, and the other eleven children who died must not be in vain. Their blood cries out for answers. "The first recorded act of violence was when Cain slew his brother Abel out in the field. The villain was not the club he used.. Neither was it the NCA, the National Club Association. The true killer was Cain, and the reason for the murder could only be found in Cain's heart. "In the days that followed the Columbine tragedy, I was amazed at how quickly fingers began to be pointed at groups such as the NRA. I am not a member of the NRA. I am not a hunter. I do not even own a gun. I am not here to represent or defend the NRA - because I don't believe that they are responsible for my daughter's death. Therefore I do not believe that they need to be defended. If I believed they had anything to do with Rachel's murder I would be their strongest opponent. I am here today to declare that Columbine was not just a tragedy -- it was a spiritual event that should be forcing us to look at where the real blame lies! Much of the blame lies here in this room. Much of the blame lies behind the pointing fingers of the accusers themselves. I wrote a poem just four nights ago that expresses my feelings best. Your laws ignore our deepest needs, Your words are empty air. You've stripped away our heritage, You've outlawed simple prayer. Now gunshots fill our classrooms, And precious children die. You seek for answers everywhere, And ask the question "Why?" You regulate restrictive laws, Through legislative creed. And yet you fail to understand, That God is what we need! "Men and women are three-part beings. We all consist of body, mind, and spirit. When we refuse to acknowledge a third part of our make-up, we create a void that allows evil, prejudice, and hatred to rush in and wreak havoc. Spiritual presences were present within our educational systems for most of our nation's history.

Many of our major colleges began as theological seminaries. This is a historical fact. What has happened to us as a nation? We have refused to honor God, and in so doing, we open the doors to hatred and violence. And when something as terrible as Columbine's tragedy occurs -- politicians immediately look for a scapegoat such as the NRA. They immediately seek to pass more restrictive laws that contribute to erode away our personal and private liberties. We do not need more restrictive laws. Eric and Dylan would not have been stopped by metal detectors. No amount of gun laws can stop someone who spends months planning this type of massacre. The real villain lies within our own hearts.

To those of you who would point your finger at the NRA -- I give to you a sincere challenge.. Dare to examine your own heart before casting the first stone! My daughter's death will not be in vain! The young people of this country will not allow that to happen!"

- Darrell Scott Do what the media did not - - let the nation hear this man's speech. Please send this out to everyone you can. God Bless

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marty101sblog · 3 years

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Therefore I do not believe that they need to be defended. If I believed they had anything to do with Rachel's murder I would be their strongest opponent.

Your laws ignore our deepest needs,

Your words are empty air.

You've stripped away our heritage,

You've outlawed simple prayer.

Now gunshots fill our classrooms,

And precious children die.

You seek for answers everywhere,

And ask the question "Why?"

You regulate restrictive laws,

Through legislative creed.

And yet you fail to understand,

That God is what we need!

"Men and women are three-part beings. We all consist of body, mind, and spirit. When we refuse to acknowledge a third part of our make-up, we create a void that allows evil, prejudice, and hatred to rush in and wreak havoc. Spiritual presences were present within our educational systems for most of our nation's history. Many of our major colleges began as theological seminaries. This is a historical fact. What has happened to us as a nation? We have refused to honor God, and in so doing, we open the doors to hatred and violence. And when something as terrible as Columbine's tragedy occurs -- politicians immediately look for a scapegoat such as the NRA. They immediately seek to pass more restrictive laws that contribute to erode away our personal and private liberties. We do not need more restrictive laws. Eric and Dylan would not have been stopped by metal detectors. No amount of gun laws can stop someone who spends months planning this type of massacre. The real villain lies within our own hearts.

"As my son Craig lay under that table in the school library and saw his two friends murdered before his very eyes, he did not hesitate to pray in school. I defy any law or politician to deny him that right! I challenge every young person in America , and around the world, to realize that on April 20, 1999, at Columbine High School prayer was brought back to our schools. Do not let the many prayers offered by those students be in vain. Dare to move into the new millennium with a sacred disregard for legislation that violates your God-given right to communicate with Him. To those of you who would point your finger at the NRA -- I give to you a sincere challenge.. Dare to examine your own heart before casting the first stone!

My daughter's death will not be in vain! The young people of this country will not allow that to happen!"

December 16, 2012

COLUMBINE STUDENT'S FATHER 12 YEARS LATER !!

- Darrell Scott

Do what the media did not - - let the nation hear this man's speech. Please send this out to everyone you can.

God Bless

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tragedieds · 3 years

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WIP INTRO — THESE VIOLENT ENDS.

WELCOME 2 BONE TOWN

genre — adult dark fantasy pov — third person limited premise — expelled from vivire, the greatest academy of necromancy for (allegedly) murdering the star student, a young elite gets offered a second chance at greatness if she can survive a semester at the infamous undine academy for the recently disposed. themes/tropes — rivals to friends to lovers to enemies ; be careful what you wish for ; life/death juxtaposition ; dark is not evil / light is not good ; found family but the found family all kind of hate each other ; sibling rivalry to cain and abel ; boarding school of horrors tw — depictions of classism/ableism, blood, gore, death, Bad Awful Terrible Parental Figures, body horror, general chaos status — outlining

Do not listen to the whispers: Nesrin Cordova did not kill Fynn Septimus.

Novus is the land of opportunity, but for a necromancer with legacy behind their name, there are only two ways of life: graduate from one of the top academies and become a Horseman, or be sent to the Outer Gates to fight and die in the war without end.

Nesrin refuses to die a nameless soldier. Her father is second-in-command to the Warlord Emperor, and her magical ability is the strongest anyone has seen in years. They say she has been blessed by Death. Her fate has never been hers, always following a rigid path: she will graduate from the top School of Necromancy as their top student and take her father’s place at the Emperor’s side.

Then Fynn’s headless body is strung over the Dean’s office, and all the evidence points to her. Who else would want the boy dead but his biggest — and only — rival?

Expelled, humiliated, and stripped of her name until she can earn it back, Nesrin, now Ren, finds herself with nothing left but her magic, desperate to find a way out of having to serve at the Outer Gates. Opportunity comes in the form of an anonymous acceptance letter at Undine Academy for the Recently Disposed, with an offer attached: Survive a semester and return to Vivire with your record wiped clean.

What could go wrong?

characters.

nesrin ‘ren’ cordova, 18, she/her | it’s not that ren is mean, it’s just that she’s... not nice. some would call her haughty, but there’s nothing wrong with being confident when you know you’re good. doesn’t know what a grey area is; only extremes.

kenji fujioka, 19, he/they | ren’s appointed student mentor. quite possibly the most annoying person on earth. second year at undine because no other academy will take them. how is he still alive? nobody knows.

malakai cordova, 18, he/him | ren’s twin brother who may or may not absolutely detest his sister. enjoying the fact that he’s now technically the favorite child a little too much. made a deal with a demon to enhance his lacking necromancy abilities & is perpetually suffering for it.

yael orinthus, 21, he/him | fourth year at undine. there’s a rumor going around that he’s a lost prince. the only person in history who chose to come to undine rather than be persuaded or forced into it. extremely talented at absolutely everything, which means ren hates him.

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it’s mirrors all the way down

My musings on Chuck & Amara / Michael & Lucifer / Cain & Abel / Dean & Sam parallels, made relatively coherent and posted for @boykingsofhell. Cain & Abel isn’t a perfect parallel, because Sam is also Collette, but free will <3

The scene: there are two things in the universe, and they are equal and opposite.

Only one of them can be right.

So, Chuck is the embodiment of creation and light while Amara is the embodiment of destruction and darkness. They are all the other has and they both have very different ideas of how the universe Should be. But only one of them can be right, and Chuck decides that it is him. This makes Amara the transgressor, not because she has actively done wrong, but because she disagrees with him. This is the only criteria required. Amara is also stubborn. He can’t create anything with her in the way. He can create a way for her to not be in the way.

In a universe where death is nothing more than being trapped in a place that is separate from the world, Chuck has technically invented murder.

So, Chuck creates in his image. He creates the archangels, and there are two that are somewhat More Important than the rest. Here’s the first set of mirrors. Michael is Chuck. Lucifer is Amara. Because while Lucifer may be the brightest of them, Michael is obedient and he has been made in his father’s image. This means that he is like his father. Lucifer is rebellious and radiant and stubborn and loves his father and he is Chuck’s favourite, not because he is like Chuck but because he is like Amara.

So Chuck gives Lucifer the lock, and the lock brings out the darkness that was already in him, and Lucifer has a very different idea of how the universe Should be.

So, Adam and Eve leave the garden. They have children, and there are two that are somewhat More Important than the other (sorry, Seth). Here’s the second set of mirrors. Cain is Michael is Chuck. Abel is Lucifer is Amara. While Abel may be Chuck’s favourite, Cain is the firstborn son. He loves his younger brother. He’ll do anything to keep him safe. (He’ll do anything to keep him holy.) Lucifer tricks Abel and Cain makes a deal to save him. There is a potential for sin that is inherent in Abel that is not found in Cain, even when Cain picks up the stone (yes, I know it’s a jawbone in the show).

Making a deal for someone else makes you Righteous. This makes you holy, even in hell. The person you have saved does not feel saved.

So, Chuck orders Michael to fight Lucifer and send him into the cage, and Michael is the obedient son. Michael is an extension of his father’s righteousness, both Michael and the sword, and he will cast his brother out, because he’s been ordered to. Because Lucifer is his father’s favourite, and so he gets Michael to do the dirty work for him. So we have another brother killing their younger sibling, because they must.

That’s three for three.

So, Dean and Sam are the product of hundreds of years of selective breeding. They are not made for themselves. They’re made for someone else. Here’s the third set of mirrors. Dean is Cain is Michael is Chuck. Sam is Abel is Lucifer is Amara. While Sam may be the favourite (this is contested), Dean is the firstborn son. Dean is the reflection of creation and obedience and Sam is the reflection of destruction and rebelliousness. One of them is loyal to the authority. The other is damned.

The Winchesters are Chuck, Michael, and Lucifer. The father cannot kill the youngest son. The youngest son is the father’s favourite. The eldest child must pick up the stone.

Dean and Sam are Cain and Abel. The older brother will do anything to save his younger brother. What is it about sacrifice for someone who never wanted it that makes one righteous? Why does being touched by darkness mean that you must be saved? Who are you being saved from?

Dean and Sam are Michael and Lucifer. The big brother, loyal to an absent father. The little brother, rebellious of daddy’s plan. It was never what you did, it was what you are. It was what you were created to reflect; the Plan and whoever dared oppose it.

Dean and Sam are Chuck and Amara. That's why Dean is the one that Amara prefers - not because he's like her, but because he's like Chuck. Rather than mirrors, they are substitutes.

Only one of them can be right.

Chuck and Michael and Cain and Dean are Righteous, not because they are, but because we are told they are. They are the authority, or the extension of the authority, and they deserve control, because they know how things Should be. The narrative bends itself to prove that their choices are correct. Who they are is inherently righteous. This is what makes them right.

Amara and Lucifer and Abel and Sam are transgressors, not because they do evil things, but because they are in the way. They have different ideas of how things Should be and are stubborn enough to hold onto them. The narrative contradicts itself to make their choices incorrect. Who they are is inherently unholy. This is what makes them wrong.

Despite himself, Dean puts down the stone.

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