#The Sacred and The Profane

[noosphe-re]

A whole volume could well be written on the myths of modern man, on the mythologies camouflaged in the plays that he enjoys, in the books that he reads. The cinema, that "dream factory," takes over and employs countless mythical motifs—the fight between hero and monster, initiatory combats and ordeals, paradigmatic figures and images (the maiden, the hero, the paradisal landscape, hell, and so on). Even reading includes a mythological function, not only because it replaces the recitation of myths in archaic societies and the oral literature that still lives in the rural communities of Europe, but particularly because, through reading, the modern man succeeds in obtaining an "escape from time" comparable to the "emergence from time" effected by myths. Whether modern man "kills" time with a detective story or enters such a foreign temporal universe as is represented by any novel, reading projects him out of his personal duration and incorporates him into other rhythms, makes him live in another "history."

Mircea Eliade, The Sacred and The Profane: The Nature of Religion

#quote #Mircea Eliade #Eliade #reading #cinema #film #art #books #religion #anthropology #culture #The Sacred and The Profane #sacred #profane #mythology #myth #time

[utilitymonstermash]

There's a certain portion of the online right that views the "obvious falseness" of some of the left's sacred truths as something akin to a loyalty test or occasionally a demonstration of submission.

Well the literal corporeal resurrection of Jesus Christ has got to be one of the most obviously absurd and false "sacred truths" of all time.

#I wish there was a third way #religion #idpol #uncharitable #the sacred and the profane #blasphemy #easter sunday

[corneliushickey]

Sade’s sexual metaphor is always ambiguous. Linguistically, he mystifies the sexual attributes of the female body; it is described in sacred terms, even in terms of sacred architecture, as though it were a holy place. The female orifice is a shrine, a place of worship. The surgeon, Roland, apostrophises the cunt: ‘temple of my long-loved pleasures’. This ironic sacralisation of the female body is used throughout Sade; even in its mortification, when it is spattered with blood and ordure, the altar retains its perfidious magic. Incense is burned at this altar; ejaculation is regularly ‘the burning of incense’, at the altars Nature intends for such homage. Orgasm itself is often described as the rendering of homage. This homage is itself equivocal, administered with such violence the recipient may regard it as sacrilege, the culmination of an act of pure hostility.

Angela Carter, The Sadeian Woman

#angela carter #marquis de sade #the sadeian woman #the sacred and the profane #🪳

[idkaguyorsomething]

gonna go read the sacred and the profane. brb.

#good omens #the sacred and the profane #ineffable husbands #ineffable idiots #this is gonna hurt so much 🙂

[castilestateofmind]

“For those to whom a stone reveals itself as sacred, its immediate reality is transmuted into supernatural reality. In other words, for those who have a religious experience all nature is capable of revealing itself as cosmic sacrality”.

- Mircea Eliade

#Mircea Eliade #religion #spirituality #dolmen #menhir #sorginetxe dolmen #megalithic #lacara #the sacred and the profane #sacred #animism #shaman #shamanism #julius evola #rene guenon #carl jung #collective unconscious #consiousness #nature #sacred nature #cosmic sacrality

[spilladabalia]

Maul - The Sacred And The Profane

#maul #the sacred and the profane #garrett alvarado #anthony lamb #jordan severson #chris compeau #robby anderson #death metal #brutal death metal #hardcore punk #sludge metal #desecration and enchantment #ep #2023 #Youtube

[semanti]

“For religious man, space is not homogeneous; he experiences interruptions, breaks in it; some parts of space are qualitatively different from others. "Draw not nigh hither," says the Lord to Moses; "put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground" (Exodus, 3, 5) It is for this reason that religious man has always sought to fix his abode at the "center of the world." If the world is to be lived in, it must be founded and no world can come to birth in the chaos of the homogeneity and relativity of profane space. (...) To whatever degree he may have desacralized the world, the man who has made his choice in favor of a profane life never succeeds in completely doing away with religious behavior. This will become clearer as we proceed; it will appear that even the most desacralized existence still preserves traces of a religious valorization of the world. There are, for example, privileged places, qualitatively different from all others-a man's birthplace, or the scenes of his first love, or certain places in the first foreign city he visited in youth. Even for the most frankly nonreligious man, all these places still retain an exceptional, a unique quality; they are the "holy places" of his private universe, as if it were in such spots that he had received the revelation of a reality other than that in which he participates through his ordinary daily life.” 

— Mircea Eliade, from “The Sacred and The Profane: The Nature of Religion”

#mircea eliade #the sacred and the profane

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Burleigh Beach Australia

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“It was lunar symbolism that enabled man to relate and connect such heterogeneous things as: birth, becoming, death, and ressurection; the waters, plants, woman, fecundity, and immortality; the cosmic darkness, prenatal existence, and life after death, followed by the rebirth of the lunar type ("light coming out of darkness"); weaving, the symbol of the "thread of life," fate, temporality, and death; and yet others. In general most of the ideas of cycle, dualism, polarity, opposition, conflict, but also of reconciliation of contraries, of coincidentia oppositorum, were either discovered or clarified by virtue of lunar symbolism. We may even speak of a metaphysics of the moon, in the sense of a consistent system of "truths" relating to the mode of being peculiar to living creatures, to everything in the cosmos that shares in life, that is, in becoming, growth and waning, death and ressurrection.”

― Mircea Eliade, The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion

#Burleigh Beach #Australia #Mircea Eliade #The Sacred and the Profane #quotes #lunar symbolism

[void-and-vortex]

Im falling back into my sacred and profane hole skjsh

But from what I’ve seen, are you guys that survived reading the thing aware of the oneshot miniseries right after?? Like it wasn’t just that one fic right?? Because it was the oneshots that made it 100x worse

#good omens #the sacred and the profane #idk where it was initially released but i only found the ao3 version and that has the oneshots

[bravecows]

Hello! So I was thinking of the Sacred and the Profane again so I looked up to find my fav fanarts- And then I find the actual author of said fic?? Oh my gosh!!! I loved it, and despite getting annoyed w/ ffnet- I will probably read it again <33

Aw thank you! It's actually on AO3 now, I uploaded it after finding out people were still reading it and recommending/anti-reccing it to each other in this actual decade:

The Sacred and the Profane (35477 words) by afrai Chapters: 15/15 Fandom: Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens (TV) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Aziraphale/Crowley (Good Omens) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Angel Crowley (Good Omens), Demon Aziraphale (Good Omens) Series: Part 1 of The Sacred and the Profane universe Summary: Somewhere else, the happy ending was different.

#good omens #the sacred and the profane

[wellconstructedsentences]

For religious man, space is not homogeneous.

The Sacred and the Profane by M. Eliade

#the sacred and the profane #m eliade

[deadpansasser]

Did god kick adam and eve out of paradise not because they disobeyed him but because they could discern the evil in his creation?

#the sacred and the profane

[linuxgamenews]

Old World’s new DLC offers over 350 new events

The Sacred and The Profane DLC launches for Old World on Linux, Mac, and Windows PC. This is due to the creativity of developer Mohawk Games. Available now on Steam, GOG, and Humble Store with positive reviews. Hooded Horse is eager to announce the release of The Sacred and The Profane DLC for Old World. Which is due to enhance the 4X game’s religious themes. While offering new story and gameplay features. The new The Sacred and The Profane pack features 350+ new events. Offering over ten new character traits and six new historical figures. Along with their own event chains. As well as religious clergy characters with their own missions and projects. There is also religious dissent and persecution mechanics. Including over ten new ‘cult’ city projects. To celebrate the DLC launch, Old World has a Midweek Madness front page featured sale event on Steam with 25% off the base game.

Old World - The Sacred And The Profane DLC Trailer

Old World is the critically acclaimed, character-driven historical 4X strategy game. Which is also thanks to the design of Soren Johnson, lead designer of Civilization IV. Old World focuses on building dynastic families over generations. Since you must lead one of several noble houses vying for power in the ancient world. The game’s first DLC, Heroes of the Aegean, released in May 2022. The Sacred And The Profane DLC pack features a lot of 'what ifs'. Reflecting a time during which many religions were young. While the empires of the known world were forced to reckon with competing faiths old and new. Old World - The Sacred and The Profane is available on Steam, GOG, and Humble Store. Priced at $4.99 USD / £4.49 / 4.99 EUR, with a 10% launch discount for the first week. Alongside the 25% off Midweek Madness Steam sale for the base game. Or with a 20% discount on GOG and Humble Store. Along with support for Linux, Mac, and Windows PC.

#old world #the sacred and the profane #dlc #linux #gaming news #mohawk games #ubuntu #mac #windows #pc #unity

[castilestateofmind]

"Something of the religious conception of the world still persist in the behaviour of profane man, although he is not always conscious of this immemorial heritage".

- Mircea Eliade

#mircea eliade #religious #religion #sacred #European culture #Traditionalism #Carl Jung #Julius Evola #Rene Guenon #Conservative revolution #Nouvelle Droite #Philosophy #the sacred and the profane #psychology #anthropology #eternal values #Self #collective unconscious #Ego #memory of the sacred #cosmogony

[radio-sepia]

oh. i'm on chap 13 of "the sacred and the profane" by afrai. spoilers below so beware hipsters

oh

he did it. he really did it.

"he was going to lead a healthy lifestyle now" damn

honestly not what i was expecting, i thought it would rather go down the line of Capriel stayin in that relationship with Zirah but oh. guess not. (yes i knew beforehand he would kill him at some point. i read some spoilers but honestly i'm glad cause i don't think i would've handled it otherwise) (also i know they will meet after their respective deaths cause im a curious little mouse who snuffed out the one-liners following the fic,,, uhhh was it on livejournal?? im theyre probably on ao3 but not sure havent checked so the weight of this. this. murder of your closest person doesn't hit me as hard) (can't tell if that's a good or a bad thing but hey everyone enjoys stuff their own way)

damn.

ow...

ALSO

""I'll remember you like this" said by Caphriel just before pouring the cup of holy water on Zirah

yea i'll stop right here

#the sacred and the profane #good omens #grzyczek.txt #. #listenin to rectify by 8-bit weapon #shshhshshhhhhdhdhhfhhhfs #tamtaramtam #the sacred and the profane spoilers #i mean... better be safe than sorry

[pepperhatter]

swap and coworkers AUs

#good omens #crowley #aziraphale #ineffable husbands #aziracrow #read 'the sacred and the profane' after drawing the first pic #a huge mistake.... #amazingly written but completely heart-wrenching #my art