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psychopomp-recital · 2 days

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hi I just wanted to ask: what drew you to death magic specifically? and, if your comfortable, how do you deal with grief (both yours and others) by being a death witch? (plz don't feel obligated to answer if it's too invasive /gen)

Oh not too invasive at all! Thank you for being so polite, this response is very long I’m sorry you asked a rather deep question 🩵 CONTENT WARNING IN TAGS

What drew me onto this path?

TLDR; I have always been surrounded death and it has been an ever present part of my life. I hated the idea that when someone died they were gone forever that’s it. Because regardless if you believe in spirits, I hope we can all agree that we’re all collections of the ancestors who make up our bodies & the ancestors who make up our personalities, we are who we are because of those passed on. And I can all but hope that someday someone will remember me and my stories the same way I remember these folks.

I want to be a good ancestor someday.

THE LONG ANSWER

I was raised in the Southern United States. The culture of this area is that surrounded in death. Everywhere you go there is haunted places and cemeteries. There’s also a strong sense of family there, this feeling that everyone is woven and interconnected.

I was raised Mormon and by a folk magical family who taught me the importance of ancestor work. I understood that these folks are part of me, by blood or otherwise they have made me who I am.

I was raised holding hands with my ancestors chronic illness. I looked it in the face everyday. Haunted by the idea that someday my body would rot away the same way I saw theirs rot, reminded everyday that illness could rip my mother from me without warning.

I eventually realized I could continue to ignore death, pray I have time on this earth to do what I want to do and run from it. Or I could embrace its role in my life and welcome it like an old friend.

I found comfort in the idea that I could help those who have passed on. The families who never got to say goodbye now had an opportunity to at least send the message. I could do my part to calm the fear these folks feel when they slip further into deaths grasp. I found a purpose for the pain I was experiencing.

If I could learn all I can while I’m alive, perhaps when I die I’ll be able to leave behind my knowledge and someone can keep this practice going. In that way, they keep me alive too.

I heard you die twice, once when they bury you in the grave And the second time is the last time that somebody mentions your name.

How do I handle the grief of others and the personal grief I experience?

I think I actually made a post on this! I’ll link it below!

But honestly it just comes down to boundaries, and being kind to yourself. It’s okay to cry and be upset and miss those lost to us. It’s okay to mourn for the dead you work with. YOU ARE STILL HUMAN. Don’t loose sight of that.

Also if you check out #MyPsychopompJournal you’ll see some entries on grief and my raw experiences with it. The one below in particular is a pretty good example;

Let me know if you are interested in a more in depth post about how I handle grief personally because I don’t want to ramble more than I already have!

ASK MY ANYTHING ASKS ARE OPEN!

#cw: death #cw: chronic illness #cw: grief #death witch #death work #ask a death witch #witchblr #death witchcraft #folk practitioner #folk witchcraft #pagan #folk magic #folk practice #queer witch #witchcraft #death worship #ask a psychopomp

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deusinabsentiaa · 3 months

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I recently started worshiping Thanatos! I’d love to follow any other folks who worship Thanatos or any other deities representing Death!

#polytheism #Thanatos #deity worship #also Satan has started getting more active with me!#He was so standofish for weeks #Lucifer is so chill and comforting I adore him #death deity #Death #death worship

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candles-by-mokosh · 10 months

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🌑✨ Embracing the Underworld: Descending into Hades' Realm ✨🌑

🖤✨ Calling all seekers of the shadows, guardians of the afterlife, and those drawn to the mysteries of the underworld! Today, let us embark on a profound and transformative journey to connect with the enigmatic energy of Hades, the god of the underworld in Greek mythology. Hades, the ruler of the realm of the dead, holds within him immense depth, wisdom, and the ability to guide us through the realms of the subconscious. Let us explore the depths of Hades' domain, honor his presence, and harness his transformative energy. 🌑🔥💀

💫✨ Who is Hades? ✨💫

In Greek mythology, Hades presides over the realm of the dead, a mysterious and hidden world beneath the earth. As the brother of Zeus and Poseidon, he governs the souls of the departed and guards the boundaries between life and death. Hades' energy embodies the shadows, the secrets, and the transformative power of the underworld.

🌑🔥 Invoking Hades: A Ritual of Descent 🔥🌑

1️⃣ Sacred Space: Find a quiet and introspective space where you can connect with the energy of Hades. Create an altar adorned with dark-colored fabrics, symbols of death and rebirth, and items that evoke the depths of the underworld. Arrange your space with reverence, reflecting the mystery and power of the realm below. ⚰️

2️⃣ Invocation: Light a black or purple candle to represent the darkness and transformative energy of Hades' realm. Close your eyes, take deep breaths, and visualize yourself descending into the depths of the underworld. Recite an invocation that resonates with your spirit, summoning Hades' presence into your sacred space. 🖤

3️⃣ Offering of Shadows: Select an offering that symbolizes the shadow aspects within you and your willingness to confront them. It could be a handwritten letter expressing your fears, a representation of a skeleton or skull, or an item that represents a hidden part of yourself. Place the offering on your altar as a symbol of your intention to explore and integrate your shadows. ��

4️⃣ Meditative Descent: Sit in stillness, grounding yourself with each breath. Visualize yourself descending deeper into the darkness, guided by Hades' steady presence. Allow the shadows to envelop you, inviting self-reflection and introspection. Embrace the transformative energy that emerges from the depths. 🔮

5️⃣ Confronting Shadows: Courageously face your fears, doubts, and hidden aspects of self. Explore the depths of your subconscious and shine a light on the shadowy corners of your being. Seek understanding, acceptance, and growth as you integrate these aspects into a more whole and authentic self. 🕯

6️⃣ Gratitude and Farewell: Offer gratitude to Hades for his presence and blessings. Acknowledge the transformative energy he has ignited within you. Offer a final prayer or affirmation of gratitude, knowing that Hades' wisdom and strength reside within you. Blow out the candle, symbolizing the end of the ritual, but carrying Hades' transformative energy within you. 🪦

🌑🔥 Embracing Hades' Lessons: Illuminating the Shadows 🔥🌑

1️⃣ Self-Reflection: Engage in deep self-reflection and introspection. Embrace the parts of yourself that have been hidden or neglected, and recognize the growth that can come from exploring your shadows. By understanding and accepting all aspects of yourself, you can experience profound transformation. 🪞

2️⃣ Resilience: Embrace the strength and resilience that arises from confronting your shadows. Hades teaches us that by navigating the depths of our fears and darkness, we can emerge stronger and wiser. Embrace the transformative power that comes from facing challenges and overcoming adversity. 🧿

3️⃣ Connecting with the Ancestors: Honor the wisdom and guidance of those who came before you. Explore your ancestral roots and cultivate a relationship with your ancestors, seeking their support and wisdom in your journey of self-discovery. Connect with their energy and tap into the collective wisdom of the generations. 👻

4️⃣ Embracing Change: Embrace the cycles of life, death, and rebirth. Just as Hades governs the ever-changing realm of the underworld, understand that change is inevitable and necessary for growth. Release attachments that no longer serve you, allowing space for new beginnings and transformation. ⌛️

🌑🔥 Descend into the Depths, Seeker of Shadows: Hades' Blessing 🔥🌑

As you journey alongside Hades, may his transformative energy awaken within you. Embrace the depths of your own shadows, navigate the realms of the subconscious, and integrate all aspects of yourself with courage and compassion. Let Hades' presence guide you on a path of self-discovery and profound transformation.

🌑✨ Blessed be, as you descend into the mysterious realm of Hades' transformative embrace! ✨🔥💀

Mokosh

#death witch #death work #hades #hades worship #death worship #dark witch #magic #spirit witch #witchy #ghost witch #hecate #hekate #witch community #love witch #woman owned business #grimoire #greek mythology #greek pantheon

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asphyxiating-endless-darkness · 1 year

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Death Worship

Chaos Descends Festival, Crispendorf July 16, 2022

photos by Starspawn Phty

#death worship #black metal #death metal #black death metal #bestial black metal #war metal #canada #ross bay cult eternal

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ihatethenews · 1 year

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Dennis knows

#dennis prager #death worship #death cult #you don't deserve it #apolitical #yikes #judeo christian #society #prageru

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nexion-of-gravelight · 9 months

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The Templum Necrosophia recognises life in the physical world as a restriction, a life sentence bound to material limitations that we did not ask for. We believe that we should strive to overcome these limitations through deep mental and spiritual work. We strive towards expressing our commitment to Death and the Infernal Divine with whatever artistic and occult means we can, no matter what life puts in our way. To align yourself with Death is to accept the entropy that sheds you of all that no longer serves your ascent. Suffering is the fire that tempers us. We seek to laugh as the enemies strikes chip away our complacency and lead us to greater joy in their defeat.

#demonolatry #death witch #satanism #death worship #necromancy #witchcraft

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anomalisticofferings · 2 years

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@constellations-adorn-the-abyss tagged me to show some albums I've been listening to recently (sorry for being so late!) :)

I tag @nephelebates @riveroflonging @dsneesan @6lovey6dovey6 @dearestdeathxvii @aurademortt @velvetorium @technosingularity-shareholder @eskorbutokronico

#One Path #Yung Hegelians Choir #Immolation #Opeth #Death Worship #Assück #Bathory #Clairo #Down

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oldmandoomer · 3 months

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Angel of Extermination - ink

Back again….just in time. We’re infested 💀

GBFA

#art #hand drawn #anti right wing #anti facist #dark art #sketchbook #artwork #inkdrawing #occult art #traditional art #deathtrip #doomer #death worship #death trip #deathrock

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ylv4 · 1 year

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#death worship #revenge #war metal #bestial black metal #satanic skinhead #black metal #black metal skinhead #rossbaycult #rossbayculteternal #blasphemy #mine

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ocean-not-found · 6 months

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Hail to the Lady, Hail to the Lord, Hail to the Divine Androgyny.

To the Male, the Female, and the ALL.

To the God and Goddess.

Hail to Their many blessed names.

Of birth; Mary, Gaia, Pan, The Theketos.

Of death; Santa Muerte, Hades, Mary Magdalene.

Of rebirth; Zagreus, Jesus, Dionysus, Persephone.

Praise be to Them all, on this sacred night.

Where the veil is thin, and we invited our lost ones to come eat with us. Where we mourn the dead. Where we rejoice in rebirth and weep at the miracle of the earth coming anew.

Thank you for reading. Praise also, to the holiness inside you❤️

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deathstench · 1 month

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Formed ten years ago, DEATHSTENCH released three albums and many eps.. The "Massed in Black Shadow" album was a great obscure and dangerous one..The crown of their sacrifice was their collaboration with Bon Masters Phurpa. John Paul Whetzel and Darea Plantin spells behind this interview.

“Blood Moon Divination” was your latest release. It was released in a limited amount of copies and only in Tape format. Why this choice?

We have always preferred analog releases. We view physical copies as something that should be appreciated.. Let's face it, it's the 21st century, and people do most of their listening through some sort of streaming service. If they like it, they most likely pirate it. We understand this; Our physical releases are intentionally designed for coveting.

We put a great deal of energy into each release. In our past special editions, we have included ritual accouterments that correspond with each album, such as shards of human bone and incense we made specifically for the intent to conjure with the dead.

You have released three albums. Please tell us the concept behind each one and the process of the recordings…Each release turns out to more noisy and dark forms..

To be precise it's four albums, and numerous collaborations and splits. Our releases are not in any sort of chronological order, from conception to the final product takes its own time dependant upon the haste of that particular record label. We record basically the same for each album, building upon a structured theme. Our music is built on layers of sounds from instruments, traditional and otherwise, that we record with either handheld devices or microphones connected to an audio interface which we use to record our percussion and amps.

Each track on "Blood Moon Divination" is an audial ritual recorded and released during each specific Blood Moon in the tetrad cycle of blood moon eclipses of 2014-2015. Through that span of time, these celestial vibrations were available as they were being released on several streaming platforms, including Black Metal and Brews and Repartiseraren. A tetrad of lunar eclipses is extremely uncommon. This was only the eighth of such cycles in over two thousand years. We compiled them together for a physical album that we chose to release during the first exclusive total solar eclipse the United States had seen in over two hundred years. Eclipses, both solar and lunar, are considered to be very inauspicious events throughout the world. As an omen of war, the Talmud regards "If the face of the moon is as red as blood it is a sign that the sword is coming to the world."

"N.O.X." is a transcendent four track journey that starts out violently with the lo-fi black metal track OXEX DAZIS SIATRIS, Enochian for "Vomiting The Head of Scorpions" and slowly transforms itself into a less chaotic discord that concludes with the meditative piece "Mysterivm Tremendvm". N.O.X. or "The Night of Pan", is a mystical state that represents the stage of ego-death in the process of spiritual attainment. The Greek word Pan also translates as All, as he is a symbol of the Universal, a personification of Nature; both Pangenetor, "all-begetter," and Panphage, "all-devourer". Pan is both the giver and the taker of life, and his Night is that time of symbolic death where the adept experiences unification with the All through the ecstatic destruction of the ego-self. In a more general sense, it is the state where one transcends all limitations and experiences oneness with the universe.

"Nekro Blood Ritual", our second album, was designed specifically for its cassette release and is broken into two sections: Conjuration Rites and Burial Evocation. This album focuses on conjuring the dead and the desecration of human remains. This is by far our most atmospheric album; most of the tracks are rely heavily on field recordings and stygian synthesizers to evoke the abject darkness. These songs are reminiscent to the "Incantations in Dead Tongues" era of our work. There are only two conventional (for use of a better term) songs on this album, "Nekrobloodritual" and "Desecrating The Host" the latter being a harsh black funeral doom dirge for the departed.

In our debut album, "Massed in Black Shadow" we utilize all of our influences through the years. Incorporating elements of death industrial, dark ambient, doom, and black metal, and hideously transforming and conjoining them into a writhing mass of absolute filth, a sound truly all our own. The final track, titled “Bastards of the Black Flame” can be considered a motto to us, as it is exactly who we are. The byproducts of an unholy union between some of the most violent forms of music, in both sound and ideologies.

DEATHSTENCH collaborated with Phurpa. How did this Union take form? Are you interested in the theory of empiricism in Bon Religion?

In 2012 Alexei Tegin had discovered our music from our debut album and contacted us. Both Phurpa and ourselves operate with the same meditative qualities regarding our music. Although our sound derives from different spectrums, they coalesce quite vividly. "Evoking Shadows of Death" fuses our ultrasonic vibrations and harsh atmospheres with the harmonious chants and deep, droning reverberations of their tantric voice. These two tracks are designed to help the chod practitioner tap the power of fear. This transformation does not fall spontaneously, as grace, upon the listener: the practitioner must engage in the process. One must take steps to transmute through the aural plane and, through a process in which they must actively participate, requiring utmost concentration and mental stamina. This mystical experience is achieved, not bestowed.

Empirical reasoning has no place in esoteric practices and the occult. These objects are neither phenomena (empiricism) nor human constructs imposed upon the phenomena (idealism), but real structures which endure and operate independently of our knowledge, our experience and the conditions which allow us access to them. Some things cannot be reduced down to empirical measurements.

Thanatology and satanism are your basic influences. How do you define satanism and how death in your personal path?

Deathlore has always intrigued the both of us. There is absolutely nothing more final than Death. Every single one of us will die, as Death does not discriminate. Dying, death and how human beings respond to the inevitability of their mortality and cope with the reality of loss can be viewed from a wide range of perspectives. Our intent has never been to elaborate on our practices or rituals to any audience. Even the altars we allow you to see are set up specifically for public viewing. While they are still symbolic of what we would normally produce for our own rituals, the intent isn't there. It's merely superficial. Our personal altars and rituals will always remain clandestine, as all witchcraft should be.

“Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.” ― Lao Tzu

I would like to hear your thoughts and if you are into the systems of O.N.A & Temple of the Black Light in theory and praxis as Traditional satanic approach you unveil through your works . Satanism is such an elaborate construct; Atheistic, LaVeyan, theistic, there are so many paths. Satan has always been symbolic with the quest for Knowledge, of opposition to arbitrary authority, forever defending personal sovereignty even in the face of insurmountable odds. Our path cannot be defined by one simple ideology.

We have absolutely no affiliation with these groups.

Does DEATHSTENCH ever perform live?

We are very selective in our live performances. The last show was in Portland, Oregon way back in 2015 when we opened up for MGLA, Weregoat, and Sempiternal Dusk. Alan Dubin (of Gnaw, Khanate) and Billy Anderson, whom we have long collaborated with, did a sort of dueling vocals approach to our fifteen-minute audial assault on an beyond-capacity crowd. This show was recorded by Mateo from Greysun Records who also released it on his label in 2018.

Necromancy is an Old Art Like Time.Ancient Greece had deep roots also in this Subject. Are you familiar with the Ancient Greek Mysteries?

Yes, we are familiar with some of the Chthonic mysteries highlighting mortality and the briefness of life, and the spirits of the blessed dead. Though, like most true paths of esoteric knowledge, not much is truly known about the intricacies of these rituals, having been sworn to secrecy and then lost to the Sands of Time. It has been suggested that communicants would drink Kykeon infused with the psychotropic fungus ergot which helped the initiate to reach a fuller understanding of their purpose in life and to shed their fear of death and this, then, heightened the experience and helped transform the initiate. The same can be said of the Huichol in Mexico, who eat peyote at the completion of long arduous pilgrimages in order that they may experience in the journey of the soul of the dead to the underworld. Death worship and eschatology are celebrated by all cultures throughout time, most with the use of hallucinogens.

I would like to hear your thoughts on these words: “This being true for the ordinary Universe, that all sense-impressions are dependent on changes in the brain we must include illusions, which are after all sense-impressions as much as “realities” are, in the class of “phenomena dependent on brain-changes.” ― S.L. MacGregor Mathers, Goetia the Lesser Key of Solomon the King: Lemegeton, Book 1 Clavicula Salomonis Regis

In contemporary education, the emphasis has been on the psychomotor and the cognitive, namely reading, writing, and arithmetic, at the expense of the affective, namely, the emotions, the sensual, the intuitive, and the imaginative. Priority has been assigned to the verbal-intellectual skills. Anything else tends to be shelved or boxed and put away as ephemeral, esoteric, or mystical, each of these terms being used in a pejorative sense.

Consider for a moment the human sensory system. To the scientific mind, the senses are perceived to act as a kind of data-reduction system. The problem with this concept of the senses is that we do not respond to all that is potential sensory input. Perception is quite a selective process, attending to only a small fraction of so-called reality.

To some extent, scientist or artist, everything we perceive is "illusory," since to perceive anything at all we must use our imaginative capacity for fantasy.

What can we expect from DEATHSTENCH in the near future?

We have a few albums waiting in the shadows including collaborations with Sektor 304 and LINEKRAFT, as well as another full-length album incorporating both Billy Anderson and Alan Dubin. Time is relative, and there are no promises as to when any of these releases will see the light of day.

#DEATHSTENCH #zazen sounds #dark experimental art #ritualistic expression #dark ambient #esoteric black metal #death worship #audial witchcraft #occult black ambient #ritual music #death industrial #death ambient #black ambient #ritual ambient #occult magazine #indie zine #metal zine #band interview

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