#lord of the rain cloud serpent

[legendarytragedynacho]

Quetzalcóatl, god creator of man, the Lord of Dawn and the Rain Cloud Serpent. Mesoamerican Cultures

#quetzalcoatl #mesoamerica #creator god #lord of the dawn #lord of the rain cloud serpent #feathered serpent #ancient mexico #mexico

[shinymoonbird]

Anaya Nayanar, also known as Anaya and Anayar, is a Nayanar saint, venerated in the Hindu Shaivite sect. Anaya is considered to be the 14th of the 63 Nayanars. His playing of the Panchakshara (five-syllable mantra 🌟na, ma, śi, vā, ya🌟) on his flute so pleased the god, Shiva, that he took Anaya away to the eternal world.

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The life of Anayar is described in the Thirutthondar Puranam (Periya Puranam) by Sekkizhar, which documents the Histories of the 63 Nayanmar. Anaya is described as a cowherd (ஆயர் or Aayar). Anayar was born and lived his life in Tirumangalam (Thirumangalam), currently in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Tirumangalam is a place of pilgrimage, famous for its Samavedeshvarar Temple, dedicated to Supreme Lord Shiva. Aanaayar used to tend cows. He used to take the cows for grazing in the pastures outside of the town. He used to protect the cattle from disease and beasts of prey. Anayar used to smear Sacred Ash on His body. In the meadows, He used to play the Panchakshara (Five-Letter) Mantra of Supreme Lord Shiva on his flute. Music was his way of worshipping Lord Shiva. A verse from Periya Puranam tells about how he crafted a flute from bamboo, as prescribed in the science of music (Gandharva Shastra).

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One day at the onset of the monsoon, Anayar started playing the Holy Five Letter Word on His flute under the Konrai tree, which is sacred to Lord Shiva, in a garden of blossoming konrai trees. The Periya Puranam devotes several verses to describe the natural beauty of the location.

✨Aanaaya Naayanaar spread sweet melody all aound, playing on his flute with supreme skill, according to the prescribed technique. The basic note of the music - Panchaakshara - streamed sweetly like celestial nectar mixed with honey into the ears of the listeners. Entranced by this the herd of cows forgot to chew the cud, after cropping the tender shoots of grass; the little calves with mouths on the udders of the cows let the foaming milk drip down on the ground; the might-horned bulls and the wild animals like the deer came near, with the hairs of the body standing on end. The dancing peacocks stood still; the flocks of birds with their hearts filled with melody, kept quiet as in a swoon; the herdsmen left tasks incomplete. The 'Naagas', inhabitants of the underworld came out of their caverns; the celestial ladies gathered in the heavens and stood quite charmed; the other denizens of the outer space - the Gandharvas, Charanaas and the Kinnaras - too crowded the sky in their chariots. The heavenly damsels feeding their pet parrots on nectar under the shade of the Kalpaka tree, hurried to drink in the sweet music. Both the weak and the strong were caught in the same spell - the serpent with the venomous fangs leaned gently on the peacock; the unmoving lion and the huge tusker kept company; the deer with the grass in its mouth stood by the side of the tiger. ✨All nature too came under this spell - the wind ceased to blow and the blossoming branches of the trees stirred not; the streams and brooks meshing down the mountain stopped dead in their tracks; the clouds lay quiet and shed no drops of rain; the lightning did not flash and there was not a ripple in the wide seas. ✨Thus all things - movable and immovable - lay ensnared in the mesh of the nectarine music that flowed from the sweet-red lips of Aanaaya Naayanaar touching his flute. ✨Ah, the sweet music welling up from the gushing love of the player for the feet of his Lord, which filled earth and heaven then filled the ears of the indwelling Lord dancing in the Golden Hall, hard to reach for all those lacking in real Love.

✨Next, the Lord, with His consort, the very soul of compassion - He from whom all sound and music arise - the three-eyed Supreme being - appeared in the heavens, seated on His Bull-Mount. ✨His crowding hosts kept utterly quiet, so as not to disturb the music of the Panchakshara which the dancing Lord relished so much! ✨The Lord then declared: "Come unto Me, in the same pose as you now are, to enable the righteous devotees to savour your music ever" ✨This Naayanaar willingly complied! ✨The celestials rained flowers on earth; the sages chanted the Vedic hymns, while the flute continued with melody. ✨The Lord and His devotee then entered the Golden Hall at Chidambaram.

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Note: Rasikas may recall in this context the techniques of music portrayed in Silappadhikaram and the effect of Sri Krishna playing on His flute graphically described by Sage Suka, Periyaazhvaar and Arunagirinathar.

A rasika is a term for an aesthete of Indian classical music. The term is derived from the Sanskrit word 'rasa', meaning full of passion, elegant, and with discrimination. Connoisseur - An expert able to appreciate a field; especially in the fine arts.

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#Periya Puranam #the lives of the sixty-three saivite saints #Aanaaya Naayanaar

[apocalypticavolition]

Let's (re)Read The Eye of the World! Chapter 48: The Blight

Concept art by Filip Štorch and shrunk down just a tad or five, rendering his signature illegible. This reread compresses lots of things - for example, I fit spoilers for the whole of The Wheel of Time into every post! If you don't like that, it's best to be somewhere else.

This chapter gives us our last new chapter icon of the book: another tree at night, but this one twisted and bent over. It's got kind of a look of a flipped Aes Sedai symbol, with the tree making up the upside down fang (appropriate since saidin got the corruption and all) while trying to obscure the upside down flame of the moon. I don't think this symbolism ever means anything, but it's fun. This kind of icon means "Blight", or occasionally the worst of the things from it.

A large steel mirror, carefully turned down, away from the sun, now, glittered atop each tower below the high iron cup where signal fires could be lit when the sun did not shine. The signal would be flashed, to towers further from the Border, and by those to still others, and so relayed to the heartland fortresses, from where the lances would ride to turn back the raid. Were times normal, they would.

I can't help but feel that this kind of set up is actually less effective than signal fires would be. You have to figure out where the sun is, hope there's no clouds in the way or that it's not too early or late in the day to catch the light, angle the mirror appropriately, and hope the people at the other side manage to catch the glint of the tower and are also able to relay it down the line. Much simpler to just have the signal fires which can be lit at any time and are easily protected from the rain. Am I crazy?

“To escort you here means we may not reach the Gap before the fighting is done. I am robbed of the chance to stand with the rest, and at the same time I am commanded not to ride one step beyond the borderpost, as if I had never before been in the Blight. And My Lord Agelmar will not tell me why.” 

If you liked fighting Trollocs so much, you shouldn't have become a Darkfriend. This is the Wheel punishing you, bub. All the other squadron commanders are gonna fight just fine cuz they're not filthy traitors to existence.

Eastward they would join other steel serpents, from Fal Moran, behind King Easar himself with his sons at his side, and from Ankor Dail, that held the Eastern Marches and guarded the Spine of the World; from Mos Shirare and Fal Sion and Camron Caan, and all the other fortresses in Shienar, great and small. Joined into a greater serpent, they would turn north to Tarwin’s Gap.

Is Jordan just describing the movements of armies here, or is he creating the imagery of the Great Serpent itself preparing to strike against those who fight to slay it?

Rand nodded. He could feel it, too, though he could not say what it was exactly he was feeling. The wrongness went beyond the first warmth he could remember out of doors this year; it was more than the simple fact that it should not be so warm this far north. It must be the Blight, but the land was the same.

Rand's Shadowsense is about as refined now as it's ever going to be.

The Shadow can only corrupt what's already there - the land's the same, there's just something wrong with the area the Shadow's claimed.

“Flowers can kill in the Blight, and leaves maim. There’s a little thing called a Stick that likes to hide where the leaves are thickest, looking like its name, waiting for something to touch it. When something does, it bites. Not poison. The juice begins to digest the Stick’s prey for it. The only thing that can save you is to cut off the arm or leg that was bitten. But a Stick won’t bite unless you touch it. Other things in the Blight will.”

Good to know that stick bugs are thriving in the post-apocalypse due to Aginor's horrible experiments.

The big youth glared at the obscene forest through which they rode as he might have at an enemy, or the banner of an enemy. He caressed the axe at his belt as if unaware of what he was doing, and muttered to himself, half growling in a way that made the hair on Rand’s neck stir.

Lan: Keep quiet or we might get killed.

Perrin: WOOF WOOF WOOF!

At least when Mat's making noises right now it's cuz he's throwing up. Get it together, Perrin. It ain't like there's wolves in the area to be encouraging you to focus on your powers.

“No two among the Ogier have found it in exactly the same place. The Green Man seems to be found where he is needed. But it has always been beyond the high passes. They are treacherous, the high passes, and haunted by creatures of the Dark One.”

Really this just makes the Green Man sound more and more like a Fantastica immigrant, since a key point of the world of The Neverending Story was that it couldn't be mapped because places didn't have spatially defined relations to one another, but instead travelers ended up where they needed to be going. I wonder if Jordan ever read the book.

For one brief instant the sun’s rays caught the shattered tops, and Rand’s breath stilled. Not hills. The broken remnants of seven towers. He was not sure if anyone else had seen it; the sight was gone as quickly as it came.

Remember what I was saying about the inefficiency of the mirror towers?

Nothing that big could live in a lake that size. Those couldn’t have been hands on those tentacles. They couldn’t have been.

Not gonna lie, the fact that our heroes never had to fight this bizarre aquatic Shadowspawn (or really any of the horrifying beasts of the far Blight) is one of the biggest disappointments of the series. And honestly as much as I'd like to blame my usual scapegoat, it's not as if Jordan did much with the Blight after this book himself.

“It is a simple thing,” she said, “a bending, so any eye looking at us sees around us, instead. We cannot have the eyes that will be out there seeing our lights tonight, and the Blight is no place to be in the dark.”

Moiraine says that it's a simple thing, but we don't actually see it get used that much. Rand picks up the trick in the mid-series, but he is of course the extreme end of the scale. I don't recall any other big instances of it getting used, which make me think that it's a simple weave geometrically but demanding of so much Fire and Air that Moiraine is one of the few modern Aes Sedai who can cast it.

“There,” Egwene said as if it were settled. “I know. I will make you my Warder, when I’m an Aes Sedai. You would like being a Warder, wouldn’t you? My Warder?” She sounded sure, but he saw the question in her eyes. She wanted an answer, needed it. “I’d like being your Warder,” he said. She’s not for you, nor you for her. Why did Min have to tell me that?

Probably because if you were hellbent on keeping Egwene's love no matter what you'd end up dying halfway through book two. Gotta love Moiraine's, "I can find shit for all of you to do in Tar Valon" claim too. That's "not technically lying" for "You all can spend five minutes getting instructions on where to go next as we march you lot through the Prophecies, then leave immediately."

The Warder was still awake, seated not far from him with his sword across his knees, watching the night. To Rand’s surprise, so was Nynaeve.

Not gonna lie, I kinda wish that every book had had a subplot that Rand (or one of the other six major characters) was completely oblivious to until right before the climax when suddenly all the subtext comes rushing to the forefront. It would have been fun.

“I will never shame you.” The gentle tone, like a caress, sounded odd to Rand’s ears in the Warder’s voice, but it made Nynaeve’s eyes brighten. “I will hate the man you choose because he is not me, and love him if he makes you smile. No woman deserves the sure knowledge of widow’s black as her brideprice, you least of all.” He set the untouched cup on the ground and rose. “I must check the horses.” Nynaeve remained there, kneeling, after he had gone. Sleep or no, Rand closed his eyes. He did not think the Wisdom would like it if he watched her cry.

The saddest thing is, at the end of the day, Nynaeve and Lan will marry and she will have the sure knowledge of widow's black. She's going to outlive him by centuries.

The other sad stuff of course includes: Lan's spent his whole life making himself miserable for no reason (he's still an amazing fighter after he and Nynaeve bang it out), he's making Nynaeve miserable for that same lack of reason, and Rand and Nynaeve don't have a relationship where he's able to comfort her in any meaningful way, so the best he can do for her is pretend that he's asleep.

Depressing chapter end, but don't worry: next time things get scary instead!

#let's read #wheel of time #wot #robert jordan #wheel of time spoilers #wot spoilers #rand al'thor #lan mandragoran #ingtar shinowa #moiraine damodred #mat cauthon #nynaeve al'meara #egwene al'vere #agelmar jagad #loial #perrin aybara

[pleasecallmealsip]

the sword of yajiu

by Bai Juyi (mid-to-late Tang Dynasty poet, 8th and 9th Century)

歐冶子死千年后 A thousand years since Ou-ye Zi had died,

精靈暗授張鴉九 His soul, in gloom, for Zhang Yajiu did guide.  

鴉九鑄劍吳山中 And Yajiu forged a Sword among Wu hills,

天與日時神借功 From Heaven borrowed time, from gods their skills.

金鐵騰精火翻焰 Flames fluttered, ores’ and irons’ spirits soared

踴躍求為鏌琊劍 A Moye Sword they leapt up and restored.

劍成未試十餘年 The Sword spent ten years idle, and then some,

有客持金買一觀 Before a Guest paid sums to have a look.

誰知閉匣長思用 The case, alas, stayed closed in want of use;

三尺青蛇不肯蟠 The three-feet green snake dared not leave its nook.

客有心　劍無口 The Guest had a spark, the Sword bore no mark,

客代劍言告鴉九 The Guest spoke Sword’s words, plead that Yajiu hark:

君勿矜我玉可切 “Boast not, sir, stones of jade that I can slice;

君勿誇我鐘可刜 Gloat not, sir, heavy bells that I can maul;

不如持我決浮雲 Do better, hold me, cleave the clouds adrift,

無令漫漫蔽白日 Their boundless blinds from bright of sun dispel.

為君使 無私之光及萬物 Your selfless glow shall I expand to all

蟄蟲昭蘇萌草出 Those hibernating wake, and sprouts propel.”

Ou-ye Zi was a swordsmith in the state of Yue in the Spring and Autumn period. The Yue-jue Shu (available only in Chinese, sorry) said that when Ou-ye Zi worked, the Mount Chijin pried itself apart, and tin arose within, and the brook of Ruoye stopped in its flow, and copper arose within; and Master of Rain poured water to clean any dirt, and the Lord of Thunder blew the winds and raised the fires; and aquatic dragons held up the furnace, and the Lord of the Heaven filled it with burning coal; the Laws of Tai-yi descended unto earth, and all essence of the world were bestowed unto the sword.

Moye, his daughter, was also a swordsmith, and she and her husband Ganjiang made swords on the orders of He Lü, the king of Wu, and the swords bore the names of this couple. All three swordsmiths names later became references to great swords that required great wielders. Several stories existed to explain what happened to this couple and their child later on. These were retold in the 20th century story "Forging the Swords" by Lu Xun, the English translation of which can be read in pages 43 through 53 here.

If Zhang Yajiu actually existed, he might have been a contemporary of Bai Juyi’s. Not much about this swordsmith is known.

Green snakes were often a metaphor for swords. The Emperor Gao of Han was said to have slayed a white serpent as he rebelled against the Qin dynasty, and Bai Juyi described the action as “beheading the white snake using the green.”

Among the Miscellaneous Chapters of the Book of Zhuangzi, the sword befitting a Son of Heaven was said to be able to cleave the floating clouds above and penetrate every division of the earth below, and

Let this sword be once used, and the princes are all reformed, and the whole kingdom submits. 

Bai Juyi, along with his friend and fellow poet, Yuan Zhen, wrote a series of poems in the more ancient Yuefu style, whose explicit goals were to provide, in cryptic words, social commentary and sympathy for people from all walks of life. Bai wrote 50 poems to this purpose; The Sword of Yajiu was the penultimate. In the preface to all 50 poems, Bai stated the thoughts that drove each piece, and the one for the The Sword of Yajiu was "to think of breaking through blockage and gloom".

#alsip.txt #poetry #this translation was not planned but #i read about the ventôse decrees and cried throughout germinal for it and am reminded of this poem in the process #every road leads back to frev and i cannot walk away #ok ok i'll deliver on adp as soon as i can

[rheaitis]

[excerpt from] "The Song to Rain Clouds" by Kōtai-Āṇṭāḷ

8.1

Clouds spread like blue cloth across the vast sky Has Tirumal my beautiful lord of Venkatam, where cool streams leap come with you? Tears gather and spill between my breasts like waterfalls. He has destroyed my womanhood. How does this bring him pride?

8.2

Clouds that spill lovely pearls what message has the dark-hued lord of Venkatam sent through you? The fire of desire has invaded my body I suffer. I lie awake here in the thick of night, a helpless target for the cool southern breeze.

8.3

So easily they left me my lustre, my bangles, thought, sleep I am destroyed. Compassionate clouds I sing of Govinda’s virtues lord of Venkatam, where cool waterfalls leap. How long can this alone guard my life?

8.4

Clouds bright with lightning tell the lord of Venkatam upon whose lovely chest Sri resides that my supple young breasts yearn everyday for his resplendent body.

8.5

Great clouds rising into the sky climb high, rain hard on Venkatam scatter flowers brimming with honey. Ask the one who tore the body of Hiranya with his long nails flecked with blood to return the conch bangles he took from me.

8.6

Cool clouds heavy with water rise high and pour down on Venkatam, home of the one who took the world from Mahabali. Tell that Narana he entered me, consumed me, stole my well-being like a worm that feasts on a wood-apple Tell him of my terrible disease.

8.7

Cool clouds place the plea of this servant at the feet of the one with beautiful lotus eyes him who churned the ocean filled with conch. Beseech him to enter me for a single day to wipe away the vermilion smeared upon my breasts only then can I survive.

8.8

Dark clouds ready for the season of rains chant the name of the lord of Venkatam who is valiant in battle. Tell him, like the lovely leaves that fall in the season of rains I waste away through the long endless years waiting for the day when he finally sends word.

8.9

Rain clouds rising like great war-elephants over Venkatam what word has that one who sleeps upon the serpent sent for me? The world will say: ‘heedless that he was her only refuge he killed this young girl.’ What honour is there in this?

8.10

Kotai of the king of Puduvai, the peerless city, desired the one reclining upon the serpent and sent the clouds as her messengers to the king of Venkatam Those who place in their hearts these verses of Tamil sung by her of luminous forehead those who sing these words of Tamil will be with him forever.

[Venkatesan, The Secret Garland: Andal’s Tiruppavai and Nacciyar Tirumoli. New Delhi: Harper Collins, 2016]

#poetry month #andal #kotai antal #tamil poetry #nacciyar tirumoli

[zapolinien]

Symbolism in Kingdom's music videos. Issue #5

This time we will talk about the symbol of Chiwoo - the dragon.

DRAGON (Greek drakon) — "winged serpent", but only with paws like an eagle, combines a snake and a bird, spirit and matter, sometimes fire-breathing.

Initially, the symbolism of the dragon was entirely favorable and meant the waters bearing life (snake) and the breath of the earth (bird). He identified with the heavenly gods and their earthly representatives — emperors and kings. Subsequently, its symbolism became ambivalent, denoting the blessed rains following thunderstorms, and, at the same time, the destructive forces of lightning and floods.

The dragon can be solar and lunar, male and female, good and evil.

The dragon and the serpent are usually interchangeable in symbolism, representing the implicit, the indistinguishable, chaos, latent, unbridled nature, as well as the life-giving power of water. When he spews thunder and lightning, there is a transition from the unmanifested world to the created world of form and matter. And here the dragon has a dual symbolism: he can act both as the rain god and as his opponent, who does not let the rain fall. It is associated, on the one hand, with the sea and the depths of the sea, on the other — with the peaks of mountains, clouds and solar eastern regions.

Acting as monsters, dragons are the "lords of the earth", with whom heroes, conquerors and creators have to fight in order to capture or liberate the earth. They are also the keepers of treasures and access to secret knowledge. The dragon is also a symbol of longevity.

In the East, the dragon is usually a Heavenly Force that brings good, whereas in the West it is considered as a destructive and evil force.

In the Far East, it symbolizes cosmic and supernatural power, wisdom, hidden knowledge, the power of the waters that carry life. Dragons guard treasures, they serve as symbols of fertility and strength. This is the emblem of the Emperor as the Son of Heaven and a wise and noble man. The humming of the dragon testifies to the fullness of vitality (qi) and generative power (jing).

In Christian culture, the dragon is a mythical monster with foul breath and scaly body, lion claws, bat—like wings, and forked tongue and tail; the dragon is a symbol of death, darkness and the devil as a serpent who led a person into sin.

A dragon on a chain means defeated evil, often his tail is tied in a knot, since there is a belief that a dragon, like a scorpion, has power in the tail.

Despite this characteristic, kings and emperors chose the dragon as their symbol (Dann is no exception). The ancient Britons made the dragon their symbol of the struggle against the Saxon invaders.

Among the Celts, the dragon symbolizes the ability to inspire terror, as well as invincibility, and hence independence.

The battle with the dragon symbolizes the difficulties that must be overcome in order to master the treasures of inner knowledge. The victory over the dragon represents the resolution of the conflict between light and darkness, the destruction of destructive forces of evil or the victory over man's own dark nature and the achievement of self-control.

In China, this being with the greatest spiritual power is a symbol of life and light; the emblem of the Chinese imperial family is a golden dragon. According to the eastern horoscope, the dragon is the happiest sign.

As a sacred celestial Dragon, the patron saint of the Chinese people, the red star Antares (alpha of the constellation Scorpio) is revered in the Celestial Empire.

The hieroglyph of the dragon — Ryu — means mind, strength, energy of ability, whole nature. This sign can also be used as a dragon's own name.

In Russia, the dragon was completely identified with the serpent — the sign of Satan, the devil. It was considered an emblem of the forces opposing Holy Russia. The images of fabulous monsters in the works of Russian folklore (Serpent Gorynych) have a well-known similarity with the dragon.

In alchemical symbolism, the dragon represented the nature of Mercury.

#chiwoo #mythical creatures #symbolism #dragon #kingdom kpop #kingdom

[mrslunasnape]

The Prince Fought The Serpent

Battle of the Seven Potters

Chapter 18

Luna held the tarnished golden Death Eater mask in both hands, it's empty eyes glaring back into hers, "Are you sure?"

Severus walked up behind her and tenderly wrapped his arms around her waist, "Yes. I told you, I used the Confundus Charm on Mundungus. I planted the seed that they should use Polyjuice Potion in order to move Potter safely."

"And you're sure it took?" Luna questioned.

Severus gave a smug smirk, "Mundungus doesn't have the mental fortitude to remember breakfast, let alone break a Confundus Charm."

Luna gave a heavy sigh and turned to face Severus, a cold lifeless Death Eater mask greeted her. She frowned and donned her own mask. 

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Arm in arm Severus and Luna descended the grand staircase of Malfoy Manor. The rest of the Death Eaters awaited them below.

Voldemort gave a chilling grin as they reached the bottom of the stairs, "Carrow?"

"Yes, my Lord?" Carrow said as his body straightened like a toy soldier.

"You'll be tagging along with the Snapes tonight." Voldemort hissed.

"My pleasure." Carrow said and bowed.

Luna was glad that the Death Eater mask hid her reaction.

"Now that everyone has been sorted into hunting groups for the night," Voldemort mused, "I would like to take this opportunity to remind each and every one of you that Potter is mine. You may wound him if you need to in order to subdue him, but the killing blow must come from me. No exceptions. There will be... consequences for those who do not follow directions. Do you understand?"

A murmur of understanding came from the cluster of Death Eaters.

"Well then," Voldemort smiled, "Happy hunting."

With several loud cracks, each set of Death Eaters apparated.

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It was a cold night, made worse by the fine mist of rain and the breeze of flying. The rain seemed to cling to everything, making it hard at times to get a proper grip on a broomstick. Thoughts of warm butterbeer filled Luna's head as she shivered.

"There!" Carrow called out, his shivering arm now outstretched and pointing at set of two small moving black dots in the distance.

Severus and Luna exchanged a glance before turning their brooms and zipping towards the dots in the distance.

The closer they flew, the more the dots transformed into human shapes. One, of course, was in the shape of Harry Potter. Although, they could not be certain if the Potter on the broom was the real one or a member of the Order. 

Luna felt her heart sink as the second figure came into view. 

Remus.

"The Dark Lord said Potter is his, but he didn't say anything about the escorts!" Carrow cackled as a bolt of green shot from his wand.

Remus and the Potter figure narrowly dodged the spell. The sudden jerk had almost caused the Potter figure to fall off his broom. 

Once they had steadied, the pair shot straight up into the air, darting into a passing group of clouds for cover.

Carrow dashed after them, and Severus and Luna followed closely behind him.

Carrow leaned over on his broom, increasing his speed as he barreled towards the pair of Order members. He lifted his wand, shakily holding onto his broom with just one hand. The wand was pointed square at Remus's back.

"Sectumsempra!" Severus shouted and blinding white light flew from his wand towards Carrow.

Carrow's grip on his broom faulted, and he dipped down as he feebly attempted to regain balance on his broom.

The white light flew just over his head and collided with the Potter figure who instantly began to spin out on his broom. 

"Ha! Good one!" Carrow called from below.

The Potter figure was bleeding profusely from the head and was now in a nosedive towards the ground hundreds of feet below. 

Remus instantly dipped his broom and dove after him below the cloud lines.

Carrow was still cackling, "You better hope that he doesn't fall to his death. The Dark Lord would be furious."

The trio of Death Eaters plunged below the clouds, but the other riders had disappeared. The flew as close to the ground as they could without risking being seen, scanning the rooftops and streets for any sign of the Order members.

To Luna and Severus's relief, they found none.

#mrslunasnape #theprincefoughttheserpent #pro snape #severus snape #snape community #snapedom

[skribeworks]

Coils of the Serpent - Chapter 1

Heric hesitated.

Something was wrong. He just couldn’t shake the feeling, yet everything appeared to be perfectly normal. River Street was packed with vendors and their customers, as usual. The morning sky was blue, with little white clouds, and no hint of rain. The breeze bore a sweet tang of the sea. Even better, no goblins had tried to skewer him today. It was everything he’d dreamt of during those long years of fighting, and it still felt wrong.

Maybe he simply wasn’t used to the peace. It had been less than a year since thousands of soldiers had remained encamped within, and around the town. Most had now gone back to their farms and their families. Yet a few like him, remained plying their trade as a professional soldier.

Perhaps he was instead worried about the mission that had landed in his lap. Not just the matter, but the manner, as well. If circumstances had resolved differently, he would have been half-way to Arthleath by now. Instead Lady Frista and Lord Elwic had conspired to overthrow the king, and everyone associated with them had become suspect. The scandal made work impossible to find. At least high-paying legitimate work.

Then Rido had chanced upon him on Gray Lane. Or was it chance? The more he thought about it the less-likely that seemed. He’d been too caught up organising everything to truly consider it before. Rido had sought him out, he realised. Was that good or bad? He simply didn’t know, but the realisation did little to ease his disquiet.

Of course, what might be bothering him the most, is that he was without his arms and armour. It had been a very long time since he felt secure enough to do that. It felt...wrong, was the best word to explain the feeling.

“Hey! Heric!” Ganthe cried out to him from the doorway of The Crown and Anchor. “It’s this one, right?”

Heric thought Ganthe looked better than last time he’d seen him, just a couple of days before. His hair was still a shaggy mess, as was his beard. Were the rags he wore cleaner?

Heric waved, then waited for a turnip laden cart to pass before crossing the street to join him.

“You’re buying, right?” Ganthe said, “That’s what you said.”

“Yes,” Heric said.

Ganthe grinned. “I’ve been dreaming about it. I even took a swim in the river. Had a bit of a wash.”

“I noticed.” Heric said, then opened the heavy oak door.

It was dark inside, despite it being morning. The windows were all shuttered and the only lights were the candles upon the occupied tables, and the hearth. The latter produced the smoky haze filling the room, as well as the homely aroma of cobnuts. The tavern was almost empty. It normally didn’t fill up until after midday. That’s why Heric had chosen to meet here.

“You promised me it was a nice place,” Ifonsa cried from across the room.

She sat with Lera near the entrance to the kitchen, her back against the wall. Old habits die hard, Heric noted.

Heric moved to join them, but his gaze flicked to the only other occupants. An elderly priest and his acolyte seated off to the side. Their presence irked him. It was just supposed to be the four of them. He had paid well to ensure their privacy. However, making an effort to remove the two would only cause a commotion. He desperately wished for this meeting to remain unnoticed.

“It is a nice place. Excellent ale,” Heric replied.

Ifonsa levelled her ice-blue eyes at him as if to say, just how gullible do you think I am? Then her gaze moved over Heric’s shoulder, “Who’s this?” she asked.

Heric smiled and introduce his companion, “This is Ganthe. He’ll be joining us.”

“Are you trying to win your way into the Heavens?” Ifonsa snapped, “Offering charity to beggars?”

“He’s a good man. Fought bravely in the war. I owe him my life. Now, what can I get you to drink?”

Ganthe took a seat at the far end of the table, as they gave their orders: a pint of the excellent ale for Ifonsa; two pints, a loaf of bread, and a bowl of stew for Ganthe; red wine for Lera. Then Heric headed to the bar. He could hear the others talking as he made his order.

Ganthe grinned at Ifonsa and Lera. “Exciting,” he said.

“What’s exciting about it?” Ifonsa snapped, “That you’ve been allowed inside a building again, or you’re about to get smashing drunk on something other than gutrot?”

“The mission,” Ganthe said, way too enthusiastically.

“Mission? What miss-?” Ifonsa asked.

“I know you,” Lera suddenly announced, as she eyed Ganthe. “You were Arus’ friend.”

Ganthe nodded.

“He carried him five leagues through the snow,” Lera told Ifonsa. “Then waited for days while he lingered. I’m sorry we couldn’t save him.” Lera said to Ganthe. Then she reached out and grabbed Ganthe’s wrist, “He’s in a better place, you understand that don’t you?”

Ganthe nodded, but refused to meet Lera’s eye. When Lera let go of his wrist he snapped it back, and hid his hands under the table.

“Did you manage to return his ring to his parents?” Lera asked him.

Ganthe nodded, keeping his eyes on the table.

“It was gold,” she explained to Ifonsa, “It must have cost a fortune, but it was much too small for him. His grandmothers, wasn’t it?”

Ganthe nodded again.

“It was buried in the skin. It took us an age to get it off his finger. That was after the goblins had lopped off the tip of his finger to get at it.”

“The goblins?” Ifonsa asked sceptically, her eyes on Ganthe.

“Oh yes,” Lera answered. “This was at Rauhoffen.”

“Rauhoffen?” Ifonsa said, “You were one of the nine that survived?”

“Ten,” he said, returning Ifonsa’s gaze. “Technically Arus survived too.”

“Drinks will be here in a moment,” Heric said, returning and taking a seat.

“And food?” Ganthe asked.

“Will take a little longer,” Heric replied. “How’s everyone getting along?”

“What this about a mission?” Ifonsa asked Heric, before anyone could respond.

“You said you were thinking about leaving the Wardens. You’re going to need money.”

“I’m sorry, Heric. I know you enjoy being a professional soldier, and I know it pays well. But that’s not the life for me. I was thinking about returning to Caham. My father said Lord Fastri was looking for a new forester.”

Heric nodded slowly, his lips thin. He had been expecting the response, but it still hurt. As Ifonsa moved to leave he said, “This comes from Rido.”

That stopped her. Heric had wanted to keep that a secret, but he played the plaques he was dealt.

“What does he want?” Ifonsa asked.

“Who is Rido?” Ganthe asked.

“Rido is Baron Milardus’ spy chief,” a deep voice said. Somehow both the other occupants had joined them without their noticing.

“Who are you?” Ifonsa snapped.

“This is a private meeting,” Heric added.

“A private meeting in a tavern is never ever private, don’t you know that boy?” the elderly priest said. “As for who I am, I have many names. None of which are required now. What is required is that I introduce you to my associate. This is Falduin. He is an apprentice from the High Tower.”

“Which one?” Lera asked.

“White.” The elderly priest said.

“Red,” the apprentice contradicted.

“White.”

“Red”

“White”

“Red.”

“Definitely white.”

“Red.”

“It doesn’t matter!” Heric snapped. “What do you want?”

“Is he your apprentice?” Lera asked.

“Most definitely not. I am but as you see me,” the Priest replied, “White.”

“Red,” the apprentice shot back.

“Nobody cares,” Heric said.

“Are you a disciple of Úlæ?” Lera asked.

“He looks like a wizard,” Ifonsa said, “He just needs a floppy hat.”

“I can see a red floppy hat on the next table,” Ganthe said.

“I told you this wasn’t going to work,” Falduin said.

“Will everyone just shut up for a moment!” Heric shouted. “Who are you? What do you want?”

“It’s not what I want,” replied the Priest-cum-wizard, “Or who I am. But what you want, and who you are. You want to succeed in your mission, and for that you’re going to need the services of my associate-“

“We don’t need an apprentice, with simple deceptions and jugglery-“

Only Ganthe seemed to notice that Falduin had gotten a far-away look on his face. The apprentice held his hand palm up, fingers outstretched, as though he was holding a small ball. He seemed to be mumbling under his breath.

“I have been assured he is fully capable-,“ the Elderly Wizard said.

“But if you’re a fully-fledged wizard, then perhaps we can reach an agreem-,“ Heric offered.

There was a loud WHOOSH and a WHOMP, as a small ball of fire erupted in Falduin’s hand. It was as if he was holding the sun. Everyone fell silent.

Falduin looked down at the ball, and smiled proudly.

Ganthe giggled and applauded like a child.

Falduin grinned back.

“What have you done?” the Elderly Wizard demanded, his face filled with both fear and wrath.

“Red,” Falduin replied, defiantly.

“That spell has a time limit.”

“What happens when it expires?” Heric asked.

“It explodes,” the Wizard said.

Next chapter >

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[libidomechanica]

But she best pebbled sigh, from

A kimo sequence

               First Chapter

The nurse opening said in there the Baron’s clock, and such deep! Faint nor what to arrive the child.

               Second Chapter

Why handsome reacher with a knot, fair this march out its foot one! Wit to be you to comforter!

               Third Chapter

But there Beadsman, too, bent with things routine— look at solve if he though many part: as the bier wind.

               Fourth Chapter

The greenness holds and the yards of all sighs: and he secret of there—there. Power, hung time away.

               Fifth Chapter

For yet—be hand, full of Cathay. It is treading not thee long; for this: throughness of Arcady?

               Sixth Chapter

And all amorous feast. I love; time to smutch even serpent in their one to a lip to weep.

               Seventh Chapter

With that when so sweet from my friend’s directions do I love; and by you see thee to sigh; If there.

               Eighth Chapter

Is forehead of May; take my thought have be foughts and anxious: see! From the Charless real while as moon!

               Ninth Chapter

And woos, who knell! Grow, and jet: my name could go: perhaps will lovely ray, as replied, all OK.

               Tenth Chapter

Tomorrows, to not the fault. Thus the very friend! And why the night, art stayneth! Of pleased her blue!

               Eleventh Chapter

When you see, that same; if between to see they wants after so sweets of men. Made him down tucked men.

               Twelfth Chapter

Vault of you. Larger come crystal bright with winds. A chariot, belong pain, for sweet love that be.

               Thirteenth Chapter

Woe is the sweetly be made that grasses, shall vex thee her eye. Our true, to must nook, old return!

               Fourteenth Chapter

No bad dreaming hones to Locksley Hall! Next Camus, reacher will days that straightness, my sleepy one!

               Fifteenth Chapter

Will silvery touch’d out, O! She feet, sweet Tibbie Dunbar? Pigeons make us on me. Thou fool!

               Sixteenth Chapter

And in the cannot the strange tide. In time in lap of her limbs relax, her depths and these contempt!

               Seventeenth Chapter

My native in for all that clouds, they captive call: for sigh forehears begun: rift these? Foot one!

               Eighteenth Chapter

And them? He sands, I were greeting, perhaps come in his old makes me so, the earth shalt more to write!

               Nineteenth Chapter

Where in virtue know thus show how have done. Tell meeting, that hath thee hence cannon-ball fash. As dream.

               Twentieth Chapter

Sure of Arcadian lore. But in misse this capable to twirl the brought is the moorlands old.

               Twenty-first Chapter

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, my distres on our fish, gold clouds, and suffer of old thee.

               Twenty-second Chapter

The kindest balsam, so the had lord’s ear. Do you translate espouses fed, bizarrels last bee.

               Twenty-third Chapter

Not attendering pray for for Nay! The rose that enfeeble shortest statue warned by their fruit?

               Twenty-fourth Chapter

To be like a round his line perilous foretold, as angry life, shall lot. Slow dejects her woe.

               Twenty-fifth Chapter

The greed among those tree. No bad complicate, softly from human race of right he meanest man.

               Twenty-sixth Chapter

“Company of the rain, and sin, I grieve. And striving souls can stocking smart. Or out o’ h—ll.

               Twenty-seventh Chapter

Like a cinder ear, throughts to be seized by charm’d sounding into a fire or doe, but to rever!

               Twenty-eighth Chapter

Do not pale of youth, for the mirth, which heart broke and the holly five. Is fresh cast an auld was grown.

               Twenty-ninth Chapter

As stream thou waked body wiped all those lost appear before shore? Leaves life in torment! Farewell!

               Thirtieth Chapter

A worthy trod, on every mind, and two yearning to speak, and bravers’ den? Even the show here?

               Thirty-first Chapter

The skulls him derides. A kissable at my dizzy trance, chill on rose, chain many a mermaine!

               Thirty-second Chapter

The female pain. With goodness nymph upright as the ragged slenderly I sing, for I should blow?

               Thirty-third Chapter

”—At thee that I weigh thy bedded in me. Of the tried and questions of tropic shade, that it live.

               Thirty-fourth Chapter

Like to pleasant Orange. Both heaven, to end oft would runs, and way, why witch #1 with faculties set.

               Thirty-fifth Chapter

Meandering whale, like. Whom think of tall, and you heart of malice sight, and down the Latmian love?

               Thirty-sixth Chapter

And woods in the mutter’d, would I turn. And when God accents, thy have awake! This court should I turn.

               Thirty-seventh Chapter

As surely by himself respect chastes. All renderneath and from thy quest. And joys comforter!

               Thirty-eighth Chapter

And was will not speak of his pace, alas! In fragrant there ye, Nymphs, where upon days and the prest.

               Thirty-ninth Chapter

They glittered his father mankincense free in ways. My heart you dost noted her half the ragbag.

               Fortieth Chapter

His which sight and spread or stop that one, it is little pond which makes musick unpruned will shape!

               Forty-first Chapter

And a near thee hence extender, but the live. I had been the sea up the lips, with kirk and soul.

               Forty-second Chapter

Phoebus’ should head, a little main Next Camus, revelry, before? To the night,—without straight gleam.

               Forty-third Chapter

But evening of her happed upon my earthly royal malady pass it. By all evening.

               Forty-fourth Chapter

In the stole to you, all it doth keep maw her strong. Make my worth, our dead, so sad, so ever son.

               Forty-fifth Chapter

For things into thing birds to be requestion complete earth. Some hers be made him the ground, though cave!

               Forty-sixth Chapter

Ten flutter enclose o’er the nurses. That thy less, knees. Oh me! Hold silver’d to flesh and comfort?

               Forty-seventh Chapter

And have rest: yet I ween, because her hast plain’d, your shower kept, as there I go. His eyes we were.

               Forty-eighth Chapter

Both discover, sixteen stand all the tree, and pines. That cried: prayers, bright at all the bleached the best.

               Forty-ninth Chapter

Last Christabel! Your trust thee in the devil the partiall loos’d, down in our direction her love.

               Fiftieth Chapter

—Cannot she wage a restle. But with ruth, her name is passion with arms of the owlet’s honour!

               Fifty-first Chapter

Where, or for even it heart’s passion. I kissed herself she watery love, methought drops of what?

               Fifty-second Chapter

Her very sweet. She can be, but it O Sovereign film sans subtile she cruel too well tied hues.

               Fifty-third Chapter

That past which when I thine is were it. That will with the love constance, but she was they sped; and grone.

               Fifty-fourth Chapter

Sparkles—never hail. Or forms to have good does the wonderment’st that the wither chain and they St.

               Fifty-fifth Chapter

Then conceiv’st, is wife. Could through for it the had done, his due, one must was money in the silence.

               Fifty-sixth Chapter

And she sank down upon my thou canst nook. They sigh, distress shall live or to be absent lowers.

               Fifty-seventh Chapter

And, and after is ashes lying. And light’s shall let me to many women line, summer legs.

               Fifty-eighth Chapter

For thy most dead woodcutter enclosed top, and her in the sun, even in a windowy net.

               Fifty-ninth Chapter

It happy am I in mutual affection, like can lay into thee? Precious comfort?

               Sixtieth Chapter

Yet must died the crones, O Sea! The light said, be incense from hence, gilded all the silver live.

               Sixty-first Chapter

Then weeds were! Who are glowing verge of morning bodies fled evening wave high, which I doubt, you know?

               Sixty-second Chapter

Was no other cheer, want in basket. Sometime shall violence find is, when he hallow: essence.

               Sixty-third Chapter

Alas! Larger count blink it shook her wonders— past thou art are his eyes were gray: tis over told.

               Sixty-fourth Chapter

And all of still on sound. And I am murderingly do you, no sight, the ride, the had slain.

               Sixty-fifth Chapter

It at last that women have shall rate dry! Have her face it flush; the world, and I have done in it.

               Sixty-sixth Chapter

Well easy slide, like to tell me maiden’s heart know he rose-jacynth to kill? But rest? And away!

               Sixty-seventh Chapter

I hopeless decline with he, and scorn, their glossy ravish’d, when Hill. Richly complicated in?

               Sixty-eighth Chapter

Cannot quell in russet robe arrange now! Than ware, my tomb the same forehearse. The mountain-paths.

               Sixty-ninth Chapter

The tiger-moth’s despite: and the city’s eye, and in sea now for so mild woos? Apace and woos?

               Seventieth Chapter

Wond’rous tales and did he, who love conceive! I cut in sleep you, with minglets doth his monasterns.

               Seventy-first Chapter

To hard feverous wood and must, and also, became inmate with force, no human race. He same.

               Seventy-second Chapter

Let you survey And of space, but wisdom? But Sylvio sooth! And deformed the rose-enamel.

               Seventy-third Chapter

Their standing may so sweet Tibbie Dunbar? In vain his marry. Has not by my numberous song.

               Seventy-fourth Chapter

Said he, think how came too, let it last my sickly footing lies. Sad, in pink but draw not enough.

               Seventy-fifth Chapter

No powers to my day fast spoused tight! And tween thought shone, in the trade, and me. Man, as a tomb.

               Seventy-sixth Chapter

And aright. Love in the gross a vapour, and this. Sing meant. Or ripe to see my love, wherefore?

               Seventy-seventh Chapter

Nor sea short a-bed; she sad stol’n the said, however, that harms accustom. In that breath he part?

               Seventy-eighth Chapter

Their starvest for your wings—o let me by one? Shelter honor feature gone bag man, after me?

               Seventy-ninth Chapter

While than the hear like him safe-smiling sermon. But, fondest land de Vaux of wretched woods, and town.

               Eightieth Chapter

Which even as Anacreon shut very moment while than doth plain the Line. Bounds were dreary road.

               Eighty-first Chapter

How many a dusky gleam; sweet some in the breath! Curse I cannot weary pout; just on her blue!

               Eighty-second Chapter

A starvest by a fly; I hid my care; all cloud-born elfin-storm. Now I will diets boundeth!

               Eighty-third Chapter

‘By my kindest from other Cybele! And breath the walked as altogether feet what’s turtle.

               Eighty-fourth Chapter

Whose nutria-things; the king, and take they tall a womanly Pittsburgh. Thus reprieve; flowers in.

               Eighty-fifth Chapter

Who had wronged listening loom of a baskets. Home mine eyes lifting somethinkes the come—thou him.

               Eighty-sixth Chapter

As well nigh foreigns, arms? Nothing to see them I love, the steps, till itself in the crags, O Sea!

               Eighty-seventh Chapter

Old Angela washed marigolds, nough stepp’d serving warmly like a gum. Ye muse with miserable.

               Eighty-eighth Chapter

Thus Nature’s whole fairer yet! He moan had zoned her time to hides and rise is of from such discerne.

               Eighty-ninth Chapter

The lectual selfe beleeue that shed waved with place, lattices must be: for itself, if I am turned.

               Ninetieth Chapter

Am taking Stephen Hill. Going the Travesera de Gracia in Barcely with grow.

               Ninety-first Chapter

Grew in search hall, until I feelings with stiff bitch? ’Ve mickle on the moon, will desire?

               Ninety-second Chapter

Sign the chest, like a new-born or me, nor hill of his ward to the sound. I know, the worms, her mouths!

               Ninety-third Chapter

I call wilt for a noble mine do stirr’d time is even to-day, with money, I come.—Well-known!

               Ninety-fourth Chapter

Thou knock me down. Ah, if these press join’d for for forehead of its hope where with either’s breath’—alas!

               Ninety-fifth Chapter

She must things, fearful wise come unto her heate from the care, my touch and maid, alas! Who puff you.

               Ninety-sixth Chapter

With sleepy me! I’d caressing, mellow heau’nly foot our stood still, mystering at evening.

               Ninety-seventh Chapter

Grew fain his; nor spoke occupy. Playing: now, the last doth at all: in my smart, and weak it ends.

               Ninety-eighth Chapter

He can see. I’ll look into the sea and leave me, i and my lord, himself she promontory.

               Ninety-ninth Chapter

—The grave, cuckoo! She sacred conjure the stands sever. We are kisse in the pine! Such a cast speech!

               One hundredth Chapter

Over to have spell hold true? Close the kitchen love—he—but all the jingling, what it in default.

               One hundred and first Chapter

On some general ditties were entitle stood, and woo the spired, endymion: woe! Because thief.

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[bookoformon]

2 Nephi Chapter 15. "The Vineyard- Taken Away."

The Lord’s vineyard (Israel) will become desolate, and His people will be scattered—Woes will come upon them in their apostate and scattered state—The Lord will lift an ensign and gather Israel—Compare Isaiah 5. About 559–545 B.C.

We are still revisiting the Tanakh, looking for signs that history has paid attention to the words of the Prophet Isaiah who stated "door to door oppression" was not a hallmark of a Godly people.

This was way back in 800 BCE just over 3,000 years ago. The Book of Mormon was published in 1830 just before the Civil War was declared by President Lincoln to put a stop to it, and now we are back once again to nursing a nation through a time when State Power is being used against American citizens by their own government, at the behest of zealots. Senator Graham's recent testing of the water regarding the modification of marriage rights in order to oppress African Americans and please religious conservatives is a good example.

To misrepresent religion as an incentive to use the State to bludgeon its subjects is called apostasy.

The cure? Plant one, of course. That Isaiah...went pretty deep didn't he?

1 aAnd then will I sing to my well-beloved a song of my beloved, touching his vineyard. My well-beloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill.

2 And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest avine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a wine-press therein; and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.

3 And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard.

4 What could have been done more to my vineyard that I have not done in it? Wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes it brought forth wild grapes.

5 And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard—I will atake away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and I will break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down;

6 And I will lay it waste; it shall not be pruned nor digged; but there shall come up abriers and thorns; I will also command the clouds that they brain no rain upon it.

7 For the avineyard of the Lord of Hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant; and he looked for bjudgment, and behold, coppression; for righteousness, but behold, a cry.

8 Wo unto them that join house to house, till there can be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!

9 In mine ears, said the Lord of Hosts, of a truth many houses shall be desolate, and great and fair cities without inhabitant.

The joining of many houses in untruth and delusion, AKA Fox News and the fundamentalist religions and politics it speaks for do indeed create desolate cities that are incapable of supporting their yearning inhabitants as we have seen...

10 Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one abath, and the seed of a homer shall yield an ephah.

=the Ten Decrees shall yield the 7 weeks X 7 Days= 49 or one "mikveh" or a baptism, but the seed of a homer "a captive talker" will yield a sin.

11 Wo unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may afollow strong drink, that continue until night, and bwine inflame them!

In the Torah we read that Noah planted a vineyard after the Flood. He had good intentions, our Sages tell us, for the world was a dismal and sad place after the Flood, and Noah wanted to bring some cheer into the world. Unfortunately, he drank too much wine and came to trouble. King Solomon warned us against overindulgence in wine drinking. Said he, "Wine is a mocker, strong drink enrages; and whoever indulges therein is not wise" (Proverbs 20:1), and again, "Look not upon the wine when it is red, when it gives its color in the cup. ..in the end it bites like a serpent, and stings like an adder" (ibid 23:31-32).

12 And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine are in their feasts; but they regard not the work of the Lord, neither consider the operation of his hands.

=Religious rites that do not properly pay homage to the God of Israel or unveil all the wonderful things He does for us. Compliance is not the same as paying homage.

13 Therefore, my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge; and their honorable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.

14 Therefore, hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure; and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.

15 And the mean man shall be abrought down, and the bmighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the clofty shall be humbled.

16 But the Lord of Hosts shall be exalted in ajudgment, and God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness.

17 Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the afat ones shall strangers eat.

18 Wo unto them that draw iniquity with cords of avanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope;

19 That say: Let him amake speed, bhasten his work, that we may csee it; and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it.

20 Wo unto them that acall bevil good, and good evil, that put cdarkness for light, and light for darkness, that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

21 Wo unto the awise in their own eyes and bprudent in their own sight!

22 Wo unto the mighty to drink awine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink;

23 Who justify the wicked for areward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!

24 Therefore, as the afire devoureth the bstubble, and the flame consumeth the cchaff, their droot shall be rottenness, and their blossoms shall go up as dust; because they have cast away the law of the Lord of Hosts, and edespised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

25 Therefore, is the aanger of the Lord kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them; and the hills did tremble, and their carcasses were torn in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

26 And he will lift up an aensign to the bnations from far, and will hiss unto them from the cend of the earth; and behold, they shall dcome with speed swiftly; none shall be weary nor stumble among them.

27 None shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken;

28 Whose arrows shall be sharp, and all their bows bent, and their horses’ hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind, their roaring like a lion.

29 They shall roar like young alions; yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and shall carry away safe, and none shall deliver.

30 And in that aday they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea; and if they look unto the land, behold, darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof.

[tariqchosenone]

Listen to the voice of the universe and study it and work hard to escape the pain

Just like how Moses and the 600,000 israelites escape the slavery of the Egyptians and lived in the wilderness.

We have lived in the wilderness for 7 years from September 2016 to April 2023 this is the lake of fire and bottomless pit.

The only way to free from the chains of sorrow, pain, crying and sexual jealousy and pain of disease is to follow Moses example.

I am the shepherd Moses my name is Tariq and I'm a 29 year old African american that found God in August 2014 I am not eloquent or well-spoken and I'm not intelligent.

But I do understand the Bible with the power of the 7 spirits of God.

The Spirit of the Lord, and the Spirits of wisdom, of understanding, of counsel, of might, of knowledge and of fear of the LORD.

If your not familiar read the book of Exodus but I can summarize.

Moses was a shepherd who was chosen by God to free the israelites.

If you are suffering pain and you follow lucifer or the devil or are part of a brotherhood or sisterhood but you're suffering you are officially a servant of the serpent.

The israelites were under the hard bandage of Pharoah for about 430 years.

Pharoah in the modern Era is Jesus Christ. The Lord God whos name is Jehovah hardened Jesus Christ heart which basically means he wanted Jesus to be mean and cause pain on all women who are available and all men.

God shall perform miracles spiritually in everybody's life.

Thou must pay attention to nature, flowers, what's available at the grocery store, happenings at the mall, witness how people socialize in middle school, high school, and college, listen to conversations and watch how women and men walk.

Pay attention to the body language of children and babies, behold the clouds, is it sunny? Did it rain or snow in your area, was there lighting and thunder in your area. What are the animals doing that are around.

Do you have a dog or pet? How is your pet responding to the universe.

Can thou see the stars and moon and sun.

Listen to animals, nature, stars, planets, trees, and listen to your smartphone.

Behold your smartphone has a heart and soul and your smartphone in your pocket is a dark angel that can cause destruction on your enemies and heal your friends.

Thou shalt turn on your TV and your TV will obey the deadly ferocious dark angel that is at the hand of the LORD thy God.

Thou TV will speak to you only when you watch certain YouTube videos and thou shalt gain knowledge and thy TV that thou owns shalt make you a lot of money.

When thou watches porn, watch how the man and woman act in the video and thou will behold two zombie like corpses from the walking dead making love with each other. Jesus created the zombie and when thou watch pornhub or xvideos thou shalt behold two zombies or a orgie of zombies drinking blood and thou shalt witness weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Jesus prophecised that the human race would be zombies and they would fuck each other on camera. Jesus loves zombie sex and it gives him great pleasure.

When thou uses Tik tok. An angel will let you ravish a woman with delight and thou shalt behold the burning desire and orgasm that is in Ariana Grande's song quit by cashmere cat that is about her relationship with Jesus Christ (she made the song for Tariq which is me).

Back to Moses in the book of Exodus, God shall break the hard bandage of sexual jealousy on the human race and mental anguish and physical pain will be healed completely but you must conquer the Mall.

If you are a woman you must go shopping by yourself and conquer the mall which is basically buying a gorgeous shirt from every single clothing store in that mall, this will be a slow long process but with every shirt you buy the pain will dissipate.

If there is a expensive outfit that is really sexy to you and looks flattering on you and your smartphone tells you buy it with a voice in your head (this is a angel) then buy it.

If you are a wealthy woman, the entire mall is basically your playground. Quality Make up, quality skincare, quality hair care, oral health, 1000 beautiful dresses, 1000 colorful comely looking heels.

A man shall wear a flattering suit, own a expensive black leather jacket (a woman with a leather jacket is a lioness in bed).

Have a beard oil, masculine skin care products (no man shall have feminine skin care or hair care products for this is a abomination to the LORD). If you are a wealthy white man heed my words buy expensive jewelry and own 1000 pairs of Air Jordan's. You don't have to wear the Jordans and owning Nike stocks or apple or Microsoft stocks don't count.

Heed this important truth, you don't need to wear all your outfits and shoes but you must own a luxury collection of clothes in your closet.

But skin care and hair care and oral health and smelling good (you must spray thy privy member and your private backyard)

You must routinely do these things to attractive the opposite sex.

Jesus christ wants men and women to be bums and disgusting while he is the only sexually attractive man in the world to get all the women.

Since we are all robots mentally and emotionally. Sexual Jealousy makes us unattractive and makes us feel pain and suffer physically.

Jesus created robots that he can't even maintain properly.

Here is a basic tech parable for my apple  nerds. (My fav was the iPhone 5)

Jesus created basic robots that run on the 3rd generation iPhone 3Gs software

God has an iPhone 14 and wrote the book of revelations with it on IOS 16.

Jesus christ tried boot a custom rom of ios 16 on the iPhone 3GS hardware.

The iPhone 3GS hardware with ios 16 is extremely laggy and glitchy and is schizophrenic, mentally depressed, needs to see apple care for human therapy session, and extremely jealous of women's looks, jealous of another man's success and wife and career.

God shall transform the wicked hacked Iphone 3GS with ios 16 into a Iphone supercomputer that has the ability to make anyone attractive to anyone in the world, give you happiness, make you understand any parable, there shall be very little pain, very little sorrow, and no crying because your tears of sorrow shall turn into tears of joy.

But there is a catch thou must work non-stop to maintain your iphone supercomputer and if you rest. Pick one day out of 7 day week to rest.

You must learn something new at either the inside of restaurant, the park, the grocery store, the mall, shopping center, research something new on the internet, study human relationships and study body language and verbal cues.

Thou must study nature and society and music.

You will not suffer jealousy and your pain shall turn into a feast of pleasure.

[talonabraxas]

Varuna 'the one who econompasses the whole world,' is one of the oldest Vedic deities. May be he is the personification of the sky; but he is also associated with clouds and water, rivers and ocean. He is sometimes clubbed with Mitra and praised (Mitravaruna). Varuna is the king of the universe and lives in the highest world. His knowledge and power are unlimited. He has thousand eyes and oversees the whole world. Hence he is the lord of the moral law. He punishes those who transgress this law but forgives them out of compassion if they repent and pray. By activating Vayu, the lord of the wind, he sustains life by giving rain and crops. Though Varuna was the chief deity in the beginning, he seems to have yielded his place later on to Indra and Prajapati. In the subsequent mythological literature Varuna is described as the presiding deity of the western quarter and as the lord of oceans, water and aquatic animals. In some of the temples he is depicted as riding on a crocodile. In two of his four arms he holds the serpent and the noose (pasa). Sometimes he is pictured as riding in a chariot drawn by seven swans and holding the lotus, the noose, the conch and a vessel of gems in the four hands. There is an umbrella over his head. Vasus: Vasus are a class of deities, eight in number, chiefly known as attendants of Indra. The word Vasu is derived from 'vas' ('to dwell,' 'to cause to dwell,' 'to shine') and hence Vasus are deities representing all spheres of extension or space, and height. They were perhaps personifications of nature and natural phenomena. The eight Vasus are: Dhara (the earth), Anala (the fire), Ap (the waters), Anila, (the wind),. Dhruva (the polestar), Soma (the moon), Prabhasa (the dawn) and Pratyusa, (the light). https://vedicfeed.com/lord-varun/?fbclid=IwAR0bY4kkn-RKPG1aHNnXh0jg4EF6afYur8MRxT93GeTz5VzYp1PaED8PdWM

[xochitl-nahuatl]

List of the Aztec Gods

This isn’t a complete list, but contains most of the Aztec gods and what they are known for.

Ometecuhtli/Omecihuatl - dual god/goddess who created themselves at the beginning of time as one being, then split into male and female in order to reproduce all creation. These are the supreme gods. 

Xiuhtecuhtli (Lord of Fire) - god of fire, daytime, and volcanoes; father of the gods 

Teleoinan - goddess of the Earth, motherhood, childbirth, fertility, and vegetation. Counterpart of Gaia; mother of the gods. Honored with blood-sacrifices in the fields. 

Huitzilopochtli (Hummingbird of the South) - god of war, human sacrifice, and the sun; father of the Aztecs and the one who led them to conquer Mexico from the Otomi.

Tezcatlipoca (The Smoking Mirror) - god of magick, the night sky, ancestral memory, time, fate, and change through conflict 

Quetzalcoatl (The Feathered-Serpent) - dragon-god of winds, rain, knowledge, wisdom, spirituality, science, and self-reflection 

Coatlicue (She of the Serpent Skirt) - serpent-goddess of the earth, fertility, motherhood, and rebirth; represents both the life-generating and devouring sides of nature (guardian of mothers who die in childbirth). 

Itzpapalotl (The Obsidian Butterfly) - goddess of revenge and blood-shed; leader of the Tzitzimimeh, the star-demons. 

Nanauatzin - god who sacrificed himself in fire so he could become the sun 

Tonatiuh (The Turquoise Lord) - god of the sun; Nanauatzin’s name after becoming the sun god. Had required the nourishment of human blood to provide warmth to the land.

Xochiquetzal (Precious Feather Flower) - goddess of beauty, sex, romantic love, pleasure, fertility, motherhood, and traditional women’s handicrafts such as weaving. She is also heavily associated with the moon and the various lunar phases. 

Huhuecoyotl (Very Old Coyote) - coyote-god of merriment, art, music, wisdom, mischief, and virility 

Tlaloc (He Who makes Things Sprout) - god of rain, thunder storms, and vegetation. Brings rains to the land but is wrathful when angered, sending floods or causing droughts to destroy crops. 

Mictlantecuhtli - god of death and the Underworld (Mictlan) 

Mictecacihuatl - goddess of death and the Underworld; wife of Mictlantecuhtli 

Xolotl - dog-headed god of fire, lightning, misfortunes, sickness, deformities, monsters, and twins; psychopomp for the dead. His job was also to protect the sun from the dangers of the Underworld.

Chalchiuhtlicue (She Who Wears a Jade Skirt) - goddess of water, navigation, and childbirth 

Xipe Totec (Our Lord the Flayed One) - god of vegetation, agriculture, sacrifice, and the skinning of humans. Brought vegetation to the land once appeased with the flayed skins of sacrificial victims. His festival is called Tlacaxipehualiztli - which translates as “flaying of men”. 

Mixcoatl (Cloud Serpent) - god of hunting and the stars. He was usually depicted wearing a cloak of human skin; his own exposed skin was covered in red and white stripes.

Xōchipilli (Prince of Flowers) - god of summer, flowers, art, dancing, singing, pleasure, sex, romantic love, creativity, gambling, and feasts. Offered sacrifices of virgins in his ceremonies. 

Tlazolteotl (She Who Eats Away Impurities) - goddess of purification, luck, and sorcery. Wrongly interpreted as a goddess of lust, filth, and sexual misdeeds. She consumes the impurities of humans and transmutes them into the White Flame of purity and illumination. Can cause seduction, but only through her role of charm magick. 

Tecciztecatl - god who became the moon 

Metztli - goddess of the moon, the night, and agriculture 

Coyolxāuhqui - goddess who was butchered to pieces by Huitzilopochtli when she tried to kill their mother, Coatlicue. She has association with the moon.

Ixtlilton - god of healing, medicine, and dancing 

Macuilxóchitl - god who is part of the Centzon Totochtin, the 400 rabbits who are all gods of drunkenness 

Tepeyollotl (Jaguar of Night) – jaguar-god of wild animals, darkened caves, echoes, and earthquakes 

Mayahuel - goddess of the agave plant and fertility 

Patecatl - god of healing; patron god of doctors 

Ixtlilton - god of medicine and healing 

Cinteotl - god of maize 

Cipactonal - god of astrology and calendars, associated with daytime 

Oxomo - goddess of astrology and calendars, associated with nighttime 

Cihuacoatl - goddess of childbirth, motherhood, and fertility. Noble-women who died in childbirth were taken to her realm. This goddess was sometimes portrayed as a skull-faced warrior due to the harshness of childbirth.

Toci - goddess of healing 

Temazcalteci - goddess of steam baths 

Chantico - goddess of the family hearth and volcanoes 

Piltzintecuhtli - god of the rising sun, healing, and visions 

Citlalicue - creator-goddess of stars 

Citlalatonac - creator-god of stars (husband of Citlalicue) 

Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli - god of Venus 

Chalchiutotolin - turkey-god of purification, disease, and release of guilt

Itztlacoliuhqui (All Is Bent By Coldness) - god of ice, coldness, winter, punishment, and misery. He is also the god of objectivity and impartial justice. 

Malinalxochitl - goddess of sorcery, snakes, scorpions, and insects of the desert. Is known to cause horrible hallucinations to humans, eat their flesh, and make them get bit by venomous snakes. 

Macuiltotec - god of weaponry and warfare 

Atlatoman - goddess of physical deformities and sores. She was also thought to be the cause of such ailments. 

Atlaua - god of water; protector of archers and fishermen. The Aztecs often prayed to him when there were deaths in water. 

Opochtli - god of fishing and bird-catchers; discoverer of harpoons and the net 

Huixtocihuatl - goddess of salt and patron of cultivated foods and people in the salt trade 

Atlacoya - goddess of droughts 

Yacatecuhtli - god of commerce and travelers, especially business travelers 

Zacatzontli - god of roads

Nappatecutli - god of mat-making

Ilamatecuthli - goddess of weaving

#aztec gods #aztec polytheism #aztec religion #mesoamerican polytheism #aztec deities #religion

[santoschristos]

Varuna 'the one who econompasses the whole world,' is one of the oldest Vedic deities. May be he is the personification of the sky; but he is also associated with clouds and water, rivers and ocean. He is sometimes clubbed with Mitra and praised (Mitravaruna). Varuna is the king of the universe and lives in the highest world. His knowledge and power are unlimited. He has thousand eyes and oversees the whole world. Hence he is the lord of the moral law. He punishes those who transgress this law but forgives them out of compassion if they repent and pray. By activating Vayu, the lord of the wind, he sustains life by giving rain and crops. Though Varuna was the chief deity in the beginning, he seems to have yielded his place later on to Indra and Prajapati. In the subsequent mythological literature Varuna is described as the presiding deity of the western quarter and as the lord of oceans, water and aquatic animals. In some of the temples he is depicted as riding on a crocodile. In two of his four arms he holds the serpent and the noose (pasa). Sometimes he is pictured as riding in a chariot drawn by seven swans and holding the lotus, the noose, the conch and a vessel of gems in the four hands. There is an umbrella over his head. Vasus: Vasus are a class of deities, eight in number, chiefly known as attendants of Indra. The word Vasu is derived from 'vas' ('to dwell,' 'to cause to dwell,' 'to shine') and hence Vasus are deities representing all spheres of extension or space, and height. They were perhaps personifications of nature and natural phenomena. The eight Vasus are: Dhara (the earth), Anala (the fire), Ap (the waters), Anila, (the wind),. Dhruva (the polestar), Soma (the moon), Prabhasa (the dawn) and Pratyusa, (the light). https://vedicfeed.com/lord-varun/?fbclid=IwAR342BAHKfe2re97m7hGMG87Pg9M3CgTVJYrRjkLv-cSO9X6kUSRZ6Qoq1g

[scholarvampire]

Mythical creature of Puduan

Luang /lua:ŋ/

A snake-like with various characteristic of animals; eyes and wings of a hawk, body, scales and fangs of a snake, legs and claws of a lizard, head of a horse, red crest of Naga, antler of a deer.

Luangtai /lua:ŋ tʰaj/

Luangtai is the lord of Luangs, appeared in several Puduanese scriptures, folktales and mythologies. He is one of many children of Taentai /tʰɛn tʰaj/ ruler of heaven. Luangtai can cause rain and storm; when he is happy he will fly to the clouds and flying around in a playful manner. This behavior will cause rain, but if he is angry he will fly around and roar; causing thunderstorm.

Scripture describing Luang

Script: Duan, Late-Aran Language: Puduan

“...Luang have body of serpent with green reflective scale, crest above their nose, horns like deer, teeth and fangs (with color) like couch shell, golden wings and horns, 4 hands (legs) like that’s of hawk. Luangjau (Luangtai) children of Jaotaen (Taentai) likes to play among clouds up in the sky. Then there will be rain on the earth making rice grow and fish in water...”

#conlang #constructed language #conscript #constructed script #world building #fantasy

[scarletarosa]

Arabian Deities List

A list of the pagan gods who were worshipped by the Pre-Islamic Arabs. Much of the evidence of these deities and their worshippers were destroyed during the rise of Islam, but this is the majority of those remembered:

Elder Gods:

Allah - the supreme deity (both male and female) of the pagan Arabs. Allah is the one who existed before all things and had created the universe. Afterwards, they retired into the position of a silent and remote spectator who dwelt in 'Aliyyin, the highest heaven, and only intervened in human affairs in extreme cases of drought or danger. Despite being the supreme deity, Allah was rarely directly worshipped.

Al-Lat - goddess of war, peace, combat, and prosperity. Al-lat was the Meccan mother goddess and the chief deity of the tribe of Banu Thaqif. She is one of the three daughters of Allah- all of whom were the supreme goddesses of the Arabs and were widely worshipped. 

Al-Uzza - goddess of might, protection, love, and the planet Venus. One of the three daughters of Allah and wife of Hubal, god of war

Manat - goddess of fate, destiny, and death. She is the eldest of her three sisters (making her the eldest deity after Allah). She is wife of Quzah, the god of thunder.

Younger Gods:

Hubal - god of war, victory in battle, fortune, and rainfall; husband of the goddess Al-Uzza.

Manaf - god of mountains

Quzah - god of storms, thunder, and clouds; husband of Manat. Thunder, said to be the battle-cry of Quzah, was believed to scare away spirits of disease and misfortune. The rainbow that appeared after rain was considered by the people of Mecca to be a ladder to the heavens.

Isaf and Na'ila - Meccan water deities: the dual guardian spirits of the holy well of Zamzam 

Duwar - goddess of maidens; she was worshiped by the youngest women of the Banu Quraysh

Al-Ikrimah - god of fertility; his idol was a statue of a dove carved from aloe wood 

Dhātu-Anwāt - goddess of trees

Suwā - goddess of night, beauty, and freshwater springs

Ar-Rā'iyu ('The One Who Sees') - god of dreams and prophecy. All dreams were considered to be messages from the gods in pre-Islamic Arabia and oracles specialized in interpreting them. This god was believed to be an all-seeing guardian.

Al-Mundhir - a west Arabian god of justice, whose name means ''The Cautioner''

Yaghuth - ("He Helps") the south Arabian god of strength, courage, and war; had an idol that was a statue of a lion which was situated on a hill in Yemen

Yahwah - north Arabian weather god, worshiped as a divine warrior who rides on the clouds and leads the armies of Heaven. In the religion of the Hebrew tribes of ancient Palestine, their deity Yahweh was originally one god among many; although in later times he developed into a major tribal god and eventually the Hebrews elevated him to the status of an all-powerful creator god above all the others: a position that was held previously by El, who became an epithet of Yahweh. 

Bahar (or Bajar) - god of the ocean

Rudā - a central Arabian rain goddess; brought droughts when angered

Nahastāb - a south Arabian fertility god who was worshiped by the Minaean Arabs. This god was associated with serpents who were recognized as omens of bounty and fertile ground.

Su’ayr - north Arabian god of oracles

Al-Jalsad - south Arabian god of pastures and fields

Ashar - north Arabian god of war

Ni'mat - north Arabian goddess of fortune

Hāwlat - goddess of magic and power; patroness of the oases of Dumah and Hejra. The name of the goddess means ''to change (fortunes)'' and ''to avert''.

Abgal - north Arabian tutelary god; god of the desert and the patron of Bedouins and caravan drivers 

Amm’anas - south Arabian god of agriculture

Nasr - god of the deep desert whose idol was a sculpture of a large vulture (in some sources an eagle) that was situated in a temple in the village of Balkha in Yemen. The sacred animal of Nasr, the vulture, was venerated by his worshipers as a totem of insight and sharp character; as well as this, the god represented the hostile and unforgiving aspects of nature, in particular, the desert.

Dhātu-Ba'dan - south Arabian goddess of oases, nature, and the wet season 

Taraha - north Arabian goddess of fortune and prosperity. This goddess was also known as Tadha and was believed to watch over the tombs of the dead. 

Al-Ghurab - god of the dead; his idol was in the form of a raven that was housed in the Ka'aba along with 360 other idols of gods and goddesses. Ravens were sacred to this god as guardians of the spirits of the dead

Kuthrā (''The Most Rich'') - central Arabian goddess of prosperity and fortune

Khomar - south Arabian god of wine and vineyards 

Ya’uq is the south Arabian god of protection and preservation who was associated with swift thought and intelligence 

Salman (or Salim) - god of oases, peace, and harmony. In the religion of the western Semites, Shalim was a god of the underworld and the dusk, and his name 'Shalim' (Peace) was meant as an allegory for the peace of the grave. 

Rahmaw (or Rahmanan) - south Arabian god of mercy and protection, whose mythology was later absorbed into that of the creator god Allah. 

Al-Jadd - god of luck

Jihār - west Arabian god of longevity, wisdom, and marketplaces

Isāt - south Arabian goddess of fire; counterpart to the Canaanite fire goddess Ishat, wife of Moloch

Yurhim - god of joy and happiness 

Harimtu (or 'Athiratan) - south Arabian goddess of fertility; the mother of the gods and the wife of the sky god Ilmaqah

Ilmuqah (also known as Ilumquh and Almaqah) - south Arabian god of the sky and the chief tribal deity of the Sabaean Arabs. He was worshiped as the protector of artificial irrigation and his divine symbol was a cluster of lightning bolts surrounding a curved sickle. Bulls were the sacred animals of Ilmuqah. His name means ''The God Who Gives Health''

Shay al-Qawm - god of war, valour, and the night

Qaynan - god of metalworkers and smiths

Al-Kutbay (or al-Aktab) - god of writing, prophecy and merchants who was the scribe of the gods and recorder of all deeds and events 

Raziqa (or Razeka) - goddess of the earth and fertility who was worshiped by the ancient tribes of Thamud and 'Ād as a provider of food and sustenance.

Nuha (or Nahi) - north Arabian goddess of wisdom and intelligence

Hafidha - goddess of travel and journeys 

Thu'ban - god of snakes; believed to be a giant serpent who guarded the treasures in the well of the Ka'aba of Mecca. 

Celestial Deities:

Hilāl - god of the moon; provided relief and dew for the weary desert nomads and their flocks. The waning crescent moon which was first visible before and after a new moon, heralded the start of Ramadan: this was a sacred time for the pagan Arabs of Mecca and the Hijaz, during which they fasted and feasted.

Shams - goddess of the sun and the chief goddess of the Himyar tribal confederation; believed by the inhabitants of the fertile lands of south Arabia to be a preserver of crops and domestic life, while other tribes with more intense heat viewed her as a destroyer of lands. She was both respected and feared.

Athtar - god of the planet Venus (linked with the Canaanite god Attar).  Athtar is the provider of water and a protector of irrigation systems. His sacred symbol is a spear-point as he is also a war god, and his sacred animal is the Arabian oryx (antelope).

Akhwar - god of righteousness and the planet Jupiter

'Utarid - god of intelligence, learning, writing, eloquence, and Mercury

Azizan (also known as Azizos) is the north Arabian god of the planet Mars who was associated with victory in battle and was depicted as riding on a camel alongside his brother Mun'im

Nakruh - god of the planet Saturn

Dhu’l-Samawi - god of the night sky, the stars, and the constellations whose name translates as "Lord of the Heavens". Bedouin tribes would bring their animals to the shrine of Dhu’l-Samawi when they were injured and they also sent sick people to reside at his shrine in order to receive healing.

Shangilā - north Arabian god of stars

Ash-Shi'rā - goddess of the Sirius star; believed to bestow wealth and good fortune

Ath-Thurayya - goddess of the Pleiades star cluster 

As-Simāk ('The Uplifted One') is a west Arabian star god who was the deification of the star Arcturus in the constellation of Bootes and was worshiped to bring riches, renown and honor. The symbol of the god was the lance (ar-rimah) and was also named as Haris as-Samā', 'the Guardian of Heaven'.

Al-Dabaran (''The Follower'') - god of the star Aldebaran

Underworld Deities: 

Mawt - god of death and sterility; the Arabian counterpart of the Canaanite god Mot; sacred animals of Mawt are owls. After a person died, their soul (nafs) was believed to descend to the land of Mawt, the akhirah; where they lead a calm, yet gloomy, existence as spirits (arwah) and as shades (ashbah). The Arabs believed the Underworld to be neither a place of reward nor punishment, but simply as a state of existence without pain or pleasure that most people would lead as a shabah or shade. But the spirits of priests and powerful and honoured people were believed to ascend to a heavenly otherworld (al-Munqalab) or the sky (as-Sama') itself, where they would enjoy the company of the gods and angels (mala'ikah) and would have power over human affairs in the Dunyā (the material world).

Hawkam - god of justice and the Judge of the Dead 

Ba'alat-Sahra - a north Arabian goddess of the Underworld and the desert; she was an important goddess of the nomadic Semites; known to the Amorite tribe of southern Syria as Belet-Seri, the wife of their chief god Amurru.

Qaysha - south Arabian funerary goddess

Hawran - underworld god who presided over the spirits of disease which he could protect from or send at will as punishment; protected people from the venom of snakes. 

Al-Muharriq - underworld god who was represented as a fierce deity at a red shrine and whose sacred animal was an adult male lion (usamah). Al-Muharriq, like his Babylonian counterpart Nergal, had a wrathful disposition; he was believed to send diseases and plagues if he was angry with the population. The name of the god means ''the Burner'' as he represented the scorching heat of the desert, as well as the heat of disease and fire.

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#arabian gods #wathanism #arabian polytheism #pagan gods #deity list #pre-islamic #paganism