After 4/5 years of having this blog, I’ve decided to shut it down and make a new one. Lots has happened since I made this blog and I want to start afresh with what I know now.
I would really appreciate it if my followers would head over to my new blog @erwinterbone and give me a follow to help it take off.
I won’t close down this blog straight away, tbh I might just leave it open and label it inactive or something.
After 4/5 years of having this blog, I’ve decided to shut it down and make a new one. Lots has happened since I made this blog and I want to start afresh with what I know now.
I would really appreciate it if my followers would head over to my new blog @erwinterbone and give me a follow to help it take off.
I won’t close down this blog straight away, tbh I might just leave it open and label it inactive or something.
After 4/5 years of having this blog, I’ve decided to shut it down and make a new one. Lots has happened since I made this blog and I want to start afresh with what I know now.
I would really appreciate it if my followers would head over to my new blog @erwinterbone and give me a follow to help it take off.
I won’t close down this blog straight away, tbh I might just leave it open and label it inactive or something.
After 4/5 years of having this blog, I’ve decided to shut it down and make a new one. Lots has happened since I made this blog and I want to start afresh with what I know now.
I would really appreciate it if my followers would head over to my new blog @erwinterbone and give me a follow to help it take off.
I won’t close down this blog straight away, tbh I might just leave it open and label it inactive or something.
After 4/5 years of having this blog, I’ve decided to shut it down and make a new one. Lots has happened since I made this blog and I want to start afresh with what I know now.
I would really appreciate it if my followers would head over to my new blog @erwinterbone and give me a follow to help it take off.
I won’t close down this blog straight away, tbh I might just leave it open and label it inactive or something.
After 4/5 years of having this blog, I’ve decided to shut it down and make a new one. Lots has happened since I made this blog and I want to start afresh with what I know now.
I would really appreciate it if my followers would head over to my new blog @erwinterbone and give me a follow to help it take off.
I won’t close down this blog straight away, tbh I might just leave it open and label it inactive or something.
pretty shitty how baseline human activities like singing, dancing and making art got turned into skills instead of being seen as behaviors
so now it’s like ‘the point of doing them is to get good at them’ and not ‘this is a thing humans do, the way birds sing and bees make hives’.
When people assume Celtic = Irish I get a strong urge to stab myself in the eye.
No no no no no no.
Sit down we must have a conversation.
There were 6 Celtic nations.
Éire, Cymru, Alba, Kernow, Breizh, and Ellan Vannin.
Ireland, Wales, Scotland, Cornwall, Brittany, and the Isle of Mann respectively.
They’re all related, but not the same. They all have different languages descended from a similar group, Irish (Gaeilge), Scottish (Gàidhlig), Manx (Gaelg), Welsh (Cymraeg), Cornish (Kernowek), and Breton (Brezhoneg). Some are more widely spoken than others, for example Welsh is still commonly spoken in Wales, whereas hearing Cornish in Cornwall instead of English is rare. All Celtic nations have varied mythology and culture. Irish Mythology is different from Breton Mythology, and even Welsh and Cornish mythology (arguably the most related Celtic Nations) have subtle differences to each other. I wish I could add more about the cultures at this time but my knowledge of Celtic nations is primarily made up of the history and languages of those regions, particularly Cornwall.
You might have notice that England and English are missing from this, because the English descended from Anglo-Saxons, who were German invaders that came to the isles right around the Fall of the Roman empire in the 5th Century, erasing the Celtic influence in what is now England.
So what this all really means is that Celtic is an umbrella term, and just because it’s Celtic doesn’t mean it has anything to do with Ireland at all. So don’t assume that just because someone’s talking about something Celtic that they’re talking about something Irish.
I actually didn’t know this. Thank you, tumblr person
I love you for this. I love learning and this day started in a good note.
Fantastic! And is it pronounced sel-tic?? Or kel-tic? Or neither???
Also let’s not forget that the group who were called the Celts existed throughout England and far from being ‘erased’ their DNA survives in 70% of the population of England. There is also a Celtic language native to England, called Cumbric, which is considered dead but is undergoing an attempt of reconstruction. And more importantly the ‘Celts’ existed all over Europe. The Gauls, the Iberians, the Galatians are all examples. Some of the most famous Celtic figures come from outside the places on this map - for example Boudicca, Vercingetorix, Caractacus, Cartimandua.
The ‘Celtic’ culture comes from La Tene culture, named for the archaeological evidence discovered in the La Tene region of Switzerland, which in turn developed from Hallstatt culture (Austria). I think that’s the right way round anyway.
So yeah, Celtic doesn’t mean Irish. Celtic culture started pretty far from Ireland.
Something that baffles me is when people compare Aphrodite to “bloody” goddesses (Anat, Inanna, Sekhmet, etc.) as a way to say Aphrodite is just a demure love goddess teehee, look how badass my warrior goddess is instead.
Aphrodite Ourania rose out of blood and the ocean and walked to land fully-formed. This Aphrodite is a Titaness, older even than the generation of Zeus. She has no mother. She is never an infant. She is the ultimate generative power, the fish, born from a male (upending societal norms) and wielding the power of creation and invention.
Aphrodite Areia is a war goddess - this is the title made famous by Athena and Ares, but Aphrodite does not get this title from her lover. She is a goddess of soldiers and fights on the battlefield of Troy. She is also Aphrodite Hoplismena, the armed, depicted in full armor with a shield and sword. This is the Aphrodite of Sparta.
Aphrodite Nikephoros is not only Aphrodite armored and armed, but Aphrodite commanding the power of Nike - Nike, the goddess usually found at Zeus’s side, ensuring victory. This Aphrodite is not one to be crossed on the battlefield, because you will not win.
Or maybe we just aren’t on the same page as the ancients when it comes to a “love goddess.” Aphrodite Pandemos is a goddess of frenzy, a goddess who incites war and madness, a goddess to whom it was said even the Fates would bend their will. To some Hellenes, Aphrodite was the goddess of creation because she is the spark of all love and desire - and to others, she was the creator of all.
There’s nothing wrong in calling Aphrodite a goddess of love - she is, truly. But this doesn’t make her timid. She is not clawless. She is a complex goddess, inextricably linked to the awesome war goddesses of the Ancient Near East. Do not dilute her just because you’re not familiar with her or with the domain of love goddesses. I know this may seem trivial to some people, but don’t reduce one goddess to make another look more powerful - they don’t need it.
Person: hey *pagan holiday* is tomorrow
me: I better bake some bREAD
Lagh da Saoseo Milky Way by Lukas Schlagenhauf
3 years it took this girl to turn this piece of truck garbage into her home and it was beautiful. 😍😮 Have a good trip!
Goals
The 2006 Wicker Man remake is coming to Netflix, and I am groaning eternally. I BEGRUDGE NO ONE THEIR BEE MEMES, but it does kill me that there’s almost no content for the original 1973 film (at least around here).
I mean, there’s the fact that it’s one of the finest horror films ever made, but also, its production history is completely baffling. The universe practically conspired to make this movie disappear.
First of all, it was made on an itty bitty little budget - 500,000 GBP (that’s about $650,000). And a big chunk of that went toward building the famous final sequence. Christopher Lee, the guy the film was written as a vehicle for, worked for free so that the project could keep going.
And y’all, this film was Christopher Lee’s baby. He went around on an actual road tour of the U.S., appearing on radio stations in small towns at the asscrack of dawn just to promote this film. He loved it.
Unfortunately for him, the higher ups…did not love it. Or rather, this one particular guy really hated it, and he just so happened to be at the top of the food chain. When TWM was written and shot from 1971 to 1972, it was under the production studio called British Lion. But by 1973, when the film was completed, British Lion had been bought out by a larger studio. And thus, Barry Spikings and Michael Deeley inherited the smaller studio’s work.
Deeley hated The Wicker Man. Fucking. HATED. It. Straight up telling Christopher Lee it was one of the worst films he’d ever seen levels of hate. FLAMES ON THE SIDE OF - etc. He didn’t want to release it at all. The film’s previous producer basically snuck around his back by submitting the film to Cannes (just to show, not for any prizes), which is how it got picked up for foreign distribution.
Now, the original edit of the film, the longest version, was 99 minutes. Already that supposedly has 15 minutes of material shaved off, mostly Christopher Lee scenes. The show’s composer recalls scoring a psychedelic dream sequence that was never in any released cut of the film at all.
BUT WAIT, it gets better.
When he found out that he couldn’t just bury the picture and have done, Deeley went to Roger Corman. Yes, Roger Corman, or “that guy who directed Vincent Price a whole bunch” (and also eventually made Sharktopus yes really). This is the guy you come to with the weird unsettling cult movie. And Corman did indeed have suggestions for what an American audience would like, which ended up with the film cut down to 87 minutes with a few scenes rearranged. At that length, it could be released in the UK as a “B-movie,” i.e. the second half of a double-billing.
So, the film goes out, Lee does his work. Some people get to see the film, sort of (though the U.S. showing was quite limited, and it only made around $50,000). But then, in 1976, the director, Robin Hardy, decides he wants to try and restore the original cut. So he calls up the studio, only to find that that’s apparently impossible.
Because Deeley told his staff to get rid of the film negatives. The famous urban legend is that he had them thrown in a landfill, though others claim they were burned). The ONLY reason it wasn’t lost forever was because a single copy of that initial cut had been sent to Corman, and he’d held onto it - and was further willing to send a duplicated copy to Hardy.
One guy’s fervent dedication to being a spiteful dick almost lost us one of the greatest films in horror.
And THAT is a way better story than bees.
poetic sanctum | cr. Natalia Drepina
