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call me Morgana, Morgan, Morgaine, or Astyphaelos if you desire. Ask questions if you wish, especially if is about the Etruscans or viticulture & enology. I hope to post about once a week about any topic of my desire. Please look at my carrd before sending a message or asking for recommendations, it’s all in there.

I fancy myself in wines and viticulture, Dionysus, wine heresy, necromancy, history, pagan reconstruction, magic, Etruscan polytheism, Bellona, and nearly anything else that catches my eye. I am always welcome to share what I know and any academic works I have hoarded, so reach out if you ever wish to see what I have found. on a fun note, I am a sustainable agriculturist as well and a devotee of Demeter as well. Ask me about plants, rot, fungi, I love it all.

Friendly reminder to all pagans: if you’re going to post about certain resistance based action online, don’t post it on tumblr, insta, etc. Use signal if you have to chat about it. please, for the love of the gods, by BELLONA, be safe. Whether by the grace of Loki or Laverna, shutting up is the best thing you can do.

this is a bit of a strange ask—pardon my wariness if you are kindly—but obviously, I loathe it. While people act like paganism is a paradise for leftism & marginalised people, like anything, it can be weaponised. My Dea Bellona has lead me further into becoming anti-fascist—as is her nature.

As pagans we need to self-actualise and make active efforts against fascism and the evils of the state. We do have a power of being a boogeyman against the mainstream—Christofascism hates and fears us—so if we embraced paganism as a resistance, as a fundamental change to what it means to be religious, and inoculated our spaces against such rhetoric, we’d have a better community. Often, community is formed through a common struggle, and we must resist and support people who are going to be devastated by the state of the world.

may bellona smite every fascist 🙏

happy birthday to me ✨

sometimes a devotional activity to bellona is taking down posters from turning point usa

the horrible urge to get a witchy star tattoo on one's head like amaltheia from the last unicorn vs. my common sense. employability would... be a treat.

birthday on halloween is lovely except for the part where you're getting older. my ambitious dragon of a personality does not like feeling like I wasted my year, yet here I come unto another set of moons of the self...

🙏 - Which pantheon(s) do you actively worship?

Actively is Greek, Etruscan, Roman, & Brythonic. I wander back to slavic paganism every moon or two, and I adore Bendis of Thrace. I poke my head around a lot however—Astarte is one example, and medieval entities are favoured in my heart.

previously answered;

💌 - What is your favorite form of deity communication?

My favourite speech, if I am to invoke Bellona as an example, is to find their numen—I go out, I see her will in my hands at mutual aid and theory. Dionysus I find in the vineyard, mother I find in my own words and eyes, father as well—though I tend to simply speak to Helios throughout the day with word. I do not enjoy being idle, so going out to find them is my favourite. Especially Demeter in the fields and markets.

thank you, dear anon, for the ask. may bellona give you justice in your deeds 🌞 - Which deity(ies) are you closest to/do you worship the most often?

I love this question. I mostly worship Dionysus, Bellona, Demeter, my parental deities Thetis & Helios, Tinia, Thalna, and my household cultus of Agathos Daimon and the lares. I adore Adonis as well and my personal deity of Rot. I do frequent the names and homes of many deities, but these have been most consistent—particularly I honour any number of the aiser at a time, and Diana is endeared to me. I may be branded a heretic, but I do worship Azura as well.

🌍 - Which pantheons do you believe exist?

Truthfully, all of them, in some form. I view religion as the ability to step into another spiritual reality almost: I can step into a world where every street is a lare, then step into a world where Arthur shall return, and then into another where I fear the rasulka in the waters but am dearly entranced by her ways—not out of attraction, but admiration of the beyond.

🎉 - Do you celebrate any festivals? If so, which ones?

Currently, I've been leading the Etruscan festivals in the Etruscan server. Beyond that, I deeply enjoy the mysteries of Demeter. The Agricultural cultus is dear to my heart, and I do honour Dionysos’ wine cycle—it is my job, afterall.

⭐ - What is something you wish people outside your practice knew more about?

Etruria in general. We have an ancient religion with genderfluid deities, depictions of sapphic relationships (Thanr is depicted kissing other women), and a society with matrilineal names. Beyond that, I do wish pagans invested more in agriculture and land ecology as a whole. It is deeply important to my soul and my being.