home.social

#apocrypha — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #apocrypha, aggregated by home.social.

  1. Also, I've really been getting back into #ESO the last few days. It's been fun, and I'm quite excited for update 49 #today and update 50 next (class mastery will be cool).

    Last week the house I really wanted finally got available again. First time willing to pay RL money for a house. Now I'm living in #Apocrypha :blobfoxheartcute:.

    #ElderScrolls #ElderScrollsOnline #TESO #TheElderScrolls #mmo #mmorpg #rpg #videogames #gaming #games #game

  2. Also, I've really been getting back into #ESO the last few days. It's been fun, and I'm quite excited for update 49 #today and update 50 next (class mastery will be cool).

    Last week the house I really wanted finally got available again. First time willing to pay RL money for a house. Now I'm living in #Apocrypha :blobfoxheartcute:.

    #ElderScrolls #ElderScrollsOnline #TESO #TheElderScrolls #mmo #mmorpg #rpg #videogames #gaming #games #game

  3. Also, I've really been getting back into #ESO the last few days. It's been fun, and I'm quite excited for update 49 #today and update 50 next (class mastery will be cool).

    Last week the house I really wanted finally got available again. First time willing to pay RL money for a house. Now I'm living in #Apocrypha :blobfoxheartcute:.

    #ElderScrolls #ElderScrollsOnline #TESO #TheElderScrolls #mmo #mmorpg #rpg #videogames #gaming #games #game

  4. Also, I've really been getting back into #ESO the last few days. It's been fun, and I'm quite excited for update 49 #today and update 50 next (class mastery will be cool).

    Last week the house I really wanted finally got available again. First time willing to pay RL money for a house. Now I'm living in #Apocrypha :blobfoxheartcute:.

    #ElderScrolls #ElderScrollsOnline #TESO #TheElderScrolls #mmo #mmorpg #rpg #videogames #gaming #games #game

  5. Also, I've really been getting back into #ESO the last few days. It's been fun, and I'm quite excited for update 49 #today and update 50 next (class mastery will be cool).

    Last week the house I really wanted finally got available again. First time willing to pay RL money for a house. Now I'm living in #Apocrypha :blobfoxheartcute:.

    #ElderScrolls #ElderScrollsOnline #TESO #TheElderScrolls #mmo #mmorpg #rpg #videogames #gaming #games #game

  6. Spirituality & Religious Studies @spiritualityreligiousstudies.wordpress.com@spiritualityreligiousstudies.wordpress.com ·

    St. Anne

    According to Christian tradition, St. Anne was the mom of the Virgin Mary, wife of St. Joachim, & was Jesus’ maternal grandma.

    Her name isn’t in the Bible’s canonical Gospels. In writing, Anne’s name, & Joachim’s come from New Testament apocrypha. The Gospel of Thomas (written circa 150 AD) seems to be the earliest that mentions them. She’s mentioned in the Quran, but not by name.

    The Immaculate Conception was eventually made dogma by the Catholic Church following an increased devotion to Anne in the 12th century. In Eastern Christianity dedications start as early as 6th century.

    In the Eastern Orthodox tradition, Anne & Joachim are attributed to the title Ancestor of God. Both the Nativity of Mary & the Presentation of Mary are celebrated as 2 of the 12 Great Feasts of the Orthodox Church.

    The Dormition of Anne is also a minor feast in Eastern Christianity. In Lutheranism, it’s believed that Martin Luther chose to enter religious life as an Augustinian friar after invoking St. Anne was jeopardized by lightning.

    In the 4th century, & in the 15th century, a belief arose that Mary was conceived of Anne without original sin. The Immaculate Conception is often confused with the Annunciation of the Incarnation (Mary’s virgin birth of Jesus). The 13th century Speculum Maius includes information regarding the life of St. Anne.

    In the Eastern church, the veneration of Anne herself may go back as far as circa 550, when Justinian built a church in Constantinople in her honor. The earliest pictorial sign of her veneration in the West in an 8th century fresco in the church of Santa Maria Antique, Rome.

    The Feast of the Conception of the Virgin Mary had reached southern Italy by the 9th century. In the Latin Church, St. Anne wasn’t venerated. Except, perhaps, in the south of France, before the 13th century. A shrine at Douai (in northern France) was 1 of the early centers of devotion to St. Anne in the West.

    The Anna Selbdritt was a type of iconography showing 3 generations of the “Holy Family,” St. Anne, the Virgin Mary, & Jesus (grandma, mom, son). This style of iconography emphasized the humanity of Jesus. It drew on the earlier conventions of the Seat of Wisdom. (The Seat of Wisdom is/are icons/sculptures that shows the Virgin Mary is seated on a throne with Jesus, as a kid, on her lap.) This was popular in northern Germany in the 1500s.

    Two well-known shrines to St. Anne is that of Ste-Anne-d’Auray in Brittany (France) & that of Ste.-Anne-de-Beaupre near the city of Quebec. The number of pilgrims to the Basilica of Ste.-Anne-de-Beaupre is the greatest of St. Anne’s Feast Day (July 26), & the Sunday before the Nativity of the Virgin Mary (September 8). In 1892, Pope Leo XIII sent a relic of St. Anne to the church.

    By the middle of the 7th century, a distinct feast day, the Conception of St. Anne (Maternity of Holy Anne) celebrating Mary by St. Anne, was observed at the Monastery of St. Sabas.

    It’s now known in the Greek Orthodox Church as the feast of “The Conception by St. Anne of the Most Holy Theotokos.” It’s celebrated on December 9th. In the Catholic Church, the Feast of Saints Anne & Joachim is celebrated on July 26. The alleged relics of St. Anne was brought from the Holy Land to Constantinople in 710 & was kept there in the church of St. Sophia as late as 1333.

    During the 12th & 13th centuries, returning crusaders & pilgrims from the East brought St. Anne’s relics to some churches, including most famously those at Apt, in Provence, Ghent, & Chartres. St. Anne’s relics have been preserved & venerated in the many cathedrals & monasteries dedicated to her name.

    For example, in Austria, Canada, Germany, Italy, & Greece in the semi-autonomous Mount Athos, & the city of Katerini. Duren has been the main place of pilgrimage for Anne since 1506, when Pope Julius II decreed that her relics should be kept there, after they were stolen from the church of St. Stephen in Mainz.

    The Church of St. Anne in Beit Guvrin National Park was built by the Byzantines & the crusaders in the 12th century. This is known in Arabic as Khirbet Sandahanna, the mound of Maresha being called Tell Sandahanna.

    St. Anne is the patroness of unmarried women, housewives, women in labor or who want to be pregnant, grandmothers, moms, & educators. She’s also a patroness of horseback riders, cabinet-makers, & miners.

    As the mom of Mary, this devotion to St. Anne as the patron of miners arises from the medieval comparison between Mary & Jesus & the precious metals: gold & silver. Anne’s womb was considered the source from which these precious metals were mined.

    St. Anne is the patron saint of Brittany (France); Cuenca (Ecuador); Chinandega (Nicaragua); the Mi’kmaq people of Canada; Castelbuono (Sicily); Quebec (Canada); Santa Ana (California); Norwich (Connecticut); Detroit (Michigan); Adjunta (Puerto Rico); Santa Ana & Jucuaran (El Salvador); Berlin (New Hampshire); Santa Ana Pueblo, Seama, & Taos (New Mexico); Chiclana de la Frontera, Marsaskala, Tuadela, Atarfe & Fasnia (Spain); Town of Sta Ana Province of Pampanga, Molo, Iloilo City, Balasan; Iloilo, Hagnoy, Santa Ana, Taguig City, St. Anne Shrine, Malicboy, Pagbilao, Quezon, & Malinao, Albay (Philippines); Santana (Brazil); St. Anne (Illinois); Sainte Anne Island; Baie Sainte Anne & Praslin Island (Seychelles); Bukit Mertajam & Port Klang (Malaysia); Kl’ucove (Slovakia) & South Vietnam.

    The parish church of Vatican City is Sant’ Anna dei Palafrenieri. There’s a shrine dedicated to St. Anne in the Woods in Bristol, United Kingdom.

    Anne is also revered in Islam, recognized as a highly spiritual woman & as the mom of Mary. She’s not named in the Quran. She’s called “the wife of Imran.” The Quran describes her remaining childless until old age. One day, Anne saw a bird feeding its young while sitting in the shade of a tree, which awakened her desire to have kids of her own.

    She prayed for a kid & eventually conceived. Imran, her husband, died before the kid was born. Anne expected the unborn kid to be a boy, so she vowed to dedicate “him” to isolation & service in the Second Temple.

    Anne had a daughter (Mary) instead. Anne named her: Mary. Anne’s words upon delivering Mary reflect as a great mystic, realizing that while she’d had wanted a son, this daughter was God’s gift to her.

    Make a one-time donation

    Your contribution is appreciated.

    Donate

    Make a monthly donation

    Your contribution is appreciated.

    Donate monthly

    Make a yearly donation

    Your contribution is appreciated.

    Donate yearly

    Rate this:

    #12thCentury #12thCenturyAD #13thCentury #1500s #1506 #15thCentury #1892 #4thCentury #710 #7thCentury #8thCentury #9thCentury #Adjunta #Albay #AncestorsOfGod #AnnaSelbdritt #AnnunciationOfTheIncarnation #Apocrypha #Apt #Arabic #Atarfe #Augustinian #Austria #BaieSainteAnne #Balasan #BasilicaOfSteAnneDeBeaupre #BeitGuvrinNationalPark #Berlin #bible #Brazil #Bristol #Brittany #BukitMertajam #Byzantines #California #Canada #Castelbuono #CatholicChurch #Chartres #Chiclana #ChiclanaDeLaFrontera #Chinandega #Christianity #Circa150AD #Circa550 #ConceptionOfStAnne #Connecticut #Constantinople #Crusaders #Cuenca #December9 #Detroit #DormitionOfAnne #Douai #Duren #EasternChristianity #Ecuador #ElSalvador #Fasnia #FeastOfSaintsAnneJoachim #FeastOfTheConceptionOfTheVirginMary #France #Germany #GospelOfThomas #GreatFeastsOfTheOrthodoxChurch #Greece #GreekOrthodoxChurch #Hagnoy #HolyFamily #HolyLand #Iloilo #IloiloCity #ImmaculateConception #Imran #Islam #Italy #Jesus #Jucuaran #July26 #Justinian #KhirbetSandahanna #KlUcove #LatinChurch #Lutheranism #Mainz #Malaysia #Malicboy #Malinao #Maresha #MartinLuther #MaternityOfHolyAnne #MiKmaqPeople #MonasteryOfStSabas #MountAthos #NativityOfMary #NativityOfTheVirginMary #NewHampshire #NewMexico #NewTestament #Nicaragua #NorthernFrance #Pagbilao #Philippines #PopeJuliusII #PopeLeoXIII #PortKlang #PraslinIsland #PresentationOfMary #Provence #PuertoRico #Quebec #Quran #Rome #SainteAnneIsland #SantAnnaDeiPalafrenieri #SantaAna #SantaAnaPueblo #SantaMariaAntique #SeatOfWisdom #SecondTemple #September8 #Sicily #Slovakia #SouthVietnam #SouthernItaly #Spain #SpeculumMaius #StAnne #StAnneInTheWoods #StAnneShrine #StAnneSFeastDay #StJoachim #StSophia #StStephen #SteAnneDAuray #SteAnneDeBeaupre #TaguigCity #Taos #TellSandahanna #TheChurchOfStAnne #TheConceptionByStAnneOfTheMostHolyTheotokos #TownOfStaAnaProvinceOfPampanga #Tudela #UnitedKingdom #VaticanCity #VirginMary
  7. There is a Gnostic Gospels server at Discord with much content about Gnostic spirituality with access to all the key Gnostic texts and the world of apocryphal writings.

    Join Discord -- create a profile: discord.com

    Invite Link to Join the Gnostic Gospels Server at Discord: discord.gg/WbQFPukf

    #gnostic
    #gnosticism
    #gnosis
    #gnosticgospels
    #apocrypha
    #christianmystics
    #christianmysticism
    #spirituality
    #mandaean
    #manichaean
    #ancient texts
    #hermetica

  8. In the parable of the lost sheep, the shepherd celebrates the return of the lost lamb, but they don't explain why he's so happy. In the director's cut we learn that his herd was wiped out by wolves while he was searching.

    #Apocrypha
    #ThisLiterallyCameToMeInADream
    #GoingBackToSleepNow
    # 🐏🐑🐑🐏🐑

    #🐑

  9. "The Los Books Of The Bible and The Forgotten Books of Eden"

    As I read somewhere, said that those were the books the Fathers of The Church "refused" to include them in the Bible. Simply hilarious. There are lot of reasons why, and all obvious.

    However, I'm interested to get those books and study them someday.

    #Bible #Apocrypha #Gnostic #Books #Theology #ChurchHistory

  10. "The Los Books Of The Bible and The Forgotten Books of Eden"

    As I read somewhere, said that those were the books the Fathers of The Church "refused" to include them in the Bible. Simply hilarious. There are lot of reasons why, and all obvious.

    However, I'm interested to get those books and study them someday.

    #Bible #Apocrypha #Gnostic #Books #Theology #ChurchHistory

  11. “Jesus said to them, ‘When you make the two into one, and when you make the inner like the outer and the outer like the inner, and the upper like the lower, and when you make male and female into a single one, so that the male will not be male nor the female be female, when you make eyes in place of an eye, a hand in place of a hand, a foot in place of a foot, an image in place of an image, then you will enter [the kingdom].’

    — from the Gospel of Thomas

    #apocrypha #NagHammadi

  12. Zerschlagenes Schicksal

    Boni:

    5 Gegenstände: Gewährt 184-7918 offensive Durchdrindung
    10 Gegenstände: Gewährt 15-687 Waffen- and Magieschaden
    12 Gegenstände: Gewährt 35-1528 kritische Chance

    en.uesp.net/wiki/Online:Shatte

    Einsiedelei des Kunsthandwerks - Apocrypha

    Karte:

    gamemap.uesp.net/eso/?world=Ap

    #Apocrypha #TheElderScrollsOnline #TESo #Gaming #MMORPG #SteamDeck

  13. Hear a truly delightful story about Jesus and his unwashed disciples crashing the temple as uninvited guests. It's found in an unknown gospel given by scholars the catchy name "Oxyrhynchus 840".

    The Egalitarian Message of the Saints - Spiritual Awakening Radio Podcast @ traffic.libsyn.com/spiritualaw

    @ the Podcast Website: SpiritualAwakeningRadio.libsyn

    @ Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/

    @ Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6YFDG

    #podcasts #spirituality #apocrypha #india #castesystem #freedom

  14. So I was grinding the new public delves on the #Telvanni Penninsula and #Apocrypha for hours and hours and this little guy was my price. Neat!
    #ESO #ESOfam #ElderScrollsOnline #Screenshot #SteamDeck

  15. I'm off to grab a spot of lunch, and then delve into some #elderscrollsonline 'pon my return.

    Do any of my fellow
    #eso - or any #mmo players, really - find yourselves creating a character background that mirrors what your toon has done/gone through in game?

    My dual wield
    #arcanist has an interesting twist to his: In game, I needed the help of a guildie to complete the very final boss fight in the #Necrom quest/story line. I kind of let that "imposter syndrome" I was feeling (silly, I know) bleed over to Feyd's (my Arcanist) character background. He was saved during the pivotal battle by another adventurer, but in the tales circulating around the Telvanni Peninsula, it is a mistaken assumption he alone defeated the threat to #Apocrypha. Much like how many thought Ned Stark defeated Arthur Dayne, when in reality, Howland Reed saved Ned's bacon.

    Awright. I need foodz.

    #afternoondelight #tuesdaysaregamingdays #pcgaming

  16. #WritingWonders 7.16 — How comfortable are you with writing kissing and/or intimacy scenes?

    Perfectly comfortable. I’ve written all sorts of explicit erotica before. That being said, even though my current manuscript features a fertility god with an enormous schlong, even though there are mentions of angels fornicating with cattle (inspired by the Apocrypha), there are no actual sex/intimacy scenes. #AmWriting #Mythology #SumerianMythology #BooksOfEnoch #Apocrypha #slipstream

  17. Whilst on an errand for my dad,
    I caught a monstrous fish that had
    Attacked me by the Tigris River.
    My guide advised I keep its liver
    Along with both the heart and gall,
    In case the Devil comes to call,
    And other uses of those pieces,
    Like curing blindness caused by feces.

    #poetry #smallpoems #riddlepoems #poetrycommunity #biblical #medieval #renaissance #motif #art #story #legend #bible #hebrew #apocrypha #catholicism #religion #judaism #christianity

  18. I'm having fun with #ElderScrollOnline and the new DLC #necrom I have started a fresh character to experience the new #Arcanist class and he has perfect #WordBearers possessed vibes.
    And #Apocrypha slaps. Great design.

  19. The day is low key. I currently have the windows open, the ceiling fans going, and I'm about to jump on #ESO to figure out this final boss fight for the #Necrom chapter.

    I
    love the new #Archanist class, and the design of the realm of #Apocrypha is stunning. And if you're a player, you're going to want to pick up the new companion, Sharp-As-Night. He's voiced by VA Brandon Keener, and Sharp has some choice lines.

    Awright.
    I'm logging in.

    #TheElderScrollsOnline #mmorpg #pcgaming

  20. The goodies I picked up. I have some of the PDFs already I picked but in some bundles, and of course some original copies in my collection. Apocrypha 3 is all new material to me, I’d never even heard of most of it.

    The Classic CD is really loaded with goodies, not only all the books, but scans of the classic games too.

    #TTRPG #Traveller #TravellerRpg #MegaTraveller #JTAS #ClassicTraveller #Traveller5 #Apocrypha