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Ancient word of the day: Hedgehog
The ancient word for today is hedgehog Erinaceus europaeus. In the Middle Ages, writers didn’t make reference to hedgehogs, but to urchins. This term for the spiky diminuitive animal is still favoured in some English dialects. We still have the lingering remnants of this etymology in the form of sea urchin, which is literally a sea hedgehog.
The word urchin came to England with the Norman invasion and was derived from the Latin word ericius. Before the Norman conquest, the animal was known by the Anglo-Saxon name Igl.
Other names
Furze-pig – Devon
Hotchi-witchi – Romani
Hodmedods – Norfolk
Ouriço cacheiro – crafty pig
Detail of a miniature of hedgehogs sticking fallen fruit to their quills and carrying it back to their burrow; from the Rochester Bestiary, England (Rochester?), c. 1230, Royal MS 12 F. xiii, f. 45r.
or porco espinho’ – spiky pig in Portuguese”Thorns shall grow in their palaces, nettles & thistles in their strongholds … there shall the hedgehog build, dig, be there at home and bring forth his young ones.” Taverner’s Isiah 34, 1539.
Detail of a miniature of the hedgehog reproaching the goat for his vanity; from Ulrich von Pottenstein, Spiegel der Weisheit, Austria (Salzburg), c. 1430, Egerton MS 1121, f. 44v.The hedgehog was a symbol of Christian humility
The Speculum sapientiae, or Mirror of Wisdom is an ancient tale of beasts in Latin. In one tale, a passing goat sees its reflection in a pond and declares himself very handsome indeed. A hedgehog trundles along afterwards and reproaches the goat telling him that profound humility, not vain boasting are what makes animals truly noble.
Detail of a miniature of a hedgehog; from Jean de Wavrin, Recueil des croniques d’Engleterre, vol. 1, Netherlands (Bruges), 1471-1483, Royal MS 15 E. iv, f. 180r.Read more: The British Library Digitised Manusripts
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It's almost time for the Feast of Grapes! My muscadine vine is gearing up for harvest, and I'm getting ready for the Minoan celebration of Dionysus and his gift to humanity.
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Olivia and I were driving back from Trumansburg to celebrate summer bounty last week and I saw this flower universe in front of Indian Creek Farm
#photo #photography #Lughnasadh #lugh #flower #trumanburg #bloomscrolling #zinnia #indiancreek #paganism
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Stone monument in dedication to Mithras (2nd-3rd century CE)
Archaeologisches Museum Frankfurt, Germany 🇩🇪. The museum has a lot of stone dedications to Mithras, whose cult was popular in the area.
Inscription and German translation in alttext.@histodons
#paganism #mythology #MythologyMonday #religion #ReligiousStudies #Altertumswissenschaften #LinguaLatina #antiquité #AncientReligions #LateAntiquity #AncientHistory #antike #epigraphy #MuseumArchive #glam #AncientArt -
An #introduction for me:
Hello! I am a Heathen (Germanic #Pagan) and am interested in discussions around #paganism , #religion , #prechristian #culture , and many other things! I will post #hávamál stanzas, though other things as well. Looking to find other #Heathen community! -
I spent the drive up to Little York working on a lecture about the magic of blessings which primed me such that every time someone said "Enjoy the 4th of July" it exploded in my brain like a firework
#photo #photography #fireworks #paganism #religion #pagan #blessings #magic #july4 #littleyork #4thofjuly #independenceday #america250 #250th
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DANGEROUS CHRISTOID SPOTTED
https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1996489/dangerous-christoid-spotted
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DANGEROUS CHRISTOID SPOTTED
https://piefed.social/c/roughromanmemes/p/1996488/dangerous-christoid-spotted
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Oberon Zell, the well-known Pagan Elder, Artist, and Author, has started this group to help those that are facing religious discrimination and to fight against the extremism going on in the USA. Costs nothing to join. Thanks!
#oberonzell #paganism #pagans #paganalliance #socialjustice #rights
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It was a pleasant surprise to discover that the new #Academic Anthology "Rethinking the Qur’ān in Late Antiquity" has a few chapters on Ancient #Arabian #Polytheism
#AncientArabia #Antiquity #LateAntiquity #AncientNearEast #ArabianPaganism #ArabianPolytheism #AncientReligions
#Pagan #Paganism #Polytheist
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Caelibatus
“Only 50% of the clergy are celibate. Now, most of them are having sex with other adults; but the fact remains that this creates a culture of secrecy that tolerates and even protects p*dophiles.” - Spotlight (2015, Anonymous Content)
#hplovecraft #lovecraft #pagan #paganism #darkart #cosmichorror #cult #cultist #necromancy #blackmetal #horrorart #artoftheday #art #artgallery #digitalart #risingartist
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Caelibatus
“Only 50% of the clergy are celibate. Now, most of them are having sex with other adults; but the fact remains that this creates a culture of secrecy that tolerates and even protects p*dophiles.” - Spotlight (2015, Anonymous Content)
#hplovecraft #lovecraft #pagan #paganism #darkart #cosmichorror #cult #cultist #necromancy #blackmetal #horrorart #artoftheday #art #artgallery #digitalart #risingartist
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Caelibatus
“Only 50% of the clergy are celibate. Now, most of them are having sex with other adults; but the fact remains that this creates a culture of secrecy that tolerates and even protects p*dophiles.” - Spotlight (2015, Anonymous Content)
#hplovecraft #lovecraft #pagan #paganism #darkart #cosmichorror #cult #cultist #necromancy #blackmetal #horrorart #artoftheday #art #artgallery #digitalart #risingartist
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Cleavage
P.s.: the cover of your black metal album
#hplovecraft #lovecraft #pagan #paganism #darkart #cosmichorror #cult #cultist #necromancy #blackmetal #horrorart #artoftheday #art #artgallery #digitalart #risingartist
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Cleavage
P.s.: the cover of your black metal album
#hplovecraft #lovecraft #pagan #paganism #darkart #cosmichorror #cult #cultist #necromancy #blackmetal #horrorart #artoftheday #art #artgallery #digitalart #risingartist
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Cleavage
P.s.: the cover of your black metal album
#hplovecraft #lovecraft #pagan #paganism #darkart #cosmichorror #cult #cultist #necromancy #blackmetal #horrorart #artoftheday #art #artgallery #digitalart #risingartist
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Cleavage
P.s.: the cover of your black metal album
#hplovecraft #lovecraft #pagan #paganism #darkart #cosmichorror #cult #cultist #necromancy #blackmetal #horrorart #artoftheday #art #artgallery #digitalart #risingartist
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Traditionalists: we should embrace our true heritage and cultural roots!
Me: Right on mate!
#Europe #Krampusnacht #Paganism #religion #Krampus #mythology #tradition #Christmas #Pagans #Germany #Austria
https://www.iflscience.com/krampusnacht-whats-up-with-the-terrifying-christmas-time-pagan-parades-in-europe-81694 -
Join Us for Our Monthly Dinner Gathering! 🍽
Orange County, California Pagans, Witches & Heathens
✨ Date: Wednesday, November 12th
✨ Time: 7:00 PM
✨ RSVP: Meetup.com/OCPaganConnect with fellow #Pagans, #Witches & #Heathens over great food & conversation! All paths are welcome. 🔮✨
#paganism #witchcraft #heathenry #druidry #pagancommunity -
Archaeoethnologica: The Demise of Nordic Religion - Book / O Fim da Religião Nórdica - Livro
+INFO in: https://archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2025/09/o-fim-da-religiao-nordica-livro.html
#HistoryofReligions #Medieval #NordicStudies #Scandinavia #viking #paganism #christianization #power #conflict #culturalchange #germans #germanicreligion #kingship #politics #books #openaccess
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Archaeoethnologica: The Demise of Nordic Religion - Book / O Fim da Religião Nórdica - Livro
+INFO in: https://archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2025/09/o-fim-da-religiao-nordica-livro.html
#HistoryofReligions #Medieval #NordicStudies #Scandinavia #viking #paganism #christianization #power #conflict #culturalchange #germans #germanicreligion #kingship #politics #books #openaccess
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Archaeoethnologica: The Demise of Nordic Religion - Book / O Fim da Religião Nórdica - Livro
+INFO in: https://archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2025/09/o-fim-da-religiao-nordica-livro.html
#HistoryofReligions #Medieval #NordicStudies #Scandinavia #viking #paganism #christianization #power #conflict #culturalchange #germans #germanicreligion #kingship #politics #books #openaccess
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Archaeoethnologica: The Demise of Nordic Religion - Book / O Fim da Religião Nórdica - Livro
+INFO in: https://archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2025/09/o-fim-da-religiao-nordica-livro.html
#HistoryofReligions #Medieval #NordicStudies #Scandinavia #viking #paganism #christianization #power #conflict #culturalchange #germans #germanicreligion #kingship #politics #books #openaccess
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Archaeoethnologica: The Demise of Nordic Religion - Book / O Fim da Religião Nórdica - Livro
+INFO in: https://archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2025/09/o-fim-da-religiao-nordica-livro.html
#HistoryofReligions #Medieval #NordicStudies #Scandinavia #viking #paganism #christianization #power #conflict #culturalchange #germans #germanicreligion #kingship #politics #books #openaccess
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Archaeoethnologica: The Demise of Nordic Religion - Book / O Fim da Religião Nórdica - Livro
+INFO in: https://archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2025/09/o-fim-da-religiao-nordica-livro.html
#HistoryofReligions #Medieval #NordicStudies #Scandinavia #viking #paganism #christianization #power #conflict #culturalchange #germans #germanicreligion #kingship #politics #books #openaccess
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nelYRpzhqzo
Thank you for being there at the premiere of my new video clip L'Ankou!
Now it's all yours to stream, watch, listen to and enjoy :) hope you like it!From the woods with love,
Quentin#music #musicvideo #folk #paganfolk #paganism #bretagne #vosges #forest #hurdygurdy #nature
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Calling all those who signed up for The Wheel of the Year - Lammas Yarn Box, it's time for the big reveal!
Introducing 'Lammas', a 100g skein of hand dyed 100% British Bluefaced Leicester 4 ply high twist sock yarn. There are two skeins in each box.
Included in the box is a a Wendy Andrews Lammas card, soap, sunflower stitch markers, sunflower buttons and a packet of tea.
Happy knitting!
#yarn #knitting #crochet #indieyarn #indiedyer #handdyedyarn #lammas #pagan #paganism #thewheeloftheyear #harvest
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Elder Loco // “Every man has two sides — the one he shows, and the one he hides.”
#hplovecraft #lovecraft #pagan #paganism #darkart #cosmichorror #cult #cultist #necromancy #horrorart #artoftheday #art #artgallery #digitalart #risingartist
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Elder Loco // “Every man has two sides — the one he shows, and the one he hides.”
#hplovecraft #lovecraft #pagan #paganism #darkart #cosmichorror #cult #cultist #necromancy #horrorart #artoftheday #art #artgallery #digitalart #risingartist
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Elder Loco // “Every man has two sides — the one he shows, and the one he hides.”
#hplovecraft #lovecraft #pagan #paganism #darkart #cosmichorror #cult #cultist #necromancy #horrorart #artoftheday #art #artgallery #digitalart #risingartist
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In March I checked off a bucket list item: moderating a panel with 3 phenomenal trans/nonbinary pagans at Paganicon! Our panel was called "Inclusion vs. Affirmation: Nonbinary, Genderqueer, and Transgender Identities in Our Communities" & the room was PACKED. I wish we'd had at least one more hour, because the conversation was so rich and there was such keen interest from the audience! Siri Vincent Plouff, Mhara Starling, and Cassandra Snow were AWESOME! #paganism #paganicon #WitchSky #PaganSky
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This is your semi-regular reminder that I have a podcast! I use a D20 to choose questions I ask pagan authors. Episodes are short-ish and wander between lighthearted and profound. You can find it basically anywhere you get podcasts: https://majorarqueerna.com/4-quick-qs-podcast/ #Paganism #PaganPodcasts #PaganSky #WitchSky
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True #conspiracytheory of how Arianism was plotted against and now we’re all the worse off for it.
Make #Arius Great Again
@histodons #history #Arianism #heresy #imperial #bigotry #Justinian #Theodoric #Rome #Roman #philosophy #Neoplatonism #Boethius #pagan #paganism #Consolation #IsaacAsimov #DarkAges
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We really need to stop calling obvious schizophrenia, manic delusions, and psychosis ‘unverified personal gnosis.’ A person whom I knew 15 years ago has persistent beliefs, regardless of facts, that they knew me in a past life and we made some pact to alter the future to save the world from Nazis. It’s insane, but everyone in the occult Discord is nodding their heads and validating it.
A delusion is a persistent belief regardless of facts. This person has dreams and hallucinations that they believe are gods, spirits, and telepathy. In these hallucinations and delusions, the spirits tell them who random strangers were in a past life. A lot of these delusions are obviously paranoid and inevitably roll into a conspiracy theory about Nazis. This is very terrifying. This means, based on a random occurrence with a person, they will create a parasocial narrative that manifests as them knowing this person.
Most schizophrenia delusions emerge from noise and thus have no actual information. You can uncover that it is a delusion by asking the person for details. For example, if they make a claim about remembering a past life in Egypt, you can do the equivalent of asking them who the President of the United States is now. I did that with this person. They were claiming to have known me and other people in a past life in Egypt 3000 years ago, so I looked up what was going on around that time. I asked them who the high priest was, who the pharaoh was, and what they remember happening around that time. All of it was wrong.
That caused most of that Discord to jump all over me and imply that it was fine because it was their personal gnosis. To be clear, this person is creating parasocial relationships and narratives based on delusional narratives that they are applying to random people they meet.
Phrasing things as they happened in a different reality or a past life is a way to avoid the falsification of and is a way to rationalize the delusion. Claiming that you knew a person in a past life is a way to justify the parasocial relationship. It is not unverified personal gnosis. It’s mental illness. There is nothing magical about mental illness. If I had a nickel for every time a schizophrenic occultist spun up a delusional narrative to justify an adversarial parasocial relationship with me, I’d be rich. This is a major problem.
#anarchism #anarchists #anarchy #animistic #Astral #astrological #Bipolar #BipolarDisorder #ceremonialMagic #ceremonialMagick #chaosMagic #chaosMagick #conspiracyTheories #conspiracyTheory #cult #cults #Discord #divination #DKMU #Egypt #fascism #gnosis #magic #magick #Nazi #Nazis #occult #occultism #occulture #pagan #paganism #paranormal #pastLife #pastLives #polytheism #psychic #psychosis #Reddit #reincarnation #schizophrenia #schizophrenic #spirits #spiritual #Spirituality #Theism #Thelema #thelemites #Threads #Twitter #UnverifiedPersonalGnosis #UPG #witch #witchcraft
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Joyous Weles Day! Hail to you, Tender of Boundaries, Lord of Livestock, God of Death and Magic. Bless us this day as we worship you. Bless us with luck, keep death at bay for another day, give us fertile livestock so we may eat.
Thank you, Friend of the Forest, Great Bear, Keeper of Order. We praise you this day. Sława Weles!
#slavicpagan #veles #weles #velesden #slavic #slavicfolklore #Slavicwitch #polishwitch #polishpagan #polytheist #pagansofmastadon #pagan #paganism #pagans #rodnovery
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I'm an ecologist and having a career in that field has made a huge mark on my polytheist practice. I know pagans tend to be a bit crunchy by nature, but my education and training inform the way I see the world and that includes my religious ideology.
I'm not living in ancient or even modern Iceland, or Sweden, or Poland, or Scotland. I tend to focus on local plant and animal life and how they tie into my views on gods related to fertility, the land, and the seasons. Bird migrations inform my shifts in seasonal practice. I see Freyja in my local red-tailed hawks. Óðinn in the common ravens on campus. I know when to expect thunder storms and give to þórr ahead of time, while giving to Freyr during the milder rainy season. When crocus bulbs begin to pop up they tell me we're entering Spring and to thank Mokosz. An Cailleach blows in with the first frost.
One of course doesn't need to be a scientist to be keyed in like this, I know plenty of pagans who are not and are just as keyed in. For me though it's second nature, no pun intended. Having a localized practice brings me closer to the gods in a way that makes sense to me. It also informs how I interact with the land wights, making sure to leave offerings safe for local plants and animals when outdoors. It's brought me into the flow of life around me and I'm at grateful for it.
#Pagan #pagans #paganism #polytheism #polytheist #heathen #heathenry #Polytheistic #slavicwitch #GaelPol #norseheathen #norseheathenry #witch #witchcraft
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Right, I haven't done a toot of my interests as hashtags. Let's fix that.
#witchcraft #runes #tarot #magic #paganism #theology #PaganTheology #LGBTQIssues #LGBTQRights #SciFi #Fantasy #SocialJustice #Books #Movies #Comedies #DadJokes #puns #ComputerProgramming #Cryptography #CyberSecurity #SexPositivity #ComputerGames #StarWars #StarTrek #BabylonFive #dnd #writing #InterfaithDiscussiosns #interfaith
