Myrkul: Difficult Symbols

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Temple Of Myrkul (TO Myrk): Making More Out Of Myrkul

Hi. If this thread could be kept relatively strict with posts containing a listing of all that you have read, are in the process of reading, and wish to read, and can be used as a kind of check list with brief and precise commentary allowed after each text mentioned but extensie discussion can be saved for another thread and people commenting on whay other people have read can also be our in the other "What are you reading?" thread. I don't want this one to get too bogged down but want to let people know what I am reading. Multiple posts can be made or edited to add more. I may not mention all the books I have already read but may mention some I recently completed reading. Also one needn't limit mentions to books only but I would like to know what academic papers are being read and it interest as well as articles like those in journals, magazines, or newspapers or online. Links can also be provided if convenient.

I have a number of books next to me on my bed, near my bed, on the side bar, outside of my bedroom, and numerous on my currently inaccesdible computers and external hard drive and also on my phone which I have been currently using.

I would like the exact titles of all the things you are reading, have read, or wish to read and expect to read and some information on what your experience was with those, what led you to them, what you liked or disliked or learned, or why you are interested and what aspects appeal to you.

You can also include mention of search terms used to find these documents online, since sometimes I search out pdf files by typing in something and then pdf or academic pdf after it.

I may find it difficult to contribute to this thread just yet from my phone but hope to contribute lists as well like what is currently in the process of being read by me on my bed and next to it at least since I don't have to switch around from the browser I am typing this with or memorize the titles and authors.

Those books are as follows:

I can also provide mention of some documents I am reading from my phone but the full titles or authors name may not be easily accessible or easy for me to write here but by typing pdf afterwards in a search engine you may find these documents. I am also reading and have partially read and am in the process of reading more than those texts mentioned.

Daevas in Zoroastrianism pdf
The Satanic Phenomenon pdf
Sinister Yogis pdf
Cultures of Death and Dying in Medieval Early pdf
Dying to become Un-dead pdf
Werewolf Bedburg pdf
Slavic Vampire pdf
Slavic Pagan World pdf
Veles Wikipedia Article
Slavic Mythological Creatures Wiki page
Heretic Vampire Russian pdf
Zoroastrian Theology pdf
Zoroaster Theory of Elements pdf
The Satanic Witch pdf
Werewolf Witch Warlock Aspects of Gender pdf
Milky Way as path to the otherworld pdf
A reader in comparitive indo european religion pdf
Proto indo european divinities pdf
Light is Life Dark Death indo greek metaphor pdf
Medieval Christian View of Islam Dante pdf
Monstrous Muslims pdf (completed)
Witches Whores Sorcerers Zoroastrian Evil pdf
Practice Perception Black Magic Hittites pdf
Spirits seeking bodies medieval pdf
Theresa Bane Encyclopedia Vampire pdf
Bob Curran Encyclopedia Undead pdf
Early Modern Supernatural pdf

Those are just what are opened on my phone currently but I have my whole browser full as well including Alice Mouton's article on Hittite Witchcraft. When it comes to Veles I am most interested in the dry moist dichotomy in indo european thinking and its development and the ideas associated with furriness and wooliness and the underworld as wet mossy and moist.

So I have numerous pages and articles related to that opened in the browser.

Next to me on my bed are:

He That Cometh: The Messiah Concept in the Old Testament & Later Judaism by Sigmund Mowinckel

The Birth of Purgatory by Jacques Le Goff

New Age Encyclopedia by Belinda Whitworth

Beyond Death's Door by Maurice Rawlings M.D.

Then on the ledge nearest me:

Reading Augustine by Jason Byassee

Mystical Lenormand by Regula Elizabeth Fiechter

A Dictionary of Philosophy by Pan Reference

Then a number of books on the window ledge and further down the side bar numbering 33 or so.

The ones I am currently or most frequently accessing out of those are:

Cultivating Compassion with Guan Yin Bodhisattva by Miao Lien

Wise Choices - Immigration in Buddhism by Miao Lien

What Would Buddha Do? by Franz Metcalf

The Dark Man: The shadow that follows us all by Deborah Wells

Mesopotamia: The Mighty Kings

Heavy Music Artwork

J.K. Rowling's Wizarding World Movie Magic Volume 1

as well as the less frequently accessed:

The Official Handbook of The Marvel Universe Molecule Man to Owl

Gurps Marvel pdf

Gurps Undead pdf

A History of Witchcraft by Dr. Susan Greenwood

Weyer Daemonology pdf

Discovery of Witches pdf

Malleus Maleficarum pdf

Ghost Sightings by Brian Innes

Larousse Encyclopedia of Ancient & Medieval History

Schneewind Cambridge Moral Philosophy from Montaigne to Kant

The Seventeenth Century Background by Willey

The Story of Chinese Philosophy by Ch'u Chai

Myth Maker: J.R.R. Tolkien by Neimark

The Life of Mary As Seen By The Mystics compiled by Raphael Brown

Oxford Readings in Philosophy: Free Will edited by Gary Watson

The Elizabethan World Picture by E.M.W. Tillyard

Cambridge Greek Religion & Society by Easterling & Muir

Deviance & Social Control by Linda B. Deutschmann

Theories of Deviance by Traub & Little

Complete Works of Plato

Lost Scriptures by Ehrman

Toward a Recognition of Androgyny by Heilbrun

Edgar Cayce on ESP by Doris Agee

The Edgar CayceReader by Hugh Lynn Cayce

A Brief History of Cults by Peter Hanning

The Unknown Darkness by Gregg O. McCrary

Popular Arthurian Traditions by Slocum

Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban is also here but I have read it before but access it for some particular ideas.

Now I will step outside of my room to mention some more books I am currently reading but are kept outside:

Sam Shepard by Don Shewey

Bulfinch's Mythology: A modern abridgement by Edmund Fuller

Indians & Other Americans by Fey & McNickel

Indians of the Plains by Robert H. Lowie

Allah by Volf

Perspectives by John Spencer

The Religions of Man by Huston Smith

The Arabs by Anthony Nutting

Thou Art That by Joseph Campbell

Dreamwork by Strephon Kaplan-Williams

Stories of Ghosts by Russell Punter

A Brief History of The Samurai

Piercing The Darkness: Undercover with Vampires in America Today by Katherine Ramsland

The Hidden Heart of the Cosmos by Swimme

The Paranormal by John Spencer

The Dream Encyclopedia by Lewis

10,000 Dreams Interpreted by Pamela Ball


The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail

The Action Bible

The Vampire Book by DK

God's Promises & Answers

Irish Proverbs by Williams

Kim by Kipling

Fashion Makers Fashion Shapers by Anne-Celine & Jaeger

The Most Evil Men and Women in History by Miranda Twiss

Classical Mythology by Morford & Lenardon

Auras by Smith

Greek Art by Walter-Herwig Schuchhardt

How to Speak Pirate by Telfer

Napoleon and the Transformation of Europe by Alexander Grab

Making Short Films by Max & Clifford Thurlow

Pirates by Caroll & Graf

China: Empire and Civilization by Shaughnessy

some books are hidden or inaccessible at this time like one about Jesuit spiritual practices and beliefs and an Encyclopedia on Ancient Egypt and another on Celtic Mythology and others on Folklore and one about Modern Witchcraft by Moura

Then there are also those difficult to access because of how they are piled like:

A Brief History of The Vikings by Johnathan Clements

Celts by Martin J. Dougherty

King Arthur by Martin J. Dougherty

Various Diablo III art books

Exploring Art by Lazzari & Schlesier

The Music of Man by Menuthin & Davis

and this doesn't account for anything close to the majority of books on these shelves or in these carrying cases, most of which are hiddrn from sight right now and I only mentioned some of those I am in the process of reading.

Somewhere is also a book on Enlightened Nationalism.

The Dictionary of First Names is also interesting.

Technology & Empire by Grant

Oh here is one I was looking for to add to my Birth of Purgatory book, called Purgatory.

Oh here are The Complete Poems of Sappho with commentary by Barnstone and Yoder's The Christian Witness to the State and Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions and Our Own Master Race by Angus McLaren about Eugenics in Canada as well as The Golden Ass by Apuleius who was a Neoplatonist I think though these I might not access any time soon until I have completed some of the others which are progressing well.

I never skim and whether I am reading or watching something I do so carefully. Speaking of which I will be watching movies made on Youtube of the Witcher series of games as well as the movie Warlock 2 after seeing Warlock 1 and The Order: 1886 full gameplay movie.

I can make a separate thread asking what one is currently watching.
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Oh fantastic I found in the process of trying to access the Purgatory book, the Book of Myths by Amy Cruse, Crime and Its Victims by Van Ness to go with the Deviance section in my room, origins of Modern Witchcraft by Moura, sex in History by Reay & Tannahill, and Tolkien: A Look Behind "The Lord of The Rings" by Lin Carter, and Beyond Fate by Margaret Visser to add to the Oxford Free Will book. Oh nice there is Language Proof & Logic by Barwise & Etchemendy, The Movie Business by Bluem & Squire. The Essence of Rumi by John Baldock, The Golden Mean by Annabel Lyon which is a novel set around ancient Macedonia,my Name is Rexby Orhan Pamur which is about Medieval Turkish stuff, The Year 1000 by Lacey & Danziger to go with those History texts mentioned earlier.

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Thanks for sharing all of those, I will defiitely check those out in due time. Here is a thread with some books I have recently purchased too.

https://ontic-philosophy.com/Thread-What-book-s-are-you-currently-reading

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Listing it all out like that I realized I read an enormous amount of stuff at around the same time period. I didn't count all that listed above but it looks like a ton. I would say most of the focus goes into whatever is in the closest proximity, so the stuff on my phone including articles and papers opened in the browser and those books physically nearest to my head on the bed and pretty much in the order I wrote it all out, roughly. I read about 20 to 40 pages then might move to another and that is how I systematically go through so much. I can become sleepy reading 20 to 40 pages of material on the same subject just due to eye strain maybe or laying on the bed and reading. Switching subjects can help though I have at times read 80 pages and more depending on the material but it is important to me to really understand everything and not rush through or skim. I would love to read hundreds or thousands of pages of complex or sophisticated material at a great speed to get through all this stuff but I read these things at about a minute or two per page since I am reading carefully and may even go back and re-read occassionally ti make sure I have got it. In total though since I switch between books I read hundreds of pages a day sometimes probably but broken over a number of different texts.

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I read about 20 to 40 pages then might move to another and that is how I systematically go through so much.

I have to say, that's how I usually read books too. This may or may not be a good idea, but I find that the books I read are interdisciplinary anyway - each writer is influenced and comments on the other writer I am reading, so this is probably productive in that way.

It's not like reading Plato for example, where everything you need to understand is sort of 'there' in the text, although this is in dispute with writers like Derrida. But for the basics, Plato can be understood by simply knowing the divided line and recollection.

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It looks like I type a great deal too and with only my thumb while holding the phone in one hand. I wrote this all out to kind of give an idea about my reading habits and the sort of stuff I read and I guess also how much I read overall.
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Yeah I think it is a method that develops naturally and it can be nice to have all of it jumbled like one big book or a larger overall theme. I could just read one at a time but I almost like how my mixing ingredients seems to inspire and add interesting facets to each.

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It looks like I type a great deal too and with only my thumb while holding the phone in one hand. I wrote this all out to kind of give an idea about my reading habits and the sort of stuff I read and I guess also how much I read overall.

I'm sure it will be of use as a reference for yourself and for others here.

If you could maybe focus on particular ideas, one at a time for beginners to digest that would be great too. I think an occult section discussion on what magick is for example, would be a good idea.

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Haha it typoed and made it my name is Rexby rather than My Name is Red.

I counted around 125 texts or so written above. Out of those I focus in chunks of activity on about 5 or 10 pdf files, 50 articles or websites, 5 or 10 books near me and then have them in groups like that but may go to other groups or chunks frequently on a day or mix and match among the groups of books which might be about 20 to 50 more frequently accessed than others.
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Well my main area of interest and study is the history and development and influence of ideas and notions and mentalities with a heavy or particular focus on ideas of the supernatural and religious and psycho-social constructs end their design and development such ass magic and magical thinking. That is what guides all the reading and what I am looking at or extracting from it all or anything, even if it seems political or poetic or fictional I am always looking for the ideas and where they came from and how they are influencing the writing and may influence the reader or are otherwise implied in the writing. I was searching that out in any forum I've visited as well or interaction with people. It seems like a pretty broad topic but it reveals lots about every detail of the way people think and interact with each other and how they interpret things aa well as how they might have been or could be motivated or manipulated.

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The Absolute, said to encompass every fleeting manifestation of itself. The Void is the absolute, beyond it, one can go no further. The void swallows all, those who achieve this state cease to exist as anything a human mind can comprehend
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Hegel used the term das Absolute in his German literary works. Contrary to some popular accounts, the term is not specific to Hegel. It first occurs in the work of Nicholas of Cusa, and Hegel's own usage was developed in response to that of his contemporary Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling.[16]

Hegel's use of "absolute" is easily misunderstood. Michael Inwood, however, clarifies: derived from the Latin absolutus, it means "not dependent on, conditional on, relative to or restricted by anything else; self-contained, perfect, complete."[16] In the words of scholar Allegra de Laurentiis, this means that absolute knowing can only denote "an 'absolute relation' in which the ground of experience and the experiencing agent are one and the same: the object known is explicitly the subject who knows."[17] That is, the only "thing" (which is really an activity) that is truly absolute is that which is entirely self-conditioned, and according to Hegel, this only occurs when spirit takes itself up as its own object. In some respects, this view of Hegel was anticipated by Johann Gottlieb Fichte's theory of the absolute self.[18] The final section of Hegel's Philosophy of Spirit presents the three modes of such absolute knowing: art, religion, and philosophy.[c]

For Hegel, as understood by Martin Heidegger, the absolute is "spirit, that which is present to itself in the certainty of unconditional self-knowing".[20] As Hegel is understood by Frederick Copleston, "[l]ogic studies the absolute 'in itself'; the philosophy of nature studies the absolute 'for itself'; and the philosophy of spirit studies the absolute 'in and for itself'."[21]

In British philosophy, self-identified neo-Hegelian F. H. Bradley distinguishes the concept of absolute from God, whereas Josiah Royce, another neo-Hegelian and founder of the American idealism school of philosophy, has equated them.[18]

Søren Kierkegaard critiqued the concept of the Absolute from an existential perspective, arguing that absolute knowledge undermines the importance of personal faith and subjective commitment. For Kierkegaard, truth is subjectivity rather than an abstract absolute. Friedrich Nietzsche challenged the notion of an Absolute by declaring the "death of God," which symbolized the end of objective moral truths derived from a metaphysical absolute. Nietzsche emphasized the need for human beings to create their own values.[22][23]
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The All
hermetic, pantheistic, pandeistic or panentheistic view of God, which is that everything that is, or at least that can be experienced, collectively makes up The All
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The All (also called The One, The Absolute, The Great One, The Creator, The Supreme Mind, The Supreme Good, The Father, The Universal Mother and The Nameless) is a term denoting major pantheistic, panentheistic, Hermetic, and other monistically mystical notions of Ultimate Reality, whether called the Monad, Cosmos, God, Goddess, Godhead, Allah, Brahman or Tao. The All is often characterized as androgynous, possessing both masculine and feminine qualities, personal and impersonal attributes or appearances, and positive and negative aspects, yet transcending all of them.


While All is in THE ALL, it is equally true that THE ALL is in All. To him who truly understands this truth hath come great knowledge. ~ The Kybalion
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There is nothing non-exclusive but the All; my end is communion with Being through the whole of Being. ~ Henri-Frédéric Amiel

The nature of the All moved to make the universe. ~ Marcus Aurelius
There is no repose for the mind except in the absolute; for feeling except in the infinite; for the soul except in the divine. Nothing finite is true, is interesting, is worthy to fix my attention. All that is particular is exclusive, and all that is exclusive repels me. There is nothing non-exclusive but the All; my end is communion with Being through the whole of Being.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel, as quoted in the Introduction to The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1882), as translated by Mary Augusta Ward
What is so remarkable in all these theories and doctrines is their implicit monism, the claim that behind the obvious multiplicity of the world’s appearances and, even more pertinently to our context, behind the obvious plurality of man’s faculties and abilities, there must exist a oneness — the old hen pan, “the all is one”—either a single source or a single ruler.
Hannah Arendt , in The Life of the Mind (1971), p. 70
The nature of the All moved to make the universe.
Marcus Aurelius, in Meditations, VII, 75, as translated by George Long (1862)
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Ananke must above all be regarded as cosmic force, that is as the ruling law in the universe; thus … the super-personal, cosmic significance of "the All" ruled by Ananke as well, can be accepted as certain. It represents in the universe the inviolability of cause and effect and does so as dual essence, as a mythical personage belonging to the oldest theogony or as the earliest philosophical concept of the mechanics of natural events.
Otto Brendel, on statements of Thales and other ancient greeks on Ananke (Necessity) and the All, in Symbolism of the Sphere : A Contribution to the History of Earlier Greek Philosophy (1977), p. 37
The infinity of All ever bringing forth anew, and even as infinite space is around us, so is infinite potentiality, capacity, reception, malleability, matter.
Giordano Bruno, in De innumerabilibus, immenso et infigurabili (1591); usually referred to as De immenso, I 1 as translated in Giordano Bruno : His Life and Thought with annotated translation of his work On the Infinite Universe and Worlds (1950) by Dorothea Waley Singer
The single spirit doth simultaneously temper the whole together; this is the single soul of all things; all are filled with God.
Giordano Bruno, in De immenso (1591), IV 9; as translated by Dorothea Waley Singer (1950)
All things are in all.
Giordano Bruno, in De immenso (1591), V 9; as translated by Dorothea Waley Singer (1950)
Before anything else the One must exist eternally; from his power derives everything that always is or will ever be. He is the Eternal and embraces all times. He knows profoundly all events and He himself is everything. He creates everything beyond any beginning of time and beyond any limit of place and space. He is not subject to any numerical law, or to any law of measure or order. He himself is law, number, measure, limit without limit, end without end, act without form.
Giordano Bruno, in De immenso (1591), VIII 2, as quoted in The Acentric Labyrinth (1995) by Ramon Mendoza
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Just as the way of social participation may lead in the end to a realization of the All in the individual, so that of exile brings the hero to the Self in all. ~ Joseph Campbell

One is The All. ~ Cleopatra the Alchemist

The All, thus interwoven of These, is Bliss.
Naught is beyond Bliss. ~ Aleister Crowley
Wherever the hero may wander, whatever he may do, he is ever in the presence of his own essence — for he has the perfected eye to see. There is no separateness. Thus, just as the way of social participation may lead in the end to a realization of the All in the individual, so that of exile brings the hero to the Self in all.
Joseph Campbell, in The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949), Epilogue
The All of Things is an infinite conjugation of the verb To do.
Thomas Carlyle, in The French Revolution : A History (1837), Pt. II, Bk. III, Ch. 1
Tat Tvam Asi (Sanskrit: तत् त्वम् असि or तत्त्वमसि)
That art thou.
Chāndogya Upaniṣad (circa 800–700 BCE), §6.8.7 and repeated refrain
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One is The All.
Cleopatra the Alchemist, in The Chrysopoeia of Cleopatra
The Many is as adorable to the One as the One is to the Many.
This is the Love of These; creation-parturition is the Bliss of the One; coition-dissolution is the Bliss of the Many.
The All, thus interwoven of These, is Bliss.
Naught is beyond Bliss.
Aleister Crowley, in The Book of Lies (1913), 3 : The Oyster
The All which is beyond comprehension — the All which is perpetually discovered, yet undiscovered: sexual, sweet, Alive!
E. E. Cummings, in Him (1927)
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As far as I'm concerned we are all God
That's the difference
If you really think another guy is God he doesn't lock you up
Funny about that.

Ram Dass, in Be Here Now (1971), contrasting the attitude of those who think they are especially "divine" and thus believe other people "owe" them deference — and those who think all are divine manifestions of "The All", and thus are respectful of others and their rights.
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These [Elements] never cease changing place continually, now being all united by Love into one, now each borne apart by the hatred engendered of Strife, until they are brought together in the unity of the all, and become subject to it.
Empedocles, in Fragments, Bk. 1, line 66, as quoted in The First Philosophers of Greece (1898) edited and translated by Arthur Fairbanks, p. 165
The alchemical ideogram of "One the All," is O, the circle: a line or movement that encloses within itself and contains in itself both its end and beginning. In hermetism this symbol expresses the universe and, at the same time, the Great Work. In the Chrysopoeia it takes the form of a serpent-Ouroboros-biting its own tail, containing within the space of the circle that it creates, the ἕν τὸ πᾶν. In the same palimpsest is found another pentacle formed by two rings, the inner bearing this inscription: "One is the serpent, which contains the poison, according to the double sign" while in the outer circle it says: "One is the all, the source of all and the culmination of all: if the all did not contain the all, it would be nothing."
Julius Evola, in The Hermetic Tradition: Symbols & Teachings of the Royal Art, page 21.
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There are many stories in Twin Peaks — some of them are sad, some funny. Some of them are stories of madness, of violence. Some are ordinary. Yet they all have about them a sense of mystery — the mystery of life. Sometimes, the mystery of death. The mystery of the woods. The woods surrounding Twin Peaks. To introduce this story, let me just say it encompasses the All — it is beyond the "Fire", though few would know that meaning. It is a story of many, but begins with one — and I knew her. The one leading to the many is Laura Palmer. Laura is the one.
Mark Frost and David Lynch in the Pilot episode of Twin Peaks (8 April 1990)
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To a person whose transfigured and transfiguring mind can see the All in every this, the first-rateness or tenth-rateness of even a religious painting will be a matter of the most sovereign indifference.
Aldous Huxley, in The Doors of Perception (1954)
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Let him who seeks continue seeking until he finds. When he finds, he will become troubled. When he becomes troubled, he will be astonished, and he will rule over the All. ~ Jesus

He who knows the All but fails to know himself lacks everything. ~ Jesus
Let him who seeks continue seeking until he finds. When he finds, he will become troubled. When he becomes troubled, he will be astonished, and he will rule over the All.
Jesus, as quoted in the Gospel of Thomas (c. 50? — c. 140?) attributed to Thomas the Apostle, verse 2
He who knows the All but fails to know himself lacks everything.
Jesus, as quoted in the Gospel of Thomas (c. 50? — c. 140?) attributed to Thomas the Apostle, verse 67
It is I who am the light which is above them All. It is I who am the All. From me did the All come forth, and unto me did the All extend. Split a piece of wood, and I am there. Lift up the stone, and you will find me there.
Jesus, as quoted in the Gospel of Thomas (c. 50? — c. 140?) attributed to Thomas the Apostle, verse 77
It soared, a bird, it held its flight, a swift pure cry, soar silver orb it leaped serene, speeding, sustained, to come, don't spin it out too long long breath he breath long life, soaring high, high resplendent, aflame, crowned, high in the effulgence symbolistic, high, of the ethereal bosom, high, of the high vast irradiation everywhere all soaring all around about the all, the endlessnessnessness...
James Joyce in Ulysses (1922), Ch. 11: Sirens
We are all by nature so closely dependent on the heavens and the gods that are visible therein, that even if any man conceives of another god besides these, he in every case assigns to him the heavens as his dwelling-place; not that he thereby separates him from the earth, but he so to speak establishes the King of the All in the heavens as in the most honourable place of all, and conceives of him as overseeing from there the affairs of this world.
Emperor Julian, in Against the Galilaeans (c. 362) as translated by Wilmer Cave Wright
He shewed me a little thing, the quantity of an hazel-nut, in the palm of my hand; and it was as round as a ball. I looked thereupon with eye of my understanding, and thought: What may this be? And it was answered generally thus: It is all that is made. I marvelled how it might last, for methought it might suddenly have fallen to naught for little. And I was answered in my understanding: It lasteth, and ever shall for that God loveth it. And so All-thing hath the Being by the love of God.
Julian of Norwich, in Revelations of Divine Love (c.1393), Ch. 5
I saw no difference between God and our Substance: but as it were all God; and yet mine understanding took that our Substance is in God: that is to say, that God is God, and our Substance is a creature in God.
Julian of Norwich, in Revelations of Divine Love (c.1393), Ch. 54
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While All is in THE ALL, it is equally true that THE ALL is in All. To him who truly understands this truth hath come great knowledge.
The Kybalion : A Study of The Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece (1908) by The Three Initiates, Ch. VII (online 1912 edition)
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Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.
And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord.
And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all. ~ Paul of Tarsus
Compare not thyself with others, but with Me. If thou dost not find Me in those with whom thou comparest thyself, thou comparest thyself to one who is abominable. If thou findest Me in them, compare thyself to Me. But whom wilt thou compare? Thyself, or Me in thee? If it is thyself, it is one who is abominable. If it is I, thou comparest Me to Myself. Now I am God in all.
Blaise Pascal, Pensées (1669) § 555
Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.
And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord.
And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all.
But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal.
For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues:
But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.
Paul of Tarsus, in 1 Corinthians 12:4-11 (KJV)
We are nothing, let us be all.
Eugène Edine Pottier, The Internationale (1864)
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Inconceiveable as it seems to ordinary reason, you — and all other conscious beings as such — are all in all. ~ Erwin Schrödinger
Inside most people there's a feeling of being separate — separated from everything. … And they're not. They're part of absolutely everyone, and everything.
Victor Salva, in Powder (1995)
Inconceiveable as it seems to ordinary reason, you — and all other conscious beings as such — are all in all. Hence, this life of yours... is, in a certain sense, the whole.
Erwin Schrödinger, as quoted in "The Mystic Vision" as translated in Quantum Questions: Mystical Writings of the World's Great Physicists (1984) edited by Ken Wilber
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In Paradise they look no more awry;
and though they make anew, they make no lie.
Be sure they still will make, not being dead,
and poets shall have flames upon their head,
and harps whereon their faultless fingers fall:
there each shall choose for ever from the All. ~ J. R. R. Tolkien

God is that infinite All of which man knows himself to be a finite part.
God alone exists truly. Man manifests Him in time, space and matter. ~ Leo Tolstoy
In Paradise they look no more awry;
and though they make anew, they make no lie.
Be sure they still will make, not being dead,
and poets shall have flames upon their head,
and harps whereon their faultless fingers fall:
there each shall choose for ever from the All.
J. R. R. Tolkien, in Mythopoeia (1931)
God is the infinite ALL. Man is only a finite manifestation of Him.
Or better yet:
God is that infinite All of which man knows himself to be a finite part.
God alone exists truly. Man manifests Him in time, space and matter. The more God's manifestation in man (life) unites with the manifestations (lives) of other beings, the more man exists. This union with the lives of other beings is accomplished through love.
God is not love, but the more there is of love, the more man manifests God, and the more he truly exists...
We acknowledge God only when we are conscious of His manifestation in us. All conclusions and guidelines based on this consciousness should fully satisfy both our desire to know God as such as well as our desire to live a life based on this recognition.
Leo Tolstoy, in an entry in his Diary (1 November 1910)
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The thing that has never happened before is still happening. It is still a miracle. The great burning blossom squats, flowing, upon the limb of the world, excreting the ash of the world, and being none of these things I have named and at the same time all of them, and this is reality — the Nameless. ~ Roger Zelazny, in Lord of Light

Death and Light are everywhere, always, and they begin, end, strive, attend, into and upon the Dream of the Nameless that is the world, burning words within Samsara, perhaps to create a thing of beauty. ~ Roger Zelazny, in Lord of Light
This mysterious something has been called God, the Absolute, Nature, Substance, Energy, Space, Ether, Mind, Being, the Void, the Infinite — names and ideas which shift in popularity and respectability with the winds of intellectual fashion, of considering the universe intelligent or stupid, superhuman or subhuman, specific or vague. All of them might be dismissed as nonsense-noises if the notion of an underlying Ground of Being were no more than a product of intellectual speculation. But these names are often used to designate the content of a vivid and almost sensorily concrete experience — the "unitive" experience of the mystic, which, with secondary variations, is found in almost all cultures at all times. This experience is the transformed sense of self which I was discussing in the previous chapter, though in "naturalistic" terms, purified of all hocus-pocus about mind, soul, spirit, and other intellectually gaseous words.
Alan Watts, in The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are (1966)
Are the mystics and sages insane? Because they all tell variations on the same story, don't they? The story of awakening one morning and discovering you are one with the All, in a timeless and eternal and infinite fashion. Yes, maybe they are crazy, these divine fools. Maybe they are mumbling idiots in the face of the Abyss. Maybe they need a nice, understanding therapist. Yes, I'm sure that would help. But then, I wonder. Maybe the evolutionary sequence really is from matter to body to mind to soul to spirit, each transcending and including, each with a greater depth and greater consciousness and wider embrace. And in the highest reaches of evolution, maybe, just maybe, an individual's consciousness does indeed touch infinity — a total embrace of the entire Kosmos — a Kosmic consciousness that is Spirit awakened to its own true nature. It's at least plausible. And tell me: is that story, sung by mystics and sages the world over, any crazier than the scientific materialism story, which is that the entire sequence is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying absolutely nothing? Listen very carefully: just which of those two stories actually sounds totally insane?
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"Fire" does not matter, "earth" and "air" and "water" do not matter. "I" do not matter. No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words. The more words he remembers, the cleverer do his fellows esteem him. He looks upon the great transformations of the world, but he does not see them as they were seen when man looked upon reality for the first time. Their names come to his lips and he smiles as he tastes them, thinking he knows them in the naming. The thing that has never happened before is still happening. It is still a miracle. The great burning blossom squats, flowing, upon the limb of the world, excreting the ash of the world, and being none of these things I have named and at the same time all of them, and this is reality — the Nameless.
Roger Zelazny, in Lord of Light (1967) Kalkin/Sam to his followers.
I charge you — forget the names you bear, forget the words I speak as soon as they are uttered. Look, rather, upon the Nameless within yourselves, which arises as I address it. It hearkens not to my words, but to the reality within me, of which it is part. This is the atman, which hears me rather than my words. All else is unreal. To define is to lose. The essence of all things is the Nameless. The Nameless is unknowable, mightier even than Brahma. Things pass, but the essence remains. You sit, therefore, in the midst of a dream. Essence dreams it a dream of form. Forms pass, but the essence remains, dreaming new dreams. Man names these dreams and thinks to have captured the essence, not knowing that he invokes the unreal. These stones, these walls, these bodies you see seated about you are poppies and water and the sun. They are the dreams of the Nameless. They are fire, if you like.
Roger Zelazny, in Lord of Light (1967) Kalkin/Sam to his followers.
To struggle against the dreamers who dream ugliness, be they men or gods, cannot but be the will of the Nameless.
Roger Zelazny, in Lord of Light (1967) Kalkin/Sam to his followers.
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Even in dying, you serve Myrkul and strengthen his kingdom. Thus, his worshippers and followers are everywhere.
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Keep in mind, different death gods see the world in different ways, and thus, their Clerics tend to have different motivations.

It's implied that Jergal was a cold, uncaring god of death who led people to see death as an inevitable, impersonal force. Kelemvor, on the other hand, has tried to portray death as a comfort, an end to suffering and loss, and a gateway to better things (in theory).

Myrkul's outlook is more along the lines of "death is something that should terrify you". He's literally the "Grim Reaper" of Faerun, the cloaked spectre who comes to rip you away from life and cast you into the darkness. When he was the primary death god of Faerun, many cultures tended to have a much more negative view of death. Prayers to Myrkul would almost always be couched in the same way most "negative" gods in Faerun (like Umberlee, Beshaba, Talona, Auril, etc) are prayed to - "Please spare me from your wrath".

People in the real world talk about how the traditional prayer of "Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep. But if I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take" can be absolutely terrifying to kids because it makes you think about how death could literally come for you at any time. That terror is what Myrkul is.

When he was mortal he was a necromancer, and necromancers may find themselves drawn to worship him for similar reasons. Some might follow him in the hopes of learning the secrets of death for themselves, while others might seek to gain his favor to prolong their own lives (ie, if you please him well enough, he may postpone the date of your own inevitable death - all things must die, but the moment when death comes isn't necessarily unchangeable). Some might serve him out of fear, others out of morbid love, still others out of a desire for knowledge, or even out of despair. Someone broken and filled with bitterness might seek him out to beg for his blessing, to strike down those who have wronged them ("Only slay my enemies, Lord of Death, and I shall serve you for the remainder of my days.").

Someone who has lived through a great deal of death might almost feel like they owe something to Myrkul. Others might feel like their lives have been shaped by death in some way, and thus this is their destiny. Still others might feel an obligation to stand between Myrkul and others - to act as an intercessor between the living and Death, to be able to plead for the lives of those who pass too soon, but also to help usher along those whose time has come. While someone who is essentially a psychopath or serial killer might offer worship to Myrkul (and possibly to Bhaal as well) simply to give themselves a philosophical excuse for killing.

Or Myrkul himself might come to someone in their dreams, for reasons of his own, and known only to him. Are YOU going to be brave enough to say "No" when the Reaper demands you kneel and serve?

The main duties of a priest of Myrkul are to generally hold funerals for the already dead, do the equivalent of Last Rites for the dying, and occasionally help foster respect and fear for death (by killing people, essentially).

Ultimately, you should probably decide what your Alignment and general outlook is going to be, and then use that to feel your way towards character motivation. Most of Myrkul's worshipers are Evil, with Lawful Evil being more the side that sees death as being inevitable and potentially preaching to others how they shouldn't fight against fate or seek too hard to avoid the inevitability of death, while the Chaotic Evil side are probably the ones more likely to terrify people to make them fear death. But a more Neutral or even Good follower might see themselves more as a shield against Myrkul's wrath - praying to him to show mercy to his potential victims, or pleading for the life of someone dying "before their time". They'd likely still have at least somewhat of a fatalistic view ("When it is your time, it is your time. Myrkul can occasionally be swayed to mercy, but not always, and never forever"), and might tend to see even healing and resurrection in terms like "A life for a life" (such a Cleric might even see adventuring as part of their bargain with their master - they will kill countless monsters, criminals, or other threats in exchange for Myrkul's willingness to spare the occasional innocent).

If that doesn't work for you, keep in mind that Kelemvor and Jergal are other death gods in Faerun who would probably make for better patrons for death-flavored Clerics who don't want to go full evil/dark - you might be better off taking Grave Domain and one of those gods rather than Myrkul.

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Thank you, this gave me a ton of good ideas to follow for this character. You also reminded me of a Metallica song, and that's a bonus.



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WhisperingOracle
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As long as it didn't remind you of this:



...because that's sort of the opposite message of what a priest of Myrkul would preach.

Even if the image of one of them beating on a cowbell with someone's femur would kind of be in keeping with the visual motif.
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Bhaal is (or was) worshipped by many peoples in many cultures across the Realms. They spoke many languages. As did their dead-language-speaking Bhaal-worshipping predecesors from ancient history.

Bhaal has been described in various editions as residing in Gehenna, the Throne of Blood (on Khalas, the first layer of Gehenna), the Barrens of Doom and Despair (a generic lower plane), and even the Fugue Plane (a demiplane attached to the Realms). The native inhabitants of all these places (except the Fugue, ahem) each speak their own languages.

Bhaal is Lawful Evil in every game edition (except 4E, which doesn't have LE anymore). The game editions which contain "Infernal" and "Abyssal" languages often describe Bhaal sharing his domain with Bane (Lawful Evil), Myrkul (Neutral Evil), and Jergal (Lawful Neutral). And Gehenna itself is traditionally located adjacent to the Nine Hells.
So it would seem logical for Bhaal to speak Infernal. Bhaal's unholy invocations (prayers, spells, rituals) would thus likely be based on Infernal.
Of course, Bhaal himself is a powerful and ancient deity (and, according to Planescape, a nasty antagonist in the Blood War), so he probably speaks basically every language which is used across the Lower Planes and the Realms. Indeed, as a god, he has the continuous passive ability to magically understand and speak any language he encounters.

In 1E, Bhaal was worshipped almost exclusively by assassin-classed characters (whether they wanted to or not). Assassins could be any Evil alignment (Lawful or not). They did not speak any special class language of their own, but they had the unique abiity to learn the "secret" Alignment Languages, Thieves' Cant, and Druidic Speech normally restricted to others.

In early-2E, Bhaal was killed (along with all the Bhaal-worshipping assassins of the world, when he consumed their essences). But by late-2E, underground Bhaal worship renewed in Zhentil Keep, some monasteries in Tethyr, Westgate, Mulmaster, Hillsfar, and possibly (probably) other isolated places. Worshippers of this era would speak their Common or other local languages.
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https://gameofthrones.fandom.com/wiki/Free_Folk

https://darksiders.fandom.com/wiki/Lord_of_Bones

https://darksiders.fandom.com/wiki/Kingdom_of_the_Dead

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shade_(mythology)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underworld

https://hellenicfaith.com/sub-lunar-demiurge/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_deity



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https://whas.iheart.com/content/2024-10 ... in-mexico/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personi ... s_of_death

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/End_of_history

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_negationism

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recorded_history

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Past

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundat ... gineering)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steel_frame

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure

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A structure is an arrangement and organization of interrelated elements in a material object or system, or the object or system so organized.[1] Physical structures include artifacts and objects such as buildings and machines and natural objects such as biological organisms, minerals and chemicals. Abstract structures include data structures in computer science and musical form. Types of structure include a hierarchy (a cascade of one-to-many relationships), a network featuring many-to-many links, or a lattice featuring connections between components that are neighbors in space.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lattice_(order)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_(s ... l_complex)

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http://soulslore.wikidot.com/data:skeleton-lords

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeleton_(undead)

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sto ... t_Fear_Was

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https://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/28/taylor.php

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Brazen head (also brass head or bronze head), a legendary automaton reputed to be able to answer any question. (Medieval legend)
Mímir's head, the severed head of Mimir, which was magically preserved by Odin so it could continue to provide knowledge and counsel as his advisor. (Norse mythology)
Medusa's head, the severed head of Medusa, which was given to Athena by Perseus to place on her Aegis. (Greek mythology)
Ymir's skull, Norðri, Suðri, Austri and Vestri each support one of the four cardinal points. Together, they uphold the heavenly dome, created from the skull of the jötunn Ymir. (Norse mythology)
Bendigeidfran's head, the severed head of Brân the Blessed, which was buried in London facing France to magically ward off invasion. (Welsh mythology)
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Odin's eye, Odin sacrifice his eye to Mímir for the price of wisdom, a drink from the Mímisbrunnr. (Norse mythology)
Eye of Horus, Set and Horus were fighting for the throne after Osiris's death, Set gouged out Horus's left eye. The majority of the eye was restored by Thoth. When Horus's eye was recovered, he offered it to his father, Osiris, in hopes of restoring his life. (Egyptian mythology)
Graeae's eye, three sisters who shared one eye among themselves. (Greek mythology)
Eye of Ra, Ra was becoming old and weak and the people no longer respected him or his rule. Ra did not react well to this and decided to punish mankind by sending his Eye to find them. (Egyptian mythology)
Balor's eye, a large eye that wreaks destruction when opened. The Cath Maige Tuired calls it a "destructive" and "poisonous" eye that no army can withstand. (Irish mythology)
Eye of Providence, a symbol showing an eye often surrounded by rays of light or a glory and usually enclosed by a triangle. It represents the eye of God watching over mankind or divine providence.
Þjazi's eyes, Odin took Þjazi's eyes and placed them in the night sky as stars. (Norse mythology)
Shiva's third eye, it could burn even gods to ashes. (Hindu mythology)
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Hand of God
Hand of Glory, a severed pickled hand of a man who was hanged alive. Said to have the power to unlock any door and, if a candle was placed within made from some body part of the same person, would freeze in place anyone who it was given to. (European folklore)
Týr's hand, which was bitten off by Fenrir. (Norse mythology)
Hand of God (also Manus Dei and Dextera domini/dei), ", a motif in Jewish and Christian art, especially of the Late Antique and early medieval periods, when depiction of Jehovah or God the Father as a full human figure was considered unacceptable. The hand, sometimes including a portion of an arm, or ending about the wrist, is used to indicate the intervention in or approval of affairs on Earth by God, and sometimes as a subject in itself. (Christian mythology/Jewish mythology)
Aurvandils-tá (Aurvandill's toe), the god Thor tosses Aurvandill's toe which had frozen into the sky to form a star called Aurvandils-tá. (Norse mythology)
Hair, feathers and skin
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Jason returns with Golden fleece
Golden Fleece, sought by Jason and the Argonauts. The fleece of the golden winged ram, which was sought by Jason and the Argonauts. (Greek mythology)
Firebird's plumage, the feathers of a Firebird that glows brightly emitting red, orange, and yellow light, like a bonfire that is just past the turbulent flame. The feathers do not cease glowing if removed, and one feather can light a large room if not concealed. (Slavic mythology)
Feathers of Simurgh, the legendary Simurgh gave three of her feathers to Zal, the Persian hero and also father of Rostam, so that whenever he needed the guidance or help of Simurgh, he could burn one of the feathers and Simurgh came to his aid. (Persian mythology)
Feather of Ma'at (also Feather of Truth), her ostrich feather was the measure that determined whether the souls of the departed would reach the fields of Aaru successfully. The hearts of the dead were said to be weighed against her single feather in the Hall of Two Truths. (Egyptian mythology)
Peacock's feather, the peacock was the patron bird of the Goddess Hera. According to myth, she adorned the tail of a peacock with Argus's eyes on its feathers in his honor, symbolizing all-seeing knowledge and the wisdom of the heavens. (Greek mythology)
Leviathan's hide, could be turned into everlasting clothing or impenetrable suits of armor. (Jewish mythology)
Nemean lion's hide, the lion could not be killed with mortal weapons because its golden fur was impervious to attacks. (Greek mythology)
Selkie's skin, selkies are said to live as seals in the sea but shed their skin to become human on land. If a man steals a female selkie's skin, she is in his power and is forced to become his wife. If she finds her skin she will return to her true home in the sea. (European folklore)
Coma Berenices (Berenice's hair), Berenice II of Egypt dedicated her hair to Aphrodite for her husband's safe return from Syria, and placed it in the temple of the goddess at Zephyrium. The hair had been carried to the heavens and placed among the stars. (Egyptian mythology)
Ymir's hair, Odin, Vili and Vé used his hair for the trees. (Norse mythology)
Ymir's eyebrows , Odin, Vili and Vé used his eyebrows to create the middle realm in which humans live, Midgard. (Norse mythology)
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Heracles would use arrows dipped in the Hydra's poisonous blood to kill other foes during his Labours, such as Stymphalian birds and the giant
Hydra's poisonous blood, Heracles would use arrows dipped in the Hydra's poisonous blood to kill other foes during his Labours, such as Stymphalian birds and the giant Geryon. (Greek mythology)
Ningyo's flesh, the flesh is pleasant-tasting and anyone who eats it will attain remarkable longevity. (Japanese mythology)
Fafnir's blood, Sigurd bathed in dragon's blood that conferred him invulnerability. He also drank some of Fafnir's blood and gained the ability to understand the language of the birds. (Norse mythology)
Blood of Christ, the blood shed by Jesus Christ on the Cross. (Christian mythology)
Ichor, the ethereal golden fluid that is the blood of the gods. (Greek mythology)
Ymir's flesh, Odin, Vili and Vé fashioned the Earth from his flesh. (Norse mythology)
Ymir's blood, Odin, Vili and Vé used his blood to form the ocean. (Norse mythology)
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Unicorn horn (also Alicorn), the detached horn of a unicorn was thought to have many healing properties and antidote's virtues were attributed to the unicorn's horn. (European folklore)
Dragon's teeth, in the legends of the Phoenician prince Cadmus and in Jason's quest for the Golden Fleece. In each case, the dragons are real and breathe fire. Their teeth, once planted, would grow into fully armed warriors. (Greek mythology)
Camahueto's horn, the most valuable part of a Camahueto is their single horn, machis will use the horn for curing many kinds of illnesses. (Chilote mythology)
Ymir's bones, Odin, Vili and Vé used his bones the make the hills. (Norse mythology)
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Valknut (also Hrungnir's Heart), Hrungnir's head, heart, and shield were made of stone. His heart had a peculiar shape, it was triangular due to which both the Valknut and the Triquetra have been called Hrungnir's heart. (Norse mythology)
Fafnir's heart, which was roasted and consumed by Sigurd, giving him the gift of prophecy. (Norse mythology)
Ymir's brain, which was used by Odin, Vili and Vé to make the clouds. (Norse mythology)
Uranus's genitals, which fell on the ocean and formed Aphrodite, a nymph who later on became the goddess of beauty after being introduced to at Olympus (Greek mythology)
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossil

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Updown_Girl

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Updown Girl is the name given to the skeletal remains of a young Anglo-Saxon girl discovered at an early 7th-century burial site close to Updown House in Eastry, Kent, England. Although first found in 1989, the Updown Girl aroused new interest in 2022 when modern analysis of her DNA indicated she had some West African ancestry, with evidence suggesting her paternal grandfather or possibly her great-grandfather came from either the Esan or Yoruba population groups.[1][2][3]
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Analysis of Updown Girl's remains was carried out as part of a research project which used modern DNA and isotope analysis to shed light on migrations into Britain in the post-Roman period.[16] The results indicated that she had some West African ancestry, with evidence suggesting her paternal grandfather or possibly her great-grandfather came from either the Esan or Yoruba population groups.[1] The study was undertaken jointly by the University of Central Lancashire and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology of Leipzig, and for their investigation researchers re-examined 460 skeletons from 37 archaeological sites across Britain and Europe, using recent DNA and isotope techniques to plot shifts in population. DNA analysis showed a high proportion of those living in the South Eastern parts of England in the 7th century – up to 76% – had genetic links with Continental Northern Europe, particularly with regions corresponding to modern Germany and Denmark.[17]

Analysis of the skeletons of two women buried near the girl indicates they were related to her, being probably either her aunts or great-aunts. Both were of predominantly Continental North European ancestry with some Franco-Belgian admixture. There appears to have been no distinction made between them and the Updown Girl, either in the location of the burials or in the type of grave goods accompanying the remains. Carly Hilts, editor of Current Archaeology, observed that: "She was accompanied by very typical grave goods ... and there was nothing to suggest that she had been treated differently, at least in death, even though the new genetic research highlights that her ancestry was very different to that of many of the people buried around her."[2]
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_revisionism

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Bones represent the truth, the structure, fantasy, imitation, form, essence, similarity (since bones seem less distinct than surface features), and so much more.

https://time.com/6166016/history-politics/

https://historyguild.org/regimes-around ... SVi7JJq3u-

https://hac.bard.edu/amor-mundi/politic ... 2015-02-09

https://communistcrimes.org/en/falsific ... propaganda

https://pebblegalaxy.blog/2023/04/23/th ... -examples/

https://misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/a ... -politics/

Bones are used as evidence and proof, they also represent traces in multiple senses and the past.

Bones are what in so many ways the state despises and criminals, including those protected by and working for the state, are frustrated by.

They try to use bones to their advantage, others try to use bones against them.

Bones are connected to music and dance also, particularly percussion and clattering sounds.

Bones are connected to divination, projections into the future, omens and signs through reading where they rest after being thrown like dice, and dice were also made of bone, so it connects also to luck and chance, each connecting to spiritual powers and favors in some contexts, as well as loss in several ways.

Bones are what projects like the Metaverse and the Matrix and "uploading people" are all about separating people from also, so bones represent an anchoring to reality and tradition which can threaten power hungry and ambitious predators that want to unmoor people for further control, manipulation, and exploitation.

People neglect their bones, as they are generally not felt or seen or noticed, even less realized with limited movement, self observation, and layers of fat, yet our bones are most frequently seen through our hands and fingers and their joints and the knuckles, and felt that way, now frequently seen in our faces all day as they work by our command helplessly towards being sucked into a bone-hating reality. Perhaps meditation on bones and our bones can save us by turning away from the beckoning thieves.

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I was having a nice fantasy just now, of a time where, whether they were true or hoaxes, all these things from our world and our culture will be long gone and lost and forgotten, unable to be retrieved with any accuracy most likely, decayed and distorted by information loss and transformation, like in the communication game "telephone", so that we'll never hear these names again, we'll never see these faces, and if they lied, even the lie is lost. The poison is turned to water, and even the water is turned to air.

How are all things just one? How is every action the same action? That the process of decay is the same as every motion, even life and life again. When a person sees only part of a motion, they for their own sake, necessarily, distill through description the isolate, so narrowing further what was already only barely received, and producing something else to refer to it.

The Holy Forgetting, Oh The Holy Forgetting.



Think how free things can be without reference, without all the baggage, what "it is from", the "canon", also what we bring to it, "oh, it is that", "I remember", "the feeling", but then what? How much was lost with that "gain" or "recall" and "specificity"? So much more, probably, since remembering is forgetting everything else, and forgetting is air and space, "who was that?", a skeleton, it could've been anyone, "dust", it could've been anything, "what are you referring to?", more or less than any thing at all, complete freedom.





Think of a world without that sh*t, even knowing to lament its loss.



Where is he looking off to? Lol.

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@FJRamosArt
4 years ago (edited)
I had the privilege of having Marshall as an instructor. Using metaphors is not just for visual art but can be used for writing, acting, music, and many non artistic things.

@ETFbvbAA
4 years ago
Woah that’s cool! 0:
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@rodroeq7956
4 years ago (edited)
Beard Marshall sounds even more wiser, is like watching Gandalf speak to a Hobbit that is trying to make a joke . Is just the perfect balance.
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More wiser, remembering more or less?

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@RadishTheFool
4 years ago
Oh my, this was amazing. I got into visual arts after having focused on language - and in particular metaphors - almost all of my adult life. My way of thinking is mostly in terms of structures and connections and comparisons, but I never knew how to tap into that when I'm drawing and painting. I think this may be the approach that will help me incorporate that part of me into my journey in the visual arts. Thank you very much. I will definitely be buying that book. And should one of you do a video on demonstrating how you can approach such a project, then I would be all over that.

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@RadishTheFool
4 years ago
I just watched a video flipthrough of the Molly Bang book. It's amazing how it teaches about visual language so effectively. However, it doesn't touch at all on the subject of this video, namely composing one subject in a way reminiscent of or inspired by a different subject altogether. Can someone recommend a book on that subject?
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@lucaspacheco7619
4 years ago
I want season tree
Love you guys

@lucaspacheco7619
4 years ago
Three* hahahhahahhahahsahhahha
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Wow, quite the reaction.

https://pdfcoffee.com/picture-this-how- ... -free.html



No more A H, D T, or Helen Keller.



That, trash, is only "funny" for reasons likely worth exploring or examining, since not only isn't it really, but it relies so much on things that would most likely not make any sense without all kinds of memory based references that have together "conspired" to keep emphasizing how so many of these things are meant to be funny, but what if it wasn't? Can you imagine a wirld where this had every symbol of seriousness together to make it deadly serious and full of intensity and gravitas?





Ok, this is very disturbing that these creatures came up again in something totally unrelated.

https://eldenring.fandom.com/wiki/Albinaurics

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One of the things that irritates me the most about the lore in Elden Ring and most Souls games is that, while it's obviously well-written, its relationship to reality and the symbolism within it seems vague.

Since Elden Ring was released two years ago, I've had the idea stuck in my head, and I've spent countless hours reading and watching lore related to the game. However, most of it doesn't really satisfy my curiosity. Recently, I started conducting my own research, and despite the lack of information I've found so far and the poor correlation between various aspects of the game's story, I'd like to share my findings with you.

I first focused on the Albinauric people. Why? Because the translation of this name in the game in my native language was "albinos." Why albinos? The answer may seem obvious—just look at Latenna with her white hair and white skin, right? But what about those men who look like frogs? What about the old people in the Albinauric Village and the others in Volcano Manor or the ones in Mohgwyn Palace?

There are two generations of these people: the human-like first generation and the frog-like second generation. If you do a little research, you'll find that they were created in the Eternal Cities. But, all of this is completely unsatisfying, at least for me.

Let's not get into a long back and forth. Why don't you travel with me and let me take you on a different journey?

I found this scientific article under the title: "Albinism in the Ancient Mediterranean World". Here is the text that caught my attention:

The apocryphal Book of Enoch, which is a canonical text in Christian Ethiopia, was written in the 2nd or 1st century BCE and survived only in the Ge'ez language, together with some Aramaic fragments from the Qumran scrolls (Knibb & Ullendorff 1978; Schürer, Vermes, Millar, & Goodman 1986:250-268; Charlesworth 1983-1985). Appended to it is a short account of the birth of Noah, relating how the wife of Enoch's grandson, Lamech, gave birth to a child whose

Lamech then went to his father, Methuselah and informed him that his wife had given birth to a son who was different from normal babies and who resembled 'the sons of the God of Heaven' (Charlesworth 1983-1985:86). Lamech told his father that he suspected that the conception had occurred through the intervention of 'the angels of heaven'15 (Charlesworth 19831985:87), since the infant was not like ordinary mortals in that his eyes were like the rays of the sun, and his face was glorious. Methuselah in turn went to Enoch to tell him the news, adding that Lamech did not believe that the newborn child was his. Enoch told Methuselah that this prodigious birth was the result of the transgressions of the angels of heaven who had lain with human women and had produced offspring from them. He added that this sinfulness would result in great punishment on earth, a deluge, and the destruction lasting for a year to purify the earth of these transgressions.

Albinos were seen as children of sin, "devine being" sin. Let's dig a little deeper into the article:

"Among the San Blas Indians there was a belief that an albino child would be conceived when the mother conceives after looking on the moon during intercourse."

We're starting to see a connection with the moon now. Not only that, but as you read further you find:

"The San Blas albinos were credited with the ability 'to scare away with a small bow and arrow, the demon devouring the sun or moon at times of eclipses' and refer to them with the term ibe (sun)"

There's mention of the bow and arrow, doesn't that remind us of something? The first generation?

There may be a difference in perception, with some seeing albinos as moon children and others as sun children, as mentioned in the article:

The albinos of Amboina were viewed as the children of the morning star and among the Malays they were thought to be the children of the sun.

But I'm sure there's a projection of this in the game.

You may think I'm delusional up to this point, but read on:

In Greco-Roman literature, the location of the albino tribes mentioned in Isigonus, Pliny, Aulus Gellius, and Solinus, in the remote land of Albania (near modern Chechnya) may be related to the prevalence of the cult of the moon there. Strabo (11.4 [Albanians], especially 11.4.7 C503 [Selene cult]) refers to the cult of Selene among the Albanians in which a human sacrifice was performed annually.

Do you know who Selene is, yes she is the goddess and personification of the moon. Does that remind you of anyone? Recently I found a blog post talking about Selene where mentioned :

The story goes that Selene comes down to this cave [on Mount Latmos in Karia (Caria)] to meet Endymion. Sappho and Nikandros) (Nicander [poet C2nd B.C.] . . . tell the story of the love of Selene.

thin is the link : https://www.theoi.com/Titan/Selene.html

Perhaps these points do not provide a clear and definitive explanation of the relationship and symbolism between the game's lore and reality. Many questions remain, such as whether Rennala is an Albinauric, since the children she gives birth to are crippled in their feet and most Albinaurics do not walk. But why is the second generation able to walk and move and appears completely different?

In the game, the dream of the Albinauric people is to reach the Haligtree, a name derived from "halig" and "tree," where "halig" suggests meanings of holiness and health. This might reflect the goal of the Albinaurics.

Those who fail in their quest and take the wrong portal head to Mohgwyn Palace (the second generation of Albinaurics). They are often used as sacrifices or offerings to another divine being. This exploitation is mentioned in the article:

Moreover, from time to time, albinos were exposed at birth or 'made sacred' as the victims of human sacrifice in mythological accounts.

I'm sure there’s a lot that I haven’t covered, especially regarding the clothing, weapons, buildings, and artifacts found in the game. But I hope I’ve given you some insight into the world of Elden Ring.
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There's a lot here to digest so I'll just focus on the one clear-cut thing. Rennala is not an Albinauric. She is Carian Royalty, Carians being humans from the Mountaintops of the Giants. Albinaurics are mostly infertile, hence Latenna's quest, but Rennala had three children with Radagon.

As for the children rebirthed by the Amber egg, the fact their legs don't work is an interesting thing to note, but is more likely due to the fact they are imperfect beings, just like the 1st gen Albinaurics, the sweetings are constantly rebirthed without the aid of a larval tear and the rune of the unborn. Both being needed for proper rebirth the Tarnished uses to respec.

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Albinauric are synthetic life created in Eternal cities to spite the gods. They bleed white/silver - silver is opposition of Gold. The first generation failed as they wither away from legs first.

A little curiosity, their name resembles albuminuria which is loss of blood protein through kidneys often found in diabetics, who in later stages of badly managed diabetes gradually loose their feet due amputations because wounds cant heal properly.

Second generation solved the feet problem, but they are just too simple minded, tribalistic community, but a success at creating artificial life with no relation to Crucible.

Latenna’s quest show a third path of evolution, where the big mommy albinauric in the north has the potential to birth a third generation of artificial life - people with legs and proper heads this time.

Everything about albinaurics is describing human ambition of playing god in their own playground.


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That section where in that story Enoch tells Methuselah that the children with golden eyes like the sun are the product of Angels having lain with human women, is crazy!!

Also, the part about albinos being “credited with the ability to scare away with a small bow and arrow, the demon devouring the Sun or Moon at times of eclipses” is fascinating, because in alchemical symbolism there are depictions of a green lion eating the Sun, and I’ve long speculated Godwyn to be based on/related to/symbolic of this lion, thanks to the lore surrounding Castle Sol & the Eclipse. This makes me even more certain of this connection, and the connection between Godwyn and Miquella and the Eclipse.
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I listen to a lot of people I consider stupid, looking at their words as just relational proximities.

Someone trademarked that lol:

https://the-relationist.net/relational-proximity/

"
Relational proximities refer to the "closeness" or "distance" in relationships, analyzed through the Relational Proximity® framework, which considers five domains: Communication, Time, Knowledge, Power, and Purpose. This framework measures how well individuals or organizations understand and engage with each other's thinking, emotions, and behaviors by examining how these internal and external factors shape the relationship's effectiveness and outcomes.
The Five Domains of Relational Proximity®
The Relational Proximity® framework assesses relationships across five key dimensions:
1. Communication:
Examines the quality, frequency, and nature of interactions between parties.
2. Time:
Considers the duration and history of the relationship, as well as the time available for interactions.
3. Knowledge:
Assesses the shared understanding, expertise, and learning that occurs between the parties.
4. Power:
Investigates the influence and authority structures within the relationship, including how they are shared or distributed.
5. Purpose:
Explores the alignment of goals, objectives, and the underlying rationale for the relationship.
How It Works
Measurement and Analysis:
The framework provides tools to measure, explore, and understand the various drivers impacting a relationship's effectiveness.
Identifying Factors:
It recognizes that both external (structural) and internal (psychological) factors influence relationships, combining to shape engagement.
Measuring Closeness:
Relational proximities quantify how well one party engages with the other's thinking, emotions, and behaviors.
Application:
The framework is used to assess relationship quality in various contexts, from inter-organizational collaborations to personal and professional relationships.
Purpose and Application
Improving Relationships:
By understanding the dynamics within these five domains, individuals and organizations can work to improve their relationships.
Assessing Effectiveness:
The framework helps determine the effectiveness of a relationship, which is different from mere satisfaction.
Stakeholder Engagement:
It has been successfully applied in public and private sectors to enhance stakeholder engagement and collaboration.
Generating Insights:
It generates data on relational health, providing insights into the strengths and weaknesses of a relationship.
"

Added in 1 hour 55 minutes 3 seconds:
I have posted quotes above from this book:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_of_Light

"
Lord of Light (1967) is a science fantasy novel by American author Roger Zelazny. It was awarded the 1968 Hugo Award for Best Novel[1] and nominated for a Nebula Award for Best Novel.[2] Two chapters from the novel were published as novelettes in the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction – "Dawn" in April 1967, and "Death and the Executioner" in June 1967.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_fantasy

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chronicles_of_Amber

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Immortal

"
Algis Budrys praised This Immortal as "an extremely interesting and undeniably important book", describing it as "a story of adventures and perils, high intrigue, esthetics [and] politics ... utterly charming [and] optimistic". He predicted that, among New Wave science fiction writers, Zelazny's career would become more important and enduring than Thomas M. Disch's.[5]

Lawrence P. Ashmead, an editor for Doubleday & Company Inc., rejected the book for publication, claiming that "the plot is terribly thin and uninteresting." He also pans the "Germanic constructions and pseudo-clever dialogue" of the book.[6]
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kallikantzaros

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swordsm ... of_America

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Zelazny won at least 16 awards for specific works of fiction: six Hugo Awards, three Nebula Awards, two Locus Awards, one Prix Tour-Apollo Award, two Seiun Awards, and two Balrog Awards. Often Zelazny's works competed with each other for the same award.[3]

...And Call Me Conrad (published in book form as This Immortal) won the 1966 Hugo Award (novel), a tie with Dune by Frank Herbert.[17]
"The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth" won the 1966 Nebula Award (novelette).
"He Who Shapes" tied for the 1966 Nebula Award (novella).
Lord of Light won the 1968 Hugo Award (novel).[18]
Isle of the Dead won the 1972 Prix Tour-Apollo Award (novel).
This Immortal won the 1976 Seiun Award (foreign novel).
"Home Is the Hangman" won both the 1976 Hugo Award and the 1976 Nebula Award (novella).
"The Last Defender of Camelot" won the 1980 Balrog Award (short fiction).
"Unicorn Variation" won the 1982 Hugo Award (novelette) and the 1984 Seiun Award (foreign short fiction).
Unicorn Variations won the 1984 Locus Award (collection) and the 1984 Balrog Award (collection/anthology).
"24 Views of Mt. Fuji, by Hokusai" won the 1986 Hugo Award (novella).
Trumps of Doom won the 1986 Locus Award (fantasy novel).[19]
"Permafrost" won the 1987 Hugo Award (novelette).
In addition, Zelazny was the Guest of Honor at the Worldcon convention in Washington, D.C., in 1974 (also known as Discon II); he won an Inkpot Award for lifetime achievement at the San Diego Comic-Con convention in 1993. "A Rose for Ecclesiastes" was included in Visions of Mars: First Library on Mars, a DVD taken on board the Phoenix Mars Lander in 2008.[6]
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I dread any "expansion" of the human race carrying the poison that it seems to, to create new polluted worlds with destructive ideologies permeating every corner of the inhabitants minds, furthest from a "fresh start" and "something new".

"
Before this period, he was engaged to folk singer Hedy West for six months from 1961 to 1962.[4]
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Weirdly songs like these keep popping up in this thread, just loke Lord Of Light where Yama is a major character, led to this song, and the Lord Huron "Bag Of Bones" song seems similar but a lot more vague and empty in comparison.

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@SirMikeyD
6 years ago (edited)
Thanks for doing that. I took a closer pass through it, and made a few changes:

I was brought up in Cornwall, all in a high degree,
My parents they adored me, had no child, only me.
I ripped, I roved, I rambled whereʼer my fancies led,
ʼtil I became apprenticed, and then my joys they fled.

The man that I was bound to, he did not use me well,
I formed a resolution — with him not long to dwell.
Unbeknown to my poor parents from him I ran away,
I steered my course to London, and cursèd be the day.

There were a lady in London, she chanced to spy me there,
She offered me great payments to dwell with her one year.
With her kind words and promises, with her I did agree
To go with her to London and stay with her one year.

I hadnʼt been in London but six months and a day
When my foolish mistress grew very fond of me.
Her gold and silver, her houses and her land,
If Iʼd consent to marry her, would be at my command.

Oh no, my honored mistress, I cannot marry you,
For I have made a promise, likewise a solemn vow,
To wed no one but Betsy, my beauteous honored maid,
Pray excuse me, honored mistress, she has my heart betrayed.

One morning as I walked out to take the pleasant air,
My mistress followed after me to view the lilies fair.
Gold rings from off her fingers as she did pass me by,
She slipped them in my pocket, and for them I must die.

The sheriff come and taken me, it was useless to say,
He took me up to justice, tried me before the mayor.
He took me up to justice and to the gallows tree,
Oh lord, reward my mistress, she surely has wronged me.

Th’ people all come flocking in to see me end my life,
Likewise fair pretty Betsy, my own intended wife.
Farewell to sin and sorrow, Iʼll bid you all adieu,
Likewise fair pretty Betsy; Iʼll die for loving you.

Pronunciation note: Miss Westʼs delivery preserves subtle features of Appalachian English, such as aspiration before a stressed vowel (“hʼit was useless . . . he took me hʼup to justice . . . Hʼo lord,” etc․), or certain nonstandard conjugations (“the sheriff ‘come and taken’ me”, not “came and took me”). I doubt she (or anyone, really), would have bothered unless this “come natural tʼem”.
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@SirMikeyD
3 years ago
@andrewjohnston5900 Right you are – good catches! I’ve made your corrections, plus added part of a missing word ("th’ people” for “people”).

Funny to think that, so often with modern pop lyrics, “close enough is good enough” yet these old folk broadsides, murder ballads etc. have ossified into sanctity, so that every syllable – if not every breath – counts!

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@Wotsitorlabart
2 years ago (edited)
​​@andrewjohnston5900
Because the original lyrics from the 1790's name check Sheffield.
Somewhere in its travels in the New World Sheffield was changed to Cornwall (as well as other significant lyric alterations).
A Mary Gibson in North Carolina sang the song with the altered lyrics to Cecil Sharp in 1919.

@Wotsitorlabart
2 years ago (edited)
​​​​@SirMikeyD
The version Hedy West sings has significantly different lyrics to the one in 'The New Penguin Book of English Folk Songs' as sung to Ralph Vaughan Williams by Charles Pottipher from Essex in 1903.
Folk song lyrics rarely, if ever, ossify.




@andrewjohnston5900
1 year ago (edited)
I've just discovered that there actually is a village near Penzance in Cornwall called Sheffield, which probably explains the title! @SirMikeyD
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"
ossify(v.)
1713, intransitive, "to harden like bone, become bone;" 1721, intransitive, "convert to bone;" a back-formation from ossification, or else modeled on French ossifier (18c.) and formed from Latin os (genitive ossis) "bone" (from PIE root *ost- "bone") + -fy. Figurative sense "become rigid and fixed" (of thought, customs, etc.) is by 1858. Related: Ossified; ossifying.
"

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It might also be the source of: Sanskrit asthi, Hittite hashtai-, Greek osteon "bone," Greek ostrakon "oyster shell," Avestan ascu- "shinbone," Latin os (genitive ossis) "bone," osseus "bony, of bone," Welsh asgwrn, Armenian oskr, Albanian asht "bone."
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https://www.etymonline.com/word/osseous





Cool costume in here, note the pointy or triangular top:















How perfect, and found totally unrelated by magical, miraculous means.

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Haha , I find so much I hear laughable, they really want to make me out to be a jerk?



Triangle

https://cards.scryfall.io/large/front/2 ... 1674136299

The way they depict Myrkul just strikes me as a bit rude, because I take these things differently and not as a silly game:

https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/ ... 1681412978

https://cards.scryfall.io/large/front/c ... 1674138843

They are, as usual, so focused on horror rather than glory.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horror

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glory

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleos

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glory_(honor)

I take these symbols as only good, in only the best ways.

I acknowledge there are unpleasant aspects which people focus on which are not the ways I take or use these symbols or ideas.

The lust for the worst, the ugliest, the meanest, comes from people who are or end up just like that, and they take it with them wherever they go.

While this is a symbol, for me, of purity and purification:

"
Purification is the process of rendering something pure, i.e. clean of foreign elements and/or pollution
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https://powerlisting.fandom.com/wiki/Purification

"
purify (third-person singular simple present purifies, present participle purifying, simple past and past participle purified)

(transitive) To cleanse, or rid of impurities.
(transitive) To free from guilt or sin.
(intransitive) To become pure.
Synonyms
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lustrate (esp. by lustration); luster (obsolete)
"

"
pūrus (feminine pūra, neuter pūrum, comparative pūrior, superlative pūrissimus, adverb pūrē or pūriter); first/second-declension adjective

clear, limpid
Synonyms: putus, absolūtus
Antonyms: incestus, sordidus, impurus
clean; pure
Synonym: līmpidus
"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_death_cleaning

"
Swedish death cleaning is a decluttering method historically practiced in Sweden. It is a simple living practice, encouraging people to get rid of belongings before death to spare loved ones from having to manage them.[1] As the practice has become more popular in the United States, it has received both praise and criticism, being described by some as morbid and others as the healthiest thing you can do.[2]
"

döstädning

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dusting

"
Over time dust accumulates on household surfaces. As well as making the surfaces dirty, when the dust is disturbed it can become suspended in the air, causing sneezing and breathing trouble. It can also transfer from furniture to clothing, making it unclean. Various tools have been invented for dust removal: feather dusters, cotton, and polyester dust cloths, furniture spray, disposable paper "dust cloths", dust mops for smooth floors, and vacuum cleaners. Vacuum cleaners often have a variety of tools to enable them to remove dirt not just from carpets and rugs, but also from hard surfaces and upholstery.[15] Dusting is very important in hospital environments.[16]
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"
Dust in homes is composed of about 20–50% dead skin cells.[2] The rest, and in offices and other built environments, is composed of small amounts of plant pollen, human hairs, animal fur, textile fibers, paper fibers, minerals from outdoor soil, burnt meteorite particles, and many other materials which may be found in the local environment.[3]
"

"
Cosmic dust is widely present in outer space, where gas and dust clouds are the primary precursors for planetary systems. The zodiacal light, as seen in a dark night sky, is produced by sunlight reflected from particles of dust in orbit around the Sun. The tails of comets are produced by emissions of dust and ionized gas from the body of the comet. Dust also covers solid planetary bodies, and vast dust storms can occur on Mars which cover almost the entire planet. Interstellar dust is found between the stars, and high concentrations produce diffuse nebulae and reflection nebulae.

Dust is widely present in the galaxy. Ambient radiation heats dust and re-emits radiation into the microwave band, which may distort the cosmic microwave background power spectrum. Dust in this regime has a complicated emission spectrum and includes both thermal dust emission and spinning dust emission.[15]

Dust samples returned from outer space have provided information about conditions of the early solar system. Several spacecraft have sought to gather samples of dust and other materials. Among these craft was Stardust, which flew past 81P/Wild in 2004, and returned a capsule of the comet's remains to Earth.[16] In 2010 the Japanese Hayabusa spacecraft returned samples of dust from the surface of an asteroid.[17]
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_dust