Moonwater Witchery

This community is slowly but surely working together to scan all available Arthurian texts for everyone to enjoy for free!

The new additions have been added to the Medieval Literature page. PDFs are compressed files with recognizable text for easy searching, highlighting, and sharing.

The Lancelot Compilation (scanned by @roselark) (English translation)

Les Prophesies (scanned by @liminalpsych) (French)

Li Roman de Claris et Laris (French)

Interesting Romances and Novels (English translation)

Perceval: The Story of the Grail (Burton Raffel English translation)

Sir Gawain and The Green Knight (Burton Raffel English translation)

Parzival by Wolfram von Eschenbach (English verse translation)

Sir Perceval de Galles (Modern English translation)

I personally believe deities are humanity's way of personifying aspects of a universal divine energy. With that in mind, deities and/or aspects that are closed are inherently unique to a culture and experience that I can't and will never understand or relate to purely because I will never be immersed in that culture. Sure I can read about closed practices and get surface-level information about them (assuming the information is accurate), but reading surface-level information will never be the same as actually being immersed in that practice and the cultural nuances surrounding it. Attempting to work a closed practice from an outsider's perspective is always going to be inherently disrespectful. You don't have the full understanding of the intricacies of the practice, therefore you're going to be inserting your own cultural biases and even making things up to fill in gaps.

Tyr and the binding of Fenrir. Would you consider Tyr losing his arm to be “revenge” or “justice”?

"It Will Never Be a Lamb Again" is a piece about queerness, growing up, and conformity.

RUSALKA

[noun]

Slavic mythology: (plural: rusalki or rusalky) a female ghost, water nymph, succubus, or mermaid-like demon that dwelt in a waterway. According to most traditions, the rusalki were fish-women, who lived at the bottom of rivers. In the middle of the night, they would walk out to the bank and dance in meadows. If they saw handsome men, they would fascinate them with songs and dancing, mesmerise them, then lead them away to the river floor to their death.

NASA Data Sonification: Black Hole Remix

It's your home.

The dishes are dirty because you ate, because you took care of yourself and you family. The paint is peeling above the stove from the heat of all breads you have baked and all teas you have brewed.