#distruction

Cosa poterti augurare se non di contare sulla tua forza;

Che in te possa regnare la calma piu assoluta,

quando sei attaccata da maldicenza e ignoranza;

Chi e' messo da parte spesso ti attacca con vilta',

e la tua essenza lo sapra' distruggere senza pieta'!

Evita di voltarti dove ti sei passata,

perche' dietro di te hai lasciato terra bruciata,

e se un giorno ti chiederranno come e' cominciata,

a tutti dirai la piu' assoluta delle verita'.

"Sono donna e sono artefice di numerose opportunita',

il mezzo per cui do inizio ad ogni vostra probabilita',

perche' so creare e immedesimare ogni sfumatura della vita,

ma se ferite la mia natura ed eleganza,

sapro' mostrarvi con stile cosa vuol dire la vera violenza.

Che sia un monito questo mio passaggio,

non per vantarmi al cospetto di chi si crede saggio,

ma piuttosto per dimostrare che come posso creare emozioni,

sono altresí capace di porre fine al vostro fato senza bisogno di malefiche pozioni!

Charred wheat on Ukrainian fertile agricultural land

A wheat field is one of the Ukrainian symbols. Ears of wheat have long carried the energy of fertility and wealth. Almost 60 percent of the territory of Ukraine is covered with fields on which grain crops are grown. The quality and fertility of Ukrainian black soil (chernozemic soil) were once ‘confirmed’ by the Germans, who transported it in wagons from Ukraine during the Second World War.

Currently in the Ukrainian regions of Zaporizhzhya, Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, Kherson and Donetsk the wheat fields are burning due to the explosions or the red-hot fragments of artillery shrapnel. With shelling Russia deliberately set wheat fields on fire, severely damaging crops.

The widespread destruction of the Ukrainian wheat fields that is under way now remains the Holodomor—the man-made famine orchestrated by Josef Stalin in the early 1930s to crush Ukrainian resistance to farm collectivisation. Stalin ordered the Soviet army to strip Ukrainian peasants of whatever food stores they had—even their pets. An estimated 3.9 million people died.

“The Russians are blowing up grain elevators. They are hitting cold storage facilities. There are even reports of them destroying farm equipment. There’s a very targeted approach to what they are doing.”

“Some people can’t fertilise their crop because the Russians are shooting everything that moves . There are reports of them mining the fields, the roads to the fields, not to mention a lot of unexploded ordinance and bodies in the fields. I think wheat yields will be on the floor—maybe a third or a quarter of what they’d normally be.” - Jonathan Clibborn, an Irish immigrant moved to Ukraine 15 years ago with just the shirt on his back, and now farms 3,000 hectares  in the region west of Lviv, near the Polish border.

“Ukraine will not be able to plant corn. The winter wheat in the ground will not be fertilised, and the harvest sharply reduced. That’s a real danger. They are a country of 40 million people, but they produce food for 400 million. That’s the reality of a globalised world. We are all in this together.”  - Arif Husain, chief economist at the UN World Food Programme.

A Ticci Toby stimboard for anon and @little-voice-in-our-head ! With analog horror, found footage and Arson themes with the colours, Red, Orange and Black.

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Japanese Mythology & Deities

Major Gods in the Chronicles (25)

Susanoo-no-mikoto

~ The god who turned into a good god after being exiled from the high heavens

Susanoo has a diverse personality. He is first portrayed as a petulant young man, then as an unpredictable, violent boor who causes chaos and destruction before becoming a monster, showing his violent side in the high heavens. When he descends to Izumo, his character changes dramatically and becomes a heroic figure.

The word "Susa" in the name of the deity means "storm" or "stormy weather", and it is believed that the behaviour of Susanoo in the high heavens shows the damage caused by storms. There is a theory that it is the same root as "advance" and means to do things with vigour, another theory that it is associated with Susa, which is in the middle reaches of the Kobe River in western Izumo, and another theory that Susanoo is a deification of the chieftain of a country, ‘Susa-go’.

First, through the misogi of Izanagi, he is born the youngest brother of Amaterasu and Tsukuyomi, and as one of the three noble children is ordered to rule over the sea, but he is continually crying out for his mother. From there, he goes to visit his sister Amaterasu in the high heavens, but there, too, he commits acts of treason and is banished by the gods of the high heavens, who strip his fingernails and pluck out his beard.

After this terrible ordeal, Susano-no-mikoto quickly transformed himself into a good deity, subdued the Yamata-no-orochi serpent, and ruled the Land of Izumo where in between the high heavens and the land of dead.

日本神話と神様たち

記紀に登場する主な神々(25)

須佐之男命（すさのおのみこと）

~ 高天の原を追放された後、善神に変じた神

須佐之男（すさのおの）は多彩な性格を有している。彼は、最初は小心者の青年として描かれ、次に、怪物になる前に混乱と破壊を引き起こす予測不可能な暴力的な無作法者として描かれ、高天原では凶暴な一面を見せる。出雲へ降りると一転して英雄的な性格となる。

神名の「すさ」は、‘荒れすさぶ‘の意として嵐の神、暴風雨の神とする説や高天原での須佐之男（すさのおの）の行いは暴風雨の被害を示すとする、「進む」と同根で’勢いのままに事を行う‘の意、とする説、出雲西部の神戸川中流にある須佐に因むとする説、須佐之男（すさのおの）は須佐郷の族長を神格化したものとするがある。

まず、伊邪那岐命（いざなぎ）の禊によって、天照大御神(あまてらす)と月読命(つくよみ)の弟として生まれ、三貴子の一人として海原の統治を命じられるが、いつまでも母恋しさに泣き叫ぶ。そこから高天の原の姉・天照大御神(あまてらす)を訪ねるが、そこでも悪逆非道の限りをつくし、高天の原の神々から爪を剥がされ、髭を抜かれて追放される。