Wow, that's. Alright. None of those things are remotely similar to what people usually mean when they call themself "w*ndigokin", even the generic "spirit", but okay fjdkgjksdf

This is a somewhat lengthy reminder that could have been shortened to a reply, until multiple mythological beings came to mind beyond the first handful.

Initially, someone's rant about an encounter with a troll and their responses inspired my thoughts. Such as how if therians were physically their identities that they would not be able to function in the world as they do in human form. This is true, other than for any therians who are of the simian/ape branch of the evolutionary tree.

For those of us who are mythical in identity, functioning in the human world might not be an issue, so long as we ignore various prejudices and fears from the humans. Or that those problems don't exist due to us having never been ‘mythical’ and the human world included our existence within it over the millennia.

Many mythical Otherkin have human-like bodies, in part or in full. Elves are possibly the very first Otherkin of the community, and are the most human-like of all. They could blend into human society without much notice. Functioning in this world would not be an issue. Djinn (and all other fire/air spirits) could blend in well so long as they shape-shifted fully into human form. Maybe the same for nymphs and other nature spirits, but I am not as well-read on them to know their form-shifting abilities.

And then there are those such as myself and my friends. Centaurs, satyrs, fauns, mermaids, selkies, and minotaurs. Some might use the term "hybrid" but I shy away from using it, or even thinking it. Hybrid tends to separate our forms into the things we resemble, instead of simply accepting us as the form we represent by our original type.

Anyway, land-based types shouldn't have much difficulty in a human world. For those of you whose home is in the water, you can at least get tools that are made for underwater use without needing customized equipment.

You dragons? Well, you're all intelligent enough that you could ask (if not intimidate) humans into creating tools you could work with your claws (such as keyboards.) Everything else would probably just as easy to have humans do it for you. I'm sure y'all would like that :-)

That is… That is quite the range you’re asking about there. My gut is saying it might even be crossing between cultures, but I’m not well-versed enough with that kind of thing to say for sure.

I don’t personally know of any incubi, succubi, or djinn, but if anyone seeing this post does, feel free to respond.

I... don't know, honestly, although I could come up with some theories.

I suspect it has something to do with the fact that Indigenous cultures are usually the first thing people think of when you say the words "cultural appropriation," and beyond that and possibly Judaism, a lot of people have a shaky-at-best idea of what's actually included in "closed cultures" and "cultural appropriation." That in and of itself might have something to do with how USAmerican-focused Tumblr in general tends to be - American issues get talked about way more than anything that doesn't directly affect the US. It might also have something to do with how commonly you see the example kintypes - I don't think I've ever actually seen someone call themself a djinn, but I've definitely seen several people call themselves w*ndigos. Beyond that... I'm not sure.

I choose that title because some of my Otherkin friends seemed to like it the first time I mentioned being Djinni-Otherkin, and it’s playful, like a djinni.

This post is also about the kind of djinni-content I want to see online. Search engines these days have turned to utter and useless crap. Algorithms ignore search terms, including when you’re trying to be absolutely specific. Maybe some of y’all have figured out how to game them to make them search on exactly and only what you want, but after over twenty years online, the current ones refuse to work for me.

So, I now make my own online content about Djinn of the Otherkin variety. I also ask any fellow djinn, no matter your type or origins (good, neutral, evil) reply or reblog as you like. My known djinni-lives only include one evil-type, and the other djinn of his realm dispatched his existence out of theirs.

A little about my connection to Djinn is in order. They have been part of my life in some way or another (all from fiction) since I was young. That’s much like for my Centaurkin side as well. Yet, I never knew or would have acknowledged being Otherkin for either back then. It was all “just stories” and I didn’t even know enough about things like synchronicity to see where it might all lead eventually.

The djinni-kintype has also taken me the longest to recognize as real. The primary reason for this is that much of why I accept it as a kintype is due to a large portion being of the fictionkin or related variety. That is, I Dream of Jeannie for one major source. Not Jeannie specifically, but others within that reality, and none from the show. Thus, as some fictionkin would say, “non-canon”.

It’s still hard to admit that due to how people who know me would react upon reading this. Yet, I must be open with my beliefs in order to be at ease with them myself. That’s not a necessary action anyone who identifies as Otherkin must do; it’s just what I must do for me.

Yet, due to my beliefs in Other Lives (“past lives” in the common vernacular) it’s not a stretch at all to have a djinni-identity. I know the lives I’ve glimpsed and detailed (such as Arjhan, a djinni-centaur in a reality unlike IDoJ). They are as real to me as the past-lives of anyone else who believes in them and has discovered some of those other human lives which their higher-self has experienced.

Yes, some of the lives I have seen and written up within the IDoJ reality are female (I am male in body and mind), but they are all djinn, whether in the service of humans or living in their home reality of Old Baghdad. And yes, I know that city isn’t as old as the djinn, but who are we mere humans to judge beings which are beyond our knowledge or experience?

All of them work their jin-powers by blinking the eyes (jin is their word for ‘magic’ and relates to what they are: djinn, of the Jin and made of jin). They can also manipulate jin by force of will (ujja) and other bodily gestures (fingers, nods, similar head-motions) and through their smoke. Their smoke is the physical manifestation of Jin, and I capitalize that because it is not only the energy they manipulate, but with sentience as an all-encompassing energy.

Jin also comes to me in meditation because as Djinnkin, it’s natural for all djinn to talk with it. She is how they learn their powers, the names of each power, and how to serve. What I have perceived is that Jin is “the veil” which humans must cross to get from this physical life to the next and non-physical realities in store for them.

The ‘veil’ is everywhere, and is only crossed during death, near-death, and by means of meditative help (such as binaural frequencies). It is a barrier, yet I don’t recall anyone ever going into any kind of detail about what is its composition, if any. My belief is that humans cannot perceive it; the ‘veil’ is merely a hurdle, a step in frequency, though it’s really more like a jump from the frequency of this life and the next.

That frequency they jump past still exists, and I believe it’s the jin. I suspect humans might call it astral, but I feel it’s past that level, too. The frequencies of spiritual energy are without limit, so this isn’t out of line with such thinking. It may simply be unimagined up to now. I only hope I am describing it in a way others can also imagine it.

These ‘Persian’ words I’m using all came to me in meditations and channeling as I detailed these various lives, whether within a fictional reality like IDoJ or not. It’s their form of “Djinni-Persian”. Persian is their culture, though their version of it predates that known by humans. Basically, they invented it.

Now then, with regards to all of the other Djinnkin out there, I do not intend that any of you adhere to my notions even in any minuscule amount. You do you, however it has come to you. Yet, other than one person who has admitted to me they are more like a demon than specifically a djinni, I haven’t come across any other members of this kintype. While it isn’t uncommon for a kintype to be a community of one, it would still be nice to find others out there.

I’ll detail Arjhan soon as I did promise to do that for at least my Tumblr page. He’s an interesting character and related in some way to an older centaur-djinni of his world. But, all of that is another story.