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Here is a List of all ten Perfumes I have produced in the last few weeks! I am quite excited about them, but my Lucifer Collection, Desert Nomad, and the Starfallen Lands are absolutely my favourite!

A link to my shop is here if you wish to check them out!

The Back of Loki’s Teeth:

A bad decision that tastes too good. The Back of Loki’s teeth is warm, heady, and a little spicy with that refreshing aftertaste that really reminds you what fun gods can be!

Featuring: Base Notes of Sweet Tobacco, Oatmeal Cookie, Tonka Bean and Brandy Heart Note of Clove and spices Top Notes of Lime and Juniper

Lucifer Clothed in Silk:

Sensual and Divine, a gentle whisper that you did not imagine. Lucifer clothed in Silk is the intimate touch of Lucifer Clothed in Venus and Blessed is Lucifer’s touch. 

Featuring: Base Notes of Sandalwood and Sweet Tobacco, Cypress and Spices Heart Notes of Lotus, Lauren and Lavender Top Notes of Neroli, Honey, Artemisia and a touch of Rain

Lucifer Clothed in Venus:

Brilliant in the morning sky, Lucifer ushers in that spark of wisdom and brilliance that inspires us to take up the torch and push through the day with a clear mind and a sound heart. Anchored but keen, we take flight with compassion and wisdom. Base Notes of Sandalwood and Sweet Tobacco, Cypress and Spices Heart Notes of Fig, Laurel and Lotus with a touch of Frankincense Top Notes of Neroli and Passion Fruit 

Morning Star Garden:

Blooming fragrances within the harp-strung garden of Lucifer’s domain. This fragrance was personally inspired by all the wondrous floral experiences I have had with Lucifer over the years and the soft and beautiful architecture of such beauty.

Featuring: Base Notes of Agarwood, Vanilla, Frankincense, Old Books, Leather Ambergris Heart Notes of Honeysuckle, Orchid, Apple, Lily of the Valley, Rose, White Musk and Laurel Top Notes of Rain, Fresh Linen, and Honey

His Throne in Twilight: A sibling Perfume to the Morning Star Garden, His Throne in Twilight calls upon the sweet blessings of floral and musky hours where the veil between us is thin and the air is ripe with inspiration. Both liminal and divine. 

Featuring: Base Notes of Agarwood, Juniper, Vanilla, Frankincense, Ambergris and Benzoin Heart Notes of Orchid, Lotus, Honeysuckle, Apple, Bamboo, and Rose Top Notes of Rain, Honey, Laurel and White Musk

Orrery of the Celestial Prince:

The sharp tang of celestial skies, cold and vast above you. And below you feet are the cool night-kissed mossy tresses of a path well tread by others before you. You have just entered his orrery, where the planets and stars are mapped and the cosmos unfurl before you. Stolas, the Prince of Stars, Herbs and of Cosmic Shapes. This Scent is a gift to the beloved Owl Prince. 

Featuring: Base Notes of Labdanum, White Musk, and Ambergris Heart Notes of Jasmine, Bamboo, and White Tea Top Notes of Ozone, Cold Breezes, Rain and Cucumber

Time Lost Spirit: The Cosmos are unfeeling. The map changes always. The skies drift between hues of blue, gold, and violet. Something feels forgotten. Breezes double at your back, pushing you forward. But toward what? There’s a sword at your hip. Leather around your shoulders. And before you, a long road stretches that promises many stories.

Featuring: Base Notes of White Tea, Bay Laurel, Sandalwood, and White Musk and Leather Heart Notes of Bamboo, Bergamot, Fresh Cut Grass and Rosemary Top Notes of Ozone, Green Tea, Lemongrass, and Rain

Vagabond of Starfallen Lands: You were here once in a dream. Or… you think you were. The memories are foggy. But the ruins are familiar like a place you used to laugh in. The cosmos unfurl overhead in a tapestry of stars so vast that you cannot tell where you are in the universe. The sands whip around you for a moment like a cloak of remembrance. As the breeze fades, you’re left with a lingering scent of home. Of familiarity. Like someone out there knows you’re not where or when in time you are supposed to be. Featuring: Base Notes of Patchouli, Labdanum, Ambergris, and White Musk Heart Notes of Honeysuckle, White Tea, Jasmine and Bamboo Top Notes of Rain, Cucumber, and Ocean Breeze

The Sword, The Flower, and a really strong drink: It’s that season again… Petals fall signalling the shifting time of spring. The richness of liquor on your tongue is followed by the good company of someone who never seems to be apart from their blade. You wonder about it sometimes. But then the laughter takes over. The sweet musky scent of intimacy mingles in your senses, invaded by plum blossoms. 

Base Notes of Musk, Leather, and Brandy Heart Notes of Black Pepper, Green Tea, Bamboo, Cherry Blossoms and Plum Blossoms Top Note of Ocean Breeze

Desert Nomad: Heat banks the camp you’re settled in. The strings of a rebab play almost hauntingly beside you and yet you are lulled. Tea, spices, and the coarse presence of fabric settled into the shifting sands grounds your senses. There is no road. No path. There is a god out here. One so steeped in the ripe tribulations of these liminal lands. The God of the Red Land… Your thoughts drift to him for a moment, and your companion with his instrument in hand, hair like blood, grins at you from across the snapping fire.  Base Notes of Sweet Tobacco, Benzoin, Cardamom, Rum, Musk, Leather and Sandalwood Heart Notes of Plum Blossoms, White Tea, Rose, Geranium, Honey, Black Cedar and Juniper Top Notes of Honey, White Musk, and Bay Laurel

Behold, my most well preforming drawing on my instagram AND reddit. This was a little personal project I decided to draw since I had never really attempted to make a creative piece with the Nejeru at this point. (The pieces I had drawn were all redraws from book of the dead)

This piece was inspired by a very specific depiction found below , titled "Set, upon the prow of the solar barque, repels Apophis from 21st Dynasty Book of the Dead".

To the beloved mothers of kemet

The divine netjeru

You have birthed me lady heqet

Breathed essence so I

May live under goddess Nut’s sky

Veiled in the nephthys comforting darkness

Experiencing the joys and pleasures

Like lady Bastet and lady Hathor

Be strong and confident like lady sekhmet And

fiercely protective of what’s mine like lady Anput

And continue to be a strong pillar like lady Aset

And always live in Maat

Dua dua

Hello everyone!

I’m helping raise funds for a dear friend’s moving expenses by offering divination services on their behalf.

Xipalli ( @feral-tree-goblin ) is a Latino genderfluid practitioner rooted in Nahuatl spiritual traditions, as well as an artist and former sex worker. 

They are currently preparing to move out of state in order to care for their mother while supporting two children as a single parent. A series of sudden expenses and emergencies have made the move significantly more difficult financially, so I volunteered to help by offering readings in reciprocal exchange.

Within their religious tradition, it is important that support be given through mutual exchange rather than requested as pure donation. Gifts freely given are welcome and appreciated, but when assistance is requested, something must always be offered in return. Because of this, readings and spiritual services are the preferred form of support.

Current Goal: $2,500

DIVINATION SERVICES:

Tarot & General Readings

$1 Per Card Choose how many cards you would like drawn and I will read accordingly. You may request: • Blind / General Readings • Specific Questions • Deck Choice

$5 Chef’s Special You provide the question; I choose the deck. Whichever deck feels called to answer you will be used.

$10 Week Ahead Reading A reading focused on the next seven days: guidance, insight, obstacles, themes, and general wisdom to carry through the week.

Kemetic Readings

$1 Per Card Choose your amount and I will draw accordingly for either general or specific readings.

$3 Egyptian Gods Reading A simple three-card spread using the Egyptian Gods Oracle.

$5 “Nofret’s Kitchen Special” A fully intuitive reading. You may ask a question, but the structure and number of cards are determined entirely by what feels appropriate in the moment.

$10 Egyptian Oracle Reading A five-card spread using both the Egyptian Gods Oracle and the Egyptian Book of the Dead Oracle.

Additional Notes

• Freely offered gifts are welcome, though readings/services are preferred. • Readings will be available daily between 5 PM–8 PM Central Time through the weekend. • On Monday and Tuesday, May 18th and 19th, I will additionally be available from 8 AM–8 PM Central Time. • I do work full-time, so thank you for your patience regarding response times.

If you’re interested, please message me directly either here on Tumblr or you may DM me on Discord at " elensure_cunde_mairono " !

Please send any Donations and Service Payment to https://ko-fi.com/rainytree

This is Xipalli’s ko-fi. Not my own!

Questions and queries are welcome! 

I might be.

I was asking, mostly, about gods from open practices, greek, egyptian, norse, keltic, slavic, like that, but it would be interesting to hear your thoughts on demenolatry as well

It's just, if you are polytheist and worship a pantheon(s), do you really need to get an approval of the god you are interested in or can you just start worshipping? Isn't the whole point of polytheism is that you are, kind of, believing in whole pantheon and can reach out to all of them?

I know that demonolatry isn't like this in some ways, since i didn't really have experience with it, but it would be also interestingly to know 👀

Welcome back! It's nice to see you!

You see, you're asking a very good question but one that does not actually change my initial answer. What you seem to be asking is: "Can I just jump into whatever I want to do with gods that are appealing to me? Or do I have to have permissions from them?"

Deities are not universal. Neither is culture. Each pantheon you listed comes from a people. A people that had values, ethnic beliefs, cultural traditions, habits, daily rituals and ceremony, and cycles that they observed. This is absent in modern demonolatry as the contextual substances from where Demons come from are very much obscure, exist in antiquity, and survived through various forms of evolutionary syncretism. With the Theoi for Greek, you cannot just "start worshipping" the gods. You have to be clean. You have to be proper. There's cultural contexts. What have you done that day? Have you eaten? There are patterns, beliefs, and structures that matter to the Hellenic peoples. You should be educated on. The Theoi, according to the beliefs of the Hellenic Peoples---of whom these deities exist in the culture of---operate and have always operated through the ceremonial, ritual, cyclical, and cultural beliefs of those people. And its important to follow those rules and etiquettes.

The netjer of the Kemetic traditions also have a similar concept. I just made Natron because I need it to properly interact with my Kemetic gods. I always wash my hands, face, and mouth before doing so. Because that is properly aligning with ma'at. But I had run out of Natron to properly use it to cleanse and it's been eating at me. I could not afford to not have it. So I made more. Because I should. This is a basic show of respect to following cultural traditions and beliefs. They matter.

Celtic deities is a vague term. Which Celtic? What branch? Which Dialect? But also these deities are often actually considered somewhat closed as they are of an oral-tradition. And they are not typically shared with outsiders. Revivalism has since erased that concept and made them more profitable to outside cultures as the people were oppressed, erased, and slaughtered, but there are a lot of changes to those traditions to accommodate a new era. You would have to speak to those people and understand the cultural nuances, expectations, and significance.

Slavic Gods are not as "open" as you may think. Any culture that has a "Folk" tradition is actually quite considerably "closed" in most (but not all) circumstances. This is because the region you are in heavily relies upon localised beliefs. And those beliefs are unique to a people who have endured specific conditions, language movements, geopolitical climate changes, and structure shifts. Rodnovery, as a reconstruction movement, is considerably more open than if you were to walk into a town in Belarus or Poland and ask to just be given information on their gods. There's a lot of nuance. It's, again, heavily reliant on context, cultural expectations, linguistic adjustments, and lifestyle.

Now, let's discuss this... "Polytheism" misunderstanding.

Polytheism is not a free-for-all marketplace of gods. Please consider this. Deeply.

What you are imagining is closer to a modern, eclectic spiritual model. One where deities are interchangeable, accessible, and selectable based on personal interest. That is not how historical or living polytheistic traditions function. At all. Those traditions are relational and context-bound, not consumer-based. Which is how Deity Work and Spiritual Traditions are being treated when you ask this question.

The misunderstanding here is what "polytheism" actually means.

Polytheism does not mean "all gods are equally available to everyone at any time." It means "multiple gods exist," but those gods are still embedded within specific cultural, geographic, and relational systems.

In most traditional polytheistic frameworks, relationships with deities are not initiated casually---they are entered into. And like any relationship, there are expectations, boundaries, and context.

You don’t walk into someone else's home, from a culture you’re not part of, and start rearranging things because you like the aesthetic. The same principle applies here. And it is disrespectful. It is also a fast way to tick off deities of cultures of whom have had their people abused. Deities are not typically fond of people who cannot respect their people.

What you are describing---being able to reach out to any deity at will, without prior relationship, structure, or cultural grounding---is a modern eclectic spiritual approach, not traditional polytheism.

That approach isn't... inherently "wrong", but it is different, and it often overlaps with what people critique as cultural extraction when it ignores the originating cultures. Essentially, it's Spiritual Colonialism---something many cultures have suffered from simply because there are people who have free access to information and wish to do whatever they wish with shiny object they think look pretty. Those shiny objects being deities.

As far as 'polytheism' goes, you're not "just" a polytheist because your practice isn’t based on a generalised belief in "many gods." It’s based on participation in specific traditions, each with their own rules, contexts, and relationships---and importantly, your positionality within them is different.

So for me personally, I don’t really identify as a general "polytheist," even though I engage with multiple traditions.

My practice isn’t about believing in many gods in a broad sense---it’s about maintaining specific relationships within specific systems, some of which I was raised into, and others that I have approached with care, study, and adherence to their cultural expectations. This requires entire lifestyle changes. Which is not something people are often prepared for when they would rather approach cultural spiritual traditions through a "I can do whatever I want" mentality.

Those are not interchangeable experiences.

There is a difference between:

Being raised within or culturally tied to a practice

Entering a tradition through study and respectful reconstruction

And observing or appreciating from the outside

Those distinctions matter. A lot. And it will make or break your spiritual tradition. It will greatly change your experience.

What you’re asking assumes that gods are universally accessible in the same way, regardless of culture. That assumption itself comes from a very modern, often Western framework that tends to flatten differences between traditions.

So to come full circle to answer your question again: No---you generally don’t just 'start worshipping' in the way you are describing, at least not within traditional frameworks.

You learn. You observe. You align yourself with the practices, values, and structures that those deities exist within. And then, if a relationship forms, it forms within that context.

Otherwise, what’s happening isn't really engagement with that tradition---it’s reinterpretation through a modern lens.

Or you can do whatever you want, forever and ever and just kinda stick a middle finger to ethnic peoples and traditions across the globe. It's up to you! I'm not in charge of you. These are your consequences.

I hope this has helped clarify your confusion!