ad meliora

By the Saints

Friar Cobis

kill me yourself, Satan

Liturgical practices

Kingdom come (now)

I am evil so I musn't

cracked like a communion wafer

Come To The Altar

Sweet Baby Ray's

thanks to the devil

Going to the monastery

to the ninth circle

I believeeeeeeeee

Deliver us already

i said suggestions, not thinly veiled insults. queen, where did this 'tude come from?

Tell me you haven’t been around southern Black people without telling me you haven’t been around southern Black people. Especially the religious middle-aged and older folks. There’s nothing inherently insulting or racist about “god bless”/“bless it” as a response in these contexts, it’s about the same as “goddammit,” and isn’t just used by white people. It started in Appalachia and the South literally as a replacement because people didn’t wanna say goddammit.

Since you’re a self proclaimed “Marshmallow Muppet” I lovingly suggest you become aware of the white and white presenting tendency to arrogantly judge and claim superiority just because you don’t perceive yourself as racist. “Southerners are racist” really? An entire region of the United States? Do you know how many non white southerners there are? Do you know how many BLACK southerners there are? Southern sayings aren’t inherently signals of being unsafe, and the variations of “bless it” aren’t even that southern and wouldn’t be clocked as such by most people.

bouquetofrosys didn’t have any attitude with you. None of the sayings are thinly veiled insults any more than goddammit may be. You, on the other hand, have exhibited quite a lot of passive aggression and disdain (your comment about “maybe a few more summers at camp (or around POC)” in particular reads as cartoonishly arrogant. Do you really presume the person you’re responding to doesn’t ever interact with POC? Just because they claim a southern heritage?)

Ignoring the fact that the sayings are used across the board and not just by white people, your dismissal is uncharitable and unchristian. “Maybe the rest of the union would like or care what you think” is a harsh dismissal of a region struck by gerrymandering, election suppression and corruption by a select group of people, and dismisses the literal centuries of work done by POC communities and their allies here in the South fighting against the white supremacy embedded in our governments. Do you think the north is an exception? The Midwest? I recommend you look at the rates of Black murder by police and incarceration in those areas, the rates of voter suppression, the long history of racism throughout the entire United States.

“It’s so easy to dismantle your own white supremacy,” and yet you’re quick to dismiss the entire south under homogenized whiteness, erasing the lives and struggles of non white southerners. And yet you’re quick to claim the condescending pillar of self-righteousness as so many white “allies” do.

Seek out Apollon - the Heavenly Oracle, the Far-seeing, the Prophesying - for if he can look upon the future and still find reason to smile, surely, some of his insights can comfort your worried mind. He may not tell you what will happen word for word, as the decisions might not have even been made yet, but in your deepest rut of despair for the future, Apollon will find you there and reignite the flame of hope that was growing weak inside of you.

Adhara's post introduction: This was supposed to be Friday's post, but I gor kind of ill and didn't managed to schedule this post, I apologize for that :( this weeks are being so crazy and overwhelming, unfortunately nobody told me that university could be so demanding of our time :(

Polýmorphos: multi-formed;

Polýolvos: rich in blessings;

Potheinotáti: beloved;

Vasíleia: queen;

Voulaia: of the council;

Prytaneia: was the designation given to the highest magistrates of many of the cities. Which could imply that Hestia could be worshipped by these magistrates (or someone akin to what magistrates were in that period);

☆ Hestia doesn't seem to have much epithets, at least through the sources I usually search about Epithets; there wasn’t much.

Adhara's random fact about the Theoi: As the goddess of the family hearth Hestia also presided over the cooking of bread and the preparation of the family meal. She was also the goddess of the sacrificial flame and received a share of every sacrifice to the gods. The cooking of the communal feast of sacrificial meat was naturally a part of her domain.