Ancestors - Blog Posts
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Bluemoon's grandfather was a pirate
I just want to make something for my OCs cause it's been awhile
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Sean bienvenidos, japonistasarqueológicos a una nueva entrega, en esta ocasión hablaré sobre Obon el festival de los difuntos una vez dicho esto pónganse cómodos que empezamos. - En Japón, en los días de agosto, del 13 al 16, se celebra el Obon, que lo podemos ver en multitud de animes, películas y doramas ya hice mención sobre que estas cosas no solo hay que verlas, como meros dibujos, ya que tienen mucho sentido cultural e histórico. Esta festividad tiene muchos elementos muy característicos como el Gozan no Okuribi también llamado Daimonji, muy característico de finales de estas fiestas, porque suelen ser una serie de dibujos alguno de un torii y otros como el kanji de fuego, por mencionar algunos ejemplos. - Los pepinos(se utiliza para cuando el difunto llega) y berenjenas(caso contrario cuando el difunto se va ) simbolizan la llegada y el regreso del difunto al más allá. Hay muchos países que celebran esta festividad de formas distintas, pero todos tienen en común que honran a sus antepasados, es una festividad que tiene 400 a 500 años de antigüedad y es de origen budista. Para finalizar la publicación mencionaremos el Awa-Odori, (Odori significa bailar) y data del siglo XVI. - Espero que os guste y nos vemos en próximas publicaciones, que pasen una buena semana.
日本の考古学者の皆さん、新しい回へようこそ。今回はお盆についてお話ししましょう。 - 日本では、8月の13日から16日にかけて、お盆の行事が行われる。 アニメや映画、ドラマなどでもよく見かけるが、これらは単なる絵空事ではなく、多くの文化的、歴史的な意味を持っていることはすでに述べた。例えば、五山の送り火は「大文字」とも呼ばれ、鳥居の絵や「火」という漢字の絵など、お盆の風物詩となっている。 - キュウリ（故人が来るときに使う）とナス（故人が帰るときに使う）は、故人があの世に到着し、戻ってくることを象徴している。この祭りをさまざまな方法で祝う国はたくさんあるが、先祖を敬うという点では共通している。阿波踊りは16世紀に遡る。 - それでは、良い一週間を。
Welcome, Japanese archaeologists to a new installment, this time I will talk about Obon, the festival of the dead, and with that said, make yourselves comfortable and let's get started. - In Japan, in the days of August, from the 13th to the 16th, Obon is celebrated, which we can see in many anime, movies and doramas. I have already mentioned that these things should not only be seen as mere drawings, as they have a lot of cultural and historical meaning. This festivity has many very characteristic elements such as the Gozan no Okuribi also called Daimonji, very characteristic of the end of these festivities, because they are usually a series of drawings of a torii and others such as the kanji of fire, to mention some examples. - Cucumbers (used for when the deceased arrives) and aubergines (otherwise when the deceased leaves) symbolise the arrival and return of the deceased to the afterlife. There are many countries that celebrate this festival in different ways, but they all have in common that they honour their ancestors, it is a festival that is 400 to 500 years old and is of Buddhist origin. To end the publication we will mention the Awa-Odori, (Odori means dancing) and dates back to the 16th century. - I hope you like it and see you in future publications, have a nice week.
Sean bienvenidos japonistasarqueologícos a una nueva entrega para finalizar el Obon se realizan los llamados Gozan no Okuribi, tambien conocido como Daimonji se realizan el día 16 de agosto. - Espero que os guste y nos vemos en próximas publicaciones, que pasen una buena semana. - Welcome Japanese archaeologists to a new installment to end the Obon, the so-called Gozan no Okuribi, also known as Daimonji, are held on August 16. - I hope you like it and see you in future publications, have a good week. - 日本の考古学者の皆さん、お盆の締めくくりとなる新たな行事、いわゆる五山の送り火（大文字としても知られています）が 8 月 16 日に開催されます。 - 気に入っていただければ幸いです。今後の出版物でお会いできることを願っています。良い一週間をお過ごしください。 -
My ancestors, watching me dump an entire stick of cinnamon, two cloves, an allspice berry, and a generous grating of nutmeg into my tea, sweetened with white sugar and loaded with cream, while I sit in my clean warm house surrounded by books, 25+ outfits for different occasions, and 6 pairs of shoes, in a building heated so well I have the windows open in mid-autumn:
Our daughter prospers. We are proud of her. She has never labored in a field but knows riches we could not have imagined.
hmmm...
gonna be honest here I don't really see the point to remembering most of my ancestors
I don't want to care about someone just because they share genetics with me. if I'm going to honor someone, I'm going to honor people who really deserve it. people who have given me a reason to thank them.
that's not my ancestors. my ancestors were white colonists. for obvious reasons, not the best
anyway... honor the people who have fought for equal rights, or have been a friend to you. honor people because they deserve it
Eternal slumber #skull #bones #death #eternalpeace #ancestors #candle #candlelight #mystery #grave (na mieste Staré Mesto, Bratislavský, Slovakia) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bw7ODB5Bx8u/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1xy5d6ruub0jg
Ancestor Veneration
In the occult discords I frequent I periodically see questions from new practitioners who want to start spirit work and have been directed to start with their ancestors, but they’re in a bind because like many young folk today they don’t have such a great relationship with their family. For their own reasons they don’t know their family history and either feel disconnected from previous generations or don’t want to connect to their bloodline. Over the years my personal ancestor veneration has taken shape in a way that I think might be helpful or of interest to people who want to strike up a relationship with their ancestors, but don’t have a great one with their living or recently deceased family.
Types of ancestors:
Beloved Dead: These are my known/recently deceased spirits, people I have known in life who have passed on. Not always technically ancestors, because these spirits aren’t aren’t necessarily related to me, or in my direct line of descent. The only requirement is that I knew them in life, as well as in death.
Ancestors: My actual forebearers, the people I’m directly descended from. I know many of their names because my family tree is very well researched, but I never met them in life. This also includes the ancestors whose names I don’t know but are still in that familial line, those spirits I refer to as “unnamed ancestors” or “unnamed forbearers”.
Cultural Ancestors: This by far the largest category, because there is no upper limit to the number of sub categories I can squeeze in there, none of which rely on actual blood ties. It has my ethno-cultural ancestors, the Irish people who came before me, the Italian people who came before me, the Norwegian people who came before me… etc. But it also has the ancestors of the things I choose to identify my self as: The disabled people who have come before me, the witches who have come before me, the Sailors, the Dancers, the Musicians, the Storytellers, etc. Everyone in this category connects me to some kind of cultural history that exists outside of my bloodline.
Who To Call On and When?
For me calling on my ancestors is a lot like calling on a deity. I petion them/ dedicate my actions to them, when I’m doing something that’s in their realm of influence. For instance: Say I’m cooking a traditional Italian meal, I would call on my Italian cultural ancestors, and they would get some of the meal as an offering in repayment. I would also probably call on the individual spirit of my grandmother, one of my beloved dead, since she was the one who taught me Italian cooking, and it’s quite likely her recipe I’m using.
I also have specific days set aside for my most frequently called upon groups Christmas Eve was always big with the Italian side of the family, and I still celebrate it the traditional way, so that’s become a day for my Italian cultural ancestors. St Patricks Day is for my Irish cultural ancestors. St. Lucia Day is for my Norwegian ancestors. I’ve set aside Talk Like a Pirate Day to venerate all of the sailors, fishermen, and wayfinders who have gone before me, and
Why Approach Ancestor Work/Worship/Veneration like this?
I feel like this approach gives me, and perhaps others, the most flexibility and the most options to approach ancestor work on terms that work for me. Have a great relationship with the family you’ve interacted with, but uncomfortable with the actions of your ancestors a few generations back? Interact only with your Beloved Dead and your Cultural Ancestors. Want nothing to do with your biological family, but still want to do ancestor work? Create a spiritual found family by working only with Cultural Ancestors. This way of thinking about those who loved what we love before us could be applied to any interest or personal identity that a person holds dear. However you choose to define yourself you can can use to draw a connection to people who also defined themselves that way in the past.
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Gaze past the bonfire at the inseparable lovers
♥💚 redrew my sisters art from year ago so original credit goes to Finnishwillow.
Y'all how do we feel about Dolorosa and Dualscar
SEARCH FOR EVIDENCE OF VIOLENT SEXUAL CRIMES AGAINST BRAD GEIGER'S ANCESTORS
Our ancestors speak through us.
~Me
My 3 attempt of making a mood board the person that is repasent is Adam Mozart, May's older brother who is born and in the year of 1999.makeing him 25 now he was only 10 when his family moved to New York,on the same day as they most famous person in music history and their family,he is the only male sibling that means he has two sisters and the fact that he is the middle child just like the others in his family he has zero interest in music even though that's the art that his family famous,his father is a architect and his mother a chemistry teacher at middle school that he and his siblings used to go,and he is nearing his final year of college(the story starts in 2019 making him 20 at the time),at the Stony Brook university or SUNY where he meet his girlfriend and future wife Autumn Moore his interests are art/painting, sculpture, photography and he also has a eye for architecture like his dad and in the future he would succeed in his dream he and his older sister Nannerl got their dad's hair color and their mom's eye color and his niece from his younger sister side of the family will gift him the no.1. uncle mug.
I know it's different than the other two because it hasn't the item that repasent his future job but that it repasents the palette for colors and the paint blush and that he loves panting repasents The Starry night by Vincent van Gogh and the photographer repasents his interest in photography and so he does all the deferent arts.
My second amendment of making a mood board the person who is represent is Louis's younger twin sister by few minutes her name is Elisabeth or Elise when is about her nickname is pretty obvious what they father want to name his only daughter to be reference to one of most played piano pieces but like the others in her family she has zero interest in music what so ever the only people who do are her father and brother who wants to be a music teacher because of that they father pays little no interest in her because of that she is doing what she wants at the beginning she didn't knew what is going to be when she grows up but later like being of the first year of highschool she decided to become a defence attorney and she is also the only support that her brother has in there own family besides there's mother and grandparents and she cares for her brother so much that she got them selfs a forever bracelet with the first laters of there first names and also says "Twins born together best friends forever"but there father thinking's that Louis should not have that girly thing around his arm but Louis doesn't care what his father thinks in the future she has a no.1 aunt mug besides one of her sister in law (May's older sister) which was gifted to her by her only niece Sara.
The bag represent that she wants to be a defence attorney for the bracelet pretend the second later is E instead of M and Sara is Louis's and May's future daughter and the gacha character is Elise because that how she looks mostly when is about characters hair style looks exactly how I imagine and also Louis has a phobias of dolls and animatronics and allergy to tulips while Elise doesn't have it.
My first attent to make a moodbord the person who the board replacements is Louis van Beethoven or by his biological name Ludwig he is the ancestor of the fomous german composer with who he shares his name and birthday the reason he is called Louis by his friends and mom+greatparents his because he also friends with 2 other kids/now teens(the story starts in 2019 when they at the first year of high school)who have the same first name because of that he most people call him Louis it also has historycal facts in most title pages it say Louis instead of Ludwig, Louis's friends know that because of that they call him Louis, his birthday is on 16 of december making him a ♐ for the photos the metronome reputation that he wants to be a music teacher as for the glasses he just likes the style of it
Your body is an ancestor. Your body is an altar to your ancestors. Every one of your cells holds an ancient and anarchic love story. Around 2.7 billion years ago free-living prokaryotes melted into one another to form the mitochondria and organelles of the cells that build our bodies today. All you need to do to honor your ancestors is to roll up like a pill bug, into the innate shape of safety: the fetal position. The curl of your body, then, is an altar not just to the womb that grew you, but to the retroviruses that, 200 million years ago taught mammals how to develop the protein syncytin that creates the synctrophoblast layer of the placenta. Breathe in, slowly, knowing that your breath loops you into the biome of your ecosystem. Every seven to ten years your cells will have turned over, rearticulated by your inhales and exhales, your appetites and proclivity for certain flavors. If you live in a valley, chances are the ancient glacial moraine, the fossils crushed underfoot, the spores from grandmotherly honey fungi, have all entered into and rebuilt the very molecular make up of your bones, your lungs, and even your eyes. Even your lungfuls of exhaust churn you into an ancestor altar for Mesozoic ferns pressurized into the fossil fuels. You are threaded through with fossils. Your microbiome is an ode to bacterial legacies you would not be able to trace with birth certificates and blood lineages. You are the ongoing-ness of the dead. The alembic where they are given breath again. Every decision, every idea, every poem you breathe and live is a resurrection of elements that date back to the birth of this universe itself. Today I realize that due to the miracle of metabolic recycling, it is even possible that my body, somehow, holds the cells of my great-great grandmother. Or your great-great grandmother. Or that I am built from carbon that once intimately orchestrated the flight of a hummingbird or a pterodactyl. Your body is an ecosystem of ancestors. An outcome born not of a single human thread, but a web of relations that ripples outwards into the intimate ocean of deep time.
Your Body is an Ancestor, Sophie Strand
A Welcomed Place
As our Lord entered the holy city, the Hebrew children professed the resurrection of life. Holding palm branches, they cried out, “Hosanna in the highest!” – Antiphon 1: Procession for Palm Sunday
My ancestors’ holy days are my holy days. I reinterpret and redefine to create personal meaning, so my connection to them is genuine yet reflective of my own beliefs. Even though Jesus Christ isn’t my savior, he has a welcome place at the table of resurrective gods I waitress.
see also: #altar, #palm sunday
Starting Honoring Your Ancestors: A Guide to Ancestral Veneration by Mallorie Vaudoise today! Ive only read the introduction so far but I love the idea of journal prompts at the end of each chapter!
I’ve taken a break from working with deities at this moment and near future. I’m feeling such a call to nurture my relationships with my guides and my ancestors. Ive been trying to get into a rhythm before I began posting about my craft again. I’m excited to post about my craft!
I’ve finally sat down to read my ‘Italian Folk Magic’ book and I can feel my chest getting warm and almost heavy in way that feels like a hug. Im excited and grateful to go on this journey with my ancestors