norwayspruce:

mrbulian:

honestly the most annoying thing about this website is that unless you write out every single detail about your personal life everyone just likes to assume that u live a happy, pleasant, worry-free life without struggling with anything that could possibly hold you back and it’s like??? i’m not about to list everything about my mental health in extensive detail or provide y’all with medical history but it costs zero dollars to mind your own business and not assume someone’s a-okay just because it’s not listed in their fucking tumblr description

Someone told me I didn’t have cancer cause I didn’t post about it enough

would you say there is a close equivalent to a Pan/Faunus/Dionysus in the Celtic pantheons? I have been searching myth dictionaries and primary texts for a field/orchard God or at the very least a ‘horned’ or ‘bacchanal’ being who has some affinity with wine & bucolic sex, but there doesn’t seem to be one. A few heroes or kings could fit the bill, I suppose, but it isn’t the same as a deity…

lebornaciar:

no, anon, my feeling is that you’re right in not having been able to find an equivalent figure. the celtic cultures grew up in a different way than the greek and roman cultures did, with different conceptions of wildness and sexuality. for one thing, you’re much less likely to find references to wine at all (especially as you go further north), and much more likely to see connections to ale, and ale is likely more associated with kingship than with revelry. for another–though this is by no means universal–the figures most strongly connected with sexuality in the celtic traditions are often female, the sovereignty goddesses. you’re not likely to find a masculine fertility figure leading a bacchanal in the celtic wilderness.

there are some deities who have liminal field-and-forest association, and who may also have connections to sexuality, though in my experience many of the devotees of these deities feel that the popular hyperfocus on their sexuality aspects is somewhat overblown. the ones who come to mind are flidais, in the irish tradition, and cernunnos, in the gaulish. however, they are absolutely not equivalent figures to the greco-roman deities you asked about; they merely share some associations. they’re both more associated with liminality than anything else, and while flidais in particular does have some sexual associations, cernunnous has more to do with the fertility of the land than human (or divine) sexual fertility.

so, you may perhaps want to look into flidais or cernunnos, or other gods connected to them–but if you’re really bent on someone like pan, faunus, or dionysus, your best bet is to turn to them.

strangesigils:

In context with this post on sigil making, you need to break up letters into their basic shapes.
I’ve gotten a few messages from people who don’t know how to do that, which is totally understandable, so here’s a guide.
I didn’t include vowels because you don’t use vowels when making this kind of sigil.

Requested by @lovepayal

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