Gods – Amethyst’s Archive

witchella: modern-witchcraft: Are you a sunshine witch or a moonlight witch? Water witch or forest witch or urban witch? Crystals or bones? Potted plants or candles? Rose or cinnamon? Horns or wings? Boots or barefoot? Ghosts or gods? Flowers or ash?

Half gods are worshipped in wine and flowers. Reals gods require blood. Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God (via wooden-folks) Source: antigonick

Tell me to stop remembering once-forgotten gods. Tell me to stop recalling their stories to the tip of my tongue, tell me the stars are just burning chemicals who don’t look down on us from a distance. Tear their altars from my hands. I tire of worship. I’m sick of visions obscuring my sight, ordersContinue reading

stumbled into the attention of gods you never really believed in until they had their talons and claws deep inside you, scratching and marking you as theirs in a way as ancient as humanity itself you spend hours scribbling down the counsel of gods who touch your soul, meditating on broken, disjointed whispers and imagesContinue reading

How did you “meet“ your Gods?

meritinpu: mscairowednesday: I was just wondering about some of the ways others “met” the deities they follow (as long as you don’t mind sharing, seeing as it can be a personal question). I’m really quite curious! For me it was through a dream actually. I dreamt that I was walking down a downtown street atContinue reading “How did you “meet“ your Gods?”

Want

satsekhem: I want to dress in my gods and wrap them around me as a cloak. I want them to give me the safety I rarely feel in waking life and feel enveloped in their embrace. I want to wear them around my shoulders, covering my face in cool darkness, and peer out into theContinue reading “Want”

Most witches don’t believe in gods. They know that the gods exists, of course. They even deal with them occasionally. But they don’t believe in them. They know them too well. It would be like believing in the postman. Terry Pratchett, Witches Abroad (via discworldquotes) Source: discworldquotes

thehermetichermit: theastrarium: ”[…] don’t summon deity as if they were servants, they are higher beings and they can cause you a whole lot of trouble if you don’t show respect. And if you have called upon them to help with something don’t forget to thank them. It doesn’t have to be a grand gesture; waterContinue reading

badmoonmoonrising: when a deity makes you come to terms with shit and realize things and you have all this information stewing in your head

I, personally, think that calling oneself a “godspouse” is rather ballsy. I can understand have a deep, possibly even intimate, connection with a god/dess, but to give oneself that title is rather arrogant. Just my opinion.

watchful-tigress: thetwistedrope: theemperorsfeather: nihilistic-void: I suppose that you’ll find it even more ballsy when I say that I was the one that proposed to Loki. This is the best response to that anon. ahahahahaha oh man. I don’t get why people seem to think that being close with a deity (spousal, sexual, just for funsies,Continue reading “I, personally, think that calling oneself a “godspouse” is rather ballsy. I can understand have a deep, possibly even intimate, connection with a god/dess, but to give oneself that title is rather arrogant. Just my opinion.”