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The Cross is something far greater and more mysterious than it...

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 09:24:31 -0400

The Cross is something far greater and more mysterious than it at first appears. It is indeed an instrument of torture, suffering and defeat, but at the same time it expresses the complete transformation, the definitive reversal of these evils: that is what makes it the most eloquent symbol of hope that the world has ever seen.

— Pope Benedict XVI
Church of the Holy Cross, Nicosia, Cyprus

PERSONAL BLOG

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 10:08:43 -0500

PERSONAL BLOG

i'm curious, do you believe in ghosts? i know it might seem like a dumb question because of your posts on the supernatural but some people are just fascinated by it but not believers. do you also believe in aliens? thanks for answering, love what you're blogging! <333

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 05:06:21 -0500

I’m not sure what to believe when it comes to ghosts. I’ve heard a lot of stories which could make me a believer, but I think I’ll have to get proof from it myself before I can be real sure. As for aliens, I think that we’re just plain stupid if we think that we’re the only living creatures in the whole universe. If they have contacted, abducted or visited us could be true, but I think that the most stories about that is plain BS.

Thank you for your ask and your kind words. ♥

These are taken from the abandon Takakonuma Greenland Park of...

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 11:15:15 -0500

These are taken from the abandon Takakonuma Greenland Park of Japan. The park opened in 1973 and shut down only after two years of service; common lore says that the rides were due to many accidental deaths. It was reopened in 1986 and closed thirteen years later. The park is not located on any maps and is now surrounded by radiation due to the Fukushima meltdown after the tsunami.

Plato described a self-eating, circular being as the first...

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 09:53:59 -0500

Plato described a self-eating, circular being as the first living thing in the universe — an immortal, perfectly constructed animal;

“The living being had no need of eyes when there was nothing remaining outside him to be seen; nor of ears when there was nothing to be heard; and there was no surrounding atmosphere to be breathed; nor would there have been any use of organs by the help of which he might receive his food or get rid of what he had already digested, since there was nothing which went from him or came into him: for there was nothing beside him.”

The Ancient Serpent and Dragon Cult

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Mon, 05 Mar 2012 18:46:49 -0500

SEE YOU SOON CREEP

Mon, 05 Mar 2012 16:08:00 -0500

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The Sedlec Ossuary is a small Roman Catholic chapel, located...

Mon, 05 Mar 2012 07:33:00 -0500

The Sedlec Ossuary is a small Roman Catholic chapel, located beneath the Cemetery Church of All Saints (Czech: Hřbitovní kostel Všech Svatých) in Sedlec, a suburb of Kutná Hora in the Czech Republic.

The ossuary is estimated to contain the skeletons of between 40,000 and 70,000 people, whose bones have in many cases been artistically arranged to form decorations and furnishings for the chapel.

Lilith In Jewish folklore, Lilith is a female demon in some...

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 15:30:38 -0500

Lilith

In Jewish folklore, Lilith is a female demon in some ways similar to a vampire. She derives from a Babylonian-Assyrian demon Lilit, or Lilu. She was believed to have a special power for evil over children. In the Rabbinical literature, Lilith became the first wife of Adam but, being his equal, objected to lying under him in intercourse. When he tried to force her, she flew away.

The ‘Maid of Desolation’ (ardat lili) of Babylonian tradition was a demon of waste places who originally lived in the garden of the Sumerian Inanna. In Assyrian belief, she became a wind spirit, wild-haired and winged. In the Talmud, Lilith is a succubus-a demon of the night whose offspring, from her unions with men, became demons. Attacking men who slept alone, she was an angel of darkness, becoming a goddess of conception. This belief gained strength in the Middle Ages. It was said that children in their first week of life were most susceptible to Lilith, although some said a girl was in danger for twenty days and a boy was in danger for the first eight years of his life.

A talisman of protection against Lilith had to have three names engraved on it: Sanvi, Sansanvi, Semangelaf. These three names could also be written on the door to a child’s room. To medieval Jewry, Lilith was the one that caused men to have nocturnal emissions. Her offspring were the lilin, or lilim, and were said to have human bodies but with wings and the hindquarters of a donkey, although a terracotta relief from Sumer depicts Lilith herself as a human but with wings and the taloned feet of a bird. Lilith also appears in the folklore of Britain, Greece, Germany, Mexico, and even Native American legends.

-excerpt from The Witch Book (The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft, Wicca, and Neopaganism) by Raymond Buckland.

Sources: Leach, Maria (ed.): Funk & Wagnalls Standard Dictionary of Folklore, Mythology, and Legend. Harper & Row, 1984.
Leland, Charles Godfrey: Etruscan-Roman Remains. Unwin, 1892.

"According to Greek mythology, humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and one head..."

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 15:27:00 -0500

“According to Greek mythology, humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and one head with two faces. Fearing their power, Zeus split them into two separate parts, condemning them to spend their lives in search of their other halves.”

- From “The Symposium” by Plato

Neptune and Amphitrite [detail], 1516 by Jan Gossaert (a.k.a....

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 15:25:23 -0500

Neptune and Amphitrite [detail], 1516 by Jan Gossaert (a.k.a. Jan Mabuse)

orlaylod: The hanging of ‘Mary’ Mary was a five-ton Asian...

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 14:15:41 -0500

orlaylod:

The hanging of ‘Mary’

Mary was a five-ton Asian elephant who performed in the Sparks World Famous Shows circus. On September 12, 1916, she killed assistant elephant trainer Red Eldridge while he was taking her to a nearby pond to splash and drink. There are several accounts of his death but the most widely accepted version is that he prodded her behind the ear with a hook after she reached down to nibble on a watermelon rind. She went into a rage, snatched Eldridge with her trunk, threw him against a drink stand and stepped on his head, crushing it.

On September 13, 1916, she was taken to Erwin, Tennessee, where a crowd of over 2,500 people assembled in the Clinchfield Railroad yard. There, she was hanged by the neck from a railcar-mounted industrial crane. The first attempt resulted in a snapped chain, causing Mary to fall and break her hip as dozens of children fled in terror. The severely wounded elephant died during a second attempt and was buried beside the tracks.

Hamilton House, Winnipeg Mb.June 27, 1932.

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 16:00:51 -0500

Hamilton House, Winnipeg Mb.
June 27, 1932.

i was curious, do you follow a certain religion or what you might define your beliefs (if you have any religiously) as? i do love this blog by the way! xoxo

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 14:55:39 -0500

I am an atheist and have always been. Religion fascinates me though in many other different ways than belief, so that brings my interest to it.

Thank you very much for your ask and kind words. ♡

A child killed by the poisonous gas leak in the Union Carbide...

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 11:48:49 -0500

A child killed by the poisonous gas leak in the Union Carbide chemical plant disaster.

Priest Luis Padillo offers last rites to a loyalist soldier who...

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 11:46:41 -0500

Priest Luis Padillo offers last rites to a loyalist soldier who is mortally wounded by a sniper during military rebellion against President Bétancourt at Puerto Cabello naval base in Venezuela.

Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc sets himself ablaze in protest...

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 11:46:15 -0500

Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc sets himself ablaze in protest against the persecution of Buddhists by the South Vietnamese government.

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