needsomeshelter:dorknewton:tathrin:onion-souls:caledoniaseries:unauthorized-magic:This thread is so
needsomeshelter:dorknewton:tathrin:onion-souls:caledoniaseries:unauthorized-magic:This thread is so good. THIS. ^^ As a folklorist, this kind of thing bothers the hell out of me. So much of what people think of as ancient is Victorian era or newer. Or just wildly inaccurate, really.Another part of it is that much of what Victorians would view as planar communication or “channeling” was conceptually an altered state in ancient times. Like the Greeks knew that the oracles at Delphi were huffing fumes. And that was cool. Faerie wasn’t a land or a race, but the altered, glamorous reality of the fae, the gentry who lived in the hills. It was overtly compared to intoxication. Djinn lived all around us, invisibility, raising their own cattle herds and going on hajj to Mecca. The “other world” wasn’t another place, but another way, a demimonde, an invisible society within our own, or divine madness.“The less magical the world was believed to be, the more it became necessary to posit a division between us and the realms of wonder.”“The idea of the mundane hadn’t been invented yet.”@spiritspodcast The idea of the mundane hadn’t been invented yet.Ok, but that kind of forgets a few things.As people in the notes point out, that forgets about spiritual traditions like Dia De Los Muertos and simular ‘veil’ like traditions. As well, it says “the gods don’t live in another realm, they live on mount Olympus”. The use of mount Olympus was really just a way of saying that the gods lived higher than us and beyond our reach. If I do remember this correctly, the Greeks held festivals on their multiple Olympus’ (yes, multiple, there was no “official” mount Olympus). -- source link
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