Icons and interests meme
red_tanya asked loads... I'll answer as many as I can, but I'm only putting four of the icons up.
Okay, so here are some that I'd like to know more about: Kali
I know a little
about her (like the destructive battle dances and losing a dance contest
to her husband), but not a lot. What attracted you to her?
Kali attracted me to Her and that's... hard to explain. You don't find her, she finds you. Pretty much. Mother Nature has been teaching me mostly through being a bitch. But then Kali can also be the Ocean of Compassion and pretty things in everything. She's complex and fascinating, far beyond the stupid Western stereotype that automatically assumes she's evil because she takes care of the unpleasant things in life. And I certainly don't want to go that way--deny that bad shit exists, since death is the flipside of life and happiness and joy can come from the same sources, such as love... she represents totality, extreme intensity, devotion and kickarseness. She's also very ecstatic and breaks boundaries, which is why her worship is fundamentally Tantric (i.e. seeing divinity in this world and breaking taboos to realise you're one with the divinity that is Life, The Universe And Everything). So, very interesting indeed.
Gods
This is a
fascinating and frightening concept. (Can you tell I just re-read
Small Gods?) How do you know when you're in the presence of a god?
Empowerment is a bloody frightening concept. It is. And you know you're in the presence of a deity when something, anything touches you deeply, because it's also a part of yourself. IMHO. The line what Herne The Hunter says to Robin Hood in Robin of Sherwood. And very, very true. Being the God/dess of your own life isn't as arrogant as it sounds, because that always comes with responsibility. And we tend to forget that we can actually kick arse. I certainly need to be reminded of that quite often.
Jumalauta
I
know nothing about her. Who is she?
"Jumalauta" is the Finnish equivalent of "Goddammit". The statue is a Minoan snake Goddess from pre-Hellenic Crete. A place that certainly had kickarse women and more social and gender equality than most of the world today. That place was so fab the myths of Atlantis are probably based on it.
As for iconses of self and the potpotpot ('tis what a snowgrouse sounds like): I AM a small fat white bird that babbles a lot. As anyone who's ever met me can testify. *fluffs feathers* And my favourite part of the Princess Bride is Peter Cook's mad bishop. "MAWWWIAGE..."
Thanks for the iconlove:)! *is chuffed, blushes*
Okay, so here are some that I'd like to know more about: Kali
I know a little
about her (like the destructive battle dances and losing a dance contest
to her husband), but not a lot. What attracted you to her?
Kali attracted me to Her and that's... hard to explain. You don't find her, she finds you. Pretty much. Mother Nature has been teaching me mostly through being a bitch. But then Kali can also be the Ocean of Compassion and pretty things in everything. She's complex and fascinating, far beyond the stupid Western stereotype that automatically assumes she's evil because she takes care of the unpleasant things in life. And I certainly don't want to go that way--deny that bad shit exists, since death is the flipside of life and happiness and joy can come from the same sources, such as love... she represents totality, extreme intensity, devotion and kickarseness. She's also very ecstatic and breaks boundaries, which is why her worship is fundamentally Tantric (i.e. seeing divinity in this world and breaking taboos to realise you're one with the divinity that is Life, The Universe And Everything). So, very interesting indeed.
Gods
This is a
fascinating and frightening concept. (Can you tell I just re-read
Small Gods?) How do you know when you're in the presence of a god?
Empowerment is a bloody frightening concept. It is. And you know you're in the presence of a deity when something, anything touches you deeply, because it's also a part of yourself. IMHO. The line what Herne The Hunter says to Robin Hood in Robin of Sherwood. And very, very true. Being the God/dess of your own life isn't as arrogant as it sounds, because that always comes with responsibility. And we tend to forget that we can actually kick arse. I certainly need to be reminded of that quite often.
Jumalauta
I
know nothing about her. Who is she?
"Jumalauta" is the Finnish equivalent of "Goddammit". The statue is a Minoan snake Goddess from pre-Hellenic Crete. A place that certainly had kickarse women and more social and gender equality than most of the world today. That place was so fab the myths of Atlantis are probably based on it.
As for iconses of self and the potpotpot ('tis what a snowgrouse sounds like): I AM a small fat white bird that babbles a lot. As anyone who's ever met me can testify. *fluffs feathers* And my favourite part of the Princess Bride is Peter Cook's mad bishop. "MAWWWIAGE..."
Thanks for the iconlove:)! *is chuffed, blushes*