I've just started to (slowly) read the Finnish translation of Eliade's The Myth of the Eternal Return. It's very much of its time--that time of the heroic anthropologist, the desire to find a common current in all cultures' mythologies and just make up some big theory that unites them all in one grand, sweeping humanist arc. Of course, there is a ( Read more... )

Found this on Exotic India's book selection. It's the introduction (first chapter) of a book by a Hindu woman (a strong, independent, scholarly and educated one) and how she grew up with the Goddesses and how the women around her manifested them, and it looks generally pretty good (I presume the typos in the text are from whoever transcribed the ( Read more... )

The book I am reading:
Umm... currently an English translation of the Lalita Sahasranama, a collection of Finnish translations of Hafiz, Jan Fries' Kali Kaula and there was something else but I forget.

The book I love most:
You've got to be fucking joking. There are too many to mention and I love them for different reasons.

The last book I ( Read more... )

-Dave in a tutu. This may have been the reason why I had this strange dream where he was a contestant on one of those celebrity dance competition shows and came on stage in a godawful 18th century dress made entirely of gold lamé. It was also sleeveless and strapless and his chest hair and boytitties showed. And it had huge panniers, too. It was ( Read more... )

Celery Makes Men More Attractive. This explains Fivey. And I guess that's why the Master had them serving celery in Castrovalva. So it wasn't just date rape drinks; he had to include pheromone enhancers. *shakes head*

Kittens in Autotune. ♥ when I played this one, Noki woke up and went O_O, poor thing.

Also, reasonabsurd made this.


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Found this quote today, and it's very very true. Although it is very hard to remember this every day, or live up to it, but it's still very valuable knowledge to have within your head.

Watch your thoughts--they become words ( Read more... )

Peacock-feathered Blue God love in the form of Krishna. Including humour and LGBT ones. Future incarnation of self as ant further confirmed by this.

Bebeh cuteness.

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From this week's newsletter:

"9 things I learned about the world from anonymous stock photo models."

This is so, so true:D. Wooyay for marketing cliches! I don't mind cute, curly-haired black women going moist over broadband either;).

Baby 'edge'ogs! I like the one with four of them curled up in a row... "Ngnnh! Nnnh! Halp!" (this link comes to ( Read more... )

Today, I did what I should have done, and have been wanting to do since I was 17 and first started reading about yoga and Tantra ( Read more... )

Updated lagopus with two more articles from the Pagan newsletter.

There's one on Ganesha

and a brief history of henna with idiot-proof hair-dyeing tips.

Like the first article on the symbolism of Kali and Shiva, these are both in Finnish. If you're really, *really* desperate, I could try translating them, but basically they're there because there isn' ( Read more... )