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Take-Minakata in the Ankoku Shinwa manga

Also just how some of the Shinto kami look like almost Lovecraftian monsters but are indeed gods, manifestations of the mysterious power and presence of the divine (linked to Brahman) and operating along the lines of some incomprehensible will or destiny. See Onamuchi above but also Take-Minakata.

The poem is featured in 'A Secret History of Rhubarb' (Glasgow: Mariscat, 2004) Of her poem, Crowe writes: "I have tried always to keep faith with the creature itself, bearing in mind its behaviour in the wild as well as the mythic, magical values it has acquired in human consciousness over the millennia" 🎨 Linocut showing both stages of 'the run of the hare'. Brown hare on a grassy background. (1936–2022). Gillmor produced many natural history illustrations, among his other artistic works, over a long and successful career

"Light as the moon’s path over the sea
the run of the hare over the land"

Anna Crowe from 'A Calendar of Hares'
🎨 'Running of the Hare' Robert Gillmor

#BookWormSat
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Health allowing, I am planning an M. R. James post from 1st December every evening to Christmas Eve. This will include items and artefacts from my own collection, some of them extremely rare #Book #ghosts #DeadDecember 👻📚

Painting of the elephant-headed Indian god Gaṇeśa by Maria Strutz.

New blog post - from the London Tantra Group wiki project.
The Gaṇeśa Upaniṣad, translated by the late Mike Magee, with explanatory footnotes by me. Gaṇeśa painting by @mariastrutz.bsky.social
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If you liked the Pseud, you might like this:
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Coming soon: Lost occult books of the 1920s: relaunching Vine Press Publishing never-before-seen books by legendary British occultist Victor Neuburg and officially relaunching his 1920s Vine Press.

SIgn up now for our forthcoming campaign to publish the lost books of Victor Neuburg!

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Colour postcard of the Hindu Goddess Santoshi Ma.

New blog post: How the Hindu goddess Santoshi Ma achieved fame through a 1975 film, "Jai Santoshi Ma".
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Is there a connection between LAM and Lobsang Rampa's Aliens?

“There I saw a most extraordinary thing, a dwarf, a gnome, a very very small body, a body like that of a five-year-old child, I thought."

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Alien Gurus and The Mother of the Soul: On the Etymology of the Tibetan Word Lama and Why More Occultists Should Learn to read Tibetan I’ve written about LAM, the according-to-some extraterrestrial entity which English ritual magician Aleister Crowley is supposed to have contacted, in an earlier article about ‘Tibetan …

A fascinating essay on LAM by the talented Ben Joffe!
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Cover of John Chapple's "Sri Krishna Prem: A Wing and a Prayer. Shows Sri Krishna Prem in traditional Indian dress.

New book review: John Chapple’s biography of Sri Krishna Prem - from the Royal Flying Corps to Vaiṣṇava renunciate. He was an influence on Timothy Leary and Ram Dass.
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This essay was originally written in 2011 for the wiki section of my blog. Unfortunately, that's gone now when I accidentally nuked the site trying to update the PHP version. I'll be restoring bits of the wiki as blog posts over the next few months.

black & white image of the tantric goddess Lalita holding sugarcane bow, five flower-arrows, noose and goad. By Jan Magee.

The sugarcane bow is carried by Lalita, Ganesa, and Kama. This essay examines its significance.
(image: Lalita holding sugarcane bow by Jan Magee).
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I also have a vague memory of a Here & Now gig at Huddersfield Poly in 1978.

My second Hillage gig was at the Blackpool Winter Gardens - possibly '76 or '77. At the end of the gig a bunch of the audience rushed to the stage, forgetting about the orchestra pit in front of it. Don't recall anyone being seriously hurt.

Resharing for #WorldElephantDay 🐘

I saw Steve Hillage at Lancaster Uni in the 70s - amidst a herd of Afghan coat clad hippies.

Every ebb tide gifts the salt hag temporary scrying pools. Brined reflections of tomorrow. Opportunities for seaweed phytognomy where she may peer round the corners of time. The shore is her temple. She never lacks space for magic. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky

a fox curled up and looking up to the upper left corner, beams of sunlight and dustmotes floating in the rays. Fox surrounded in flowers, at the corner bottom right there are a fox skull and a fossilized heartshaped sea urchin. Mixed media, black fineliner, yellow turmeric ink, purple shadows in blackberry ink, watercolour paints, Maria Strutz

a curled up fox, savouring the warmth of the sun 🦊🌀🌻
The yellow in the painting is mostly turmeric, the purple blackberry ink
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Into the fairy toot One of the most remarkable archaeological experiences it is still possible to have in Britain (thanks to the care of English Heritage, Cadw, Historic Environment Scotland and other heritage bodies) is...

Fascinating substack newsletter from @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social on his experiences delving into Long Barrows.
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Signage for the Long Man Inn - black and white figure of the Long Man with owl, hare, star and crescent moon. Also a bus stop, and the tops of trees.

The Long Man Inn - highly recommended!

The Wilmington Yew Tree with wooden props and gravestones around it.

The Wilmington Yew, approximately 1,600 years old!

Me waving my arms excitedly on a hillside road with The Long Man of Wilmington in the background.

A visit to the Long Man of Wilmington.
photo by @mariastrutz.bsky.social

England is a small country. Among its defining characteristics are the density of and proximity to ghosts. City streets or rural lanes, one does not have to walk far to encounter a temporal shade. No wonder the English have measurements such a phantoms per acre. – #CJosiffe #Ghosts

Archivist of obscure occult ephemera at the Invisible College.

cover of book Michelle Remembers - Satanic Altar with candles and eerie smoke. Text: Michelle Smith and Lawrence Pazder Michelle Remembers The true story of a year-long contest between innocence and evil

Continuing my examination of North America's "Satanic Panic" with a look at the McMartin Preschool case.
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Cerberus cub 🤍
even the Endless start out young 🌿🌀🌒
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"Fantastical" photographs in Hastings exhibition Paul Watson is exhibiting a selection of his fantastical photographs upstairs at 1200 Postcards on Queens Road in Hastings from August 1–24.

A short news item about my exhibition that starts tomorrow, in which I clumsily talk through a short video interview

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QPR with your skull art 🤍🐾🖤

The cunning folk may have the crow as their bird, but we witches have the swan. It’s they who gift us feathers for our cloaks. It’s they who take messages to our dead sisters and bring back wise counsel. Never an owned familiar, always an amplifier of magics. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky

YouTube video by Tales of Myth & Mayhem Secret Agendas | Ep 01 | A The Laundry RPG Actual Play

The first part of our The Laundry RPG #ActualPlay is up on YouTube =) @lavaita.bsky.social & @thelollygaggers.com interrogate their way through a Black Bag Job from @cstross.bsky.social & @cubicle7games.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3UF...