#Mythology

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MrHWM

theres a difference between whiteness, which is more of an idea that people embody consciously and unconsciously in different ways, and being white. the issue is actually far more complicated

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RamaInExile

INFLUENCE OF SHAIVISM ON BUDDHIST TANTRASAccording to Indologist Alexis Sanderson, Buddhist tantra is indebted to the Saiva tradition.He referred this as " pious plagarism". Let's see some examples of pointed

Jeff Sharlet

JeffSharlet

Some of my fellow lefties won't hold their noses and vote against Trump (by voting for Biden) because they think revolution is a real possibility. That's an ahistorical romance, based,

Shivam, prone to hyperbole

ghirapurigears

cultural representation in games matters a lot to me. Your game should reflect the audience you want to cultivate, and that means giving people more chances to see themselves the

Ante D. Luvian

uncle_deluge

One of the tropes of people studying mythology is that "every culture has stories about dragons."Do they though? Do European dragons REALLY have enough in common with Chinese ones to

Philip Gorski

GorskiPhilip

1/ #ChristianNationalism vs. Civil Religion ReduxAs @JohnDCarlson and @CTMathewes have rightly noted, Biden's inaugural address was a civil religious one grounded in Augustine's political theology. 2/ Perhaps that is why

Agent NDN

TheAgentNDN

One useful consideration I've come across in my studies is to pay close attention to how historical sources came to be made.A couple thoughts on that... If, for example, you're

Girl with a gun

girl_with_4_gun

Santa's character is actually based on a shaman enjoying a fly agaric, circulates in various versions. The theory explains the Anglo-American image of Santa’s flying reindeer with fly agaric hallucinations

Wendell Pierce

WendellPierce

The Peaceful Transfer of Power in America is Aspirational. It’s mythology if we ignore the reality it hasn’t always been that way. New Orleans massacre of 1866 - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Orleans_massacre_of_1866

Dave Shevlin - Comfort Food Comics

DaveShevlin

90s DC was really the best it ever was. They always seemed to have well thought out plans while doing insane shit & constant forward momentum changes that created or

Absurdistwords

absurdistwords

Whiteness is thinking that to Black people, the American Dream is starting life as a hostage, being eventually relased and having one of the few jobs open to you be

Animism in Practice (Faramir)

AnimismPractice

(1/6) The majority of us were not raised in an isolated tribe in the middle of some forest. We were shaped by the systems various tools. From non-ancestral spiritual practices

Kurt "Masks Save Lives" Eichenwald

kurteichenwald

Each night before I go to bed, I read about fascism (yah, I'm fun) - how it evolves and overtakes functioning democracy. This is why I am no longer amused

Carrie Mattern

CMattern21

Attn new peeps, esp white Ts who are @ diff stages of this work: 1. reading a book isn’t going to change you unless you take actionable steps to unlearn

Big NO

Chef_Lu_Bu

Why does Zeus always look a certain way in video games? The easy answer is: We have an extraordinary amount of depictions of Zeus in classical art that folks draw

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DavidJoy_Author

The more I sit with this the more aggravated I become, and the more I think about it the more I realize it’s because I. AM. THE. CLICHE. I’m the

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