There is room for many narratives; we just have to figure out how to #systemically tolerate them ... Not just repeat our #ancestor's mistakes

Ambiguous impulses for your own mental cinema. Handcarved rubber stamps and acrylic colours on DIN-A4 paper, no NFTs:
#kunst #contemporaryArt #makeArtNotWar #mentalCinema #handCarvedStamp #noNFT #saveBiodiversity #climateActionNow #systemChange #endFossilFuels #makeArtNotWar #fckFdp #fckAfd #fckPtn #onceUponATime #granny #mojaBabcia #ancestor #familyAlbum #selfPortrait #biography #banksy #beLikeThePanda #NoRacismNoFascism #fightForYourRight #civilDisobidience #antifa #resistance

@shakil_tcs

What’s really #weird about #Islam is that it is an #Abrahamic #religion, but the #Arabs are not an Abrahamic people.

What do I mean by this?

If the Arabs were an Abrahamic people, they would have venerated #Abraham as an #ancestor for thousands of years, long before the seventh century.

~190 000 years ago, the #human population capable of #reproduction dropped from ~10k to 600. #Mitochondrial #Eve was born here; she is the #female #ancestor from which we are all descendants.

🖇 New vacancy! Three-year #Postdoctoral #Researcher in #intergenerational #family #genomics working with the Connecting #Generations team at LCDS, University of #oxford

👩‍👧🧬Focus on #research at the intersection of family #demography and #genomics, using multiple intergenerational and #family data sets, plus info on identity by descent, i.e. #DNA segments inherited from a common #ancestor 👇👇

http://www.cpc.ac.uk/news/jobs/

#WikiTree #July2023ConnectAThon has begun! Already added a handful of #Ancestor profiles--mainly in-laws who I never knew but heard stories about. #FamilyHistory

Sometimes, if you are looking for an #ancestor in #census records, there is no substitute for #bruteforce or going page by page until you find them. Of course, you need to have a general idea where they lived. It’s time consuming, but it has worked quite often for me, including tonight. I guess census takers of yore didn’t consider future #genealogists when scrawling names in those huge books. #Genealogy #geneadons #Ancestry #familyhistory #familytree

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-slavery-lawmakers-overview/

#Reuters found that 118 of America's most influential #leaders have a #slaveholding #ancestor. Explore information about their forebears and the people they #enslaved.

New Discovery Reveals the Oldest-known #Ancestor of #ComplexLife
https://www.inverse.com/science/protosterol-biota-eukaryotic-lost-world
#Scientists peered into the #ancient past to learn about our #microscopic #ancestors.

Sun=Garden (22/52/2023):
Late late with this post. Continuing my #Garden challenge playing around #outside of the digital world. Almost ready to start filling the garden beds. In between some time to research https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Bertram-1159 #Ancestor #WikiTree profile. Finding more childs but not the marriage record of his first marriage. Many busy bee's and others at the flowers to watch. So much on distraction.

#ancestor : one from whom a person is descended, whether on the father's or mother's side, at any distance of time

- French: ancêtre

- German: der Vorfahre

- Italian: avo

- Portuguese: ancestral

- Spanish: antepasado

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See previous words @ https://wordofthehour.org/r/past

#Genealogy So far at this point, 68 #Ancestor profiles added to @wikitree during #ConnectAThon but lots more to go!

#Culturalpractice of #ancestor #worship and the #construction of #mausoleums. - ParkHealth Notes | OpenSea https://opensea.io/assets/matic/0x2953399124f0cbb46d2cbacd8a89cf0599974963/46316387645623418400861574497267573792497807413262795597612356661007727198209

#Culturalpractice of #ancestor #worship and the #construction of #mausoleums. - ParkHealth Notes | OpenSea https://opensea.io/assets/matic/0x2953399124f0cbb46d2cbacd8a89cf0599974963/46316387645623418400861574497267573792497807413262795597612356661007727198209

(Disregarding the fact I somehow keep forgetting to post on here)

Let's talk about #death and the #energy currents of the week leading up to (Orthodox Christian) Easter - and why they're important to pagans.

It's Great Friday today, and as the church bells ring their mournful tune, a veil of grief settles over the world. All is quiet, and the faithful gather flowers for the Epitaph. This somber mood lends a great advantage to #deathwork if one is willing to experiment.

For us in Eastern Europe, the blending of pagan traditions with Christian elements is far from a surprise, yet it always seems to shock Westerners. Having the capacity to adapt and evolve can be a gift, and it leads to new horizons. But don't let me get carried away.

This blanket of grief will linger over the hearts and minds of those who believe, growing until it reaches its crescendo at midnight on Saturday, and is dissipated by the joy of the Resurrection. In short, this is free real estate for your magic. Of course, any energy of this magnitude needs to be treated with the appropriate risk mitigation, but I am assuming the reader is educated on how to safely interact with energy.

So, what exactly can one do with this energy? Many things, really, but let's start with the simplest and work our way up.

If you've been curious about death work, this is a prime opportunity to introduce yourself to the energy currents without overwhelming yourself. You can dip your toes in the river without getting swept away, because the water has risen far past the shore.

For those already immersed in the work, you will find ease in crossing the bounds or calling forth spirits who may have otherwise had trouble reaching through. #Necromancy Friday is what I jokingly call this day, because it really feels like any #ghost I see is barely kept out of the physical world. #Ancestor work of course would be well-received, whether you offer a ritual meal or communicate with them through your preferred means.

#Spiritwork in general may be easier for those not yet experienced as well, due to the curiosity some spirits have over such strong emotion in the human population.

Rituals such as cord cuttings, banishments and other such "getting rid of" workings would also benefit from harnessing these energies, as would astral travel and dream work- granted you take the appropriate measures to guard yourself from what may be lurking - but you should already be taking those safety measures anyway! Ritual death and rebirth are definitely worth a mention, though I rarely see them talked about, so if you know you know.

To summarise: The energy of a major religious event is there, so why not make use of it for your magic and workings?

I do want to get ahead of the potential mean comments here and say I understand that many turned to #witchcraft and #paganism to escape Christianity and the religious trauma that came with their upbringing. This isn't a pro-Christianity post. This is a suggestion people are free to implement or ignore based on their practice and boundaries.

A very common question that #Anthropologists get is, when did we split from the great #apes? Who was our #LCA? (Last Common #Ancestor) In this piece, we explore this topic from a general perspective and learn why this question is hard to answer!

https://worldofpaleoanthropology.org/2023/03/28/the-last-common-ancestor-of-chimps-and-humans/?fbclid=IwAR2YsaPZf1vWAGNyw7qXGoms-g2QmbQ4N43ySVBO7nvqhxP3Ip013Yj4HO8

Happy 110th Birthday to Jesse Walter Smith. He is my Mothers' Father. He taught me so many things about life and history. Happy Birthday to you Grandaddy. He was a Christian, Husband, Father, Free Mason, Musician, Farmer, Store Owner, Hunter, Fisherman and the local Barber, We miss you very much.
#freemasonry
#fishinglife
#grandfather
#Ancestor
#christian
#fisherman
#hunter
#sportsman
#Smith
#Jesse
#freemason

@greenlandgenealogy Hubby's Irish #Ancestor surnames include Shehen, Short, Work, McClure, Smith, Larimer, McKibbin. None in my #FamilyHistory

Make Art Not War. Handcarved rubber stamps:
#kunst #malerei #dina4 #contemporaryart #contemporarypainting #handcarvedstamp #linocut #makeartnotwar #savebiodiversity #extinctionrebellion #lastgeneration #climateactionnow #systemchange #endfossilfuels #fightneoliberalism #fckptn #нетвойны #standforukraine #cows #livestock #industriallivestockfarming #methan #foodproduction #feedtheworld #meatproduction #veganism #vegetarianism #oldwhiteman #ancestor #patriarchy

During a tour of #NASA’s Kennedy Space Center #KSC, #journalists and #photographers were brought to a room to be shown some hardware. It was completely ignored in favor of the #restored S-3D #rocket #engine. The presentation was derailed, much to the chagrin of NASA’s Press Office.
But really, it was their fault. They basically brought a bunch of magpies into a room with something shiny. What did they expect to happen? For us not to gawk at the #shiny #rocket #engine?
And then they didn’t even tell us anything about it. They just gave their presentation while glaring at the magpies they willfully brought into a room with a rocket engine in the corner.
The S-3D is an #ancestor of many engines. It powered the #Atlas rocket until the Atlas III, the #Saturn I & IB, the #Thor missile/#SLV, and became the #Rocketdyne RS-27 on the #Delta and #DeltaII #rockets.
https://heronfox.pixels.com/featured/restored-s-3d-rocket-engine-3-heron-and-fox.html