Gaelic Gods aren’t seen as ‘ruler of the skies’ or ‘the Goddess of Love’ like how other deities are. And while there is nothing wrong with the following examples, to try to fit a Gaelic God into that context is to remove them from their cultural and how they were honored. The Morrigan is a war Goddess, but not the Goddess of war.
One of my favorite quotes on this subject is “When we are tackling a strange mythology, we seek instinctively an Olympus where the gods abide,an Erebus, kingdom of the dead, a hierarchy of gods, specialized as patrons of war, of the arts or of love.”
Part of which is caused by the fact that in most of the western world, the Greek myths are taught as the be all end all, all myths follow the same structure. But it simply isn’t true. There might be things associated with the gods, or things that it is known that the Gods enjoy, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that they rule over it. Brighid is known for being a master craftsman, but so are Luchtaine, Goibne, and Creidhne are also all master craftsmen.
When we pigeonhole our Gods, we fail to see them as the complex beings that they truly are. Just as people can have different sides and aspects to them, so too can the Divine.
This is actually largely the Romans’ fault. As they went out conquering, they wrote extensively about the religions they encountered, and systematized the gods in exactly this way. They believed that ultimately all gods in other (polytheistic) cultures were depictions of the same gods they worshipped, just given different names and appearances. They were also obsessed with the Greeks in some weird ways. Roman religion and Greek religion were not identical, just closely related, and the Romans viewed Greek religion through this same Roman-centric lens.
Later on the Roman histories became the only written histories available for many mostly-extinct or altered cultures, or at least the only written histories that weren’t heavily Christianized, and Western culture to this day continues to use Roman and Greek writing as foundational elements of our culture. It’s only very recently that western scholars have started to actually heavily question the veracity of many Roman claims about the cultures they wrote about- I mean, obviously there was debate about whether some outlandish stories like Atlantis were real, but things like the Druids practicing human sacrifice were often accepted without question even if there were no means of actually confirming that.
So we have this culture that habitually forced other religions into the mold of their own religion, whose writings are the foundation of modern western culture, and whose historical accounts have only seriously come into question within the last hundred years….. And that’s why the Roman idea of the Greek pantheon has become so deeply entrenched in western paganism and fantasy literature as How A Pantheon Works.
these comments are so fucking inappropriate and honestly trivialize a tragic situation.
this girl was sold by her parents into what is sexual slavery dressed up as a marriage, so she tried to kill her husband to escape his abuse, but accidentally poisoned 27 people instead. 17 people died, with at least one victim being a child. Bibi has openly expressed deep regret over having accidentally killed innocent people.
she was sold by her parents, the very people meant to protect her, and made into a sex slave. in her desperation, she made a mistake that cost innocent people their lives. she was then arrested by a legal system that could have prevented all of this by protecting women from sexual slavery in the first place, but won’t.
she will likely be abused in prison and sentenced to death.
she’s not “queen” or your “new best friend.” she’s a young woman who has been subjected to horrors and, in an effort to fight back, accidentally committed one, a fact that is likely destroying her.
Since no one – even the person above – decided to link a fucking article, here we go:
She tried to poison the milk she was giving to her husband, and he refused to drink it. Some time later, the mother-in-law used it to make food for the extended family, and THAT is how they became ill. 27 people ate food made with the poisoned milk, and 17 died.
Bibi has expressed regret, I don’t know why the original post says she was remorseless.
I’d like to note that she used Islam as her defense against forced marriage, because Islam gives her the right to choose her own husband.
It’s wild to me that over half of all mass shooters have previously been reported for domestic violence (and keep in mind, an estimated 37%+ of physical assault and battery crimes are unreported, and that doesn’t even include other forms of physical and threatening abuse) and people still have the audacity to act surprised as if their violence towards other people came out of nowhere.
Violence against women is violence against other people. If someone has been violent towards women, they have already shown themselves to be violent. Women count! We exist and violence against us matters. When women speak up about men’s violence, people need to believe us. If you always assume women are lying, you are always going to be shocked when those men continue escalating their violence.
At a cultural level, we need to start giving a shit before abusers kill dozens of people at once. We need to give a shit before they even physically assault one person. We need to give a shit as soon as they start behaving in violent and controlling ways towards women and girls.
Please, please believe women.
Gavin de Becker talks about this in ‘The Gift of Fear’ (incredible book btw) particularly when reporters interview neighbours after mass murders and similar crimes and they say “he seemed so normal, there were no warning signs” and yet when pressed, it tends to come out that these men had long histories of violence towards women and children which the people around them even knew about, cos that’s how normalised domestic violence and child abuse are; they don’t even register as acts of violence
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