#eschara

[apollosoractis]

ἐσχάρα: altar for libations and sacrifices

I borrowed that concepts (from Homer) to assemble a portable altar to worship Apollo. A bound sunstone to build a temporary sacellum, a laurel leaf and a coin offer to remind of their Underworld aspect. The pastel and the sheet block to write down prayers to "burn" and dedicate towards the deity.

#apollo #eschara #chaotic academia #archaeology #hellenic #mythology #occult #magick #fire altar #ancient greek #greek mythology #hellenic deities #italic #sun #⚫☀️:post #portable altar #tin altar

[tenth-sentence]

The organ, in the greater number of cases, very closely resembles the head of a vulture; but the lower mandible can be opened much wider than in a real bird's beak.

"Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle Round the World, 1832-36" - Charles Darwin

#book quote #the voyage of the beagle #charles darwin #nonfiction #organ #resemblance #vulture #mandible #flustra #eschara #cellaria #crisia #zoophytes

[hellenic-reconstructionism]

“This statement has long been understood as reflecting a basic distinction in Greek religious practice between the different kinds of worship offered, on the one hand to the Olympian gods, and on the other to heroes, the dead and certain other ‘chthonic’ (i.e. associated with the Underworld) powers. A god has a temple (naos), a cult statue and a raised altar (bomos), at which an animal is sacrificed with its head pulled back so that the throat is pointing heavenwards when cut; a hero usually has a shrine (heroon) at the site of his grave, with a low hearth (eschara) or pit (bothros), where the sacrificial victim's blood can flow directly down into the ground. To sacrifice to the Olympians is to ‘fumigate’ (thuein), because the gods were thought to enjoy the smell of the fatty smoke rising and, after the kill, meat from the sacrificial victim is shared in a communal feast; when sacrificing to chthonians, one had to ‘devote’ (enagizein) the victim, usually by burning it whole (a ‘holocaust’).

Recent scholarship, however, has tended to revise this traditional sharp opposition, preferring to think of individual cults as on a ‘sliding scale’ between the two extremes; significantly, it “has been shown that many heroes received the kind of sacrifice which was followed by feasting, and that there is no clear distinction between types of altar before the Roman period.

At the same time, studies of Herakles have questioned the extent to which Herodotus’ idea of a dual cult was ever put into practice, pointing to the fact that the majority of the evidence seems rather to emphasize his divine nature. Nonetheless, there remain some notable features in Herakles’ cult which cannot easily be explained unless we understand them as reflecting something of the ambiguous status he has in myth."

Herakles, by Emma Stafford

#hellenic paganism #herakles #hero worship #hercules #hellenism #hellenic #hellenic polytheism #hellenic pagan #pagan #paganism

[majestativa]

Greek ἐσχάρα (eschara), your ‘place of fire’, defines you: that intimacy with the impulses that drew you to burn for a love you could not name.

Adam O’Riordan, In the Flesh

#British #Adam O’Riordan

[caiusmajor]

for the Director's Cut meme: how about "To Make Clean, To Wipe Away"? I'd love to hear you talk more about Kersh/Bethesda.

Oh man. Putting this under a cut because of the nature of the fic. Fic is here if anyone wants to follow along.

Title: basically this is the dictionary definition of "absterge".

I don't write fic in first person often, but Legion of the Damned has little bits in first person from Kersh's POV, and that was the voice it made sense to me to write this in.

(There's an earlier, unwritten, version of this that is Bethesda's POV and goes more into her upbringing on Eschara; but that didn't seem like what Cody was looking for, so I wrote Kersh's POV instead.)

Bethesda is described as small and scrawny in Legion of the Damned -- I suspect she was undernourished as a kid, and is going through puberty late, at least by 21st century US standards.

"generative organ" -- my answer to the question of what Zachariah Kersh would call his penis. It kind of gestures at "reproductive organ" without actually saying that, because Kersh's reproductive organs are in his chest and neck.

"since I was less than a century old" -- Kersh is an old, old man, even by Space Marine standards.

"donning Dorn's mantle" and "achieving endorphic communion" -- both lovely phrases, both directly from Legion of the Damned.

"no words for this" -- yeah, at least in this fic, Katafalque wrote an entire guide to sadomasochism without once mentioning that it might be sexual. Imperial Fists be like that.

Bethesda in Kersh's bed -- yes, she has a giant crush, but also the poor girl has no privacy. She and her brother and father live all together in a tiny room next to Kersh's. Sometimes sleeping on a stone slab is worth it to get away from your dad and brother for a few hours.

"I dream that I am a man, and I hold my wife in my arms, as a man would." -- Kersh isn't a man, but he is kind of a gentleman, with some traditional ideas about men and women. If lying with Bethesda isn't unthinkable and impossible, then they could only be doing it as a (human) husband and wife, clearly.

"As Scourge, I have my own washroom" -- this is prior to the whole Stigmartyr debacle, so Kersh is still in favor with his chapter and no one has put him in a box yet.

Bethesda's breast-band -- I was imagining something more like a Roman strophium than a modern bra, if that makes sense. Also, given what we know about Bethesda's build, she probably doesn't have a lot going on there, either because of the delayed puberty I mentioned above or just because she's built like that.

"checking to see if I am looking" -- she's flirting SO hard right now.

"but I am capable of shame" -- Cody pointed this one out, and I like the dichotomy of Kersh's nudity being completely unremarkable but Bethesda's being special and private. Usually when a someone is unconcerned about their nudity in front of a servant, the implication is that the servant isn't really a person, but for Kersh it's the reverse -- he's not really a person, but Bethesda is.

"To me, you are a very attractive man." -- Bethesda is trying SO hard.

and it works out for her!

happily ever after, at least until the grimdark catches up with them.

#director's cut meme

[guerins]

eschara replied to your post “adampascalfan: Watching Roswell on Hulu today during work and wow I...”

Also the fact that both Max and Isabel did not even try to understand Michael's need to have 'something better than Roswell, NM' just because they have their perfect little home life.

they did think about themselves time and time again. thank god isabel came around and got michael to talk to mr evans to get emancipated

#eschara #replies #they were shitty friends to michael on a number of occasions

[gerardbillet]

Le Médaillon de l’Empereur Marc-Aurele qui ornait le fronton des Grandes-Propylees, Eschara : espace sacrificiel, Le puit Kallichoron autour duquel se reunissaient les danseuses de Demeter. #eleusis #eleusis2021 #eleusis2021europeancapitalofculture #demeter #persephone #eleusismysteries #empireromain #marcaurele #medaillon #propylees #eschara #kallichoron #puit #well #instapic #photooftheday (à Eleusis 2021 European Capital of Culture) https://www.instagram.com/p/CDB5hn_Fxr0/?igshid=dpyg5k7901mr

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[adampascalfan]

eschara replied to your post “FACT! 99% of the problems in Roswell (OG) would have been avoided if...”

Exactly! She was iffy about Depolski. Then Tess. Then Courtney. But nobody listened and only thought Maria was just being her dramatic self. Geeez.

Who was the first person who said they needed to get Alex involved? Maria.

Who found the phone number and confirmed Topolski wasn’t just a guidance counselor?  Hush Michael...it was Maria.

Who is the reason Michael was leaving the Granalith and the reason he was coming back to graduation? oh that’s right it was Maria.  

#eschara

[verdantlyviolet]

Ouranic vs Khthonic Sacrifices

A sacrifice to a god was performed on a high altar, a bômos; the preferred victim was an ox; the preferred colour white; the victim's throat was cut with the head pulled back and facing up; and the sacrifice took place in the morning. After appropriate parts had been offered to the god, the rest was eaten by worshippers. For a hero, a sacrifice was performed on a hearth, an eschara, or over a pit, a bothros; the preferred victim was a ram or pig; the preferred colour black; the victim's throat was held down over the hearth or pit; and the sacrifice took place at night. The victim was burnt whole, providing no meal for the worshippers. There were frequent exceptions to these rules[...]

- Heros Theos: The Death and Apotheosis of Herakles

#offerings #khthonic #rituals #hero worship #Hellenic polytheism

[viesolivagant]

scar

noun

Definition of scar

1: a mark remaining (as on the skin) after injured tissue has healed

2: a mark left where something was previously attached : cicatrix 2; especially : a mark left on a stem or branch where a leaf or fruit has separated

3: a mark or indentation (as on furniture) resulting from damage or wear

4: a lasting moral or emotional injury

one of his men had been killed … in a manner that left a scar upon his mind —H. G. Wells

Origin and Etymology of scar

Middle English escare, scar, from Middle French escare scab, from Late Latin eschara, from Greek, hearth, brazier, scab

Middle English skere, from Old Norse sker skerry; probably akin to Old Norse skera to cut — more at shear

#scar

[ao3feed-brucewayne]

Flecks of Gold

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by androbeaurepaire

Of blue skies and golden tears And happy smiles And healed scars.

"And the word 'scar' itself, from 'eschara', meaning fire, meaning life. It all makes sense."

Words: 28, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: DC Extended Universe, Batman - All Media Types, Superman - All Media Types

Rating: Not Rated

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: M/M

Characters: Clark Kent, Bruce Wayne

Relationships: Clark Kent/Bruce Wayne

Additional Tags: Illustration, Fanart, here have some tenderness, and sweet kisses, the endless saga of Andro using AO3 as a lab for her weird art experiments, also bruce is a salt and pepper fox, fight me, artwork

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[hellenic-reconstructionism]

Gunnel Ekroth has shown that although the eschara is often associated with chthonic rituals in modern literature, the literary and epigraphic evidence from the archaic to Hellenistic periods reveals that this notion is unsubstantiated. In the early Hellenistic period, the term appears to apply to a simple type of altar.

Milette Gaifman, Aniconism in Greek Antiquity

So basically, another reason why the divide between "chthonic" and "ouranic" rituals is an oversimplified binary imposed on actual complicated, murky history. There wasn't any actual, substantial difference between altar types.

#hellenic polytheism #hellenismos #paganism #pagan #hellenic pagan #hellenic paganism

[babaionline-blog]

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[caiusmajor]

Things I have learned so far about the Excoriators’ Homeworld Eschara

1. They grow figs there.

2. It has at least 2, probably at least 3, moons, all of which are less than six or seven hundred cubic kilometers in volume. The largest such moon is called Lentigo.

#warhammer 40k #reference #eschara #excoriators #legion of the damned

[guerins]

eschara replied to your post “adampascalfan: Watching Roswell on Hulu today during work and wow I...”

"How can you hit him?!" Has always been on my mind every time I see this episode.

Absolutely. After all the abuse Michael went through because of Hank, the trauma, the fear... Max just forgot about that or whaat? 

#eschara #replies