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Part 3- terms used in necromancy

In the last two posts in this series, we looked at the definition of necromancy, and saw some examples for different kinds of necromancy rituals as they're depicted in ancient writings. This time we'll go over some basic terms.

First, there are actually two forms of necromancers:

psuchagogos- “soul evocator” or “soul charmer” or “soul leader”.

nekuomantis- “prophet of the dead”, or “diviner of the dead”. 

Psychagogy was viewed as the art of influencing the soul by the means of rhetoric. Could be done on tombs, ashes in urns, and on dead with an unknown burial place. It seem that the psuchgogos were called to banish spirits, to lay them to rest. They locate bodies that were not properly buried, and listen to the anger of the souls. They rebury them or use replacement figures instead, and set them free. Sort of psychologists for ghosts.

Nekuomantis is simply a term for a person that uses a method of divination from dead people. One way to define it is "the performances of rite of divination from the dead"

// The main different I see (I could be wrong) between those terms is the direction in which the conversation with the dead is going- the psuchagogos is trying to guide the soul, meaning it serve a function for the dead. While the nekuomantis is trying to get information from the dead regarding the living.//

Necromantion:

A cave, a lake, or another place one will perform rites of necromancy at, then go to sleep, and hear the voices of the dead converse with him.

Incubation:

The grave attendees did not speak to the ghost right after the evocation and offerings, but went to sleep, either on the tomb itself, or somewhere else, while carrying something they shared with the ghost during the rite (a fleece, a blanket, or another object). The messages came to their dreams. The dead always tell the truth in dreams.

Different situations in a dream had different interpretations, like: dreaming of exchanging gifts with a dead person, kissing a dead person, sleeping on a grave, or a man dying twice= portend death. weeping over a corpse= successful business. dead returning to life= turmoils and losses.

Beans:

contain a substance called L-dopa that can induce insomnia, and hallucinations. Used in rituals and on the Roman festival Lemuria when the father of the household threw beans over his shoulder, so that the dead would pick up the beans instead of the souls of the living. There is no consumption of beans if one wants to have prophetic dreams with the dead, other source suggest to use beans for this exact purpose.

Katabasis:

The descending of the living downwards.

Haimakoiria:

Blood offering

Restless dead:

Those who died before their time, died violently, or those who were not buried properly, are more prone to be restless dead. Appear in the middle of day, not just the night.

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I just like the idea how-

*Proceeds to spend all of my money buying useless art supplies*

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, no matter how much i cry its never enough i never feel better

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For the Wife of Bath, as for Hardt and Negri, love is a concept, a power, and an action: a vehicle that moves those it unites beyond things as they are. Approaching love as an action rather than as a sentiment, Hardt and Negri explain, “When we engage in the production of subjectivity that is love, we are not merely creating new subjects or new objects in the world. Instead we are producing a new world, a new social life.” Thus they transport love beyond romantic convention—or rather ask it to transport them there—by insisting on its revolutionary potential, its capacity to transform social life, not merely to idealize it or to envision it differently. There is no William Shakespeare here proving love is not love that alters when it alteration finds. Oh no—in this case, it is a never- fixed mark: love is not love that fails to alter what it finds. Hardt and Negri specify a radical love of the other and stress such love’s power to displace corrupt institutions, like the modern nation and even the family, and to replace the sovereignty that defines them with “constituent power,” and yet they cling to institutional form. “The central difference” between conventional definitions of institution and theirs “has to do with agency: whereas according to the conventional sociological notion institutions form individuals and identities, in [their] conception singularities form institutions, which are thus perpetually in flux.” Similarly, Chaucer’s reading of the Arthurian past suggests that institutions like the nation, law, literature, and even history itself coexist in flux, depending not only on alternative and intermediate institutions like the household and gossip but also on transmutable individuals like the Old Wife, singularities, in Hardt and Negri’s terms, who redefine these overlapping institutions by finding ways to be included in an ever-evolving social life. Despite Hardt and Negri’s desire to imagine a commonwealth free of national identities, sovereignty, and corruptible institutions, their vision bears an unlikely yet striking resemblance to Chaucer’s identity-obsessed imagination of England as a sovereign nation. Chaucer’s is decidedly a queer nation, in Burger’s vital formulation: it is in constant flux, being transported by something called love past time and convention, past things as they are even as it rests on history—but a history as the past never was, even though it includes sacrifice and pain.

- Susan Nakley, Living in the Future: Sovereignty and Nationalism in the Canterbury Tales

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no because what authority did chaucer have to write my favorite penis euphemism and my least favorite vagina euphemism both in the wife of bath's tale?

"his silly instrument" - excellent. accurate. it sure is silly.

"my chamber of venus" - no. shut up. what the fuck. never day this to me again. chamber.

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Troilus was the original simp pass it on

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I’ve just had my first medieval literature class and I’m about to hit the stratosphere in sheer excitement, so here’s how I think various historical literary figures would have gotten along:

Shakespeare would have ADORED Chaucer. He would the type to follow him around, wide eyed and delighted. He would ask him so many questions about romans and lyric allegory, and they would bond SO HARD over Petrarch and Classical Greece, and aaah, the thought makes me so happy. Poet bros for life.

Chaucer would be flattered if a bit amused by Shakespeare’s fanboying. Like “I appreciate this kid is a fan of my work but he’s started appearing outside my house at 3am and it’s a bit— wait, WHAT, you’re a fan of Petrarch, you wrote a version of Cressida, YOU’RE A POET TOO, YOU LIKE SONNETS, holy shit, come in, I’ll show you my library”. Shakespeare would take him to see his plays and Chaucer would be amazed and delighted.

Lord Byron would have loved Shakespeare (both in a professional way and in a 🌈 way, omg can you imagine, they’d be the best chaotic bi4bi historic literary power couple), but he’d pretend he really didn’t. You know that painfully obvious adolescent thing like “nah, he’s lame, I don’t like him THAT much, honest, I’m too cool for that (but also I’m vaguely intimidated by your reputation, but I’m the best, So There)”. Shakespeare would like him but in that chaotic “hahaha you’re hysterical, yeah you go do dumb shit while I watch, I wanna see how this goes down”

All of them would be bemused by Poe, of course. Byron would be the worst - “yeah sure Edgar, you’re a real writer, such a good writer, loook at you being such a good writer, so professional and serious, look at you, awww”, and then later after reading him Byron would turn to other people and whisper “shit, he might actually be onto something here, look at this teeth-stealing scene, huh that’s actually not bad, I might steal it for Don Juan”

Shakespeare would be a bit nicer but still amused. Like “oh wow, that’s really interesting. Yes, I see what you’re getting at, that sounds really cool. … Could you run that one by me again? I want to see if we can portray that character’s mental breakdown onstage. Oooh, there’s the sound of a disembodied heart you say? Fantastic, let’s do it”.

Ten minutes later: “There’s a WHAT. Poe, you’re fantastic. Get me an orangutang. We can put it in with the bear”

In the tea room between rehearsals:

Poe: “So umm… I wrote detective fiction to be ironic about 19th century society’s need to incriminate people rather than just enjoying analysis for analysis’ sake. People think they’re whodunits, but it’s not about ‘whodunit’ at all. That’s why I included the orangutan, to emphasise that who did it doesn’t actually matter. It’s the process of analysis that counts”

Agatha Christie, scribbling at warp speed on a notepad: “Go on”

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likә ҩɾ rә⃨blog ?!

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hiiiii, i liked your art very much! so i’m here asking very respectfully if you would let me use your fem bruno drawing as a pfp on twitter? credited on my bio ofc. the thing is i have a roleplay acc as fem “bruno” (cause i named her paula, like paolo bucci) but i lack material of her ): if you won’t i totally understand and have no problem! im an artist too so i’ll really respect your answer, ty for reading

Sure you can use it ;)

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Let's welcome my new artistyle

#ms paint #digital draiwng #drawing on ms paint #ms paint windows

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Ayo a New style lol

At this point i have like a 100 different styles because I can't stick to one😔

#jolyne is my wife #jolyne is my wife don't you dare harm her i'll punch you *glares at pucci* #anime fanart #digital art #anime art #jjba #jojosbizzareadventure #jjba part 6 #animefanarts #stone ocean #jojo's bizzare adventure #jojos bizzare adventure stone ocean #jojo kimyou na bouken #jolyne

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Hey guys I'm back with another artwork of my girlfriend 😏

Here's a transparent completely useless but I wanted to post

#jojo stone ocean #jolyne my girlfriend #anime fanart #jojo #jojos bizzare adventure stone ocean #jojos bizzare adventure #jjba #jjba part 6 #stone ocean #jolyne cujoh #jolyne is my wife don't you dare harm her I'll punch you *glares at pucci*

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Pucci Looking Kinda hot in the anime so I wanted to draw him😩💕

#pucci #jojosbizzareadventure #jojos bizzare adventure #stone ocean #jjba #jojos bizzare adventure stone Ocean #enrico pucci #dogitalart #anime fanart #digital art #anime art #animefanarts #fanart #jjba part 6

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I found this cosplay on Pinterest and couldn't resist but draw them aaaaa finally drawing him again he's a comfort character when it comes to Drawing lol 💕😈

Btw gonna go binge watch stone ocean

#giorno fanart #giorno giovanna #jjba part 6 #drawing giorno because i like him #jojos bizzare adventure #jojo kimyou na bouken #jojo golden wind #jojo part 5 #jjba part 5

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Hey....back with a new draiwng hope you like it!! This time it's Hermes😳 she's a literal goddess!!!

Stone Ocean fanart until stone ocean releases

ISTG IMMA BINGE WATCH THAT

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Colored Boruto Pages😤

That was so quick lol also I prefer coloring boruto pages because they're all clean without any 2nd shade tone

Also I prefer eida in black hair than blue black suits her sm but yea nice of author to make her blue haired or she resembles hinata too much

#anime fanart #colored manga #coloring manga pages #boruto manga #boruto manga colored #anime art #fanart #digital art #medibang paint #kawaki #code #codeart

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I'm Back with Fem Bucciarati 😏

This one is inspired with alot of Wlop's works, the way he does jewelleries and stuff

Took me around 3 hours? 😭

#fem bruno Bucciarati #bruno buccerati #jjba #jojosbizzareadventure #jojo kimyou na bouken #jjba golden wind #JoJo's bizzare adventure Golden wind #jjba fanart #Bucciarati #jojo fanart #y'all gotta watch jojo