#sacred well

[hochgouez-nerzhus]

Alderley Edge Sacred Well - Cheshire - A celtic portal

#sacred well #sacred place #alderley edge #nature #sacred water #druidic #druidry #celtic place #paganism #tree #forest #well #a celtic portal #portal

[dsatyr]

One of two holy wells at Mám Éan in Connemara. Ireland is magical.

#máméan #prechristianireland #ireland #prechristian Ireland #Ireland #cottage core #gay pagan #gay mystic #gay magic #gay witch #queer mystic #queer pagan #queer witch #pagan #mysticism #paganism #holy well #Sacred well #connemara

[lith-laugh-love]

30th May 2023

A quiet well nestled in St Mylor churchyard, with a small gully running down to the wall and presumably out into the harbour just beyond it. The well water continues to be used in baptisms - a deliberate choice to link the current congregation with the ancient history of the church & the possible site of very early baptisms.

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#Cornwall #Kernow #Mylor #St Mylor Church #Holy Well #Holy Spring #Sacred Well #Sacred Spring #St Mylor's Well #Mylor Well #Ancient Well

[blairstales]

Scottish Waters With Sacred Fish? 

There was once a time when there was a spirit, or fairy, said to be living in every well across Scotland, and it was to them that you would make your wish and leave an offering.

"In pagan times, wells and springs were believed to be inhabited by a spirit or divinity, who caused the waters to have healing properties to those who drank of them or bathed in them, at the same time propitiating the divinity with an offering." The Misty Isle of Skye J. A. MacCulloch (1905)

Most often, it was a simple stream with an alter or tree where offerings were placed, but in Scotland, there were examples of living fish that were thought as sacred as the waters they swam in.

Those trout are long since dead, most of the wells have been renamed after saints, and wells are no longer as popular as they once were, so some of these will be hard to locate.

If you can, however, I should note that this is not a recommendation for medical suggestions. In fact, many wells in Scotland are no longer safe to drink from.

Tobar. A well Place Names Of Skye And Adjacent Islands by Alexander Robert Forbes (1923)

1. Loch Sheanta

"Tobar an Loch Seunta. Well of the holy loch. On east side of Kilmuir." Place Names Of Skye And Adjacent Islands by Alexander Robert Forbes (1923)

Loch Sheanta (Loch Saint) is a little freshwater loch that once had numerous amounts of trout, but no one would eat them.

"Loch Saint, in the Isle of Skye, described by MacCulloch as “the haunt of the gentler spirits of air and water,” abounded in trout; but, as Martin informs us, neither the natives nor strangers ever dared to kill any of them on account of the esteem in which the water was held." Folklore of Scottish Lochs and Springs by James M. Mackinlay (1893)

John Allan / Sacred spring at Loch Sheanta / CC BY-SA 2.0

Near the well was a small “coppice,” which means a woodland of trees and shrubs. Those too were protected.

“…it abounds with Trouts, but neither the Natives nor Strangers will ever presume to destroy any of them, such is the esteem they have for the Water. There is a small Coppice near to the Well, and there is none of the Natives dare venture to cut the leaft Branch of it, for fear of some signal Judgment to follow upon it." A Description of the Western Islands of Scotland by Màrtainn MacGilleMhàrtainn (1703)

John Allan / The clear waters of Loch Sheanta / CC BY-SA 2.0

2. Tobar Bhan

Located Glen Elg, Tobar Bhan, there was only one trout, but also regarded sacred. Unlike how people were unwilling to cut trees at the first well, at this one, people gathered what plant-life they needed.

"Tobar Bhan, or the White Well, from which a burn flows. In olden times the natives used to go to this well to be cured of their ailments. Near the well they gathered water-cress, and also the herb called ” flower of the three mountains,” for medicinal purposes. In this well there was once a sacred trout. " The Peat-Fire Flame: Folk-Tales and Traditions of the Highlands and Islands by Alasdair Alpin MacGregor (1937)

3. Tobar na Breac

“Then, in the south of Skye is the sacred well called by a Gaelic name meaning the Well of the Trout. Many centuries ago it contained one solitary trout, which the natives were very careful not to injure in any way; and, though they often caught it in their pails by mistake, they always replaced it in the well with extreme care and diligence.” The Peat-Fire Flame: Folk-Tales and Traditions of the Highlands and Islands by Alasdair Alpin MacGregor (1937)

This one literally means “Well of the Trout,” but it also only had one trout. The trout seemed to have lived a long life under the care of the locals.

“I saw a little Well in Kilbride in the South of Skie, with one trout only in it ; the Natives are very tender of it, and tho they often chance to catch it in their wooden Pales, they are very careful to preserve It from being destroyed ; it has been been there for many Years.” A description of the Western Islands of Scotland by Martin Martin (1703)

I believe this one may have been renamed to Tobar na h-Annait, because they seem to be in the same area, at it also had a small fish. I do not know this for sure, however.

"Tobar na h-Annait . Well of the Annat. A small fish, said to be immortal, is in this well." Place Names Of Skye And Adjacent Islands: With Lore: Mythical, Traditional, and Historical by Alexander Robert Forbes (1923)

4. Well of Kilmore

"In a well near the church of Kilmore, in Lorne, were two fishes held in much respect in the seventeenth century, and called by the people of the district, Easg Seant, i.e., holie fishes." Darker Superstitions of Scotland by John Graham Dalyell (1834)

Near the church of Kilmore (Lorne) there were two black fish. Just like the other fish, they were equally well cared for.

"In many of the holy wells of Scotland a pair of mystical fishes were said to have their abode. In such a well near the Church of Kilmore, in Lorne, two black fishes were still to be seen in the seventeenth century, and were said to have existed there for generations. The natives called them casg saint, or “holy fishes’. The superstition surrounding such mysterious fishes can perhaps be attributed to a Druidical origin. The wells they inhabited were usually situated beneath a hazel tree, the sacred red nuts of which were supposed to fall into the well and afford them sustenance, as they seem to have done in the case of the “salmon of knowledge’, the red spots on whose skin were thought to be due to the same cause. The fishes in question were believed to be the presiding spirits of the well, and seem to have had a certain oracular character, gained from the magical nuts on which they fed. To kill or eat them was regarded as a crime certain to bring down celestial punishment upon the perpetrator." The magic arts in Celtic Britain by Spence, Lewis, 1874

#scottish #animism #scottishanimism #pagan #paganism #scottishpagan #scottishpaganism #scottishfolklore #scottish folklore #PaganScotland #paganscotland #Sacred Well #SacredSprings #Folkmagic

[jock-tamson]

Dunino Den, Fife

#Scotland #Dunino den #Pictish carvings #Sacred well

[makiinspace]

warmth of your touch

#fire emblem #fire emblem the sacred stones #fe8 #eirika #l'arachel #eirichel #they're in love... #i really love them a lot #so much safety and love whenever i think of them #also this coincidentally works really well as a wallpaper and i didn't expect that but that's pretty cool

[lord-squiggletits]

I think the key component to my personal reading of post-Delphi Pharma is that he's trying to be a horrible person on purpose. Not "on purpose" in the way that people have free will to exercise their own choices, but in that Pharma's "mad doctor" persona is a performance he puts on to deliberately embrace how much everyone else hates him. Basically, if people already think you're a "bad Autobot" and a horrible doctor who just kills his patients for fun, why try to prove otherwise to people who have already made up their minds about you? Just fully embrace the fact that people see you as an asshole. Don't try to change their minds. Don't plead for their forgiveness or understanding. Just stop caring. If you're going to be remembered as a monster, you might as well be a memorable monster, and eke as much pleasure and hedonism as you can out of it before karma catches up to you and you inevitably crash and burn.

I mean, I guess you could just go the route of "Oh, Pharma was always a fucked up creepy guy and Delphi was just him taking the mask off," but I really don't like that interpretation because, for one, it feels really wrong to take a character like Pharma becoming evil under duress and going, "Oh well clearly he did the things he did because he was evil all along," as if somehow Pharma breaking under blackmail/torture/threat of horrible death was a sign of him having poor moral character. As opposed to, you know, suffering under the very real threat of horrible death for himself and everyone he cares about while being manipulated by a guy who specializes in psychological torture.

The second reason is that it just doesn't make sense to write Pharma as having been evil all along. I mean...

Occam's Razor says that the best argument is the one with the simplest explanation. Doesn't it make way more sense to take Pharma's appearances in flashbacks, his friendship with Ratchet, his stunning medical accomplishments, and the few we see of him speaking kindly/sympathetically (or in the least charitable interpretation, at least professionally) towards his patients and conclude "This guy was just a normal person, if exceptionally talented." Taking all of these flashback appearances at face value and assuming Pharma was being genuine/honest is a way simpler and more logical explanation than trying to argue that Pharma for the past 4 million years was just faking being a good doctor/person. I mean, it's possible within the realm of headcanon, but the fact is Pharma's appearances in the story are so brief that there simply wasn't room in the story for there to be some sort of secret conspiracy/hidden manipulation behind why Pharma acted the way he did in the past.

I just can't help but look at things like Pharma's friendship with Ratchet (himself a good person and usually a fine judge of character) and the fact that even post-Delphi, pretty much every single mention of Pharma comes with some mention of "He was a good doctor for most of his life" or "He was making major headways in research [before he started killing patients]" which implies that even the Autobots themselves see Pharma's villainy as a recent turn in his life compared to how for "most of his life" he "used to be" a good doctor.

And although Pharma doesn't know this, we as the readers (and even other characters like Rung) know about Aequitas technology and the fact that it actually works, so... if Pharma really was an unrepentant murderer, why couldn't he get through the forcefield too? The Aequitas forcefield doesn't require that a person be completely morally pure and free of wrongdoing or else how could Tyrest get through, just that they feel a sense of inner peace and lack feelings of guilt. Pharma has murdered and tortured people by this point, and put on quite a campy and theatrical show of how much he sees it as a fun game, so why then can he not get through?

It circles back to my headcanon at the start of this post that the "mad doctor" persona is just that-- a persona. Delphi/post-Delphi Pharma's laughing madman personality is just so far removed from every flashback we saw of him and everything we can infer based on how other people see/saw him before that, to me, the mad doctor act is (at least in large part, if not fully) a persona that Pharma puts on to put his villainy in the forefront.

To avoid an overly simplistic/ableist take, I don't think Tarn tortured Pharma into turning crazy. To me, it's more like the constant pressure of death by horrific torture, the feeling of martyrdom as Pharma kept secret that he was the only one standing between Delphi and annihilation, the physical isolation of Messatine as well as the emotional separation from Ratchet, being forced to violate his medical oaths (pretty much the only thing Pharma's entire life has been about), etc. All of that combined traumatized Pharma to the point that the only way he could avoid cracking was to just stop caring about all of it. Because at least then, even if he's still murdering patients to save Delphi from a group of sadistic freaks, Pharma doesn't have to feel guilty and sick about doing it. As opposed to the alternatives, which were probably either going off the deep end and killing himself to escape, or confessing to what he did and getting jailed for it.

In that light, Pharma becoming a mad doctor makes sense. It avoids the bad writing tropes of "oh this character who was good his entire life was actually just evil and really good at hiding it" as well as "oh he got tortured and went crazy that's why he's so random and silly and killing people, he's crazy" and instead frames Pharma's evil as something he was forced into, to the point where in order to avoid a full psychological breakdown and keep defending Delphi, he just had to stop caring about the sanctity of life or about what other people might think of him.

Then, of course, the actual Delphi episode happens, and Pharma's own lifelong best friend Ratchet basically spits in his face and sees him as nothing more than a crazy murderer who went rogue from being a good Autobot. Then Pharma gets his hands cut off and left to die on Messatine. At that point, Pharma has not only been mentally/emotionally broken into losing his feelings of compassion, he's received the message loud and clear: He is alone. Everyone hates him. Not even his own best friend likes him any more. No one even cared enough about him to check if he actually died or not. He will only ever be remembered as a doctor who went insane and killed his patients.

So in the light of 1. Having all of your redeeming qualities be squeezed out of you one by one for the sake of survival and 2. Having your reputation and all of your positive relationships be destroyed and 3. People only know/care about you as "that doctor who became evil and killed his patients" rather than the millions of years of good service that came before.

What else is there to do but internalize the fact that you'll forever be seen as a monster and a freak, and embrace it? People already see you as a murderer for that blackmail deal you did, so why not become an actual murderer and just start killing people on a whim? People already see you as an irredeemable monster who puts a stain on the Autobot name, so why beg for their forgiveness when you could just shun them back? You've already become a murderer, a traitor, and a horrible doctor, so what's a few more evil acts added to the pile? It's not like anyone will ever forgive you or love you ever again.

Why care? Why try to hold on to your principles of compassion, kindness, medical ethics, when an entire lifetime of being a good person did nothing to save you from blackmail and then abandonment? Why put yourself through the emotional agony of feeling lonely, guilty, miserable, when you could just... stop caring, and not hurt any more?

#squiggposting #pharma apologism #i'm sure the doylist reason for the writing is just that pharma was a designated villain #so since he's a villain and 'crazy' it's fine for everyone even the good guys to treat him like complete trash #i just think from a watsonian perspective taking a sympathetic approach is way more interesting and logically consistent #what i mean is like. from a meta perspective one of the best ways to show that a character is super evil and not worth saving #is when even the good guy heroes. the ones who are supposed to be kind and compassionate and wise. see him as dirt #and this is also kind of a necessity in most plots bc TF is the kind of series that just needs action villains and long-term antagonists #so not every villain is written or has a plot to be made redeemable. and pharma is one of these bc he's not important or a legacy character #so from a doylist (meta) perspective you could read the autobots' disregard of pharma as a sign of #'this guy is not meant to have your sympathy as a reader. pay no attention to him' #but from a watsonian (in universe) perspective it paints a miserable picture of pharma being utterly forsaken by the ppl he served alongsid #and like yeah i'm super autistic about pharma so of course i view him with sympathy but like #the idea of being a loyal and good person for years only to be subjected to a Torment Nexus of #being blackmailed into breaking all of the oaths you held sacred. under threat of you and all your comrades dying horrible torturous deaths #then when your comrades find out about it they focus solely on the 'harvesting organs' and not on the 'blackmail' part #and then you get literally left for dead by your comrades and best friend hating your guts #and then you get rescued by a guy who uses you as a test subject for his evil machine #this is a fucking nightmare scenario like pharma could hardly be suffering more if the author TRIED to make him suffer #and for me it's like. the evil pharma did can't be decontextualized to what drove him to that. as well as the question of like #how easily ppl can write someone off as evil and turn a blind eye to (or even find satisfaction in) their suffering bc theyre evil #and either brought it on themselves or it's just karma paying a visit #like. i feel like if pharma WERE a shitty doctor and a terrible person his whole life then the delphi situation would feel like karma #but the way it's written and the lore retroactively put in makes it feel more pharma getting thrown in a torture carousel #and THEN becoming evil. but then being treated as if he was always evil or was some sort of bad apple #bc like i'm not opposed to LOLing when a villain gets a karmic torture/death related to the wrongs they committed #but in pharma's case it feels less like karma and more like endless torture + being abandoned by ppl who should have been more loyal

[vox-anglosphere]

More views of the unique inverted arches supporting Wells Cathedral

#Wells Cathedral #Somerset #inverted arches #fan vaulting #architecture #mediaeval #Church of England #scissor arches #sacred space #perpendicular #Gothic #English cathedrals #UK

[tinsil]

✨💕✨💕

#done w mica paints so i tried to show the light hitting it in pic 2 #they have a colorshift as well as being super shiny & sparkly #fire emblem #sacred stones #eirika

[thevirgodoll]

what ever happened to diaries? why did everyone stop documenting their feelings? i personally think this is how everyone ended up repressing emotions and unable to process them. a diary really keeps me sane and has always been a key part of my healing process. i can write silly goofy things without feeling judged by anyone, and without having to explain it to anyone. i can keep a record of what's been going on and reflect on it later to see if anything has changed. and, every single time, something has changed. my perspective expands. my heart swells for what i felt in the past. it's like a love letter to myself. my dreams, my goals, my heartaches, my joys, it's all there in one place. highly recommend fr.

#i mean its really somethin sacred #it helps me remember what ppl have done or haven't as well so i can heal #ive always done it since a little girl and i think we need to bring that back! #but also u just have to remember to do it and that requires discipline #thoughts #mental health #actually adhd #adhd #actually bipolar #bipolar disorder

[hochgouez-nerzhus]

The sacred well of St Bride (Brigid - Brigid) - Glastonbury - Somerset- England

#brigit's well #Bride's well #druidry #druidic #sacred place #glastonbury #somerset #england #paganism #sacred water #sacred well #druid #druidess #celtic gods #celtic goddess #brigit #brigid's well #brigid #bride

[rottiens]

More chef Sukuna hcs pls🥺🙏🏻

thanks for asking ^^ this is one of my favorite aus and i will always welcome the opportunity to talk about it hehe

this au is very strongly inspired by the bear and carmy, so sukuna also smokes in this au but he tries to quit because you hate the smoke.

he always takes his smoke breaks before lunch

sukuna, being the head chef and owner of the restaurant, could be quieter and not so involved in the kitchen but he is addicted to work and stress, and being not busy makes him uncomfortable

when you come to visit him on your days off or on your lunch hour to eat together, the other chefs in the kitchen provoke him by telling him that the "boss (*you*) has arrived", he laughs rolling his eyes and takes off his white apron right away to come to you, no matter how busy they are

his specialty is meat and fish

he is very good with knives and chopping

you usually tease him by answering "yes, chef" when he gets intense/very stressed and this always makes him smile

sukuna has his ears pierced as well as his left eyebrow; he would like to pierce his tongue but is afraid that it will ruin his taste somehow

he has the same tattoos here as in canon except for the ones on his face.

sukuna learned to cook from his grandfather, inheriting the restaurant from him.

you meet him at a sushi expo he was invited to by your group of friends but he spent the whole time criticizing the texture of the fish

fun fact: it was hate at first sight with him because you thought he was very picky

he drives a motorcycle

as i said, his love language is cooking for you. he likes it, he enjoys it, even though you like to help, he prefers to be alone in the kitchen and concentrate better, there is nothing you ask him to cook that he wouldn't do or learn for you.

his love language is also biting you

once things got hot in his restaurant kitchen but he held back because the kitchen is a sacred place, and it would be unhygienic to have sex there

#asks #chef sukuna #i believe one of his fantasies is to fuck you with his uniform on #lowkey one of his fantasies is to fuck you in the restaurant kitchen as well but he is very respectful of his sacred space and that makes h #if you have more questions let me know disks #I love talking about it because it's so organized in my head #sukuna x reader #wr

[scrawnytreedemon]

Just a girl and her hog, trying to save their dying world.

#tloz #albw #a link between worlds #princess hilda #yuga #albw yuga #albw hilda #scrawny draws #fan art #everything will go well for them nothing could go wrong #i'm sure her pet is very trustworthy and would never betray her #i mean. look at him. loyal guy if i ever saw one. #can definitely be trusted to hand over the sacred artefact in his mouth for the greater good. #jokes aside GOD i wasn't expecting to be SO sold on their dynamic #i knew about the betrayal years in advance #BUT I THOUGHT HE FUSED GANON *AFTER* not that he played as her attack-dog for a bit #WHILE THEY BOTH CONCOCTED THIS PLOT TO L I E TO LINK #WHICH IS. FUCKING HILARIOUS. #'i didn't think the turning-women-into-paintings wizard would turn ME into a painting 😭😭😭' #hilda you poor fucking fool #neither of them have any common sense #r/vio took it in the divorce and uses it to freeload like a motherfucker #this trio is Abhorrent #but yes this is inspired by the artwork in the nintendo player's guide for the original tloz '86 #i just. katsuya terada you absolute fucking legend i love you. #i could go on and on but just know that i am Obsessed with them they are Insane #enjoy <3

[fiery-emblems]

Happy Valentines Day!

I'm here today to give you each a box of chocolates and share this commission I did for the lovely @chick-it-out! They asked me to draw Eirika for them and gave me the freedom to draw any version of her I wished. I picked her new valentine's design because it's just so beautiful!

Thanks for the opportunity! I would love to draw blorbos for you again sometime 😄

#check out their adorable chicken drawings as well! #fire emblem #fire emblem heroes #sacred stones #eirika #commission #illustration #artists on tumblr #art

[queerdraws]

Disco Elysium & Language

Okay okay so a bit ago I (foolishly) decided to (poorly) translate all 200-something pages of A Sacred and Terrible Air, despite having zero experience with Estonian whatsoever (so, you know, take what I’m saying here with a huge grain of salt).

There’s a small thing that gets lost in the translation from Estonian to English, the object of my obsession: The Pale

Its original Estonian counterpart is ”halli” (which essentially functions as “the gray” [a part of a whole], as opposed to “hall”, which is just “gray” [a color]).  Hall and Pale are both used to describe the color of skin due to No Blood.  They have similar connotations & uses.

Easy-peasy.  Let’s look at the Chapter 15 title “Hallitus”.  Hey, that looks kinda familiar, I see a “halli” in there.

First we gotta backtrack.  Hallitus is just a noun derived from the verb hallitama.

Hallitama is built from “hall” (”gray”) plus -tama (suffix for making a noun in to a verb, generally means “to make”).  So, hallitama would (should?) literally mean “to make gray” or “graying”. BUT!  It actually means “to mold”.  Like an apple being coated in a gray fuzz, hallitama is “to mold / to go moldy”.  Oooh!

So “hallitus” means “moldy”.  But it also, sorta, means “grayed thing”/”pale’d thing”.

So, we have this word that’s used to describe all sorts of manner of withering, decaying, frail, or dead things.

I don’t know, it tickles the brain.

#not art #disco elysium #rambling #the pale #a sacred and terrible air #And fruit within the pale is described as being especially vulnerable to its affects they go moldy. #and joyce talks about like fungal spores floating around inside of porch collapse #i wonder what that line from joyce is like in the original estonian #it drives me crazy!!! #i wish this book series had been finished I want to know more about the pale #i'm rotating this in my brain over and over and over #i think the english localization was done really really well #pale was the best possible word they couldve chosen #anyway very very sidenote #nothing makes you hate the word 'on' like translating shit #that words means too many damn things

[andy-clutterbuck]

6x16 | Last Day on Earth

#F A C E #Rick Grimes #* #rg #S6 #ya know sir i think it's quite unfair that you can look so pretty while you're internally having a crisis #just sayin #that bottom lip is illegal #even in the apocalypse #his n e c k #ouija board party at my house #bram stoker wants to talk #his little scars #(◡‿◡✿) all the kisses #one day your lips will not make me want to bust through a wall like the koolaid man #but today is not that day #he needs a big cuddle #c'mere #he does PRETTY SAD too well #bless all the lines on your face they're beautiful and sacred