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In ancient Egypt, soul houses and false doors connected the living and the dead
- swayvil 3y agoThese devices all interact via theater. Like there's a fiction, or a dream, that we can interact with via fiction/dream things. The afterlife and dreamland are one and the same? You see it in other cultures too. Little houses for the spirits and little people. In japan, Scandinavia... It also reminds me of the demon in "The Exorcist". A master of language and also bound by it. A creature of theater.
- wddkcs 3y agoTheater, imagination, the suspension of disbelief? Theater was a central Bacchic practice, and Bacchus/Dionysus is at once the height of loss of self control, and deeply cthonic. Death overturned by the relinquishing of self, through social enactment or personal initiation.
- _a_a_a_ 3y agoAny links? Am curious, ta
- wddkcs 3y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dionysian_Mysteries#:~:text=The%20Dionysian%20Mysteries%20were%20a,return%20to%20a%20natural%20state https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dionysian_Mysteries#:~:text=Th... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bacchae https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bacchae https://uen.pressbooks.pub/mythologyunbound/chapter/dionysusbacchus/#:~:text=Dionysus%20was%20the%20son%20of,After%20Semele%20died%2C%20her https://uen.pressbooks.pub/mythologyunbound/chapter/dionysus... https://www.jstor.org/stable/311453#:~:text=opposite%20aspects%20of%20a%20single,They%20make%20their https://www.jstor.org/stable/311453#:~:text=opposite%20aspec... https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-030-24348-7_41#:~:text=In%20terms%20of%20human%20psychology%2C,sane%20life%20can%20be https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-0...
- swayvil 3y agoSuspension of disbelief. Or assuming a different set of beliefs. These beliefs being a set of assumptions or rules underlying a story or a game. To move from one world to another. To enter a movie, story, game... we are all pretty familiar with that.
- wddkcs 3y agoI don't think people are familiar with how that structure implies the part is greater than the whole. A lunar ideology hiding within the solar.
- pyinstallwoes 3y agoHow would one interact ?
- swayvil 3y agoThe input would probably be like they say. Create or modify the "spirit door" or "elf house" or whatever. Output... maybe watch for phenomena in your imagination (which becomes distinctly visible in half-sleep, hypnagogic states, certain kinds of meditation, drug induced hallucinations) If you are good at visualizing you might be able to use that instead of carpenting up an elf house. You might end up with a technique similar to that used by the Pure Land Buddhists.
- pyinstallwoes 3y agoHave you experimented with this?
- akomtu 3y agoCenturies later, archeologists will be puzzled by the black mirrors that the past civilization was so attached to. They will notice that nearly everyone had a small mirror clutched in his hands, even in the moment of death. The few scriptures will tell bewildering things that the owner of such a mirror could talk to other realms, and even see alive and the dead, in the reflections of a sub-physical plane called Eenthair-Neth. But the price was high: that plane slowly destroyed attention and will of the naive sorcerers, who eventually became possessed by the Neth demons. The civilization died because in the end nearly everyone was possessed.
- moffkalast 3y agoIf the stories are true the most powerful demon of all, the infamous Teq Thuk, could posses a mind in mere seconds. They did not stand a chance.
- adhesive_wombat 3y agoThe nam-shub of Enki ain't got nothing on that! By the way, if this kind of techno-occult crossover thing is your jam, read the Laundry Files.
- vonjuice 3y agoThat sounds like it could be my next favorite book, or I'll drop it out of cringe, depending entirely on the style.
- akomtu 3y agoIndeed, for some time, the natives had the cult of Tek Thuk, who demanded its worshippers to sacrifice more and more of their attention, but it was the arch-demon Ae-eye, invoked in XXI century, that reduced the entire society to animals. The last scripture found says "...everyone talks to Ae-eye now, every waking hour they spend with their eyes transfixed on the black mirror, from which the Ae-eye stares back into them."
- teddyh 3y ago
- KaiserPro 3y agoThere is evidence for this kind of thing in Judaeo-Christian tradition: Saul from the book of Samuel tried to talk to a dead Samuel, and was divinely bollocked for it. (https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Samuel+28%3A10-18&version=KJV https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Samuel+28%3A1... or more fun, rendered in lego: https://thebrickbible.com/legacy/david_vs_saul/saul_and_the_necromancer/1s28_03p07.html https://thebrickbible.com/legacy/david_vs_saul/saul_and_the_...) the Sumerians also had local accommodation for their dead, with libation tubes to provide sustenance for them in the after life. Irvine Finkel in "first ghost" explains this really well, and entertainingly. Do get the audio book if you can.
- zero_iq 3y agoPossible evidence for this sort of thing in Peru too: "doorways" carved into rock faces etc. at local spiritual sites ("huacas") although little solid evidence of what they were actually used for, or exactly how old they are.
- garba_dlm 3y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6h58uT_BGV4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6h58uT_BGV4
- liampulles 3y agoBefore tombs, Egyptians would bury their dead under the sand, only for jackals to dig some of them out. Then they started covering the graves with rocks to deter digging. Things escalated from there...