Fresh material up on my website. This one's a slightly edited and very discursive collection of comments about what various colors symbolize for me and why they're meaningful, with relevance to how I might employ them in #magick.
Christianity, blasphemy Afficher plus
Christianity, blasphemy, creation and destruction Afficher plus
@kara_dreamer As someone who mostly looks at gods through historical lenses, I find the idea of Yahweh as singular creator more understandable when I think of it first being seriously posited during the Babylonian exile, as a people who'd been _really_ successful by nomadic-to-settled tribal standards struggled to conceive of their place now that, in their part of the world, empires had become a thing that they couldn't ignore.
@listelian Ah, yeah, that makes sense. I'm not _au fait_ with scholarship on the Old Testament although I'm vaguely aware of its highly composite nature.
scholarship and Christianity Afficher plus
@kara_dreamer Well, if you feel like going down a wiki rabbit hole on this stuff, a decent place to start would probably be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Documentary_hypothesis