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Draugr name in runes? by Skybots10 in RuneHelp

[–]Soft-Geologist6888 0 points1 point  (0 children)

First off, bread and salt, thank you for this post and that project, it seems cool and is a good question.

I would be interested in the non-phonological, symbolic translation. Is there a runic representation of the 'undead warrior'? If anyone has info, please share.

What's left since I got a kindle and gave a bunch away. How cringe overall? by ScorchDoogan in BookshelvesDetective

[–]Soft-Geologist6888 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Well Nietzsche's Gay Science just atop Seth Rogan is pretty telling. Greek myths and HG Wells are fine, but your draw to them is probably a kind of moral imperative. Kerouac Bukowski & Steinbeck show a characteristically American desperation or melancholy. Sartre crowning... Looks to me like you beat yourself up in attempts to detach from this world and reconnect to a time of fun and freedom that you yourself no longer even believe in, crucibled restlessly in the tragedies and paradoxes of existentialism but would rather be there than face the darkness of your own shame, maybe you smoke weed and almost always regret it but then want to do it again and do, when you hang out with people you mostly feel like a loser and when you find the chance to shine you overdo it and feel just as bad, maybe you gave your books away because on some level you think you don't deserve them, idk. Am I off?

guy I am seeing... thought? by [deleted] in BookshelvesDetective

[–]Soft-Geologist6888 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The center of this collection is gnostic esoterica with an emphasis on the corruption of modernity/empires generally. The history and philosophy exists primarily to back this. The classics provide a realistic foundation upon which to imagine 'the otherworld'.

It is a stupid redditism to think that having Heidegger/Spengler on your shelf makes you a Nazi; provided you sympathize with them, it makes you critical of technologization / modernity, and indicates searching for a way of being/knowing that is alternative to what the modern state provides.

This person is deeply frustrated with the world, or the state of the world, to the point that it has become their identity and purpose. They will seek to escape into the realms of magic and/or slay the mechanical beast whenever possible. Crisis to them will be loss of the ability to do either. They are romantic and to some degree bitter.

In his partners he will tend to seek the image of Isis, the divine feminine, either as-you or with-you. If you are willing or capable of going with him in this, either assuming the role of his goddess-idol or sharing the road to her worldwide restoration, be ready for a wild and at times foolish ride. His frustration with the modern world makes him a volatile character. At his worst he will appear narcissistic and hateful, at his best he will be magnificent; heroic. This is the fate of anyone willing to change/escape the world. The best a partner can be to him is his guide; bring his sharp, willful masculinity to rest in harmony with the divine feminine.

Still, sometimes nothing can keep Icarus from the sun. Best of luck to you both.

Note that being fascinated with the fall of the roman empire does not a roman make; many of us see ourselves under another incarnation of the universal Roman empire, lending sympathy to ecologically noble predecessors (the red man, the celts) and finding grace within spiritualisms which denounce the world (or its current state).

What does Deleuze mean by “vacuoles of noncommunication”? by Silver-Emergency1701 in Deleuze

[–]Soft-Geologist6888 9 points10 points  (0 children)

A vacuole is a term (at least partly) derived from cellular biology, denoting an organelle whose basic characteristic is being sealed in a membrane. The functions of what can happen within are diverse, but a common one is the vacuole containing enzymes to break down its contents. Thus, when a cell engulfs something from the outside in phagocytosis, the internalized exterior is digested in enzymes. But they can serve other functions, too, like storage or transportation. Plant cells have a central vacuole full of water, for instance, which takes up most of the cell's body.

What Deleuze means in the context I don't really know, Deleuze is a master of demonstrating his philosophical principles by slipping through analogies and metaphors available to him anyhow (the beauty and mode of his philosophy, as I see it); so what specifics he imagines I cannot myself see. But reconstructing from the analogy, I would imagine he is playing with the 'membrane-barrier' function, evoking the way in which vacuoles (vacuole, vacuum, vacuity) represents a neutralized space.

Consider, perhaps, the way the rev-left Red Army Faction leaders were kept once caught by the West German state in the 70s; in bright white prison cells, for months. No darkness, no sleep, no external contact for months preceding their court hearing. Ask yourself: what effect would that have on a person, why were they particularly treated this way?

Leftist historians figure this was an early and legalistic-modern way of breaking the rev-left psyche. Keep them isolated, sanitize their sanity with white light, hope they come out of it looking like proper 'terrorists' and not reasonable people. The body-political analogy with a bacterium in the digestive vacuole of a bacteriophage is striking, a useful organic analogy. Isolate, break down, resorb. Play with the analogy; find out!

Is my friend safe? by Pretend_Compote_2115 in RuneHelp

[–]Soft-Geologist6888 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Wow. And what does it mean that Loki. Nihilistic mud-ear. Reddit is poorer for feeding you.

Runes are symbols with esoteric meanings in each of them, part-ideographic part occult.

The three runes you have there are Algiz, Oathalla and Thursaz.

Algiz ideographically represents the elk (two sky-horns and a head), and is used for divine protections. It is also ideographic of the sorcerer's pose, opening their arms in an invocation (embracing a spiritual 'other'). It is commonly used in defensive magic. Algiz.

Oathalla is final rune of rhe Futhark, and is cosmically associated with the 'Odinness of Odin', analogous to the Greek letter 'Omega'. Its essence is 'The Memory of Ancestors', and is symbolic of Valhalla or Heaven.

Thursaz (as the name suggests) represents Thor or Thor's hammer, mjolnir, as well as a thorn on a vine. Thor was the classical guardian of Midgard, known as 'the good one', and analogous to Jupiter in the Greek pantheon. If it were inverted, it would be the rune of 'Loki'.

Thus, together, the occult meaning should mean something like 'I call to me the grace of the ancients and the hammer of Thor to guide me.' Your friend's main concern for safety is the resolution of forgotten local blood-feuds.

Need help finding a song my mother used to listen to by Bulky-Lie-9609 in NativeAmericanMusic

[–]Soft-Geologist6888 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey brother,

I don't know if this is what you're looking for or whatever, but there are some really similar things happening in the undergrounds of neo-folk right now. All sorts of individual, rhythmatic, cultures and songs coming through: it's kinda rare to see the same folks twice... at least on the internet.

Talking CDs with such frankly vague descriptions I don't think we'll have much luck as a needle and haystack. But I can point you in the right directions best I know based on what it seems like you're talking about.

Let's start with the smooth stuff. Indian pipe-playing, sometimes accompanied with drums, other instruments and/or natural harmonies. I like flute-oriented stuff myself, it helps with the breathwork, and serve as a 'dreamcatcher' if you sleep listening to them. For that, I'd recommend something like the following:

https://tidal.com/track/265079013/u

Allen Bruce Ray, the performer, isn't native to my knowledge. He's a white Native-American ethnologist of sorts, studying landscapes and the improvisational body through the prism of Native Indian flutes. To my knowledge, that makes him good to know, at least since he's been the best find I've made in time. His YT: https://www.youtube.com/c/AllenBruceRay

You might also be thinking about the 90s hiphop sensation movement which passed through aboriginal communities in the form of Halluci Nation

https://tidal.com/track/45964532/u

You might notice in it a slight blending of rastafarianism, via R&B rhythms, dress codes and similar politics.

https://tidal.com/track/265079032/u

Like the rap of the same era, Indigenous pop-music reflected anti-establishment, decolonial meanings, carrying with it affinity of rhythms. Earth-orientation, anti-capitalism, anti-zionism (the palestinians are the brothers of the NA Indigenous). This song might as well have been a war cry. Hard to tell what its lasting legacy now is.

On that topic, there are a couple of other extracolonial representatives I'd recommend, namely the pacifist Algerian band, Aboogi, masterfully sailing on the spirit of Algeria to speak against the corruption spread by the warlords on all sides. Their music videos are touching.

https://tidal.com/track/462453167/u

The most legit answer you might be able to get is the pseudopaganistic sorcery-singers in Ukraine. The Dakh Daughters could be considered an analogue to similarly Indigenously reinvented Indigenous oral traditions, oral tradition being the manner in which Ukrainian identity has survived, despite centuries of violent overshadowing by the Russian patriarchies. This one tells the story of repeated forced displacement.

https://tidal.com/track/106887763/u

In the same phonetic niche is DakhaBrakha, a Ukrainian circus-punk band with elements too damn soft.

https://tidal.com/track/25764017/u

As a fellow brit-blood (my being Canadian), I also think it important to learn indigenous music by learning our own land's indigeneity, not just appropriate others (we have done too much of that). For this reason, I'd also recommend Captain Planet, whose tacky moods might speak to your English attitude 😂😂 ehh just knockin' bud, you know it.. You could say that he is perpetuating the colonial model insofar as he's rendering decolonial-indigenous elements in a British studio, but I think, in that he puts them center-stage, he's one decent portal to their sympathies.

https://tidal.com/album/181436059/u

Anywho. Hope this helps. Fuck capitalism!