How To Write An Invocation:

How to Write an Invocation:

Hey, you’re a god! Here’s why you’re awesome! We’re honoring you on this day. Here’s your offering. It’s appropriate to give to you for this celebration because Reasons. Here’s how it is given to you and how you receive it.   Yay, god! Take your gift!

Excuse me as I make unimpressed noises while cleaning my altar to Nuska.

I wish I knew which campus that was on, too, or at least which group or whoever set it up. I can't make out what it says on the bottom of the sign in the first picture, but I have a sneaking suspicion that it says the group name there. I'd like to let them know there's plenty of people still worshipping these gods.

I was reading the notes and apparently this made the news in 2013. Forget the rise of neo-paganism and polytheist revivalism, it just gets ancient history wrong; not to mention ignoing all the folk customs. Regardless of belief or lack there of— when does a God die; because this clearly states that these Gods were once alive by their definition. Is it when they become venerated as a saint? Feared as a demon? If their worship changes form? or do they need to be 100% forgotten, like those with no literary record?

Edit: Found it. Its a rebuttle against Pascals Wager

https://secularstudents.org/gotg/

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Enki aka Satan… what? That is literally not even in the Abrahamic traditions.

Krishna…. Hinduism has over a billion adherents. The sheer enormity of ignorance.

“Some of the gods in our graveyard may still have followers. We included them because the number of followers has been declining. And to many people, they are indeed ‘dead’ in a sense.” — Their activity guide. One billion, you are so arrogant.

This figure is not wearing a horned cap, aka not a major God. Its holding a bucket and cone so is, at most, a minor deity but more likely is a GENIE.

Additionally,

“…probably worshipped by a largely Aramaic population, and Nusku is probably the same as the name ‘Nasuh’ found in Neo-Assyrian personal names and as the god written ‘Nsk’ in Old Aramaic inscriptions. These cults appear to have lasted into the early centuries AD and perhaps even longer.” — Gods, Demons, and Symbols of Ancient Mesopotamia by Jeremy Black and Antony Green pg 145

That image is identified simply as a “fish-garbed figure” by the dictionary, interprted as possibly a type of exorcist priest. Note the lack of divine horned cap. Also Dagon Dagan, was the God of the Philistines, he is not a fertility God, he invented the plough and is a grain god. Grain god =/= fertility God. He was father of Ba’al to the Canaanites, and a minor God to the Mesopotamians as a attendant of Enlil.

Dear college students , do better research; and no, wikipedia does not count.

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NaNoWriMo!

It is that time of year, folks. I haven't done this before, but I'd say it's high time. Especially considering my personal goddess, y'know? National Novel Writing Month is upon us, and I'm going to take the time to write up 50,000 words of poetry, prayers and more featuring the Anunnaki. If anyone has ideas, I'm all ears. This is a very unique combination of despair and delight, I must say. I am so not prepared, but so very ready to do this.

samantha comes home late & she smells like liquor and blood. she’s going to have to scrape her heart off the underpass later and if she ever forgives herself for it, she will have nothing left. she tells me how tired she is of being a mad woman. a madwoman. she says the only kind of ecstasy she feels is manufactured. i can taste the bacchanal on her breath when she sighs, body swaying like she’s still thinking about dancing. the blisters on her feet have burst and the blood leaks onto the couch but i tell her its fine, its fine, we’ll learn how to stop curling ourselves around what isn’t really there, cut out the maenad crowding her mind and she cries, she cannot stop. what is there but the frenzy?

Gugulanna, as depicted by Fate/Grand Order. Most videogame/media depictions of my gods I'm not a huge fan of. Check out Marvel's Ningal to see what I mean. There's DnD's Tiamat, probably Nergal (Nurgle) in Warhammer40k. I don't even like Ishtar in the Fate series, really. But Gugulanna? Good gods this art is beautiful.

On Nisaba: Epithets

This is just a quick way to dust my brain of ideas before bed, but also a thing I've been interested in. I should be a good scribe and list sources, do some superscript numbers, and all that jazz. I am a sleepy scribe who needs to earn money in the morning, so I'm taking shortcuts like a college student.

Historical terms used for Nisaba:

Mother of the Burning

Priestess of the Country

Purity-Adorned

Noble Lady whose body is the flecked barley

Splendid Radiance

Righteous Wild Cow

Exceedingly Wise

Foremost of the Land

Righteous woman

Woman who swells with joy

Lady who radiates

Exalted Scribe of An

Land-Registrar of Enlil

Beautiful Woman

Lady Colored Like The Stars

Dragon Emerging in Glory at the Festival

Lady Of Broad Wisdom

Lady of the Protective Spirits

Lady of the House of Wisdom

She whose Heart knows Counting

Throne-Bearer of Ninlil

These are not all limited to her, but they have been used to reference her. Her "spheres" if you want to be picky about it are barley, astronomy, mathematics, the act of writing, and literature among other things. There are nuances to her, as with most people.

UPG epithets:

Goddess of Information Technology

Great Librarian

Keeper of the Book of Names

She Who Holds the Book of Life

Lady with hair like mulberry silk

Lady of the Gold Standard

She who is the beauty of the reed wedge pressed into clay

She who dwells in the college coffee shops

Dragon of the book-hoard

Lady of the printing press

She who speaks multitudinous tongues

She who dwells in binary code

Also as a side note, please appreciate the pun in my offering apples and blackberries. In my experience she has a preference for vanilla, too. Check out the chemical breakdown of books as they age and you'll find some vanillin, which is involved in that sacrosanct "book smell". Also almonds, which I'll be trying soon.