Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.

Pythagoras

Some of you act like you haven't seen a country sunset in a while, and it shows, so here... (no filter BTW)

Lady of the Lake (Viviane/Nimue)

Viviane plays several important roles in many stories, including providing Arthur with the sword Excalibur, eliminating Merlin, raising Lancelot after the death of his father, and helping to take the dying Arthur to Avalon.

According to her backstory, Viviane was a daughter of the knight Dionas (Dyonas) and a niece of the Duke of Burgundy. She was born in Dionas' domain, which included the fairy forests of Briosque and Darnantes. In the Lancelot-Grail prose cycle, the Lady resides in an otherworldly enchanted realm, the entry to which is disguised as an illusion of a lake.

The Vulgate Lancelot informs the reader that, back "in the time of Virgil," Diana had been a Queen of Sicily that was considered a goddess by her subjects. The Post-Vulgate Suite de Merlin describes how Viviane was born and lived in a magnificent castle at the foot of a mountain in Brittany as a daughter of the King of Northumbria.

The mythical Greek sea nymph Thetis, mother of the hero Achilles, similarly provides her son with magical weapons. Thetis is a water spirit who raises the greatest warrior of her time. Her husband is named Peleus, while in some tales, the Lady of the Lake has the knight Pelleas as her lover. Thetis also uses magic to make her son invulnerable, similar to how Lancelot receives a ring that protects him from magic.

The Greek mythology may have inspired or influenced the Arthurian legend, especially since The Iliad involving Thetis was well known across the former Roman Empire and among the medieval writers dealing with Celtic myths and lore.

Viviane and Merlin in Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdales' illustration for Tennyson's Idylls of the King (1913)

Paying attention is the key

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I the Sun ov man
The offspring ov the stellar race
My halo fallen and crushed upon the earth
That I may bring balance to this world
Ison ov perdition
From sheer nothingness transgressed
Unto the highest self, to utmost freedom
To explore the starry nature ov my rage
I pulse ov existence
The law ov nature undenied
I hold the torch ov Heraclites
So I can shake the earth and move the sun
I divine Iconoclast
Injecting chaos into my veins
With life accepted
With pain resurrected
Is the embrace ov God in man profound
The joy ov a dawn
The ecstasy ov dusk
Nourished have I this karmic flow
Where great above meets great below
Let it be written!
Let it be done!
Scattered I walk towards the fractured light

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I awake in a perfect hell -
genus ex nihilo
This shell filled with another man's paradise
Holds only a whisper of my
past life
I'm trapped between worlds
A dream within a dream

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I am the light in the darkness
l'll turn your cities to salt
With fire, I'll speak the word of the Lord
l'll carry the torch of revival, and it burns
I speak the life to your destiny

I speak the word as a child of the King that we keep our vision set on the Lord and his virtues

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My adored Father, in these sacred moments of your time to come
Where finally Justice will be returned to you, Where your nobility of heart and your strength of soul will finally be recognized by all. I love you so much that nothing can turn me away from you

My soul, my heart, my body are made only of you, awed from your sacred consciousness, from your Life-blessed Consciousness. I advance noble and proud, worthy child of my wonderful Father

Show me my adored Father, everything I can do for you, To help you in this noble fight, to participate in our liberation and especially so that each goddess, each god is done justice and let everyone be legitimized in their Glory

Who lives after life, has always made the choice of Truth, Knowledge, Freedom In this supported by your immeasurable Love and Light. Feed me with a little of your strength and your bravery so that in front of the enemy, I never fall. May the will to progress and truth animate me. My Life only makes sense because you're there

Glory to Ea 🔱

Poetry as Common Folklore, an essay by Arthur Powell, published by Arktos.

Arthur Powell ponders on the timeless essence of poetry, reflecting on its historical significance and its unparalleled power to capture the occidental soul.

I have been in somewhat of a creative drought lately. Something all poets, writers, and artists experience from time to time. It can be a frustrating desert of existence, where words stumble out instead of gliding gracefully onto the page. This drought though has given me pause to think about other poetry and more seriously about song lyrics as their modern-day inheritor of much of what poetry did for the previous age.

At the time of the First World War, poetry was both an elevated art and a common art. Men in the trenches shared poems with each other, some silly, some sweet, some sombre. Poetry has always been a form of common folklore. Deliverance of wisdom and history in...

Read the full essay here:

https://arktos.com/2023/09/23/poetry-as-common-folklore/

The concept was see Zaheer speak of in Legend of Kora is the same as what we see in many world religions as well as in Star Wars with the Sith Lords.

Zaheer developed the ability of flight through the teachings of Guru Laghima, becoming the first airbender in four thousand years.

https://youtu.be/yn9qNrgWlnk?si=36jc_vmEmAqG6pYX