What does Bast think of Hello Kitty?

[badstar]

Me: ok...this elements of ritual book...interesting, good pracical advice, but damn, she's a little too picky about some things

Mea: hwoso?

Me: athames are black-handled. never wear a watch during ritual, it's inappropriate because time doesn't exists...don't use glass dishes, they're too modern

Mea: screw her!

Me: i dunno about you, but i know plenty of people withathames that are something other than black

Mea: yup

Me: and the whole glass dish thing??? WTF is wrong with modernity??? i mean...it's what we are. what is so wrong wit contemporary? it's the same issue i take with people who insist on wearing en faire garb to every ritual

er, ren raire

bah, i can't type. i give up

Mea: its all good

Me: it just...arg, it annoys me to no end

Mea: me too

Me: do people think the gods are so offended by glass? and contemporary clothing?

Me: yes

Me:personally, i really dig glass. and glass has been around forever.

Mea: Isis will smite me if I don't wear my Moresca Bodice and use my black athame

and remove my hello kitty watch

Me: it's not a modern thing

what does Bast think of hello kitty?

Mea: that's a good question

postd to LJ

Me: hehehe

if you're going egyptian, is it really appropriate to wear a european-style bodice?



(more about the book mentioned later when i finish reading it)

Comments

[morlockx.livejournal.com]

I have a suspicion. What publisher is that book done by? If its LLewellyn (sp?) my suspicions will be confirmed.

[morlockx.livejournal.com]

augh! pink on black!

[fuego.livejournal.com]

hey! my journal has been pinmk on black since loooooooong before i met yuo buster (though, i just changed the style, so it changed the comments page too)

[morlockx.livejournal.com]

its like demented terminal monochrome

you never answered my question.

[fuego.livejournal.com]

i was busy composing a snarky mini-rant.

[fuego.livejournal.com]

Of course, it's Llewellyn, who else would it be? :-P


There is a lot I like about the book so far. The author offers a lot of really good information and practical advice, like how to get melted candle wax out of carpets. It's *mostly* very non-fluffy so far


It's just those sort of details that I was bitching about that I find among...well, it's *mostly* but not exclusively Wiccans that I've observed. it drives me bonkers. It's this "modern stuff isn't good, we have to trick ourselves into thinking we're "Keeping Ye Olde Wayes" or whatever. Hello, we live in 2006. Yeah, we're different from the people in 1463. That doesn't make us or our stuff bad. The gods aren't going to smite us for using a glass dish, or if an athame has a green handle.

[morlockx.livejournal.com]

Well that and Gardner did a lot of hodgepodging to pull stuff together from his research in the late 1800s and early 1900s

[fuego.livejournal.com]

Yes, yes he did.

Wicca is so not my thing.

[robinhoodvandal.livejournal.com]

its so nice to hear someone else say that. It usually seems that all the pagans I know are wiccan. Its very wierd to be such a minority of a minority.

[morlockx.livejournal.com]

well add one more non wiccan pagan to your list

[robinhoodvandal.livejournal.com]

sweet :)

[morlockx.livejournal.com]

It was more of a point that most traditions aren't complete and have had to make adjustments and speculate, so i dont see anything wrong with making use of modern materials.

[fuego.livejournal.com]

well, not to mention what the people back in the day used was stuf that was modern/contemporary fo the time

[morlockx.livejournal.com]

I remember reading somewhere that the Golden Dawn had a single battery powered lightbulb in the Isis Urania temple and that was super spiffy for them. It supposedly made the rituals easier to read.