Household deity Puns

I recently read Shadi Bartsch's translation of the Aeneid and I was struck by Aeneas bringing with him his family's household gods during the escape from Troy.

What is the relation of these household gods to the major deities? Aeneas (though touted as pious) seems to care much more for his mother, Venus (I guess that makes sense) and Jupiter than he does to the gods he painstakingly saved.

I am passingly familiar with the idea of ancestor worship practices, so I am not sure if there is a direct comparison, but something in the personal, home-based nature of the gods struck me as similar. How did these gods relate to the dead of the family? Is this considered a form of ancestor worship? Aeneas' father (knowing Rome, father in particular) did not seem to become a household god.

As a final piece, the household gods seem to be bound to objects? Is this an animistic practice? A holdover from before syncretizing with Greek gods?

Thank you!

I'm getting married in less than a month, and my fiance and I are moving in together from our parents' homes - seems very traditional, but it's all incidental to finances/medical issues, etc. (No worries, we've been together over 7 years and he's at my place enough that he'd might as well just live here.)

Given this is more or less how things played out in ancient times, it's made me think about how the joining of families into a new household of husband and wife played out theologically. Do spirits or guardian deities come from both sides and join up in the new home? Does the physical house already have its own spirits? Do the ancestors already watching over both childhood homes just add the new household to their to-do list?

I'm really curious about this but can't seem to find a straight answer. I'd like to know how to greet the beings in our new home! I'm marrying an American of mixed Mediterannean descent so it's made me take an interest in Greco-Roman religion. I'd like to politely say hello to the gods of his ancestors before my Norse gods can tell them what a pain in the ass I am.

I’m 18. NMom, father who should do more about her but I don’t really have a problem with him. I can definitely say I love him and will be sad when he’s dead which I can’t say about my mother.

I’m leaving to college tomorrow. It’s a two day, 18-hour drive. The original plan was both my parents drive there in my dads car, I follow them with my car full of all my stuff. It was gonna be great really, I’m a really confident driver and I absolutely adore just being out on the open road. Growing up in this house without siblings especially my car was so good for me when I got it.

Then my dad got sick and wasn’t able to go. Yesterday, my mom made me come into her office and made me “sit down” to talk to her, which was just really weird for me, as I realized it had probably been years since I had a real mother-son conversation with her. At least since I was 10. But she just started talking about how I’m going to get to college now with my dad sick and I just told her “I can just drive there.” Because I can just drive there on my own.

She said that was unsafe which I understand. What I don’t understand is that she immediately offered that we fly there, and I said fuck no because I’m not going to an airport in COVID-2020. This made her angry. She then said the only other option is that we drive there together, I said okay. I really hated the idea but I didn’t show it, just said okay. She then wanted to bring her chihuahua and I said no, I’m not having him in my car because he pisses everywhere and whines a lot and is annoying.

That was yesterday. We leave tomorrow. Today I found out she is bringing the dog anyways, already bought him a plane ticket back. Sigh. I just don’t get it. She knows I can’t stand being around her for long either, does she think her nagging me in my car with that stupid dog whining is going to make the drive any safer than me going alone? Because it’s not, all it does is heighten the chances of me driving off the road out of annoyance.

So yeah. I’m going to spend the next two-days in a car with NMom and her stupid dog. I just want to free. I understand that this seems really petty because, for starters, I’m going to fucking college which is a privilege a lot of younger kids raised by a narcissistic parent/narcissistic parents can’t afford. And I know it’s only two days. But fuck man, I just want her to go away. This is gonna be awful and I don’t know how I’m not going to snap at her.

I hope this doesn’t sound wh

I'm Wiccan in a Christian household and out to all but my stepdad who's a real bible thumper against any other religions, which he believes are devil worship. I have a altar set up to the goddess and god in my room, with my crystals, chalice athame and other tools out that ain't very obvious. I'd like to get a few statues for my matron/patron the Morrigan and Loki, which I'm kind of afraid to do since they're pricy plus I feel they'd make mg altar obvious if my stepdad went snooping in my room. Should I go for it or does anyone have tips on what I could do?

My friend told me we all have a god/ess patron and I was interested to know if you could choose them or if they choose you and possible ways to learn who they are.

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

The nurse asked the rabbit, “what is your blood type?”

“I am probably a type O” said the rabbit.

Mentos

(I will see myself out)

If there is someone out here lurking and is afraid to question their church leaders or their beliefs, I hope this helps you. This is a story I have of questioning and exploring my faith, and I just feel the need to share it to get it out of my system.

I was born into a Catholic family. When I went into college, I started wanting more since the repetitiveness of Catholic masses did not offer much for growth. It's mostly go to church on Sunday and do whatever you want for the rest of the week.

So we joined our aunt's family and looked into the gatherings of the "Born Again" (what we call Protestants in our country). They were smaller, more faithful, more inclusive, and answered some of the questions I had.

However, I have a knack for not being satisfied. I was invited by a friend to their church and I saw how big it was and how they had smaller cell groups wherein we can participate and help each other "grow in Christ." Because of that (and the fact that they were better funded, had better lights and singers), I stayed.

Eventually, I noticed this church's pastor was... questionable. First, his sermons are always feel good stories. He would pick stories where prophets or Jesus or any Biblical character would do something extraordinary and segway it into "you can do it, too. You were made to be strong and to heal the sick and be successful" and whatnot.

Success was the central point of his sermons, which leads us to his other questionable trait: asking for tithes. Whenever it's time for offerings, he or someone from the church would come up on stage and tell a story of how they were successful that week because they were willing to sacrifice a lot of money and "leave it all in the hands of God."

The pastor echoes this idea by saying the bigger you give, the bigger is its return to you. Essentially, God wants more money from you and will give it back to you if you trust him. IDK about the others, but that felt like reducing God to a genie that will give you anything you want in exchange for more than 10% of your income.

Lastly, he told us a story of how he bribed an officer so that he could go abroad for a Christian convention. I don't remember the exact details but he said something to the effect of God giving him ideas of bringing the officer some cake so he approves his flight despite the pastor submitting late.

So much for Christian values. That was the last straw so I left that church and never went back.

I went church hopping after that.

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The doctor says it terminal.

The time has come again to gather pine boughs and light the candles of red and silver, gold and green. The cool breezes and smoke-and-loam scented air of autumn is giving way to the frigid winds and pale sun of winter.  Snow, ice, and sleet dominate the days, and a gently gray haze sifts over the treetops, filtering the sun and soaking into clothing and bones, settling the long cold ahead into our very marrow.  The harvests have been stored, the animals brought in from the field, the fields themselves turned for the seasons, the scrapped remnants of crops burned and turned with the soil to provide nutrients for the following year.  The old folks settle into warm rooms with the youngsters, trading stories and traditions as they rub sore joints and comfort little runny noses.  Candlelight, hearth fires, and warm ovens abound as the natural light of the sun fades and the days grow short.  Lights, warmth, and love are shared at this time to fend off the sadness and loss of the sun, to ward off the reminders of death and age that abound in the winter, and to celebrate the light and life that will come again in the spring.  It is a time of rest, introspection, story-telling, hobby building, warmth, and love.

Post your lore, your traditions, what Yule means to you, recipes, plans; go nuts ya filthy animals!

Yule:

What It Is: Pronounced YOOL, this holiday is the winter solstice and longest night of the year.  Celebrated in late December in the northern hemisphere and late June in the southern hemisphere, it's the official heralding of winter in the farming calendar and midwinter to pagans and laypeople everywhere.

The Wiccan community sees this time as when the God is reborn after dying at the harvest.  Other pagan traditions view it as the rebirth of the sun or the astronomical turning point from the dark half of the year to the light half at Litha. Days afterwards will begin to lengthen, though it may not be noticeable until Imbolc.  The Holly and the Oak kings battle, and Holly lays down his crown so Oak can pick up his until Litha comes and they battle again.

Festivals and holidays are common in places where the axial tilt of the planet effects the seasons, and the further towards the poles you go, the more important they seem to be.  Maybe this is due to the fact that the further to the poles you go, the cold is harsher and the sunlight sparse, and humans don't do well without some vitamin D e

Alot of great jokes get posted here! However just because you have a joke, doesn't mean it's a dad joke.

THIS IS NOT ABOUT NSFW, THIS IS ABOUT LONG JOKES, BLONDE JOKES, SEXUAL JOKES, KNOCK KNOCK JOKES, POLITICAL JOKES, ETC BEING POSTED IN A DAD JOKE SUB

Try telling these sexual jokes that get posted here, to your kid and see how your spouse likes it.. if that goes well, Try telling one of your friends kid about your sex life being like Coca cola, first it was normal, than light and now zero , and see if the parents are OK with you telling their kid the "dad joke"

I'm not even referencing the NSFW, I'm saying Dad jokes are corny, and sometimes painful, not sexual

So check out r/jokes for all types of jokes

r/unclejokes for dirty jokes

r/3amjokes for real weird and alot of OC

r/cleandadjokes If your really sick of seeing not dad jokes in r/dadjokes

Punchline !

Edit: this is not a post about NSFW , This is about jokes, knock knock jokes, blonde jokes, political jokes etc being posted in a dad joke sub

Edit 2: don't touch the thermostat

Filial piety (FP) is meant to engender harmony in families/households, and the society in whole. But opportunistic and entitled parents used this as a way to emotionally blackmail their children into putting their needs before theirs.

FP pits obligation and emotional needs against mutual respect and healthy boundaries. But still a lot of people in East Asia see it as a greatest expression of compassion and love towards family and community, like how people sacrifice everything for their love interests.

FP says that you should treat your parents like deities because they created your existence. I'd call it an interpersonal cult.

This philosophy comes from a time of extreme scarcity in ancient China. And what would you depend on besides your immediate family and livestock? There's no therapy or access to support back in the day. You'd either depend on them 100% or die 100%. Making children was a necessity not an Instagram milestone.

Eventually this kind of dependence gets romanticized or idealized with time and it was even enshrined as moral code of conduct by Confucius.

2500 years later this line of thinking becomes toxic very quickly since it privileges the powerful and the elderly. When parents say they want the best for you, what they actually mean is that they want you to be healthy and happy enough so that you are fit enough to pay the eternal debt you owe to your parents.

As an analogy, farmers would say how happy and healthy livestock will yield tasty meat and earn them bigger coffers.

Don't get me wrong, it's nice to care for your parents especially if they treat you decently. But treating your children as retirement plans isn't.

P/S: English is my second language. Don't mind my writing.

Do your worst!

Just want to say, this is not a theory or an attempt at an academic study of the lyrics and meaning of the album, this is just a way I choose to see it based on personal feelings. I can’t speak of Aurora’s original intentions since I don’t know her, and admittedly haven’t read or listened to many interviews about the album, and I feel she writes rather ambiguously for the purpose of fans finding their own unique and personal meanings to her songs.

TL;DR - When I listen to the album I feel a beautiful and dark narrative about some kind of modern witch, I refer to her as “The Heathen”, who meets a god who promises freedom, endless love, power, seduction, and a deep connection to mother nature, but only if she gives up her heart.

Here’s a breakdown of the songs:

The Forbidden Fruits of Eden - For me it evokes feelings of intrigue, the promise of finding something on a mythical scale, kind of exactly like the Forbidden Fruits of Eden lol. If seen as the start of our story, I imagine someone finding the fruit and taking a bite and experiencing euphoria and peace after gaining true perspective. What perspective can make someone feel this blissful? What if one was to learn that everything matters? Everything.

Everything Matters - This I like to see as the introduction to the god, the deity(s) at the core of the album. By eating the fruit our protagonist comes in contact with a god. Like in the Bible, the protagonist is cast out of Eden, cursed, made to walk the earth as a “Heathen” (this idea comes into play later). This song feels personal, and intimate, and the writing is relatively straightforwards for Aurora standards I’d say, but the instrumental is dark and foreboding. The vocals can be downright demonic sounding (the “tO mE, tO mE, tO mE” part is creepy as hell). It struck me when I first heard this song as a single how low-key evil it all felt. The god here is demonstrating its perspective, showing the interconnecting nature of the universe to The Heathen, in all its beauty. This god isn’t all bad clearly, but it certainly isn’t good. This god is watching her, maybe it’s always been, and if The Heathen stays close, she will continue to be a “part of the movement”. It’s a vague promise.

Giving into the Love – For those shunned by society for being different, there’s almost nothing more beautiful than finding someone who loves you for you. I feel the song simultaneously reference human love and a god’s love – the Christian Go

How the hell am I suppose to know when it’s raining in Sweden?

Mathematical puns makes me number

We told her she can lean on us for support. Although, we are going to have to change her driver's license, her height is going down by a foot. I don't want to go too far out on a limb here but it better not be a hack job.

Ants don’t even have the concept fathers, let alone a good dad joke. Keep r/ants out of my r/dadjokes.

But no, seriously. I understand rule 7 is great to have intelligent discussion, but sometimes it feels like 1 in 10 posts here is someone getting upset about the jokes on this sub. Let the mods deal with it, they regulate the sub.

They were cooked in Greece.

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

Now that I listen to albums, I hardly ever leave the house.

Said if she ever hosts a gender reveal party, when it comes time to pop the balloon she'll spray everyone with water.

Gender is fluid.

Two muffins are in an oven, one muffin looks at the other and says "is it just me, or is it hot in here?"

Then the other muffin says "AHH, TALKING MUFFIN!!!"

Don't you know a good pun is its own reword?

Revelationists

Though Revelationists consider themselves to be Christians, few members of standard Christian faiths consider them to be. Like most of their practices, their Old World Christian origins show through in their winter practices, distorted through the ages by seclusion and hardship.

The Revelationist Christmas season begins on December 21st and continues until January 6th. Earlier in December, families will go out to cut down trees, such as pine or cedar, burning them outside their homesteads on the 21st to invoke the blessings of the Burning Bush to ward off the Darkness of Winter. It is traditional that the youngest member of a household will light a candle from the flames of the tree, holding it to their breast, sheltering from the Winter's cold and will keep it lit in the windows of their homes until January 6th, in hopes that the holy flame will guard them through the darkest days of the year. Families will also collect greenery on these trips, such as pinecones and mistletoe, to decorate their homes.

One of the most common Christmas dishes in America, according the Encyclopedia of American Cuisine is the fruitcake. Families will store preserves and dry fruit to use in these seasonal sweets and Appalachia is no exception. The most common varieties are the apple stack cakes and whiskey cake. Apple stack cake is a unique dessert, made by piling flapjacks over thickened apple sauce filling mixed with sweeteners. Whiskey cake is made by mixing apple slices and preserves into cake batter with whisky added, a descendant of Antediluvian moonshiners' preferred treat.

Norse

The Winter Solstice on December 21st is the shortest day of the year and is honored by cultures across the continent. In the freezing winters that define the shores of the Great Lakes, life is oftentimes built around this date. When the Norse ruled the waves the Great Lakes, it was the Solstice that marked the beginning of the Northmen's raids, as by this date the stores were used up.

On Solstice celebrations, the villagers would gather at their lord's mead hall, feasting on the last of their winter stores, singing around roaring fires and playing games. Young men would duel, challenge each other in tests of strength and wrestle to prove their manhood, hoping to join the raiding parties and rising in the rungs of the Northlanders' society.

Traditionally, the solstice celebrations ended with the execution of prisoners by hanging. It is said that when Albert Soady fo

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