Solar Deity Puns

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For this post, I am referencing two books that take a Gnostic Satanist perspective.

"The Book of Devotional Service to the Dark King of Flame, Lucifer" is the first book and it is the predecessor to "Psalterium Sathanas" the second work. They were both written by J. Boomsma and published by Aeon Sophia Press.

Christ is often said to be a "Solar Deity" by many occultists/mystics, and he was often compared to the Sun in ancient Christian writings. And Christ descended to the material plane, renouncing his divinity to do so. We are then faced with the Christian doctrine of Kenosis, where Jesus is said to have emptied himself of human desire and became receptive to Yahweh's will. Eastern Orthodoxy has a similar term, theosis, meaning to "become like Christ/Yahweh." Kenosis and Theosis are essentially the purpose of life for a Christian, to fully serve the will of Yahweh.

Now, this "becoming like God" aspect of theosis is not the same as LHP apotheosis. It is essentially mimicing Christ, being obedient to god's will and suppressing your desires, ie kenosis, and becoming "holy" via the reception of the "energies" of god.

I say the "energies" of god because the Eastern Orthodox believe in a distinction between the essence and energies of god. To quote wikipedia:

>In layman's terms, God's essence is distinct from God's energies in the same manner as the Sun's essence and energies are distinct. The Sun's essence is a ball of burning gas, while the Eastern Orthodox hold that God's essence is incomprehensible. As the Sun's essence is certainly unapproachable and unendurable, so the Eastern Orthodox hold of God's essence. As the sun's energies on Earth, however, can be experienced and are evidenced by changes that they induce (ex. melting, hardening, growing, bleaching, etc.), the same is said of God's energies—though perhaps in a more spiritual sense (ex. melting of hearts or strength, hardening of hearts, spiritual growth, bleaching to be "white as snow," though more physical and psychological manifestations occur as well as in miracles, and inspiration, etc.).

Thus, kenosis/theosis only means emptying yourself of your own desires, will, etc to receive yahweh's energies and to become molded in his image. You are not becoming godlike yourself, or recognizing your own divinity, etc. Your soul, in christian belief, is not of the same essence of god, nor can you receive god's essence. You

This is an interesting deity in my opinion. I'm trying to find a reliable source if this deity really existed in ancient text. I have found some sources that indicates this deity is the mixture of cultures from ancient Rome and Egypt. In this post I'm actually seeking help from you people about this deity. If you have any some sort of scientific article please share in the coments.

Keywords: Bornless One, Headless One, Akephalos, Stele of Jeu

Hope everyone stays safe, has fun, and listens to SWFG at least once.

Tl;dr: What gender fits a personified sun and/or moon better?

A personofied sun and/or moon deity is a common trope both in human history and fictional worlds. Most of the time the sun is personofied as male while the moon is typically sister and/or wife to the sun. This seems to be greco-roman influence.

What makes things a bit more interesting is that germanic mythology personifies them the other way around. This seems to stem from the indo-european languages gendering the word sun as female and moon as male. For example Sól and Máni in old norse.

Because of this fictional worlds go both ways. Most seem to stick with the greco-roman setup though. I wonder why this is. Perhaps people don't want to be labeled Tolkien-clones since he used the germanic setup? Perhaps theres something inherently masculine about the sun? Then again, the sun is often regarded as life-giving which is traditionally associated with femininity.

What do y'all think?

Pliny the Younger describes what former Christians he investigated in Bythinia in early 2nd century told him:

> They asserted, however, that the sum and substance of their fault or error had been that they were accustomed to meet on a fixed day before dawn and sing responsively a hymn to Christ as to a god, and to bind themselves by oath, not to some crime, but not to commit fraud, theft, or adultery, not falsify their trust, nor to refuse to return a trust when called upon to do so. When this was over, it was their custom to depart and to assemble again to partake of food--but ordinary and innocent food. Even this, they affirmed, they had ceased to do after my edict by which, in accordance with your instructions, I had forbidden political associations. (10.96)

Was “when this was over” referring to dawn??

This charm is mainly for my Close Combat revamp, but it can be used for Melee. Replace Close Combat with Melee and use the prereqs listed in the brackets. This is intended to completely replace Immortal Blade, as it becomes completely out of control at high essences. Plus I like Wuxia.

Sword Deity Manifestation
Cost: 15m 3a 1WP; Mins: Close Combat 5, Essence 5; Type: Simple
Keywords: Perilous, Weapon
Duration: One Scene
Prerequisite Charms: Grass Cutting Scythe (Heaven Sword Flash, Iron Raptor Technique)

Let’s have a talk, one last time.

The Solar infuses the entirety of their will and soul into their weapon; weapon and warrior becoming one. Upon having reached the apex of weapon mastery, the Solar becomes able to perform feats of swordsmanship that even other magical creatures would call miraculous. The Solar gains the following benefits:

• The Solar’s anima becomes infused with their blade, glowing with all of their might. The Solar’s anima cannot be lowered below 3a so long as charm is active. Any anima costs of charms is reduced to 0a.
• One has an easier time separating a soul from a man than a Solar from their blade. Choose a primary weapon upon activating this charm, the Solar cannot be disarmed from that primary weapon. If an effect attempts to contest this either by disarming or sundering the blade, the Solar gains (Essence or 3, higher) automatic successes on the rolloff. If the Solar is disarmed somehow, this charm immediately ends.
• The Solar becomes a swordsman without peer, getting an edge above the Solar is simply impossible. Unless a withering attack deals at least five damage post soak, then the Solar’s initiative cannot be lowered below 1i from any attacks made at close range nor from effects that automatically strip initiative. Opponent’s still gain any initiative normally from an attack, but the Solar doesn’t crash.
• The Solar is able to swing their sword without even physically moving their body by their will alone. The Solar may wield their blade telekinetically and may attack out to medium range as if using Iron Raptor Technique every turn. The Solar may wield (Essence) additional blades in this fashion beyond their main weapon. Despite the levitation power, normal disarming rules apply, and this charm will end if the Solar’s main weapon is disarmed or sundered. The Solar may also c

The level of involvement can vary, from 'regularly speaks to people' to 'randomly and occasionally performs resurrection', but there is no question, for example, that there are deities controlling rain, the sun, war, etc.

Certainly for more local phenomena, each community could have their own, but everyone has the same sun(s) and moon(s), or other celestial bodies.

I have noticed that players around here may actually be interested to rename some of the planets to either Roman versions or Greek versions for that little bit of immersion. I am here to entertain that need without letting you to dig deep into Google.

Extended the table to include some Norse Gods as well. But the only "reliable reference" is our week-day names, which coincide with the Roman Gods (e.g. Dies Martius is Tuesday, so Tyr is the equivalent of Mars). Some other "similar" gods are referenced from these articles: https://prezi.com/bgkbcuyhbszv/norse-gods-and-their-similar-greek-counter-part/ and https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_gods_and_goddesses. But we should know that the concepts and divisions of the Germanic gods are so different from the Romans (which embodies most of our celestial bodies).

Also, included the Asian elemental divisions for the celestial bodies. The Asians don't view the planets as gods, but each of them has been assigned an element.

The list is very incomplete as some of the entities are very incompatible. I have already tried my best to give you what I know.

Note: Thor and Odin are really hard choices. Yet they do occupy our Wednesday and Thursday, and those days are called Dies Mercurii and Dies Iovis correspondingly. So I can't help but to assign Odin to Mercury and Thor to Jupiter.

Edit: Changed Woden into Odin; Erde

I am looking for resources on how to summon and evoke an angel/solar entity/deity to find guidance as to what my purpose in life is and how I should move forward. I prefer angels in this context because I grew up in a Christian household and I feel it would be better to work with that programming. I would appreciate any grimoires or any other books or resources you can point me in the direction of. Thank you.