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What to put on an altar to Eris?!

Started by muffinmania, August 28, 2014, 01:09:07 AM

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MMIX

Quote from: Hoopla on August 28, 2014, 03:12:46 AM
The golden apple was used to mock vain gods... why do people insist on using that symbol for Eris?
To remind everyone that vain gods still need a good mocking
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Quote from: MMIX on August 28, 2014, 11:23:06 AM
Quote from: Hoopla on August 28, 2014, 03:12:46 AM
The golden apple was used to mock vain gods... why do people insist on using that symbol for Eris?
To remind everyone that vain gods still need a good mocking

Well put!
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hooplala

Quote from: von on August 28, 2014, 06:00:42 AM
Quote from: muffinmania on August 28, 2014, 01:09:07 AM
I've found a lovely little spot around me that'd be perfect for a semi-public altar for Eris. I'm a little stuck on what might be useful to put up on it.  So far, I know I'll be putting a cheaply bound copy of the Principia, an empty box for a DVD of midget porn, a plastic apple painted gold, some gold candles, and as many Pope cards as I have the patience to print out.

What would YOU put on this altar?

Historical eris was a deity noted for riding shotgun in aries' chariot, shrieking in laughter while riding through knee-deep blood. As enyo, she was responsible for razing cities to dust, burning whole populations alive, and generally fucking things up.
she was hardly worshipped; only the thracians (iirc) had a cult for her, and thats because they loved going to war.

So what to put on an altar to eris? Blood. Blood of people youve killed for personal gain. Ashes of the villiages youve put to the sword and burned to the ground. Weapons...because why not? And salt. Salt was expensive to ancients, and its as good a thing as any for a goddess who delights in salting the earth and making sure whole populations rue the day they discovered agriculture.

I cant fathom what eris would do with midget porn or that other junk. Shes not some goddess of hippydom and slapstick...shes the madder and orgiastic aspects of aries but with a vagina and more passive-aggressive.

Now that's where you are wrong. She is most definitely a goddess of slapstick.

Just take a look around you.
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LMNO

Quote from: Chao te Ching CH6Chaos is beyond division,
but some only see what they choose.

The old texts say,
"If you think this is just a ha-ha,
then go read it again."

And yet, some demand only humor
as if Eris were a petty amusement.
They liken the serious to the Grey,
and then wonder why their world collapses so easily.

Sometimes Eris uses Order.
Sometimes She uses Disorder.
Sometimes She works through you.
Sometimes the joke's on you.

hooplala

"Soon all of us will have special names" — Professor Brian O'Blivion

"Now's not the time to get silly, so wear your big boots and jump on the garbage clowns." — Bob Dylan?

"Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)"
— Walt Whitman

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Quote from: Hoopla on August 28, 2014, 12:09:45 PM
Quote from: von on August 28, 2014, 06:00:42 AM
Quote from: muffinmania on August 28, 2014, 01:09:07 AM
I've found a lovely little spot around me that'd be perfect for a semi-public altar for Eris. I'm a little stuck on what might be useful to put up on it.  So far, I know I'll be putting a cheaply bound copy of the Principia, an empty box for a DVD of midget porn, a plastic apple painted gold, some gold candles, and as many Pope cards as I have the patience to print out.

What would YOU put on this altar?

Historical eris was a deity noted for riding shotgun in aries' chariot, shrieking in laughter while riding through knee-deep blood. As enyo, she was responsible for razing cities to dust, burning whole populations alive, and generally fucking things up.
she was hardly worshipped; only the thracians (iirc) had a cult for her, and thats because they loved going to war.

So what to put on an altar to eris? Blood. Blood of people youve killed for personal gain. Ashes of the villiages youve put to the sword and burned to the ground. Weapons...because why not? And salt. Salt was expensive to ancients, and its as good a thing as any for a goddess who delights in salting the earth and making sure whole populations rue the day they discovered agriculture.

I cant fathom what eris would do with midget porn or that other junk. Shes not some goddess of hippydom and slapstick...shes the madder and orgiastic aspects of aries but with a vagina and more passive-aggressive.

Now that's where you are wrong. She is most definitely a goddess of slapstick.

Just take a look around you.
Every time a predator drone takes out a house full of innocents tears appear in Her eyes. Slowly her beautiful features are contorted by a mad grin until she bursts out laughing. It is an ugly laugh, loud and whooping and full of snorts.
Just for fun, with a twitch of her pinky finger she puts a thought in the neighbour's head: "Now I can keep the borrowed lawnmower!" just to see the self-loathing look on his face a second later.
This millennium the laughter hasn't stopped for even a second.
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Cain

Quote from: Cain on August 28, 2014, 09:06:37 AM
The bones of your slain foes.

Sloe berries.

A sword and shield.

Eagle feathers.

Most historically accurate answer ITT, btw.

Well, except the first one.  That was more embellishment and supposition.  But it'd probably fit.

LMNO

I figured you had actually sourced that answer.  Sounded plenty legit.


Cain

Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on August 28, 2014, 02:09:43 PM
I figured you had actually sourced that answer.  Sounded plenty legit.

Sloe berries come from Prunus spinosa, aka Blackthorn.

"In Ogham the blackthorn is straif. The Gaelic word 'straif' translates as 'strife'. The words 'slay' and 'sloe' are also closely linked. The Romans called it bellicum , related to bellum ['war'].  Ares, the Greek god of war and his sister Eris ['strife'] were conceived when Hera touched a hawthorn blossom; in Celtic lore the hawthorn is the sister of the blackthorn, a symbol of strife and Ares' sister."

And the eagle feathers are something of a guess, but given Bellona is a Roman Goddess of War often depicted with winged feathers of some kind, it seems a solid bet, alongside the arms and shield.

LMNO

This means when I drink a Sloe Gin Fizz, I honor the Goddess.


Which makes sense, considering what happens when I drink a lot of Sloe Gin.

muffinmania

Quote from: von on August 28, 2014, 06:00:42 AM
Quote from: muffinmania on August 28, 2014, 01:09:07 AM
I've found a lovely little spot around me that'd be perfect for a semi-public altar for Eris. I'm a little stuck on what might be useful to put up on it.  So far, I know I'll be putting a cheaply bound copy of the Principia, an empty box for a DVD of midget porn, a plastic apple painted gold, some gold candles, and as many Pope cards as I have the patience to print out.

What would YOU put on this altar?

Historical eris was a deity noted for riding shotgun in aries' chariot, shrieking in laughter while riding through knee-deep blood. As enyo, she was responsible for razing cities to dust, burning whole populations alive, and generally fucking things up.
she was hardly worshipped; only the thracians (iirc) had a cult for her, and thats because they loved going to war.

So what to put on an altar to eris? Blood. Blood of people youve killed for personal gain. Ashes of the villiages youve put to the sword and burned to the ground. Weapons...because why not? And salt. Salt was expensive to ancients, and its as good a thing as any for a goddess who delights in salting the earth and making sure whole populations rue the day they discovered agriculture.

I cant fathom what eris would do with midget porn or that other junk. Shes not some goddess of hippydom and slapstick...shes the madder and orgiastic aspects of aries but with a vagina and more passive-aggressive.

For you, that might work, but that's not my Eris. To me, she's the personification of cosmic irony and absurdity. She's there when you laugh at another's misfortune. She's the oddity of everyday experience. While war images are a part of her persona, for me, that's not the totality of her existence. Humor is an essential part of what she is because life is pretty damn funny after taking a second to think about it. The staring contest with the abyss is the only one where you win by laughing.

I included an empty porn box to represent the disappointment of pure depravity, though in retrospect, that symbolism is probably lost on anyone outside of my head. Which is hopefully everyone, but you never know.

Now, I could be wrong on all of this. I've only been studying this shit for about a year. My opinions may change. But this is how I see it at this point in time.

The Good Reverend Roger

Quote from: muffinmania on August 28, 2014, 05:33:41 PM
She's there when you laugh at another's misfortune.

So, the dickbag Eris.
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muffinmania

Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on August 28, 2014, 05:34:21 PM
Quote from: muffinmania on August 28, 2014, 05:33:41 PM
She's there when you laugh at another's misfortune.

So, the dickbag Eris.

Kinda sorta. I mean, she's a bitch, don't get me wrong on that. But it's usually the bitchiest folks that touch upon the truth that needs to be heard.

muffinmania

Quote from: MMIX on August 28, 2014, 11:23:06 AM
Quote from: Hoopla on August 28, 2014, 03:12:46 AM
The golden apple was used to mock vain gods... why do people insist on using that symbol for Eris?
To remind everyone that vain gods still need a good mocking

Well said!

To me, it is also a symbol representative of chaos in general and the need for mockery, whether it be for vanity, for greed, for humility. Things need to be parodied to understand the fallacies inherent in them and the apple is that for me.