Weird how many nerd fandoms seem to have the same people in them, right? Rhythm games, conlangs, math and computing, puzzles and paradoxes. I've been calling this "the GEB Orbit", because if you're into two or more of these things, you're probably in the target audience for Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter, a book I would describe as "the spiritual precedessor to xkcd."

#geb #xkcd #fandom #convergence

17 Calistril 4722 AR: Geb signs
#Geb #AlehAlmaktou #4722AR
https://pathfinderwiki.com/wiki/Aleh_Almaktoum
Geb signs and issues a purported annotated edition of the Aleh Almaktou, a series of papyrus scrolls considered the definitive Osirian treatise and spellbook on necromancy.

#jouRapNal #book18 day 63

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#3goodThings #language #Norwegian #Nordic #threeGoodThings

#galentines #palentines #geb

Thanatopsis Parade
#Geb #Mechitar #ThanatopsisParade #NemretNoktoria
https://pathfinderwiki.com/wiki/Nemret_Noktoria
The Blood Lords provide an annual tribute of corpses and live slaves in the hundreds. These are transported in a grand festival from Geb’s palace in Mechitar all …

This ten minutes feels like only five, and yet has the feel of a masterclass in the Bach part of GEB.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSSRijWjobE

#bach #geb #music #musictheory

11 Abadius: Ascension Day
#Geb #Arazni
https://pathfinderwiki.com/wiki/Arazni
On the anniversary of her coronation, Arazni used to endure a Gebbite state holiday featuring feasting on slain humanoid chattel. While not necessarily the day that she attained full godhood, …

Picked this up today after hearing about it the other day. I like (to think that I like) complicated books, and might even try to work this one into the rotation.

I can dream, right?

#GEB #books #bookstodon

Kuthona: Visitation
#Yled #Geb
https://pathfinderwiki.com/wiki/Yled
An overnight freeze grips the city every year, freezing some citizens to death. The quick and the dead alike stay indoors, avoid the streets, gather in huge numbers, share meals, and turn the night fe…

Nex, Garund
https://pathfinderwiki.com/wiki/Nex
#Nex #Garund #Geb #CouncilOfThreeAndNine

Mana Wastes, Impossible Lands
https://pathfinderwiki.com/wiki/Mana_Wastes
#ManaWastes #ImpossibleLands #Nex #Geb #Aklenstar

Autumn: Exodus
#Yled #Geb #ManaWastes
https://pathfinderwiki.com/wiki/Yled
A night of parades, celebrations, and speeches before Geb's newest and best soldiers and weapons depart into the Mana Wastes for a year, eliminating threats and keeping the northern border secu…

Osiris

He was/is the god of fertility, agriculture, the afterlife, the dead, resurrection, life, & vegetation in Ancient Egyptian religion. Osiris was widely worshipped until the rise of Christianity in the Roman Empire.

He’s usually shown as a green-skinned deity with a pharaoh’s beard, partially wrapped like a mummy at the legs, holding a symbolic associated with the mummy wrap.

When his brother, Set, cut Osiris literally into pieces, Isis (Osiris’ sister & wife), along with her sister, Nephthys searched Egypt to find all of Osiris’ body parts. She collected all but 1 piece, Osiris’ manhood.

Isis wrapped up Osiris’ body. This let him come back to life.

Osiris was, at times, considered the eldest son of the earth god, Geb, & the sky goddess, Nut. As well as brother & husband of Isis. Horus the Younger being considered his posthumously sired son. Through a mixing of religious ideas, with Iah, he’s also the god of the Moon.

In the Old Kingdom (2686-2181 BC), the Pharaoh was considered a son of the sun god Ra. After his death (the pharaoh’s), would ascend to join Ra in the sky. After the spread of the Osiris cult, the pharaohs of Egypt were linked to Osiris in death.

As Osiris rose from the dead, they’d unite with him & inherit eternal life through imitative magic. Through the hope of new life after death, Osiris began to be linked with the cycles in nature. In particular the sprouting of vegetation & the annual flooding of the Nile River.

As well as the heliacal rising of Orion & Sirius at the start of the new year. Heliacal rising is a star(s) or planet that happens annually, when it becomes visible above the eastern horizon at dawn in the brief moment just before sunrise.

The 1st evidence of the worship of Osiris is from the middle of the 5th Dynasty of Egypt (25th century BC).

Osiris is represented in his developed form of iconography wearing the Atef crown. This is similar to the White Crown of Upper Egypt. But with the addition of 2 curling ostrich feathers at each side.

He also carries the crook & flail. The crook is thought to represent Osiris as a shepherd god. He was usually shown as a pharaoh with a complexion of either green (the color of rebirth) or black (alluding to the fertility of the Nile floodplain) in mummiform (wearing the trappings of mummification from the chest downward).

The mythology depicts Osiris as having been killed by his brother, Set, who wanted Osiris’ throne. Osiris’ wife, & sister, Isis, finds the body of Osiris & hides it in the reeds where it’s found, & dismembered by Set. Isis retrieved & joined the fragmental pieces of Osiris. Then briefly revives him by the use of magic. This spell gave her enough time to become pregnant by Osiris.

Isis then gave birth to Horus. Since Horus was born after Osiris’ resurrection, Horus became thought of as a representation of new beginnings & the vanquisher of the usurper, Set.

Ptah-Seker, who came from the identification of the creator god Ptah with Seker. Seeker is a hawk/falcon god of the Memphite necropolis in the Ancient Egyptian religion. He was the patron of the living & god of the dead. Thus gradually became identified with Osiris, the 2 becoming Ptah-Seker-Osiris were identified as king of the underworld, God of the afterlife, life, death, & regeneration.

Annual ceremonies were performed in honor of Osiris in various places across Egypt. The ceremonies were fertility rites, which symbolized the resurrection of Osiris. The sacrifices to Osiris were gloomy, solemn, & mournful. The Great mystery festival, celebrated in 2 phases, began at Abydos commemorating the death of the god. This was on the same day that grain was planted in the ground.

The annual festival involved the construction of “Osiris Beds” formed in the shape of Osiris, filled with soil & sown with seed.

The germinating seeds symbolizing Osiris rising an almost perfect example was found in the tomb of Tutankhamun. The imiut emblem – an image of a stuffed, headless skin, of an animal tied to a pole mounting a pot, was a symbol associated both with Osiris as a god of the underworld & with Anubis. This includes a deceased person’s funerary equipment.

The 1st phase of the festival was a public drama depicting the murder & dismemberment of Osiris, the search for his body by Isis, his triumphal return as the resurrected god, & the battle in which Horus defeated Set.

Much of the existing information about the rites of Osiris can be found on the Ikhernofret Stela at Abydos erected in the 12th Dynasty by Ikhernofret. Possibly a priest of Osiris or other official (the titles of Ikhernofert are described in his stela from Abydos) during the reign of Senwosert III (Pharaoh Sesostris, about 1875 BC.).

The ritual reenacting the Osiris’s funeral rites was held in the last month of the inundation (the annual Nile flood). This is coinciding with spring. This was held at Abydos which was the additional place where the body of Osiris drifted ashore after having been drowned in the Nile.

The Stela of Ikhernofret tells the timetable of events of the public elements over the 5 days of the Festival:

• First Day; The Procession of Wepwawet: A fake battle was enacted during which the enemies of Osiris are defeated a procession was led by the God Wepwawet (“opener of the way”).
• Second Day; The Great Procession of Osiris: The body of Osiris was taken from his temple to his tomb. The boat he was transported in, the “Neshmet” bank, had to be defended against his enemies.
• Third Day: Osiris is mourned & the enemies of the land are destroyed.
• Fourth Day; Night Vigil: Prayers & recitations are made & funeral rites performed.
• Fifth Day; Osiris is Reborn: Osiris is reborn & crowned with the crown of Ma’at. The statue of Osiris is brought back to the temple.

The cult of Isis & Osiris continued at Philae until the 450s CE. This is long after the imperial decrees of the late 4th century that ordered the closing of temples to “pagan” gods. Philae was the last major ancient Egypt temple to be closed.

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3889 AR: Seldeg Bhedlis infiltrates Mechitar
#Mechitar #Geb #Arazni #SeldegBhedlis #KnightsOfOzem #ClaidiusBarronmor #3889AR
https://pathfinderwiki.com/wiki/Seldeg_Bhedlis
6 knights chosen by Master and Commander Claidius Barronmor infiltrated the undead-ruled capital. They lat…

every now and then some hot shot thinks they're really clever and says "you know, a time machine would leave you stranded in space, because the earth isn't stationary!"

and I like to let them have their fun, but then I reply "how does the time machine know where the earth should have been if it weren't moving?"

because the thing is that if the time machine is somehow remaining "stationary" while the earth is moving, then it must be stationary *in some reference frame.* stationary reference frames aren't free, the universe isn't stapled to a wall.

+10 points to the first sci-fi writer to make a compelling case that the universe is, in fact, stapled to a wall.

#chost #scifi #timetravel #relativity #geb

Quote: Let unseen hands guide your path
https://pathfinderwiki.com/wiki/Geb
#Geb

j'ai une recommendation.

#GEB

Day of the Challenge
#Yled #Geb #Necrolord #AcademyOfArms
https://pathfinderwiki.com/wiki/Yled
The head of the Academy of Arms faces every aspirant to the title of Necrolord. Duels tend to be brief, abrupt, and brutal. Thousands come to Yled and vast fortunes change i…

Geb sexting Nuit …

Geb: Holy fuck

Geb: Holy fucking fuck

Geb: That body of yours is absurd

#meme #ThatBodyOfYoursIsAbsurd #Geb #Nut #Nuit #HolyFuck

🪷 5 July is the Egyptian Feast of #Anubis and the four children of #Nut & #Geb: #Osiris, #Isis, #Set and #Nephthys. 🪷