Protoaotheos

Yahoodi

[Western Lives @western_lives]

Prometheus stole fire for humanity, defying the gods. Zeus's punishment: chained to a rock on Mount Caucasus, a raptor devours his liver daily, only for it to regrow, forever.

Thomas Cole - "Prometheus Bound" (1847)

[Drunk the 2nd @drnk2nd]

stumbled into "writing advice" youtube and decided to look into the author's own book he mentioned

very first chapter
4 stars on Amazon

I can't

[室利汉佳梵SriGandziavata🇨🇳🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @srihanzyava]

The four pillars of my art style:

Mossa
Alariko
Angus McBride
Kentaro Miura

[cersei’s bastard @mychemicaldanse]

this just made me remember the promotional crossover with tyrion, cersei and elmo

[AtlasOfWisdom @AtlasOfWisdom]

Rumi did not think love was meant to make you happy. He thought it could dismantle the person who is doing the loving.

Rumi (1207–1273) was a Muslim scholar, poet and Sufi mystic. For him, love was not just a feeling. We want to possess, control and be loved in return. Rumi saw this attachment to “me” and “mine” as part of the nafs.

That is why longing matters. At the beginning of his Mas̱navī, he uses the sound of a reed flute separated from its source as an image of the human longing to return to its origin.

The person or beauty we love is not necessarily the final object of that longing. It can awaken a desire that reaches beyond it, toward God.

Rumi calls the fading of the ego’s claim to be separate and self-sufficient fanāʾ. His idea of “dying before you die” points to the same process, the loosening of the ego while we are still alive.

So love, for Rumi, is not about finding something to complete the self. It is a way of discovering how deeply the self is attached to possessing, controlling and being recognised - and learning to let that attachment go. #Sufism

Image source:
“Meeting of Jalal al-Din Rumi and Molla Shams al-Din” (late 16th–early 17th century), unknown artist.
Source: Topkapi Palace Museum, Wikimedia Commons. Version checked: 23 January 2011. License checked: 26 September 2026 - Public Domain.

[Protoaotheos @protoaotheos]

@Hunter_Marvel05 Is this dooms theme?

[Hunter_marvel05 🎃 @Hunter_Marvel05]

Fucking chills

[عبد الواجد چشتی @SAYY1Di]

Here's the full detail of various Sufi Orders and their impact in converting tribes & nations to Islam :

[Rena热娜 @Rena_Angla]

On a long train ride, a Han Chinese played the erhu, a Kazakh played the dombra, and three Uyghurs played the rawap and gijak.
Together, they performed the Mongolian piece Horse Racing, bringing the dull journey to life with the sound of their traditional ethnic instruments

[Gnostic Informant | Neal Sendlak @Gnosisinformant]

The "Libro de los Juegos" (Book of Games) is a pretty cool text.

[Nicholas Morton @NicholasMorto11]

Why didn't the Mongols conquer the Middle East?

The Mamluk Empire (Egypt and Syria) is famous for blocking the Mongols' advance into the Middle East, winning major battles in 1260, 1277 and 1281.

Less well known is the Mongols' victory... (1/2)

[Mr. Terron Poole @Terodotus]

Yet another example of a North African brought into North American captivity was "Selim," who was taken prisoner aboard a Spanish privateer while en route from "Algiers" to Istanbul, where he was pursuing his education. The son of "wealthy and respectable parents," Selim was transferred to a French slaver and carried to New Orleans, where his status becomes unclear. Plausibility is an issue in that, after he was sent "up the rivers Mississippi and Ohio to the Shawnee towns" and left as a "prisoner of war with the Indians," he claims to have escaped and walked all the way to Virginia, where he was discovered hiding atop a tree "in a most wretched and pitiable condition" near the close of war between France and England in 1755, so-called Braddock's War. The story becomes even more curious in that, following his being provided a Greck New Testament and his subsequent conversion to Christianity, he returned to "Algiers" where he was disowned by his family as a result of his conversion. Some years later, Selim was found back in Virginia and “in a state of insanity,” with moments of lucidity. While the details are in question, his actual existence is supported by the preservation of his likeness by Charles Wilson Peale.

- Black Crescent: The Experience and Legacy of African Muslim in the Americas pp. 148-149

[Islamic Scientific Heritage @IslamicSH_]

Sultan Mahmud wearing a robe of honour (khilʿa) sent by the Abbasid Caliph al-Qādir bi’llāh.

Jāmiʿ al-Tawārīkh.

[Islamic Scientific Heritage @IslamicSH_]

An Andalusian Muslim and a Christian playing Chess, an engraving from 1283.

[Elon ⚪ @hadithworks]

A hadith for Sukkot:

[burnz @burnzzz0]

Unfortunately this is 100% true and they picked the perfect time to release this stuff because nobody will think it’s real.

[Protoaotheos @protoaotheos]

@4liocha_ I would recommend you read Leo Strauss’ lectures on the republic. I read both of his classes on it and learned such a great deal from it. I would spend a lecture a week annotating and cross referencing on my own copy of the republic while writing an essay On a topic

[Guilherme Gomes Santos @guilherme94jose]

In Dante’s Divine Comedy, the soul undertakes an ascending journey from Hell, through Purgatory and the nine celestial spheres, to Paradise, where it finds the white rose of Heaven, illuminated by divine light.

I can understand why Guénon sees this “celestial journey” as an initiatic doctrine. He therefore rejects a merely analogical or fanciful reading.

The regions described by Dante are “states”, while the heavens correspond literally to spiritual hierarchies (degrees of initiation).

[Into The Forest Dark @ElliottBlackwe3]

Hildegard von Bingen