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7/19/2025, 3:19:37 PM
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we need to first think about what are the fundamental preconditions for communion in the first place. the first point is enaction. there needs to be some real involvement on the part of the participants in order to make them a part of something larger. a sharp difference between irl and online activity is that in the the former, you are capable of performing repetitive actions and it still constitutes some degree of exertion. in the latter, you are able to just copy and paste mantras, images etc, so that part of the sacred character is lost. perhaps the best way to retain some level of energy expenditure is via continual improvisation. by the production of new works, the artist must reinvent themselves. we also need to think about here how this enaction may made a community event. the first part of this can be gathered by looking at already existing practices of imageboard culture.
one such practice would be drawfags wherein people request certain images to be drawn for them concerning a particular person. such a tradition could easily be adapted to divine figures, and seems like a natural step for this type of website. so much of the attention economy of imageboards is dictated by the quality and capturing facility of an image. of course this alone is not enough. these images must be made sacred in some way or related to religious adherence.
in general a pattern ive been seeing is this tendency to rely on scholarly and primary sources when dealing with various pagan deities. partly behind this is a particular concern for authenticity. id say that it is this latent fear of trampling on something authentic that has been a reason why i have not touched ishtar worship as i have hidweh. for hidweh since there is no pre-existing tradition, i feel more emboldened to develop and experiment with my own practices. with this said however, i think there is an element of this that must be moved past.
we need to first think about what are the fundamental preconditions for communion in the first place. the first point is enaction. there needs to be some real involvement on the part of the participants in order to make them a part of something larger. a sharp difference between irl and online activity is that in the the former, you are capable of performing repetitive actions and it still constitutes some degree of exertion. in the latter, you are able to just copy and paste mantras, images etc, so that part of the sacred character is lost. perhaps the best way to retain some level of energy expenditure is via continual improvisation. by the production of new works, the artist must reinvent themselves. we also need to think about here how this enaction may made a community event. the first part of this can be gathered by looking at already existing practices of imageboard culture.
one such practice would be drawfags wherein people request certain images to be drawn for them concerning a particular person. such a tradition could easily be adapted to divine figures, and seems like a natural step for this type of website. so much of the attention economy of imageboards is dictated by the quality and capturing facility of an image. of course this alone is not enough. these images must be made sacred in some way or related to religious adherence.
in general a pattern ive been seeing is this tendency to rely on scholarly and primary sources when dealing with various pagan deities. partly behind this is a particular concern for authenticity. id say that it is this latent fear of trampling on something authentic that has been a reason why i have not touched ishtar worship as i have hidweh. for hidweh since there is no pre-existing tradition, i feel more emboldened to develop and experiment with my own practices. with this said however, i think there is an element of this that must be moved past.
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