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🇵🇸 Sarah Nour 🇱🇧
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🇱🇧 It's pronounced SARR-uh 🧠 neurodivergent ✍ writer 🗣 audiobook narrator 🖌occasional painter 🐱 cat mama 🌺 vegan (she/her)
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@xXHadesUndeadXx @_celia_bedelia_ You poor thing. Are you even aware that people have sex for pleasure? Whatever sex you're having must be lackluster at best.
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@_celia_bedelia_ Sex is for procreation.
All contraceptives and forms of abortion need to be banned and criminalized.
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Lololololololololilolol. Oh sweetie. Wait until you hear that married people have sex and don’t want babies
Neve 🌷@naturallyneve
There would be no need for birth control and abortions if everyone just waited until marriage.
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Maat, the Egyptian goddess of truth, justice, & cosmic order, weighs the hearts of the deceased to determine if they're worthy of the afterlife. Heavy hearts, which indicate evil deeds, are eaten by the goddess Ammit, the Devourer of Souls. #MythologyMonday

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Astraea, the Greek goddess of justice, lived on earth during the Golden Age of Man. But during the Bronze Age, she became disheartened by the lawlessness of mankind, so she left & joined the other gods in the sky, becoming the constellation Virgo. #MythologyMonday

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Shani Dev is the Hindu deity of karma, justice, & retribution. He blesses those who behave righteously & punishes evil deeds. Blessings manifest as stability, career success, & good health. Punishments are challenges, setbacks, & hardships. #MythologyMonday

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In "The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter" from Japan, a bamboo cutter & his wife must part with a girl they found as an infant & raised, as it's revealed she's a princess of the moon. When she dons her celestial robe, her memories of life on earth are erased. #LegendaryWednesday

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Meng Po, the goddess of forgetfulness in Chinese myth, resides in Diyu, the realm of the dead. When a soul is ready to be reincarnated, she serves them the Five-Flavored Tea of Forgetfulness, which erases memories of their previous life & lets them begin anew. #LegendaryWednesday

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In the Sanskrit play "Shakuntala," King Dushyanta is cursed to forget the existence of his beloved wife, Shakuntala, who he leaves at a hermitage. Sometime later, a fisherman finds Shakuntala's lost ring in a fish's belly, & it restores Dushyanta's memory. #LegendaryWednesday

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There's an old Menominee myth about two children who harass a sleeping porcupine. They yell insults, poke him with sticks, & throw rocks at him. The porcupine wakes up & angrily summons a blizzard. The children can't get home & freeze to death. #WyrdWednesday

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Storms destroyed thousands of Mongol fleets when they tried to invade Japan in 1274, & again in 1281. The Japanese believed Fujin, god of wind, & his brother Raijin, god of storms, protected Japan by sending kamikaze, a term that means "divine wind." #WyrdWednesday

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In March of 1876 in Bath County, Kentucky, Mrs. Crouch was outside her home making soap when it started raining chunks of red meat. The Kentucky Meat Shower has been studied & debated by scientists, with one theory being that vultures vomited up the meat. #WyrdWednesday

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In the Russian tale "Father Frost," a woman leaves her stepdaughter for dead in the snow. She's saved by Father Frost & returns home with lovely gifts. The woman tries the same with her own daughter, but the girl is rude, so Father Frost freezes her to death. #FairyTaleTuesday

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In the English tale "The Snow-Daughter & the Fire-Son," a woman swallows an icicle & gives birth to a girl white as snow & cold as ice. Then a spark from the fireplace lands on the woman's lap, & she gives birth to a boy red as fire & hot to the touch. #FairyTaleTuesday


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In the Syrian tale "Sheikh of the Lamps," an Ifrit—a djinn associated with fire—magically impregnates a young woman with a beautiful daughter. Fifteen years later, the daughter loses her anklet in a river. A prince finds it, tracks her down, & marries her. #FairyTaleTuesday

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The mythical Irish hero Fionn mac Cumhaill has the ability to heal people with water cupped in his hands. In one tale, his fiancé enchants his fellow warrior Diarmuid into eloping with her. Diarmuid is later gored by a boar, & Fionn refuses to heal him. #MythologyMonday

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To maintain immortality & heal wounds, the Greek gods eat ambrosia, a sacred food, & drink a beverage called nectar, which are delivered by doves. During the Trojan War, the gods cleanse the bodies of fallen warriors with liquid ambrosia to prevent decay. #MythologyMonday

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When a fellow god is wounded, the Hindu monkey deity Hanuman seeks the magic herb Sanjeevani from the Valley of Flowers to heal him. When he finds the Valley, he doesn't know which herb is which, so he lifts the entire mountain & carries them all back. #MythologyMonday

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@voskat55 @mushycrouton The fact that she didn't specify that makes me think it's not what she meant.
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