Lokakisa wrote:Actually you guys, if I'm just being a starry-eyed fangirl here, please tell me.
I don't want to disrespect the great Prince.
I guess I read into the image differently and was glad to see something that wasn't *uber evil rawr I'm coming to steal your secrets and mock your nude women.*
There's so little on the lesser-known DLs besides the old-fashioned grimoire blurbs and it's nice to see more modern interpretations.
Sitri represents sexual desire and attraction, and this sort of image fits with our modern culture (with some 80s-style humor). He's also supposed to be very beautiful/dashing/charming. So, yeah.
It isn't that this image is meant to be an end all, be all for worship and understanding, but part of a greater whole.
I'm okay if you don't like my personal interpretations or the images I post. I learn more if you explain what the problem may be.
I posted in the Humor section that the same day I posted this, I got trolled by "Stray Cat Strut" on the radio. At least I think it was Sitri, you know how I doubt my experiences. I have felt pretty confident that he has a good sense of humor and knows I only had positive intentions of bringing attention to him.
My issue with it is this, and ive said this ad nauseum, which is why i dont bother anymore- people tend to anthropomorphise them in very bizarre ways, assigning very human characteristics that simply arent generally present. Ive seen people talking about being married to them, having families WITH them, sleeping with them, talking about their dick sizes, assigning ridiculous cartoon caricatures to them, that we are on equal playing fields with them, saying theyre zany and fun and jokey and i just... what . the. fuck. are we even talking about the same beings here? I dont get it. I truly dont. No other pantheon gets mocked as badly as this one. Ok, except maybe the Norse Pantheon- I've seen Loki reduced to little more than a court jester in some circles.
I understand totally enjoying a more "modern, friendly" depiction of a DL instead of the
*uber evil rawr I'm coming to steal your secrets and mock your nude women.*
depiction. But this isnt "assign a personality of your choosing to make things all nice and comfy and acceptable" type of thing either. There just HAS to be a happy medium somewhere between the Monsters of the old grimoires and the bizarre cartoony funsy happy go lucky bullshit that seems to be sprouting up everywhere recently.
I am currently working closely with a "lesser known DL" and i can tell you, I understand WHY he's a lesser known. He's brutal. He's straight up, hard core and he takes NO shit. He gives zero fucks for human feels or suffering. He carves a path and doesnt give a shit what or who He pummels in the process. He is certainly not as "humanized" as some of the more popular DLs. I have seen him depicted in this anime crap as a sweet fluffy bunny and it makes my skin crawl because I know some idiot somewhere is going to approach him using that false information and get totally obliterated by him for even DARING to approach him like an asshole. THIS is why these things annoy me. And no, at this point im not sharing the DL's name (ive never mentioned him on here or to anyone other than my inner circle). I cannot at this point , in good conscience, share it because i dont want the responsibility of someones life potentially being nearly destroyed before they can start to work productively with him. if i live through this next year, I will have one hell of a story to write. IF.
Safety- They give false and inaccurate information thus making people not experienced in demonic magick VERY vulnerable to having very bad things happen.
Yes, Sytri does have the ability to get you laid. but lets think about this for a minute. He never says by some dashing handsome Ryan Reynolds look a like. He never claims a hot.. or even consensual sexual encounter. He doesnt even say that the sexual partner will give two shits about you or your body. Thats why its up to you, the magician, to know what you are getting into and how to manipulate those energies in your favor.. so you arent getting something you REALLY do not want. Because face it, any scenario that involves you getting laid, whether good or bad, well, he fulfilled his part of the promise.
Its absolutely wonderful and very rewarding to have a close relationship with a DL you've worked hard to establish. Im not saying thats a bad thing. its not. Its GREAT. What I am saying is study, practice reverence (not ass kissing, just RESPECT) and please for the love of all things unholy do not depend on anime to be your reference guide to ANYTHING demon related. And mostly STUDY. Study solid, academic (if you even can find that) facts or traits and correspondences that do NOT depend on some cartoonist somewhere whos just trying to make a fast buck and feels like its time to revamp some old gods and make them cute and appealing to gain notoriety or line their pockets. Talk to actual people who have worked with them, gather all the information you can, then fill in the blanks with your own knowledge and intuition. if you cant, then restudy and it will come to you. Let common sense, safety and respect prevail.