Been thinking a lot about the role of narrative and liturgy in #witchcraft. Some of it is inspired by Sarah Iles Johnston and Tanya Luhrmann's work. The power of myth and liturgy is not a rote, mechanical call and response between human and divine. (1/4) - ThreadSky

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levirowland.bsky.social • 24 days ago

Been thinking a lot about the role of narrative and liturgy in #witchcraft. Some of it is inspired by Sarah Iles Johnston and Tanya Luhrmann's work. The power of myth and liturgy is not a rote, mechanical call and response between human and divine. (1/4)

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levirowland.bsky.social•24 days ago

This "I say, you do" mentality of religious rite is more akin to grimoire influenced spirit conjuration than cultic worship or religious magic, which I think a lot of witches are doing. A lot of this mechanistic thinking smells like 19th century #occult obsessions with science-ifying #magic. (2/4)

levirowland.bsky.social•24 days ago

Instead, liturgy and narrative make the Gods present to us. The act of ritual does not create a space where worship happens; the act of ritual IS worship. A participatory thing. A magical thing. A communicative thing. And it is more renewal and remembering than reenactment or mechanism. (3/4)

levirowland.bsky.social•24 days ago

The sacred and the mundane collapse together when we work through word and act. We aren't "making" necessarily but "stepping into." It's a 2 way street. What is actualized by us is made manifest in the Gods. Both are meeting at the point of our work. (4/4) #witchsky 🧵

thegirlhag.bsky.social•24 days ago

Oh, this is interesting! I became really interested in Luhrmann’s work after watching a couple of video interviews with her!

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