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Controlled Chaos

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The Manifesto of Solar Culture

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The Cattle of the Sun: Solar Spirituality as “Due Respect” in Homer’s Odyssey

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In the Name of the Father

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Crossing the Night Sea – New Music for Solar Meditation

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Solar Mandala

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The Name of the Dragon is Negation

Jack Donovan·August 23, 2021
Most creation stories begin in a realm of perfect equality — in a formless, non-differentiated void in which...
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From Dusk, New Dawn – Music from Temple Tribe

Jack Donovan·July 24, 2021
PH2T3R’s second “solar sounds” grant went to Temple Tribe, and today he has released a fantastic single with...
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Fire in the Dark EP – Music by Peter Soros

Jack Donovan·June 14, 2021
Peter Soros, a recipient of one of the PH2T3R “Solar Sounds” grants, composed an EP inspired by the...
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Be My Charioteer

Jack Donovan·June 7, 2021
A reader recently commented that Fire in the Dark didn’t contain enough suggestions for ritual practice, but that...
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Sisyphus, the Stone, and the Solar Man

Benjamin Howes·June 4, 2021
“Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.” -William Goldman Most people are familiar with...
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The Holy Grail of Meditation

Johnny Mannaz·May 24, 2021
Once I grasped this ritual symbolism the results of meditation became an actual experience. Before that, meditation was...
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Beyond Opposition

Jack Donovan·May 21, 2021
If you tell me I have to do something, I want to do the opposite.  If you tell...
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Tolerance Is Not A Virtue

Cameron Dixon·May 20, 2021
TOLERANCE. The faux virtue of the modern man. The pinnacle of Western ideas. The summum bonum of post-modernism.  Everywhere you...
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Solar Poetry from the Hill of Uisnech

Jack Donovan·May 19, 2021
Paul Begadon, the author of The Layman’s Havamal, What Are You Selling?, and Unchaining The Titan, shared two...
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Seek The Sky

Clinton J. McMillan·May 18, 2021
For our species, the pull of our eyes to the world above is ever present. No matter where...
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Stills from an untitled film about the gods of the Stills from an untitled film about the gods of the storm. #midjoirneyai #midjourneyart #midjourney #midjourneyv4 #sol #solar #solaridealism #solarculture #stormgod #maruts
Film stills featuring The Lord of the Earth, from Film stills featuring The Lord of the Earth, from films never made by actors who don’t exist. Made with MidJourney v4 by @starttheworld #midjourneyai #midjourney #midjourneyart #midjourneyv4 #ai #aiart #aiartcommunity #aiartists #aiartdaily #lordoftheearth #fireinthedark #sol #solar #solaridealism #solarculture #orderoffire
The original aim of the PH2T3R project was to use The original aim of the PH2T3R project was to use art to bring ideas — specifically the syncretic masculine god-archetypes of The Father, The Striker, and The Lord of the Earth — to life. When I started the project, after publishing my book, Fire in the Dark, AI art wasn’t in the picture. But over the past 9 months or so, it’s become a fascinating (and somewhat terrifying) tool for creation and exploration of these ideas. And it’s given men who don’t have a background in the visual arts an opportunity to create in a new way. The first incarnations of AI art were wonky, especially with humans, but this is where the technology is now. I’ve been able to generate a lot of images that captured the idea of The Father or The Striker, but this is the first one that really struck me and said — “that’s the Lord of the Earth.” Or, at least, that is one of his incarnations. The basic concept of Solar Idealism is to compress the god-archetypes from various cultures and times into eternal masculine ideals — tied to no one time or culture, but to the idealized excellences of men. The Lord of the Earth is the idealized version of the man who contends with material reality and the natural world. Everything men do isn’t hunting or fighting or making rules. We just celebrated Thanksgiving in America, which is a Lord of the Earth harvest holiday. Two friends of mine recently helped their wives give birth. That’s certainly The Lord’s work. Other friends and many members of The Order of Fire harvested deer and one even shot a moose. These are all things that men can live and experience and embody in the present — not merely abstract ideas from some distant past. — @starttheworld #sol #solar #solaridealism #theorderoffire #bvlls #solarculture #ai #aiart #fireinthedark #aiartcommunity #aiartwork #midjourney #midjourneyart #midjouneyai #midjourneyv4 #staysolar
Getting started on plans for my Solar Temple. Re Getting started on plans for my Solar Temple. Repost from @helios.anthem #solarculture #solaridealism #suntemple #solarson #midjourney #aiart #plans
The Warrior's Golden Path to the Creator. Repost The Warrior's Golden Path to the Creator. Repost from @dsrtsun #orderoffire #sol #solar #staysolar #solaridealism #solarsphere #bvlls #bvll #solarculture
New poetry from @theorderoffire member @madison_th New poetry from @theorderoffire member @madison_the_greyt read by @thewoodkern orderoffire #solaridealism #solarculture #bvlls #poetry #poetryisnotdead
This Solar Mandala is created out of four distinct This Solar Mandala is created out of four distinct elements: The Eye of the Father, ever-watching in the center. The Solar Flares that intertwine around the eye and provide the warmth necessary for life. Overlapping Thorns, an organic element, to represent the Lord of Earth. A Glowing Spiked Wheel that protects the inner circle from the darkness beyond the fire, The Striker. Reposted from @dsrtsun #orderoffire #sol #solar #staysolar #solaridealism #solarsphere #bvlls #bvll #solarculture
Autumn is time to celebrate the harvest and think Autumn is time to celebrate the harvest and think about the archetype of the Lord or the Earth. Fertility the perpetuation of life. This the symbol for the Lord I created for Fire in the Dark — doubled Fehu and Algiz runes spread out in four directions, referencing wealth, prosperity, elk, and life. It seemed appropriate to carve it into a pumpkin. #fehu #algiz #lordoftheearth #solarculture #fireinthedark #solar #solaridealism #sol #pumpkin #archetypes
@coachjoshwood Apply yourself. There are an infin @coachjoshwood Apply yourself. There are an infinite number of paths to take in life. Find one that takes you were you want to be. Yesterday, @summum_benum and I went to the Huon Valley for a shoot with one of the traditional archery clubs. In two weeks, I’ll be competing in a medeival style archery tourney (the weekend after my strongman comp). These are two areas that I have chosen to apply myself lately. My training in gym has reflected the needs of these endeavours. After the @static_monsters comp, I’ll spend some time focusing on upper body hypertrophy and archery, because that’s what I want to do more of next year. I can do everything, but I can’t do everything at once. Don’t make the mistake of trying to do everything at once. Periodize and focus for blocks of time. The goal is to do what you love as long as you love doing it; while you live, shine ☀. If you want help creating a strategy that tailors your physical health and fitness training to your life goals, DM or comment below. Representing @tasmanian_mens_society and the #OrderOfFire #staysolar #archerypractice #archerylife #huntinglife #tradarchery #tradbow #hobartlife #fitnesstasmania #tasmania #outdoorfitness #outdoorlife #fitspo #fitfam #fitnessmotivation #gyminstructor #liftlife #bowhunting #gymnewbie
HYMN CXXIX. Creation. - From the Rig Veda. 1. THE HYMN CXXIX. Creation. - From the Rig Veda. 1. THEN was not non-existent nor existent: there was no realm of air, no sky beyond it. What covered in, and where? and what gave shelter? Was water there, unfathomed depth of water? 2 Death was not then, nor was there aught immortal: no sign was there, the day's and night's divider. That One Thing, breathless, breathed by its own nature: apart from it was nothing whatsoever. 3 Darkness there was: at first concealed in darkness this All was indiscriminated chaos. All that existed then was void and form less: by the great power of Warmth was born that Unit. 4 Thereafter rose Desire in the beginning, Desire, the primal seed and germ of Spirit. Sages who searched with their heart's thought discovered the existent's kinship in the non-existent. 5 Transversely was their severing line extended: what was above it then, and what below it? There were begetters, there were mighty forces, free action here and energy up yonder 6 Who verily knows and who can here declare it, whence it was born and whence comes this creation? The Gods are later than this world's production. Who knows then whence it first came into being? 7 Erect, to heaven hath the Gandharva mounted, pointing at us his many-coloured weapons; Clad in sweet raiment beautiful to look on, for he, as light, produceth forms that please us. 8 When as a spark he cometh near the ocean, still looking with a vulture's eye to heaven, His lustre, joying in its own bright splendour, maketh dear glories in the lowest region. Illustrated with #midjourneyai #rigveda #vedas #vedic #creation #sol #solar #staysolar #solarculture #solaridealism #myth
@petersoros3 AI art generated to match the musical @petersoros3 AI art generated to match the musical themes i composed, based on themes from @starttheworld latest book, ‘Fire in the Dark’. @ph2t3r #staysolar #bvlls
From @el_sol_invictus We live in a world where, From @el_sol_invictus We live in a world where, for many, god is dead. We live in a time of disorder, where all values are in question and flux. We live in a sprawling, global Empire of Nothing, where so many thumb-suckers want to or have already returned to the womb, to the void, to sleep in a space where all is one and chaos is queen. Today is a time of reintegration and synthesis, for cosmogenesis and theogony. #orderoffire #sol #solar #staysolar #solaridealism #solarsphere #bvlls #bvll #solarculture #fireinthedark
We were talking about the Maruts from the Rig Veda We were talking about the Maruts from the Rig Veda today in the Order of Fire. One striking thing about them, when compared to many modern ideas about warriors living plainly, is that the Maruts were portrayed as being both beautiful and terrible, youthful and decked out in gold chains and rings. "With glittering ornaments they deck them forth for show; for beauty on their breasts they bind their chains of gold..." One of the guys mentioned Mr. T, and this is what I pulled out of MidJourney -- with some comping and editing in Photoshop. @starttheworld #maruts #rigveda #mrt #midjourney #midjourneyart #midjourneyai #vedic #sol #solar #solarculture #solaridealism #orderoffire #bvlls #bvll #staysolar #ph2t3r #fireinthedark
@thewoodkern Ozymandias Contrary to the initial i @thewoodkern Ozymandias Contrary to the initial impression one might get from this poem, its message is not that everything decays and glory never lasts. The works of the tyrant Ozymandias, more commonly known as Pharaoh Ramses II, amount to nothing more than a colossal wreck, a victim of time. But what remains are fragments of the works of the sculptor who made the statue, and the words he inscribed upon the pedestal. Aside from the sculpture and the words, nothing else remains of the great vanity project that Ozymandias commissioned, thinking his glory would be eternal. The poet’s message is veiled, but apparent. Tyrants are seasonal, but art and, by extension, artists can achieve a glory which is as close to eternal as it’s possible for mortals to get. Dedicating your life to creating art is therefore more lasting than the building of any empire could ever hope to be. What else would we expect a poet to say? Ozymandias, by Percey Shelley. I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed; And on the pedestal, these words appear: My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair! Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.” #ozymandias #poem #poetry #perceyshelley #woodkern #writer #author #narrator #voicover #staysolar #solarculture #solaridealism #bvll #bvlls #tyranny #tyrant
@ofmangodsandland The Face When the sun rises, if @ofmangodsandland The Face When the sun rises, if you get up early enough, the light hits the mountain face just right. When your heart is right, and you know the words, the mountain will give you answers. New NFT collection available on OpenSea. Link in bio. Crafted by ManOfTheWoods to portray scenes that remind us of the powerful connection to the natural world and the gods in all things. #staysolar #nftartgallery #artoftheday #design #cryptonews #illustration #binance #dart #abstractart #nftartwork #digitalartist #blender #modernart
@ofmangodsandland Ascendant Some men seek the pea @ofmangodsandland Ascendant Some men seek the peaks; Not only for what they reveal of the landscape, but particularly for what they reveal in us. Seek the peaks and know yourself. Part of my new NFT collection on OpenSea. Link in bio. Crafted by ManOfTheWoods to portray scenes that remind us of the powerful connection to the natural world and the gods in all things. #staysolar #nftartgallery #artoftheday #design #cryptonews #illustration #binance #dart #abstractart #nftartwork #digitalartist #blender #modernart #rarible #abstract #cryptotrading #artgallery #painting #artistsoninstagram
@clintonjmcmillan “The wise is one only. It is u @clintonjmcmillan “The wise is one only. It is unwilling and willing to be called by the name of Zeus.” – Heraclitus “Monad” generated through #midjourney. #zeus #heraclitus #monad #theone #divinemind #absolute #pantheism #solarculture #monism #midjourney
The Mountain Home - @ofmangodsandland To live am The Mountain Home - @ofmangodsandland To live among the peaks, the gods of stone and ice, is both a challenge and a privilege. There are few peoples in the world that make their homes at altitude where the air is thin and the soil sparse. Those that do would choose no other life, for they are as much a part of the mountain as the rocks themselves. New NFT collection available on Opensea. Link in bio. Crafted by ManOfTheWoods to portray scenes that remind us of the powerful connection to the natural world and the gods in all things. #staysolar #nft #nftart #art #nfts #crypto #nftartist #digitalart #nftcommunity #nftcollector #cryptoart #ethereum #cryptocurrency #opensea #bitcoin #blockchain#artwork #nftdrop #nftcollectibles #btc #openseanft #nftcollection #cryptoartist #solarculture
@engelsjagd [Digital Divinations] ✴️ The Fathe @engelsjagd [Digital Divinations] ✴️ The Father of Thunder . . . . . #illustration #art #drawing #artist #digitalart #artwork #illustrator #design #draw #artistsoninstagram #painting #instaart #graphicdesign #artoftheday #digitalillustration #fanart #procreate #creative #digitaldrawing #midjourney #aiart #beautifulbizarre #ai #digitalart #generativeart #aiartcommunity #newmediaart #neuralnetworkart #digitalartist #darkart
Indra. Digital illustration by @starttheworld. T Indra. Digital illustration by @starttheworld. There are so few illustrations of the Indra, the Vedic storm and lightning god who shares much in common with Zeus and Thor and other Striker gods. Like Zeus and all Strikers, he slays a chaos monster Vritra and becomes the most important god of the Rig Veda. Like Zeus, he also wields a thunderbolt weapon, in this case the vajra. And much like Odin and his host, he leads a band of storm god warriors called the Maruts. People prayed to him for strength and wealth. #indra #vedic #indoeuropean #vajra #thunderbolt #stormgod #striker #thestriker #sol #solar #solaridealism #solarsphere #staysolar #myth #rigveda #digitalart #digitalillustration #digitalpainting #procreate #procreateart #mythology #comparativemythology #comparativereligion #digitalartist
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