• entwine413@lemm.ee
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    9 days ago

    I’ve often wondered about who discovered arcane symbols/rituals.

    Like, did some prehistoric guy just sit there drawing in the dirt until something happened?

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      My head canon is that creatures such as ghosts, demons, djinns, … enter our mortal realm willingly from time to time and sometimes form a connection with a person, who they then teach how to summon them in times of need. This knowledge is then passed down.

      So effectively otherworldly creatures are tourists who gave a local their number and now they get bothered by their greatgreatgreatgreatgrandkids.

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      The Book of Enoch says that fallen angels named Uzza, Azza and Azael taught humans originally.

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        So it’s the original developers that answer the questions in Stack Overflow? Good to know.

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      It was just probably just some poor guy with magical thinking OCD. “If I don’t repeatedly draw symbols in the dirt, my whole family will die.”