And the Gods are guarding and guiding me as always
I just returned from the great celebration of Thaipusam 2025 in Malaysia. This is one if most famous and wonderful festivals for Lord Skanda Murugan. Being there was like experiencing Heaven on Earth. I followed the Chariot along for 22 hours, carrying the kavadi again, and this made me feeling as one of happiest devotees in the world.
The feeling of love from Murugan was so intense that every my breath and heartbeat resonated with drums, songs and mantras.
Djehuty was also gently caring and his full moon have been shining in the sky.
After long years of hard work and sadeness, I did feel relieved and refreshed. I have new plans and new big dreams for devotional pilgrimages.
I have some ideas of devotional fiction to write, too.
During the last years I was staying away from Tumblr, many things changed, but I’m alive and going forward.
I miss old days on tumblr when it was so much fun. It was sad to be pushed away by people who assumed that someone’s devotion is a threat to their authority.
I walked my path alone and not alone.
I still laugh at these people who guessed that I try to “steal a Deity from hinduism”, one of funniest statements indeed. No, it’s not stealing - it’s a calling; when a Deity and devotee meet one other, who are human beings to create any barriers? Murugan’s love is a flow that naturally can’t be stopped. He stole me from this world, and I feel truly born again.
And Djehuty covers me with His wings.
I’m alive.
I look for the new great things to come.
I don’t know if I may post occasionally something on tumblr again or not.
Just wanted to say hi for the followers and people who remember me…
Be happy :)
Jul 30
I’m alive and well
Staying on the waters of Djehuty
Breathing the sweet air from the love of Skanda Murugan
Praising the Gods on the course of every day
Doing the priestly service in private devotion manner…
Deeply devoted and proud :)
I believe there are some people on Tumblr who still miss me and find my blog to be resourceful. Hugs to you, thanks for remembering me.
Since the day I left Tumblr for good (followed by yelling of some people that I try to “steal a deity from hindu pantheon), I visit India several times, and completed two full Aarupadai Veedu pilgrimages, visiting 6 most important battle camps (temples) of Skanda Murugan.
Also I took part many times in holy Chariot Processions of Gods. In 2020, I followed the great Thaipusam procession of Skanda Murugan in Kuala Lumpur, and carried the cavadee (I honestly believe that I’m first, or one if the first, russian persons who carried the cavadee for Murugan :)
Sanatana Dharma and devotion to Lord Murugan relieved me. I know that no one would separate me from the love of great Gods… Humans should never try to make artifical boundaries between Gods and devotees.
Djehuty is forever with me, as well as my priestly vows for Him…
Should I come again to Tumblr? I don’t know… Time will tell.
Pantheistic Statuette of Thoth, the moon god, as a sacred baboon (faience), Late Ptolemaic - Early Roman Period, ca. 50 BC - 100 AD. Now in the University of East Anglia, Norfolk, UK. UEA 545
Statuette of a baboon, one of the animal manifestations of Thoth, god of writing, magic, wisdom, and the moon. Ptolemaic Period, ca. 3rd to 2nd century BC. Photo: David A. Loggie, N.Y. Now in the Israel Museum, Jerusalem.
Finally got around to some artwork for Yinepu! This was inspired by a scene in the TV adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s “American Gods” with Anubis and a recently deceased individual. I tried to capture the mystical feeling that the story imparted. Hopefully it worked! Prints available here.
