I’m taking pottery lessons right now… and my teacher said “the kiln gods are being kind to me right now.” And that made me stop and think. Is there a god of pottery? I tried to look it up but it’s hazy.
In Ancient Greece, Athena was apparently the goddess of crafts, which is a bit vague. Hephaestus was the god of sculpting, but that’s not right either.
In Ancient Egypt, I found Khnum who made the other gods and humankind on his potter’s wheel.
I found two gods of pottery in Southeast Asian cultures, Lianaotabi and Panthoibi.
But I wasn’t able to find anyone else. Pottery being such an important part of daily life all around the world, it seems like there would be more. Does anyone know of any other gods of pottery?
kiln gods are also A Thing!
they’re little sculptural critters that potters make and leave on or around their kiln for good luck. a lot of them have to do with fire or are holding pottery (Calcifer from Howl’s Moving Castle is one I’ve seen multiple times) but a kiln god can be anything
I share a kiln so I don’t want to take up space on or near the kiln, so I just put a kiln god through with every batch of pottery
here’s a selection of mine (all holding pottery)
Do potters have one or kiln gods they put in the kiln many times? Or do they make a new kiln god each time they use the kiln?
from what I’ve seen, a lot of potters who have their own kiln just have one kiln god sitting on top of their kiln, watching over it. these are mostly electric kilns as far as I know. sometimes the little gods aren’t glazed, or particularly polished/smoothed.
since I don’t have my own kiln, I make one for every time I use the shared kiln, to keep an eye on my work while it’s being fired
so really, I think it depends on the potter and their kiln(s). the ideas seem to vary widely
ordered pizza from a small local place and they didnt actually cut it so i’ve chosen to revert to a wild animal and begin ripping it apart instead of just using a knife to portion slices
absolutely visceral experience. food is so much more satisfying when you have to fight it. i may be feral
i am not proud to say this but that pizza lasted fifteen minutes. i normally am not that gluttonous, but this goes beyond glutton. there was gluttony and wrath. a whirlwind of sauce, cheese, and pepperoni, all atop a flatbread that was shred apart by my own hands due to the neglect of another
in that moment i was wild. i was free. i understood the simplest joys in life. the joy of eating and manifesting my own destiny
been reflecting on this all day and the unsliced pizza experience honestly ruled. i think everyone should try it sometime or another. you have not truly lived until you just absolutely obliterated a pizza in such a feral manner
is this you
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My best friend and I have this tradition we call “chicken dinner” where we get a rotisserie chicken, lay it on a tarp, start on opposite ends of the tarp, and on the count of three we both run at the chicken and start ripping into it with our bear hands. We will be on our knees fighting for the best pieces of meat, ripping into the chicken with our faces, and it is the most viscerally delicious chicken I have ever had in my life. Grease gets everywhere. We have to do this outside. We have to tie our hair in buns beforehand.
You have never known the joy of food until you are lunging at your friend to rip the best part of the chicken out of their hand, rolling around on the tarp, stuffing it in your face before they can retaliate, and you realize “holy shit did I just growl?” And then you realize they are doing it too.
The chicken gets decimated. It’s absolutely destroyed. We aren’t allowed back inside until we have been hosed down. It’s the best.
Little thing for the Space Station AU on @styllwaters Discord server, plenty of people’s sophonts in an uh…odd situation. Try and spot them all on panel 8
Feeling the compulsive urge to post about my oc’s as if they have an established fanbase and aren’t actually from wips I haven’t even introduced on tumblr yet
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