![]() ![]() Thus, the /r/Occult mods have neither the authority nor the ability (and likely not the inclination) to unban you from the Discord You will need to talk to an admin on discord for any moderation issues related to it. NOTE: The moderation team of the discord is distinct from the moderation team of this subreddit. This is a voice and text chatroom, with weekly open study and discussion groups. r/Occult now has an official Discord server. Magicians, mystics, bibliophiles, occult scientists, esotericists, philologists, etymologists, critical syncretists, mythologists, gnostics, open-minded skeptics, and anyone interested in the open-minded, critical pursuit of illumination and the exploration of esoteric mysteries are welcome. They were connected with Tezcatlipoca, god of obsidian and sorcery, whose name can be translated from the Nahuatl language as 'Smoking Mirror’./r/Occult is a community centered around discussion of the occult, mysticism, esoterica, metaphysics, and other related topics, for those who likely believe that blind faith is the death of intelligence. Obsidian mirrors were used by some Aztec priests for scrying, to conjure visions and give divinations. The pole arm version of this weapon was called tepoztopilli. Called a macuahuitl, the weapon could inflict terrible injuries, combining the sharp cutting edge of an obsidian blade with the ragged cut of a serrated weapon. Mesoamericans also made a type of sword with obsidian blades mounted in a wooden body. Pre-Columbian Mesoamericans' use of obsidian was extensive and sophisticated including carved and worked obsidian for tools and decorative objects. It was also polished to create early mirrors. Like all glass and some other naturally occurring rocks, obsidian breaks with a characteristic conchoidal fracture. ![]() Obsidian was valued in Stone Age cultures because, like flint, it could be fractured to produce sharp blades or arrowheads in a process called knapping. Obsidian bladelets were used in ritual circumcisions and cutting of umbilical cords of newborns. ![]() Manufacture of obsidian bladelets at Lipari had reached a high level of sophistication by the late Neolithic, and was traded as far as Sicily, the southern Po river valley, and Croatia. The first known archaeological evidence of usage was in Kariandusi (Kenya) and other sites of the Acheulian age (beginning 1.5 million years BP) dated 700,000 BC, although only very few objects have been found at these sites relative to the Neolithic. states of Virginia, Pennsylvania and North Carolina. ![]() Obsidian can also be found in the eastern U.S. states including Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, Utah, and Washington, Oregon and Idaho. Yellowstone National Park has a mountainside containing obsidian located between Mammoth Hot Springs and the Norris Geyser Basin, and deposits can be found in many other western U.S. Obsidian flows which may be hiked on are found within the calderas of Newberry Volcano and Medicine Lake Volcano in the Cascade Range of western North America, and at Inyo Craters east of the Sierra Nevada in California. It can be found in Argentina, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Australia, Canada, Chile, Georgia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Greece, Guatemala, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Mexico, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Scotland, The Canary Islands, Turkey and the United States. Obsidian is found near volcanoes in locations which have undergone rhyolitic eruptions. John Dee used a scrying mirror made of polished obsidian for divination of the future. It is sometimes classified as a mineraloid. Obsidian is mineral-like, but not a true mineral because, as a glass, it is not crystalline in addition, its composition is too variable to be classified as a mineral. Obsidian is a naturally occurring volcanic glass formed when lava extruded from a volcano cools rapidly with minimal crystal growth. ![]()
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