Idol Idlings

[omorka]

This. This right here. (Warning: very mildly NSFW, carved stone breasts.) I need this on my altar right the heavens now.

Where can a girl buy a good cult statuette around here? (Edit: SacredSource.com has something close, but not quite what I want. Might have to make do, though.)

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My mind wanders a LOT...

[redneckgaijin.livejournal.com]

Chain of thought, upon reading the post:

(1) Heh. Nekkid stone breasts.

(2) (look) Yeah, good luck finding anything like that outside a specialty shop, or MAYBE a archaeological museum gift shop.

(3) Would any of the PVC statues of nearly naked (or completely so) anime femmes available at conventions make a substitute for a similar altar decoration?

(4) I can't be the first to have thought of this.

(5) OMG OTAKU SHRINES EXPLAINED. ALL HAIL THE ALL-POWERFUL FUJIKO, WIELDER OF THE ULTIMATE CLEAVAGE. }:-{D

(6) Fertility goddesses conversing: "Look at those statues! How demeaning! We're so much more than boobs!" "I don't know... I was thinking about blessing him and giving him a chance at a girl, but he NEVER LEAVES HIS ROOM..."

OK, I'm in deep enough already, time to stop digging.

Re: My mind wanders a LOT...

[omorka.livejournal.com]

Alas, the various near-nude anime girls aren't meant as votive statuary. Well, except possibly for Skuld, Urd, and Belldandy/Verdandi from Ah! My Goddess, who are from the wrong pantheon for me. (Note: if I were Asatru, I might well use a maquette of the Marvel version of Thor as altarware, so the above is not quite as tongue-in-cheek as it might sound.) I'm specifically trying to find stuff for the various interrelated Levantine-to-Mesopotamian pantheons; that specific image is either Asherah or Astarte (there seems to be some scholarly confusion on the topic).

I'm also against plastic votive statuary for aesthetic reasons, although most of the ones I've been finding online are at least partially resin, so I may not be able to get around it if I'm set on being a proper incense-burnin', cakes-for-the-Queen-of-Heaven bakin', Baal-praisin' idol worshiper.

I'm afraid that if I had a Fujiko as an altar decoration, I'd be tempted to pair her with a Marvel Loki . . .

[ghostdogmeta.livejournal.com]

M's got a lovely piece by Dryad Design that she picked up soemwhere (possibly NTIF, possibly Magick Cauldron)

I used Warhammer minis, but then my altar occupies about a square foot of space.