it started just in his area, but was soon taken on by the whole church. halloween seems tied, by name and practice, primarily to all saints day (the day before all souls day): "halloween", "all hallows eve", it's the day before all hallows day. but, that's not really the vibe. https://hell.twtr.plus/media/008bebdde9111b0619b44479bce80761ee156a19441fc8ec4a8bcbfdc8128e2d.file

the tale is: there was a pilgrim who was stuck on an island during a storm. there, he had a vision of all the souls suffering in purgatory. later he went to odilo and asked if there was a day to pray for all the dead. odilo established one. it took off, and became all soul's day

the long lists of saint names sometimes remind me of a war memorial. i suppose they do call the terrestrial church "the church militant" for a reason. st. odilo was an abbot at the benedictine monastery in cluny, france - right at 1000 AD, crossing over the two millennia. https://hell.twtr.plus/media/1da037aafdd9c870e0140a5e53e7d32998ed969ac302f44fab942804b0939320.file

each halloween season, my mind turns to a lesser known saint: st. odilo of cluny. the idea of a relatively unknown saint is interesting in and of itself: you see the lists of names, it's easy to forget they were all real people who contributed to our spiritual history. ... https://hell.twtr.plus/media/14806a26f1785e196700adc52c52330a4f2840849d6142e049c34dc770795637.file

painful fact. no one likes it. its not aesthetic. but the long video essay is clearly this time period’s art form.

so much of modernity is dominated by “the car”. odd to consider that cities could be full of something like this. this look is a straight line backwards all the way back through carriages to chariots. it reads as slightly comical because we didn’t do it - but it’s way more human: https://hell.twtr.plus/media/c0009f9a0a9beb00ca0372d4ecf3c1f11b4a3247f6914b6585743592315831ec.file

its an interesting modernity aesthetics twist that because they were marketing these cars to people who didnt care about speed or going far, they focused on making them look nice - often retaining the look and feel of the nicer carriages at the time. a totally alt-car aesthetic: https://hell.twtr.plus/media/32c295d7e6cdb7b980a7023778f372ffb32151d6b585dfaae74d6eb696670f61.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/14a54021c037f0160f2c0538584171a790448f89f807d1a7b622b3b96fca5e3b.file

there were electric cars in the early 1900s. most couldn’t go very far, so many car makers focused on marketing them to women - therefore they made them increasingly beautiful. this one was purchased by the king of siam in 1903: the hubcaps were gold and it was inlaid with ivory. https://hell.twtr.plus/media/e82c7607de80173a01bf2fb24002ea5de95378babc4cae12c9d61c7c01abf0cf.file

women have internet places where they do a kind of baby naming fantasy football: “if you already had twins named derek and skyler, what would you name their new baby sister?”. i have seen this. incredible. pythagoras said the art below number was naming things. was he was married

thinking “the facts” that convinced you of something must automatically convince someone else reveals no theory of mind. they are not convincing facts in and of themselves, they were convincing because of: “you”. when you present them again as ultimate you are talking to yourself