Shamanic Advent Calendar 2024

for your own sanity, please go insane

Hello,

2024 was a weird year, and 2025 is shaping to be weirder still. Our world is ablaze with the weirdness epidemic, and one way to fight it is a weirdness vaccine. Allow weirdness to happen, accept it, let yourself into it, pass through it, and get out on the other side, changed yet undamaged. That is the way of the shaman.

Shamans are those who trust the subconscious more than reality. And when reality is this warped, this is a sound tactic. Which is why, as a public service, we bring for your consumption the Shamanic Advent Calendar of 2024.

Behind each of these 24 doors (masked as links in the online world), there is an image and a morsel of text. The texts were humanely translated from the damnest, dankest deepweb memes by the Chthonic Wunderkind himself,

Vanya Bagaev

. The images were responsibly sourced by yours truly.

Please apply caution. The only recommended way to consume this calendar, as with any advent calendar, is to open a door a day and indulge in enigmas beneath. We do trust your instincts, though: the doors will remain unlocked, so if you desire to venure further without the safety rails, only your consciousness will be your safeguard.

Caveat Apertor! Some of the entries in the Shamanic Advent Calendar are humorous, some creepy, some confusing. Side effects may include drowsiness, insomnia, vertigo, epiphanies, nightmares, headaches, frightening clarity, peevishness, forgiveness, and love for the eternal.

We also provide two ways to consume the Shamanic Advent Calendar.

First, you can visit the embedded and more interactive version on

Vanya Bagaev

’s website, Nova Nevedoma:

Shamanic Advent Calendar 2024

This version works like a normal calendar in the sense that future days are still locked (and in this sense only!). While you’re there, buy his book as well; it will serve as a booster shot of the weirdness vaccine.

Second, you can use this page to navigate to the hidden depths of Substack, where we have stashed our therapeutic treasures. These are always open, and some brave tester souls are already lost in these labyrinths.

And finally, the last caution before the plunge: start with the number 1.

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𓃑1𓃑𓃑19𓃑𓃑24𓃑𓃑11𓃑𓃑7𓃑𓃑21𓃑

𓃑4𓃑𓃑10𓃑𓃑22𓃑𓃑9𓃑𓃑13𓃑𓃑6𓃑

𓃑14𓃑𓃑20𓃑𓃑8𓃑𓃑16𓃑𓃑18𓃑𓃑3𓃑

𓃑23𓃑𓃑2𓃑𓃑17𓃑𓃑12𓃑𓃑15𓃑𓃑5𓃑

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Please share this calendar with your friends to help them as well. All the likes accrued by this post will be donated to Sister Agnes’ Carehome for Eschatologically Gifted Children.

Have mercy on your own soul; don’t leave your dirty work to God.

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This calendar was created for the Soaring Twenties Social Club (STSC) Symposium. This cycle, the theme was “Annual Fiction Special”. 

If you are a writer, you might consider joining us.

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Best,

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