HELLAH HORRAH: Hell No Myth Descent: The Conjuring

Tarot Card: The Hierophant (Faith, Ritual, and the Old Ways)

Hellah’s back — and tonight we step into a haunted farmhouse where the air feels thick with prayer, fear, and something that has absolutely no intention of leaving.

Now let’s be clear about something.

The Conjuring is not your average ghost story. It doesn’t lean on jump scares alone. It leans on belief systems — the ancient tug-of-war between darkness and faith that has powered horror stories long before cinema ever flickered to life.

Enter the paranormal power couple:

Ed Warren and Lorraine Warren.

These two walk into haunted spaces the way seasoned sailors step onto stormy seas. Calm, methodical, respectful of forces most people would rather pretend don’t exist. They carry crucifixes instead of weapons, ritual instead of rage.

And that’s what makes the terror work.

Because the enemy in this story isn’t subtle. The entity stalking the Perron family is ancient, patient, and deeply personal. The house itself becomes a trap — a place where time folds in on itself and every dark corner feels like it’s holding its breath.

But what really makes The Conjuring stand apart is its tone.

This film understands gothic camp in the best possible way — and that’s where my forever queen Elvira lives in the background of my heart while watching it.

Elvira taught us something important about horror:

You can be terrified and fabulous.

You can stare down the darkness with a raised eyebrow, a sharp sense of humor, and the absolute confidence that monsters do not get the last word. Horror doesn’t have to strip away style — sometimes style is exactly what keeps the fear from swallowing you whole.

And Lorraine Warren carries that same quiet glamour.

She walks into the house not as a victim but as a seer. Someone who understands that evil thrives in silence and isolation. Her power isn’t aggression — it’s clarity. She sees what others refuse to see, and once something is named, it loses its advantage.

That’s where the tarot card emerges.

The Hierophant.

This card represents sacred tradition, ritual knowledge, and the ancient practices people turn to when the world starts behaving in ways science can’t explain. In The Conjuring, faith isn’t presented as blind obedience — it’s a tool. A structure. A language used to confront forces older than the house, older than the town, maybe older than the country itself.

The Warrens don’t defeat darkness with bravado.

They confront it with ritual.

And ritual, in horror, is always powerful because it reminds us that humans have been wrestling with the unknown for thousands of years. We have songs, prayers, symbols, and stories precisely because the world has never been entirely safe.

Final Hellah truth:

Some houses creak because they’re old.

Some houses whisper because they remember.

And if the lights flicker, the clock stops, and the dog refuses to come inside…

Call the Warrens.

Or at the very least light a candle, say a prayer, and channel a little Elvira confidence while you do it.

Because when the darkness starts moving through the walls…

style, faith, and a steady voice might be the only weapons you’ve got.

— Hellah 🖤🕯️

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HELL NO MYTH ORACLE INDEX

  • What You Wish For → The Devil (Hunger for power)

  • Ready or Not → The Tower (Collapse of old money)

  • Weapons → The High Priestess (Secrets & hidden rituals)

  • Dracula Untold → Strength (Power chosen to protect)

  • The Conjuring → The Hierophant (Faith & ritual against darkness)

Tya Alisa Anthony

Tya Alisa Anthony is an American artist, photographer, writer, and independent curator whose work explores memory, mythology, ancestry, and the quiet ways people leave themselves behind in the objects they touch. For more than twenty years, her practice has existed at the intersection of visual research, education, and cultural storytelling, investigating resilience through the body, the landscape, historical archives, and the natural world.

Working across photography, collage, cyanotype, botanical collections, handmade books, and mixed media, Anthony approaches each body of work as an evolving archive rather than a finished statement. She is drawn to weathered photographs, heirlooms, medicinal plants, folklore, ritual objects, forgotten architecture, and the symbolic language that connects cultures across time. Her work asks how identity is preserved, transformed, and remembered.

Alongside her studio practice, Anthony has spent more than two decades building educational programs, exhibitions, and community-centered initiatives that expand access to the arts. Her leadership has helped shape institutions, mentor emerging artists, develop sustainable systems, and create spaces where creativity becomes a lifelong practice rather than a privilege.

Anthony’s artwork is included in the permanent collections of the Denver Art Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver’s Octopus Collection. Her work has been exhibited nationally and is held in numerous private collections.

She is currently creating Organic Tarot, a 78-card hand-collaged tarot deck and accompanying memoir that intertwines mythology, autobiography, botanical symbolism, and the archetypal journey of transformation. The project reflects the central thread running throughout her career: that art is not simply something we make—it is a way of understanding ourselves, preserving what matters, and leaving a map for those who come after us.

http://www.tyaanthony.com
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