Category: Art Residency
Agatha’s Tender Heart
Elder Mountain’s Sarah Burnt Stone’s “Film Short” from her Artist Residency in Thailand. It was a story from a dream she had brought into a manifested form. Congratulations Sarah!
Mirror Mirror in my Soul
This is an ancient Etruscan Mirror with a Goddess Figure and engraved scene, bronze, 3rd century BCE. When I teach Symbolism, Dream Symbolism and Mirror work with those who seek me, I teach that our prehistory soul and emotional body must be integrated with personal work in our everyday life. Because when the two our separated, the…
Didukh
A Didukh (painted on glass) by Ukraine Artist Oksana Andrushchenko
Keenahnay
Article by Joshua J. Mark (partial) ~ Cynane (c. 357- 323 BCE, pronounced `Keenahnay’) was the daughter of the Illyrian Princess Audata and King Philip II of Macedon, making her the half-sister of Alexander the Great. Following the Illyrian tradition of women warriors, her mother raised her in the martial arts traditions of the Amazones…
Magical Flight of the Fox
Last night I had a Dream on the land where I live and a pretty Fox came to visit me, she was flying all over the land and it was a joy to see, her coat was very bright and shiny in the classic orange-red and white colors! So I was searching for flying Foxes in Ancient Folklore and found a few…
Breksta, Night Dream Goddess of Twilight, Dusk, Dawn and the Veil Rider.
By Phoenix of Elder Mountain – Ancient Night (sky) Goddesses hold women’s memories and remembrances of a time when her root cultures were in the dreaming, the ancient cave dreaming, astral flight and dream walking that were all our gifts and the way we old souls moved about the earth before the coming of the patriarch. Brėkšta, the…
Dreaming of Fire
By Phoenix of Elder Mountain – The great mystery is understood through a journey of self healing, karmic detoxing, spiritual disciplines, and applying new actions, that create new changes. And most important – compassion for one’s own personal journey. If we try to enter our spiritual path only from the mental body (knowledge) teachings alone…
Baba Jaga. Archaic Cave Grandmothers of our Shamanic Past
By Phoenix of Elder Mountain ~ In Slavic and some Balkan folklore, there are many stories of Baba Yaga, the fearsome one, the one so powerful she see’s the hideousness in others, and this makes it far too intense to look upon her. And she has a nature to match this power, which is closest…
Light Who Loves Her Sister Darkness, The Perils of Rejecting the Shadow
Article by Madrona Holden ~ Should living in the Light be our highest spiritual goal? Be Careful, the ancient myths warn us: there are perhaps just as many ways to be lost in the Light as their are in the dark. From Sumeria, we have a story that exposes the dangers of scorning darkness and…
Carpathian Shaman; Ukraine Mofarka, Molfar; Polish Szeptucha (Whisperer); Belarus Whisperers and Hungarian Lidercz, Táltos
By Phoenix of Elder Mountain (eldermountaindreaming@gmail.com) – I am a Molfarka and Szeptucha (pronounced: Shep-too-hah), a Wind Whisperer and Dreamer (Shaman). These all mean the same thing to varying degrees, so it gives me great pleasure to share and gather other wonderful information of the traditional Whispering and Shamanic Folk Healing rites from various sources and…
