Category: Balkan Shamanism

My Soul is a Bird

By Phoenix the Elder – Mythology, Archeology, and Art are three invaluable insights into pre-patriarchal earth, but you have to have a very keen seer ability to find the information and imagery that shines. As a nature-initiated and mother earth consciousness woman (shaman), I do not really see shamanism teachings as a thing of value […]

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Konrul and Toğru Birds

Compilation and additions by Phoenix the Elder – Shaman Birds of Ancient Grandmother Cultures show that many birds, bird symbolism, ancient bird art and old primordial bird cults of the grandmother traditions, are reflected in the beliefs of sober (non-plant) shamanism, the origins of pure shamanism. The Tuğrul (تغرل), is a bird from the family […]

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Clearing and Protecting your Energetic Spaces

By Phoenix the Elder – This is a clearing of spaces and land that I do as a shaman. I offer it to my students and apprentices so they can cleanse and then seal their home, their yard and home and their land, yard and home. I always do a thorough job when I clear […]

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Cult of the Bird Women

By Phoenix the Elder – Moon Birds – Song of Slavic Bird Tribe Shaman Women, their Culture, Art and Soul – The cult of the bird women go back to the very beginning of the largest cycle of Soul people on earth, which I estimate at least in this largest cycle (era) to be about […]

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Death and the Mysterious Shamans

Phoenix the Elder  (compilations and additions) – Powerful shamans, if interrupted by death in our collective work to eradicate darkness on this planet (before their real time to leave or pass on into death), find restitution and keep their work going even after death without magic but of the pure consciousness of the light. Mystical […]

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Spring’s Rebirth – Slavic and Balkan Pysanky

Compilation by Phoenix the Elder – The Rites of Spring is about honoring our rebirth and the earth’s rebirth, this has specific rituals that are ancient and help us stay connected to our moon nature, our soul and our emotional nature in a positive way. Here at Elder Mountain we do the ritual of building the archaic Goddess […]

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The Light Side of the Night

The Light side of the Night is the ancient Dreaming cultures and the later Shamanic cultures of earth which were created, lead, nurtured and dominated by the grandmothers. Oh but we fell asleep and when writing came and symbols into writing, she was left out of the stories, the legends and even her names. Only […]

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Slavic, Balkan, Baltic Goddesses

Phoenix of Elder Mountain – When personal web pages were new in the early 90s, you could find any goddess you wished, or many of their names on the web, and there were tens of thousands, Now, everything that was, is practically gone, people moved on, or web servers close down or women’s websites were […]

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Rain Ceremony

Rain Towards Morning The great light cage has broken up in the air,  freeing, I think, about a million birds  whose wild ascending shadows will not be back, and all the wires come falling down.  No cage, no frightening birds; the rain  is brightening now. The face is pale  that tried the puzzle of their prison  […]

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Pluto’s Cave, Fire and Water Purification Rites

By Phoenix the Elder – I want to preface this article of this ceremony at Pluto’s Cave, located in Juniper Flats National Park, near Mt. Shasta… I have only done two ceremonies in the last thirty years with people outside my circle of apprentices, as a collective Dreamer (shaman). The first was the Wounded Knee areas with […]

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