Category: balkan

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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Slavic, Balkan, and Baltic Goddesses

Phoenix the Elder – When personal web pages were new in the early 90s, you could find any goddess you wished, as many of their names were on the web, and there were tens of thousands, Now, everything that was, is practically gone, and the commercial algorithms have taken over for web profits and social […]

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Latvia Symbolism – Latviesu Simboli

Latvian Feminine Symbols: Woman, Goddess, NatureSpring Equinox – Dawn The sign of Dawn or the rising sun sign symbolizes relationship to the top, to the heavenly world, it is the knowledge of humankind and the ideal picture of aggregation model. This sign, symbol language is sunrise and sunset graphical representation. Associated with the constant rhythm […]

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Karelian Magic

By Phoenix of Elder Mountain – The Republic of Karelia is a region in northwest Russia, bordering Finland. Beside Lake Onega, capital city Petrozavodsk is home to cultural artifacts at the National Museum. On an island northeast, Kizhi Museum is an open-air complex of traditional wood buildings. Northwest, Kivach Nature Reserve has pine woods and […]

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She Wolves of Midwinter, Slavic & Balkan Animism in the traditions of a Shaman (part 1/2)

By Phoenix the Elder – I begin with the Romanian traditions as an ancient Wolf Clan people. The Balkan Romanian, Serbian and Slavic traditions such as Poland and Russia also wolf clan people and this includes the more divine aspect of woman and her life, which were part of our shamanic understandings in the first […]

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Golden Baba, Stone Baba, Złoty Baba, Золотая Баба, Каменные баба, Goddess Jumala

By Phoenix of Elder Mountain (compiled with additions) – I wanted to collect this article about the “Golden Woman” because wiki only has a few sentences about her and when I added some findings, the post replied to me and said: “Your edit was not saved because you are Blacklisted” and being blacklisted in my […]

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Traditional Marzanna, Maslenitsa, Morena, Mora Goddesses, and Deities of the Night

By Phoenix the Elder – On the Winter Solstice Day, we begin to honor and build our Marzanna Effigy. The newer pagan traditions build it and burn it on the same day (the Spring Equinox), but the Shamanic cultures are much older so we begin to build her on the Winter Solstice and for those doing […]

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Breksta, Goddess of the Night; of Dreaming; Twilight, Dusk, Dawn, and the Veil Rider.

By Phoenix of Elder Mountain – I love all the Slavic, Baltic and Balkan Goddesses that no one knows or cares about. For me, they reveal a past that brings them in alignment with the power of the Shaman and Ancient Pre-Pagan Grandmothers (without the horrors of projected ugly or horrific Baba Yaga (Jaga). The […]

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