Slavic Midsummer – The Forest Goddess Dziewanna and the Golden Magical Fern Flower
The Slavic and Balkan Fern Flower Mystery – Centuries ago, the lands west of the Vistula were covered with impassable forests and forests. It took days to travel from one settlement to another, and the darkness of the forest was swarming with a variety of forest game. Hundreds of birds and various forest trinkets inhabited […]
Timeless Egyptian Goddess Rituals
By Phoenix the Elder – Why do some of us honor the Goddess and others do not, or say she isn’t real as a diety compared to the patriarch’s god. Why do some have altars to Goddesses to help them through their spiritual journey and others would never do such a thing? Well anyone who […]
Lilith the Wise
By Phoenix the Elder – Lilith has a meaning for maidens, she has a meaning for adult women and she has a meaning for grandmother. Each phase of a woman’s life can be traced back to this Judaic Goddess named Lilith who is much older than Biblical Adams’s first wife or the sun cult. She […]
Mesopotamian Goddess Geštinanna
Compilation by Phoenix the Elder with her additions– Geštinanna is an early Goddess from Southern Mesopotamia which goes back to about 2540 bce in Sumeria. She is associated with the psychopomp dreaming and a dream interpreter. A goddess of agriculture and fertility as a mother goddess and sister of Dumuzid, the Shepherd God. Known also […]
Venus (aka Aphrodite, Ishtar, Inanna, Astarte) and the Wicked Step-Mother & Evil Grandmother
By Phoenix ofthe Elder – (guided compilation) I know a lot about Venus this lifetime as a woman, mainly because I had one of three lifetimes, that caused great destruction to my feminine soul, back in ancient Rome. I know first hand from a lifetime of healing my soul (from his life in building the Patriarch), […]
List of 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, 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 […]
Slavic Zwezda Dnierca, Zwezda Wieczorniaia, and Zwezda Polnoca
The Zorya are the three Slavic Mythological Guardians (warrior) Goddesses, known as the Auroras. They guard and watch over the doomsday hounds (shadow people) who threaten to eat the constellations of the Great Bear and the Little Bear (Ursa Major & Minor). If the chain breaks loose, the earth’s time is said to come to […]
Burning of Marzanna – Spring 2019
By Phoenix the Elder – We are at the Spring Equinox and it’s time to burn our Marzanna. Each year in the tradition the rite involves the preparing of an effigy in female clothing and then her completion. The tradition of burning or drowning (Jare Święto) the effigy of Marzanna [Morena] is to celebrate the end […]
Mother of Goddess – Matushka Zemlia
Matushka Zemlia Poem by Phoenix of Elder Mountain Blessings upon me from the Mother of the Moist Earth from whom my Soul and the Children of the Souls are all born. I take your hand as you are the binding that weaves the river into matter, into me. There is nothing false about any Mother Goddess and […]
Grandmother’s Ancestors – Siberian Effigies
Article By Olga Gertcyk for the Siberian Times 20,000 year old prehistoric effigies shows people of all ages and the larger figurines of the basic large grandmothers (which in all archeology are so inappropriately called Venus). These Siberian art effigies include men, women, teenagers and children, the new research shows. It’s true that in the […]