Shamanism of the North Goddess
“The Norse Goddess” by Monica Sjöö (1938 – 2005) – The people of the north believe that everything has a Mother and that all of nature has a soul. The most important mothers are Mother Earth, the Sun, and the Moon, and the Sun has always been female in the north. This is because she […]
A Rabbit Totem in the Egyptian Moon?
By Phoenix the Elder – Hare, and Rabbit have been two of my unusual helpers as a shaman, not only in my waking life but also in my dreams as night. I have a Lakota friend who is an (animism) Jack Rabbit and very powerful. When he appears, he is in his rabbit form, about […]
The Midnight Sun: A Generous Invitation to the Marriage of the Soul and the North Winds. Traditions of Kolyadki & Auseklis
By Phoenix of Elder Mountain Dreaming (and other contributors); Edited by Sarah Bernstein – The Midnight Sun is a very ancient tradition of the Moon Cultures. The earlier shamanistic cultures and the dreamers before them carried the symbolism of all things today. For the Moon lights our way through each season in all her images […]
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 […]