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 […]
Magic and the Goddess Melinoë

By Phoenix of Elder Mountain Dreaming – I wanted to look up some Magic Gods and Goddesses to see traces and clues to the ties of karma, that real living magicians and sorcerers are connected to, from the eras of our past history. Well, its everywhere in the ancient scripts of Greek and Mediterranean and Middle […]
Slavic Day and Night Goddesses in Folk Art

Lepa Vida: Light and Darkness – Lepa Veda occupied an important place in Slovene folk traditions. Evident proof of this is found not only in numerous folk songs, but also in the vernacular name for the artemisian and metaphoric connotations connected to the character of Fair Vida (Lepa Vida) in Slovene, and it has become a veritable […]
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 […]
Nightly Whispers of the Winter’s Soul
It so easy to teach and determine the realms of ghosts, of the night and of souls, when we ourselves have not touched any depth of our own ghosts, our own souls and our night, that travels those eternal shores. I arrived at the waves between illusion and reality, between light and dark and the dark side of the light where I […]
Slavic Triple Goddess: 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 […]
She Bear Shaman

By Phoenix of Elder Mountain – Compilation of the Bear Goddesses with personal writings intermixed by Phoenix. The Bear Goddesses list that I have are Artemis (asteroid #105), Ildiko, Artio and Arktos (is the Ancient Greek word ἄρκτος árktos which means “Bear”), Bendis/Callisto (asteroid #204), Hekate/Cailleach (asteroid #100), Merope (asteroid #1051), Mielikki (asteroid #2715), Mi’kmaq or Kejimkujik (asteroid #497593), Ursel […]