Ghosts of the Cave: Primeval Grandmothers
Phoenix the Elder – We had lost our connection to woman a long time ago, the free, honored, wise, and healthy woman from our first beginnings. I ran across the word Sabina and Sabine and it shined a light when I had it pop into my thoughts. I looked it up and it means “Woman […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Romanian Folk Magic at Midnight
By Phoenix of Elder Mountain (compilations) – Magical practice at the stroke of Midnight are symbolic practices and are the gifts of our ancient ancestors of the distant worlds and Romanian women have always kept these traditions alive. The older pagan cultures of the Slavic peoples celebrate the New Year on the Spring Equinox (and […]
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 […]
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 […]